Word: katanga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elderly shopkeeper in Elisabethville ignored-or perhaps did not hear-a Congolese soldier's order to get off the sidewalk in front of the heavily guarded National Bank of Katanga last week. Angrily, the soldier hoisted his rifle and shot him in the back. As the man lay groaning on the pavement, Congolese troops shoved away a doctor who tried to save his life...
Into the glass-enclosed winter garden of his pink palace strode Katanga's Secessionist Moise Tshombe with an important announcement. "I am pleased to have ended my work and have done my duty," Tshombe told newsmen, and now he would be leaving for Northern Rhodesia to take care of a troublesome eye ailment. How long would he be gone? "The doctors will decide that," said Tshombe, but Elisabethville hummed with rumors that he was going for good. Moise did nothing to squelch the gossip, for 48 hours after he left his capital he was on a plane bound...
...rate Tshombe's friends were deserting him, self-exile might not be such a bad idea after all. Last week 23 of Tshombe's top Katanga gendarmerie officers flew into Leopoldville for a let's-be-friends dinner of roast chicken and crepes suzette with leaders of the Congolese army, then swore oaths of allegiance to the central government...
Awaiting the victorious United Nations at the National Bank of Katanga in Elisabethville were some legitimate spoils -or so it seemed. There should have been $16.2 million in Congolese francs originally deposited in the bank to support the currency of Moise Tshombe's Katanga-and U.N. officials hoped to turn it over to the Congo government for reconstruction. But when they got there, Tshombe's cupboard was bare...
...Italian opera fans had promised to fill the theater and boo Von Karajan right off the podium. Tenor Gianni Raimondi, who was hired to sing the role, was getting threatening phone calls for betraying his countryman. Said Di Stefano: "I'm seriously thinking of going to live in Katanga, where they are more civilized...