Word: katanga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First the State Department refused Katanga's President Moise Tshombe a U.S. visa. Then ex-Major General Edwin A. Walker, now a Democratic candidate for Governor of Texas, was disinvited at the demand of Republican Senators Barry Goldwater and John Tower. Connecticut's Democratic Senator Thomas Dodd said he would not come if Walker could not. Columnist David Lawrence wrote that he "doesn't participate in rallies of this kind." Ex-President Herbert Hoover dedined to interrupt a fishing trip to Key Largo. Film Cowboy John Wayne stayed back at the ranch in Hollywood. Young Americans...
...call on President Giovanni Gronchi and an audience with Pope John XXIII, with whom she would converse in French. - Back to Africa bounded Ireland's choleric, keen-witted Conor Cruise O'Brien, 44, the literary critic and critical diplomat who was chief of the U.N.'s Katanga force until he resigned in a huff over British and French policy in the Congo. New post for Dr. O'Brien: the vice-chancellorship of the University of Ghana, under "Chan cellor" Kwame Nkrumah...
...necessity of keeping up with the less conservative neutralist nations, however, particularly those in Africa, was the major influence on the Indian policy change. By the time India had dispatched the largest single force to Katanga in 1960, "it had become apparent that the era of colonialism might not be quite so dead as Nehru had once suggested...
WASHINGTON, March 3--G. Men-illiams said today that Katanga nt Moise Tshombe had not been a visa to center this country be it wouldn't be in the interest of States to have him come this time." The Young American Freedom have invited Tshombe address a "Conservative Rally for Liberation" in New York City . the Assistant Secretary of African Affairs, pointed out that came here, "he might think rightists he would meet America and he might go back his insurgency." Williams "The whole development of the dependent on the reunion of province with the central...
...16th General Assembly opened last fall, it seemed headed for disaster. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was dead, and in sight of his empty chair on the Assembly podium, the Russians fought week after week to destroy the post he had occupied. Then came the savage Katanga war, in which U.N. forces fought to put down Moise Tshombe's rebellion against the Congo's central government-a conflict in which many felt that the U.N. had no business taking part. Many of the new Afro-Asian nations, which now made up nearly half of the Assembly membership, were widely...