Word: katanga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Secretary Ralph Bunche and his top U.N. advisers, waited anxiously outside as the two delegations finally took their places around three simple green-topped tables. Now the jesting was over; loud voices could be heard in the corridor out side as Adoula made his demands that secessionist Katanga accept Leopoldville's control without qualification. At 3 p.m. the conferees ordered in beer and sandwiches, kept talking while they ate. At 8:30 p.m. came the call for more food, and this time some whisky. It now appeared that Tshombe was flatly refusing to commit his Katanga province...
Aghast, Gullion tugged at Tshombe's sleeve, implored him to keep talking; the alternative, he pointed out. might well be Tshombe's own destruction, for the U.N. force that now controlled Elisabethville, Tshombe's Katanga stronghold, would never hand back the city unless agreement was reached. Ralph Bunche buttonholed both sides; two other key U.N. officials-Ghana's Robert Gardiner and Tunisia's Mahmoud Khiari-feverishly suggested possible new formulas for compromise...
...Adoula and Tshombe delegations was being loaded onto their planes, the two sides wearily agreed to sit down for one last session. An hour later. Adoula came out to announce agreement; later his Information Minister read out the eight-point declaration that he said Tshombe had signed on Katanga's behalf. It included not only acceptance of the Loi Fondamentale, but recognition of the need of a unified Congo, and a promise to hand over control of Katanga's gendarmerie to Adoula's regime. Tshombe even promised to respect the U.N. resolutions he had been cursing...
...Tshombe had agreed to most of these things on previous occasions; each time he had reneged when he got back home to Katanga. Would he do so again...
...when he declared that he had "not found anything" at Kitona. In any case, said Moise, "I am only the mouthpiece of my people. It is for them to decide"-adding darkly, "The accord we have reached has to be ratified by my ministers and by the National Assembly [ Katanga's legislature], and that cannot be done for at least ten days...