Word: katanga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...headlines, echoing queer names and remote places, was becoming all too insistent. It told of the United Nations' painful effort to pacify a province called Katanga and unify an emerging nation called Congo. To many it seemed a strange and distant venue to win so much of the world's attention. In a sense, it was; the Congo crisis hardly compared with the peril of war in tense Berlin, nor was it as immediate a danger to peace as the furtive Communist advances in the paddyfields of Southeast Asia. In the U.S. and elsewhere, many would have liked...
...West, the situation had its divisive ironies. At Washington's orders, a caravan of giant U.S. Air Force Globe-masters was busy hauling Swedish, Indian and Ethiopian soldiers to the U.N. garrison at Elisabethville, there to fight Belgians, Frenchmen and Britons serving with the Katanga forces. The NATO allies, sorely split over the U.N. intervention, discussed a solution for hours at their Paris conference. They were really discussing the fate of one man-Katanga's Moise Tshombe, the crafty, flamboyant black leader who had taken his copperrich province out of the Congo and called it a nation...
Vivid as a Flag. Republic of Katanga was its name, and red, white and green were its colors-"Red for the blood shed for Katanga's freedom, white for purity and green for hope," explained Tshombe in an exultant moment. There also were three Maltese crosses on his banner-in the burnished red-brown of copper. The man was as vivid as the flag. He dressed his mounted honor guard in plumed helmets and blazing tunics bought secondhand from the Garde Républicaine in France, and seated them on broken-down nags sent up from Rhodesia...
Fear & Reluctance. With the U.N. more or less controlling Elisabethville and with Tshombe in flight, the U.N. had presumably reached its "limited objectives" of freedom of movement in Katanga. But what of the long-range objectives involving a Congo settlement...
...terms of an agreement, once a meeting is arranged, will present an even more difficult problem. Even if Tshombe agrees-in effect at gunpoint-to join a Congo federation, the specific degree of each province's independence must be worked out, including the question of who disposes of Katanga's income...