Word: katanga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Somewhere, blocks away, the U.N.'s Indians, Swedes and Irish are fighting hard. But on the wide pavement outside the seedy Hotel Leopold II, no human stirs except Moise Tshombe's tough, sharpshooting paracommandos in their red berets, and the grim, seasoned, Belgian-trained Katanga regulars in their steel helmets and jungle camouflage. Fighting and dying on a daily ration of a handful of maize, they dart stealthily from corner to corner, searching grimly for a target. After four days of fighting, the pickings are slim, for their proudest boast is that not a single U.N. soldier...
...Katanga's secessionist regime, it was a trifle embarrassing. Here was its stout U.S. supporter. Connecticut Senator Thomas J. Dodd, in town only three days after Katanga President Moise Tshombe was calling on his people to fight the United Nations troops with "poison arrows, spears, axes and picks." To smooth things over, Tshombe and some of his Cabinet ministers mingled pleasantly with U.N. officers at the U.S. consul's cocktail party honoring Democrat Dodd's arrival. But neither Tshombe nor anyone else could control the erratic, excitable Katanga soldiers who had been listening to the President...
Milling Mob. Hardly was the consulate reception over when a group of heavily armed paracommandos of Katanga's ''elite corps." on guard at a Katangese general's residence in another part of town, noticed dozens of "suspicious" foreigners arriving at a house a few doors away. This was the home of Mobil Oil's representative, who was giving a dinner party for Dodd, U.N. and diplomatic guests, and the best of Elisabethville society. When a sedan with U.N. license plates drove up, the soldiers were sure some kind of plot was being hatched. Quickly they...
...company towns, paternalistically taught its workers to eat off plates and even sent some through high school (but no farther). When freedom-and chaos-came, La Génerale labored to do business as usual. Among other things, this meant paying millions of dollars in royalties and taxes to Katanga Separatist Moise Tshombe, enabling him to buy arms and defy the United Nations...
While this has earned La Générale some harsh public criticism, it has also paid hard dividends. La Générale's hulking Katanga satellite-Union Miniėre du Haut-Katanga-continues to produce 8% to 10% of the free world's copper, some 25% of its germanium, 65% of its cobalt. Throughout the Congo, La Générale's subsidiaries still act as the prime exporters and importers, miners and managers, and are a mighty force in autos, oil, cotton, sugar, rubber, real estate, banking and insurance...