Word: katanga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ghanaian by nationality, on a special mission to Stanleyville, where Antoine Gizenga holds sway over Eastern province and claims to be the only true heir of the late Patrice Lumumba. Gardiner persuaded Gizenga that it was safe to send a delegation to Leopoldville for the reopening of Parliament. In Katanga, the copper-rich secessionist province that stubbornly refused to share its wealth with the rest of the Congo, Linner's other U.N. emissary, Francis Nwokedi of Nigeria, was hard at work on the Deputies of stubborn "President" Moise Tshombe, who has been held as hostage in a villa near...
Chosen: the West. As chief of by far the most populous country represented. Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa did most of the talking. The participants agreed on their "unswerving loyalty'' to the U.N. They censured the arrest of Katanga's Moise Tshombe in the Congo, nuclear testing, South Africa's racial policies. They laid the groundwork for technical and economic cooperation, scheduled a second meeting in Lagos later this year. But as Houphouet-Boigny planned, the conference was primarily an initial, amiable stab at getting acquainted...
...Katanga's Moise Tshombe, it was the worst of times. Once he was the cockiest Congolese of them all, the man with the most money and the tidiest private army. Last week, stripped of his Belgian advisers and cut off from his troops, he languished in a guarded villa in Coquilhatville. He was a victim of that old Congolese persuasion tactic-kidnaping. And nobody much seemed to care...
Everybody's Friend. A stylish, wealthy businessman -turned - politician, Moise Tshombe found himself top man in the Congo's richest province when the Belgians relinquished rule. When the Congo erupted in factional squabbling. Tshombe declared mineral-rich Katanga independent, hoping to maintain economic and cultural ties to Belgium. He tried to keep the U.N. out of Katanga, strengthened his hand with hired mercenaries and Belgian advisers. While the rest of the Congo starved and squabbled. Tshombe prospered. He began to infuriate the Congolese leaders. When Tshombe boldly agreed to attend the Coquilhatville conference, Kasavubu saw his chance...
Tshombe came to Coquilhatville with the air of a man who was going to dictate his own terms. He declared that he would accept only a confederation in which Katanga would have nationhood of its own (and spend its own money). He mocked Kasavubu's willingness to cooperate with the U.N., got down on his knees to mime Kasavubu's attitude for news photographers. Once arrested, his mood changed. He became all oozing contrition. He begged for permission to rejoin the formal talks. The leaders refused but hauled him down from his villa prison for a private tongue...