Word: katanga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lining rebel in Stanleyville, who as Lumumba's Vice Premier is recognized by the Communist bloc (and Ghana) as the Congo's legitimate ruler. Only last month, Nkrumah talked publicly of restoring the "balance of armaments" in the Congo if the Belgians continued to aid Katanga's Moise Tshombe. Nkrumah and his vigorous aides in Accra's African Affairs Bureau may also have plans to pump guns into explosive Angola, perhaps into white-led states such as Northern and Southern Rhodesia and South Africa as well...
...sweating delegates and aides were gaveled to order by President Joseph Kasavubu. But order is not easy to come by in the Congo. The talks had hardly begun before Katanga's proud, stubborn Moise Tshombe exploded with wrath at a deal that Kasavubu had made with Tshombe's archenemy, the U.N. The deal: to help clear foreign military advisers-including Tshombe's-from Congo soil...
...press, fell to his knees to demonstrate for the benefit of photographers how "vassal" Kasavubu "bowed to the U.N." Then he announced he was leaving for home, and that the other Congo leaders were not worth talking to anyway. "For the last ten months, while we in Katanga have been working to build up our country, they have been loafing around chasing power, cars and women," sneered Tshombe. With that, Tshombe headed for the airport, where his private DC-4 waited...
...with most of the money. As Tshombe and his aides drove up, a squad of angry, shouting troops with submachine guns hauled them from their limousines and pushed and cuffed them back to the airport terminal. Soon several of Kasavubu's cabinet ministers were on the scene, urging Katanga's boss to return to the talks. "If that's the way you run the Congo, good luck," retorted Tshombe. He sat down in an old wicker armchair and refused to budge or even to eat until he was freed. "I am a prisoner," he declared hotly...
...thousand miles to the east, in Katanga's little copper-rich capital of Elisabethville, the flame trees were out in glorious profusion alongside the spacious swimming pools of the Union Miniére officials, whose mines and refineries were working at capacity. If the service had deteriorated at the little Hotel Leopold II, the cannibal sandwich (raw hamburger, raw egg, chopped onion) remained excellent at the terrace dining room. No one much cared when news arrived that Katanga's mercenaries had clashed with the U.N.'s Ethiopian troops up north where President Moise Tshombe was clearing...