Word: katanga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Valerian Zorin seized the chance to press for his blunt resolution calling for Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold's ouster, and for the U.N.'s exit from the Congo within a month. He was defeated before he started, but plowed doggedly on. Brandishing a magazine showing Hammarskjold and Katanga's Belgium-backed Moise Tshombe together in the same photo (taken as Hammarskjold led the first U.N. troops into Katanga last August), Zorin suggested that it proved that Dag was "allied" with "a Belgian puppet"; this brought weary grins from everyone at the horseshoe table, including Hammarskjold. When...
Applying his new authority might be more difficult. From Katanga came ominous rumblings from Moise Tshombe who threatened a "bloodbath" if the 2,500 U.N. troops stationed in his area tried to disarm his 5,000-man army. Premier Joseph Ileo in Leopoldville and Rebel Chief Antoine Gizenga in Stanleyville roared their own defiance. To face these threats, the U.N. needed more manpower; the Congo combat force was already down to 17,500, would drop to 13,800 by mid-March if the Indonesian and Moroccan troop units pulled out and went home as planned. Needed was a minimum total...
...Belgians' jobs. At the very time the U.N. talks of kicking them out, African faction chiefs are in fact struggling to get more. Dozens of black delegations have shown up in Brussels, and recruiters are stationed there on behalf of the Leopoldville government of Joseph Ileo and the Katanga regime of Moise Tshombe...
...Katanga and South Kasai, in fact, are the only places where Belgians are a serious threat to anybody's peace. There Moise Tshombe and Albert Kalonji employ "retired" Belgian officers to fly their planes, train their troops, plan their military attacks. In Katanga's government office, every Congolese minister has hired a Belgian as an "adviser." The Belgian government argues that the military men are there as private citizens and mercenaries, cannot be called back if they prefer to work for the Africans; it also insists it has no control over Union Minière, whose subsidies make...
...southward nibbling of the military patrols of Stanleyville's Antoine Gizenga. Repeatedly in recent weeks visitors warned U.N. headquarters that Gizenga troops had been seen moving toward Luluabourg, capital of Kasai, a strategic junction commanding the only direct route between Kasavubu's Leopoldville and Tshombe's Katanga. "We have no such reports," sniffed a U.N. official...