Word: katanga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Katangese, that closed the case. "I forbid the United Nations to take positions in this matter,"said Munongo, adding by way of explanation that the U.N. had never concerned itself about Sacco and Vanzetti, the Rosenbergs, Caryl Chessman, Draja Mikhailovich or King Feisal. As for any J.K. investigation, Katanga President Moise Tshombe snapped: "I couldn't give a damn...
Among the mourners: President Joseph Kasavubu's government, which observed a minute of silent tribute for "a sincere patriot who got involved with bad foreigners"-though it was the Kasavubu government that turned Lumumba over to Katanga after he got too hot to handle in the Thysville prison...
With Lumumba gone, the strongest man around is the man responsible for his death: Katanga's cold-blooded President Moise Tshombe. But Tshombe runs only one province, and is heartily disliked outside it. Last week his well-equipped army, led by 400 Belgian officers, struck into northern Katanga, easily pushed back pro-Lumumba Baluba tribesmen as far as the Lualaba River. Tshombe, wearing a Homburg, helicoptered to the front to congratulate his men. At Elisabethville airport, a Boeing Stratocruiser arrived, carrying in its hold three twin-jet Fouga Magisters, advertised as trainers but equipped for firing rockets...
Tshombe is backed in his province by a humming economy still run by the Belgians. Despite all of the Congo's troubles, the copper mines of Katanga's Belgian-owned Union Minière set production records last year, paid $50 million in taxes into Katanga's treasury. With his Belgian adviser, Colonel Guy Weber, always at his shoulder, Tshombe has launched an offensive to clear his province of Gizenga's invading soldiers. In partnership with the Léopoldville military boss, Major General Joseph Mobutu, Tshombe would like to go after Gizenga himself...
...bespectacled Batetela tribesman who was a mission school student, postal clerk, embezzler and beer salesman before he became a successful demagogue and the first Premier of the Congo; said to have been murdered by bush villagers after he "escaped"' from jail; in an as yet undisclosed place in Katanga province (see FOREIGN NEWS...