Word: katanga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kasai. Maladroit as he was, bearded Patrice Lumumba last week staged an erratic but undeniable demagogic comeback. As the week opened, secessionists in Katanga and Kasai provinces still held large portions of his nation. In the Congolese Parliament, Senator Sebastian Fele, newly sprung from a Lumumba jail, won cheers from his col leagues when he roared that the Premier should be removed from office. To restore his sagging power, Lumumba badly needed a quick, dramatic victory...
...onetime Lumumba pal, Albert Kalonji, who had declared the diamond-rich region an independent nation called Mining State. Swearing that his tribesmen, mainly armed with bows and arrows, could resist the "invaders," Kalonji hastily flew off to Elisabethville to beg aid from his fellow secessionist, President Moise Tshombe of Katanga-the mineral-rich province immediately to the southeast. But Lumumba's platoons, led, so Kalonji claimed, by Czech officers, rolled into Bakwanga and took over the town and its nearby diamond mine with scarcely a shot...
Then, a column moved down the dusty road toward Katanga itself, 100 miles away. There, Tshombe's hastily mobilized Katanga army was deployed, in grim determination to resist with machine guns, mines and booby traps. Stretches of the single-track rail line leading into Katanga from Kasai were ripped up, and armed Katangans with dynamite rushed out to block the few dirt roads at the Kasai frontier. Most of Tshombe's force was a ragtag outfit, but Belgian officers at Kamina airbase were openly supplying him with spotter planes and tactical advice. At week...
...Stanleyville in his Ilyushin-14 only minutes after the attack on the Globemaster's crew. Patrice Lumumba ignored the patches of blood on the runway, shouted to thousands of cheering ill-clad supporters: "I am very happy to see you in combat uniform ready to descend on Katanga." Back in Leopoldville. the U.N.'s Ralph Bunche fired off an angry protest to the Congolese government. Assuring Bunche of his "deep and .sincere personal regrets," the Congo's able young Foreign Minister Justin Bomboko concluded his reply: "But what can I do?" It was a fair question. What...
Chain of Letters. Lumumba seemed neither in effective control of his country nor of himself. He sent an irate note to Hammarskjold accusing him of ignoring the Congo's central government, of "acting in connivance" with the secessionist regime in the Congo's Katanga province, and of deliberately misinterpreting his instructions from the U.N. Security Council. Then, blithely ignoring the fact that the U.N. had already dispatched 2,000 African (Moroccan, Mali and Ethiopian) troops to Katanga. Lumumba accused Dag of sending in only units from Ireland (there were no Irish troops in Katanga) and from Sweden...