Word: katanga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prestige and authority. But as always, Hammarskjold and the U.N. were crippled by one overriding weakness: the U.N.'s inability to counter the threat of force with threatened force of its own. When one defiant man-Premier Moise Tshombe of the Congo's rebellious Katanga province-threatened resistance to the U.N. forces, all Hammarskjold's carefully laid plans went agley...
...Security Council, Hammarskjold presented two clear choices as to what to do next. The Council could authorize him to send U.N. forces into Katanga ready to shoot. Or, as Dag plainly favored, the Council could offer Tshombe assurance that the presence of U.N. troops would not be used to force Katanga to submit to the Congo government...
...efforts of Dag Hammarskjold have, it appears, prevented the Congolese from shooting each other for at least a week. President Moise Tshombe of Katanga Province, realizing at last the validity of the curious proposition that armed force may be necessary to keep his province peaceful, has agreed to let the U.N. enter...
...borders than he ever suspected, will allow himself to be protected by the U.N. But he may forget that the U.N. cannot protect him forever, whereas the indignant Premier Lumumba is likely to resent his independence even longer than that. The last thing Lumumba wants is to see Katanga's requirements for U.N. entry, absolute assurance of sovereignty, guaranteed. The province, containing a tenth of the Congo's people but almost half its wealth, is much too fruity a peach to be let out of Lumumba's grasp. The longer he can stretch out the Congo crisis, the more...
...week's end, Katanga's pro-Belgian Premier Tshombe shipped a three-man delegation off to the U.S. to plead his independence cause and sent along Belgian Paratroop Colonel Guy Weber as "guide." Belgium's Premier Eyskens proclaimed: "The U.N. must not intervene in the internal affairs of Katanga." But Belgian officials conceded privately that it was only a matter of time and began looking for a face-saving way to get Katanga back into the Congo. The government pulled back a token 1,500 of the 10,000 troops in Katanga, and the Belgian National Bank...