Word: katanga
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...shaping American policy abroad, and the harsh price exacted from well meaning men who only see what they want to see. To formulate a foreign policy which will reach its goal, the landscape on the way must be closely observed. The caution Halberstam learned slogging through the jungles of Katanga is relevant to policy makers attempting to plot America's course abroad: "The relationship between African maps and African landscape is extremely haphazard...
...CONGO. When the Belgian colony precipitately won independence in 1960, the new nation collapsed in mutiny and civil war. The U.N. decided to intervene, and initially there was no Big Power opposition. Some 20,000 U.N. troops from 21 countries fought to subdue Moise Tshombe's secession in Katanga and, indirectly, to prevent a Communist takeover in the rest of the Congo. Many still feel that U.N. troops should never have performed a fighting role and that it was wrong to put down Tshombe, who has since emerged as the only figure capable of giving the country even...
...down Simbas, Premier Tshombe was working hard at getting himself elected for a five-year term in office. The polling was cannily arranged on a staggered system, province by province. Tshombe saw to it that the first provinces to vote were the three that had formerly constituted his fief, Katanga...
...little black bag were agreements granting the Congolese government major stockholder participation in 76 Belgian companies (ranging from the giant Union Minière du Haut-Katanga through Sabena Airlines to the Leopoldville City Bus Co.). It also contained a dividend check for $1,840,000 from the all-pervasive Belgian holding company, Société Générale-the first, Tshombe hoped, of many to come. "From this day," Tshombe proclaimed, "the Congo can call itself politically and economically independent...
Tshombe wanted the Security Council to denounce outside intervention. Instead, the Council responded with a resolution that would hardly please the Congo's Premier. It demanded an immediate cease-fire by both rebels and government troops. Recalling his own state of mind during the Katanga secession, Moise was not about to give his enemies a breather. He himself had used U.N. cease-fires to recoup losses and prepare new attacks...