Word: katanga
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...rebels set up headquarters in the Hotel Royal Residence, took over the post office, and began rampaging through the center of town. Always before in such circumstances, the government defenders had fled in panic and confusion. This time, bolstered by 150 of Tshombe's tough ex-gendarmes from Katanga, they stood and fought. After three days of battles, it was the rebels who broke and ran. Behind them, 300 dead of both sides lay in the streets...
...eastern Congo city of Bukavu, and most of its white population were fleeing. Hundreds of miles to the west, dependents of missionaries and United Nations personnel flew out of two other provincial capitals that had been safe the week before. Reports of an advancing rebel column in Katanga were sending waves of fear through Tshombe's former stronghold of Elisabethville...
...Brussels near week's end flew State Department Troubleshooter W. Averell Harriman. His mission: to persuade the Belgians to give increased military and technical aid to Tshombe's army. Just two years ago, the U.S. was trying to eliminate Belgian support for Tshombe, but that was in Katanga, where Tshombe was attempting his abortive secession. Now Belgium is reluctant to get involved, for fear that the rebels will retaliate by killing the Europeans who remain in the country. After hours of discussion, Harriman and Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak reached a compromise: Belgium will double its number...
...monument last week strode the latest Liberator of the Congo, Premier Moise Tshombe, onetime leader of secessionist Katanga and the man whom most Congolese hold responsible for Lumumba's murder. Standing poker-faced in a tepid drizzle, Tshombe solemnly deposited a wreath at the foot of the portrait, bowed his head in silence. Later he delivered a speech that drew wild applause from at least 5,000 of Lumumba's former followers. "You have suffered too much from strings pulled abroad. The Congolese will not be valets of colonialists and imperialists...
...Negotiators. At this anxious moment, who should turn up in Leopoldville but a batch of white mercenaries from Johannesburg eager to sign up on Tshombe's side, just as they had done back in the old days when he needed outside help to keep Katanga independent. Good news for Moise? Perhaps. But the mercenaries posed a nightmarish problem for U.S. officials on the scene. They are inclined to help the old Katanga renegade now that he is on the side of Congo unity, but would be acutely embarrassed to find themselves allied with South African racists in the process...