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Come Home Again. A year ago, when he fled to Spain in exile, Tshombe was Moses the Hated. As the leader of copper-rich Katanga province's abortive secession, finally crushed by the U.N., he had been damned as a traitor to African nationalism and a stooge of the Belgians. But last week the stooge was being praised as a possible savior. In the chaotic Congo, that made as much sense as anything else...
...Free Us! Free Us!" The Mulopwe accepted readily, flew in from Europe in such haste that none of his political allies were on hand at the airport to meet him. Balancing the return of Kalonji and Tshombe was the elimination of Jason Sendwe, leader of Katanga's once rebellious Baluba tribe and provincial president of north Katanga. Captured two weeks ago, Sendwe and three of his lieutenants were knifed to death in Albertville by the Jeunesse, according to reliable reports. With the aid of the survivors, Adoula could form a compromise regime to keep some kind of order...
They will get there none too soon, for revolt flared in yet another important town in the Congo's anarchic east. It was in Albertville, capital of North Katanga, where only a month ago the government managed to regain control from dissident rebels. Now once again, the streets of Albertville were alive with armed insurgents; scores of whites gathered at the tiny airport in hopes of evacuation, while others took refuge on two steamers anchored offshore in Lake Tanganyika. Where was Adoula's army? Also seeking safety, by all accounts. When last seen, elements of the local garrison...
...North Katanga and other Congolese trouble spots, the Kivu rebellion is manned largely by local youths who nurse vague grudges against the government. But in Kivu at least-and perhaps elsewhere-powerful support comes from neighboring Burundi, where Communist Chinese diplomats are in close touch with Congolese refugee leaders who call themselves the "Committee of National Liberation for Eastern Congo." From Bujumbura, Burundi's capital, Liberation Committee "President" Emile Soumaliot and his "commissars" travel over the border to the rebels' Uvira headquarters at will, carrying supplies, money and orders to their field commanders...
...Kivu and North Katanga were the Congo's only trouble spots, matters might be kept reasonably under control. But they are not. Back in the west, Kwilu province is still harassed by Pierre Mulele's Red-backed rebellion; in Stanleyville and Maniema province, the government holds control by a hair, and could be upset at any time. The two battalions that General Mobutu has committed in Kivu are the last remaining government troops available for emergency duty. If the flame of revolt erupts anywhere else, it will simply have to burn itself out-or else spread across...