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Three chaotic years after intervening in the Congo, the U.N. military forces last week were packing up to leave. Under orders from Secretary General U Thant, the remaining 5,077 combat troops (already pared sharply from a peak of 19,000 since the final crushing of Katanga last January) are scheduled for departure by Dec. 31. The planned pull-out represents a victory for such intransigent opponents of the U.N. Congo operation as Russia and France. Chiefly because of the holdouts' refusal to help share the costs, the U.N. is $140 million in debt, and Thant...
...tribe in north Katanga that ambushed an Irish contingent in 1960, killing ten of its soldiers...
Suffering from amoebic dysentery, fainting spells and an inflamed kidney, Moise Tshombe, 43, was being treated last week in the Clinique de Passy in Paris. At the same time, his once potent and economically healthy domain of Katanga was going under the knife back in the Congo. Last year the Congo central government cut North Katanga out of Tshombe's former domain, leaving him only the southern part. Now the government subdivided the area further, into the provinces of East Katanga and Lualaba...
...purpose of the gerrymander is to remove any power base to which Tshombe might return. Premier Cyrille Adoula and other central-government leaders in Leopoldville have been terrified of a renewed secession attempt in Katanga once U.N. troops pull out of the Congo. A personal campaign against Tshombe began last May when his bodyguard was forcibly disbanded. Next Tshombe's correspondence was seized, with hints that it gave proof of treasonable designs. The ailing Tshombe took the hint and left for Europe, vowing: "I will come back, and I will not abandon my post...
Technically, Moise Tshombe is still eligible to run for office in East Katanga. But since much of Tshombe's political strength lies with the Luanda tribe, now isolated in the new Lualaba province, his chances might be slim. Though Tshombe still has considerable popularity in Katanga, the Europeans there want no more adventures, and the flourishing Union Miniere asks only that it be allowed to mine copper undisturbed and continue earning $260 million a year for the Congo-more than twice the export revenue of the rest of the country. The secessionist spirit seems to be dying. Says...