Word: katanga
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...Moise Tshombe, president of Katanga, hastily left his capital of Elisabethville when central government authorities picked up several valises full of his personal papers, which had been cached in the apartment of a Belgian called Mr. Christian. Among the items prompting Tshombe's sudden search for a healthier climate: documents indicating that he has funds tucked away in 15 banks in 13 countries ranging from Switzerland to the U.S. to Burundi...
...began like the Montagues and the Capulets. He was a Lunda boy who wanted to marry a Baluba girl, but the two tribes were ancient blood foes. Last week, in the Katanga town of Jadotville, their love affair resulted in a savage orgy of killing unlike any ever seen on the streets of Verona...
Bands of Lunda natives, armed with knives, machetes, and razor-sharp bicycle chains lashed to sticks, stormed through the streets looking for Baluba youths wearing monkey fur headpieces and animal-skin war dresses. Both sides chased terrified police out of native quarters, brushed aside the pleas of Katanga's President Moise Tshombe when he arrived in the city begging for the carnage to stop...
...book is more than just a review of the American past. It is also an indictment of America in the present. As up-to-date as the Katanga Province crisis, A Nation So Conceived probes at some length the political consequences of America's sense of mission in the Twentieth century...
...cold-blooded killing pointed up the grim fact that nearly three months after United Nations troops crushed Secessionist Moise Tshombe's regime and placed the province under Premier Cyrille Adoula's central government, peace is far from restored in Katanga. Each guard post that the U.N. hands over to the central regime's Armée Nationale Congolaise seems to produce a little area of anarchy. In recent weeks, trigger-happy A.N.C. soldiers in Elisabethville have killed at least one Katangese civilian...