Word: katanga
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...fouled road at Pumpi, 40 miles from Secessionist Moise Tshombe's last-ditch headquarters at Kolwezi, United Nations Brigadier Reginald Noronha set up four folding tables and laid out tea, peanut-butter sandwiches, coffee and Simba beer. At 9 a.m.. right on schedule, four Katanga province officials and three representatives of the Union Miniere mining outfit roared up in two autos. ''We have come to meet you as friends," declared one, and the party...
Despite the apparent absurdity of it. the Pumpi tea party was a dead serious affair arranged so that Tshombe could peacefully escort United Nations troops into Kolwezi. the last major objective in its drive to end Katanga's 2½-year secession. Typically. Tshombe failed to show up at the party, but the operation went smoothly anyway. When the sandwiches were munched and the tea sipped. Noronha led a three-mile column of 1,000 Indian troops straight into Kolwezi...
Noronha was not the only one who was relieved that Tshombe was sticking to his promise to reintegrate Katanga with the rest of the Congo. At U.N. headquarters in Manhattan, Secretary-General U Thant could now turn to a problem that might turn out to be even tougher than ending Tshombe's secession. It was to establish the Congolese Central Government's authority over all the Congo and end the anarchy that still reigns in much of the nation...
...capitulation with U.N. officials. He found that some of the details had already been taken care of. The blue-and-gold flag of the Central Government now fluttered over the Katangese Defense Ministry. Sixty civil servants and 120 Congolese army officers arrived from Leopoldville to take over Katanga's military remnants and administer postal service, telecommunications, customs and immigration. As resident minister, Leopoldville's top man in Katanga would be slight, sober Joseph Ileo, 40, a moderate who served as interim Premier of the Congo after erratic Patrice Lumumba was deposed...
...question now was whether Leopoldville's Central Government could keep Katanga under control now that it was won. If the mob violence back in Leo itself was any indication, U.N. troops would have to stay on in Katanga for quite a while. Down Leo's Boulevard Albert stormed 600 students and street urchins, shouting "Tshombe to the gallows!" At the British embassy, which is considered fair game because of London's friendly policy toward Katanga, the mob battered down the doors, sacked the offices, and tried to pry off a coat of arms because, as one student...