Word: katanga
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...political news from the Congo sounded better. The central government of Premier Cyrille Adoula was gaining strength. Moise Tshombe of Katanga seemed to be playing along with Adoula, at least for the moment, and Red-backed Antoine Gizenga had been toppled from power. The U.S. could only keep its fingers crossed and, through the U.N., nurse along the Central Government as best it could. But other news reminded the world of an ugly fact. The Congo as a whole-Adoula's, Tshombe's, Gizenga's or anyone else's-is still a savage society...
...donated by the U.S. for flood-battered Stanleyville. It was quite a moment for the lazy little river capital of Eastern Prov ince, stronghold of Red-backed Antoine Gizenga, whose own rebellion against the central government had for a time seemed as serious as Moise Tshombe's in Katanga...
Unexpected Visitors. Adoula still had stubborn Moise Tshombe of Katanga to deal with. Day after day, Tshombe weaved, dodged and ducked to escape implementation of the agreement he had signed with Adoula vowing an end to Katanga's secession. Katanga's provincial assembly ratified seven of the agreement's eight points, but still haggled over the crucial one, which would oust the white mercenaries in the army. At his Elisabethville headquarters, Tshombe was simply stalling for time while his Katanga army units were getting stronger by the day. He had worked hard to build a second bastion...
Married. Conor Cruise O'Brien, 44, explosive veteran diplomat who resigned last month from the Irish foreign service and from his Congo post as U.N. chief in Katanga in protest at British and French encouragement of Katanga's secessionist President Tshombe; and Moira MacEntee, 39, daughter of Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister Sean MacEntee; he for the second time, she for the first; in Manhattan...
...liberal realists" do not have a monopoly of moral concern. Conservatives can get themselves worked up wtih moral indignation over Katanga's right to self-determination and, as a matter of fact, over voting rights, as can Roberts. To portray, as he does, conservatives as being machiavellian politicians while all liberals are "realistic idealists" is nothing short of irresponsble...