Word: katanga
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Battle for Katanga...
...Katanga has every right to be an independent nation. If the U.S. were not supplying the money, the U.N. would not be fighting. The only real mercenaries are the soldiers fighting under the U.N. flag...
...very moment when we were crushing Tshombe's resistance in Katanga, we were shoring up Nkrumah, Africa's Castro, with a $133 million loan to Ghana...
...appeals to the UN, which regrets that it has no neutral observers left to send him... 146 Young Americans for Freedom depart Cambridge to fight in the Katangan army. "We are not to be confused with the Peace Corps," their leader explains. "We are not going to help Katanga, we're going to fight...
...determined to back its stand with force. In the agreement. Tshombe had promised to send Katanga Deputies to the Congolese national Parliament by Dec. 27 to start the reunification of Katanga with the rest of the country; if Tshombe did not live up to his pledge, the U.N.'s 6,000 Indian, Ethiopian, Swedish and Irish soldiers around Elisabethville might well resume their hail of shells, rockets and machine-gun fire. When one of Tshombe's platoons last week clashed with a group of Ethiopian soldiers who occupied the big Union Minière copper refinery at nearby...