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...Congo. But the Soviet Union's Valerian Zorin was anxious to protect one of the worst troublemakers, Red-backed Antoine Gizenga of Eastern province; tossing two rapid-fire vetoes, Russia's Zorin declined to approve any measure not directed exclusively against anti-Communist Moise Tshombe of Katanga. To prevent total deadlock and inaction, Stevenson reluctantly gave U.S. approval to the narrower, Soviet-favored proposal...
Tshombe himself professed fear that the U.N. might be preparing to attack Katanga again, cabled the Security Council that he was prepared to negotiate a peaceful settlement with anyone who accepted "the existence of Katanga as a sovereign and independent nation." He added: "To prevent further bloodshed, we request your intervention to halt the invasion of Katanga...
When the Congo's martyr-demagogue. Patrice Lumumba, died last winter deep inside Katanga, territory of his bitter political foes, the Katangese Minister of the Interior said: "If people accuse us of killing Lumumba, I will reply, 'Prove it.' " For six months, a U.N. Commission of Investigation* has been trying to prove it. Its report last week, based largely on hearsay, hunches and gossip, did not furnish proof, but added considerable evidence to show that Lumumba was indeed murdered in cold blood-and probably with the connivance of Moise Tshombe's own Katanga government...
...report discredits the Katanga story that Lumumba was killed by indignant tribesmen after he escaped from a farmhouse jail. One witness quoted by the commission swore that Tshombe's Interior Minister Godefroid Munongo himself, confronting the prisoner in Elisabethville, took the bayonet from a soldier's rifle and plunged it into Lumumba's chest, then let a Belgian officer named Ruvs finish off the victim with a bullet in the head. The body was then supposedly taken to a refrigerator in a nearby laboratory and later buried at a still undisclosed place. But in a different version...
...Elisabethville last week, Tshombe angrily denied all the charges, pointed out that the report had been put together in faraway Geneva. Asked Tshombe: "Why didn't the commission come to Katanga?" The commissioners had tried, but the Congo Government refused to let them...