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Post-Mortems. Given Katanga's fierce animosity toward the U.N. and Hammarskjold, not to mention The Lone Ranger's known presence, the world immediately suspected that the crash was no accident. The Rhodesian government ordered a full investigation-including complete post-mortem examination of every body, although all but Hammarskjold's had been charred beyond recognition...
...control tower at Ndola, barely seven miles from the charred clearing slashed out by Dag Hammarskjold's doomed plane, two men arranged the cease-fire he had set out to negotiate. After a two-day session, Katanga's President Moise Tshombe and U.N. Negotiator Mahmoud Khiari signed a provisional truce, ending the eight-day Battle of Katanga. Unofficial death toll: 44 U.N. troops, 152 Katangese police and soldiers, 79 African civilians, 14 European civilians...
Although welcomed by both sides, the cease-fire was a defeat for the U.N., which had obviously misjudged the strength and determination of Tshombe's forces, and had taken a bad beating. It was an important victory in Tshombe's running battle to keep Katanga free of the Congolese central government in Leopoldville...
Tshombe's victory may not last long. Khiari made it plain at a press conference in Ndola that Katanga's "secession is a matter of fact, but it is not legal nor is it a right." Returning to Leopoldville, he told newsmen that he hoped to help "Katanga and the central government to find a peaceful solution, just as we achieved with the central government and the Stanleyville regime" of leftist Vice Premier Antoine Gizenga...
Meanwhile, the Congo government prepared for action. Premier Cyrille Adoula, ordinarily a moderate man, went into a rage over Katanga's refusal to give in. General Joseph Mobutu, commander in chief of the army, started massing troops in a staging area across the border from Katanga, probably to forestall Gizenga, who reportedly was doing the same with his own private troops...