Word: katanga
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...dawn, blue-helmeted U.N. troops swarmed into action at Elisabethville, capital of the Congo's breakaway Katanga province. Without any warning to the Katangans, platoons of Indians seized the studios of Radio Katanga; Swedish infantry occupied the transmitter site on the outskirts of the city. At Katanga army headquarters, Irish troops intercepted Belgian officers on their way to work. Most of Katanga's 634 white officers surrendered expeditiously and were promptly put under U.N. detention pending expulsion from Katanga. Others prudently went underground or sought asylum at Elisabethville's foreign consulates. The 11,600 black Katanga troops...
...succeeded in temporarily cowing Katanga's dissidents, it proved less effective in Eastern Province, stronghold of Communist-lining Antoine Gizen-ga. Three weeks ago. Gizenga accepted the post of Vice Premier in the central government of Cyrille Adoula. But he seemed to have changed his mind. He refused to go to Leopoldville to take up his job. Instead, he formed a new National Patrice Lumumba Party and began orating against the U.N. ("hostile to the Congo"). Last week his soldiers, apparently feeling that it is open season on all Western whites, roughed up U.S. Consul Thomas A. Cassilly...
...machine gunners of the U.N. force, the legislators made a forlorn stab at statesmanship. That it failed was largely the fault of two bedridden absentees: Red lining Antoine Gizenga, boss of Eastern province and heir apparent of Lumumba, and round-faced Moise Tshombe, President of the separatist state of Katanga...
...more interested in sowing discord at home and abroad. Imprisoned for two months by Kasavubu's central government, he had won release by promising Strongman Joseph Mobutu that he would merge his 11,600 army, officered by 634 Europeans, with that of the central government. Once back in Katanga, Tshombe assured his Cabinet that the agreement was only a "gesture of support for Mobutu and a form of insurance for us." When Gen. Mobutu's staff officers arrived in Elisabethville to take over, they were coldly ignored...
Tshombe then blithely took on more sizable opponents by charging that there was a U.S. "plot" to use U.N. troops to crush Katanga and bring about the unification of the Congo. Stunned reporters were told that Katanga would "ask for and accept Russian help"-despite the fact that the Soviet Union has long denounced Tshombe as a "Belgian stooge" kept in power only by the backing of Western capitalists. European diplomats testily dismissed this attempted blackmail of the West and the U.N. as a piece of "dangerous skulduggery...