Word: katanga
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...Demands. His heavy jaw jutting like one of Ionesco's man-turned-rhinoceros, and flanked by two beetling aides,* Zorin laid out the Soviet demands in his curious reedy tenor: 1) arrest Katanga's Moise Tshombe and Congolese Army Major General Joseph Mobutu, and put them on trial; 2) dissolve all Tshombe and Mobutu troop units and force all Belgians out of the Congo; 3) pull the U.N. force out of the Congo within a month...
...powers, enabling him to block money transfers from abroad to Congo banks and to search all incoming planes for arms.. But many sensitive African nations were wary of too much power for the U.N. For its part, the U.S. was urging Belgium to cease its arms buildup in Katanga-aid that, in African eyes, was just as "unilateral" and disruptive as the Communists' support for Gizenga. (With extraordinarily bad timing, a chartered Stratocruiser arrived in Katanga last week carrying three crated jet fighters, doubtless procured with Belgian assistance.) At one point, there was broad agreement among the Afro...
...high heels and Paris frocks. Last week she bared her breasts in the Congo's traditional sign of mourning, and led a wailing procession of other bare-breasted women through the streets of Léopoldville. Coldly and without regrets, her husband's archfoes in far-off Katanga province had just proclaimed that Patrice Lumumba was dead and buried deep...
...Katangese, who defied world opinion for weeks in hanging onto Lumumba, finished the affair with a flourish. "I will speak frankly," said Katanga Interior Minister Godefroid Munongo. "If people accuse us of killing Lumumba, I will reply: 'Prove...
Continuing his description of this "new process of neo-colonialist methods," Kanza suggested that Moise Tshombe's soldiers had murdered Lumumba as soon as the arrested leader entered Katanga province. "It is impossible that Tshombe would allow his mortal enemy to escape," he said...