Word: katanga
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...politicians of whatever stripe. He told Parliament to take a vacation for the rest of the year, and when the Deputies tried to meet anyway, his troops barred the doors and turned them away. There was even a good chance that Mobutu could get along with Kasavubu and with Katanga province's Moise Tshombe, an anti-Communist who last week said he had not even "dreamed" of seceding from the Congo until forced to by Lumumba's "dictatorship...
...soon to proclaim an end to chaos. In secessionist Katanga, Baluba tribesmen rose in bloody revolt in the tin-mining town of Manono after police broke up a demonstration by tossing a hand grenade that killed two tribesmen. Anointed by a witch doctor with a potion that supposedly made them immune to bullets, the Balubas fearlessly charged a police barricade, hurling spears, shooting arrows, firing old muzzle-loaders filled with nuts and bolts. Police fire cut down 35 Balubas, while two police were killed...
Busy Helpers. What bothered Lumumba was the fact that the U.N. troops were hampering his efforts to invade secessionist Katanga province. For two weeks, Lumumba's fast-shooting soldiers had been prowling along the Katanga frontier from their Kasai stronghold, gathering strength for the assault. This threat of civil war was bad enough, but Hammarskjold was now more alarmed at the busy activities of Soviet Russia, which had first come in to help under the U.N.'s aegis, was now operating high, wide and handsome on its own. Fifteen Ilyushin transports, with "Republique du Congo" freshly painted...
Hammarskjold's task was made all the more difficult when the Belgians flew nine tons of ammunition into Katanga, the wealthy and dissident Congo province run by its self-styled Premier, Moise Tshombe. Abruptly closing all of Katanga's airports. Hammarskjold now incurred the wrath of Tshombe, who had reports that a Lumumba task force was crossing into Katanga from the north. Flouting the U.N.'s orders, Tshombe rushed truckloads of armed Katanga troops to Elisabethville's airport, forced the field's U.N. traffic controller at gunpoint to order the obstacles removed from the strip...
...troops were stacking their arms, ignoring the screams of anger from Lumumba. Behind the Premier's back, Congolese army leaders and U.N. officers had worked out arrangements of their own: weapons were to be kept locked in central arsenals, and a cease-fire was arranged in the Katanga campaign. Lumumba insisted it was all a mistake, but the fact remained that the Premier, already effectively deprived of his airports and his radio stations, was now in danger of becoming a Premier without an army. Exultant, President Joseph Kasavubu fired off a cable to U.N. headquarters in Manhattan: "Have honor...