Word: katangans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SCHWARTZ WRITES: There is little point in guessing what Mr. Hammarskjold's policy towards Tshombe would have been after the Katangan attack on U.N. forces in early September. His "consistent refusal to use force" before then was, I think, simply a reflection of his belief that the U.N. would have been defeated--the one thing which would imperil its future usefulness...
...Harvard spiders to Cuba. "They belong to the people of Cuba. We have expropriated them in absentia," Castro insists. He appeals to the UN, which regrets that it has no neutral observers left to send him... 146 Young Americans for Freedom depart Cambridge to fight in the Katangan army. "We are not to be confused with the Peace Corps," their leader explains. "We are not going to help Katanga, we're going to fight...
...there can be no excuse for any settlement which stops short of a redistribution of power. Katangan independence is unacceptable--not simply because Tshombe is the tool of the imperialist Union Miniere, or because of the rightism which characterizes his regime...
...Katanga, on talking about "mercenaries" and "white-officered troops." And what do you mean by "white"? South Africans, Rhodesians, Congo Belgians, Algerian French born and bred in Africa, probably for two, three or more generations, who have lived and worked their whole life in Africa, are Africans. A white Katangan of Belgian extraction can have the genuine patriotism for Katanga that an American Negro or American of Polish extraction can have for America...
...head off further intervention by Russia or Belgium, he asked the Council formally to call on all outside countries to cease unilateral aid. To head off Lumumba's wild adventures, he sought authority to disarm all military groups-both Congolese and Katangan-and negotiate a settlement of the Congo's internal differences...