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...Inner Station. Negotiations started in Nairobi, under the auspices of Kenya's Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta, chairman of the Organization of African Unity's Congo Reconciliation Commission. Posturing in his orange sport shirt among the mangoes and moonflowers of Jomo's garden, the rebel "Foreign Minister," Thomas Kanza, presented his conditions: hostages would live if Tshombe's Congolese army immediately halted its drive toward the rebel capital. That was tantamount to demanding a legitimate government's surrender to the rebels...
Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, who has more than passing acquaintance with African savagery from his country...
Kenya's Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta, chairman of an ad hoc Congo Reconciliation Commission set up by the Organization of African Unity, appealed to "all authorities in the Congo to do nothing that would be inhuman toward civilians in their custody...
...turns the coup into a coo with John Leyton, a stranded British private. Flora Robson adds snap as a visiting lady M.P., but the pick of the lot is Richard Attenborough. As a starched and polished relic of the Kipling era, hopelessly out of keeping with the age of Kenyatta, Attenborough turns a cliché into a memorable character sketch-etched most sharply when he raises his glass in a brusque farewell toast to the glories of Empire, then hurls drink and all at a portrait of the Queen...
...their success, the mercenaries remained in bad odor with the rest of black Africa. But Premier Moise Tshombe, in Nairobi for talks with the Congo Reconciliation Committee headed by Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, made it clear that though he wants black African help in quelling the rebellion, he would brook no "interference in the internal affairs" of his country. That seemed to mean the mercenaries would stay-for the time being at least...