Word: kimba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Elegantly suited and vested, Premier-Designate Evariste Kimba sat on the front bench of the crowded Chamber of Deputies and tried to look confident. Three rows back, his predecessor, Moise Tshombe, tapped his foot nervously. As the Congolese Parliament met in joint session last week, about the only empty seat in the Palais de la Nation was the leopard-skin presidential chair itself: President Joseph Kasavubu, who could not vote anyway, had gone off to attend a memorial service for the nation's civil war dead...
Shocking as it was to many Congolese and Westerners alike, Tshombe's ouster seemed unlikely to set off another rampage in the Congo. To take his place, Kasavubu named 39-year-old Evariste Kimba, a onetime railroad worker who was Tshombe's Foreign Minister during the Katanga rebellion and accompanied him into exile in Europe. Kimba's first steps as Premier were encouraging. "To the Congolese people and to the foreigners in our country," he announced, "we guarantee peace and security." Then he invited Tshombe, who still commands the biggest voting bloc in Parliament, to take...
Katanga because, as Foreign Minister Evariste Kimba complained, "You have done nothing for us." But Tshombe was beaten nonetheless. Even his old ally, Sir Roy Welensky, Prime Minister of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland, told him he had "acted wisely" in yielding...
Three times, U.N. Civilian Chief Smith communicated with Katanga's Foreign Minister Evariste Kimba, demanded that the roadblock be removed. Kimba promised to comply, but as time went by, it became clear that he had little or no control over the determined Katanga forces. It was now apparent that the U.N. personnel could reach the town only by using force. Then came word that Katangese units were moving up to encircle the airport itself, and one of Katanga's Dornier planes flew over the field. Certain that an attack against the U.N. was imminent, Smith turned...