Word: kitona
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This week, weary of being squeezed, Eyskens himself began to put the squeeze on the Atlantic Community. He hinted that Belgium's abandoning the two NATO military bases of Kamina and Kitona in the Congo would save him a great of money, perhaps $70 million. He made noises about cutting the Belgian contribution of two divisions to NATO, and about backing out of an agreement to buy $100 worth of Starfighters to be used in cooperation with West Germany and the Netherlands...
...cities under U.N. control, a few factories were cautiously reopened by European managers, and peddlers were again hawking carved trinkets of ivory and mahogany on the streets. But there was promise of a new dispute. Belgian troops withdrew only to the two big Congo military bases of Kamina and Kitona, balked at leaving the country as Lumumba demanded...
...Congo would appeal to Communist China. No one in the Congolese government asked Belgium for anything, but Brussels moved swiftly in response to the cries of its beleaguered citizens. Para troops and commando units fanned out from the big Belgian military bases at Kamina and Kitona; planeloads of home troops were rushed to the Congo from Belgium...