Word: kitona
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Congo. The tenacity of able U.S. Ambassador Edmund Gullion in Leopoldville helped bring Katanga's stubborn Moise Tshombe and Central Congolese Premier Cyrille Adoula together in a pact at Kitona (TIME, Dec. 29). Now the problem was to enforce the pact, and to bring Tshombe's secessionist province back into a unified Congo. Last week, as promised, Tshombe sent Katanga delegates to Leopoldville to sit with Adoula's commission in drafting revisions for the Congolese constitution. Other omens were less favorable. In Elisabethville, Tshombe rose before his provincial assembly to hedge his promises, still holding...
...last flew the first batch of President Moise Tshombe's Katanga Deputies to the central Congolese Parliament. Landing in a United Nations plane and guaranteed U.N. protection during their stay, they arrived ostensibly in fulfillment of Tshombe's pledge made fortnight ago in his meeting at Kitona with the central government's Premier Cyrille Adoula. The pledge: to integrate secessionist Katanga province with the rest of the Congo. But it was clear from the moment the delegates left Elisabethville's airport that they were not ready to keep Tshombe's promise. As the Deputies departed...
...became the task of hard-working U.S. Ambassador Edmund Gullion to corral Tshombe, who had fled to the Northern Rhodesia border, and bring him face to face with Adoula. Guaranteed safe passage, Tshombe agreed to fly-in President Eisenhower's old Columbine III-to the meeting in Kitona, a sweltering settlement near the mouth of the Congo River on the Atlantic...
...Hello, you old rascal," Tshombe grinned, shaking hands with Adoula in the second-floor waiting room of the Kitona hospital. "How've you been?" replied Adoula as he hugged his old adversary and escorted him into the troops' mess for some food and reminiscences...
...obviously planned to try; already he was grumbling about Gullion's intervention, even though Tshombe himself originally requested it. And hardly had .the wily Moise returned to Elisabethville when he declared that he had "not found anything" at Kitona. In any case, said Moise, "I am only the mouthpiece of my people. It is for them to decide"-adding darkly, "The accord we have reached has to be ratified by my ministers and by the National Assembly [ Katanga's legislature], and that cannot be done for at least ten days...