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...slick little river capital of Eastern province. There Lumumba's Prague-trained Vice Premier Antoine Gizenga holds firm control of the local Congolese army and police force in defiance of frustrated "Boss" Mobutu inLéopoldville. With this foothold, Gizenga & Co. were pressuring Equator province, reaching into Kivu, and looking greedily at northern Katanga as well...
Rule by Kidnap. Kivu, a land of rich highlands and rolling farms once run by Belgians, was easily won. Gizenga simply sent several Jeeploads of troops swooping into Bukavu, Kivu's capital, to negotiate with the wavering Kivu provincial leaders. When the latter refused to disavow Mobutu, the invaders simply kidnaped the conferees-Kivu's provincial president, a couple of his ministers and the local army commander-and hauled them back to Stanleyville to get them out of the way. Suddenly, Kivu had a new provincial boss, who turned out to be another Lumumba crony, former Minister...
Straying Escort. Sputtering with rage, Colonel Mobutu vowed to retaliate and to bring Kivu back under his control. But how? The only troops he could depend on were nearLéopoldville, 900 miles away, and the U.N. surely would forbid the use of trucks or planes to haul them east for an all-out invasion. No one, however, could complain when he airlifted 100 troops to Kasai as an escort for President Joseph Kasavubu on his official visit to Bakwanga, capital of the secessionist Mining State in Kasai. But soon after the heavily armed "escort" got to Kasai, the transports...
...Unknown Animal. By current Congolese standards one of the bright spots in the nation's health picture is Beni -a village at the northeast tip of remote Kivu province. Beni's modern. Belgian-built hospital is staffed by two physicians on loan from the Irish Red Cross; a new X-ray machine and cases of operating-room equipment are stacked against its walls, and the dispensary is equipped with large stocks of antimalaria drugs. But the U.N.'s Irish doctors found the Belgians had made no attempt to control the spread of malaria by clearing swamps...
...later. Disarmingly, he explained to reporters that his seeming about-face was "simply a cover-up to allow Belgium to move additional troops into Katanga," and that "it was prudent to help Belgium with this little story so that Belgium could help us." He also boasted that parts of Kivu and Kasai provinces, including the valuable Tshikapa diamond fields, were ready to join his Katanga state, and he was hopefully eying populous Ruanda-Urundi, the home of the tall and stately Watutsi tribesmen...