Word: kolwezi
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...almost as wacky as the Mad Hatter's outdoor tea party in Wonderland. Smack in the middle of a mud-fouled road at Pumpi, 40 miles from Secessionist Moise Tshombe's last-ditch headquarters at Kolwezi, United Nations Brigadier Reginald Noronha set up four folding tables and laid out tea, peanut-butter sandwiches, coffee and Simba beer. At 9 a.m.. right on schedule, four Katanga province officials and three representatives of the Union Miniere mining outfit roared up in two autos. ''We have come to meet you as friends," declared one, and the party...
...year siege that brought the U.N. close to bankruptcy, set the U.S. at odds with its principal European allies and threatened to immerse Central Africa in blood. Now, Katanga's Rebel Moise Tshombe sat wanly behind a desk in a stucco cottage in the copper town of Kolwezi and declared, "I am ready to proclaim immediately before the world that Katanga's secession is ended...
...last moment, Tshombe wavered. Having fled from Elisabethville "a frightened and dejected man," in the words of British and Belgian officials, he turned up last week in Kolwezi, where the last 3,000 of his 20,000-man gendarmerie were holed up. A two-man peace mission composed of Jacques Houard, Belgium's consul general in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, and André Van Roey, director of Katanga's National Bank, followed him there. For 36 desperate hours, the two urged him to yield rather than carry out his threat to blow up the huge dams and copper...
Later, apparently to show newsmen what might have happened, he drove them to a minor hydroelectric substation 70 miles outside Kolwezi, aimed a six-pound artillery piece at it and pulled the lanyard. The shot was right on target. The substation, apparently loaded with dynamite, disintegrated while Tshombe guffawed. As a final act of obstreperousness he had Peacemaker Houard thrown...
...expected to exaggerate in the hope of dissuading the Katangese from doing any more damage, says that the Jadotville plants could start rolling again in two to four months. Most outside observers figure that Union Minière will again be producing full blast well before that-provided the Kolwezi dams are not blown...