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...policy, Williams said, has always been based on support of the central Congolese government and its prime ministers, from Lumumba to Tshombe. He said the U.S. had no forewarning that Congolese President Kasavubu would choose Tshombe as Prime Minister and added that there is "absolutely no truth to the assertion that we encouraged Tshombe's return...
...Teer) had a white mother and a black father, that she rejected her father and his blackness, and that her agonizings have cost her her sanity and her hair (which has fallen out in clumps). The intricacies of this identity crisis are represented by her four selves: Patrice Lumumba, Jesus, Queen Victoria Regina, and the Duchess of Hapsburg, Except for one cruel scene between Sarah and her lover Raymond--a Jewish poet "who is very interested in Negroes"--the play is composed entirely of motion and monologue. Miss Teer's performance is magnetic, and this form permits her to hold...
Former Premier Cyrille Adoula, his own Radeco Party badly split and losing influence, refuses to leave his self-imposed exile in Rome to contest the elections. The far-leftists have not had a real leader since Patrice Lumumba, whose once powerful Mouvement National Congolais has been fragmented and dispersed. The most radical Lumumbist elements are leading the rebels -and have refused a challenge by Tshombe to lay down their arms and enter their own candidates at the polls...
Human Wall. The police also stood passively by while the students-mostly Chinese and North Vietnamese from Patrice Lumumba University-littered the embassy sidewalk with their placards (one portrayed a bomb-wielding Lyndon Johnson with a Hitler mustache), defaced the Seal of the United States beside the door, and hurled ink bottles at the fa?ade with slingshots, breaking windows as high as the eighth floor of the ten-story building...
...witnesses were devils." At the time of Malcolm's death, Betty was pregnant and the mother of four children: Daughter Attilah, named after the Hun; Daughter Quiblah, after Kublai Khan; Daughter Ilyasah, Arabic for Elijah; and Daughter Lamum-bah, named after the Congo's wild-eyed Patrice Lumumba...