Word: lumumba
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...Patrice Lumumba...
...recently Kenyatta joined other African states in criticizing the U.S.Belgian rescue operation in the Congo, welcomed Congolese rebel leaders to last week's ceremonies, during which he dedicated a Communist-financed "Lumumba Institute" that will train government party officials in "socialism and patriotism." Also present: a large Red Chinese delegation, which will stay on for trade talks. There are reports that planeloads of Kenyan "students," trained in subversion in Russia and Red China, have debarked secretly at Nairobi Airport...
...troops entered the rebel headquarters near Lumumba Square, a black hand was spotted reaching from a closet to clo& the door. A Belgian opened up with his automatic rifle. In the headquarters alone, 25 rebels-mostly unarmed, minor political types -were sprayed with rifle fire as they hid under beds, beneath the kitchen table, and in wardrobes, which toppled like tipped coffins as their occupants died. Outside, Tshombe's tough Katangese gendarmes hunted down Simbas...
Moscow, obviously eager to show that it is just as anticolonialist as Peking, mouthed the usual phrases about "imperialist intervention" and permitted African students to riot at the U.S. embassy. But the Russian response was mild compared to the Khrushchevian blasts of 1960 (when Lumumba was deposed) and 1962 (when the U.N. went into Katanga). For all their relative softening toward the West, the satellites kept pace, with embassy riots in Prague and Sofia...
...cost of maintaining U.N. peace-keeping forces in Suez and the Congo. Russia supported the original U.N. action in both cases, but later changed its mind-to give Nasser a free hand in the Suez area, and to aid Red stooges in the Congo after Leftist Patrice Lumumba was assassinated. Moscow now claims the assessments are illegal, and despite the unanimous verdict of the International Court of Justice that they are binding, the Kremlin has refused to pay its share since early 1962. Washington threatens to open this week's session by demanding the invocation of Article...