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...became serious last August, when mobs of unemployed overthrew President Fulbert Youlou in the ex-French Congo across the Congo River in Brazzaville. The upheaval fired the imaginations of labor leaders in Leopoldville, whose slums teem with thousands of jobless. They were joined by followers of the late Patrice Lumumba and his leftist successor, Antoine Gizenga. Although he is imprisoned on an island in the river, his African Solidarity Party remains well organized...
...Premier Cyrille Adoula desperately wants the U.N. to stay, is considering a personal appeal to the General Assembly as a last resort. With elections scheduled for next spring, the Congo's old extremists are lurking in the wings. Egide Davidson Bocheley, partisan of the erratic late Premier Patrice Lumumba, outlined his national policy recently at a press conference: "Kill Adoula! Kill [President Joseph] Kasavubu! Chase out the Americans!" Tshombe, relaxing in Spain after treatment for eye trouble and amoebic dysentery, has assured friends that he plans an active part in the campaign...
...town of Casilda. Parachuting a yellow flare to light up the target, it launched three rockets at the town's oil storage tanks, setting fire to a railroad tank car. In another night attack, two landing craft slipped up the Santa Lucia estuary to the heavily guarded Patricio Lumumba metal-processing plant. A raiding party scrambled ashore, took careful aim, and laid down a barrage of bazooka shells. When militiamen returned fire, the raiders made an orderly retreat, covered by machine guns. But they left their mark: gaping holes in the plant's sulphuric-acid and petroleum tanks...
...writers celebrate nature and memories of a pristine Africa. Most are preoccupied by the West's failure to understand them. But in their poetry-if not in their U.N. speeches-Africans waste surprisingly little time inveighing against imperialism, notwithstanding a tirade by a part-time poet named Patrice Lumumba, the late, rabblerousing Congolese leader ("For a thousand years, you, African, suffered like a beast...
Communist penetration is most evident at Morelia's University of Michoacán. By conservative estimate, about 25% of the 7,500 students are Communist in everything but card. Michoacán recently sent a dozen students off to Moscow's Patrice Lumumba University, and two years ago, during the Cuban Bay of Pigs invasion, rioting students burned the American-Mexican Institute. By no coincidence, two members of the Russian embassy had traveled from Mexico City to Morelia just before the riots...