Word: lumumba
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...they have acted as Russia's representatives at Tirana since the Soviets severed diplomatic relations. Meanwhile, Prague's huge Stalin monument, which Novotny had promised to destroy, still stands. Some Prague wags suggest a solution for that: paint the monument black and rename it the Patrice Lumumba memorial...
...along the Congo River was virtually at a standstill; in the towns, shops were closed and deserted; the battered government cars on the streets of Stanleyville, with their smashed fenders and broken windows, looked like stock-car racing relics. The once menacing empire of Antoine Gizenga, heir to Patrice Lumumba's mantle, was crumbling fast...
...Congo was all but inevitable the moment, in 1959, when Belgium hastily and irresponsibly agreed to withdraw from a colony it had never prepared for independence. Into the resultant vacuum were swept a bewildering array of 65 political parties. One dominant-but erratic and unstable-figure emerged: Patrice Lumumba. Head of a shaky coalition regime that took control of the Congo, after free elections, in June 1960, Lumumba favored strong central government. This was anathema to Tshombe. who had no intention of sharing the wealth of his mineral-rich province with the central government and the Congo's poorer...
...Lumumba's inability to cope with the raping and looting turmoil that immediately followed independence gave Tshombe the excuse he needed. On July 11, 1960, Katanga seceded on the pretext that it was the only way to prevent the disorders from spreading into" the province. Ever since, both the U.N. and the central government have tried to get Katanga back under the wing of Leopoldville. At the Coquilhatville Conference last April, Tshombe was put under house arrest, kept until he agreed to join the central parliament. But back home in Katanga, he reneged on his agreement. Tshombe continually defied...
Noting his reliance on whites, a U.S. newsman nicknamed him "Uncle Tshombe." The advisers soon became a cause of controversy at the parley. Yelled Patrice Lumumba, a skinny,young firebrand from Stanleyville whose histrionics were already grabbing headlines: "I demand the immediate withdrawal from this conference room of all white advisers! Tshombe doesn't dare open his mouth until he has received a slip of paper from the European behind...