Word: lumumba
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...noted the following as positive contributions of Belgian control in the Congo: (1) unification of the region, saving Central Africa from the ravages of Balkanization. Belgium's colonial policy sought a centralized state, she noted, adding that prior to the liberation Belgium a dfavored Lumumba over Kasavubu on account of the latter's separatist leanings...
...Tune. Linner dispatched his aide, Robert K. A. Gardiner, a Ghanaian by nationality, on a special mission to Stanleyville, where Antoine Gizenga holds sway over Eastern province and claims to be the only true heir of the late Patrice Lumumba. Gardiner persuaded Gizenga that it was safe to send a delegation to Leopoldville for the reopening of Parliament. In Katanga, the copper-rich secessionist province that stubbornly refused to share its wealth with the rest of the Congo, Linner's other U.N. emissary, Francis Nwokedi of Nigeria, was hard at work on the Deputies of stubborn "President" Moise Tshombe...
...reporters, alive and in good health, called in the Soviet ambassador and demanded that the story be retracted. Instead, Moscow shifted to another supposed torture victim, Lebanese Communist Party Secretary Farajallah el Helw, who had allegedly been done in by a "savage fascist crime, like the killing of Lumumba...
...delicate nerves. The Congolese army, he declared publicly, was "rabble," and the local press angrily quoted him as calling Army Boss Mobutu a "bandit." In time, Dayal lost personal contact with all Congolese leaders, eventually withdrew to haughty isolation in his own elegant residence. When, after Lumumba's death, he seemed to lean over backward to favor Antoine Gizenga's Red-leaning Stanleyville regime, Dayal also lost the trust of the big Western nations...
...ruling cliché of half the world's troubles. The whites cannot even withdraw gracefully; they are paralyzed by native hatred that scarcely attempts to hide its emotions. And what the country faces when the British do leave is all too obvious. Kofi Bandaya, a Lumumba type, runs the People's Progressive Party with a lust for power that is at least equal to his need for humiliating the whites. His "action troopers" care as little for African lives as Hitler's cared for those of decent Germans, and a worried fellow "revolutionary" who accuses...