Word: lumumba
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Eggs, taunts, leaflets, and near violence greeted a small band of Young Socialists Saturday afternoon when they demonstrated in the Square against the "murder" of former Congolese premier Patrice Lumumba...
While the Socialists were passing out literature accusing the U.N. of permitting Lumumba to be "murdered . . . in the name of peace," several freshmen distributed a statement declaring: "that the Young Socialist Alliance makes this man (Lumumba) a martyr is comic indeed, but more than that, it is tragic...
...Gizenga was Lumumba's vice premier, but the legal governor of the nation, and its U.N.-recognized chief of state, is President Joseph Kasavubu...
...wake of Patrice Lumumba's murder, Kalonji's memory raced back to the days last fall when Lumumba ordered an assault on Kalonji's Baluba country, where his troops pillaged, raped and murdered at such a rate that Dag Hammarskjold himself called it genocide. Suddenly, Kalonji bethought himself of a dozen Lumumba aides and bullyboys he was holding. They had been sent to him for safekeeping by the Leopoldville Congolese authorities. He snatched them from jail, hauled them into Bakwanga's dusty public square. There they were beaten before the eyes of hundreds, later...
Where's Anicet? In Gizenga's Eastern province, and in neighboring Kivu, the leaders are beginning to squabble among themselves for the throne vacated so abruptly by Lumumba. Major victim was Anicet Kashamura, Lumumba's 32-year-old former Minister of Information who was named seven weeks ago by Gizenga to plant Lumumba's banner in Bukavu amidst the farm-rich Kivu highlands that border the Mountains of the Moon...