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...Young Socialist Alliance will lead a demonstration protesting Patrice Lumumba's "murder," Saturday in Harvard Square...
Conditions are even worse in nearby Kivu province, where Lumumba's old Communist-lining Information Minister Anicet Kashamura took over as boss two months ago. On hearing of Lumumba's death, Gizenga sent soldiers to Kivu, where they arrested and beat up Kashamura. But pro-Kashamura troops then beat up the captors and released their man, leaving the situation confused and Lumumba's heirs bitterly split...
Gizenga has sent out an urgent appeal for help. Last week nine Communist-bloc countries and seven left-leaning neutrals lined up to extend him diplomatic recognition as the "legitimate" government of the Congo. But even if Gizenga gets support from abroad, he is a poor stand-in for Lumumba as a national leader. He has little political presence, is a faltering orator who does not even speak the Eastern province's Swahili...
...With Lumumba gone, the strongest man around is the man responsible for his death: Katanga's cold-blooded President Moise Tshombe. But Tshombe runs only one province, and is heartily disliked outside it. Last week his well-equipped army, led by 400 Belgian officers, struck into northern Katanga, easily pushed back pro-Lumumba Baluba tribesmen as far as the Lualaba River. Tshombe, wearing a Homburg, helicoptered to the front to congratulate his men. At Elisabethville airport, a Boeing Stratocruiser arrived, carrying in its hold three twin-jet Fouga Magisters, advertised as trainers but equipped for firing rockets...
Died. Patrice Hemery Lumumba, 35, goateed, bespectacled Batetela tribesman who was a mission school student, postal clerk, embezzler and beer salesman before he became a successful demagogue and the first Premier of the Congo; said to have been murdered by bush villagers after he "escaped"' from jail; in an as yet undisclosed place in Katanga province (see FOREIGN NEWS...