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Planes over the Sudan. But Western experts doubt that Khrushchev is prepared for really serious intervention in the Congo. If the Russians tried to move into the Congo, they would face as many difficulties as the U.N.-or Patrice Lumumba -and they know it. Even providing major aid to Gizenga would be enormously difficult. In the deep Sudan interior, the overland roads are perilous, and planes can bring in only a trickle of supplies, even if the Sudan permitted overflights (which it has so far refused to do). If the Congo ever became a theater for a clash between East...
Cold Shock. Basically, Lumumba's death was too good an opportunity for Khrushchev to miss and a chance to prove to comrades the world over that he could be as militant as the Chinese when the chance came. "Do you think he could have passed it up, and then explained to Mao that he didn't want to offend his new friend, John F. Kennedy?" demanded one Western expert...
...height of her husband's power, 28-year-old Pauline Lumumba wore diamonds and high heels and Paris frocks. Last week she bared her breasts in the Congo's traditional sign of mourning, and led a wailing procession of other bare-breasted women through the streets of Léopoldville. Coldly and without regrets, her husband's archfoes in far-off Katanga province had just proclaimed that Patrice Lumumba was dead and buried deep...
...Katangese, who defied world opinion for weeks in hanging onto Lumumba, finished the affair with a flourish. "I will speak frankly," said Katanga Interior Minister Godefroid Munongo. "If people accuse us of killing Lumumba, I will reply: 'Prove...
Last Look. The last time Patrice Lumumba was seen alive by anyone but his captors was Jan. 17. It was the low point in the career of a man who had dreamed of bossing a united Congo in the grand style of the man whom he admired, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah. He had failed, but as a Western diplomat put it, "being the best demagogue around, he kept anybody else from running it either." Taken from a military prison in Thysville, where in typical fashion he had almost fast-talked his guards into mutiny, Lumumba was flown to Elisabethville...