Word: lumumba
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...Lumumba really escaped? Or was it all a careful plan by Tshombe's men to conceal a political assassination? Tshombe is Lumumba's deadly enemy, and some of Tshombe's Belgian backers might be anxious to eliminate a foe who was getting greater and greater backing for a comeback among the U.N.'s members. For days, Elisabethville's gossip mills had buzzed with rumors that Lumumba had been shot in jail. According to one story, the famous prisoner had died from a bullet on the morning of Jan. 18, a day after he was shipped...
Finding the Ford. Convinced that their hero had indeed been done in, eleven pro-Lumumba nations (Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Morocco, Libya, India, Indonesia, U.A.R., Ceylon, Russia and Yugoslavia) petitioned the U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold for an immediate investigation. Moscow radio-which has reason to be expert in such matters-went on the air with a prediction that the whole escape story had been manufactured as a cover ("shot while escaping") to explain away the fact that Lumumba would be found dead. In Katanga, Moise Tshombe, busy in conferences with a visiting foreign dignitary, seemed totally unconcerned. "President Tshombe does...
...only trace of the vanished VIP was the cops' black Ford itself. Somewhat battered, it was found on the road 45 miles from the scene of the escape. Perhaps, suggested the Katangese, Lumumba was trudging through the bush in the hope of reaching Bukamu, a Katanga town held by the pro-Lumumba rebels. But this was 200 miles away, a tough week's walk for a city lad like Lumumba...
Alive or dead, Lumumba clearly was still the center of the Congo's troubles...
...important figure in the Congolese Government mourned the death of Patrice Lumumba and spoke bitterly on the "Tragi-comedy of the Congo" last night at Quincy House...