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Where was Patrice Lumumba? According to some of his pals, he lay dead, victim of his jailers' bullets. But according to his jailers, he had got away, in a stolen black Ford, dodging the law which waited at every roadblock with Tommy guns and rifles...
...Katangese were to be believed, it all began one dark night outside the little Katanga town of Mutshatsha, near the border of Portuguese Angola. There Lumumba and two of his former aides sat interned in a lonely farmhouse. The Ford belonged to the tough 15-man guard charged with keeping Lumumba in total isolation from his countrymen. Unhappily, 13 of the 15, after a hard week, decided to turn in early, entrusting the watch to two yawning sentinels on the porch. When the time came, the prisoners simply slugged the lonely pair, and in a flash were...
...Land. Next morning, when the word of Lumumba's escape got back to the Elisabethville headquarters of Katanga's President Moise Tshombe, officials scurried into action, calling conferences, mobilizing troops. Out went a helicopter and a small spotter plane to scan the back roads for signs of a speeding car. There was little chance of the fugitives crossing an Angolan border point, for the heavily armed Portuguese police would hardly welcome a notorious revolutionary at this stage (see below). If Lumumba was free, a safer bet was that he and his friends were making their way toward...
...Congo's Thomas Kanza, representative of the Gizenga government at the United Nations and the only man to survive Kasavubu's purge of the Lumumba cabinet, will speak in the Quincy House dining room at 8 p.m. tonight...
...very fact that the Congolese find it difficult at this stage to articulate their aspirations, should have led the West to seek a solution excluding no major bloc of opinion. If the independence movement which Lumumba embodied is ignored, the pleas for stability will continue to be flimsy, self-defeating fronts...