Word: lumumba
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...Congo. But Hammarskjold had not reckoned with the meddling and intrigues of some of Africa's ambitious new leaders. Chief meddlers were Cairo's Nasser, Ghana's Nkrumah and Guinea's Sékou Touré, all of whom were working earnestly for Lumumba's return. In recent weeks, their troops have been openly taking sides in the Congo's internal squabble. The U.A.R.'s 510-man U.N. unit covertly assisted the pro-Lumumba forces that have taken over Eastern province and its Stanleyville capital. The U.N. troops of Guinea and Ghana obviously...
...U.A.R., Guinea and Morocco announced that they were withdrawing most of their troops, and Indonesia declared that it was also pulling out its 1,145 men. Overall, this meant a loss of one-fourth of the U.N.'s manpower. The withdrawals would clearly favor the pro-Lumumba rebels already in control of more than 30% of northern and eastern Congo, and anxious to extend their influence once the U.N. roadblocks disappear. In Stanleyville, Antoine Gizenga's pro-Lumumba forces held 300 hostages, prepared to shoot them if Lumumba should die in his Katanga jail; Gizenga now was getting...
Though temporarily humiliating, the abduction was actually a testament to Lumumba's burgeoning strength. Congolese President Joseph Kasavubu took alarm when he visited Lumumba in Camp Hardy, only 86 miles from Leopoldville, where he was technically incarcerated by order of Colonel Joseph Mobutu. Kasavubu found Lumumba with the run of the camp and energetically subverting the loyalty of the troops guarding him. For a few hours, no one was certain whether it was Lumumba or Kasavubu who was the prisoner. When order was restored, Kasavubu decided that it was time to move Lumumba to a safer place. He opened...
...Lumumba's partisans pushed on. From Stanleyville, Lumumba's old friend and former Vice Premier, Antoine Gizenga, probed westward into Equator province, where his patrols terrorized isolated white communities, roughed up some missionaries, rifled mission collection boxes. Arms and supplies came from Gamal Abdel Nasser's U.A.R. troops, who man a U.N. base in Equator. The head of the U.N. Congo force, India's Rajeshwar Dayal, seemed to be at least tacitly helping the Lumumba cause. In northern Katanga, where Gizenga's troops marched into a U.N.-protected "neutral zone" unimpeded by Dayal...
...Stanleyville Antoine Gizenga's men arrested twelve Belgians, talked darkly of "getting even" for Lumumba's transfer to a Katanga prison. When local whites paid $10,000 ransom to free the twelve, Gizenga's agents, seeing a lucrative business, simply arrested 40 more. Belgium promptly massed two battalions along the border in Ruanda-Urundi, warned that if the captives were harmed, the troops would march in to rescue them...