Word: lumumba
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...dream, everything seemed to be moving at half speed. But slowly, the Congo's balance was tipping toward the forces that bore the label of reckless Patrice Lumumba, though he was still in Colonel Joseph Mobutu's jail. If Lumumba won, the world could thank the ceaseless efforts of Moscow and Cairo and Accra. The U.N. itself, under the myriad pressures of its diverse membership, stood by in confusion...
...Stanleyville regime of Antoine Gizenga, once Lumumba's vice premier, was getting clandestine arms shipments from Gamal Abdel Nasser's U.A.R., freely used terror to consolidate its control over neighboring Kivu province. Escaping missionaries were prevented from crossing the border, prisoners of the old pro-Mobutu regime at Bukavu were tortured, and the Mother Superior and a nun from Bukavu's hospital were under arrest for alleged misuse of funds...
...such incident is known to have taken place, the events of the last few years have at least indicated that the Russo-American struggle is resulting in someone's terrific profit and someone else's incredible fleecing. Nasser, we said in 1956, was irresponsible. We hadn't seen Lumumba...
Back in Léopoldville, President Joseph Kasavubu sat down grimly with visiting U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, who flew in from Manhattan to urge the regime to reconvene Parliament and give imprisoned Patrice Lumumba a fair trial. As they talked, rowdy groups of pro-Lumumba and pro-Kasavubu men shouted at and slugged one another outside U.N. headquarters. It was hardly a favorable atmosphere for promises of peace, but the stolid President grandly announced he would give it another try-with a round-table conference of all Congolese leaders on Jan. 25. Lumumba's own variety of roundup...
...think, is getting beyond a joke. "The real world has become so fantastic that satire, of which parody is a subdivision, is discouraged because reality outdistances it. What can a satirist add to the U2-Summit-Meeting fiasco? Or to the dealings between the United Nations and Premier Lumumba of the Congo Republic-the latter a character right out of Evelyn Waugh's Black Mischief? Indeed, in the Congo tragicomedy, history seems to be parodying itself...