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...weeks the Congo's pro-Western President Joseph Kasavubu had been cooling his heels in a Manhattan hotel room, waiting for the U.N. General Assembly to decide whether to give him the Congo's seat over the violent objections of his prime foe-erratic, mischief-making Patrice Lumumba. When the matter finally came up before the Assembly last week, Ghana led the fight for Lumumba, proposed a motion to adjourn the debate without even considering Kasavubu's case...
When Red Chinese Ambassador to Cairo Chen Chia-kang arrived in Leopoldville last July to visit the new Patrice Lumumba government, he found an eager ally in Communist-leaning Vice Premier Antoine Gizenga. While Lumumba appealed to the Russians for planes and technicians, Gizenga asked the ambassador for arms and volunteers from China. Chen cautiously offered cash and advice instead, as his Peking colleagues have done in Guinea, Ghana and Morocco. For, though the Red Chinese might be prepared to stir up real strife later, their present limited goal in Africa seems to be quiet infiltration behind the scenes...
...Hammarskjold. His Congo command, having backed all the main antagonists into corners, now seemed to be in full charge in Leopoldville, yet was powerless to create the solution it wanted. To bring back Parliament would probably be tantamount to re-electing the erratically irresponsible Patrice Lumumba; it might also send Colonel Joseph Mobutu's ragtag army up in flames. Besides, President Joseph Kassvubu was dead against it. To prop up Mobutu would incur the wrath of many of the U.N.'s African member nations, for they insist that Lumumba is the only-or at least the legally proper...
Early last month Moumié's business, currently reported to be obtaining Communist arms for the Congo's Patrice Lumumba, brought him to Geneva, a crossroads for left-wing African politicians flying between Africa and the Iron Curtain countries. Supplied, as always, with seemingly inexhaustible cash, and traveling for the moment on a Ghanaian diplomatic passport, he settled down to a comfortable life in a good Geneva hotel near the Lake Leman shore. Moving in with him was a pretty French-Swiss brunette by the name of Liliane Friedli, 25, whom he had first picked...
Within one short week after Belgium turned the Congo over to Patrice Lumumba last June 30, all but 100 of 1,200 Belgian doctors hastily packed their bags and fled-some of them alarmed by the breakdown of order, the stories of white nuns raped, the feeling that in many places a Belgian was no longer safe. Their departure left all but six of the fledgling nation's 400 hospitals manned only by nurses and semi-trained "medical assist ants." There were no Congolese doctors to fill the gap: the first Congolese admitted to medical school in more than...