Word: lumumba
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...scrap Mobutu. The nervous colonel, they whispered, had asked Dayal for an apartment in Le Royal, the U.N.'s headquarters building. He no longer was in control of his army. He was about to flee the city. He was a poor officer. Ignoring the roughhouse tactics of Lumumba's own gangs, an official report spoke of "the highhanded and illegal activities" of Mobutu's army, accusing the army of "acts of lawlessness...
...General Inder Jit Rikhye, Dayal's military adviser. Meekly, Mobutu agreed to withdraw most of his troops to army headquarters outside the city, where the U.N. planned an intensive training program to inject some discipline into its ranks. But the U.N. let him keep his soldiers around Patrice Lumumba's house and at the radio station, and, for some reason, agreed to let Mobutu's soldiers take over guard duty at the national arsenal...
...rumors swirled through Léopoldville that the U.N. would disarm Mobutu's army, but Dayal's men denied it. Timorous Joseph Kasavubu sat in his presidential palace, sending out vague messages of endorsement for Mobutu but too frightened to get involved openly. Patrice Lumumba, nipping heavily at an always present bottle, also remained at home, awaiting the day when the confused maneuvering would let him emerge as the real boss again. If he did, it would probably not be long before he invited back all the Russian "technicians" that Mobutu had kicked out. Reportedly, most of them...
This prospect did not seem to bother the growing number of Lumumba supporters among the U.N.'s neutral-nation membership; a frequent Lumumba visitor last week was Metrol A. Rahman chargé d'affaires of India, reflecting the likelihood that Jawaharlal Nehru has bought the line of Ghana's Nkrumah and Guinea's Touré that the only man to run the Congo is Patrice Lumumba...
...French Congo. Living just across the river from Léopoldville, and a fellow Bakongo tribesman of Congo President Joseph Kasavubu, Youlou rallied the other delegates to a stand that urged the U.N. to cooperate with Kasavubu. said nothing at all about Kasavubu's archrival, Patrice Lumumba...