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...days Patrice Lumumba prowled the balcony of the Premier's residence, staring down at the U.N. troops that guarded it. "Neutralized" by Military Boss Joseph Mobutu and threatened with arrest by President Joseph Kasavubu, Lumumba commanded only the residence he lived in. Last week he decided to venture out to tour the town. Despite the guards, the getaway was simple. Lumumba arranged for friends to send over three American cars, and everybody piled in for an evening of fun and politicking at the Leopoldville bars and nightclubs...
...Congo's political Hydra still had three heads: Colonel Joseph Mobutu, Joseph Kasavubu and Patrice Lumumba. But each now seemed to have lost even the vigor for plotting one another's doom. All had their squads of gun-toting guards, but the most strenuous weapon any dared to use was the press conference; in one day harassed reporters covered five. Now and then, one or the other summoned energy for a daring stroke, then subsided quietly. Colonel Mobutu, complaining of fever and frazzled nerves, seemed mainly content to send occasional squads of his troops through the streets...
...Hear, Hear." Erratic Patrice Lumumba emerged from the Premier's residence only long enough to attend a 9 p.m. "luncheon" put on by the diplomats from Guinea, who still wistfully hoped to propel him back to power. Looking dour and wan, he declaimed his standard piece: the Soviet Union was the only nation interested in peace; he had asked the U.S. for help but was told to get it from the U.N. "I did not understand this comedy," he cried. But now everything was clear: the U.S. wanted a monopoly on Katanga's uranium, and big American interests...
Black Colonization. But Welbeck had gone too far. President Kasavubu announced bluntly that Welbeck was a liar ("Lumumba was fired and he stays fired!"), and the enraged Colonel Mobutu replied with a demand that all Ghanaian troops in the U.N. force get out of the Congo and take their Guinean friends with them. From now on, Kasavubu added in a pointed reference to Lumumba, all foreigners should deal only with the new 28-man High Commission Mobutu had installed as temporary rulers of the Congo. The High Commissioners themselves called a press conference to criticize Nkrumah's efforts...
...speech, the longest ever delivered before the General Assembly, charged that U.S. "monopolists'' turned Cuba into a colony, concluded with a Red-eyed view of world problems. He took the Soviet position on disarmament ("We warmly support the Soviet proposal"), on the Congo ("The only leader is Lumumba"), on Red China ("We support seating the true representatives of the Chinese people"). Castro also started to attack U.S. Presidential Candidates Kennedy and Nixon but General Assembly President Patrick Boland asked him to stop...