Word: lumumba
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Snow Job. It was a masterful performance of its kind, and when the Speaker proposed a motion that both Kasavubu's dismissal of Lumumba and Lumumba's dismissal of Kasavubu be wiped off the books and forgotten, the Assembly voted its approval by a whopping 60 to 19. Next day in the Senate, with neither Kasavubu nor even Senate President Ileo himself daring to show up for the debate. Lumumba repeated his snow job with some added embellishments. He waved sheaves of money and held up a transistor radio, claiming they had been taken from a "Belgian...
Busy Helpers. What bothered Lumumba was the fact that the U.N. troops were hampering his efforts to invade secessionist Katanga province. For two weeks, Lumumba's fast-shooting soldiers had been prowling along the Katanga frontier from their Kasai stronghold, gathering strength for the assault. This threat of civil war was bad enough, but Hammarskjold was now more alarmed at the busy activities of Soviet Russia, which had first come in to help under the U.N.'s aegis, was now operating high, wide and handsome on its own. Fifteen Ilyushin transports, with "Republique du Congo" freshly painted...
Seizing on the pretext that the falling out between Kasavubu and Lumumba might lead to civil rioting that the U.N. would have to deal with, Hammarskjold's officers ordered the main airports closed to all but U.N. planes, and Hammarskjold reported to the Security Council that "certain assistance from outside" was keeping the threat of civil war alive and gravely handicapping the U.N.'s task. In Washington, President Eisenhower considered the Russian intervention so serious that he had a special statement ready at his press conference warning the Soviets "to desist from unilateral activities." Ike charitably admitted there...
...made all the more difficult when the Belgians flew nine tons of ammunition into Katanga, the wealthy and dissident Congo province run by its self-styled Premier, Moise Tshombe. Abruptly closing all of Katanga's airports. Hammarskjold now incurred the wrath of Tshombe, who had reports that a Lumumba task force was crossing into Katanga from the north. Flouting the U.N.'s orders, Tshombe rushed truckloads of armed Katanga troops to Elisabethville's airport, forced the field's U.N. traffic controller at gunpoint to order the obstacles removed from the strip...
...head off further intervention by Russia or Belgium, he asked the Council formally to call on all outside countries to cease unilateral aid. To head off Lumumba's wild adventures, he sought authority to disarm all military groups-both Congolese and Katangan-and negotiate a settlement of the Congo's internal differences...