Word: lumumba
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...Obsessed." Furiously. Lumumba's newspaper accused the North Africans of cuddling up to U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold in return for his promise to help them in the next U.N. debate on the Algerian war. Unmoved, the majority of the African "summiteers" agreed to a resolution urging the Congo to halt further incidents of violence against the U.N. forces, and pointedly recalling that U.N. troops had come "at the express request" of the Congolese government. The resolution expressly commended both Hammarskjold and Ralph Bunche (who last week headed home from the Congo declaring "I am a man of patience...
...final summit session, as the resolutions were read. Lumumba fiddled and twitched, then rose to retort that "the incidents never would have taken place if from the first there had been a spirit of cooperation on the U.N.'s part." As if to explain away his troops' attacks on U.N. personnel, he shouted, "We are obsessed with the idea of immediately entering Katanga and liberating our brothers!" Then, waving a wad of yellow "membership cards" in a manner reminiscent of the late Joe McCarthy, he charged that the Belgians had formed a private army to aid Moise Tshombe...
Belgian concern over the future of Kamina was understandable. With the dozen or more newly arrived II-14 transports that the Soviets gave him, Lumumba, if he got control of Kamina, would certainly use it as a beachhead for his muchheralded invasion of Katanga province. To neutralize the base, the U.N. moved in an Irish battalion and barred all flights from Kamina's runways...
Bodies in Bakwanga. Whether Lumumba has the military capability to conquer Katanga is becoming increasingly uncertain. At week's end the Lumumba forces assigned to spearhead the Katanga invasion were bogged down in the neighboring province of Kasai in what seemed to be building into a civil war of serious proportions...
Fortnight ago Lumumba's troops had captured without a shot the town of Bakwanga, capital of a would-be autonomous republic called "Mining State." But when they sought to move out of Ba kwanga and "pacify" the rest of Mining State, hundreds of fierce Lumumba-hating Baluba tribesmen attacked through the forest, driving the central-government troops back into town. From sources unknown, the anti-Lumumba forces have acquired automatic weapons and mortars. Reports from Bakwanga at week's end told of streets littered with almost 300 bodies. The few remaining whites were said to have taken refuge...