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Outside Leopoldville's ugly new Palace of Culture, a mob of his countrymen waited for Congolese Premier Patrice Lumumba to arrive for the opening of the Congo's much-heralded African "summit" conference. As Lumumba drove up elegantly in an open Lincoln Continental once reserved for Belgium's King Baudouin, the crowd suddenly hoisted signs reading "Fascist"' and "Dictator," burst into the distinctive "whoop, whoop, whoop" that is the Congolese version of a boo. Seemingly undismayed by their jeers -and by the fact that his summit conference had attracted mainly minor bureaucrats instead...
...Lumumba spoke, the tumult outside the hall all but drowned...
Slamming their way into the crowd, Congolese police and gendarmes had begun to arrest anti-Lumumba demonstrators, first clubbing them to the ground with batons, then punching at them with rifle butts. When some of the retreating demonstrators tried to defend themselves with rocks, a ragged line of police chased after them, firing from the hip: all that prevented a massacre comparable to South Africa's Sharpeville (TIME, April 4) was the cops' bad aim. Circling unhappily in the background, Lumumba's Red-lining press adviser, Frenchman Serge Michel, passed a one-word judgment on the whole...
...Kasai. Maladroit as he was, bearded Patrice Lumumba last week staged an erratic but undeniable demagogic comeback. As the week opened, secessionists in Katanga and Kasai provinces still held large portions of his nation. In the Congolese Parliament, Senator Sebastian Fele, newly sprung from a Lumumba jail, won cheers from his col leagues when he roared that the Premier should be removed from office. To restore his sagging power, Lumumba badly needed a quick, dramatic victory...
...National emergency," explained Army Chief of Staff Colonel Joseph Mobutu, suggesting that it was only an expedition to quell new fighting between Baluba and Lulua tribesmen. But the moment they landed, the troops struck out by rail and truck along the 166-mile road to Bakwanga, stronghold of onetime Lumumba pal, Albert Kalonji, who had declared the diamond-rich region an independent nation called Mining State. Swearing that his tribesmen, mainly armed with bows and arrows, could resist the "invaders," Kalonji hastily flew off to Elisabethville to beg aid from his fellow secessionist, President Moise Tshombe of Katanga-the mineral...