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...Embezzler. But the man to beat was Patrice Lumumba, 34, the tall, goateed radical from Stanleyville who last week was storming through the back country in a cream-colored convertible. Lumumba is a former postal clerk who served six months in jail for embezzling $2,500 ("I used the money to promote the nationalist cause"), was jailed again for starting riots, but emerged in time to join last winter's independence negotiations in Brussels. His followers sell orange-colored Lumumba shirts and party cards to raise money; any black man caught in Stanleyville without his party card...
...would get the white man's cars, houses-even womenfolk-when independence comes, and more than one Stanleyville resident was said to have answered a knock on the door to find an African asking to be shown the house he would be given after June 30. More ominously, Lumumba men produced a blacklist of Belgians who would be "eliminated" after independence unless they left the country. Sabena's daily jets to Europe were already jammed, and 80 special flights were scheduled to handle the rush of Belgains scuttling for safety before the independence date...
...Lumumba's African rivals, knowing that no single candidate is likely to win a majority at the polls, hoped to block him with a post-election coalition. But he would be a hard man to handle. As a Belgian official puts it, "Lumumba is bad for the government either way. If he loses, he will wreck it; if he wins, he will swallow...
...African politicians now jostling for position in the soon-to-be-independent Belgian Congo, none makes the Belgians feel more uneasy about the future than cocky Patrice Lumumba, 33. A onetime postal clerk and convicted embezzler, Lumumba was hustled briefly off to jail only four months ago after bloody riots erupted in his home town of Stanleyville, leaving 20 of his fellow Africans dead. Last week the Congo was recovering from a visit that he paid to the Congo's second largest city, Elisabethville...
...Lumumba has powerful enemies in Elisabethville, who hope that after independence they will be able to keep the copper wealth of their Katanga province pretty much to themselves. He also has there a fiercely loyal tribal following, which he has carefully kept inflamed. The result was that no sooner had Lumumba appeared on the scene, a leopard skin draped dramatically over his well-tailored lounge suit, than the fighting began...