Word: lumumbist
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...homes and eleven persons. It also brought the worst air disaster in Belgian history, a Sabena jet crash that killed 73. In anger over the Congo, often under Communist leadership, Belgian embassies and consulates were being looted and burned around the world. In the streets of Brussels, pro-Lumumbist demonstrators tried to march on Congolese Army recruiting centers; others, carrying banners declaring ENOUGH HUMILIATION WITHOUT REACTION, in retaliation mobbed the U.A.R. and Russian embassies. Last week the government of Premier Gaston Eyskens, a dapper economics professor, collapsed. King Baudouin dissolved Parliament and called elections for March...
...Lumumbist deputies have at most only 40-50 seats out of 137 in Joseph Kasavubu's government, Kanza claimed. Most of these have been "bought off:" they have betrayed Lumumba for "financial reasons" to Belgian mining interests and other "neo-colonialist forces...