Word: matadi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kwilu but also in Unité Kasaienne to the east, and in Kwango province to the west. The government's biggest immediate concern was that they might cut off the Kasai River, through which the Congo's copper from Katanga currently travels to the Atlantic port of Matadi...
...haughty Rajeshwar Dayal, Linner mixed freely with the Congolese. Said he: "We get along wonderfully well. I happen to like Africans." One result: after long, friendly talks with President Joseph Kasavubu, the U.N. chief was able to move his troops back into the Congo's main port of Matadi; only last March, angry Congolese infantrymen had blasted them out with mortars and machine guns...
...Hammarskjold's men already had got a taste of bitter Congolese defiance. In Matadi, the Congo's major port, Congolese troops turned on the 135-man Sudanese U.N. garrison with rifles, machine guns, mortars and 37-mm. cannon in a two-day battle that left two Sudanese dead, 13 wounded. The rest piled their blue U.N. helmets in one pile, their weapons in another, then marched out to be shipped back to Leopoldville in humiliating surrender...
Lumumba, who can be expected to holler about help even while accepting and needing it. Already nearly 400 U.N. and World Health Organization technicians are at work in the Congo. The port of Matadi has been put back into operation under the supervision of U.S. General Raymond Wheeler, who cleared the Suez Canal for the U.N. Last week, obviously contemplating years of close U.N. involvement in Congo affairs, Hammarskjold produced a terse memorandum outlining the structure of a long-term U.N. civilian mission to the Congo which would supply the Congo's ill-educated, inexperienced Cabinet with experts...
...people, once rulers of an ancient coastal empire, who talk of amputating much of the Lower Congo. Here at the mouth of the huge Congo River, where the nation squeezes into the Atlantic with a mere 20 miles of coastline, is the Congo's solitary seaport: sultry, burgeoning Matadi...