Word: mobutu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Instead, Premier Cyrille Adoula's government dispatched the Congolese army commander, General Joseph Mobutu, and units of red-bereted paracommandos to the police compound. Ordering his men not to shoot, Mobutu opened the camp's gate and strode in alone and unarmed to face the mutineers. Roughly he yanked the ringleaders out of the mob one by one, and demanded that they give up. With that the revolt collapsed, and Mobutu-his well-creased trousers stained with a spot of blood-ordered the mutiny's leaders stripped to their underwear and driven off to jail through...
...several hundred Congolese army troops arrived at the Lualaba River port town of Kindu in Kivu Province, an area of the eastern Congo lightly controlled by local authorities and protected only by a 200-man U.N. garrison of Malayan soldiers. The newcomers were technically members of General Joseph Mobutu's central Congo army; in fact they took orders from Eastern Province's Gizenga, eager to expand his influence into Kivu. They were a surly lot who paid scant attention to the orders of their commander, Colonel Alphonse Pakassa. And like most Congolese soldiers, they were willing to listen...
Meanwhile, the Congo government prepared for action. Premier Cyrille Adoula, ordinarily a moderate man, went into a rage over Katanga's refusal to give in. General Joseph Mobutu, commander in chief of the army, started massing troops in a staging area across the border from Katanga, probably to forestall Gizenga, who reportedly was doing the same with his own private troops...
...delegation of seven Senators and eight Deputies to attend the session in Leopoldville. But Tshombe, between bouts of bush fever, was more interested in sowing discord at home and abroad. Imprisoned for two months by Kasavubu's central government, he had won release by promising Strongman Joseph Mobutu that he would merge his 11,600 army, officered by 634 Europeans, with that of the central government. Once back in Katanga, Tshombe assured his Cabinet that the agreement was only a "gesture of support for Mobutu and a form of insurance for us." When Gen. Mobutu's staff officers...
Final arbiter of any new government will be Major General Joseph Mobutu and his undisciplined soldiery. They were still the most potent single force on the Congo scene. At week's end, Mobutu made his position clear in an order of the day to his troops. "The National Army cannot tolerate that the country be handed over to men who are guided by foreign influences," said Mobutu. "The Congo is independent and will stay independent; it is not for sale to any ideological bloc." This declaration seemed to rule out just about everybody in the Congo-except maybe Mobutu...