Word: mobutu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Demands. His heavy jaw jutting like one of Ionesco's man-turned-rhinoceros, and flanked by two beetling aides,* Zorin laid out the Soviet demands in his curious reedy tenor: 1) arrest Katanga's Moise Tshombe and Congolese Army Major General Joseph Mobutu, and put them on trial; 2) dissolve all Tshombe and Mobutu troop units and force all Belgians out of the Congo; 3) pull the U.N. force out of the Congo within a month...
...freedom and national independence of the Congo cannot be guaranteed so long as the mercenary clique of Tshombe, Mobutu and Kasavubu have free rein,'' cried Zorin, adding, "An end must be put once and for all to the so-called United Nations operation in the Congo. The Congolese people must be given the opportunity to solve their own vital problems...
Hastily, the Afro-Asians reached agreement at last on a resolution that most could support. Its main provisions: 1) the U.N. is to stop the Congo's civil war, using force if necessary to prevent clashes; 2) the opposing Congolese army units (Gizenga's, Mobutu's, Tshombe's) should be disarmed under U.N. control and taken out of politics; 3) all Belgians and other foreign military and political personnel should be forced out of the country; 4) Parliament is to be reconvened...
...year, paid $50 million in taxes into Katanga's treasury. With his Belgian adviser, Colonel Guy Weber, always at his shoulder, Tshombe has launched an offensive to clear his province of Gizenga's invading soldiers. In partnership with the Léopoldville military boss, Major General Joseph Mobutu, Tshombe would like to go after Gizenga himself-if the U.N. were not in the way. "If others will leave us alone," he growled, "we will solve our problems. Both East and West must keep their noses out of our affairs...
...days, Elisabethville's gossip mills had buzzed with rumors that Lumumba had been shot in jail. According to one story, the famous prisoner had died from a bullet on the morning of Jan. 18, a day after he was shipped in from Léopoldville by Colonel Joseph Mobutu...