Word: mobutu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kanza was appointed delegate to the United Nations last June and retained his post in September despite Kasavubu's seizure of power and Mobutu's subsequent coup d'etat...
...Sept. 28 Kanza returned to the Congo and refused to participate in Mobutu's College of Commissioners, the country's interim government...
Subsequently ignoring the fact that Lumumba was the democratically designated spokesman for as significant a bloc of Congolese opinion as Tshombe, Mobutu, or Kasavubu, the West set out to force a one-sided stability in the Congo. As usual, the sides were chosen in the name of impartiality and the polarization of forces was peddled off as a means of creating order and stability...
...Whatever the obstacles, it was none too soon for a break in the bloody Congo deadlock. The U.N. force was losing troops; last week the U.A.R.'s 510-man unit and Guinea's 750 soldiers went home. Massive civil war was in the offing. A battalion of Mobutu's troops had driven deep into Eastern province in an effort to smash the pro-Lumumba forces of Antoine Gizenga in Stanleyville. Gizenga's own troops launched new forays into Kasai province. Rampaging Lumum-baists in Kivu ambushed 200 U.N. Nigerian soldiers, provoking a pitched, daylong battle...
...more bombs, planes or pilots to Tshombe. But the real danger was Soviet Russia. Was Nikita Khrushchev sufficiently eager for warmer relations with the U.S. to agree to keep hands off in the Congo? Russia's first big grab had been halted last September. But, though Kasavubu and Mobutu had ordered the Russians out, the Russians have gone on clandestinely helping pro-Lumumba forces...