Word: mobutu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Five feet away a pair of Congolese soldiers lay prone, their rifles cocked and aimed at Griggs's head, with orders to shoot if firing broke out across the street. After an hour, word of Griggs's predicament reached the head of the Congo army, Colonel Joseph Mobutu, who sent an emissary in time to rescue Griggs-but not in time to save Griggs's car, which disappeared down the street with the plainclothesman at the wheel (at week's end, it was still missing). An hour later, firing did break out between the Congolese...
...opoldville one long, hot day last week, the simmering conflict between the U.N. Command and Congolese Military Strongman Colonel Joseph Mobutu finally reached a showdown...
...opoldville. Brawny, racist-minded Diplomat Welbeck, once Kwame Nkrumah's top political skull-basher back in Ghana, had long been one of Léopoldville's biggest troublemakers. At Nkrumah's bidding, he shot about the Congolese capital lining up all possible support for Colonel Mobutu's archfoe, deposed Premier Patrice Lumumba, and was helped in his endeavors by the curious policy of the U.N. Command's Rajeshwar Dayal who offered U.N. protection to virtually everyone save working officials of the Congo government. Last month Welbeck was declared persona non grata by Congolese President Joseph...
...control. He scrambled about shouting "We will kill him." Then his unpredictable anger turned on three Western reporters, including TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs. He ordered them arrested as Communists and interrupted their protests "Shut up or you die!" Only the arrival of a personal emiissary from Colonel Mobutu persuaded him to free the newsmen...
...First Moves. This was not the only victory of the week for bespectacled little Colonel Mobutu. A few days later a dramatic reconciliation was arranged between Léopoldville and the long-rebellious province of Katanga. Three representatives of the Mobutu-Kasavubu regime flew to the Katanga capital of Elisabethville where they sat down with Katanga's President Moise Tshombe and issued a communiqué that for the first time promised a joint solution of the Congo's "internal problems," to be worked out next month at a round-table conference between the central government, Tshombe and other...