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Kasavubu's army commander. Major General Joseph Mobutu, flew in from Leopoldville and dropped by to greet Tshombe jauntily. "What's all the trouble?" he inquired pleasantly of the sullen prisoner, who sat sipping soda water as six of his Belgian aides were loaded into a plane and flown back to U.N. headquarters for questioning...
After two foodless days in the wicker chair, Tshombe agreed to accompany one of Kasavubu's aides back to town. But he insisted stoutly he would not return to the conference table. Mobutu's soldiers just shrugged. They surrounded Coquilhatville with machine guns and roadblocks, blandly advised all the politicians that not a single one of them would leave town until they reached some kind of agreement...
...demanded that the U.N. get out of the Congo within 30 days. Before they left, he urged the U.N. troops to arrest Katanga President Moise Tshombe and Congolese Army General Joseph Mobutu...
...great concern echoed at U.N. headquarters over the Congolese central government's 1,600-man force gathered at Bumba by General Joseph Mobutu, apparently poised for an attack on Gizenga's Eastern province. To stop him, new U.N. Military Commander General Sean McKeown flew to Mobutu's bush headquarters, extracted a promise that there would be no invasion. This was highly convenient to the Gizenga regime, for, with Mobutu's immobilization now assured, they were ready for their dash deep into Kasai. The target was Luluabourg, just as the U.N.'s tipsters had been warning...
...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...