Word: mobutuism
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...days Patrice Lumumba prowled the balcony of the Premier's residence, staring down at the U.N. troops that guarded it. "Neutralized" by Military Boss Joseph Mobutu and threatened with arrest by President Joseph Kasavubu, Lumumba commanded only the residence he lived in. Last week he decided to venture out to tour the town. Despite the guards, the getaway was simple. Lumumba arranged for friends to send over three American cars, and everybody piled in for an evening of fun and politicking at the Leopoldville bars and nightclubs...
...Congo's political Hydra still had three heads: Colonel Joseph Mobutu, Joseph Kasavubu and Patrice Lumumba. But each now seemed to have lost even the vigor for plotting one another's doom. All had their squads of gun-toting guards, but the most strenuous weapon any dared to use was the press conference; in one day harassed reporters covered five. Now and then, one or the other summoned energy for a daring stroke, then subsided quietly. Colonel Mobutu, complaining of fever and frazzled nerves, seemed mainly content to send occasional squads of his troops through the streets...
...young commissioners appointed by Colonel Joseph Mobutu made public a secret letter Nkrumah had written to Premier Patrice Lumumba three weeks ago. Nkrumah addressed Lumumba as "my brother," gave him detailed instructions on how to circumvent his Cabinet, urged him: "Don't make an issue of Kasavubu's treachery now. The time will come. You must not push out the United Nations until you have consolidated your position." Concluded Nkrumah: "When in doubt consult me . . . We know how to handle imperialists and colonialists...
...Welbeck was at his elbow at the in evitable press conference on the Premier's lawn. Becoming impatient, Welbeck interrupted Lumumba to announce that despite the sabotage of "certain individuals in the United Nations," he was ar ranging a reconciliation between Lumumba and President Kasavubu. As for Colonel Mobutu, Welbeck declared, "he has seen that he was misguided and will now follow the right path...
Black Colonization. But Welbeck had gone too far. President Kasavubu announced bluntly that Welbeck was a liar ("Lumumba was fired and he stays fired!"), and the enraged Colonel Mobutu replied with a demand that all Ghanaian troops in the U.N. force get out of the Congo and take their Guinean friends with them. From now on, Kasavubu added in a pointed reference to Lumumba, all foreigners should deal only with the new 28-man High Commission Mobutu had installed as temporary rulers of the Congo. The High Commissioners themselves called a press conference to criticize Nkrumah's efforts...