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Word: munongo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1961-1961
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...Katangese, who defied world opinion for weeks in hanging onto Lumumba, finished the affair with a flourish. "I will speak frankly," said Katanga Interior Minister Godefroid Munongo. "If people accuse us of killing Lumumba, I will reply: 'Prove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congo: Death of Lumumba--& After | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

...elaborate tale told by Minister Munongo last week did little to change anybody's mind. Lumumba, as Munongo told it, had escaped by stolen car from a farmhouse prison near the Portuguese Angola border, along with his Minister of Youth, Maurice Mpolo, and Senate Vice President Joseph Okito. The car ran out of gas. was found overturned in a ditch 45 miles away. Three days later, fleeing on foot, all three were "massacred by the inhabitants of a small village." The villagers "may have acted somewhat precipitously, though excusably," conceded Munongo, but he would pay them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congo: Death of Lumumba--& After | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

Closed Case. To the Katangese, that closed the case. "I forbid the United Nations to take positions in this matter,"said Munongo, adding by way of explanation that the U.N. had never concerned itself about Sacco and Vanzetti, the Rosenbergs, Caryl Chessman, Draja Mikhailovich or King Feisal. As for any J.K. investigation, Katanga President Moise Tshombe snapped: "I couldn't give a damn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congo: Death of Lumumba--& After | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

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