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...week long, the top aides of U.N.'s Congo Chief Rajeshwar Dayal of India made it obvious that the U.N. was ready to scrap Mobutu. The nervous colonel, they whispered, had asked Dayal for an apartment in Le Royal, the U.N.'s headquarters building. He no longer was in control of his army. He was about to flee the city. He was a poor officer. Ignoring the roughhouse tactics of Lumumba's own gangs, an official report spoke of "the highhanded and illegal activities" of Mobutu's army, accusing the army of "acts of lawlessness...
Mobutu was prepared to laugh Kamitatu's words away, but to his chagrin the head of the U.N.'s Congo force backed up the provincial president. "Colonel Mobutu's army is a disorderly rabble.'' snapped Rajeshwar Dayal, announcing that U.N. troops would henceforth patrol the Leopoldville streets side by side with Kami-tatu's police. Indignantly, Mobutu collected a hundred soldiers and some Jeeps, rushed over to U.N. headquarters to protest. When he emerged, there were tears in his eyes. "The United Nations wants me to get out." he announced stiffly. Mobutu complained bitterly...
...ring Lumumba's "official" residence. "Lumumba has thrown down a challenge to me and I have accepted it," said Mobutu. "Lumumba must be arrested." When the U.N. troops at Lumumba's door refused him entry, Mobutu raced off to have a bitter argument with U.N. Chief Rajeshwar Dayal, who feared the U.N.'s sternly neutral reputation would be jeopardized if he handed Lumumba over to his enemies...
Amid the mess, the U.N. sat by, keeping the peace but numbly neutral, wistfully wishing someone could get a government together. "It is hoped that before it is too late the political leadership will make its choice, both wisely and well," said Rajeshwar Dayal, U.N. chief in the Congo, in a formal report. Added Sture Linner, Swedish head of the U.N.'s nonmilitary Congo work: "The situation is getting more and more alarming. We are facing a panorama of disaster.'' Appeals for economic help stream in from the provinces, but no one in Leopoldville can be found...
Married. H. H. Maharajadhiraja Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shri Yeshwant Rao ("Junior") Holkar Bahadur of Indore, 34, glossy, multimillionaire ruler of 1,513,966 souls; and Euphemia Watt Crane, 29; he for the third time, she for the second; a few hours after his divorce from Marguerite Lawlor Branyen, onetime Minneapolis nurse; in Reno...