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...getting regular arms shipments from Cairo, trucked in overland via the Sudan. To the south, Lumumbaman Anicet Kashamura clung to Kivu province, where his troops stole cars and gasoline from white businessmen. Eight hapless Belgian soldiers, captured after they had wandered across the border from the protectorate of Ruanda-Urundi, were forced to kneel and submit to public beating...
...arrested twelve Belgians, talked darkly of "getting even" for Lumumba's transfer to a Katanga prison. When local whites paid $10,000 ransom to free the twelve, Gizenga's agents, seeing a lucrative business, simply arrested 40 more. Belgium promptly massed two battalions along the border in Ruanda-Urundi, warned that if the captives were harmed, the troops would march in to rescue them...
...when he airlifted 100 troops to Kasai as an escort for President Joseph Kasavubu on his official visit to Bakwanga, capital of the secessionist Mining State in Kasai. But soon after the heavily armed "escort" got to Kasai, the transports took off again, turned up at an airport in Ruanda-Urundi, the Belgian-run trust territory on the Congo's eastern edge. There the Belgians, who clearly were in on the game, smilingly agreed to U.N. demands to eject Mobutu's men, loaded them into trucks to take them back to the border. The border point they chose...
...into Katanga," and that "it was prudent to help Belgium with this little story so that Belgium could help us." He also boasted that parts of Kivu and Kasai provinces, including the valuable Tshikapa diamond fields, were ready to join his Katanga state, and he was hopefully eying populous Ruanda-Urundi, the home of the tall and stately Watutsi tribesmen...
...officials pointed out that in the next General Assembly, the African-Asian group will be the U.N.'s largest single voting bloc. On Oct. 1, Nigeria, most populous (35 million) of all African states, joins the independence parade. Within two years, the U.N.'s last territories, Tanganyika, Ruanda-Urundi, and the British Cameroons, will get their freedom. Last week Mason Sears, longtime U.S. delegate to the U.N. Trusteeship Council, who has a special interest in Africa, cleaned out his desk and submitted his resignation. "In Africa," he said, "our job is done. It's all over...