Word: sabena
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...morning, as two big crocodiles yawned lazily on the nearby riverbank, Congolese Interior Commissioner José Nussbaumer strode into the Ghanaian embassy and ordered Chargé d'Affaires Nathaniel Welbeck to leave the country that afternoon on a Sabena plane. "I'm not at home to you!" screamed Welbeck, waving a red and white fetish stick in indignation. "Get out and stay out!" Already on his way to the door, Nussbaumer turned and shouted: "I'll be back at 3 o'clock to make sure you take that plane...
Enter the Villain. Next, Dayal's U.N. officers turned their fire on the Belgians. They charged that 500 Belgians were arriving weekly on Sabena's nights from Europe, the aim being, as one U.N. report put it, "to re-establish the Belgian civil service and relegate United Nations technicians to lower echelons." Twice in two weeks Dag Hammarskjold sent sharp notes of protest to Belgium. Foreign Minister Pierre Wigny bluntly rejected the notes, argued that there was nothing wrong with bilateral technical aid to the Congo (Hammarskjold might reply that that was just what the Russians had said...
...hastily promoted Congolese army corporals and sergeants to officer rank, ordered hundreds of his troops into requisitioned Sabena planes to be flown to Luluabourg, deep in Kasai province. "National emergency," explained Army Chief of Staff Colonel Joseph Mobutu, suggesting that it was only an expedition to quell new fighting between Baluba and Lulua tribesmen. But the moment they landed, the troops struck out by rail and truck along the 166-mile road to Bakwanga, stronghold of onetime Lumumba pal, Albert Kalonji, who had declared the diamond-rich region an independent nation called Mining State. Swearing that his tribesmen, mainly armed...
...August 8 or be confiscated. Reports of continuing tribal warfare among the Baluba and Lulua in the Kasai interior hardly ruffled Léopoldville's street crowds. Here and there local commanders of the Congo's restive Force Publique set up as semi-independent potentates. One Sabena pilot on a routine flight to Stanleyville suddenly heard on his radio the voice of the "commander of the Fifth Bicycle Battalion" warning sternly, "Do not violate my air space again or I'll shoot you down!" But in the 47 regional centers where they had been scattered by whirlwind...
...YORK-MOSCOW FLIGHTS by Pan American World Airways and Russia's Aeroflot state line will be delayed until Khrushchev behaves better. U.S. officials canceled visit of Aeroflot brass due in Washington this week to discuss the deal. Belgium's Sabena airline is only New York-Moscow through flight...