Word: salumu
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...signature on the head-chopping telegram was that of Bernard Salumu, a moody, fast-talking 31-year-old Communist sympathizer who once had been Lumumba's private secretary, now found himself in complete control of Eastern Province, which he proceeded to declare independent last week. Weeks ago Lumumba sent Salumu to Stanleyville to set the stage for a new Lumumba-run capital in competition with Leopoldville. Salumu dealt harshly with Lumumba's foes. When eleven anti-Lumumba members of the Congo's Parliament flew back to oppose the regime in Stanleyville, Salumu's men grabbed them...
Standing in the Sun. Since then Salumu has used the gendarmerie to keep Stanleyville in a perpetual state of terror. Fortnight ago he herded all 600 of Stanleyville's whites into an open field where they stood for hours in the broiling sun awaiting an "identity check." Passengers arriving by air were searched on arrival, then forced to stoop down and pick up their wallets and other belongings that Salumu's men had thrown to the ground. Daphne Parks, a consular official of the British embassy, was slapped twice by gendarmes, who then unzipped her dress. Priests...
Pleading a lack of orders, the U.N.'s Stanleyville garrison of 1,500 Ethiopian troops raised hardly a finger at these outrages; but last week, when the threats of beheadings came in from Stanleyville's Salumu, U.N. headquarters finally went into action. U.N. chief of staff, Ethiopia's General Mangashalyassu, was rushed to the scene to take over. He quickly commandeered a school building in which all the 2,000 whites of the province were offered haven and surrounded it with his troops. But several Belgians, in the Stanleyville jail on other charges, already were in Salumu...
...will not remain in one place long enough for his political coloration to show, most Leopoldville observers eye dubiously the three men closest to him, all of whom have obvious Red leanings. Of the three, Secretary of State for Defense Jacques Lundula and Lumumba's private secretary, Bernard Salumu, have made junkets to Red China. Information Minister Anicet Kashamura runs the Congo radio and, at least on those days when puzzled Congolese technicians can get it on the air, broadcasts endless letters of sympathy from Communist groups in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Russia. His favorite charge: the Belgians started...
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