Word: secessionist
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Through the streets of Elisabethville swirled 100 howling Africans and Europeans carrying banners blazoned, "No G.I.s in Katanga!" At the U.S. consulate they trampled on an American flag and shattered windows with rocks and ripe mangoes. It was Secessionist Moise Tshombe's way of replying to the U.S. decision last week to send a military mission to the Congo to see what equipment the United Nations force will need to bring his secessionist Katanga province to heel...
Katanga's Moise Tshombe is not the only secessionist to break off a piece of the Congo and call it his own. He is merely the richest. In the backcountry, other little fiefs have declared themselves inde pendent in defiance of central government authority. Zaniest of all is ludicrous little Mining State in South Kasai...
Even after the Leopoldville regime arrested Kalonji last January for his secessionist activities, Mining State went right ahead as an independent nation, issuing its own postage stamps and flying its own flag, convinced that Premier Cyrille Adoula's central regime lacked the resolve to crush Kasai's lucrative rebellion...
...while at least, Moise Tshombe seemed willing to help put the Congo together again. When the United Nations gave him ten days to accept its latest unification plan or face economic sanctions, Katanga's secessionist President waited until the last minute, then announced fulsomely that he viewed the scheme "with enthusiasm." But mercurial Moise's zeal lasted only a few days. Last week he summoned newsmen to Elisabethville's Prince Leopold Hospital, led them into the mortuary and pointed a well-manicured finger at the bodies of two Katangese gendarmes. He claimed that they had been slain...
...Points in Common." Nor was that the central government's only worry. Fifty miles outside Leopoldville, secessionist-minded Albert Kalonji, a self-styled "king" who takes his regal status so seriously that he once employed a proxy handshaker, escaped from Luzumu prison, where he was sent last April to serve a 2½-year term for torturing political rivals. With Kalonji safely back in his diamond-rich stronghold of South Kasai, where he is protected by a private gendarmerie of 2.000, Leopoldville had reason to fear that he might emulate his friend Tshombe and once again attempt a pullout...