Word: secessionists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Immense Irony. With cotton as king and the Negro as slave, Alabama was in the forefront of the secessionist movement that led to the Civil War. It was in Montgomery that the South established the Confederacy and made Jefferson Davis its President. Proudly, Alabama sent about 120,000 men-nearly all of its male white population -into the Civil War. Proudly, it boasted 39 generals. Proudly, it was vanquished...
...Lunda. With a history dating back at least four centuries, and boasting a population of 1,000,000, the tribe spreads from the Congo's Katanga province into both Portuguese Angola and Northern Rhodesia. The Lunda's most illustrious son is Katanga's secessionist leader Moise Tshombe, who married a daughter of Mwata Yambo XXIV. When his father-in-law died last June of a burst bladder, Tshombe for a time was considered as successor. But the tribal elders, suspecting that Moise might sell them out to the white man, finally settled on a minor chieftain (original...
Shaky Baby. But last week, Thant's scheduled evacuation was causing alarmed protest from the U.S., Britain and Belgium, which doubt the Congo's ability to stand alone. In Katanga province, 15,000 ex-gendarmes of ousted Secessionist Moise Tshombe have vanished into the bush; roaming bands of them stage highway robberies and raid villages to guzzle the local beer stocks. The 30,000-man Congolese army, whose 1960 mutiny ignited the civil war, has produced a nucleus of disciplined officers, thanks to its spunky commander, General Joseph Mobutu; no longer are unarmed civilians shot down at random...
...considerable popularity in Katanga, the Europeans there want no more adventures, and the flourishing Union Miniere asks only that it be allowed to mine copper undisturbed and continue earning $260 million a year for the Congo-more than twice the export revenue of the rest of the country. The secessionist spirit seems to be dying. Says one of Tshombe's old ministers: "We were puppets protecting European interests, and now nobody wants to pull our strings. It's all over. We have no choice but to accept the dictates of Leopoldville...
...cold-blooded killing pointed up the grim fact that nearly three months after United Nations troops crushed Secessionist Moise Tshombe's regime and placed the province under Premier Cyrille Adoula's central government, peace is far from restored in Katanga. Each guard post that the U.N. hands over to the central regime's Armée Nationale Congolaise seems to produce a little area of anarchy. In recent weeks, trigger-happy A.N.C. soldiers in Elisabethville have killed at least one Katangese civilian...