Word: secessionists
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...September 13, 1961, O'Brien--then the U.N.'s chief of operations in Katanga--authorized U.N. troops to move against the forces of Moise Tshombe's secessionist government. At first it was reported that Tshombe was subdued and would have to accept whatever cease-fire terms might be offered him. But it quickly became clear that Elisabethville was not yet under U.N. control, and what had seemed an easily won victory evolved into a costly defeat...
...this cause, says Stampp, the North served as unwitting accomplice. Lincoln's assassination propelled Andrew Johnson into the White House, a kind-hearted and derivative man anxious to implement Lincoln's injunction to let the South up easy. To staff the governments of the secessionist states, he granted wholesale pardons to Confederate officers and civil servants-and such men did not waste time accepting the chance to preside...
Bayonets, Gently Applied. In the U.S. Congress, a coalition of Radical and moderate Republicans repudiated the Johnson governments in the South. Down to secessionist territory streamed federal troops. The area was divided into five military districts, and Northern bayonets enforced the investment of Negroes with full citizenship...
During the violent, disorderly days of the Congo rebellion at the end of 1960, when Tshombe was President of the secessionist Katanga province, Lumumba was captured by the forces of the central government, headed by President Joseph Kasavubu. In January, 1961, Lumumba was flown to Katanga. A few days later, a report came from Tshombe's Katanga government that Lumumba had escaped and had been killed by tribesmen. Most African nationalists, to say nothing of the rest of the world, have never believed this story. This February, when Tshombe was trying to overcome hostilities and win support before returning...
...rural Africans to till the land and urban Africans to keep their hands out of the till, and had been cheered to the echo wherever he went. His most delicate mission, however, was to soothe the 4,000 grumbling ex-gendarmes who once served him admirably in the old secessionist days, and who had waited with forlorn fidelity in Angola during Tshombe's exile from the Congo. Now the troops were billeted uncomfortably in railroad boxcars at the mining town of Kolwezi, and demonstrated their ugly mood by refusing to let trains enter or leave the station...