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...thirds of Canada's 19 million citizens speak English; one-third are fiercely French - in language, culture, temperament. And now some secessionist sentiment is springing up in the province of Quebec, gathering support among French Canadians who have long complained bitterly of second-class citizenship. Pearson has made several concessions giving Quebec more provincial autonomy and French Canadians a stronger voice in the federal government. Many French Canadians consider this too little, too late...
...monument last week strode the latest Liberator of the Congo, Premier Moise Tshombe, onetime leader of secessionist Katanga and the man whom most Congolese hold responsible for Lumumba's murder. Standing poker-faced in a tepid drizzle, Tshombe solemnly deposited a wreath at the foot of the portrait, bowed his head in silence. Later he delivered a speech that drew wild applause from at least 5,000 of Lumumba's former followers. "You have suffered too much from strings pulled abroad. The Congolese will not be valets of colonialists and imperialists...
...homecoming week for the hawks of the Congo. On foot and on bicycles, in rickety lorries or astride crimson farm tractors, some 6,000 of Moise Tshombe's former secessionist gendarmes came swarming out of their hideouts in the bush to march triumphantly through East Katanga's capital of Elisabethville. Another 2,000 - still armed and under the command of white mercenary officers - waited in Angola, just on the other side of the Congolese border, for orders from the Congo's new Premier...
Last week there was strong suspicion that the snake had turned against the Congo's new Premier, Moise Tshombe. To prove himself a true-black African leader and dispel accusations of colonialist stoogery, Katanga's onetime secessionist leader planned to attend this week's meeting of the Organization of African Unity in Cairo. Tshombe knew he had many enemies in the 34 African states comprising the O.A.U., but felt he could win sympathy from the group's conservative members and hold his own with the rest through the sheer force of his considerable personal charm...
...government he produced last week was hardly reconciled. Tshombe himself described it as one of mere "public salvation," and the few names recognizable within it were more notorious than noteworthy: as Agriculture Minister he chose Kasai's Mulopwe (god-emperor) Albert Kalonji, a secessionist right-winger who is still formally charged by Adoula's government with torturing political prisoners. The new Health Minister is none other than Andre´ Lubaya, a key official in the Communist-backed National Liberation Committee, which runs the Congo's endemic provincial rebellions. Recognizing the dangers of giving more portfolios to potential...