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...kite flying, or does it represent a change of viewpoint on the part of the government?" Replied Pearson: "It does not represent a change of viewpoint." "So it is kite flying," snapped Diefenbaker. When Pearson revealed in the House that the government is making a study of the growing secessionist pressures in French Quebec and how secession would affect Canada economically, Diefenbaker all but accused him of plotting secession and forced embarrassed attempts to "clarify." The loudest and longest hassle erupted last May when Pearson proposed a new maple leaf national flag to replace the Red Ensign. "Flags," roared Diefenbaker...
...three dead and scores injured. France quickly poured in more money, by last year had boosted its annual aid to $135 million, 40% of the islands' gross national product. There is still occasional unrest. Last year police picked up 18 Martiniquans who were involved in a half-baked secessionist plot to overthrow the local government. However, the great majority of islanders are strongly Gaullist in their politics and are well aware that French aid is their only realistic hope of raising living standards...
Where to Watch? Given the Congo's endemic anarchy, the government can ill afford to spare many troops. Leopoldville, as usual, is seething with discontent. Last week 200 Leopoldville soldiers had to be jailed when they refused to go to Kwilu. Volatile Katanga, where the secessionist rebellion was crushed a year ago, still harbors roaming bands of ex-gendarmes...
Leader of the rebels is Pierre Mulele, 34, self-styled "ambassador" to Cairo under the ousted secessionist regime of Red-lining Antoine Gizenga, who has been in prison for the last two years. Mulele lived in Egypt as Nasser's guest for a while, then departed for Red China, where he received training in guerrilla tactics. Secretly returning to Kwilu province last summer, he organized military training camps in the dense forests, made frequent trips to Brazzaville, capital of the former French Congo and the hangout for exiled Congolese extremists plotting against the central government. There, Mulele presumably obtained...
...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...