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Married. Conor Cruise O'Brien, 44, explosive veteran diplomat who resigned last month from the Irish foreign service and from his Congo post as U.N. chief in Katanga in protest at British and French encouragement of Katanga's secessionist President Tshombe; and Moira MacEntee, 39, daughter of Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister Sean MacEntee; he for the second time, she for the first; in Manhattan...
Congo. The tenacity of able U.S. Ambassador Edmund Gullion in Leopoldville helped bring Katanga's stubborn Moise Tshombe and Central Congolese Premier Cyrille Adoula together in a pact at Kitona (TIME, Dec. 29). Now the problem was to enforce the pact, and to bring Tshombe's secessionist province back into a unified Congo. Last week, as promised, Tshombe sent Katanga delegates to Leopoldville to sit with Adoula's commission in drafting revisions for the Congolese constitution. Other omens were less favorable. In Elisabethville, Tshombe rose before his provincial assembly to hedge his promises, still holding...
...Hoffmann goes on to establish a fallacious parallel between the Goan invasion and the UN's crushing of Tshombe's secessionist revolt...
...central Congolese Parliament. Landing in a United Nations plane and guaranteed U.N. protection during their stay, they arrived ostensibly in fulfillment of Tshombe's pledge made fortnight ago in his meeting at Kitona with the central government's Premier Cyrille Adoula. The pledge: to integrate secessionist Katanga province with the rest of the Congo. But it was clear from the moment the delegates left Elisabethville's airport that they were not ready to keep Tshombe's promise. As the Deputies departed, a spokesman said: "We are going to Leopoldville to have that ridiculous Fundamental Law changed...
...Secretary Ralph Bunche and his top U.N. advisers, waited anxiously outside as the two delegations finally took their places around three simple green-topped tables. Now the jesting was over; loud voices could be heard in the corridor out side as Adoula made his demands that secessionist Katanga accept Leopoldville's control without qualification. At 3 p.m. the conferees ordered in beer and sandwiches, kept talking while they ate. At 8:30 p.m. came the call for more food, and this time some whisky. It now appeared that Tshombe was flatly refusing to commit his Katanga province...