Word: secessionists
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This central government must have at least the resources that the Belgian administrators had available to them --the resources of Katanga. Perhaps additional capital will come to a new Congo state from private investors and organizations such as the World Bank. But domestic order--which presupposes the subduing of secessionist revolt, and control of the national wealth--must come first...
...reported TIME Correspondent Eric Robins last week from Elisabethville, the dry and dusty capital city of the province that wants to be a nation-the Congo's Katanga. Only a few miles away are the mine shafts and chimneys of the huge copper and cobalt complex that makes secessionist Katanga the envy of its neighbors. For months the United Nations had kept its uneasy peace in Katanga, always hopeful that somehow the territory could be brought back into the Congo fold. Now, for the second time in three months, the U.N. was trying, with no great success...
...Katanga's secessionist regime, it was a trifle embarrassing. Here was its stout U.S. supporter. Connecticut Senator Thomas J. Dodd, in town only three days after Katanga President Moise Tshombe was calling on his people to fight the United Nations troops with "poison arrows, spears, axes and picks." To smooth things over, Tshombe and some of his Cabinet ministers mingled pleasantly with U.N. officers at the U.S. consul's cocktail party honoring Democrat Dodd's arrival. But neither Tshombe nor anyone else could control the erratic, excitable Katanga soldiers who had been listening to the President...
...Thant himself who took a broader line. He promised to clear out Tshombe's white soldiers ("professional adventurers who fight and kill for money"). He added: "The U.N. position, it seems to me, is automatically against all armed activities against the central government and against secessionist forces." As Stevenson's original amendment urged, U Thant pluckily proposed that the Congolese army be reorganized and retrained; this would put the troops into the hands of the central government-and out of the hands of such rebels as Gizenga...
...Britain forced a broader debate, insisting that the Council consider any secessionist problem, from whatever direction, put its weight behind a constructive program to strengthen Premier Adoula's central government. The U.S. was urging that Adoula's army be reorganized and given a "small but effective air force" to back up Congolese ground troops; this would not be good news for Katanga's Tshombe, who, with his own little handful of planes, has been able to launch deadly forays against both Adoula's forces and the U.N. itself from time to time...