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...capital in competition with Leopoldville. Salumu dealt harshly with Lumumba's foes. When eleven anti-Lumumba members of the Congo's Parliament flew back to oppose the regime in Stanleyville, Salumu's men grabbed them off the plane, beat them mercilessly. One of them, Alphonse Songolo, was left blind in one eye and near death from his injuries...
...which all the 2,000 whites of the province were offered haven and surrounded it with his troops. But several Belgians, in the Stanleyville jail on other charges, already were in Salumu's hands if he chose to chop heads; and, of course, the hapless, half-blind Alphonse Songolo remained a hostage...
Pleas for Patrice. In Manhattan's U.N. headquarters, the plight of Songolo bothered almost no one. The loudest laments were for Patrice Lumumba, who, it was rumored, had been mistreated in Colonel Mobutu's army jail, though doctors reported he was only somewhat bruised from the Congolese arrest techniques, which prescribe cuffing and a few kicks in the behind. Russia's Delegate Valerian Zorin introduced a new motion in the Security Council, demanding Lumumba's immediate release from jail and reinstallation as Premier. Moreover, said Zorin, the U.N. should get out of the Congo...
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