Word: soumialot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trouble All Over. Occupying expensive apartments and frequenting nightclubs and bars, the rival Simbas began accusing one another of living it up on revolutionary funds. Attempts by Nasser to bring them together only drove them further apart. Rebel Defense Minister Gaston Soumialot announced that he had deposed Gbenye, who retorted angrily that he was undeposable. From his exile quarters in the Sudan, People's Army Commander Nicho'as Olenga renounced them both, claimed that he alone spoke for the revolution-until last month, when the Khartoum government charged that he had been conspiring with the Sudan...
...after a Belgian International Air Service DC-4 crashed on takeoff, killing seven, civilian aircraft were banned from landing. At the same time, help for the rebels, according to some reports, was filtering in from the Sudan, where "President" Christophe Gbenye and his wild-eyed defense minister, Gaston Soumialot, were holed up in Khartoum...
...Rebel General Nicholas Olenga did their best to carry out the order. In the Avenue Sergeant Kitele, according to some survivors, the command to fire was given by "Major Bubu," a deaf-mute ex-boxer addicted to hemp who served as personal bodyguard to Rebel Defense Minister Gaston Soumialot. Bubu's order could not have been a scream, but in its strangled, inarticulate ferocity must have expressed precisely the blood lust of the Simbas...
...Soumialot. But one column was ambushed 30 miles south of the city, and the other, which was to have landed from Lake Tanganyika, was held up by bad weather and lack of fuel...
...radio crackled a message of triumph: "All Stanleyville is in the hands of the Popular Army. Do not forget: we are the lions and you are the goats." Next morning a program of recorded cha-cha-cha music was interrupted by a strident voice advertised as that of Emile Soumialot, president of the Chinese Communist-backed National Liberation Committee. "I am the new Lumumba," the voice ranted. "Just before he left us, Lumumba let it be known that someone stronger than he would come to complete his work. That...