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Griggs was on the job as Congolese troops hovered outside the U.N.-guarded embassy-residence of Ghanaian Chargé d'Affaires Nathaniel Welbeck, trying to get at the charge and make him fly out of the country. Watching the scene, Griggs and two other reporters were grabbed by a Congolese plainclothesman befuddled by bangi (raw marijuana). They were under arrest, he said, as Communist spies. Griggs was ordered to squat on a lawn directly across the street from the Ghanaian embassy. Five feet away a pair of Congolese soldiers lay prone, their rifles cocked and aimed at Griggs...
...morning, as two big crocodiles yawned lazily on the nearby riverbank, Congolese Interior Commissioner José Nussbaumer strode into the Ghanaian embassy and ordered Chargé d'Affaires Nathaniel Welbeck to leave the country that afternoon on a Sabena plane. "I'm not at home to you!" screamed Welbeck, waving a red and white fetish stick in indignation. "Get out and stay out!" Already on his way to the door, Nussbaumer turned and shouted: "I'll be back at 3 o'clock to make sure you take that plane...
...Back in the Congo the vote strengthened the hand of Kasavubu's key ally, Congolese Army Commander Colonel Joseph Mobutu. Six weeks ago Kasavubu had declared Ghana's Chargé d'Affaires Nathaniel Welbeck persona non grata on the ground that he was running around Léopoldville whipping up support for Lumumba, who since his dismissal has rarely dared to venture out of the official mansion where he is still holed up. Instead of leaving, Welbeck kept right on operating from the Ghanaian embassy, where he was guarded by Ghana's U.N. contingent. Last week...
...Premier of the Congo despite his dismissal three months ago by Kasavubu -and had been treating Kasavubu's commands with a gentlemanly disdain. Now, apparently with an eye on the Assembly vote, the U.N. command shifted its stance slightly, ruled that if served with a formal expulsion order, Welbeck would have to get out, since the U.N. "does not intend to interfere in the relations between the government and diplomats...
Black Colonization. But Welbeck had gone too far. President Kasavubu announced bluntly that Welbeck was a liar ("Lumumba was fired and he stays fired!"), and the enraged Colonel Mobutu replied with a demand that all Ghanaian troops in the U.N. force get out of the Congo and take their Guinean friends with them. From now on, Kasavubu added in a pointed reference to Lumumba, all foreigners should deal only with the new 28-man High Commission Mobutu had installed as temporary rulers of the Congo. The High Commissioners themselves called a press conference to criticize Nkrumah's efforts...