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Even Tshombe's erstwhile African allies were re-examining their relations with Leopoldville. First to bury the hatchet was President Fulbert Youlou of the Congo Republic, formerly the French Congo, whose capital city of Brazzaville lies across the river from Leopoldville. Youlou, a nonpracticing Roman Catholic priest who stubbornly continues to wear his cassock, supported Tshombe's secession in 1960. But with Tshombe on the way out, Youlou suddenly sailed across the Stanley Pool to make friends with the Leopoldville crowd. Then, looking like a shorter, soutaned version of Sonny Listen, he took off on a five...
...assembled concentration camps, then shipped down the Africa coast to a Congo port. The Congo in turn retaliated against Gabonese citizens living in Brazzaville. Mobs ripped into the Gabonese neighborhood of Poto-Poto, devastating shops and homes and injuring dozens of Gabonese. Only the intercession of Congo President Fulbert Youlou prevented a massacre. "Try to control yourselves," soothed Youlou, "and we will emerge greater because of this trial." He proclaimed a day of mourning for the Congo's "national martyrs." At week's end both countries rejected an offer to replay the game on the neutral turf...
Political parties: 1. Voters: 76%. Little comprehension of self-government. President Fulbert Youlou, a high-living priest and close ally of Katanga's Tshombe, tolerates no opposition; is friendly...
...made his television report to the nation, kept a campaign pledge to greet the senior class of the Tomah, Wis., high school at the White House, addressed graduating midshipmen at Annapolis, spoke to editors of United Press International, and entertained the French Congo Republic's President Fulbert Youlou, who came with a huge pair of elephant tusks as gifts. But all the while, John Kennedy was in considerable pain with a back injury-and at week's end he was on crutches...
Harried Joseph Kasavubu had behind him not only the Western bloc but a new factor in U.N. politics-tribal ties. Cassock-clad Abbé Fulbert Youlou, the President of the former French Congo and, like Kasavubu, an Abako tribesman, rallied nine French Community states, helped beat back the adjournment motion 51 to 36. Result: after a bit more debate, Kasavubu seemed likely to get the coveted seat...