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...failure. The authority of Lumumba's central government extended no farther than the sound of his voice. As soon as he left a town or a province, power returned to whoever was strong enough and ruthless enough to wield it. At Elisabethville, capital of the secessionist province of Katanga, the plane was denied permission to land. A spokesman for the Katanga leader, Moise Tshombe, said that President Kasavubu was welcome, but "we refuse to let that other character set foot on Katangese soil." When the two harassed leaders took off from Luluabourg and headed for Stanleyville, they never made...
Whimpering Children. As the week wore on, the situation grew worse instead of better. Violence exploded in mineral-rich Katanga province, whose political leader, Moise Tshombe, has been advocating secession from the Congo. During a night of terror, mutinous Congolese troops roamed the streets of Elisabethville, the provincial capital, screaming war cries and firing machine guns and rifles. Four automobiles returning to the city after evacuating women and children to Rhodesia were stopped at a railroad crossing. Six of the ten European occupants, including Italian Vice Consul Tito Spoglia, were shot dead, and the others seriously wounded. Cavalcades of cars...
...there were still grave dangers ahead for the fledgling nation. Moise Tshombe, premier of rich Katanga province, whose mines provide 60% of the Congo's income, still threatened to secede rather than hand the province's revenues over to a powerful central government. "The Katanga cow will not be milked by Lumumba's serpents!" cried the secessionists, and reportedly they had the encouragement of some white businessmen. In reply, Leopoldville officials sent jets roaring low over the region in an obvious show of force...
...mineral treasure house of the southeast Congo, where the Bemba and the Tshokwe tribesmen flow over into parts of Northern Rhodesia and Angola, irredentist sentiment runs high among some black leaders. Moise Tshombe, boss of copper-rich Katanga province, talks of negotiating with the Northern Rhodesians and his Conakat Party has begun organizing branches in Northern Rhodesia itself...
...were 65 parties in the field. The Abako party's crafty Joseph Kasavubu sought to split off his Lower Congo region and make it autonomous. Secession-minded Moise Tshombe's Conakat group, 1,000 miles away in Elisabethville, was demanding the same privilege for its mineral-rich Katanga province, which produces 65% of all the Congo's income. Each was fighting Paul Bolya and his moderate National Progress Party as well as the militant group of Albert Kalonji...