Word: lualaba
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...Rumor. Fortnight ago, several hundred Congolese army troops arrived at the Lualaba River port town of Kindu in Kivu Province, an area of the eastern Congo lightly controlled by local authorities and protected only by a 200-man U.N. garrison of Malayan soldiers. The newcomers were technically members of General Joseph Mobutu's central Congo army; in fact they took orders from Eastern Province's Gizenga, eager to expand his influence into Kivu. They were a surly lot who paid scant attention to the orders of their commander, Colonel Alphonse Pakassa. And like most Congolese soldiers, they were...
...pieces, tossing them as souvenirs to the civilian crowd that watched. That afternoon, several Congolese soldiers strode into the local office of the World Health Organization, gleefully dropped a human hand on a desk and walked out giggling; others heaved the rest of the ghastly remains into the muddy Lualaba...
...death: Katanga's cold-blooded President Moise Tshombe. But Tshombe runs only one province, and is heartily disliked outside it. Last week his well-equipped army, led by 400 Belgian officers, struck into northern Katanga, easily pushed back pro-Lumumba Baluba tribesmen as far as the Lualaba River. Tshombe, wearing a Homburg, helicoptered to the front to congratulate his men. At Elisabethville airport, a Boeing Stratocruiser arrived, carrying in its hold three twin-jet Fouga Magisters, advertised as trainers but equipped for firing rockets...
Using Kivu as their staging area, 600 of Gizenga's men invaded the Katanga stronghold of Secessionist Moise Tshombe. Installing two Lumumba supporters (one of them Lumumba's cousin) as heads of a new territory to be known as "Lualaba," the invaders occupied village after village in Katanga's northern wilds, where the local Baluba tribesmen were happy to welcome any enemies of the Tshombe regime. At Manono, center of Katanga's tin mining, the interlopers stopped, dug in, and announced establishment of Lualaba's new capital...
...overdue, produced no trace. Then a native arrived at the consulate in Elisabethville with grim news: a soldier of the mutinous Congolese army, presumably searching for Belgians, had shot an unknown white man near Kasongo; the body was found on a bar along the bank of the Lualaba River. At first there was hope, but last week Mark's family opened a terse telegram from Washington: DEPARTMENT REGRETS INFORM YOU . . . BODY OF PERSON IS THAT OF MARK. HIGGINS...