Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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The signature on the head-chopping telegram was that of Bernard Salumu, a moody, fast-talking 31-year-old Communist sympathizer who once had been Lumumba's private secretary, now found himself in complete control of Eastern Province, which he proceeded to declare independent last week. Weeks ago Lumumba...
Standing in the Sun. Since then Salumu has used the gendarmerie to keep Stanleyville in a perpetual state of terror. Fortnight ago he herded all 600 of Stanleyville's whites into an open field where they stood for hours in the broiling sun awaiting an "identity check." Passengers arriving...
Pleading a lack of orders, the U.N.'s Stanleyville garrison of 1,500 Ethiopian troops raised hardly a finger at these outrages; but last week, when the threats of beheadings came in from Stanleyville's Salumu, U.N. headquarters finally went into action. U.N. chief of staff, Ethiopia'...
Pleas for Patrice. In Manhattan's U.N. headquarters, the plight of Songolo bothered almost no one. The loudest laments were for Patrice Lumumba, who, it was rumored, had been mistreated in Colonel Mobutu's army jail, though doctors reported he was only somewhat bruised from the Congolese arrest...
The news was considered urgent enough to summon members of the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee to Washington for an urgent unscheduled meeting. CIA Director Allen Dulles hastily arranged a talk with President-elect John Kennedy. Around it all was an aura of deep secrecy. Was it someone's...