Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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A Nip at the Bottle. For twelve hours the chatter of automatic weapons was punctuated by the deeper thud of shells from Congolese armored cars. Pitch-darkness and bad marksmanship limited the casualties to one Tunisian and four Congolese dead, eleven Tunisians and 30 Congolese wounded. With morning, firing finally...
Alexander had flown in the day before with special orders from Nkrumah to see to it that Welbeck stayed put in Léopoldville. But one look at the critical situation convinced Alexander that Welbeck must go-and fast. At the Ghana embassy, Alexander found that the terrified Welbeck had...
The First Moves. This was not the only victory of the week for bespectacled little Colonel Mobutu. A few days later a dramatic reconciliation was arranged between Léopoldville and the long-rebellious province of Katanga. Three representatives of the Mobutu-Kasavubu regime flew to the Katanga capital of...
¶After a bitter parliamentary fight, the General Assembly voted 53-24 to seat President Joseph Kasavubu as the legal representative of the Congo, overriding the diehard minority of Afro-Asians who still support his bitter rival, deposed Premier Patrice Lumumba.