For Katanga's Moise Tshombe, it was the worst of times. Once he was the cockiest Congolese of them all, the man with the most money and the tidiest private army. Last week, stripped of his Belgian advisers and cut off from his troops, he languished in a guarded villa in Coquilhatville. He was a victim of that old Congolese persuasion tactic—kidnaping. And nobody much seemed to care.
The U.N. politely asked President Kasavubu to accord Tshombe "fair treatment and due process of law." But the U.N.'s special representative to the Congo, India's Rajeshwar Dayal, who had been quick to protest...
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