The long, electrified fence around Leopoldville's Lovanium University was in place and ready for Parliament to begin. United Nations troops waited to take up their posts as guards to ensure that no liquor, women or bribe money was smuggled in to addle the judgment of the Deputies. Only thing missing was the legislators themselves. Just at the moment when it seemed that the Congo's Parliament would reconvene to reunite the divided Congo nation, the whole project collapsed.
Atop the wreckage stood grinning, pop-eyed Moise Tshombe of separatist Katanga province. Fortnight earlier, Tshombe had talked his way out of his confinement...
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