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President to reverse the ex-
pulsion order.
For IS minutes the white
haired Ambassador paced
back and forth In front Of the
residence under the burning
sun. Then an aide of the
President came out and sig
nailed mo" with both arms.
The Ambassador drove away
in his late-model American
car flying a Soviet standard
and headed back to the So
Wet Embassy in the swank
Kalina section.
Change in Status Noted
U. N. troops from Ghana
were posted around the En-
basSy to protect the Russians
from any violence. A young
Congolese captain approached
and tried to get in. but he was
stopped by q Ghana officer.
The Congolese captain then
turned to a Negro who had
just stepped out of the En-
baSsy.
THE last time 1 saw you,"
said the captain, you were
wearing the uniform Of an
oficer Of the Guinean army"
ITS none Of your business"
replied the man, retreating
through the gate into the En-
bassy.
Troops from the new West
African republic Of Guinea, a
beachhead for Communists in
Africa since it gained inde-
pendence from France, are part
of the U. N. force in the
Congo.(
Among the belongings the
Russians took home with them
were several tons of q recently
printed booklet, Hands of the
Congo" This pamphlet, carry
ing a picture Of Premier Nikita
S. Khrushchev on the cover,
was angriiy displayed by Mr..
Mobutu when he met news
men after his coup on Wednes-
day.
The Russians also took sew
eral air conditioners with them
to Moscow.
I'VE paid for them" one
Russian told newsmen.
At the airport. a cleaning
white Soviet Ilyushin plane
flown specially from Ghana
took the Russians home. So
Wet newsmen grinned weakly
at their Western colleagues as
they went aboard. One Rus
sian newsman said:
"Bye-bye. see you again in
another place"
Ministries at Standstill
! All the Congo's ministries
were virtually at a standstill
and only technical depart
ments stated by U. N. experts
were functioning.
A squad of soldiers in the
telegraph Office was censoring
outgoing cables and conf1scat-
ing messages on the Congo's
political situation. There was
no censorship of press dis
patches, however.
One unconfirmed report said
Mr.. Lumumba tried to send a
cable during the day from one
of the African embassies ask
ing his supporters in Stanley
vile to dispatch urgent rein
forcementS" to Leopoldville to
get him out of his predicament.
Col. Modulus censors report
edly intercepted the cable.
Even If not true, mere exist
ence of the report showed that
people in the Congo are very
much aware that Mr.. Lu-
mumba, if alive, can still cause
plenty of trouble to block Mr..
Kasavubu's efforts to set up a
stable government.
Civil strife and unrest con-
tinued in many parts of the
young nation.
There were only sparse re-
ports in Leopoldville on the
continued bloody tribal fight
ing in sessionist Katanga and
elsewhere in the interior.
U.N. Forces Thin
The United Nations has
sought to impose truce there
for the last week, but U.N
forces were thinly deployed ir
the primitive rural area and
apparently did not have the
situation fully under control
Even in Leopoldville the situ-
alton still appeared tense with
undisciplined, trigger happy
Congolese soldiers roaming the
streets. A U.N. jeep was free
on by unknown persons neal
Ndjili airport last night, bu