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Success or failure? : the UN intervention in the Congo after independence / Eric Packham.

Title: Success or failure? : the UN intervention in the Congo after independence / Eric Packham.
Author: Packham, Eric S.
Publication: Commack, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers, c1998.

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Description

326 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

This book describes the largest intervention [at that time] of the United Nations in the Congo detailing the players, the actions, the emotions and the accomplishments of this crucially significant historical achievement.

Subject

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-313) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

What is the rôle of the U.N. force in the Congo? -- Meeting the Mulopwe and others -- Factionalism in the Kasai province & some abrupt departures -- Maintaining law and order -- The Mulopwe under arrest -- Evacuation of the refugee camp at Elisabethville -- Who is president of the Kasai province? -- More provinces, more presidents, more problems -- The battle of the bridges -- A would-be president fails to make it -- Luluabourg province falls apart -- Inter-tribal fighting spreads and intensifies -- Trials and tribulations of the U.N. Luluabourg Parquet -- Maintaining lawlessness and disorder.

ISBN

1560725664

OCLC

40650081

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library