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...week's end the rebels were still falling back on Faradje and Aba. But they were not everywhere in retreat. At dawn in midweek, Simbas made a determined attack on Paulis that was beaten off only when 28 planes hit the rebel positions with rockets. Farther south, the district around Fizi was held by Simbas, and a resident wrote bitterly to a Leopoldville newspaper that "government forces would have been here long ago" if only "there had been white hostages in Fizi...
...other military hardware have been fed to the Simbas through Juba. In Juba, the arms are hastily unloaded (often the pilots leave the engines running), transferred to the Simbas' waiting truck convoys, and sped across 150 miles of improved road to the main rebel receiving point at Aba, a small town near Faradje just over the Congo border. There, the rebels' 18th Battalion supervises the distribution of the arms to rebel units throughout the northern Congo...
...Correspondent Peter Forbath, who drove to Arua last week, found several bearded Simbas in monkeyskin caps gulping palm wine in the town marketplace. Local merchants reported that the rebels have been forced to route several Juba arms shipments through Arua instead of straight across the Congo-Sudan border to Aba. Reason: stepped-up activity by the Sudan's own rebels-who are anti-Arab, pro-Tshombe-has made the Juba-Aba road too dangerous for the Simba convoys...
Freund appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on constitutional amendments Tuesday, as one of several representatives of the American Bar Association. They presented the proposals drawn up at an ABA conference on presidential inability and succession held in January...
...ABA plan is slightly different from the one Freund proposed in the CRIMSON in December. At that time he suggested that if the Vice President succeeded the President with more than two years in the term, a new Vice President should be chosen at the time of the next Congressional election...