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...asked. Last week President Kennedy announced that the U.S. was rushing rice, corn, dried milk and other foodstuffs from U.S. surplus stocks to help feed 300,000 homeless Baluba tribesmen starving in remote Kasai province. Orders crackled from U.S. Air Force European headquarters in Wiesbaden, and an urgent airlift headed south. U.S. planes stopped at Nairobi, Salisbury and the Cameroun city of Garoua, picked up food pledged by other governments. On the way back, the planes would help haul out the Moroccan, U.A.R. and Guinean troops that the dissident politicians of Africa had ordered home...
...inventive Information Minister claimed the capture of thousands of chopsticks, adding darkly that "Laotians don't use chopsticks." On their own, the Laotians were getting little fighting done. Rebel Captain Kong Le still sat astride the central Plaine des Jarres, on the receiving end of a steady Soviet airlift of supplies from North Viet Nam. He concentrated on training his five-battalion force, made up of paratroops, villagers and recruits from the army posts he has captured. He claimed to be only a "neutralist" himself-though he coordinates his attacks with Communist Pathet Lao guerrillas...
...Sept. 5). After the crash the IL-18 was briefly grounded. The trouble seemed to be with the engine mountings (as with its U.S. counterpart, the Lockheed Electra) and with the engines. But IL-18s kept landing at African airfields as Russia's contribution to the U.N. Congo airlift. Inference was that whatever ailed the plane had been mended. Not so, a Russian IL-18 crew member at an African airport guardedly informed a TIME correspondent last week. In addition to the crash last August, at least three other IL-18s have crashed on flights inside Russia. Each...
...east the army fared much worse. There, Rebel Captain Kong Le shot down one of the government's AT6 trainers (whereupon the U.S. sent in two more, raising the royal air force to a total of five planes). Kong Le also had artillery, supplied him by Russian airlift. He advanced on the village of Ta Vieng on the Nam Nhiep River. The government troops prudently retreated, carrying out what the officer in charge called his "coiled-spring tactic." Kong Le took the village and moved on south toward Pak-sane, slowly bulldozing a road ahead...
...admit that he had no idea where Ban Le was. All that seemed to be going on for sure was a buildup by both sides around the Plaine des Jarres, the strategic central plateau captured by pro-Communist Captain Kong Le a week earlier with the help of an airlift by Russian Ilyushin 14s (TIME...