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Mike Hoare thought the Simbas might make their stand at Aru, which had been a main gateway for arms from Uganda. Instead, suicide squads stayed behind in Aru to snipe at the advancing mercenaries, and the bulk of the rebels pulled back in orderly fashion, carrying their arms with them. Hoare had sent a force to work around behind the town and cut off the retreating rebels, but it lost its way in the darkness...
...otherwise sleepy town in western Uganda where the Lugbara tribeswomen still go bare-breasted and men hunt monkeys with bows and arrows. Somewhat reluctantly, the Uganda government has allowed Arua to become a haven for Simba warriors, who come in by truck and Jeep from the Congolese town of Aru just across the border, load up on food and liquor, then, after sleeping it off in a tin-roofed "refugee center," truck contentedly back. TIME 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...
Jinguru berru Jinguni berru Jinguru aru...
Cagey as a boxer readying a blow or parrying a punch, Japan shifted its weight in the South Pacific. On the eastern side of New Guinea, the Japs had been pushed back. Now fresh troops and supplies were being pushed forward into bases farther west - Timor, Amboina, the Aru Islands and New Guinea's western shore...
Bombers manned by U.S., Australian and Dutch crews struck at three transports off the Aru Islands, two other convoys near western New Guinea. Timor and Amboina were raided...