Word: balubas
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...Conor Cruise O'Brien was vastly understating the case. In recalcitrant Katanga last week, scattered bands of blue-hel-meted troops-Indian, Swedish, Irish-were engaged in a battle to the death with a weird and formidable foe: the troops of Katanga President Moise Tshombe, some of them Baluba warriors smeared with warpaint, led by Europeans and backed by jet fighters...
...Tshombe himself-never existed. Instead, the President was rallying his troops for what soon became a full-scale attack. The main U.N. Katanga garrison, 500 Irish and Swedish soldiers stationed at Kamina air base 260 miles northwest of Elisabethville, was under siege by a strong force of heavily armed Baluba tribesmen, troops led by white officers and supported by a French-made jet fighter. Reported the control tower at week's end: "It will be difficult to hold out much longer...
...wake of Patrice Lumumba's murder, Kalonji's memory raced back to the days last fall when Lumumba ordered an assault on Kalonji's Baluba country, where his troops pillaged, raped and murdered at such a rate that Dag Hammarskjold himself called it genocide. Suddenly, Kalonji bethought himself of a dozen Lumumba aides and bullyboys he was holding. They had been sent to him for safekeeping by the Leopoldville Congolese authorities. He snatched them from jail, hauled them into Bakwanga's dusty public square. There they were beaten before the eyes of hundreds, later...
...around is the man responsible for his death: Katanga's cold-blooded President Moise Tshombe. But Tshombe runs only one province, and is heartily disliked outside it. Last week his well-equipped army, led by 400 Belgian officers, struck into northern Katanga, easily pushed back pro-Lumumba Baluba tribesmen as far as the Lualaba River. Tshombe, wearing a Homburg, helicoptered to the front to congratulate his men. At Elisabethville airport, a Boeing Stratocruiser arrived, carrying in its hold three twin-jet Fouga Magisters, advertised as trainers but equipped for firing rockets...
...neither Western interests nor Congolese peace. But the U.S. has loyally done what it could, and obliged whenever its help was 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...