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...Mike." Bishop Wittebols, 26 Belgian priests and laymen were slain on the day of the para drop at nearby Paulis. According to survivors, the Simbas raced around screeching "Kill, kill, kill them all!" The Belgians were shot, clubbed to death or tied up and hurled alive into the Wamba River. But that was killing with kindness compared to the fate of American Protestant Missionary William McChesney, 28. They performed a mad war dance on his prostrate body until internal bleeding from ruptured organs ended his agony. Then the Simbas plucked out his eyes and threw his corpse into the river...
...Wamba massacre brought to nearly 200 the total of whites killed since the Belgian-American para drop on Stanleyville last November, and left at least 90 more whites still in rebel hands. The Wamba rescue brought to an end one major phase of mercenary activity, and with it came bad news. South African Mercenary Commander Michael Hoare flew back to Leopoldville to inform Congolese Premier Moise Tshombe that he did not plan to renew his six-month contract. With starchy, spit-and-polish "Mad Mike" threatening to issue his last harrumph, other battle-hardened officers in Tshombe's dwindling...
Just before flying back home from a three-week European tour, Congolese Premier Moise Tshombe reluctantly held still for conferences in Brussels with Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak and U.S. Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II. Embarrassed by the concerted howling of Arab and African leftists against the U.S.-Belgian paradrop on Stanleyville, Spaak and MacArthur pressured Tshombe to improve his reputation in Africa. They proposed that Tshombe: 1) "broaden" his Cabinet to include ministers, such as former Premier Cyrille Adoula, who might prove more acceptable to the African nationalists; 2) grant an amnesty to all rebel prisoners unstained...
...most that the U.S.-Belgian proposals might achieve would be to make it easier for such moderate African na tions as Nigeria, Tunisia and Sierra Leone to lend moral support to Tshombe. But what the Congo really needs is increased military and administrative assistance, aimed at building an army that will fight without white leadership and a civil service that won't steal the country blind. Rather than trying to polish Tshombe's ineradicably tarnished image through hopeful half-measures, Brussels and Washington would do better sending him increased logistic and material support. After all, Mike Hoare...
...will give him the Red Sea as well." Nasser's salty slur -the Arabic equivalent of "jump in the lake" -was aimed at U.S. Ambassador Lucius D. Battle, who had been brazen enough to criti cize Nasser for his recent anti-American posture. Shortly after the U.S. Belgian rescue operation in the Congo, Egyptian mobs burned the $350.000 John F. Kennedy Library in Cairo: last week a private plane carrying two U.S. oil-company employees was shot down near Alexandria by Egyptian MIGs. More ominous from Washington's viewpoint was Nasser's aid to the Communist-backed...