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...Belgian who escaped said: "We bought our lives with beer and money...
...Full Responsibility." In the Congo, where leftist-led rebels butchered at least 80 American and European men, women and children held hostage behind their lines, the U.S. provided a dozen C-130 Hercules transports to carry Belgian paratroopers to the rescue (see cover story in THE WORLD). President Johnson, who sat up until 4 a.m. at the LBJ Ranch to hear how the operation went, said he took "full responsibility" for U.S. involvement. There was little doubt that he would soon have to take responsibility for other decisions concerning the Congo...
There were plenty of screams elsewhere. As the U.S. planes kept coming and stick after stick of Belgian paratroopers popped silk over the city, Radio Stanleyville shrilled its last message: "Ciyuga! Ciyuga! Kill them all! Men, women and children. Kill them all! Have no scruples!" The Simbas (Swahili for "lions") of Rebel General Nicholas Olenga did their best to carry out the order. In the Avenue Sergeant Kitele, according to some survivors, the command to fire was given by "Major Bubu," a deaf-mute ex-boxer addicted to hemp who served as personal bodyguard to Rebel Defense Minister Gaston Soumialot...
Rifles and Sten guns rattling, they fired point-blank into the seated hostages. The gunners picked women and children as their first targets. Many whites flopped onto the pavement, pretending to be dead. Others did not have to pretend. One Belgian child was cut in half by a Sten-gun burst. Parents who flung themselves over their children were stitched by the wild bullets that sprayed the crowd. A woman sat openmouthed as gunfire chopped down the people on either side of her. She somehow came through unhurt...
Then he started over. He just didn't make it. It made me sick. He had been through so much, and to be killed at the very end." Lost Rites. Moments after Carlson died, the Belgian paratroopers arrived, ami at their approach the Simbas took to their heels. The troops secured the airport, quickly fought their way into town. Surprise, speed and Simba cowardice kept the slaughter near Lumumba Square from reaching major proportions. But across the Congo River, in Stanleyville's Rive Gauche section, the Simbas found 28 other victims. The hostages were hacked to pieces...