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...rebel leaders of the Red-backed National Liberation Committee now hold sway over vast portions of the lawless hinterland. For weeks the rebels had been warning Belgium that any use of white officers to lead Tshombe's bedraggled troops would lead to the slaughter of the hundreds of Belgian civilians. Now the committee's commander in Stanleyville, "General" Nicholas Olenga, was making threats about Americans as well. "We are a sovereign and independent country, which has an internal war on its hands, and it is for none but ourselves to settle our differences," he declared, adding that more...
Bullets & Bird Watchers. The desperate military situation forced the U.S. into an ironic action quite in consonance with the topsy-turvy conditions of the Congo. Out of Washington to Brussels near week's end flew State Department Troubleshooter W. Averell Harriman. His mission: to persuade the Belgians to give increased military and technical aid to Tshombe's army. Just two years ago, the U.S. was trying to eliminate Belgian support for Tshombe, but that was in Katanga, where Tshombe was attempting his abortive secession. Now Belgium is reluctant to get involved, for fear that the rebels will retaliate...
...guerrillas were armed wih submachine guns, pistols, grenades and explosives. Two of the guns were Belgian Fabrique Nationale automatic rifles that bore the Cuban military crest and were traced to a 1959 shipment to Castro. There were also five antitank projectiles of Russian make...
Scotland's Jimmy Clark, 28, is everything a world champion auto racer ought to be: bright, cool, daring, earnest, fearless-and lucky as a field full of four-leaf clovers. Last week he won the 280-mile Belgian Grand Prix to make it two out of three races so far this year. And he didn't even realize what he was doing...
Married. Stewart Granger, 51, Hollywood's Great White Hunter (King Solomon's Mines); and Caroline Lecerf, 22, Belgian beauty queen; he for the third time; in a civil ceremony in Geneva. Said Stewart: "Only thing that makes me wince is that her mother's two years younger than...