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...they got to Northern Rhodesia, Federal Premier Sir Roy Welensky nervously decided the visas of 26 Frenchmen and a Spaniard were not in order, turned them back. His border guards also confiscated 1,700 Ibs. of "clothing," which turned out to be military camouflage garb. But five tough-looking Belgian "mechanics" who had valid visas (and boasted openly to reporters that they were professional fighters) got on a train and went straight up to Moise...
...regime of fabricating "horrendous tales of indiscriminate mayhem by the United Nations troops.'' In a Philadelphia speech the same evening, Carl T. Rowan, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, added the accusation that Katanga was waging a "clever big-money campaign" through a Manhattan-based Belgian public relations man named Michel Struelens, had spent $140,000 in 15 months "dispensing a string of myths" designed to make Tshombe look good in American eyes. (The accusation seemed to overlook the fact that the sum in question is hardly big money in Manhattan's public relations world...
...qualification. At 3 p.m. the conferees ordered in beer and sandwiches, kept talking while they ate. At 8:30 p.m. came the call for more food, and this time some whisky. It now appeared that Tshombe was flatly refusing to commit his Katanga province to the Congo's Belgian-drafted provisional constitution, the Loi Fondamentale...
Violently anti-U.N., the Belgian mercenaries scorn the caliber of U.N. troops. "The Irish and the Swedes make a lot of noise about being wonderful soldiers." says one Belgian with characteristicbitterness." But they're not worth a damn. All the Ethiopians are former criminals. The Gurkhas aren't human. They're not black and they're not white. They're macaques [apes]." The U.S. support of the U.N. causes rage: "Kennedy is a doubly filthy macaque. He's not only American; he's Irish...
They range from Belgian teen-agers to businessmen who moonlight as soldiers; at least half a dozen Union Miniére du Haut-Katanga executives have reportedly doffed their dark business suits for camouflage outfits. One Elisabethville butcher sells meat in his shell-pocked shop all day, fights the U.N. most of the night...