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...final point I could understand a journalistic philosophy that affirmed the primacy of the truth let the chips and personal feelings fall where they may or a philosophy that gave some consideration to personal sensibilities and weighed the price of some revelations against the human cost Buta policy that brutalizes both the truth and people is indefensible...
...Drive. But all the while, one chilling fact was predominant: the Simbas were keeping the whites as blood hostages against the inevitable mercenary march. "I don't want to make you martyrs," Rebel Chief Christophe Gben ye confided to them in April, "but if the Congolese army attacks Buta, I'm going to send you to heaven like arrows...
...Tshombe government did its best to keep them on earth. Messages were passed back and forth via hostages on leave from Buta. Belgian emissaries negotiated frantically with rebel leaders in the nearby Central African Republic. As the final drive got under way, Congolese B-26s papered the rebel area with leaflets offering the Simbas their lives if they would only lay down their arms "and surrender all hostages." In a final effort to save them, Mercenary
Commander Lieut. Colonel Mike Hoare ordered his twin commando columns to dash straight to Buta-in hopes of surprising the Simbas before they could...
...Fall of Buta. It was a tactic that had worked often in the past, but last week it failed. At Likati, a village 65 miles from Buta, Hoare's men ran into three Portuguese hostages-all impaled on spears. Nine other Europeans lay dead or dying along the road. When the columns rolled into Buta, the rebels had already fled and only eleven survivors were anywhere to be found. Two nights earlier, the Simbas had thrown 31 Belgian and Dutch priests to the crocodiles. Militarily, the operation was a success: Hoare lost only four men in wiping...