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...delighted recipients of a mountain of military equipment, smuggled in at great expense by their friends in Peking, Moscow, and the radical African bloc. "Yes, we're aiding the Congolese insurgents," admitted Algeria's President Ahmed ben Bella last week. "We are doing our duty toward the Congo and Africa...
East & West. The flood of arms has entered the Congo from almost all sides (see map), and in such quantity that some Western intelligence sources say the Simbas cannot possibly absorb any more. Some light equipment was unloaded from Russian and Chinese ships at the Brazzaville Congo port of Pointe Noire, shipped by rail to Gamboma, and smuggled across the Congo River, possibly to secret Simba units in Bolobo -only 180 miles upriver from Leopoldville. Other shipments arrived by sea at Tanzania's capital of Dar es Salaam, were sent in sealed boxcars to the lake port of Kigoma...
...Simbas through Juba. In Juba, the arms are hastily unloaded (often the pilots leave the engines running), transferred to the Simbas' waiting truck convoys, and sped across 150 miles of improved road to the main rebel receiving point at Aba, a small town near Faradje just over the Congo border. There, the rebels' 18th Battalion supervises the distribution of the arms to rebel units throughout the northern Congo...
...truck contentedly back. TIME Correspondent Peter Forbath, who drove to Arua last week, found several bearded Simbas in monkeyskin caps gulping palm wine in the town marketplace. Local merchants reported that the rebels have been forced to route several Juba arms shipments through Arua instead of straight across the Congo-Sudan border to Aba. Reason: stepped-up activity by the Sudan's own rebels-who are anti-Arab, pro-Tshombe-has made the Juba-Aba road too dangerous for the Simba convoys...
...rebels get not only guns but instruction as well. The Chinese Communists have long operated a rebel training camp at Gamboma in the Brazzaville Congo, and recent intelligence reports indicate that the Algerian army has sent a top training officer to Brazzaville to open an 800-Simba commando school. Three other camps reportedly have been opened for the Simbas in the southern Sudan, a fourth somewhere in Egypt, and a fifth near Cherchell on Algeria's Mediterranean coast...