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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Dec. 11--Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak defended the rescue of white hostages in the Congo as a last recourse undertaken after Congo rebels threatened to cook them alive...
...Assembly agreed for the present not to handle anything of importance and to avoid taking any votes, while the U.S. postponed a formal demand to deprive Russia of its Assembly vote (under Article 19 of the Charter) for nonpayment of dues on the U.N. peacekeeping operations in the Congo and Suez. While the Assembly is in its limbo of talking without voting, the U.S. and Russia are having another go at working out a compromise...
...Belgian paratroopers had gone back home to a triumphant welcome, but they had probably left too soon. Behind them, the Congo kept sliding back into Stone Age savagery...
...American missionaries. From nearly every man, woman and child saved came another numbing tale of terror, torture or death. Each could recall his own particular nuit infernale, but the most hellish of nights was that recounted by the 76 whites held captive by the rebels in the eastern Congo tin-mining town of Bunia...
With Stanleyville in tenuous government control and 500 hostages still scattered throughout a rebel-held reach of bush almost as large as France, Premier Moise Tshombe clearly needed more help. Major Mike Hoare, commander of the mercenaries fighting for the Congo government, sent his adjutant winging to Johannesburg to hire 150 more white soldiers. Tshombe himself flew off to Paris, where he pleaded unsuccessfully for assistance from Charles de Gaulle. Said Tshombe: "We are lost children struggling through the dark...