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...Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, the Pentagon last week righted the record. Witchcraft, it contended, is part of modern warfare: the $522.50 study analyzed the key role of Congolese sorcerers in the 1964 Simba uprising, when U.S. aircraft dropped Belgian paratroopers to rescue foreign hostages in Stanleyville. Dawa (magic) concocted by tribal witch doctors induced Simba warriors to believe that enemy bullets turned to water; their morale crumpled after Mama Onema, a crotchety hag with one pendulous breast, threatened to turn her fetishes against the rebels...
Batetela, the leaflets bore a message from Mama Onema, a witch doctor formerly with the Simbas but now working for Tshombe. Mama Onema warned that the Simbas' dawa (magic) was no longer effective and urged the rebels to lay down their arms, for "otherwise, you will be cursed...
Some nuns were merely beaten up with bottles or gun butts, and one was slugged with a telephone, which the Simbas apparently considered bad dawa (magic). Three were raped. One nun, Sister Maria Therese, 36, resisted, and a Simba shattered both her kneecaps with a precisely aimed rifle shot. "It was night," recalled a surviving nun. "She was losing much blood, and the Simbas wouldn't let us near her. She died early in the morning after lying alone on the street for many hours." The Simbas then locked their prisoners back in the hotel, where most were ultimately...
Back to the Cadavers. Before they fled, the Simbas took revenge on four priests who had tried to protect the nuns and incurred further rebel wrath by continuing to celebrate Mass and singing hymns-more bad dawa as far as the Simbas were concerned. When the priests tried to escape from a rebel truck, three were killed on the spot. The fourth survived by playing dead, but was driven mad by the experience. Carried into Leopoldville last week in a planeload of survivors, he kept muttering: "I must go back to join the cadavers...
British judges and assessors sit on the Ethiopian bench. Britons operate the railroad from Addis Ababa to Dire Dawa near the French Somaliland border. British officers control the Ethiopian police force, train Ethiopian soldiers. A British commission controls the Addis Ababa wireless. A British air commission rules the air over Ethiopia. Britain uses, rent free, an estimated $320 to $360 million worth of property left behind by the Italians. A British financial commission helped set up a new Ethiopian state bank. The United Kingdom Commercial Corp. expedites what trade there...