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Late in the coup's first day, the army garrison at Oran elected to join General Challe, and the revolt was no longer confined to one city. Challe apparently could count on at least the tacit support of a majority of the 50,000 hard-bitten paratroopers in Algeria. Most of the rest of the 500,000-man army still seemed loyal to De Gaulle-as far as anyone could tell. All communications with the outside world were broken off, except for cryptic messages over Radio Algiers ("The palm tree is in the oasis") apparently meant for the right...
...Fort Washington, twelve miles south of the capital, surrendered ignominiously to the British. "Do you have to remind people that that is the place we ran from without firing a shot?", the budget-cutting Congressman asked acidly. Just like Fort Washington's garrison, the Park Service surrendered...
Next day the State Department laid out the Rusk line in more certain terms: 1) the U.S. "unequivocally" declares its intention not to reduce the West Berlin garrison; 2) "The Soviets having rejected the [Western] proposals, we have taken the position that we are no longer bound by these proposals." CHINA. Noting his disappointment that the Chinese Communists had turned down a U.S. offer to exchange news correspondents, President Kennedy said that they "have been extremely belligerent toward us, and they've been unfailing in their attacks upon the U.S. . . . We're not prepared to surrender [U.S. commitments...
...Hammarskjold's men already had got a taste of bitter Congolese defiance. In Matadi, the Congo's major port, Congolese troops turned on the 135-man Sudanese U.N. garrison with rifles, machine guns, mortars and 37-mm. cannon in a two-day battle that left two Sudanese dead, 13 wounded. The rest piled their blue U.N. helmets in one pile, their weapons in another, then marched out to be shipped back to Leopoldville in humiliating surrender...
...necessary." He was also supposed to "reorganize" (i.e., disarm) the Congolese troops. On the civil war front, the U.N. command seemed singularly irresolute in using its new powers. In Luluabourg, even as the Stanleyville invaders were fleeing in confusion, crowds of angry Lulua tribesmen clashed with the local Congolese garrison; the troops proceeded to mow down the mob. killing 44 before the eyes of U.N. Ghanaian patrols, who apparently had orders not to interfere...