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Young Americans for Freedom have asked the Washington District Court to issue a write of mandamus forcing the State Department to rule on an application for a visa made by Moise Tshombe, head of secessionist Katanga Province...
Shafto said that a United States representative in Katanga, Lewis Hoffacker, had told Tshombe that his visit would be "most inconvenient" at this time, and asked the secessionist leader to drop his application. Tshombe refused, claiming that he had a commitment to appear at the YAF rally...
Last month, when news reached Leopoldville that 19 Roman Catholic missionaries had been massacred at Kongolo in northern Katanga by mutinying Congolese troops. Lawson volunteered to fly to the terror-stricken town to rescue one missionary who reportedly had survived. Lawson's two Swedish pilots landed their Beaver plane at Kongolo's torn-up airfield, and Lawson threw himself out the door to avoid fire from snipers. "I was very lonely and very scared," he said. "I picked up my stick and strolled...
Last week word of the rabble's latest atrocity reached the outside world. This time the scene was Kongolo, a river town in northern Katanga which Gizenga's men occupied on Dec. 31. Outside Kongolo was the modest Catholic Mission of the Holy Spirit, where a score of sandaled, white-robed Belgian fathers had calmly continued operating their school through all the months of war and political crisis: "It is God's will that we are here," they shrugged, ignoring repeated pleas that they leave for their own safety...
...nuns from other villages in the area were missing. In Leopoldville, United Nations Congo Boss Sture Linner conferred with Central Congolese Premier Cyrille Adoula, but there was little immediate assistance he could provide; although there were more than 6,000 U.N. soldiers keeping the peace elsewhere in Katanga, they were hundreds of miles away from isolated Kongolo. And reports of incidents were already trickling in from other parts of the eastern Congo. U.N. reconnaissance pilots reported that they saw burning buildings at Sola, a tiny mission station north of Kongolo; far away, in Kivu Province, another group of the rampaging...