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Each time the troubled Congo settles into something resembling normality, a new revolt shatters its fragile unity. Last week the government rushed off troop reinforcements to Kwilu province, a rich agricultural area 250 miles east of Leopoldville, where some 500 Communist-supplied tribal guerrillas were on the rampage. The leftist insurgents controlled about one-third of the territory, had burned and looted a palm-oil plantation, administration buildings and schools. A curfew was imposed on the panic-stricken provincial capital of Kikwit, and the families of four U.S. missionaries were hastily evacuated from their posts, 22 miles from the city...
Government authorities recently reported a training camp for 600 guerrillas, probably Communist-run, in the forests of Kwilu province 300 miles east of Leopoldville. The Russian embassy, closed after Lumumba's overthrow in 1960 but reopened a year ago, also got busy again. In September the situation began to worry the band of anti-Communist strongmen, known as the "Binza Group,"* who have kept Adoula in power. Fed up with the do-nothing Parliament (which once had to be locked in by U.N. troops in order to elect a government), the Binza boys pressured President Joseph Kasavubu into suspending...