Word: noronha
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...almost as wacky as the Mad Hatter's outdoor tea party in Wonderland. Smack in the middle of a mud-fouled road at Pumpi, 40 miles from Secessionist Moise Tshombe's last-ditch headquarters at Kolwezi, United Nations Brigadier Reginald Noronha set up four folding tables and laid out tea, peanut-butter sandwiches, coffee and Simba beer. At 9 a.m.. right on schedule, four Katanga province officials and three representatives of the Union Miniere mining outfit roared up in two autos. ''We have come to meet you as friends," declared one, and the party...
...Tshombe could peacefully escort United Nations troops into Kolwezi. the last major objective in its drive to end Katanga's 2½-year secession. Typically. Tshombe failed to show up at the party, but the operation went smoothly anyway. When the sandwiches were munched and the tea sipped. Noronha led a three-mile column of 1,000 Indian troops straight into Kolwezi...
...where the giant Union Mini&3233;re mineral outfit produces one-third of its copper (110,000 tons) and three-fourths of its cobalt (6,600 tons) each year. Toward Jadotville, 70 miles from Elisabethville, moved a two-mile-long column of Indians commanded by Brigadier Reginald Noronha. a gutty soldier who munched hardboiled eggs while mortar shells burst around...
...halted at the Lufira River. That was correct, up to a point. With three bridges down, the Indians stopped at the Lufira all right, but only long enough to rig ropes and pulleys to a swimming float and ferry 120-mm. mortars, recoilless rifles and Jeeps across the stream. Noronha had no orders to take Jadotville-but then again, he had no orders not to-so he kept on going. Unopposed, the Indians trooped into Jadotville with Noronha himself heading a column of Jeeps...
...Noronha did not have long to wait. Three days later an Ethiopian guard fired a warning shot at a Katangese soldier who was approaching his post. Unhurt, the Katangese rolled down a hill in search of cover, but his comrades thought he had been hit and opened fire. Soon U.N. positions around the city were under attack. Tshombe "agreed"' to a ceasefire, but his 20,000 men kept right on fighting. "They are mad," said a Red Cross official who saw them rampaging through a township, firing at anything that moved. "They are killing their...