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Last week, two guerrilla leaders recently escaped from the Escambray told a TIME correspondent in Miami of the pres sure Castro was putting on the rebels. At first, arms could be smuggled in overland, but now Castro's militia blocks every road and path, and the supplies have been choked off. A radio transmitter was sent into the hills for use in arranging airdrops...
...headquarters from which Antoine Gizenga's forces now controlled large sections of the Congo's vast interior. The route, apparently, was via Cairo and Gamal Abdel Nasser's high flying four-engined Ilyushins; Britain had received assurances from the Sudan that it would continue to forbid overland transit, but there was little the Sudanese could do about those mysterious south bound contrails occasionally spotted at 30,000 feet and higher...
...prepared for really serious intervention in the Congo. If the Russians tried to move into the Congo, they would face as many difficulties as the U.N.-or Patrice Lumumba -and they know it. Even providing major aid to Gizenga would be enormously difficult. In the deep Sudan interior, the overland roads are perilous, and planes can bring in only a trickle of supplies, even if the Sudan permitted overflights (which it has so far refused to do). If the Congo ever became a theater for a clash between East and West on the model of the Spanish Civil...
...eastern Congo, and anxious to extend their influence once the U.N. roadblocks disappear. In Stanleyville, Antoine Gizenga's pro-Lumumba forces held 300 hostages, prepared to shoot them if Lumumba should die in his Katanga jail; Gizenga now was getting regular arms shipments from Cairo, trucked in overland via the Sudan. To the south, Lumumbaman Anicet Kashamura clung to Kivu province, where his troops stole cars and gasoline from white businessmen. Eight hapless Belgian soldiers, captured after they had wandered across the border from the protectorate of Ruanda-Urundi, were forced to kneel and submit to public beating...
...full view of Castro spotters on the hills surrounding Guantanamo last week, some 3,000 U.S. sailors and marines with full combat gear moved into position in an "exercise" simulating the defense of the base against overland attack. At the same time. Rear Admiral Allen Smith Jr., commander of the Caribbean Sea Frontier, announced that U.S. minefields, "plainly marked," have been planted just inside the fence around Guantanamo's 24-mile perimeter. So that there could be no lingering doubt as to U.S. intentions, agreeing to modification of these agreements, and will take whatever steps may be appropriate...