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...killing dozens of Tshombe loyalists. Until the U.N. neutralized much of Tshombe's army by cutting off fuel supplies and refusing it transport, Katanga troops killed scores in punitive raids on Baluba villages. Last week the U.N. moved hundreds of troops into isolated northern and central Katanga to quell the rioters. At first Tshombe agreed, but when he saw that full-scale occupation by the U.N. might wipe out his own control of the area, he too lashed out at the U.N. Object of his ire was Ian Berendsen, U.N. chief in Katanga. "He is totally inefficient," roared Tshombe...
...armed with pickaxes and crowbars marched down Istanbul's Independence Avenue yelling "Cyprus is Turkish, not Greek!" A Greek Orthodox priest was scalped and another burned alive, 78 Greek churches were set afire and 4,000 Greek stores looted, before Turkish troops and police finally decided to quell the rioters. The Greek government protested that the Turkish police were suspiciously ineffectual in trying to control the mob, and the ensuing bitterness prolonged the long agony of Cyprus...
...hastily promoted Congolese army corporals and sergeants to officer rank, ordered hundreds of his troops into requisitioned Sabena planes to be flown to Luluabourg, deep in Kasai province. "National emergency," explained Army Chief of Staff Colonel Joseph Mobutu, suggesting that it was only an expedition to quell new fighting between Baluba and Lulua tribesmen. But the moment they landed, the troops struck out by rail and truck along the 166-mile road to Bakwanga, stronghold of onetime Lumumba pal, Albert Kalonji, who had declared the diamond-rich region an independent nation called Mining State. Swearing that his tribesmen, mainly armed...
Deliberate Man. To avert such a blood bath, Song deliberately set out to jolt Rhee out of the presidency. In three successive interviews, the general hammered at Rhee with heavy hints that if the students rioted again, the Korean army would probably refuse to shoot or even to quell them, and the two U.S. divisions manning the border with North Korea might well be withdrawn from the peninsula. Rhee listened, but temporized...
...preparation, the people of Cumana put the bones in a small, carved mahogany urn. But it took five years for officials in Caracas to dispatch the warship Miranda to Cumana to get the urn, and then the Miranda was diverted instead to another part of the country to quell a rebellion. Sucre's citizens hinted darkly that Caracas was in no hurry to put Garcia in the mausoleum beside Bolivar and other gran senor heroes because Garcia was a lowborn man of Guaikeri Indian stock. So his remains were left in the sacristy of Cumana's Altagracia Church...