Word: sabena
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...August 8 or be confiscated. Reports of continuing tribal warfare among the Baluba and Lulua in the Kasai interior hardly ruffled Léopoldville's street crowds. Here and there local commanders of the Congo's restive Force Publique set up as semi-independent potentates. One Sabena pilot on a routine flight to Stanleyville suddenly heard on his radio the voice of the "commander of the Fifth Bicycle Battalion" warning sternly, "Do not violate my air space again or I'll shoot you down!" But in the 47 regional centers where they had been scattered by whirlwind...
Holed Bastard. When Premier Lumumba returned to Leopoldville from one of his hectic flights and got into a Sabena bus for the elevenmile ride into the city, paratroopers rocked the bus so violently that they raised it a foot off the ground. One of them shouted: "We ought to shoot this bastard full of holes!" Lumumba finally escaped under the escort of a U.S. embassy car. U.N. Representative Ralph Bunche, who had been confined to his hotel room by Force Publique mutineers, was manhandled by Belgian paratroops at the airport...
...YORK-MOSCOW FLIGHTS by Pan American World Airways and Russia's Aeroflot state line will be delayed until Khrushchev behaves better. U.S. officials canceled visit of Aeroflot brass due in Washington this week to discuss the deal. Belgium's Sabena airline is only New York-Moscow through flight...
...under attack at the river ports of Boma and Matadi; 1,200 Belgians were trapped in an office building in Luluabourg and appealing desperately for helicopters, guns and paratroopers. Abruptly, Premier Eyskens' government reversed itself. Some hundred Belgian paratroopers were bundled aboard planes for Léopoldville; Sabena, the Belgian airline, canceled all commercial flights to rush its planes to Africa to evacuate Belgian refugees...
...this atmosphere, no one could blame the whites who chose to leave for their "holidays" in Europe, as preparations for the independence celebrations began. Many would never return. Sabena's daily flights to Brussels were booked solid for weeks ahead, and hundreds of settlers were driving out through Uganda, their belongings piled high atop their autos. The Belgians who decided to stick it out were laying in stocks of food and fuel for a speedy getaway if necessary...