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Holes in the Fuselage. As Munongo spoke, the radioteletype to New York was chattering in U.N. headquarters 1,000 miles away at Leopoldville, seat of the Congo's central government. On the line was U.N. Acting Secretary-General U Thant in Manhattan, with his approval for any action the U.N. authorities on the scene deemed necessary, on the ground...
These were the planes that might also endanger the steady stream of U.S. Air Force Globemasters which had already begun to pump vehicles, artillery and troops into Elisabethville from Leopoldville at U Thant's urgent request. Other Globemasters were bringing more U.N. troops direct from Europe; a battalion of Swedish and a battalion of Irish soldiers arrived at the height of the battle. One Globemaster pilot, coming in for a landing, had not been advised that his glide path took him directly over Premier Tshombe's own residence; before he touched ground, his fuselage...
...government, reported Correspondent Robins, constantly prodded Katanga's civilian populace to fight against the U.N. "Bring out your guns, spears, knives, axes and clubs, and kill all the U.N. to combat the murder campaign of Secretary-General U Thant and his international minions!" demanded a government proclamation. Cried Radio Katanga: "Please attack the United Nations dogs!'' But things were not all serious. Radio Katanga also played "victory" cha cha chas. And after the heat of battle was over one day, most of the Katangese officers, chewing their entrecôtes de veau and pommes frites...
...Moreover, some Britons and Frenchmen also have heavy financial interests in Katanga itself,* mostly through part ownership of the rich Union Minière du Haut-Katanga, one of the world's biggest copper and cobalt producers, which (according to a report by U.N. Acting Secretary-General U Thant) has been supplying arms to Katanga...
Invited to Budapest was Acting U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, who apparently accepted despite the fact that Hungary still stands officially condemned by the U.N. (Thant's predecessor, Dag Hammarskjold, had refused a similar invitation in 1957.) At the same time, a group of 29 Western newsmen who had toured Hungary for five days were greeted effusively by Deputy Premier Gyula Kallai, who hinted, over apricot brandy and pastry, that the Hungarian government might permit Josef Cardinal Mindszenty to leave his sanctuary in the U.S. legation, where he took refuge in November 1956, if the U.S. is prepared...