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...year at St.-Cyr (France's West Point), Salan went to the front, was wounded in action, won the Croix de guerre. After the war, he was sent to the French mandate of Syria and Lebanon just in time to be plunged into fighting against the Djebel Druse tribesmen and be wounded again. Next, he served in French Indo-China as administrator of a corner of jungle near the borders of China, Burma and Laos. In the solitude of his post. Salan dabbled in Oriental philosophy and astrology, is said to have experimented with opium. These predilections...
...week's end the outcome of the costly fight around Due Hoa was still in doubt. But U.S. planners are pressing forward on half a dozen fronts: in the highland region bordering Laos-a favorite Red supply route-the U.S. is arming and organizing some 6,000 mountaineer tribesmen long neglected by President Diem's government and wooed by the Communists. The U.S. is superintending the building of jungle airstrips capable of handling planes as big as C-47s, and encouraging the development of auxiliary arms, ranging from communications teams to girl sharpshooters. The U.S. is also sponsoring...
Tshombe was speaking not only for himself. A powerful faction inside his Cabinet, led by tough Godefroid Munongo, Katanga's Minister of the Interior, refused any compromise whatever with the central Congolese regime. On the other side were Katanga's Baluba tribesmen-many of them displaced by the war and living precariously in U.N. refugee camps-whose leaders hate Tshombe and demand not secession but union with the Congo; the Baluba represent half of all Katanga's people...
...Belgian airline, Sabena, as well as other offices along the street. U.N. salvos also hit Prince Leopold Hospital. The U.N. troops' performance seemed particularly sloppy, but Katangese fire often was not much more discriminating: many rounds fell into the Baluba camp, killing at least ten hapless tribesmen...
...natural that Moise Tshombe would be in on the founding in 1959 of Katanga's first full-fledged political party, the Confederation des Associations du Katanga (Conakat). The new group was backed chiefly by Tshombe's (and his father-in-law's) own fiercely independent Lunda tribesmen, who were happy enough to win freedom from the Belgians but had no great desire to be part of one big Congo family, since most of the vast mineral deposits were located right down in Katanga's southern tip-Lunda country...