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...project will not contribute towards a solution of the Arab refugee problem. Those who have suggested that it may (e.g. the CRIMSON and the President of PBH) have been misinformed. Bedouins are not Palestinian refugees; they are nomads. And the tribesmen whom Project Jarba is to help wander only on the Jordanian side of the Jordan River. It is misleading (at best) to advertise the project as striking a blow for peace in the Middle East. PBH will have to be satisfied with the more modest goal of giving 300 nomads a more secure life...
...report discredits the Katanga story that Lumumba was killed by indignant tribesmen after he escaped from a farmhouse jail. One witness quoted by the commission swore that Tshombe's Interior Minister Godefroid Munongo himself, confronting the prisoner in Elisabethville, took the bayonet from a soldier's rifle and plunged it into Lumumba's chest, then let a Belgian officer named Ruvs finish off the victim with a bullet in the head. The body was then supposedly taken to a refrigerator in a nearby laboratory and later buried at a still undisclosed place. But in a different version...
...Elisabethville, Tshombe had problems even more immediate than the possible invasion. Although the opposing armies grudgingly kept the truce, the city was in danger of attack by 30,000 starving Baluba tribesmen camped on the outskirts. Already Baluba raids had taken 40 lives, claimed Tshombe, announcing grimly: '"I will not tolerate this situation." The Congo political cycle was turning dangerously close to where it all began during the first bloody months of independence only 15 months ago. Preparing for a possible new round of civil war, U.N. forces got their first shipment of eight jets (from Sweden and Ethiopia...
...himself-never existed. Instead, the President was rallying his troops for what soon became a full-scale attack. The main U.N. Katanga garrison, 500 Irish and Swedish soldiers stationed at Kamina air base 260 miles northwest of Elisabethville, was under siege by a strong force of heavily armed Baluba tribesmen, troops led by white officers and supported by a French-made jet fighter. Reported the control tower at week's end: "It will be difficult to hold out much longer...
...survival-kit radio managed to summon a rescue helicopter. "Nobody enjoys an experience like that," said Captain Nagle, "but that is what you're trained to meet." And last week he was right back on the job. He had reached the Meos at last, was teaching the tribesmen new techniques for fighting the Communist Pathet Lao rebels...