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...Staff but doubled the army's size; its 30,000 men became known as "Hassan's boys." Next he took over the modernized, radio-equipped forces of the Surete Nationale, and then wangled control of the 21,000-man rural police from the Interior Minister. When dissident tribesmen revolted in the Rif mountains. Hassan crushed them...
...around is the man responsible for his death: Katanga's cold-blooded President Moise Tshombe. But Tshombe runs only one province, and is heartily disliked outside it. Last week his well-equipped army, led by 400 Belgian officers, struck into northern Katanga, easily pushed back pro-Lumumba Baluba tribesmen as far as the Lualaba River. Tshombe, wearing a Homburg, helicoptered to the front to congratulate his men. At Elisabethville airport, a Boeing Stratocruiser arrived, carrying in its hold three twin-jet Fouga Magisters, advertised as trainers but equipped for firing rockets...
Feeling Humbled. Ken Patton, 19, is currently charged with explaining Bechuanaland's new currency and constitution to 10,000 tribesmen. He wrote home recently: "I have organized the burial of corpses in lead-lined coffins; I designed an African school; I redesigned our hotel. I have collected debts, fobbed off would-be explorers, drawn up contracts, been out with geologists, examined poisoned calves, taken statements, invigilated exams, and run the district (such as I was able) when the district commissioner was away for ten days. So as you see, life is full, busy, interesting and great...
...Gizenga's own troops launched new forays into Kasai province. Rampaging Lumum-baists in Kivu ambushed 200 U.N. Nigerian soldiers, provoking a pitched, daylong battle. In Katanga, Tshombe sent his Belgian-piloted airplanes to bomb the invaders of his province, killing none of the enemy but blasting innocent tribesmen and a missionary medical station...
...Western interests nor Congolese peace. But the U.S. has loyally done what it could, and obliged whenever its help was asked. Last week President Kennedy announced that the U.S. was rushing rice, corn, dried milk and other foodstuffs from U.S. surplus stocks to help feed 300,000 homeless Baluba tribesmen starving in remote Kasai province. Orders crackled from U.S. Air Force European headquarters in Wiesbaden, and an urgent airlift headed south. U.S. planes stopped at Nairobi, Salisbury and the Cameroun city of Garoua, picked up food pledged by other governments. On the way back, the planes would help haul...