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...Manhattan, the U.N.'s Hammarskjold sent cable after cable pleading for troop contributions from Mexico, Iraq, Iran and India, but got solid pledges from nobody. The new U.N. Congo Commander, Ireland's Lieut. General Sean McKeown, warned that the present 20,000-man force was the "bare minimum requirement" to prevent civil war. At week's end Hammarskjold gloomily informed the Security Council that unless replacement troops were forthcoming, he might have to propose "liquidation of the force, and in consequence, the entire United Nations Congo operation...
...there was no sign of large-scale troop intervention-though Boun Oum's constantly inventive Information Minister claimed the capture of thousands of chopsticks, adding darkly that "Laotians don't use chopsticks." On their own, the Laotians were getting little fighting done. Rebel Captain Kong Le still sat astride the central Plaine des Jarres, on the receiving end of a steady Soviet airlift of supplies from North Viet Nam. He concentrated on training his five-battalion force, made up of paratroops, villagers and recruits from the army posts he has captured. He claimed to be only a "neutralist...
...Charlie Stark, and the two men could hardly be more different. Charlie's family is sound, conventional, well to do. He has been turned down for combat duty and has in turn rejected his chance at a commission; instead, he was drafted for service on a troop transport. On the Pendleton, Raditzer spots him at once as a decent man who is above abuse, a man to tie to for protection. Raditzer glories in his whining autobiography-born illegitimate, raised in an orphanage, never knew a decent woman, never had a chance. He ducks his sea duty and Charlie...
Lumumba's Stanleyville pals now controlled more than 30% of the entire Congo, were clearly preparing to make it closer to 50% by grabbing sprawling Equator province in the northwest. Léopoldville's harassed Colonel Joseph Mobutu hastily packed two platoons of troops into planes and flew them to Lisala, one of Equator province's main towns. But how effective Mobutu's troops would be was anyone's guess, for there was trouble in the ranks; many of his soldiers wanted more pay. At the big Camp Hardy troop center at Thysville, where Lumumba...
...Triple Cities of Endicott, Binghamton and Johnson City last week, residents poured into a temporary office with their pledges of help to repel an invader. A 13-year-old schoolboy offered $142 saved from his newspaper route. A local dairy put up $100,000. A Boy Scout troop signed up for $150. A Greek Orthodox church proffered $3,000. A medical group pledged $25,000. Endicott's Post 82 of the American Legion pledged $50,000, offering to take "the plaster off the walls and sell the post home" if more was needed...