Word: unitized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small unit, encircled in the village of Idiofa (see map) and reinforced by a platoon of commandos, had piled up 500 rebel dead, but was unable to break the siege. At Gungu, another government outfit mowed down 100 guerrillas who staged a suicide charge with bows and arrows, spears and pangas. But the troops were cut off when rebels dug trenches across the local airstrip. Hardly had the commandos ar rived at Kikwit when one of their top officers, Army Chief of Staff Lieut...
Stepping up their attacks, the rebels last week burned the towns of Bulungu and Kikandji north of Kikwit. Other bands headed into neighboring Unite Kasaienne province, whose capital, Tshikapa, is one of the world's richest diamond-mining centers. The terrorists are mainly of the Bapende tribe, whose members are concentrated not only in Kwilu but also in Unité Kasaienne to the east, and in Kwango province to the west. The government's biggest immediate concern was that they might cut off the Kasai River, through which the Congo's copper from Katanga currently travels...
...government initially sent in a single small infantry unit, 40 men of which were besieged by guerrillas last week in the village of Idiofa. The soldiers' only help was a light plane that flew over, lobbing grenades at the rebels. With Congo Army Commander Joseph Mobutu away on vacation, the government seemed paralyzed. Finally, at week's end, a battalion of Congolese commandos was airlifted to the provincial capital of Kikwit...
...request sounded legitimate enough to the Public Information Officer of the U.S. Army's 24th Division, stationed in West Germany. And so for months a copy of Taro Leaf, the unit's weekly newspaper, had been neatly stamped, sealed and mailed off to the "Combined Allied Forces Information Center," c/o Post Office Box 14940 in Hong Kong. Since the newspaper was freely handed out in Army commissaries, and even Munich and Augsburg hotel lobbies, nobody at the 24th Division gave the matter a second thought. Neither did anyone at VII Corps headquarters, which happily accepted a similar subscription...
Then an alert officer read about it in Stars and Stripes, which reported with innocent pride that Jayhawk "can claim some of the most distant readers among unit publications. It's a long way to Hong Kong, but Combined Allied Forces Headquarters there has renewed its subscription for 1964." A quick check revealed that there was no such thing as CAFIC. Indeed, it turned out that Hong Kong's P.O. Box 14940 was simply a mail drop for Communist Chinese spies. Though the newspapers contained no military secrets, Peking's intelligence agents apparently read them avidly...