Word: westernness
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East & West. The flood of arms has entered the Congo from almost all sides (see map), and in such quantity that some Western intelligence sources say the Simbas cannot possibly absorb any more. Some light equipment was unloaded from Russian and Chinese ships at the Brazzaville Congo port of Pointe Noire, shipped by rail to Gamboma, and smuggled across the Congo River, possibly to secret Simba units in Bolobo -only 180 miles upriver from Leopoldville. Other shipments arrived by sea at Tanzania's capital of Dar es Salaam, were sent in sealed boxcars to the lake port of Kigoma...
...Western intelligence sources say that by last-week 18 planeloads-about 300 tons-of Russian-and Czech-made automatic rifles, machine guns, hand grenades and other military hardware have been fed to the Simbas through Juba. In Juba, the arms are hastily unloaded (often the pilots leave the engines running), transferred to the Simbas' waiting truck convoys, and sped across 150 miles of improved road to the main rebel receiving point at Aba, a small town near Faradje just over the Congo border. There, the rebels' 18th Battalion supervises the distribution of the arms to rebel units throughout...
Beards & Wine. Another important rebel link to outside aid is Arua (pop. 8,000), an otherwise sleepy town in western Uganda where the Lugbara tribeswomen still go bare-breasted and men hunt monkeys with bows and arrows. Somewhat reluctantly, the Uganda government has allowed Arua to become a haven for Simba warriors, who come in by truck and Jeep from the Congolese town of Aru just across the border, load up on food and liquor, then, after sleeping it off in a tin-roofed "refugee center," truck contentedly back. TIME Correspondent Peter Forbath, who drove to Arua last week, found...
Hostility to Arabs. Even with the most expert training, however, it seems hardly possible that the Simbas can turn the tables by themselves. "What they need are men, particularly trained officers," says one Western expert. "If a thousand or so Algerians or Egyptians were thrown into the battle, we'd really start sweating." As of last week there was no firm evidence that foreign officers or troops were fighting with the Simbas. Even Tshombe's complaint to the U.N. Security Council that "rebel hordes, led by foreign officers, particularly Algerians and Egyptians, are operating all along the Congo...
...other borrowings. In strife-torn Yemen and coup-prone Syria, Russian aid has been largely dissipated in a sea of domestic troubles, but Syria has obliged by going markedly Socialist (see following story'). Iraq used Soviet weapons to dispose of Moscow's man Kassem. Pro-Western Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, whose oil revenues make it easy to turn down aid, have all refused to accept the merest Red cent...