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Friday, July 21, 1967
In Congo
Mercenaries
Aren’t Beaten
KINSHASA, Congo (UPD—
The U.S. Air Force is helping
fly Congolese troops around this
African nation in search of a
tough Belgian mercenary with a
little army which may not be
beaten yet.
Husky, six-foot “Major” Jean
Schram is hiding out some
where in the Congo’s trackless
bush, which he knows as well as
his pursuers. He commands at
least 100 other white mercena
ries and a force of 500
Katangese soldiers.
Schram knows the jungle, the
tribes and the languages of the
rugged country around Punia,
where he is believed to be
hiding, and where he has lived
for many of his 37 years.
His tiny force was never
beaten by the Congolese army.
It fled into the bush because
ammunition was running short
and Schram feared Ethiopia
would senj jet planes to attack
his easily located headquarters
at Kisangani.
Describes Intrigue
Schram and his mercenaries
were employed by the Congo
government until they revolted
July 5. Why they rebelled is still
a puzzle.
Congo President Joseph Mo
butu told UPI that the uprising
was part of a complicated plot,
named “Operation Kerylis,” to
overthrow his government and
replace him with former Prime
Minister Moise Tshombe.
He said the plot was backed
by shareholders in a Belgian
mining company which he has
nationalized, by European finan
ciers, and by white settlers
nostalgic for the “good old
days,” when Belgium ruled the
Congo.
The mercenaries were easily
drawn into the plot because
Mobutu was about to fire them.
They had saved his country
from a savage, leftist rebellion,
but African nationalists in other
countries were upset about the
use of white mercenaries and
were putting pressure on
Mobutu to get rid of them.
Mobutu said "Kerylis” began
June 11 with the blowing up of a
bridge which his country needs
for export of the copper, Its
biggest money earner.
The next phase of “Kerylis’
occurred after the exiled
Tshombe was kidnapped and
taken to Algeria, with the
likelihood that he would even
tually be sent to the Congo for
execution by the Mobutu
Georgia Soldier
Dies In Vietnam
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Pic
Gilbert F. Ballard. Army, hus
band of Mrs. Mary A. Ballard,
Savannah, Ga., was identified
by the Defense Department
yesterday as a victim of non
hostile action in Vietnam.
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Griffin, Georgia
Sunday, July 23, 1967
3:00 P.M. to 5:00 P. M.
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government.
The mercenaries and soldiers
from Tshombe’s Katanga pro
vince swiftly took over several
towns in the Eastern Congo and
then assembled at Kisangani
airport. The day of the uprising,
Congolese officials say, the
mercenaries met a plane load
of European newsmen at
Kisangani airport and told them
“you are hostages for
Tshombe’s life.”
The mercenaries were led at
first by Frenchman “Bobbie”
Denard. But he was wounded
and command devolved on
Schram.
When he heard that Ethiopia
had offered jet planes to attack
him, he left Kisangani without
harming the newsmen and
headed south toward Punia and,
perhaps, Katanga, which lies In
the same direction.
Attacks Can Come Anywhere
No Havens Os Safety In Vietnam
By ALVIN B. WEBB Jr.
DA NANG, Vietnam (UPD—
There are no real “havens of
safety” for Americans in
Vietnam. Zin attack can come
anywhere, anytime.
Even Saigon itself cannot be
regarded as a haven.
This is one of the big lessons
from the disastrous Communist
shelling of the Dan Nang
airbase the night of July 14
which cost the United States
eight men killed, scores wound
ed, and damage to planes and
India Communist
In Political Fight
By DALE D. MORSCII
NEW DELHI (UPD—Commu
nist China’s cultural revolution
may give India its third
Communist party—an ultra
leftist splinter from the pro-
Chinese organization.
Deep rumblings began within
the pro-Chinese party almost as
soon as Red Guards rose to
prominence in Chino. But the
rumblings reached earthquake
proportions recently because of
the ill-treatment of India
diplomats in Peking and the
brutal, bloody retaliation by
Indian demonstrators in New
Delhi.
Differences between party
leaders have risen sharply.
Unless they are able to find a
common political stance, obser
vers expect the extremist
faction to go it alone.
Sucli a development would
leave India with a confusing
trio: The right (pro-Moscow)
party, the left (pro-Peking) and
the ultra-left (pro-whatever the
Red Guards stand for).
Accusations Flying
Extremists in the pro-Chinese
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stalled officers for the 1967-68 year. They are
(standing, 1-r) Henry H. Holliman, commander; Jack
Gill, senior vice commander; Frank Aiken, finance
officer; Bill Ott, judge advocate; F. A. Goodrum,
other equipment estimated at f
SSO million.
How did it happen?
As events have been recon
structed, the rocket attack on
Da Nang from hill positions
only six miles from the base
was one of three events on the
night of July 14. At the time,
the events were seemingly
unrelated.
First, there was the stealthy
installation, by night, of the
rocket firing tubes within sight
of the lights of Da Nang.
ranks of India’s Communists
are accusing their more moder
ate comrades of “revisionism”
and of lacking revolutonary
zeal.
Through the years, partly
because of an acceptance of
parliamentary government as a
means to achieve their ends,
many of India’s Communists
have turned from battling in the
streets to trying to get their
way through democratic proce
dure. To the die-hard revolution
ary, nothing could be more
repulsive.
The intra-party fight has
burst into full view in Calcutta,
where the pro-Chinese Commu
nists led a multi-party front to
unseat the long-entrenched Con
gress party in the February
general elections.
It is in this sprawling
industrial city, teeming with
unemployed refugees since inde
pendence, that the Communists
have traditionally aired their
dirty linen.
The recent simmering feud
reached a climax recently when
“revisionists” expelled nine
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Approach Prison
Twenty miles to the south, as
their comrades did their deadly
work for the blasting of the Da
Nang base, other men with
lethal packages strapped to
their shoulders darted in and
out of the night’s moon shadows
and made their way carefully
toward the city of Hoi An and,
especially, its white stucco
prison.
Hoi An sits in an area heavily
infested with Viet Cong. Its
prison, on July 14, held an
extremists from the party. The
extremists retaliated the next
day by adopting the Red Guard
poster technique. All around the
city, posters proclaimed “down
with the new revisionists.”
Communist watchers in India
must now cope with “old
revisionists” of the pro-Moscow
faction and the “new revision
ists” and the "ultra-leftists” of
the pro-Peking faction. Added to
the overall confusion is a
I seemingly unending array of
I socialist parties and organia
| tions of varying shades of pink.
What happens to the extre
mist movement in India will
depend largely on how the
1 Maoists emerge in Communist
China. Meanwhile, the Indian
press has already begun to
refer to the “Left CPI Split.”
The “ultras’ are blindly
; following Mao’s preceipts,”
observed New Delhi’s Indian
Express recently, “and it should
!be clear to the left CPI
(Communist Party of India)
that it cannot combat the
extremist challenge unless it is
prepared to denounce Maoism.”
sergeant-at-arms; (sitting) Preston Newton, adjutant;
Sam Saul, junior vice commander; Ben Saul, hist
orian; and O. J. Kierbow, sergeant-at-arms. Claude
Williams is chaplain.
estimated 1,200 VC.
The night marauders made
their way to the prison’s two
buildings, placed their charges
and blew a gaping hole in the
right side of the prison walls.
Prisoners poured through the
hole and 960 escaped. Some
were caught later but at last
count 701 still were missing.
The third event of that night
was a Communist failure. It
involved a steel trawler plying
the South China Sea with the
shadow of Cape Ba Lang off
its starboard. It ran no lights,
flew no flag. It was unmarked
except for the number 459
painted on its hull.
Ship Spotted
Unknown to its crew, 459 had
been spotted hours earlier by a
U.S. Navy patrol plane, 40 miles
off the coast. Its course had
been carefully followed. While
still in international waters the
trawler was challenged to
identify itself, but did not.
As it slid toward the coast it
came under fire from the Coast
Guard cutter, Point Orient, and
two other cutters.
No. 459 was badly hit.
“We really tore it up,” said
Coast Guard Lt. Kennith
Morris, executive officer of the
Point Orient.
The trawler was beached on a
sandbar 200 feet from the
mouth of the Sa Ky River, 20
miles south of Chu Lai.
The trawler was from North
Vietnam, only the eighth known
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to have come south since
February, 1965. In its hold were
1,500 machineguns, submachine
guns, rocket launchers and
rifles, and six million rounds of
ammunition. More than enough
to outfit the prisoners freed at
Hoi An.
So the plan to immediately
arm the released prisoners
failed.
Enormous Success
But the “diversionary” attack
at Da Nang, presumed carried
out to cover the massive Hoi An
jailbreak, was an enormous
Communist success.
The Communists had again
proved their ability to strike—
with minimum cost—at Allied
“havens of safety,” as they
have shown with bombing
attacks in Saigon, and at bases
throughout allied held territory.
Authorities acknowledge that
if the Communists can set up
1 rockets practically within shout
ing distance of so vital and
. securely guarded a base as Da
Nang, they probably can do the
i same at such strategic bases as
Cam Ranh Bay, Pleikuor, Chu
Lai, Phan Rang—and Saigon.
American military experts
i are in fact beginning to expect
■ it and to concern themselves
with the vulnerability of fixed
. base operations.
: Once, it was felt the
I Communists could do little
I damage to such installations,
i; The night of July 14 showed
i, otherwise.
Interstate System
Faces Long Delay
ATLANTA (UPI) — Comple
pletion of Georgia’s interstate
highway system will probably
be delayed until at least 1976
because of rising costs of the
Vietnam war, highway engineer
M. L. Shadburn said in a re
port — Thursday to the State
Highway Board.
Should sufficient funds sud
denly become available, how
ever, the state could finish the
road system within five years,
he said.
Shadburn said 518 miles of
Georgia interstate roads are
now open to traffic and 231
miles are under contract, leav
ing another 587 miles of four
lane highway to be completed.
He said the U.S. Bureau of
Public Roads had assured him
LaGrange Man
Dies Os Injuries
COLUMBUS, Ga. (UPUI) —
James L. Waldrip, 22, of La-
Grange, Ga., died in a hospital
here yesterday from injuries he
received in a two-car collision
south of Lanett, Ala., on July
13.
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Cobb Coed
Missing
Since Tuesday
MARIETTA, Ga. (UPD—The
Georgia Bureau of Investiga
tion, Cobb County deputies and
Marietta police intensified their
search today for Dorothy Gayle
Godwin, a 21-year-old college
coed missing since she
left home Tuesday to go tc
work at East Side Baptist
Church here.
The GBI said Miss Godwin,
who was to transfer this fall
from Shorter College at Rome
to Georgia State College, left
home about 9 a.m. Tuesday and
has not been heard from since.
The car in which she drove to
work has also disappeared, a
gents said.