2a TMAR KICKS OUT Uede BASE based on Zanows reports
On April 7th, President Karume told the U.S. Crarge atAffaires in Zanzibar thet the U.S. Goverment must romove before the end of April tho socalled satellite tracking stations it set up in Zanzibar undor the tproject Mercury.! Tho same afternoon, vico~precident Hamga announced at a press conference that his Government had rejected a request from the U.S. that it should be allowod to send a ship to romove the instruments of its tracking station. Ic said that a Zangzib ship would take the instruments to the Kenyan port of Mombasa.
Wext day, Richard Phillips, spokesman of the U.S, State Dopar tment announced that the U.S. would comply with the demand with "re grets." State Department officials admittod that the Zanzibar Government had a case and thoy acknowledged that the U.S. had no agreomoant with Zanzibar to keep the station.
The move is oxtrasly popular in Zanzibar; all the mass organisations have expressed enthusiasm over it. Mass demonstrations sapporting the covernient!s decision included one of over 100,000 (or over ono-third of the island's population).
mal Moudjahad, the journal of the Algorian PLN, recently published a statement by representatives of the Congoleso liberation fighters. They saids "The prosence of tho revolution is making itself fclt through -ut the country," and that the liberation fighters "control a largo part of the territory and have dealt sovere blows on the Mobutu amny which is being increasingly disabled." Among other successes, they added, two holicopters provided for the ilobutu troops by the U.N. force were shot down and four more damaged. Reforring to tho fate of Antoine Gizenga thay said his life was still in denger, "For more than two months wo have received no information from DBula-Mbemba island where ho is imprisoned," thoy added, “After the foul murder of Lumumba the imporinlists hoped that the poople would abandon their struggle," they went on, "on the contrary, thousands upon thousands of Lunumbas have stood upesee™