EBELS have captured Lulimba after routing 750 Tshombe troops, according to reports from Elizebethville. Lulimba is an important road junction about 110 miles north of Albertville, capital of North Katanga Province. It was reported that the guerrillas
caught the Tshombe troops completely by surprise. The puppet troops fled, abandoning equipment and ammunition. Another detachment of guerrillas successfully ambushed a detachment of 100 mercenaries and 600 puppet troops near Paulis, North-East Congo on February 8, inflicting heavy casualities.
American air and naval bases in Spain was considered to alter the case. However, American diplomatic pressure has continued, and the Spanish Government, which had originally pleaded that a number of contract agreements between the Cubans and Spanish shipping lines had still some time to run has lost some of this defence with the expiration of a number of contracts.
Pat Jordan
U.S. blamed for Uganda bombing
HE bombing of two Ugandan
villages by U-.S.-made and manned planes “it is a gross violation of our territorial integrity and we condemn it in the strongest possible terms,” said John Kakonge, leader of the Ugandan delegation, at the seventh session of the U.N. Economic Commission for Africa in Nairobi according to an East African Standard report on February 16th. He said that the two villages within the Ugandan territory were bombed by American-made planes flown by Americans and mercenaries with the knowledge of the American Government.
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Feb. 25, 1965 — THE WEEK
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