European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 28, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                              4 the staks and stripes november 1964 Ergo Lead Prevore vengeance in Conge Young hoodlums joined hardcore rebels by Arthur of vision London a the Mas Sacre of Whites by congolese rebels in Stanleyville culminated a monthlong terror Campaign in which an untold number of africans also some diplomatic authorities of Western who re ported estimated the loll of rebel victims May already have run into As Western officials portray Christophe g b e n y e rebels comprise a hard Core of perhaps 900 campaigners dedicated to the overthrow of prime minister Moise Tshombe Cen trial congolese but through a variety of including the use of Witch Craft and even the rebel leaders have picked up support As they have gone through the towns and lonely villains of the northeastern local hoodlums youth Jennene groups have boarded he rebel bandwagon As ii has rolled paying off old letting Loose pent up emotions against All who have seemed to la Ihler in the rebel move ment is considered by the belgian and other governments to be backed by com primarily the red Chi their arms and Money Are believed in Western capitals to come mainly through peking big diplomatic missions in the Congo Brazzaville Republic and which have fron tiers with rebel held because of civil War conditions in the country and a Lack of West Ern Powers possess few of their own direct sources of info they pieced together a picture of the latest phase in the Congo trag mainly from the accounts expelled by Moscow last Barghoorn still hears from reds new Frederick Barghoorn of Yale laughed when he said Hes still on the soviet unions mailing list Izvestia and other so Viet newspapers Haven stopped coming to Barghoorn in the year since he was imprisoned on a charge of spying and then expelled from the so Viet Barghoorn has spent most of the past year assembling his latest living the life of a scholar As far As he can get from the but he is less reticent about telling of his arrest in front of Moscow Metropole an incident hat made him prominent a year i Rad come from visit to the american he i was in the Ambas the ambassador was out of own and hit chauffeur drove me to Ike i was about two thirds of the Way to the hotel i was walking toward the lobby to meet a Friend of mine an acquaintance from a Western a Young Man came up to me and Are you an american citizen and thrust piece of Piper it that was he didst ask my three other men grabbed who Hud entered the country As a was hustled away in a that was about the night before Barg Hoorn was scheduled to leave Frederick 3argbaora Book needs revising the soviet Union for it was almost two weeks on that the so Viet news announced that Barghoorn had been arrested the other Day on a charge of the news shocked the Yale University Community and Barghoorn pro tests were raised about the arrest of the scholar who had made several previous trips to the soviet Union and who had served at the american embassy in Moscow from ims to on he soviet govern ment announced it was washing its hands of tre cited Kennedy reaction und expelled a still liven in an efficiency apart ment Neil door to that of his is year old Elizabeth would he like to go Back to the soviet Union not for a few is All he would Barghoorn has the title of Ford rotating research pro Fessor of Public affairs at Yale status that keens him free of clout of and enables him to work on his tentatively tilled politics in in afraid it will have to undergo some he says with typical understate its an occupational Hazard in this i was hoping that Khrushchev would stay in Power until i finished the i didst anticipate the Way he would Pound Likely to weather storm of these include who have suffered at rebel in reports to their consular officials or in letters to and qualified officials of Western quoting from Ihler consular Nave that Broad account of the terror Campaign key nay has been waxed in or real mails by rebels As curb against their fellow africans As vital nit massacres and appear to fit into two categories been a deliberate policy of eliminating government officials and me intelligentsia which in includes almost anyone who can read or the aim seems to be to liquidate anyone in the View of the might help the congolese Cen trial government to restore Law postmasters and other administrative elements thus fell among the has been a and evidently Campaign of atrocities against Afri cans and europeans by ele ments on the fringe of he in surgent the influence of such hoodlum and Rouns has the authority of Les extreme rebel leaders has declined under re cent military As a grim illustration of the first category of in Basing themselves on eyewitness to Tecl shul happened when the rebels Cap lured  in the insurgents arrived at at once icy convened a Peoples Kun summoned before i on a variety of charges were but africans were far More harshly some were sentenced to death and publicly of the Day after Ihler arrival the As the Climax of their Victory shot 3s congolese army officers in the local sports along the line of Ihler and Vance the rebels were said to have left a Trail of victims whose numbers westerners say they cannot accurately Esti the victims include any one suspected of or wanting to the authority of by Adren Cooper Washington tap Brit Ilni financial ruin can be compared to run on a Rural Bank which mopped by Balei of Money arriving from the City just when the depositors beginning to get Ai Long at there to plenty of Money in the the depositors Arent the United states and other West pm nations Hope they have put enough Money at Britain disposal to convince nervous financiers that the Pound will weather the the United states and 10 other countries put up to Bil lion for Britain to use in foreign Exchange markets to strengthen its Treasury officials obviously were pleased that announcement of the move alone caused the Price of Ster Ling to Edge upward within an because psychology is often a dominant Factor in International the Bank of eng land May need to use Only a null portion of the As Long As it is the Holden of Sterling probably wont be in a Rush to Trade their Sterling for dollars or for some other convertible apparently some business men and Bankers feared the British might devalue the Pound for the first time in 15 the Pound now is pegged at tire and the British government pledged to step in and buy Sterling whenever it drops toward that a devaluation would mean uie Pound would be Worth less in if it were Worth for business men would lose 28 cents Over night on every Pound they the British government has said it will not but apparently Many financiers were not Manv who trod de their pounds for West German Marks or French francs were Belling that the Pound would go Down in value and they would make a on the other some Pound Sellers probably were foreign businessmen who had acquired Sterling with the idea of expanding some Enterprise but had decided to hold off until the new governments Atti tude toward business became no matter How old the Bank a depositor might have a variety of methods was attributed by informants to the rebels in their attempts to rally local backing for their it was in Kurtt and Orlen Lale rebel on entering new Vil would make a Point of bribing or otherwise winning the support of the toed Witch he then would be prevailed upon to use his arts and crafts in the villagers in the rebel the insurgents were reported to carry ample supplies of a locally grown drug like this would if freely distributed among youths and toughs emboldened by the were upon to carry Oik perilous several examples were Given of the second category of a which informants said has been carried out by wild and uninhibited Camp followers of the among them the town of Albert Al Lac was Young sup porters o the rebels took vengeance on anyone they thought was opposed to Hospi tals were invaded and wounded and sick were forced out of their a Wittish missionaries at Lusa mho to Findon How they were paraded to witness the execution of More than it congolese and Whites were not harmed until a group of Young Reb Els then a 50yearold missionary was compelled to run two Miles by youths Brand Ishing Iron his wife wounded twice Wilh tile Mission Pislor was at another Al most All nuns und priests were Milillo have been when government forces recently recaptured kind they reported finding several Bel one hour had been stripped in preparation for Ihler but the rebels before they could finish the qualms when the Bank changes when the British government enters the Market and buys it uses what Ever other viable currency it might have on or these including amount to almost the British Are drawing about v billion from the inter National monetary fund but most of this will be used to pay off Short term International debts or inn accumulated because of i financial with us plus the 13 Billon Avni Lyhle by the other 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