U.S SUPPLIES FOR U.N.
New Airlift To Katanga
(NJi.PJI.-Reuter—Copynght) WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.
The United States is resuming its airlift in the Congo to help strengthen the position of United Nations forces in breakaway Katanga Province. The State Department announced that the first big cargo-carrying planes had arrived in Elisabetihviille, the Katanga capital, earlier today with the first of the new equipment for the United Nation®. An Elisabethville message says a Katanga Government spokesman today reported that the bridge connecting the Katangese military base of Kongolo. in north Katanga with the rest of Katanga has been blown up by the Congolese National Army. The spokesman said Ute
garrison— now cut off from supplies—was still holding out against attacks. The American airlift is being resumed ait the request of the United Nations. “This action is being undertaken in view of the lack of progress on United Nations plans for national reconciliation,” the department said. “The airlift will help assure that the United Nations is capable of fully discharging its mandate in the Congo and in our view will contribute to toe peaceful implementation of the United Nations plan.”
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29998, 6 December 1962, Page 3
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