Pige 2A EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD, Tuesday, Jan. 22. 1963
iTl Pay Worries Captured Mercenary
PICTURE FRAMES
1
, in I
mer, a 6-foot-2 South African
with a broad grin that never
quite reaches his eyes and the
shoulders of a professional
fullback.
Skimmer has a fund of
natural charm if you don't
notice that the green eyes
rarely smile. He is bluff and
hearty and talks easily.
Now that the fighting was
over, what did he worry
about?
"I suppose I won't get the
last of my pay," he said. "I
don't see how they can pay
that now and I can use it."
Mercenaries got around
$1,000 a month with half paid
in foreign currency, the rest
in Katangan francs. Skimmer
thought the pay wasn't bad.
"They gave us three months
in advance when we signed
up."
About half of his enormous
right bicco" had been shot
away by automatic rifle fire.
He walked to a dressing sta
tion and got back in the fight
ing after treatment.
"This arm isn't ever going
to be the same again. I lost
too much muscle. Still got a
machinegun slug in my hip.
It's not comfortable."
Did he want to join up
some other venture?
"Not me. But I hope I get
the last of my pay. I can use
it. I got a relative in South
Africa who runs a little ga
rage. I'm going to go in with
him.
Skimmer didn't want to
talk much about the fighting
but he obviously was cha
grined at the way he had
been captured.
"I nipped into Elisabeth
ville for a good dinner. First
thing I know I was surround
ed by guns.
"I expect we'll be sent off
pretty soon now. It's been
all right here. Absolutely no
abuse, no bad treatment. The
food is good. We've got no
complaints."
It was hard to imagine him
poking into the creaky work
ings of an automobile in a
South African garage.
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By RICHARD K. O'MALLEY
Of the Associated Press
ELISABETHVILLE, the
Congo Eight men iounged
on cots in a makeshift intern
ment room at Elisabethville
Airport. Two played black
jack. A couple of others read
paperbacks. A bored United
Nations guard looked on.
These were eight mercen
aries who had led troops for
Katanga President Moise
Tshombe in his unsuccessful
battle to secede from the cen
tral Congo. All had been cap
tured and were waiting repa
triation. What kind of man is the
20th-century mercenary sold
ier? Let's take the case of Skim-
JFK Hails
Katangese
Capitulation
WASHINGTON (yd President
Kennedy has hailed the end of
the Katanga secession and de
clared that the Congolese now
have an opportunity "to rally
behind their national and pro
vincial leadership."
He said the peaceful entry of
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Uniformed United Nations commander,
Brig. Reginald Noronha, chats with
Katanga Premier Moise Tshombe at
Tshombe's headquarters in Kolwezi
Monday after the peaceful occupation
of the dissident Tshombe stronghold in
The Congo's rebellious Katanga Province.
Allied Chiefs Confer
On Common Market
By JOSEPH W. GRIGG
Of the United Presi International
"' ' PARTS West German
' Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
sought to persuade French
President Charles de Gaulle
Tuesday not to torpedo Britain's
' efforts to enter the European
Common Market.
Adenauer was in a luvoreu
position to exert the pressure,
lie and De Gaulle have agreed
to an historic reconciliation of
two traditional enemies whose
quarrels have drenched Europe
and the world in blood for a
thousand years.
De Gaulle was reported insist
ing on vetoing acceptance of
BritHin in the Common Market
at the present. Adenauer was
said to be. seeking a face-saving
formula to prevent a total
breakdown of the negotiations.
Talks May Recess
One reported West German
tuggestion was that the Com
mon Market talks being held in
Brussels should be recessed for
' a time to allow the present six
.members to take a new look at
,tho concept.
ims wuuia suivo uuuiuig qui
"would give the appearance of
lavoiding an open break.
J Adenauer and De Gaulle
; planned to go over the Common
Market situation Tuesday and
.then put the finishing touches
-on the treaty of cooperation to
which they agreed Monday
iMacmillan
Pledges Fight
' LONDON (OTP Prime Mini
ter Harold Macmillan has served
. notice on French President
'.Charles de Gaulle that Britain
will fight to get into the Euro-
.. pean Common Market.
Terming De Gaulle's opposi-
. lion a "setback," Macmillan told
a Conservative Party meeting
Monday night lhat the rest of
Europe and the free world sup
ports Britain's bid for full mem-
.'. hershlp in the six-nation trade
group.
"We still believe that, given
' the will, the remaining difficul
'. ties can be surmounted," he
aaid with evident passion.
The Common Market issue is
; expected to be one of Macmil
', lan's biggest political challenges
- in tlio new parliament session
- which opened Tuesday with cer
emonies honoring Opposition
Labor Party Leader Hugh Gait-
. ikell. who died last Friday. The
ceremonies were the only sched
uled business for the day.
night.
The treaty will bind the two
nations closely in the fields of
politics, defense, education and
culture. It will be signed to
night or Wednesday.
1- rench Foreign Office spokes
man Claude Lebcl sought to as
sure the rest of Europe that the
treaty was not aimed at any
other nation.
Subject to Ratification
'On the contrary, it must be
regarded as the first, indispen
sable step leading toward the
unity of Europe for which both
sides hope, he said.
The treaty will be submitted
to both national parliaments for
ratification. It will be accom
panied by a joint statement by
the two leaders.
Its main provisions are:
The heads of state and
government will meet at least
every six months. Their foreign,
defense, education, youth and
sports ministers will meet every
three months and their chiefs of
staff every two months. Three
high officials from each govern
ment will meet monthly as a
sort of watchdog committee.
There will be exchanges of
troops for training, joint ma
neuvers, joint use of training
camps and joint research in
arms production, except in nu
clear weapons. There also will
be joint studies of strategic
and tactical problems.
There will be alignment of
university degrees, increased
study of each other's language,
exchanges of scholarships and
coordination of research, ex
cept In the nuclear field. West
Germany has pledged itself by
treaty not to manufacture nu
clear weapons.
U.N. forces into the Katanga
stronghold of Kolwezi had con
firmed the downfall of the sep
aratist regime of Moise Tshom
be. This, he said In a statement
Monday, "is warmly welcomed
by the United States and all who
are concerned with the future
of the Congo and the whole of
Africa."
Gives Credit to Ike
He said the Eisenhower ad
ministration "determined wise
ly" that the U.S. goal of seeking
conditions allowing the Congo
lese to work out their own fu
ture could best be pursued
through the United Nations.
He added that his administra
tion had vigorously supported
the U.N. efforts.
The American people, he said,
are deeply indebted to U.N. Secretary-General
U Thant and to
his predecessor. Dag Hammar
skjold "who gave his life in the
quest for peace" In the Congo.
Assistant secretary ot stale
G. Mcnnen Williams expressed
belief that the U.N. success also
had brought dividends to the
United States.
"Increased Respect'
The U.S. participation in the
U.N. Congo operation, he said,
"has greatly increased the re
spect of Africans for us."
Williams, chief of the Stale
Department's Bureau of African
Affairs, viewed the U.N. victory
as, in effect, a defeat for com
munism. In an interview he explained
his reasoning:
"We think the major achieve
ment of the U.N. operation was
to remove one of the main ob
stacles to Congo unity and sta
bility. Now the Congo govern
ment can get things rolling.
Whcnovei there is stability or
Independence, the capacity of
the Communists to enter and
interfere is greatly diminished,
or even diminished to zero."
Coal Miners Back on Job
CAHMICHAELS, Pa. Ml
Some 1,000 coal miners re
lumed to work Monday at U. S.
Steel Corp.'s nearby Robena
Mine where 37 miners died in
an explosion last Dec. 6.
The mine had been idle since
the blast and the miners had re
fused two previous orders to
return to work. They had said
they wanted steps taken to in
sure safety and prevent more
explosions.
The miners voted over the
weekend to return to work.
Some 600 members of United
Mine Workers Local 6321 were
on hand for the vote.
U. S. Steel said the entire
Robena complex with the ex
ception ot the Frosty Run shaft
at Robena No. 3 will operate on
a five-day week. The explo
sion last December occurred at
the Frosty Run shaft.
A public hearing into the
causes of that explosion ended
last week. A final report is
pending.
Population Count
TAIPEI, Formosa MV Formo
sa's population has been set at
11.474.639. The count, through
November, 1962, did not include
an estimated 600,000 men in the
Chinese Nationalist armed
forces.
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