ACTIVE
-The guerrilla movement in’ the eastern Congo is still active, according. to a report in the March 6 New York Times. The Congolese army exercises control over about only a quarter of the area.
The. situation amounts to a "prolonged: stalemate," the Times correspondent, Joseph Lelyveld, declares; “the army remains’ insuf-+ ficiently mobile or disciplined to: finish off the rebellion.
About two weeks ago a force of some ‘a, OOO rebels attacked. a Belgian sugar plantation at Kaliba. Mercenaries hired by the conmpany, along with units of the Congolese army, managed to repulse the attack, killing 70 rebels, according to the’: official: account,
The size of this force may indicate that the rebel movement has begun to recover from the ferocious ‘repression launched by the. Belgians with the aid of the U.S. and Britain two years ago...