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MAD BALUBA In a Katanga refugee camp Baluba tribesmen Tshombe's government, the peacefu`1
had fled from their own areas to miE
stampeded for U.N. food-a ration of com
meal and flour. But it was a sign that things tens of thousands in a squalid com
STAMPEDE were improving. Earlier the stai.ved natives, Elisabethville. Here, the sheen of ci`
dissolved in starvation's acids as
crazed by rumors that U.N. food was poi-
son, charged LIRE's Terry Spencer, screaming: verted to a fearsome custom: ca
"White man good meat." It was no joke.
FOR FOOD Besieged by strong-arm tribesmen of Moise Dozens of tribesmen and six KatangesE
men are thought to have been eaten
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