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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Nov. 18. 1959
Pygmies Mercenary Killers In Bloody African Civil War
By Rene Maccoll United Press International
NYANZA, Ruanda — (UPI) — This week I drove through the heartland of Africa where gangs of pygmies camouflaged in banana leaves are spearheading a war in which 500 Africans have been killed, hundreds more wounded, and scores of homes burned down in the past few days.
Here, among the lovely green mountains and the smiling countryside, the pygmies chased a sub-chief of the Bahutu tribe into a mission church and hacked him to pieces before the altar while the white priest tried in vain to protect him.
On the road I passed an abandoned motor car. It belonged to a sub-chief of the Watutsi tribe of giants—and he, with his wife and children, was dragged out of the car and massacred in an ambush laid by vengeful Bahutus.
Last night a state of emergency was declared.
Belgium Promises Independence
Belgium administers the Kingdom of Ruwanda for the United Nations and has promised self-government by the end of next year.
But the row of headless bodies lying behind the banana trees makes one wonder if it is really quite time for the ballot box.
I went today to the Roman Catholic mission at Save, near Astrida, where some particularly vicious fighting has taken place.
American Style Dating Rebuked
ALLEGAN, Mich. — (UPI) — A German exchange student has won support for her criticism of teenaged dating, American style, from a Michigan girl who recently completed a year of study in Germany
The two girls — Linda Malila of Allegan and Kirsten Tiedermann-Michaelis of Hamburg, Germany — recently compared notes on boy-girl relationships in their native countries.
Eighteen-year-old Kirsten said European teen-agers do their dating in groups because they usually walk to social functions. No matter how wealthy their family, she indicated, no teen-agers of 'her acquaintance ever drove their parents' car, or had one of their own.
Kirsten, who is studying for a year at Allegan High School, said she was amazed to learn that nearly a third of the students at Michigan State University are married.
Linda, who attended Germany's Osnabrueck Teacher's College, said she preferred the German approach toward dating, rather than the American practice of individual couples going their own way.
According to Linda, "going steady" is unheard of among German high school or college students and practically no college students marry while in school.
Pumpkin Penny
LIVERPOOL, N. Y. (UPI)—Susan Wood, 11, was scooping out a pumpkin for a Halloween jack-o-lantern when, along with the seeds, she found a blackened 1944 Lincoln penny.
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Handsome Father Gesche, head of the mission, feels certain that communist influence is making headway, particularly among the Watutsi.
On U.S. Highways 40-59 & K-10 just off of west Lawrence Turnpike interchange on way to business district.
"It is a real threat." he declared.
And Father Geseche told me of men being cut in half during the fighting and infants having their brains dashed out by raving warriors.
As one contemplated the headless corpuses, the bodies with hands or feet hacked off as trophies, the bodies slashed beyond recognition by machete or spear, one had only to glance up to see the framework of gentle misty beauty all around
But the ferocity of the wild animals is well matched by that of the humans around here.
They've got crocodiles in this territory, elephants and deadly venomous snakes.
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In contrast, this has been internecine warfare at its foulest and most unforgiving.
Warfare between the Bahutu, the traditional serfs of the land, and the Watutsi, the gigantic overlords, helped by their deadly bands of mercenary killers, the npomies.
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Internecine warfare filled with
wire-hate hatches on a single-minded
determination to kill.
The pygmies have played a peculiarly sinister role in the squalid story.
I suppose that most people think of them in an amused sort of way as harmless little freaks.
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Perish the thought. They are traditionally the torturers, executioners, and general all-round dirty- work men for the lordly Watusi.
Emerging, camouflaged in banana tree leaves from their python-infested jungles, the little men, fearless, tough and relentless have gone after the Bahutu.
Little Men Are Fearless
But the Bahutu fought back with a wild fury.
And it is the same people who will quite soon now be asked to troop along to vote.
It has been an atavistic throwback to the black Africa of tradition. Savages have been out on the warpath—and I mean savages.
The commander-in-chief of the Belgian military forces, Gen. Emil Janssens, told me: "We in Europe possess only two kinds of conditions—order and disorder.
"But here in Africa you find a third condition: a wild and mindless hysteria, which makes the word 'disorder' seem like a gentle under statement."
Interested Bystander
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (UPI)— Night watchman Willie Golce watched from inside a lunchroom while two thieves stole several boxes of doughnuts left by a bakery driver outside the front door.
Gole told police he couldn't pursue the thieves because he had taken off his shoes to be comfortable on the job.
More than one million tourists visited Great Britain this year by the month of August, the first time the million mark has been passed so early in the year.
John Ise, professor emeritus in economics, will be the guest speaker at 9 o'clock Thursday night at the newly-instigated Carruth - O'Leary coffee hour discussion series.
Previous guest speakers have been Sam Anderson, instructor of German, who discussed the Soviet Union; Dean George Waggoner of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, who led a discussion on the purposes of education, and Charles Neisinger, graduate student, who spoke on suicide.
The informal sessions are held in the lounge at O'Leary Hall.
Open House Set By KANU-KFKU
KFKU-KANU broadcasting station will have an open house from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at the studios in Hoch Auditorium.
Around the Campus John Ise To ROTC Men to Elect Queen Speak Tomorrow
The dedication of the Fred M. Harris memorial station will be at 11:30 a.m. Mr. Harris, editor of the Ottawa Herald, donated the funds to build the station.
The broadcasting stations are celebrating 35 years of educational broadcasting from the KU campus.
Twelve KU men enrolled in ROTC will choose the Military Ball queen after escorting the finalists to two informal parties.
The Ball will be Saturday, Dec. 5,
in the Kansas Union.
Scabbard and Blade, honorary organization for junior and senior men in ROTC, is sponsoring the Ball.
The Jays, dance band, will play at the dance.
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The twelve finalists are Melanie Chandler, Kansas City, Kan., freshman, Corbin Hall; Barbara Bach, Kansas City, Mo., junior, Chi Omega; Saraleone Gaffey, Parsons sophomore, Delta Delta Delta; Janice Guyot, Arkansas City sophomore, Kappa Alpha Theta.
Jill Jordon, Topeka junior, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Judith Kuhar, Lee's Summit, Mo., sophomore, O'Leary; Sonda Gumm, Joplin, Mo., junior; Sellards; Karolyn Ames, Ellinwood freshman, Gertrude Sellards Pearson.
Leslie Roach, Topeka junior, Delta Gamma; Eleanor Ferrell, Beaumont junior, Sigma Kappa; Jane Dean, Overland Park senior, Pi Beta Phi, and Kathleen McCarty, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, Gamma Phi Beta.
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