THE CONGO THE BATTLE OF JADOTVILLE IT BEGAN LIKE THE MONTAGUES AND 
THE CAPULETS . HE WAS A LUNDA BOY WHO WANTED TO 
MARRY A BALUBA GIRL, BUT THE TWO TRIBES WERE ANCIENT BLOOD 
FOES . LAST WEEK, IN THE KATANGA TOWN OF JADOTVILLE, THEIR 
LOVE AFFAIR RESULTED IN A SAVAGE ORGY OF KILLING UNLIKE ANY 
EVER SEEN ON THE STREETS OF VERONA . BANDS OF LUNDA 
NATIVES, ARMED WITH KNIVES, MACHETES, AND RAZOR-SHARP BICYCLE CHAINS LASHED TO 
STICKS, STORMED THROUGH THE STREETS LOOKING FOR BALUBA YOUTHS WEARING MONKEY 
FUR HEADPIECES AND ANIMAL-SKIN WAR DRESSES . BOTH SIDES CHASED TERRIFIED 
POLICE OUT OF NATIVE QUARTERS, BRUSHED ASIDE THE PLEAS OF KATANGA'S 
PRESIDENT MOISE TSHOMBE WHEN HE ARRIVED IN THE CITY BEGGING FOR 
THE CARNAGE TO STOP . AS THE SLAUGHTER RAGED UNCHECKED, WHITE 
CHILDREN WERE EVACUATED FROM THE CITY TO A NEARBY METHODIST MISSION 
. FROM NEIGHBORING NORTHERN RHODESIA, BLOOD WAS FLOWN IN TO MEET 
THE NEEDS OF THE JADOTVILLE HOSPITAL, WHERE DOCTORS AND NURSES WORKED 
NONSTOP FOR MORE THAN 48 HOURS TRYING TO PATCH UP A 
STEADY STREAM OF WOUNDED AND DYING . MANY VICTIMS WERE MAIMED 
BEYOND RECOGNITION . " A DOCTOR LIFTED A BANDAGE OFF ONE 
MAN'S HEAD, " SAID A WITNESS . " A LARGE PIECE 
HAD BEEN SLICED OUT OF HIS SKULL LIKE A SLICE FROM 
AN ORANGE, AND I COULD SEE HIS BRAIN PULSATING . " 
AFTER FOUR DAYS OF BLOODSHED, THE RIOTING FINALLY PETERED OUT, AND 
CAUTIOUS UNITED NATIONS TROOPS, WHO HAD NOT DARED INTERVENE WHILE THE 
FIGHTING WAS AT ITS HEIGHT, MOVED IN AND TOTED UP THE 
FRIGHTFUL COST . THE TOLL : AT LEAST 70 DEAD, AND 
SCORES INJURED . 