CONGO PLEASE DON'T GO THE SEVEN-STORY LEOPOLDVILLE BUILDING THAT SERVES AS U.N 
. HEADQUARTERS IN THE CONGO ONCE BUZZED WITH DAILY CRISES ; 
TODAY ITS CORRIDORS ARE QUIET AND STAFFERS GREET ONE ANOTHER WITH 
: " WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS ? " AT A U.N 
. AIRSTRIP, SWEDISH JET PILOTS KILL TIME BY STRAFING A DAMAGED 
AIRCRAFT ON THE GROUND . " USING UP AMMUNITION, " AN 
OFFICER EXPLAINS . " WE WON'T TAKE IT HOME . " 
THREE CHAOTIC YEARS AFTER INTERVENING IN THE CONGO, THE U.N . 
MILITARY FORCES LAST WEEK WERE PACKING UP TO LEAVE . UNDER 
ORDERS FROM SECRETARY GENERAL U THANT, THE REMAINING 5,077 COMBAT TROOPS 
(ALREADY PARED SHARPLY FROM A PEAK OF 19,000 SINCE THE FINAL 
CRUSHING OF KATANGA LAST JANUARY) ARE SCHEDULED FOR DEPARTURE BY DEC 
. 31 . THE PLANNED PULL-OUT REPRESENTS A VICTORY FOR SUCH 
INTRANSIGENT OPPONENTS OF THE U.N . CONGO OPERATION AS RUSSIA AND 
FRANCE . CHIEFLY BECAUSE OF THE HOLDOUTS' REFUSAL TO HELP SHARE 
THE COSTS, THE U.N . IS $140 MILLION IN DEBT, AND 
THANT HAS NOT " A SINGLE CENT " WITH WHICH TO 
FINANCE THE PEACEKEEPING FORCE NEXT YEAR . SHAKY BABY . BUT 
LAST WEEK, THANT'S SCHEDULED EVACUATION WAS CAUSING ALARMED PROTEST FROM THE 
U.S., BRITAIN AND BELGIUM, WHICH DOUBT THE CONGO'S ABILITY TO STAND 
ALONE . IN KATANGA PROVINCE, 15,000 EX-GENDARMES OF OUSTED SECESSIONIST MOISE 
TSHOMBE HAVE VANISHED INTO THE BUSH ; ROAMING BANDS OF THEM 
STAGE HIGHWAY ROBBERIES AND RAID VILLAGES TO GUZZLE THE LOCAL BEER 
STOCKS . THE 30,000-MAN CONGOLESE ARMY, WHOSE 1960 MUTINY IGNITED THE 
CIVIL WAR, HAS PRODUCED A NUCLEUS OF DISCIPLINED OFFICERS, THANKS TO 
ITS SPUNKY COMMANDER, GENERAL JOSEPH MOBUTU ; NO LONGER ARE UNARMED 
CIVILIANS SHOT DOWN AT RANDOM IN ELISABETHVILLE . BUT THE ARMY'S 
RETRAINING PROGRAM IS FAR BEHIND SCHEDULE, AND THERE ARE NAGGING SYMPTOMS 
OF ANARCHY TO COME . IN AN AFRICAN NATION WHOSE THREE 
PRINCIPAL CITIES ARE ABOUT AS FAR APART AS TULSA, DETROIT AND 
JACKSONVILLE, THERE IS ALSO THE PROBLEM OF ENFORCING CENTRAL GOVERNMENT RULE 
AMONG REMOTE TRIBESMEN AN EFFORT THAT THE U.N . SOLDIERS AND 
CIVILIANS ASSISTED . " KILL . . . KILL . . 
. CHASE ! " MODERATE, WESTWARD-LEANING PREMIER CYRILLE ADOULA DESPERATELY WANTS 
THE U.N . TO STAY, IS CONSIDERING A PERSONAL APPEAL TO 
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AS A LAST RESORT . WITH ELECTIONS SCHEDULED 
FOR NEXT SPRING, THE CONGO'S OLD EXTREMISTS ARE LURKING IN THE 
WINGS . EGIDE DAVIDSON BOCHELEY, PARTISAN OF THE ERRATIC LATE PREMIER 
PATRICE LUMUMBA, OUTLINED HIS NATIONAL POLICY RECENTLY AT A PRESS CONFERENCE 
: / KILL ADOULA ! KILL (PRESIDENT JOSEPH) KASAVUBU ! CHASE 
OUT THE AMERICANS ! " TSHOMBE, RELAXING IN SPAIN AFTER TREATMENT 
FOR EYE TROUBLE AND AMOEBIC DYSENTERY, HAS ASSURED FRIENDS THAT HE 
PLANS AN ACTIVE PART IN THE CAMPAIGN . FACED WITH THE 
UPROAR, THANT LAST WEEK CALLED A PRESS CONFERENCE, ANNOUNCED THAT HE 
WAS TURNING THE WHOLE DECISION OVER TO THE SECURITY COUNCIL AND 
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY BUT THAT HE WOULD STICK TO HIS PULL-OUT 
PLAN UNLESS HE GOT SOME EMERGENCY FINANCING . ONE POSSIBILITY : 
A REDUCED CONGO FORCE OF PERHAPS 3,000 MEN, PAID FOR BY 
THE U.S . AND OTHER INTERESTED NATIONS . 