1.
GV.UN TROOPS INSPECT LUGGAGE.
0.04

2.
SV.AFRICANS WANT TO GO THROUGH ROAD BLOCK.
0.07

3.
SCU.UNITED NATIONS POLICEMAN INSPECTING AFRICANS LUGGAGE.
0.15

4.
SV.UNITED NATIONS POLICEMAN INSPECTING PAPERS OF DRIVER.
0.21

5.
GV.SABENA AIRCRAFT TAXI-ING ON AT ELISABETHVILLE AIRPORT.
0.25

6.
SV.COACHES BRINGING EUROPEAN REFUGEES TO AIRPORT.
0.28

7.
SCU.EUROPEAN REFUGEES ALIGHTING FROM COACH.
0.38

8.
REAR V..NUNS WALKING UP AIRCRAFT GANGWAY.
0.42

9.
SV.AMBULANCE DRIVING UP.
0.45

10.
GV.INJURED PERSON ON STRETCHER BEING LIFTED UP AIRCRAFT GANGWAY.
0.52

11.
SV.UN OFFICIALS INSPECTING EUROPEAN PASSPORTS.
1.00

12.
GV.PEOPLE CLIMBING UP AIRCRAFT GANGWAY (EUROPEANS).
1.05



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Background: ON DECEMBER 27 OUR CAMERAMAN IN ELISABETHVILLE REPORTED HIS SUCCESSFUL CROSSING OF SEVERAL UNITED NATIONS BARRICADES - FILMING OF WHICH WAS PROHIBITED BY THE UN - TO REACH 'LA LUANO' AIRPORT WHERE REFUGEES, AND SICK AND WOUNDED, WERE FLOWN OUT FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE OUTBREAK OF HOSTILITIES BETWEEN UN TROOPS AND THE KATANGESE ARMY.

A SABENA AIRCRAFT, THE FIRST COMMERCIAL PLANE TO LAND THERE FOR THREE WEEKS, EMBARKED THE SICK AND WOUNDED FROM AMBULANCES DESPITE POURING RAIN. SPECIAL COACHES BROUGHT THE REFUGEES, WHOSE PASSPORTS WERE CAREFULLY CHECKED BY UN PERSONNEL BEFORE THEY BOARDED THE AIRCRAFT.

THE CAMERAMAN SAID HIS COLLEAGUE WAS ARRESTED LATER AFTER FILMING SOME UN SOLDIERS AT THE AIRPORT.

ON THE SAME DAY, THE AIRLIFT OF KATANGA REFUGEES FROM SALISBURY TO BRUSSELS WAS CONTINUED. ABOUT 680 PEOPLE WERE FLOWN FROM SALISBURY BETWEEN DECEMBER 25-27 BY SABENA. IF UNOFFICIAL ESTIMATES ARE CORRECT A TOTAL OF 6,000 WHITES WILL BE EVACUATED FROM KATANGA.