DOWN upon the United Nations military headquarters in Katanga screamed a Katangese fighter plane, its guns blazing. As correspondents and troops alike ran for cover to escape the strafing, TIME'S Africa Correspondent Lee Griggs leaped for the nearest foxhole and saw too late that it was already occupied. He landed squarely on top of the U.N.'s chief officer in Katanga, Dr. Conor Cruise O'Brien. Later, a Congolese colonel, who had watched the scene from his own foxhole, cracked: "That was the best shot of the war."
Correspondent Griggs was TIME'S chief front-line reporter last week as...
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