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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Dec. 11--Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak defended the rescue of white hostages in the Congo as a last recourse undertaken after Congo rebels threatened to cook them alive.

In a grim voice Spaak told the U.N. Security Council Friday that some African nations in the debate over the rescue mission were trying to split Africa from Europe and "even to pit black man against the white."

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