Transport, Sent in After Reports of Looting and Shooting, Returns With 9 Evacuees - The United States rushed a C-130 transport plane to the crisis-ridden city of Kisangani Friday after widespread reports of looting and shooting by the Congolese army which took over the city after rebel mercenaries fled. But the plane returned here with only nine evacuees, including two U.S. Army sergeants, one of them wounded. Two C-46 planes chartered by the International Red Cross brought in an other 100 refugees, most of them Congolese, including injured women and children. The wounded soldier, Sgt. John Degele of Dallas, a mechanic, and the other, Sgt. Robert Mack of Seattle, a radio operator, made up the U.S. Army Congo Mission team in Kisangani. Degele and Mack were believed captured by the mercenaries who took over the city at the start of the rebellion in the early hours of July 5...

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