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...Accusers. Led by Africa's radical hardcore-Ghana, Guinea, Algeria, Mali and Egypt-18 of the continent's 35 nations had signed the complaint. The signatories included the tiny leftist kingdom of Burundi, where Chinese influence is strong, and backwater states that once belonged to France: Central African Republic, Brazzaville Congo, Dahomey, Mauritania and Mali. Also on the list, however, were normally more moderate Ethiopia and the Sudan, and the Commonwealth nations of Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia, of which better things should have been expected...
Some Europeans played into rebel hands-for instance, the Belgian owner of a sugar mill who felt it was better to deal with the people in power than lose his sugar crop: from neighboring Burundi he continued to bring in supplies and gasoline, which the rebels regularly confiscated, thus gaining enough fuel to attack Albertville...
Slowly, sporadically, Tshombe's forces began to close in. By taking Boende, they halted a rebel drive toward Leopoldville. By seizing Albertville and Uvira, they all but cut off the rebel supply lines from the Communist Chinese embassy in Burundi...
...SWISS SKY RIDE charges a big 75$ for a four-minute cable-car trip but sends the traveler soaring 115 ft. above Samoan fire dancers, Burundi drummers, Guatemalan marimba bands and Swiss yodelers...
...inevitable demand that he get rid of his white mercenary troops, Tshombe needed solid proof that the rebels were indeed bad medicine for the Congo. At Albertville, he picked up at least three valuable exhibits: a series of photographs showing the rebels executing leading citizens, a 22-year-old Burundi prisoner who, Tshombe claims, was a "captain of the rebel general staff," and a symbol of revolutionary arrogance-a rubber stamp marked "République Révolutionnaire du Congo, Secteur Albertville." Evidence in hand, he took a much more important step toward winning African sympathies: as he left...