Word: congo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Congo is the heart of Africa," Joseph Mobutu likes to boast. "When the heart is ailing, the rest of the body suffers. But the heart has resumed its normal beat." By any standard, the Congo's President has reason to be proud of his country's recent progress. When the Belgian Congo received its independence ten years ago this week, it was woefully ill prepared for self-rule; of its 14 million citizens, only 13 were university graduates. On the fifth day of independence, the army rose in mutiny. In the ensuing seven years, the mineral-rich land...
...celebrates the anniversary of its freedom, the country is at peace. The copper mines of Katanga are working at full capacity. At Inga Rapids, a project to begin damming the Congo River is under way at last. Its first stage, a 150-megawatt dam, will be finished by 1972. Even the interior city of Kisangani, formerly Stanleyville, which suffered terrible damage during the Simba rebellion of 1964-65, is returning to life. The town glitters with a coat of fresh paint in honor of a visit by Belgium's King Baudouin, who arrived in the Congo for the anniversary...
Much of the credit for the Congo's survival belongs to Mobutu, 39, the former army commander who speaks with passion about his military takeover in 1965. "While we were fighting on all fronts to end the rebellion and unite the country," he told TIME Correspondent James Wilde last week, "others amused themselves by running for President or Premier or Parliament. We thought law-and-order was more important than senseless politicking...
Lumumba Monument. Mobutu is very happy in the role of a grand chief. He flies around Kinshasa in an Alouette helicopter piloted by a silver-haired Swede, drives about in Mercedes 600 limousines and sails the Congo River in his yacht the M.S. President Mobutu. Besides his house in the paratroop camp, he maintains a palace on Kinshasa's Mount Stanley and lavish villas in Lausanne and Abidjan in the Ivory Coast. To counteract rumors that he is a neocolonialist at heart, he has sought to identify himself with his old enemy Patrice Lumumba. Currently he is building...
...Moondance is a more mature album. Though there are no virtuoso instrumentals, the music is much stronger. Morrison has added another sax, piano, organ and congo drum-practically a small orchestra. But the music itself is not the vital part of Moondance. Its function is to provide a background for Morrison, as The Band did for Dylan. And this is superbly done; the instrumentalists almost, but never quite drop out of sight...