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...extinction. Her Africa is not the ordered master-and-servant backdrop of Isak Dinesen's tales. Three French visitors make a wrong turn on a back road and get fatally detained by Congolese troops. Fossey angrily tells her family, "They were reportedly tortured . . . hung on racks, finally eaten. The Congo can't be covered by the press, like Vietnam, thus no one knows what really happens." But Fossey knew and pressed on. The stubbornness killed her. Broken in health, stalked by resentful poachers, distrusted by colleagues and local officials, she sensed that she was doomed but could not turn back...
Katharine Hepburn writes like this -- with lots of dashes. Fragmented sentences too. Exclamations! Asides. Reading her is like listening to her -- one imagines. She suggests -- in a meandering subtitle -- that she almost lost her mind while shooting on location in 1951 in what was then the Belgian Congo. But of course she did not. Found a good, perhaps unsuspected, part of it, actually. As she says, among all her movies and plays, The African Queen is the one that remains vividly in memory. For good reason. Tough shoot -- they don't come any tougher. Heat. Bugs. Snakes. Minimum crew, equipment...
...hands of his controversial lawyer, Verges, a flamboyant Marxist with strong sympathies for Third World causes. The lawyer, who is known for taking on the legal defense of accused terrorists, brought in to help him Jean-Martin M'Bemba, 45, an attorney from Brazzaville in the Congo, and Nabil Bouaita, 36, a lawyer from Algiers. In the closing days of the trial, Verges and his two aides began the long-advertised attempt to put France rather than Barbie on trial. Verges sought to shift the focus of attention from Barbie to the alleged crimes of France, other West European countries...
...Orgasms. Rosie's Bakery and Dessert Shop (243 Hampshire) offers the chocolate kind for $1.50. Other goodies include walnut dream bars and congo bars, which cost $23-$29 per pan, so goahead and indulge your desires...
...countries in both the East and the West have been reluctant to participate, either because they did not think they had a serious AIDS problem or possibly out of a misplaced sense of national pride. But that reluctance is fast disappearing. At a WHO conference this month in the Congo, a number of African governments, alarmed at the enormity of the crisis, agreed for the first time to join...