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Pointe Noire, The People's Republic of the Congo--I was riding across a bridge in Pointe Noire on a Sears, Roeback one-speed that belonged to one of the ship's engineers. The jeans I was wearing were three years old and the camera in my hand was a lowly Kodak, but there was still more luxury in my boots, and certainly in my bones, than the people around me would see in a year...
Matadi, Zaire Republic--It was a six-hour trip up the Congo River. The first half was delta swamp with dense jungle and occasional mudflats where huge flocks of birds congregated. The second half was hills, cliifs, ravines, small huts wherever there was greenery, and lone fishermen paddling along the backwaters...
...concrete walls are usually covered with Zaire's new flag, Black-Hand-Holding-Golden-Torch-in-a-Green-Circle, and pictures of Zaire's president Mobutu Sete Seko. Mobutu has changed the county's name from the Congo to Zaire, instituted the new flag, and changed his own image in an effort to foster nationalism among his people. Mobutu's face appears on every Zaire stamp, and on all currency except for the very smallest coin. On coins minted in 1967, right after he came to power, he's depcited in an army uniform with rows of medals...
...Nixon began making approaches to Moscow and Peking, partly to disentangle the U.S. from Viet Nam and partly to build a new structure of peace based not on ideology but on pragmatic self-interest. The U.S. goal had always been to oppose Communism everywhere it was encountered, from the Congo to the Mekong Delta. But now Americans were asked to accept a baffling inconsistency in their nation's policy: to support and even applaud detente with the Communist superpowers on the one hand while continuing to fight Communist insurgencies in different parts of the world...
...Gomes, called the agreement "a realistic solution to the respective interests of [Angola's] people." Less sanguine observers, however, fear that the domestic peace will be fragile and temporary at best. To many in Angola, it smacks of the same slapdash arrangements the Belgians made before handing the Congo over to bloody civil war in 1960. The majority think it is little more than an improvised device to get rid of Angola with meaningless lip service to safeguards for whites...