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From the outset, the war between Nigeria and secessionist Biafra loomed as an unequal contest. It was not surprising that, as in the earlier Congo conflicts, foreign mercenaries were drawn to Biafra to practice their trade: fighting. Nor was it surprising that the beleaguered Biafrans accepted their services-despite the fact that mercenaries can be narrow, violent men who often harbor a deep contempt for Africans. In the midst of the idealism with which Biafra pleaded its cause for independence, the mercenaries have operated-sometimes ugly, certainly anomalous, but perhaps necessary to Biafra's continued survival...
Bulletproof. Steiner's mercenary officers are a mixed lot, united only by loyalty to their commander, distinguished only by their combat experience and their foibles. Major Taffy, 34, Welsh and a veteran of the Fifth Commando mercenaries of the Congo, thinks he is bulletproof. By now, so do the federals, who have reported him dead at least five times since last December. Taffy came perilously close to being killed a few weeks ago, when a round smashed into his binoculars. Short-tempered, he curses his black troops constantly, threatening to kill them if they don't obey orders...
Whether the Congolese army had forced Mobutu to have Mulele removed or whether the whole affair was a Mobutu plot remained unclear. But the execution cracked the veneer of stability and national reconciliation under which Mobutu has lately ruled. Across the Congo River, Brazzaville broke relations with Kinshasa over the Mulele affair. Its radio warned that "rebellion has not died with Mulele...
...bizarre, rebellion-plagued history of the Congo since independence, Pierre Mulele authored one of the bloodier chapters. Almost five years ago, he launched a revolt against the "profiteers of independence"-the central government-and within months led his ill-equipped but relatively well-disciplined bands to control much of rich Kwilu province in the interior...
...Winger Antoine Gizenga, had returned to Kinshasa in late September after nearly four years in hiding and in exile. Foreign Minister Justin Bomboko announced that Mulele had rallied to the Mobutu government and thus came under an amnesty proclaimed last August. He personally escorted the former rebel across the Congo River from the neighboring Congo Brazzaville, while Mobutu was on a private visit to Morocco. On his arrival, Mulele was feted over champagne and caviar. But Mobutu had hardly returned to Kinshasa when he announced that Mulele was not covered by the amnesty and that he would be tried...