Word: congos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...make salami look like steak, and wrapped in a tag line so memorable it will cut through the competing clutter: "On a bad day, he's the best there is" (the Die Hard film); "The most passionately read love story of our time" (Madison County); and don't forget "Congo -- where you are the endangered species...
Backed by the CIA, army general Joseph-Desire Mobutu took over the Republic of the Congo in 1965 and later called himself Mobutu Sese Seko. In 1971 he renamed the country Zaire. Throughout his rule, Mobutu has dealt brutally with opponents, civilian and military. His country's mineral wealth and location kept Mobutu valuable to Western interests for years, but when the threat of communist expansion disappeared, his worth diminished. By 1993 his horrific human-rights record and his refusal to yield the throne had led to an economic squeeze of Zaire by three major trading partners--the U.S., France...
...operation in Zaire is a project of the ADC. Located on a river southeast of the boomtown of Tshikapa in the heart of Zaire's diamond country, the project uses state-of-the-art dredges and diving equipment. Robertson is also exploring gold interests on the upper Zaire, or Congo, River, and assessing the hardwood logging potential of four great swaths of rain forest...
...Zaire with Robertson some years ago that began in Paris, where the minister, his wife Adelia and an entourage of 15 boarded one of Mobutu's personal planes, a Boeing 707. On the visitors' arrival, Mobutu received them on the presidential yacht. There was a ride up the Congo to visit a presidential estate and, in an unusual gesture of official hospitality, Mrs. Mobutu actually prepared several of the dishes served to the guests. ``The atmosphere was very congenial,'' says the executive, long a supporter of Robertson's. ``Pat Robertson and Mobutu get along extremely well. Mobutu was interested...
...questions. Why hasn't Rudenstine shown himself in public. Has he been captured by radical Yale's, trapped in a box six feet underground with only glucose pumped through a straw to sustain him? Has he been suffering from some disfiguring disease carried by tree sloths in the Congo' Has SPECTRE finally gotten...