Word: congos
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Whatever the mixture of cold-blooded calculation and religious fanaticism that lay behind the deaths, all signs of both method and madness pointed to Jouret as the prime culprit. Born in Kitwit in the Belgian Congo, now Zaire, he went to Brussels in the 1970s for medical training, then moved around the world studying acupuncture and homeopathy, a system of treatment based on minimum doses of medication. Along the way he found himself drawn to the spiritual arcana of the Knights Templar, a mystical brotherhood banned in France in the 14th century. Eventually he joined a French-based group called...
...with an eye for beautiful women, a count who has gambled away his fortune and a swindler who boldly tricked the London printer of Portuguese banknotes to run off an extra 100 million escudos for him. The money set him up in banking, mining and a railroad in the Congo before he landed in jail...
...case study in what happens to a former colony when suppressed tribal rivalries are released into a power vacuum. It is a familiar lesson: an estimated 1 million Hindus and Muslims died in communal fighting after the British pulled out of India; the departure of the Belgians from the Congo set off savage ethnic-regional warfare; the collapse of the Soviet Union ignited a murderous rivalry between Abkhazians and Georgians for control of Georgia. Rwanda's preindependence history held special ironies: while colonial rule was far less strict in Rwanda than in South Africa or Rhodesia, the legacy of Belgian...
Playing politics with food, both sides are blocking aid to rival regions. The U.N., many argue, must also share blame for the aid debacle. After one of its relief planes was hit by UNITA gunfire in Mbanza Congo in July, U.N. special representative Alioune Blondin Beye, arguing that the flights had become too dangerous, ordered a halt to further air deliveries. Levels of food aid to cities like Malanje plummeted. Some U.N. officials claim that Beye would rather spend his time negotiating an overall peace than haggling with the contending factions about which relief flights can land where...
...Michael Crichton '64, the noted technothriller author of "Jurassic Park" and "Congo," among others, wrote a preview of the women's soccer team, the dust jacket might read like this...