Word: congos
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...Africa, there were some preliminary efforts to find diplomatic solutions to the Chadian impasse. Meeting in Brazzaville, capital of the Congo People's Republic, ten African heads of state called for a cease-fire in Chad. In N'Djamena, PresidentHabré did not rule out the possibility of holding talks with Gaddafi but said he would never negotiate with his archrival Goukouni, whom he described as a "Libyan mercenary." Gaddafi, in turn, held a press conference in Tunisia at which he brazenly denied that there were any Libyan troops in Chad...
...bizarre scheme to dust the dictator's shoes with a powder designed to make his beard fall out. The agency was also implicated in the assassination of Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Trujillo in 1961 and a failed attempt on the life of Premier Patrice Lumumba of the Congo. The pro-Soviet Lumumba was killed in 1961, a year after the CIA attempt, by rivals acting on their...
...picture was not always so gloomy. In the early 1970s, after nearly a decade of civil strife, the former Belgian Congo had achieved a measure of political stability under the dictatorship of President Mobutu Sese Seko. More important, the country was recognized as a treasure trove of gold, diamonds, oil, copper and cobalt. Banks rushed to extend credit. They were to rue the day. Notes one foreign banker in Kinshasa: "We did not do our sums properly...
During his five-month trial, Colonel Thomas Michael ("Mad Mike") Hoare, who gained notoriety while soldiering for fortune in the Congo during the 1960s, put up a plucky front. During recesses Hoare entertained visitors with tales of his derring-do and signed copies of his swashbuckling biography, entitled Congo Mercenary. But last week the bravado was gone from the man who used to run a swaggering group of commandos in the Congo who called themselves the Wild Geese. His face ashen, Hoare, 63, slumped in his chair in a Pietermaritzburg courtroom as Judge Neville James found him and 42 fellow...
...colonel, who got his rank in the Congo, drew the stiffest sentence. His fellow raiders were given from six months to five years, and the judge later reduced most to six months. Hoare and his co-defendants were clearly the lucky ones. Last month four of Hoare's soldiers of fortune who were left behind in the Seychelles were convicted of treason by René's government. They are under sentence of death by hanging...