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...belt of influence across the middle of the continent. Now if they can hold on to Somalia and bring Ethiopia into their orbit, they will have hooked a suspender onto the belt. Meanwhile the other gallus is shaping up along the Atlantic coast of Africa, involving Zaire, the Congo, Benin and Guinea-Bissau...
Open Enthusiasm. The Kantan-gese invaders are drawn mainly from the Lunda tribe, traditionally among Central Africa's fiercest warriors. Shaba villagers have received them with open enthusiasm. Government troops, who speak Lingala-the language of the Congo River basin-rather than the local variant of Swahili, are, by contrast, feared and shunned...
Last-week Zaïre officials claimed that the invaders were fighting under new bosses-leftist Portuguese mercenaries-and were armed with Soviet-made mortars and missiles. Meanwhile, the pro-Moscow National Liberation Front of the Congo, a Paris-based exile group, took responsibility for the invasion. Its aim, F.N.L.C. spokesmen said, was to overthrow Mobutu's "neocolonialist tyranny...
...government-run press, flopped badly in managing Zaïre's economy. Sinking millions into costly prestige projects when world copper prices peaked in early 1974, he led the nation to the edge of bankruptcy. Zaïre's copper travels 43 days from Shaba mines to Congo River ports on rickety Victorian-era railways and barges reminiscent of the African Queen. Swollen prices of bread, rice and other staples have led to widespread discontent...
Died. Emile Cardinal Biayenda, 50, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Brazzaville, the Congo; kidnaped from his Brazzaville home and slain. One of eight black African Cardinals, Biayenda was made the first Congolese primate by Pope Paul VI in 1973. He was killed five days after the assassination of Congolese President Marien Ngouabi, of whose socialist policies he approved. Some observers fear that the murders may be a new beginning of tribal warfare in the Congo...