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...yearning for love but, East or West, no religion has succeeded in establishing a society based on it. When trying to point to a really nonviolent community, anthropologists are usually forced to resort to the Arapesh of New Guinea or the Pygmies of the Ituri rain forest in the Congo. The human impulse to violence cannot be completely denied or suppressed. When that is tried, the result is often an inner violence in man that can burst out all the more fiercely later. At times the U.S. displays a kind of false prudery about violence to the point where...
...Africa's new rebellions ended with a fizzle last week while the other showed signs of stubborn persistence and could go on for weeks. ∙ THE CONGO. The revolt against the Congolese government of General Joseph Mobutu by white mercenaries whom Mobutu himself had hired turned out to be largely a hit-and-run affair. Some 180 mercenaries of French Colonel "Bob" Denard's 6th Commandos, supported by Katanganese soldiers of the Congo army, moved into six towns, the most important being Bukavu and Kisangani. After several brief clashes with Mobutu's advancing regulars, the mercenaries last...
...with them. If that theory is correct, the rebels did not do badly. The two days in which they held the town of Bukavu enabled them to pillage the local bank of several million dollars' worth of zaires, Mobutu's newly created currency for use in the Congo...
Reacting with hysteria, Mobutu ordered a full-scale mobilization of Congolese men and women between the ages of 18 and 25, slapped a dusk-to-dawn curfew on all Europeans in the Congo, and appealed to the U.N. Security Council for protection against an "international Mafia" that he said aimed at his overthrow. At week's end, between bursts of martial music, the Kinshasa radio claimed that forces loyal to Mobutu had recaptured Kisangani and Bukuva. Europeans fleeing from Bukuva into neighboring Rwanda told of looting and grisly retaliations against the remaining whites by Mobutu's troops...
...Mobutu succeeds in getting Tshombe, he will then have to find a new scapegoat for the Congo's troubles. Despite his talk about economic reform, he has so far failed to rein in the Congo's debilitating inflation or spur industrial growth. What he has done, however, is to abolish all opposition political parties, disband Parliament, and have a new constitution written to legitimatize his one-man rule. His general explanation for his policies: the Congolese need discipline...