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...Midway, Tokyo) who took over TAC at the height of the Berlin Wall crisis, turned it from a relatively small outfit into a major arm of U.S. airpower with 1,400 jet fighters, its own tankers and transports, and the ability to perform any tactical mission from the 1964 Congo missionary rescue to ground support in Viet Nam; of cancer; at Homestead Air Force Base...
...instead of his bemedaled full-dress general's uniform. There was a reason. Mobutu was there to urge his nation to get down to work. For five years, he claimed, politicians had "sacrificed the country for their own interests" and had brought it "hatred, quarrels and corruption." "The Congo no longer produces," he said, "the people no longer work...
...just the sort of medicine that the Congo needed, and the rolled-up sleeve became a nationwide symbol overnight. Some took it for more than a symbol. Next day, when two Leopoldville businessmen walked into the post office building wearing neckties and long, rolled-down sleeves, they were immediately arrested and taken off to a police station by an overzealous cop. He had to let them go when the desk sergeant explained that rolled-up sleeves were a figure of speech...
...farewell to his troops was a bit pompous, but not in the least over stated: "It has been an honor to have led you in the four glorious campaigns in which the Fifth Commando changed the face of the Congo and altered the course of history." With that, Lieut. Colonel Mike Hoare, 47, last week said goodbye to his 250-man force of white mercenaries and departed the Congo for a round-the-world cruise on his 38-ft. yacht...
Trouble was, the excitement had about run out. When Hoare was hired by Premier Moise Tshombe 1½ years ago, Communist-backed rebel Simbas controlled almost half the Congo, including the major centers of Stanleyville and Albertville. Hoare hit them so fast and so hard that he often was able to take towns by simply telephoning ahead and saying that he was coming in. His Fifth Commando helped to rescue nearly 1,800 European hostages, smashed the Simbas' resistance, and ended the threat of a Communist victory...