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...Swahili cry went up in the mountains of Central Africa: "Dian kufa!": Dian is dead. The victim of the slaying was American Anthropologist Dian Fossey, 53, author of the 1983 best seller about her work, Gorillas in the Mist. No one has ever been punished for the machete murder -- a ghastly end for a gentle soul...
...beset with resentments toward the father who deserted his family when she was six. Spiritually restless, she converted to Roman Catholicism, then abandoned the faith. Her social relations were equally unstable. She was involved in many liaisons and underwent an abortion, but no man held her interest for long. Fossey's career was given the best possible start when Paleontologist Louis Leakey signed her on as his research assistant, yet she was never fully confident of her talent or of those around her. In the field or at home, professional and sexual jealousies continued to mar her career. Occasionally...
Early on the morning of Dec. 27, 1985, Dian Fossey, 53, was found dead in the bedroom of her two-room corrugated-tin cabin. Her face had been slashed in two by the blows of a machete. Her shocked acquaintances and colleagues suspected she had been murdered by the Rwandan poachers against whom she had waged war for more than a decade. She had burned their huts, cut their trap lines and paid government guards to bring suspected poachers to her for interrogation. Some of her acquaintances believed the poachers had long ago begun to retaliate by slaughtering her favorite...
...Rwandan government, it turns out, had different ideas. Last week it announced it had issued an arrest warrant for McGuire, who stayed on to run the camp after Fossey's death. He left Rwanda in late July, after hearing rumors of his impending arrest. A government official, Jean-Damasdene Nkezabo, disclosed that although McGuire was regarded as the "principal author of the murder," five Rwandans who had worked at the camp were being charged as accomplices. The presumed motive was the theft of scientific research that Fossey had accumulated over the years...
...official statements were greeted by widespread skepticism. Declared Biologist Ian Redmond, who knew both Fossey and McGuire and spent two years at the camp: "The charge is nonsense. They've concentrated on trying to find someone who is not a Rwandan." Others questioned whether, if he was really implicated, McGuire would have remained at the camp for seven months and whether he could have expected to gain very much by stealing scientific data to which he already had access. And besides, they argued, McGuire had been in Rwanda just five months at the time of Fossey's death, knew only...