Word: kivu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...border with the neighboring Brazzaville Congo, where the Peking-backed Congolese National Liberation Committee has its Western headquarters. Formed by politicians loyal to the late Patrice Lumumba and imprisoned Antoine Gizenga, the rebel group is determined to carve up Adoula's tottering nation. Last week, in bucolic, mountainous Kivu province, where the Congo borders Rwanda and Burundi, the rebels were well on their way to success...
Into the Crater. Dr. Tazieff was born in Warsaw of Russian parents, lives in Paris and is a Belgian citizen. A geologist by training, he got hooked on volcanology in 1948 when he was working in Katanga and got a telegram telling him to investigate an eruption near Lake Kivu. He found Mount Kituro blasting furiously, but descended alone into the crater with only a handkerchief tied over his face. The volcano stepped up its action, attacking him with poisonous fumes and great gobs of molten lava. He barely managed to struggle out of the crater alive. "I found...
...which the 1,500,000 Bahutu wrenched control from their longtime feudal masters, who numbered only about 250,000. The Bahutu wreaked a savage reprisal; after Rwanda won its independence in July 1962, some 86,000 Watutsi streamed into neighboring Tanganyika, Uganda, Burundi and the Congo's Kivu Province...
...enhanced by the snorting, dust-throwing performances that they sometimes put on in zoos. But the picture of the gorilla as a beastly beast draws only tolerant smiles from Zoologist George B. Schaller. After two years spent among the mountain gorillas (Gorilla gorilla beringei) that live near Lake Kivu in the eastern Congo, Schaller is convinced that his hairy friends are placid, peace-loving creatures who seldom damage anything except edible plants. His book, The Mountain Gorilla (University of Chicago; $10), is crammed with more information about the great beasts than any nongorilla has ever gathered before...
Barefoot Police. Things are almost as chaotic in the Congo's other 17 provinces, where local bush Caesars go their own anarchic ways unimpeded by central authority. In coffee-rich North Kivu, Provincial President Benezeth Moley maintains headquarters in one room of a general store, runs things with a 300-man police force recruited from local tribesmen...