Word: kolwezi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TIME Photographer Peter Jordan remained in Kolwezi to capture the invasion's grim aftermath on film and made his own way using abandoned cars and bare-rimmed bicycles when he chose not to walk the deserted streets of the town alone. He expects never to return to Kolwezi...
When it was over and the rebels had retreated from Zaïre to the Angolan border, the vastness of Africa seemed to swallow them up. For Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter, who had flown north to enter devastated Kolwezi on the private plane of Zaïre President Mobutu Sese Seko, that vastness was a large part of the challenge. The complications of communication and transportation made the job of staying with the news especially difficult for this week's cover story (see WORLD...
...machines - were available at the battlefront. To file his reports to TIME'S editors in New York, McWhirter was forced to use his hotel phone in the beleaguered capital of Kinshasa. Within a week, he made five trips over the 1,000 miles of grassland between Kinshasa and Kolwezi by hitching plane rides on paratroop convoys, with U.S. cargo shipments, and once on a Belgian 727 converted to a refugee carrier...
Until now, the Carter Administration has reacted to the Soviet-Cuban challenge in Africa with considerable restraint. But the latest invasion of Zaïre and the resulting massacre at Kolwezi appear to have changed that. Late last week U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance met Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in New York City and delivered what was said to be his toughest private lecture to date on the Soviet role in Africa. During his three-day visit to Peking, Carter's National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, urged the Chinese to step up their economic assistance to Africa to provide...
...several other African states. In recent months their troops have been reinforcing governments in Chad and Mauritania against guerrillas. Last year they provided air support to halt the first Shaba invasion. This time, with Belgian help, they quickly organized the airlift to rescue the 3,000 Europeans trapped in Kolwezi...