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...Leopard Skin. Among the blacks there had sprung up a quasi-religious group called Abako, which Belgian newspapers brushed off as merely a tribal organization. Originally it had been formed by the Bakongo tribe of the south as a sort of protective union against the harder-working and more favored Bangalas. But under the leadership of a slight, timid-looking but steel-willed fanatic named Joseph Kasavubu, 41, it gradually turned its anger upon bigger targets...
...dream of reviving the fabled 14th century kingdom of the Congo, combining territories now French, Belgian and Portuguese. After his election as one of Léopoldville's commune burgomasters in 1957, he had himself declared "Supreme Leader" by his followers, and began receiving homage seated on a leopard skin, symbol of tribal supreme power. Meanwhile, the rival Bangalas also began organizing, and the bush telegraph began to echo the nationalist sentiments of the recent All African Peoples Conference in Accra. To make matters worse, the demand for Congolese copper ore hit a slump, and jobless natives swarmed into...
...suspects were rounded up and they readily admitted murdering 34 victims, explained that they ate the hand muscles of their victims to gain the skillfulness of the murdered one, the heart and liver to acquire his courage, the sexual organs to gain his power. Like the famed Aniotas or leopard men, Belgian officials say, the murderers often wore hooded, waist-long cloaks of crocodile skin that left their arms free to seize and strike. The attacks mostly took place at dawn or twilight in foggy or hazy weather, and the victims were often paralyzed by fright by the supernatural appearance...
...Leopard Tails & Stools. On his birthday Prime Minister Nkrumah could look contentedly at a nation in which political opposition has very nearly been driven from sight. In Parliament his Convention People's Party can muster 80 votes against the United Party's 24. Opposition leaders are discovering that the quickest route to jail is to accuse the government of malpractice. The one remaining threat to Nkrumah's power comes from the tribal chieftains, whose emblems of authority are stools and whose leopard-tailed warriors held off the British for 50 years...
...would carry a nuclear warhead in battles. The orange tube disappeared into the water, spiraled down in its hunt for the right depth, leveled out and rammed the submarine, its wooden nose smashing forward near the port torpedo tubes. The aircraft turned and headed back to the flagship. Sea Leopard was destroyed. Nothing was left. Only the sea, ominous and black and still. And 40 miles away, on the bridge of the Valley Forge, Admiral Jimmy Thach silently studied the reports of the submarine's death. The kill had come under relatively soft circumstances: Sea Leopard was nonnuclear...