Word: mobutu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deal harshly with the marauders; yet each time the army units tried to push down the Ruzizi Valley toward the terrorist headquarters at Uvira, they scattered in fright at the first sight of a rebel band. It took the T-28s-and the presence of Army Commander General Joseph Mobutu himself-to rally any kind of organized campaign...
...last the Congolese government seemed aware that it had a problem in Kwilu province. With Army Chief General Joseph Mobutu back on duty after a month-long vacation, 700 green-bereted Congolese commandos from Katanga debarked from planes in the Kwilu capital of Kikwit, began un loading guns and ammunition. The troops had their work cut out for them: a spreading, Communist-aided tribal revolt that has turned...
...solution would be for the Congo's 5,000-man U.N. force to step into Kwilu, but Army Boss Mobutu is jealous of their presence, and Secretary-General U Thant wants to pull all U.N. troops out of the Congo by June 30 in any case...
...government initially sent in a single small infantry unit, 40 men of which were besieged by guerrillas last week in the village of Idiofa. The soldiers' only help was a light plane that flew over, lobbing grenades at the rebels. With Congo Army Commander Joseph Mobutu away on vacation, the government seemed paralyzed. Finally, at week's end, a battalion of Congolese commandos was airlifted to the provincial capital of Kikwit...
...Tshombe have vanished into the bush; roaming bands of them stage highway robberies and raid villages to guzzle the local beer stocks. The 30,000-man Congolese army, whose 1960 mutiny ignited the civil war, has produced a nucleus of disciplined officers, thanks to its spunky commander, General Joseph Mobutu; no longer are unarmed civilians shot down at random in Elisabethville...