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...territory around it, ever since they hurled back battalions of Congolese troops sent to put down their revolt. They have managed to keep the Congo government on edge with their threats, raised doubt about the effectiveness of law in the bush, and sullied the prestige of President Joseph Mobutu. Their departure, if it really comes about, is bound to make the Congo a more stable place. Under terms of a document signed by Schramme, the International Red Cross will arrange to have the whites flown to Malta and the blacks sent to Zambia in southern Africa...
...encouraging, the President faced a torrent of Senate criticism when he sent planes to aid the Mobutu regime in the Congo...
Another was that the conference's willingness to come to the Congo gave a boost to its genial host, President Joseph Désiré Mobutu, whose prestige has lately fallen both at home and abroad...
...Chefs. To attract the VIPs, Mobutu spent $10 million that he could hardly afford. On a bluff overlooking the Congo River, he built an entire village to house the delegates, complete with four-bedroom bungalows, tennis courts, a swimming pool and even a miniature golf course. Thirty tons of food were brought in for the occasion, and stewards prepared to serve 600 bottles of imported wine a day to accompany the meals cooked by 20 imported Belgian chefs. While bands played such incongruous tunes as Marching Through Georgia, squadrons of police escorts roared down Kinshasa's boulevards all week...
...Congolese troops. A Belgian mining technician and his wife were murdered a few days later. Belgian officials barely bothered to protest. With more than 20 whites killed by Congolese soldiers since the mercenary rebellion began, Brussels has just about lost all confidence in the ability or will of Mobutu and his government to protect whites. "Sometimes," sighed a white resident of the Katanga provincial capital of Lubumbashi last week, "we feel as though this is a Nazi state and we are the Jews...