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Newcomers Nancy Kerrebrock and Rian Smith occupy seats four and five in the middle of the boat. Huntsman is especially optimistic about Kerrebrock, who he said is "one of the strongest people I've ever seen...
...capital, called the invaders an army of "mercenaries led by other mercenaries from across the Atlantic and prompted by a third country with an ideology of international conquest"-clearly a charge that the Cubans were involved actively and the Russians indirectly. In fact the soldiers were Zaïrian rebels who had fought in the army of Katangese Leader Moise Tshombe in the early 1960s. Remember Tshombe? He tried to set up his own regime in the copper-wealthy province of Katanga and secede from the Congo. After the central government crushed that movement (with U.N. and U.S. help...
Imperial Manner. The invasion started quietly a fortnight ago when the Zaïrian rebels-probably no more than 2,000, though Kinshasa placed their number at 5,000-slipped across the border into Zaïre's Shaba region (the former Katanga province) and began to move toward the copper mines. According to U.S. reports, the Katangese had crossed the border in trucks provided by Angola, and were equipped with Soviet-made rockets. They were accompanied by a number of white troops; these could have been Cuban soldiers, but they could also have been Belgian or other European...
...Unique. The Zaiïrian example is of major interest to the industrial as well as the developing world. "Zaïre's folly is not so unique," observes an American businessman in Kinshasa, the capital. Third World countries as a group have piled up a foreign debt that is estimated to be as high as $150 billion; international conferences resound with cries for a moratorium or stretch-out of repayments on a large part of that debt. By mid-1976 U.S. banks alone had some $30 billion in outstanding loans to five nations-Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru...
...story, $50 million world trade center is rising in Kinshasa; Mobutu hopes to make the city the trading crossroads of Africa-although the telephone system is so poor that some government officials use walkie-talkies. Air Zaïre has two DC-10s but only one Zaïrian pilot who can fly them...