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...fight harder if we knew we'd be cut up into little pieces if we were captured, but they figure on putting a little fear into the other side," he says. Last April, McGuire helped to ferry Col. "Black Jack" Schramme's white mercenaries out of the Congo to Rwanda, and he says that even the mercenaries, by some accounts the most unpleasant white men around--felt a little bitterness at the African fighting style. "They (the mercenaries) feel that they're getting paid to kill a man. Okay, that's their business, so they'll kill him, but they...
Portugal, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somali Republic, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Republic, United Kingdom, United States, Upper Volta, Uruguay, Venezuela, South Viet Nam, Yugoslavia, Zambia...
...regime in Rhodesia as a neighbor, Zambia sees its economic future in East Africa. Even Somalia's President Abdinashid AH Shermarke, whose country has recently encouraged rebellious tribes in both Kenya and Ethiopia, had cooled off enough to come along and ask to join. The other nations represented-Rwanda, Burundi, both Congos, the Sudan and the Central African Republic-are hoping that the new Community will bring better communications, air service and highways to a large part of Africa...
...Despite its recent mercenary uprising and new rounds of racial violence and pillaging, the Congo has cause for hope. Last week, as the country marked the second anniversary of the army coup that overthrew Joseph Kasavubu in 1965, the mercenaries who have plagued it for years were in neighboring Rwanda, waiting with their suitcases and women for a one-way ticket out of Africa. Moreover, President Joseph Mobutu can claim credit for a lot more than driving out the "meres." In his two years of rule, he has laid at least the foundations for a more stable and efficient country...
Under the circumstances, the most promising tactic for Schramme and his men would be to scram. The big question is how to arrange their escape. At week's end the U.S. and other embassies were putting pressure on the Congo's eastern neighbor, Rwanda, to permit the meres to cross the border and be evacuated by plane...