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...National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski harshly denounced the Soviets for violating the "code of detente" and for making a "shortsighted attempt to exploit global difficulties." Brzezinski and other U.S. officials maintained, in the face of Soviet and Cuban denials, that the rebels who invaded Zaïre's mineral-rich Shaba province last month had been trained by Cuban troops and equipped by Moscow. Insisted a White House aide: "We've got the goods on them. We've got a file three inches thick." The Administration was exploiting the issue of Soviet and Cuban involvement in the Zaïrian crisis...
...people have been predicting that Zaïre?the former Belgian Congo?would eventually go up in flames. Despite corruption, misrule and tribal enmities, the country has somehow survived, but seldom has its future looked as grim as it did last week. True, the latest invasion of Zaïre's Shaba region by Katangese rebels based in neighboring Angola had been repulsed. But the damage, political and psychological as well as material, would take a long time to repair. As they sifted through the wreckage, French Legionnaires found the bodies of several more victims of the fighting and massacre. At week...
...Carter Administration, the most pressing and stormiest question concerning the Shaba invasion was the nature and extent of the role played by the Soviet Union and by Cuba, which now has 20,000 soldiers and 4,000 civilians based in Angola. In addition, the U.S. and its European allies were concerned about how to extend some limited military support to the Zaïrian government of President Mobutu Sese Seko...
...Europeans are not returning, the Shaba rebels almost certainly will be doing so. The Tigers' losses were limited, considering the size of the operation, and the captured weapons can easily be replaced. In an interview last week with the Paris-based weekly Afrique-Asie, F.N.L.C. Leader Nathaniel Mbumba said that the Shaba incursion had resulted in an "irreversible situation" and that the rebels were determined to drive President Mobutu from power. The next stage in that effort may be a low-level campaign of harassment that Zaïre's 40,000-man army will find hard...
...battle-hungry members of the world's most-storied fighting unit, last week's 650-paratroop rescue mission in Shaba represented a rare chance to relive a glorious and bloodied past. Not since 1970, when a group of commandos put down a modest rebellion in the African Republic of Chad, had the Foreign Legion seen action in the field. Nowadays, most legionnaires spend their time on such mundane tasks as putting out forest fires in Corsica, constructing roads in French Guiana and guarding French nuclear testing sites in Tahiti...