Word: simba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bunker Hill? He is talking about the Simba rebellion of 1964, which was far bloodier and more basic than any fight in the vicinity of Boston. This film spills plenty of blood, but it turns the Congo's victims into plastic participants in a war that is not quite real. The commander (Rod Taylor) and the sergeant (Jim Brown) are at the head of a small band of mercenaries and Congolese troops. Their assignment is to rescue an outpost of helpless whites. Even before the battle begins, however, Brown is forced to restrain Taylor from murdering a murder-bent...
...adventure story, Dark of the Sun is a workmanlike display worthy of a Ph.D. in demolition warfare. As a vignette of the Simba rebellion, which it purports to be, it is arrant nonsense. The Congolese national army, which it depicts as heroic, was in fact undisciplined and corrupt. The Simba rebels, portrayed as raping terrorists, were in fact relatively disciplined. Held in thrall by a powerful black dawa (magic), the Simbas were forbidden to steal from the whites or even lay hands on a white woman-whose touch, they believed, was evil...
...admission of ignorance. But in releasing Foster's testimony before a closed session of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, the Pentagon last week righted the record. Witchcraft, it contended, is part of modern warfare: the $522.50 study analyzed the key role of Congolese sorcerers in the 1964 Simba uprising, when U.S. aircraft dropped Belgian paratroopers to rescue foreign hostages in Stanleyville. Dawa (magic) concocted by tribal witch doctors induced Simba warriors to believe that enemy bullets turned to water; their morale crumpled after Mama Onema, a crotchety hag with one pendulous breast, threatened to turn her fetishes against...
Kaffir-a-Day. Zambesi Club "meres" are white Rhodesians and South Africans from Colonel "Mad Mike" Hoare's Fifth Commando-a unit that left the Congo last April after stamping out a Communist-instigated rebellion of Simba warriors. Other mercenaries include Sahara-scorched French veterans of the O.A.S. uprising in Algeria, tough British colonial troops from the old Indian army, and unashamedly racist Rhodesians who joke about "sending a Kaffir a day to heaven." In the Congo, they earned the nickname Les Affreux (the Terrible Ones). Scores of them can be found in the bars of Johannesburg and Salisbury...
When he came to power eight months ago, Congolese President Joseph Mobutu faced a tricky military problem. The Simba rebellion had been crushed, but the armies that had done the job were still in business-and dangerous tensions existed among them...