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...purring offspring of Iago and Cruella De Vil, hires a pack of hyenas as his goons: clever Shenzi (Whoopi Goldberg), giddy Banzai (Cheech Marin) and idiotic Ed (Jim Cummings), who says little but is happy to chew voraciously on his own leg. The hero's helpers, who save Simba in the desert and teach him their live-for-today philosophy, Hakuna matata -- Swahili for "What, me worry?" -- are Timon (Nathan Lane), a streetwitty meerkat, and the lumbering wart-hog Pumbaa (Ernie Sabella). They chew beetles...
...most boneheaded decisions ever made by a municipal authority -- Keystone Kops reinventing Vietnam as a minifarce in which a neighborhood is destroyed in order to save it. For Cudjoe, the big bang represents creation in the form of a mysterious survivor, a boy known as Simba Muntu (Lion Man) seen walking away from the burning wreckage. The search for Simba provides the novel with an open-ended structure that allows Wideman to display his talents...
Between combat jobs, the mercenaries are photographers, actors, accountants and farmers. They practice unarmed combat, play war games on the weekends and hang around certain cafés and bars of southern Africa and Western Europe waiting for contracts through the grapevine. A typical hangout in Brussels advertises "Simba, the beer of Katanga. " Inside, empty cartridges are lined above the counter and photos of mercenaries cover the walls...
...Hoare adopted the Wild Goose emblem for his commandos in the Congo, and it became notorious in 1964 when the mercenaries "liberated" Stanleyville from the "Simba" rebels...
Innocent civilians have not been the only victims. At Busia, a village that straddles Uganda's border with Kenya, 500 Simba troops were preparing for what their commander, one of Amin's nephews, called a "noble, bloody" last stand against an advancing column of Tanzanians. The screams of Simbas who were being garroted by their comrades for counseling surrender or trying to escape across the border could clearly be heard by passers-by on the town's unpaved main street...