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Habitually resplendent in a natty wool jacket, skirt and beaded cap, the paramount chief spends most of his time quaffing Simba beer and palm wine, the latter poured for him from a blue enamel teapot...
...outdoor tea party in Wonderland. Smack in the middle of a mud-fouled road at Pumpi, 40 miles from Secessionist Moise Tshombe's last-ditch headquarters at Kolwezi, United Nations Brigadier Reginald Noronha set up four folding tables and laid out tea, peanut-butter sandwiches, coffee and Simba beer. At 9 a.m.. right on schedule, four Katanga province officials and three representatives of the Union Miniere mining outfit roared up in two autos. ''We have come to meet you as friends," declared one, and the party...
...fighting began with what Elisabethville residents call "L'Affaire Simba"-a reference to Simba beer, the local brew that both sides guzzled on and off duty. As the U.N. told it, boozed-up Katangese gendarmes suddenly opened fire on a detachment of Ethiopian U.N. troops in suburban Lubumbashi. As Tshombe described matters, a few tipsy Ethiopians started the shooting by scrambling atop a 200-ft. slag heap outside the big Union Miniere plant and taking potshots at the Katangese...
...snifter of brandy. As in all East Africa, travelers can quickly pick up enough Swahili to get along on the hunt, e.g., Memsahib nakwisha piga nyati; tia chini ya kitanda ("My wife has shot a buffalo; put it under the bed"), or Hapana taka piga simba leo. Tengeneza chandarua ya mbu na tafadhali ngoja kidogo nge ("I do not want to shoot a lion today. Fix the mosquito net and please leave the room...
...British against the Mau Mau. As the raiders withdrew, they were closely harassed by a patrol of the regular Negro King's African Rifles. When the gunsmoke cleared, three Mau Mau lay dead. One of them, in a stolen, red-tabbed British colonel's uniform, was Simba, the Lion...