Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What are Mobutu's chances for survival? A career soldier with a gigantic ego and a preposterous life-style (he has built palaces for himself in each of the country's nine regions), "le Guide," as Mobutu likes to call himself, has brought Zaire to the verge of economic collapse. Nonetheless, with so much Western aid on the way, there seems a fair chance that the "invasion" of Shaba may eventually be reduced to the kind of low-level guerrilla warfare that has smoldered on, in parts of southern and eastern Zaire, for much of the past...
...team will go up against Springfield College, a traditional powerhouse, at Soldier's Field on Wednesday...
...women's lacrosse team set the stage for a new, successful era of women's sports at Harvard by smashing the Princeton Tigers 7-4 Saturday morning at Soldier's Field. The lacrosse victory shines against the dark season of losses to the Tigers in field hockey, swimming and basketball...
...Katangese have raised the sharpest challenge yet to Mobutu. A Belgian-trained soldier and former journalist, Mobutu has managed to unify a nation with a bloody history of chaos and tribal war. Parceling out privileged positions and sinecures to leaders of Zaïre's 200 ethnic groups, Mobutu in return demanded and got almost feudal loyalty. High-living and profligate, he tried to burnish his image as a 20th century chief by such flamboyant stunts as the "Rumble in the Jungle" between Heavy-weights Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in 1974, which lost the government $4.1 million...
...fast cars, and usually picked up the tab on his visits to local nightspots. He showered his girl friends, who fondly called him der Rosenkavalier, with clothing, jewelry and champagne. No one thought it strange that Sigi was able to indulge such playboy tastes on his $790-a-month soldier's pay. After all, he was known to be a lottery addict, and had once boasted of winning...