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Mobutu also unveiled a remarkable secret weapon in the war: pygmy power. Some 150 "expert pygmy bowmen" -as a Zaïrian official described them -were sent to Shaba to infiltrate enemy lines. The diminutive tribesmen (average height under 5 ft.) were praised by one government newspaper as "formidably efficient units who can move silently and well against the enemy." Although they were issued rifles, most pygmies prefer carrying home-made bows that shoot arrows whose tips are coated with a lethal drug (derived from local plants), which kills the monkeys that they hunt for food. Skeptical foreign correspondents could...
Shabby Relic. At a press conference, Amin admitted only that six officers had been killed in a short-lived uprising that had been staged by dissident tribesmen of the army's Tiger battalion. After that, he claimed, one man had been killed and another wounded when tribesmen "burst into" the military police headquarters in the capital. The clear impression was that Amin was building pretexts for staffing both the government and his Soviet-equipped armed forces largely with members of his own small Moslem tribe, the Kakwa...
...that some kind of "plot" in this case was not altogether a flight of Amin's paranoid imagination. Some observers in Kampala believe that he ferreted out a scheme involving dissident soldiers and pilots and ordered a military campaign against a border village in which hundreds of tribesmen may have been killed; Amin has made no mention of this. In any event, the world has only his word that the ministers and the archbishop were involved in some plot. He merely described the "accident" as "a punishment of God, because God does not want to make others suffer...
...sanity. She endured for weeks under the threat of execution by her captors. At one point she was convinced that her country had abandoned her. But last week the long nightmare ended for French Archaeologist Françoise Claustre, 39. After 33 months as a political prisoner of rebel tribesmen in the remote Tibesti desert of northern Chad, Claustre was handed over, exhausted but unharmed, to French officials in Tripoli. Her rescuer: none other than Libya's mercurial leader, Muammar Gaddafi...
...resistance. So far its main achievement has been to terrorize innocent civilians. MiG fighter-bombers have napalmed entire villages near Angola's border with Namibia (South West Africa); herds of cattle have been slaughtered, not only to feed the attacking forces but to punish the pro-UNlTA tribesmen...