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Skepticism about the Carter Administration's charge of deep Communist involvement in the invasion of Zaïre last month was also voiced by members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Chairman John Sparkman said the evidence that Cuba had trained and equipped the Katangese rebels was "circumstantial" and "substantial but by no means conclusive." Senator Jacob Javits was the only committee member who seemed fully satisfied with the Administration's contention last week. Though the evidence produced by U.S. intelligence has not been made public, TIME Correspondent William McWhirter has learned that it includes transcripts...
...Administration was fully aware of African criticism of the Western role in Zaïre, and of the danger that the Soviet Union and Cuba might respond to the creation of a pro-Western African force by trying to assemble a radical African military power capable of causing serious mischief in Rhodesia and other trouble spots. The Administration also realized that in underscoring its opposition to Soviet-Cuban adventurism in Africa, the U.S. must not appear to be embracing the policies of South Africa and Rhodesia, whose governments have quietly hoped that the recent troubles in Zaïre would...
Indeed, South African Foreign Minister Roelof Botha welcomed Carter's criticism of Soviet activities in Africa. It was now up to Pretoria to convince the U.S. Administration of "the realities facing Africa," he said. Significantly, Carter made little mention of Zaïre in his Annapolis speech; he may well have been responding to U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young's argument that the U.S. must not lose sight of the far greater importance of the black-white struggle in southern Africa. At the Paris meeting, the U.S., as well as Britain and Belgium, argued for an African military force...
European residents of Zaïre had grown particularly nervous as most of the remaining French troops prepared to leave. In the town of Likasi, north of Lubumbashi, 49 out of 50 French engineers voted to evacuate their families. Nearly half the white population in the region had left by week's end. Some had gone for good. Others, unsure of whether to return after the long summer holiday, were shipping out their belongings to be on the safe side...
...Many of Zaïre's problems, such as the general incompetence of the government, stem from the fact that the country was so grossly unprepared for the independence it was suddenly granted by the Belgians in 1960. But other problems, as for example the rampant corruption at every level, have grown worse during the twelve-year rule of President Mobutu. Says a ranking Western diplomat in Kinshasa: "We really question whether we are negotiating with people who are serious. We wonder how many of those around Mobutu are concerned with anything other than filling their pockets and making...