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...whites, including two Americans, charged with mercenary activities. But officials in the capital concede that resistance continues in the oil-rich northern enclave in Cabinda and in the populous Central Highlands primarily along the Benguela railroad, which is still closed to copper exports from neighboring Zambia and Zaïre. Griggs' report...
...Zaïre is in serious economic trouble; its fortunes rise and fall on the world price of copper-the country's principal export -which has dropped from $1.41 to 68? per lb. over the past two years. Zaïre has recently begun to pay the price for Mobutu's grandiose development schemes, including a national airline, a $1 billion hydroelectric project and a new $800 million copper complex. The government was forced to devalue the currency by 42% this spring and has defaulted on $400 million in foreign loans. The inflation rate has shot...
Despite an abortive coup last year, Mobutu remains unchallenged in his control over both the Popular Movement of the Revolution (MPR), Zaïre's only legal political party, and the country. In a rare interview, Mobutu spoke with TIME Correspondent William McWhirter at his spacious villa, which looks out over the rapids of the Zaïre River and across to the border of Brazzaville. "For all his dashing flamboyance in public," reported McWhirter, "Mobutu was surprisingly low-keyed and serious. He was nevertheless lively, outspoken and outwardly untroubled about the future of his country and the continent...
...INTERVENTION IN ANGOLA. It is a normal episode for young countries. Zaïre has known a lot of turbulence in the past-secessions, rebellions, civil war, and that is what I feel is going on in Angola. There was much more violence than we had, much more vested interest from the outside than in 1960 [in the Congo]. The thing that concerns us is the quantity of heavy sophisticated arms and equipment that the Russians and Cubans have amassed in that country. We cannot, in the face of that, be indifferent. [But] I really don't think...
...MOBUTU'S PROGRAM OF ZAÏREAN "AUTHENTICITY." Authenticity is very simple. It is what you are. It is what I am. It has nothing to do with culture. It is an attitude. The key is not to return to the past but to recover it. We take from our history what is valid for the present. Our women don't wear pants, they don't wear wigs, they don't wear lipstick. Because of this return to authenticity we have a huge culture we can draw from. We still have much "decolonizing...