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...Amin has been purging the officer corps of its Langi and Acholi tribesmen, who are mostly Christian. In their place, he has promoted hundreds of Moslem troops, including illiterates from his own tiny Kakwa tribe, and reportedly placed them in charge of newly recruited mercenaries from nearby Sudan and Zaïre. In consequence, two-thirds of the army's officers are now Moslem, even though Moslems account for only 500,000 of Uganda's 10 million people. (Of the remainder, 5,000,000 are Christians and the rest pagan...
Last week Uganda's neighbors, who have been alarmed by Amin's policies, stepped up efforts to keep peace in the area. Zaïre's President Mobutu Sese Seko visited Kampala, and was presented by Amin with the Order of the Source of the Nile, Uganda's highest medal. The two leaders even agreed to rename Lake Albert and Lake Edward, which lie on the border of Zaïre and Uganda and will henceforth be known, respectively, as Mobutu Sese Seko Lake and Idi Amin Dada Lake. More important, Mobutu seemingly won Amin...
Social Ills. Despite the built-in contradiction-how can a place be inviolate and used at the same time?-the U.S. example has stirred other nations to emulation; by now, 102 countries from Australia to Zaïre, from Japan to Argentina, have set up some 1,200 national parks of their own. Their parks specialists gathered in Yellowstone last week to discuss mutual problems at the Second World Conference on National Parks...
With his unchallenged power, Mobutu has succeeded in giving his country the two things it needed most: a measure of peace and relative stability. In consequence, Zaïre is beginning to attract foreign investment on a rising scale. A Japanese mining group is about to open a large new copper mine near Lubumbashi (the former Elisabethville), for instance, and to the northwest of Lubumbashi an international consortium has discovered what may be the world's richest bed of copper ore. In Kinshasa, formerly Leopoldville, four auto manufacturers are planning to open assembly plants, Goodyear has just completed...
...they will be able to recover their full investment within three years, which means that in four years they will have taken out of the country more than they put into it. Even so, some prospective investors decide, after a few days of exploring, that setting up shop in Zaïre is more trouble than it is worth. What turns them off, most of all, is a well-established system of graft known as matabiche (probably taken from a Portuguese word, matabichos, meaning bug-killer, with the implication that there are bugs everywhere to be taken care...