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Meanwhile, Nairobi Bureau Chief David Wood flew to Lusaka, then chartered a plane into northern Zambia, landing at a missionary station and school a few miles from the Zaïre border. Here the transportation problem beset him too. The missionaries fed him and translated for him but balked at lending him a car: Spanish journalists the previous year had borrowed a local farmer's car, only to be arrested across the border in Zaïre and have the car destroyed. Consequently, Wood explored the nearby border roads to report on the strange victory march of the rebels...
...late 1964, when the West mounted a similar rescue mission to save 1,300 whites stranded in Stanleyville (now Kisangani) during the Congo's Simba rebellion. But they were still acutely aware that the enduring problem was that of a continent unable to govern its own affairs. As the Zambia Daily Mail observed, "The almost casual ease with which European powers can fly into an African country and airlift its nationals or occupy whole towns is making the very concept of African independence meaningless...
...near Lubumbashi. Mobutu gave the site, covering hundreds of kilometers, to OTRAG in much the same way colonies were assigned to European monopolies in the 19th century. OTRAG may remove the inhabitants and establish its own laws; its personnel are not subject to Zaire laws. The site borders on Zambia and Tanzania, and is only a few hundred kilometers from Angola--a fact that has made these independent countries understandably nervous. But rocket-testing, even on the huge scale envisioned, will bring no prosperity to most of the inhabitants of Shaba. Pushed off the better land by Europeans and Mobutu...
...invasion apparently caught Mobutu's troops in Shaba by surprise. The rebels came from two directions. Some moved along the Benguela railroad, which runs from Shaba through Angola to the Atlantic Ocean. Others passed through the northern tip of Zambia, whose Lunda tribesmen are friendly kin of the Katangese exiles. They traveled in small groups and wore native dress, but carried AK-47s and other Soviet-made equipment over their shoulders. They insisted that no "Cubbanos" had come with them. Nonetheless, guerrillas declared that their goal was not simply the liberation of Shaba from Kinshasa's rule...
...prevented the death toll from rising into the thousands. As it is, the Lunda people are terrified of reprisals if the new rebel attack on Shaba is turned back. "We want to be left in peace," says Chief Lukama, leader of a Lunda contingent that sought refuge in Zambia. "We are eager to go back home to Zaïre when it is peaceful. We don't mind Mobutu if he would just leave us alone. But he has never left our people alone...