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First there were the white mercenaries hired by Mobutu's predecessor and enemy, Moise Tshombe, a tough gang of Belgians, Frenchmen, anti-Castro Cubans and English colonials, all with ties of loyalty to Tshombe. Then there were the 2,500 Katangese "gendarmes," whose fiery red-and-yellow scarves and flashing bush knives had figured in every Congolese conflict since the Tshombe secession of 1960. Finally there was ex-General Mobutu's own Armee Nationale Congolaise, inefficient as fighters but at least loyal to his government. Fearful of disarming or disbanding the "Kats," who might stir up trouble back...
...past three years, France has spent $600 million on the new test facility. Some 15,000 Frenchmen, supported by 40% of France's navy, have been busy building bunkers, laying airstrips, deepening Tahiti's harbor and extending its piers. Last week, the job completed on schedule, French Admiral Jean Lorain gave the order from aboard his flagship, the cruiser De Grasse, and an irregular black mushroom rose above Mururoa lagoon...
...specify a bottle of Préfontaines to a sommelier will make his eyeballs roll. Préfontaines is very much a vin ordinaire, the sturdy stuff that washes down the bread and cheese and accounts for 90% of the 1.5 billion gal. of wine drunk by Frenchmen every year. It will never make a select wine list, but it has made another important listing: the shares of the Préfontaines company, D.M.S., have gone on the Paris Bourse for the first time. This is an indication of the success of Préfontaines in France...
...Dday: "The fact is that De Gaulle the man does not amount to a great deal-now. The De Gaulle who counts is De Gaulle the symbol-the half-seen, half-known figure who to millions of Frenchmen personifies the French will to survive ... to restore France to greatness...
...Year, for weathering the Algerian crisis and setting in motion long-overdue internal reforms: "Above all, he has given Frenchmen back their pride, swept away the miasma of self-contempt that has hung over France since its ignominious capitulation to Hitler...