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...seminars and advanced studies in agriculture, health, sanitation and land reform. More than 5,000 have taken advantage of Taipei's offer. So well known has the program become in Africa that recently the Taiwanese were asked to extend their assistance to gastronomy: at the request of President Mobutu, two Taipei chefs flew off to Kinshasa to impress the Congolese with their skills...
Whether the Congolese army had forced Mobutu to have Mulele removed or whether the whole affair was a Mobutu plot remained unclear. But the execution cracked the veneer of stability and national reconciliation under which Mobutu has lately ruled. Across the Congo River, Brazzaville broke relations with Kinshasa over the Mulele affair. Its radio warned that "rebellion has not died with Mulele...
...water. Eventually the rebellion collapsed, partly because the Congolese army grew somewhat more efficient, partly because the geographical isolation of Kwilu province made it impossible for Mulele to replace the bows and poisoned arrows of his followers with modern weapons. Last week the Congolese government of President Joseph Desire Mobutu squared accounts with the former rebel leader by executing...
...once Education Minister for the late Patrice Lumumba and later an ambassador for the secessionist Stanleyville regime of Left-Winger Antoine Gizenga, had returned to Kinshasa in late September after nearly four years in hiding and in exile. Foreign Minister Justin Bomboko announced that Mulele had rallied to the Mobutu government and thus came under an amnesty proclaimed last August. He personally escorted the former rebel across the Congo River from the neighboring Congo Brazzaville, while Mobutu was on a private visit to Morocco. On his arrival, Mulele was feted over champagne and caviar. But Mobutu had hardly returned...
Beginning a recent visit to the Ivory Coast, Congo President Joseph Mobutu raised his hosts' eyebrows by shrugging that he would not believe in President Houphouët-Boigny's "economic miracle" until he personally saw proof of it. A few days of touring the Ivory Coast were enough to convince Mobutu. "Now that I've visited Houphouët and his country," he said, "I wonder which of us is the real revolutionary...