THE CONGO CAESARS OF THE BUSH AN ELDERLY SHOPKEEPER IN ELISABETHVILLE IGNORED 
OR PERHAPS DID NOT HEAR A CONGOLESE SOLDIER'S ORDER TO GET 
OFF THE SIDEWALK IN FRONT OF THE HEAVILY GUARDED NATIONAL BANK 
OF KATANGA LAST WEEK . ANGRILY, THE SOLDIER HOISTED HIS RIFLE 
AND SHOT HIM IN THE BACK . AS THE MAN LAY 
GROANING ON THE PAVEMENT, CONGOLESE TROOPS SHOVED AWAY A DOCTOR WHO 
TRIED TO SAVE HIS LIFE . THE COLD-BLOODED KILLING POINTED UP 
THE GRIM FACT THAT NEARLY THREE MONTHS AFTER UNITED NATIONS TROOPS 
CRUSHED SECESSIONIST MOISE TSHOMBE'S REGIME AND PLACED THE PROVINCE UNDER PREMIER 
CYRILLE ADOULA'S CENTRAL GOVERNMENT, PEACE IS FAR FROM RESTORED IN KATANGA 
. EACH GUARD POST THAT THE U.N . HANDS OVER TO 
THE CENTRAL REGIME'S ARMEE NATIONALE CONGOLAISE SEEMS TO PRODUCE A LITTLE 
AREA OF ANARCHY . IN RECENT WEEKS, TRIGGER-HAPPY A.N.C . SOLDIERS 
IN ELISABETHVILLE HAVE KILLED AT LEAST ONE KATANGESE CIVILIAN PER DAY 
. BAREFOOT POLICE . THINGS ARE ALMOST AS CHAOTIC IN THE 
CONGO'S OTHER 17 PROVINCES, WHERE LOCAL BUSH CAESARS GO THEIR OWN 
ANARCHIC WAYS UNIMPEDED BY CENTRAL AUTHORITY . IN COFFEE-RICH NORTH KIVU, 
PROVINCIAL PRESIDENT BENEZETH MOLEY MAINTAINS HEADQUARTERS IN ONE ROOM OF A 
GENERAL STORE, RUNS THINGS WITH A 300-MAN POLICE FORCE RECRUITED FROM 
LOCAL TRIBESMEN . IN MANIEMA PROVINCE, COLD-EYED PRESIDENT HILARIE KISANGA ENFORCES 
DISCIPLINE WITH 1,200 BAREFOOT COPS WHO LOUNGE IN THE STREETS ARMED 
WITH LEAD PIPES, AND WHO LIVE OFF ON-THE-SPOT FINES IMPOSED ON 
PASSERS-BY . PROTESTS A SHOPOWNER : " YOU WALK ON THE 
RIGHT SIDE OF THE STREET AND YOU ARE FINED . YOU 
WALK ON THE LEFT SIDE AND YOU ARE FINED . " 
THE AVERAGE CONGOLESE HAS LITTLE LEGAL REDRESS . TODAY, IN A 
NATION THREE TIMES THE SIZE OF TEXAS, THERE ARE ONLY 47 
JUDGES TO HEAR COMPLAINTS ALL FOREIGNERS, IMPORTED BY THE U.N . 
FROM SUCH COUNTRIES AS EGYPT, SWEDEN, SPAIN AND SWITZERLAND . THIS 
IS JUST ONE OF THE MANY PROBLEMS OF LEOPOLDVILLE'S PREMIER ADOULA 
. LACKING FUNDS AND TRAINED PERSONNEL, HE HAS VIRTUALLY NO CONTROL 
OVER HIS SPRAWLING NATION OF 17 MILLION LARGELY ILLITERATE PEOPLE . 
THE CONGO'S ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURE HAS BEEN RIPPED APART BY TWO YEARS 
OF CIVIL WAR, AND THE CHIEF AIM OF THE NATIONAL PARLIAMENT 
SOMETIMES SEEMS TO BE DESTRUCTION OF ANY CENTRAL AUTHORITY . FOR 
MANY WEEKS, ADOULA'S GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN ON THE RAZOR'S EDGE OF 
DEFEAT AT THE HANDS OF LEOPOLDVILLE'S CHAOTIC LEGISLATURE, WHOSE DEBATES SOMETIMES 
VERGE ON THE INSANE . FORTNIGHT AGO, FOR EXAMPLE, AS THE 
RAGTAG CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES DISCUSSED THE CONGO'S PROPOSED NEW MOTTO " 
UNITY, JUSTICE, PROGRESS " ONE SPEAKER OPINED : " PROGRESS' IS 
NO GOOD . ONE CAN PROGRESS BACKWARD AS WELL AS FORWARD 
. " RETORTED A FELLOW DEPUTY : " THAT GOES FOR 
" WORK' TOO . THERE IS SUCH A THING AS BAD 
WORK . " THEN SILENCE FELL OVER THE CHAMBER AS THE 
PRESIDENT OF THE BODY ROSE TO ANNOUNCE THAT HE HAD MADE 
A STARTLING DISCOVERY THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING . " WE HAVE JUST 
LEARNED, " HE INTONED, " THAT THIS MOTTO IS ALREADY IN 
USE BY WEST GERMANY . " AMID THE UPROAR THAT FOLLOWED, 
DEPUTIES WERE HEARD TO CRY, " WHO IS RESPONSIBLE, WHO ? 
" FINALLY, A PORTLY DEPUTY NAMED EMILE ZOLA MOUNTED THE DAIS 
TO PLEAD : " SO MUCH THE BETTER . NOW WE 
WILL HAVE A TWIN COUNTRY IN THE WORLD . WE ARE 
UNDERDEVELOPED ; GERMANY IS OVERDEVELOPED ; OUR BROTHERHOOD CAN ONLY LEAD 
TO A GOOD RESULT . " WITH THESE SHRILL CRIES RINGING 
IN THEIR EARS, UNITED NATIONS OFFICIALS WENT NERVOUSLY AHEAD WITH PLANS 
TO PULL OUT NEARLY HALF OF THE U.N . CONGO FORCE'S 
PEAK STRENGTH OF 19,000 TROOPS BY SUMMER'S END . THE CONGOLESE 
WOULD HAVE TO MATURE SOME DAY ; THEY MIGHT AS WELL 
BEGIN NOW . IGNORING THE PROTESTS OF A WEST GERMAN EMBASSY 
OFFICIAL IN THE CORRIDOR WHO KEPT INSISTING, " NO, NO, IT'S 
ALL A MISUNDERSTANDING . OUR MOTTO IS " EINIGKEIT, RECHT, FREIHEIT' 
UNITY, JUSTICE, FREEDOM . / 