THE CONGO THE COPS PROTEST THE CONGO'S LATEST MUTINY BEGAN ON PAYDAY 
. OPENING UP THEIR PAY ENVELOPES LAST WEEK, LEOPOLDVILLE'S 3,000-MAN POLICE 
FORCE DISCOVERED THAT THEIR DEMAND FOR A 25 PER CENT WAGE 
HIKE HAD NOT BEEN MET . AT DAWN THE NEXT MORNING, 
THE ANGRY COPS OVERPOWERED THEIR OWN OFFICERS, THEN RAIDED LEOPOLDVILLE'S CITY 
HALL, WHERE THEY TOOK SOME TWO DOZEN HOSTAGES, INCLUDING TWO DEPUTY 
MAYORS AND THE MAYOR'S PREGNANT WIFE . BARRICADING THEMSELVES IN THEIR 
POLICE BARRACKS, THE WELL-ARMED COPS WAITED FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO ANTE 
UP MORE MONEY . INSTEAD, PREMIER CYRILLE ADOULA'S GOVERNMENT DISPATCHED THE 
CONGOLESE ARMY COMMANDER, GENERAL JOSEPH MOBUTU, AND UNITS OF RED-BERETED PARACOMMANDOS 
TO THE POLICE COMPOUND . ORDERING HIS MEN NOT TO SHOOT, 
MOBUTU OPENED THE CAMP'S GATE AND STRODE IN ALONE AND UNARMED 
TO FACE THE MUTINEERS . ROUGHLY HE YANKED THE RINGLEADERS OUT 
OF THE MOB ONE BY ONE, AND DEMANDED THAT THEY GIVE 
UP . WITH THAT THE REVOLT COLLAPSED, AND MOBUTU HIS WELL-CREASED 
TROUSERS STAINED WITH A SPOT OF BLOOD ORDERED THE MUTINY'S LEADERS 
STRIPPED TO THEIR UNDERWEAR AND DRIVEN OFF TO JAIL THROUGH THE 
JEERING CROWD AT THE CAMP'S GATE . 