Hassan troops expected to aid Mobutu
i NZPA-Reuter Kinshasa ■g> Moroccan troops are exs 'pected in Zaire to help GovJernment forces fight insurgents in the country’s south-„-western Shaba province, according to the Zaire Government. ,tl In Rabat there was no d immediate confirmation of - the announcement, made in . Kinshasa, but usually re-: ,t liable sources said that'there! o were indications that the! e troops were already on their ! way. A Government spokesman] / in Kinshasa that the dis-1 e, patch of troops had come - (after a 12-minute telephone' :conversation between Presisjdent Mobutu Sese Seko of! < Zaire and King Hassan of] I (Morocco. el He did not say how many t; of the 90,000-strong Royal r Moroccan Armed Forces j would be arriving. t The spokesman said that I China had promised to fly 301 tonnes of equipment to Zaire) soon, and help had also been 1 promised by an African'! country which he did not,] • name. j General Driss Ben Aomar 1 El-Alami, the Moroccan i Posts Minister who com- ’ manded an infantry contin- f
ijgent in a United Nations peace-keeping force in what - was then Congo in 1960, -(was one of three Ministers -[who were summoned by ■(King Hassan, according to ,[the Rabat sources. -I The Zaire official news (agency A.Z.A.P. said that j,President Mobutu had appealed for help from fellow ji members of the Organisation . of African Unitv to deal . with what he called “mer- . cenaries in the pay of the! '■ ISoviet-Cuban coalition." President Mobutu has pre-1 piously accused Angola and, .[Cuba of backing last .‘month’s invasion of Shaba! — charges denied by the] J two countries. d In Moscow the Soviet! -inews agency Tass said that’ [reports of Soviet, Cuban, or -Angolan involvement were “slanderous inventions” calculated to distract attention from the interference in Zaire of the United States and other North Atlantic [Treaty Organisation countries. Diplomatic sources in Lu[saka said the insurgents, believed to be exiled Kata- ■ ngese gendarmes, appeared. to have made no further advances in the last week, and were apparently waiting for ! fresh supplies. ( ■
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