Mercenary plot foiled — Congo
NZPA-Reuter Brazzaville (Congo) The Congo’s military Government has enforced a security clampdown after announcing that a mercenary plot to invade the country and assassinate its leaders had been foiled. President Joachim Yhomb: Opango said in a television and radio broadcast that his Marxist Government had cancelled independence day celebrations due yesterday. Everyone has been orderec to stay in their home district and the army was confined to barracks, hi said. The President charged tha “Western and African capi talists” had backed a hugs
■ plot to send mercenaries to overthrow and murder not i only himself but the entire military leadership of the re-1 public, one of Africa’s most l staunchly Marxist States. The invasion was to have : been launched on Monday/ he said. “We are in a position to identify the place where the' i mercenary troops and military planes were stationed jin preparation for the attack on Brazzaville,” he said in • his broadcast on Monday ! | night. The president said that ; four former public figures 11 had been arrested as coni spirators, adding: “There can :jbe no pardon, no formal H trial for these incorrigible /men.”
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Press, 16 August 1978, Page 8
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