(23 Mar 1997) T/I 11:14:51 GS:10:30:43
A US army airborne unit landed in the Congo on Sunday (23/3),
across the river from the Zairean capital Kinshasa, to prepare
for the possible evacuation of foreigners from neighbouring
Zaire.
In his first public appearance since returning to Kinshasa two
days ago, President Mobutu Sese Seko vowed on Sunday to stop his
country falling apart at the hands of rebels who have swept
across much of eastern Zaire.
SHOWS:
ITALY/CONGO/ZAIRE 23/3
AVIANO, NORTHERN ITALY:
0.00 WS US Army paratroopers unloading gear from bus
0.06 MS paratroopers stacking up gear
0.13 CU paratrooper setting up cot in large tent
0.18 WS rows of cots, dozing paratroopers
0.22 MS paratroopers boarding US Air Force transport plane for
flight to Congo
BRAZZAVILLE, CONGO
0.30 MS flight from Italy landing
0.30 CU nose of plane taxiing past traffic controller
0.41 MS welcoming party waiting
0.43 WS Major General Edwin P. Smith, commander of the US
operation, leaving plane and shaking hands
0.49 English NATSOT Major General Edwin P. Smith: "Right now
we're just an enabling force doing assessment and planning
and obviously we will have options open to us in accordance
with whast the requirement turns out to be -- if in fact
there is a requirement."
KINSHASA, ZAIRE
1.01 MS Zairean President Mobutu Sese Seko (wearing leopard-skin
cap) and South African vice-president Thabo Mbeki coming
out of presidential residence
1.05 WS reporters and others on lawn in front of residence
1.08 CU Mobutu and Mbeki shaking hands and embracing
1.14 CU Mobuto speaking to reporters in French, sayng he had
returned from Europe to look after the "higher interests
of Zaire -- our national unity and territorial integrity."
1.28 MS Mobuto going back inside residence
1.34 WS front of residence, reporters gathered around porch
1.38 Vision ends
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