The loud noise awakened me with a start; I rushed to the door to see what had happened. As I opened it, I heard a rhythmic shout, “Ali!” “Ali!” “Ali!” “Ali!”  Dawn was just breaking across the small city where we lived in Congo (then called Zaire) but I knew that Muhammad Ali had done the impossible—defeating George Foreman in Kinshasa, in the Rumble in the Jungle.  The fight for the world heavyweight championship belt had started at 4:00 am,