Word: beene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year, about 7000 people participated inthe anti-abortion march, Hamley said. However,abortion has recently been thrust to the forefrontof state politics as a result of the U.S. SupremeCourt's decision in Webster v. ReproductiveHealth Services, which weakened federalprotection of abortion.
That Mobuto has been asked to speak, however, is not much of a surprise. The Washington Post reported that for all of Mobuto's faults, "he is, diplomats say, an unusually gracious, attentive and generous host" to those who visit him in Zaire. Ah, what style, what grace; how good...
Mobuto is a staunch ally of the United States. Much like Marcos in the Philipines, Noriega in Panama, Pinochet in Chile and the leaders of many other banana republics, Mobuta has been an S.O.B., but he's been our S.O.B. Loyal to a fault, he has kept communism from becoming...
"Zaire is a friend. It is like a faithful woman," said Vunduawe te Pamako, Zaire's former deputy prime minister in 1984. Since 1984. Vunduawe's fate has been unclear--he is either in exile or prison. So much for loyalty to the head of state.
ON a more serious note, however, since Mobuto took power in 1965. Zaire's government has been stable. Zaire has not been wracked by the constant civil war that has plagued other African nations.