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...coming week, however, the most important vote is the one the summitteers themselves may take to replace Commission President Jacques Delors, who steps down in December after 10 historic years. The race is between Belgian Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene, supported by France and Germany, and outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers, now cast as the British and "small-country" candidate. Both will be in Corfu, and each can, in principle, veto the other. Should make for an interesting meeting...
...estimated 15,000 to 20,000 soldiers of the R.P.F., it has been a bitter homecoming. Many were born or have lived most of their life in exile, their families driven from the former Belgian colony after the Hutu ousted the Tutsi elite from power in 1959. In neighboring Burundi, Tanzania, Zaire and Uganda, they suffered the indignities of the stateless: scapegoats for the political crises of the day. Through it all, the exiles saw their homeland as a mythical country of verdant hillsides and crystal lakes, whose people and terrain they could glimpse only in textbooks. "I didn...
...merchant, Maurice Tempelsman, who reportedly multiplied his companion's wealth. (One source says that in 1991 her holdings included $1.5 million in cash, property -- including her $3.5 million apartment -- amounting to nearly $8 million, and $15 million to $20 million in stock.) An acquaintance of Jack Kennedy's, the Belgian-born Tempelsman, 64, eventually moved into her Fifth Avenue flat and shared her life at her $2 million summer spread in Martha's Vineyard...
...peacekeeping force already in Rwanda to police an agreement last August for power sharing with Tutsi rebels in the Hutu-led government was hastily reduced from 2,600 to 470 when the massacres began and 10 Belgian blue helmets were killed. The signal sent, says a senior African diplomat, "was, Look, you are on your own. You may do whatever you want...
...Rwanda as a case study in what happens to a former colony when suppressed tribal rivalries are released into a power vacuum. It is a familiar lesson: an estimated 1 million Hindus and Muslims died in communal fighting after the British pulled out of India; the departure of the Belgians from the Congo set off savage ethnic-regional warfare; the collapse of the Soviet Union ignited a murderous rivalry between Abkhazians and Georgians for control of Georgia. Rwanda's preindependence history held special ironies: while colonial rule was far less strict in Rwanda than in South Africa or Rhodesia...