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...said. “When she got ahold of an idea from contact with a professor or grad student she would then go on and do her studies very much on her own initiative.” Wobber, who is studying chimpanzees in the Democratic Republic of Congo, was not available for comment at press time, according to her father, Edward P. “Ted” Wobber. —Staff writer Doris A. Hernandez can be reached at dahernan@fas.harvard.edu...
...undergraduates on campus—he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in three years and earned a Rhodes Scholarship. But he didn’t strike his peers as the type who would be held up at machine-gunpoint in Beirut and elude rebels chasing him through the jungle in Congo...
...would "assume from now the functions of the head of state." He added, "I am happy, very happy to succeed." He said he would form a transitional government by Tuesday and promised a new constitution within 60 days for the country that he renamed the Democratic Republic of Congo...
...days before Kabila's forces moved in, scores of Mobutu's political and military cronies were reported fleeing across the Congo River to Brazzaville in the nation of Congo, some with suitcases full of cash. One man seen steering a speedboat across the river was the hated General Nzimbi Ngbale, head of the elite presidential guard...
...first hours of power, Kabila ignored Monsengwo and his government. Though under pressure from many quarters, including his African backers, to establish a broad-based regime, Kabila has declared that the only legal political party is his own Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo...