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...With reporting by Janice Castro, Adam Cohen, Michael Duffy, James L. Graff and Barrett Seaman/Chillicothe
...TIME travelers had barely buckled up before they got their first assignment: to find out whether the economic boom that sent the stock market to a new high last week was filtering down to the grass roots. In Chillicothe, Ohio, Chicago bureau chief James Graff found Jim Whitman, an executive vice president of the Petland retail chain, in high spirits; customers were buying his tropical fish, Dalmatians and flying squirrels in record numbers. In Aurora, W.Va., however, the mood was less sweet. Dale Pase, a park ranger, told staff writer Adam Cohen that 85% of his neighbors could be classified...
...Reported by Peter Graff and Marguerite Michaels/Kampala and Douglas Waller/Washington
...possibility remains that despite his protestations, the 66-year-old dictator will end his 32-year reign by flying not south to Kinshasa but north to France. "Even if Mobutu does fly to France, he will almost certainly still be vowing to return to Zaire," says TIME's Peter Graff from Nairobi. Western diplomats are hoping he stays away. "With Mobutu absent, (US envoy) Bill Richardson's 'soft landing' will be much easier to negotiate," says Graff. "The remnants of the Mobutuist military would agree to lay down their arms and the rebels would enter the capital in peace...
...continue the military advance." Kabila, who ordered the pause to give his armies time to regroup, hopes the delay will bring Mobutu under increasing pressure to leave. "This gives people in Kinshasa a chance to put some more pressure on Mobutu and his government," notes TIME's Peter Graff. "With the U.S. and now Belgium having publicly called for Mobutu's resignation, Kabila can wait to see what will happen." There have been indications that Kabila is expecting some kind of peace overture, either from Mobutu or from his underlings at the talks currently idling in South Africa. Despite...