Word: laurent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...work is very worthwhile," said Beatrice St. Laurent, a Harvard Ph.D who lived in the West Bank for many years. "He hasn't compromised...
...evidence may be lacking, but the allegations certainly aren?t. At issue: Whether Herman received an envelope stuffed with cash from African businessman Laurent Yene, plus a $250,000 illegal campaign contribution from Yene?s friend Vanessa Weaver, in return for Herman?s help in acquiring a federal license for a satellite phone system. Herman says Yene is simply out for revenge over a soured business deal. And she?s certainly got the support of her boss: The President, explained a wry Mike McCurry, ?knows what it?s like to be nibbled by an independent counsel...
...Madeleine Albright chides rebel-turned-President Laurent Kabila in Congo. And misses the big picture...
KINSHASA, Congo: Madeleine Albright's gentle prodding of Congo president Laurent Kabila Friday in Kinshasa was a wish list of peacetime problems: Human rights. Political freedoms. War crimes investigations. Show progress, and the U.S. would be happy to extend its hand--and its wallet--in friendship...
...Rwandan Tutsi government of Paul Kagame, fled west back to bases in Congo -- a disheartening prospect since border-crossing raids brought Rwanda and then-Zaire to the brink of war in 1996. Kagame's solution then was drastic: lending military and financial support to the bush rebellion of Laurent Kabila, which swept westward across Zaire to the capital of Kinshasa and renamed the country Congo with Kabila as its new president...