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...killing of Congo strongman Laurent Kabila was yet another chapter in a long history of chaos that began with the death 40 years ago of the newly independent country's first, and last, legitimately elected leader, PATRICE LUMUMBA...
...first shots rang out just after 1 p.m. Laurent-Desire Kabila, 61, President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, was in heated discussion with advisers inside the presidential palace in the capital of Kinshasa. Details of what happened next remain sketchy. One version is that a bodyguard drew the President aside and then shot him twice. Another is that a minister shot the President after Kabila ordered his arrest. In any event, shooting continued for about 30 minutes. Soon after, presidential chief of staff Eddy Kapend went on state television to appeal for calm and announce the temporary closure...
...foreigner in a country where the national language is French and the most common indigenous tongue is Lingala. And that may be appropriate, since his power base is entirely foreign, too - the thousands of Zimbabwean and Angolan troops that took over the capital during the funeral of slain President Laurent Kabila, whom they had backed in his war against rebels backed by Rwanda and Uganda. The Kabila family's standing in Kinshasa may be illustrated by the fact that when Laurent Kabila was shot in his office by a bodyguard, he was bundled onto a plane bound for an emergency...
...publishing in the mainland; in Boston. Wang acted as the senior editor of the People's Daily until he was fired in 1987 for advocating democracy. He and his wife Feng Ai moved to Cambridge last year to take positions as visiting scholars at Harvard University. RETIRED. YVES SAINT LAURENT, 65, famed designer for 40 years and a pioneer of both the pantsuit and the female tuxedo; in Paris (see tribute). RETIRED. GEORGE CAREY, 66, from the position of Archbishop of Canterbury; in Canterbury, England. During 11 turbulent years helming the world's 70 million Anglicans, Carey dealt with such...
...admiration for YVES SAINT LAURENT was boundless. After all, he dressed my "perfect woman" the way I wanted to photograph her. She was feminine, expensive, sexy, cool, yet definitely available given the right conditions and the money. I was hooked immediately and the fashion editors of French Vogue knew how I felt and let me shoot lots of pages with his clothes...