Word: laurents
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LUBUMBASHI, Zaire: Now that Zaire's summit-on-the-sea has ended in an apparent stalemate, Laurent Kabila is back to his preferred form of diplomacy: the ultimatum. From his headquarters in Lubumbashi, Kabila has given Mobutu Sese Seko eight days to yield to the rebel alliance or "be chased from the power." Fiercely denying a U.N. envoy's statement that he had agreed to a cease-fire with the ailing Mobutu, the rebel leader is giving his troops quick marching orders toward the capital. As he attempts to get Mobutu to resign before the soldiers arrive, Bill Richardson began...
KINSHASA, Zaire: Confusion overtook the planned Friday summit between Mobuto Sese Seko and rebel leader Laurent Kabila when the embattled Zairian president didn't show up for his flight, leaving some befuddled Zairian Cabinet ministers waiting at the Kinshasa airport. Government officials said the meeting was now slated for Saturday, while rebel spokesman Bizima Karaha was pushing for Sunday. South African officials, meanwhile, were still insisting that the summit would take place on Friday as planned. U.S. envoy Bill Richardson is now trying to salvage the peace talks...
KISANGANI, Zaire: U.N. ambassador Bill Richardson arrived in Kinshasa with orders to negotiate a peace between the government and rebel leader Laurent Kabila and at the same time help to extricate some 100,000 Rwandan refugees from the path of the rebellion. After months of resisting U.N. air evacuation of refugees on the grounds that it would disrupt troop movements, rebel leader Laurent Kabila made an abrupt turnaround Sunday and gave the U.N. just sixty days, starting May 1, to track down and evacuate every last refugee. After Sunday's maiden voyage carried just 40 refugees from Kisangani to their...
...behind hundreds or thousands of people too weak to walk. U.N. officials now fear that large numbers of the refugees may have been killed. Relief workers flying over the nearby area have spotted only scattered small groups. U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogato has appealed to rebel leader Laurent Kabila for assistance in the search, but so far the answer to the disappearance remains hidden in the dense forests of eastern Zaire...
GOMA, Zaire: Laurent Kabila has given President Mobutu Sese Seko three days to get out of town. Declaring a "pause" in his march across Zaire, Kabila issued this ultimatum: "In three days, if we will not get good news from Kinshasa of his willingness to depart to the north, then we will be forced to 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...