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...MOBUTU FLEW TOO HIGH...
Only time will tell if the ousting of Mobutu Sese Seko from the presidency of Zaire was a blessing or a curse [WORLD, May 26]. Rebel leader and now President Laurent Kabila has promised democratic reforms in the newly renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo. We have heard all this before. If Kabila can do what he has promised, then the people of the Congo will be better off. He may not be perfect, but he has the potential to be better than Mobutu. CHRISTOPHER P. DOBES Toledo, Ohio...
...Mobutu was long overdue. He was flying too high. He should nonetheless be commended for keeping an impotent band of troops, which helped avert massive bloodshed in the diamond-rich Central African state. I hope somebody will offer Kabila an honorary degree as a Destroyer of the Dictatorship. He is a man of determination and well-founded principles. I'm sure he knows better what the country needs. ALEXANDER KALIMBIRA Corvallis...
However, Stiglitz and other panelists said giving foreign aid today can often be a more complicated issue, citing the recent foreign aid failure between the U.S. and Zaire following the ousting of Mobutu...
...swearing-in were the presidents of Angola, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia, whose support made Kabila's revolution possible and who certainly have a say in how the diminutive ex-smuggler runs Africa's largest country. "Those four are the best guarantee that Kabila will not become another Mobutu," says TIME's Marguerite Michaels. "They invested a lot in Mobutu's fall, and have too much to gain from a prosperous neighbor. They'll make sure Kabila doesn't blow...