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...fear of social unrest drove President Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia's leader for 25 years, to embrace the idea of pluralism, but he has yet to schedule a promised popular referendum. In the case of Mobutu and Houphouet-Boigny, their utterances have contained a hint of "Apres moi, le deluge." These old-timers may be calculating that they can stand back, allow chaos to break out as competing factions scuffle for power, then return triumphantly. Mobutu's police did their part to encourage disarray two weeks ago when they fired on people at an unauthorized political rally in Kinshasa, killing...
With its free markets and abhorrence of communism, Kenya has long been a darling of the West, the oft-cited example of an African country that works. But in conforming to the Western powers' model for an ally, President Daniel arap Moi draws the line at multiparty democracy. Not even the implicit threat of a cutback in aid to countries that fail to practice pluralistic politics, delivered by U.S. Ambassador Smith Hempstone earlier this month, has budged him. "Kenya," Moi replied to the envoy's comments, "does not require any guidance from outsiders on how to run its affairs...
...revival is attributable almost entirely to Vietnam's own perestroika, or doi moi, a program of radical economic "renovation" begun in 1986. Says Le Dang Doanh, a senior government economist and a principal architect of the program: "Vietnam does not consider Marxism to be holy dogma. We need to be creative." Only a few years ago, the state accounted for close to half of national income. Now it generates only 28% of national income, Doanh notes, while private enterprise makes up 40% and the remainder is a mixture of public and private ventures. The reforms include the abolition of subsidized...
President Daniel arap Moi said the death appeared to be the result of "foul play" and pledged a thorough investigation. But the students feared that police reports, which stated that Ouko had been shot in the head, possibly with his own gun, might leave the impression that the minister had taken his own life. "Suicide, no! We want the truth!" they chanted as they marched on Moi's office. On Friday a memorial service for Ouko erupted in confrontation when demonstrators hurled stones at mounted police and troops, who responded with tear gas and charged the crowds with ax handles...
...have endowed the planet with another dimension altogether: a dissolution of distance, a warping of time, a fusion of the micro (individual mind) and macro (the world). Charles de Gaulle declined to have a telephone, undoubtedly because he had already fused micro and macro -- Le monde, c'est moi...