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...With Museveni as its godfather, this realignment of Africa's old order tends to be Anglophone in its international voice, pro-American in its diplomacy and attuned to Adam Smith in its economics. Says Barnett Rubin, an official at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York: "The Zaire rebellion has become a trans-Africa struggle. It's very messy, but the prospects for better governance lie with these newer forces...
...Jews must reject the doctrine of separatism Hepps advocates. Extremists notwithstanding, anti-Semitism is no longer a powerful force in the lives of American Jews. To continue to pretend that we must protect ourselves from destruction and encourage a rejection of outsiders is to invite condemnation from without and rebellion from within...
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...
...their equally problematic incentives for doctors to provide too much costly treatment--continue to shrink. The result has been a welcome reduction in the runaway growth of medical costs and, for many people, simpler, better coverage of their real needs. But as in any adolescence, there are signs of rebellion. An ominous backlash has begun...
...diamond giant De Beers announced that rebels were now guarding its properties in the town. Indeed, Kabila's promise of security for foreign operations could bring Zaire back to life. But will Kabila's mines enrich the nation, or just bring a repeat of Mobutu's kleptocratic rule? "This rebellion is financed by Kabila's friends," Michaels says. "By Museveni in Uganda, by Kagame in Rwanda. These backers are all African. They all know each other and they all have these ties to each other. The hope for Zaire is that Kabila, once in power, will have to answer...