Word: rebels
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...Your Eyes. Along the way, he has created a distinctive musical idiom. A James Taylor song is instantly recognizable for his limpid voice, sweet melody, deceivingly simple harmony and faultless guitar work. Its lyrics are those of an outsider. Yet unlike his contemporary Neil Young, Taylor is no musical rebel. He may have refined his idiom, but he rarely transcends it. His songs are as familiar and comfortable as old flannel shirts and just about as exciting. Even so he continues to please. Last month a large outdoor crowd at the New Orleans' Jazz and Heritage Festival sat through...
KINSHASA, Zaire: The government of the newly named Democratic Republic of Congo is moving quickly to consolidate power two days after Laurent Kabila's ragtag rebel soldiers marched victoriously into the capital, reports TIME's Peter Graff from Kinshasa. "Kabila's representatives met Monday with the chairmen of the major state-run enterprises and the heads of the national bank," says Graff, "and they did it very publicly." The moves have helped to stabilize the national currency, which soared from 170,000 zaire to the dollar on Friday to 50,000 to the dollar Monday. Kabila, who has assumed...
KINSHASA, Zaire: Following a Thursday evening meeting in which his top generals said they could no longer protect him or Kinshasa from Laurent Kabila's advancing rebel army, President Mobutu Sese Seko quietly gave up power and fled the capital Friday morning. After 32 years as the head of a kleptocracy that looted the vast natural wealth of a country the size of Western Europe, Mobutu returned to his palatial home at Gbadolite in northern Zaire. He reportedly will fly within the next few days to Morocco. Concluding that the government's ragged army will not be able to hold...
KINSHASA, Zaire: As rebel forces advanced within 60 miles of Zaire's embattled capital, U.N. mediators worked feverishly for a last-minute peace deal and State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns urged Americans to leave, saying "the end game is approaching." U.S. troops were preparing to evacuate Americans from the capital. On Tuesday, Mobutu Sese Seko's government imposed a dusk to dawn curfew on the city's residents. Although officials said the restrictions were imposed to prevent looting and unrest among civilians, it is government soldiers who have ransacked other cities as Kabila's troops advanced. Fearing that the final...
...cloud over Kabila's emergence is the conduct of his troops, some of whom have systematically blocked access to suffering refugees. International aid agencies also accused his troops of participating in the slaughter that took place two weeks ago at Hutu camps where 80,000 refugees were huddled in rebel-held territory. More than 1 million Hutu fled into Zaire from Rwanda in 1994 after genocidal tribal warfare there, and an unknown number have been running ever farther west to escape Kabila's advancing Tutsi-led fighters. In recent weeks they have become the hapless victims of many attackers: Mobutu...