Word: rebels
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...That pragmatic, measured approach - noted by Western and African observers in Kinshasa - may help bring an end to a war in which six neighboring countries, the Congolese army and various rebel groups have carved a country the size of Western Europe into a jumble of fiefdoms. Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi back rebel groups fighting Kinshasa, while Angola, Zimbabwe and Namibia support the government in return for lucrative mining concessions...
...Kinshasa and a former Prime Minister under Mobutu. "Even the old guard know little about him." Kabila, who has a girlfriend and says he wants to marry soon and have a family, spent much of his childhood in Tanzania, where his father owned a bar and based the rebel movement that eventually took him to power. When the young Kabila became President in January, moving into the presidential palace, rumors flew that his mother was Rwandan or even that he had been adopted - stories he dismisses as "just so much stupidity...
...There is the larger question of Milosevic's role in war crimes. The ex-President's startling admission - made last week in a written response to the charges - that the money from Kertes' office was used not for personal gain but to fund Serb rebel armies in Croatia and Bosnia was the first time that the strongman had acknowledged Belgrade's financial role in fomenting the Balkan wars...
...along the hill's crest, which would have led him to a place now occupied by a hotel called the Seven Arches. The view here is stunning. Directly below is an ancient necropolis--an immense graveyard dating back long before Jesus that could cause anyone, not just a religious rebel with a price on his head, to consider his mortality. The ground falls off sharply, dotted with stands of pine and, yes, silvery green olive trees. Jesus--or his donkey--would have picked his way from here down into the Kidron Valley. On the other side, then...
DIED. FRANCIS YOHANNAN, 79, World War II bombardier and inspiration for the antihero Captain Yossarian in Joseph Heller's satiric novel Catch-22; in Spokane, Wash. Yohannan, who served with Heller in Corsica, was not a rebel; in the Air Force, he earned a Distinguished Flying Cross and a Bronze Star...