Word: seko
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WESTERN POWERS ARE MOUNTING A NEW CAMPAIGN to unseat Mobutu Sese Seko, Zaire's mercurial dictator for 27 years. In the wake of bloody unrest that killed at least 1,000 people, the U.S., Belgium and France presented a demarche in Kinshasa, demanding that the President abide by an earlier commitment to transfer power to a transitional government headed by Etienne Tshisekedi. But Mobutu rejected the ultimatum, and its authors evidently plan to back it up through new economic pressure rather than by force. Despite an open plea by Tshisekedi for military intervention, about 700 French and Belgian troops sent...
...SPARK THIS TIME WAS A NEW BANK NOTE THAT testified by its denomination alone to decades of misrule in Zaire: 5 million zaires, valued at a purported % $2. The bill was floated by the country's long-ruling and long-embattled dictator Mobutu Sese Seko -- and was promptly declared worthless by his rival in a power standoff, transitional Premier Etienne Tshisekedi. Most merchants refused to accept the disputed tender. When Zairian soldiers were paid with it, they went on an armed rampage, looting shops and the homes of several thousand Europeans who live in the former Belgian colony...
...President Daniel arap Moi's mining interests as "That's mine! That's mine! And that's mine! . . ." Expatriate businessmen estimate that wealthy Nigerians have enough money in personal deposits abroad to pay off the country's entire foreign debt, more than $36 billion. Zaire's President Mobutu Sese Seko has a personal fortune that has been estimated from $4 billion to $6 billion, not far below the level of the country's external debt. He has isolated himself from his people -- and from gathering political unrest -- aboard a luxury yacht that cruises the Zaire River...
...King and several black elected officials and labor leaders issued a statement calling for an end to the "violence and tyranny" inflicted by Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi's one-party government. Robinson has since repeated the criticism in appearances before U.S. congressional committees, adding Zaire's Mobutu Sese Seko and other African tyrants to the list...
When an army mutiny and rioting forced President Mobutu Sese Seko to join with the opposition in a coalition government last month, many Zairians rejoiced over what they hoped would spell the end of Mobutu's 26-year lock on power. But last week, as violence once more swept Zairian cities, the coalition was in a state of disarray -- and Mobutu was still there...