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Spencer, 44, was selected from more than 50,000 applicants to spend this summer in the Shaba Reserve, Kenya...
...people who took the diamonds of Mbuji-Mayi." There's a lot of symbolism there, says TIME's Marguerite Michaels. The main message is, without question, he is going to Kinshasa. Meanwhile, another branch of Kabila's army was closing on Lubumbashi, capital of the mineral-rich province Shaba. Kabila will be welcomed as always, not least by the Western companies that hope to revive the crumbling cobalt and copper mining operations in the region. "Kabila has what he calls a "commission" set up in each town, especially mining towns, that his forces liberate," says Michaels. "He talks to businessmen...
...political demands," rebel spokesman Raphael Ghenda told France Info today. "Mobutu must be deposed from power and the Alliance must be assured of a democratic transition." Kabila once was friendly with Tshisekedi and his opposition party. But as the rebels advance south towards Lubumbashi and the mineral-rich Shaba region, their leader simply has no more need for a friend in the government. "Kabila holds absolutely all the cards," says TIME's Peter Graff. "Opposition or not, Tshisekedi is still a member of the Kinshasa political elite, and though he has some popular support, Kabila doesn't owe him anything...
...setbacks-prices for copper and cobalt dropped sharply-much of the loan money that flowed in was not spent wisely. Among Mobutu's development projects was a huge undertaking to dam the Zaïre River and to build a 1,100-mile-long power line to the Shaba copper-producing region at a total estimated cost of about $1 billion. Eight months after the power was finally turned on in 1981, the current was switched off. Shaba province happens to be self-sufficient in electricity. Says one Western diplomat: "If ever there was a white elephant, this...
...Frenchmen still do not understand his surprise meeting with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev in Warsaw last May. Giscard's failure to act more decisively to prevent the Libyan invasion of Chad last December has eroded much of the credit he won after sending French paratroopers to the threatened Shaba province of Zaire...