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...welcome in Kinshasa on Tuesday night, sweeping into the capital city by motorcade three days after his troops captured the city. Will the country will live up to its new name, the Democratic Republic of the Congo? New finance minister Mwana Nanga Mawampanga says that Kabila wants to hold multi-party elections within a year, a commitment supported by the United States and other Western nations. While Mawampanga issued a call for unity, he added that individuals who had been associated with overthrown President Mobutu are welcome...
...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 the title of president, is expected to name a multi-party "transitional authority" Tuesday night to handle day-to-day governing. Although the U.S. is pressing Kabila to commit to multi-party elections as soon as possible, organizing a vote will not be easy given the country's decaying infrastructure and imperfect census data. "The country is bankrupt. There...
...months-long delay in deciding whether Texas Governor George W. Bush should be allowed to turn over the management of the state's cumbersome welfare system to private firms. Several companies, including Lockheed Martin and IBM, are eager to bid on what is expected to be a $2 billion multi-year contract. The unions fear not only the loss of thousands of government jobs in Texas but also the possibility that the idea could spread to other states. The day after the union snubbed the gala last week, the Clinton Administration disappointed state officials by declaring what it called...
Government agencies and advocates for the homeless now have a better idea of the size of the Cambridge homeless population thanks to the first-ever Cambridge homeless census, conducted earlier this winter by the city's Multi-Service Center for the Homeless (MSCH...
...Dancing Deviant," a multi-media performance containing nudity and sexually explicit material, was denied funding from the Harvard Council on the Arts for Arts First Weekend...