From: llk@kepler.unh.edu (Local Genius)
Subject: Re: From Africa-L
Organization: Department of Mathematics
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 18:53:29 GMT

In article <1992Aug30.025218.28385@newshost.unh.edu> llk@kepler.unh.edu (Local Genius) writes:
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> Subj:	Mobutu
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> Date:         Sat, 29 Aug 1992 16:38:12 -0700
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> From:         Steve Cisler <sac@APPLE.COM>
> Subject:      Mobutu
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> See the Sunday August 29, 1992, New York Times for an
> incredible article on President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire
> and his barber.  Every two weeks Zaire spends about $5000
> to bring an American hair stylist to Kinshasa to cut Mobutu's
> hair.  this has been going on for about eight years!
> 
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Subj:	Mobutu

Date:         Mon, 31 Aug 1992 13:59:40 EDT
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From:         
 "JOHN SNEED, COORDINATOR OF TELELEARNING,              F-114B 30" <AAJN%CATCC.BITNET@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Mobutu
Comments: To: AFRICA-L@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU
To:           Multiple recipients of list AFRICA-L <AFRICA-L@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>

> See the Sunday August 29, 1992, New York Times for an
> incredible article on President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire
> and his barber.  Every two weeks Zaire spends about $5000
> to bring an American hair stylist to Kinshasa to cut Mobutu's
> hair.  this has been going on for about eight years!
An outrage! Actually the real outrage is that it takes this kind of
spectacular nonsense for the Times to print much of anything about
Africa. I remember when, after the present dictator, Blaise Compaore
took over the government in Burkina Faso the press discovered that he
had spent a considerable amount on buying a jet that michael jackson had
once owned, for his travel needs. Surely another outrage, but where were
the stories about his predecessor, Thomas Sankara, a leader with unique
ideas about the development of his country and Africa. It takes the
sensational, tragic and nonsensical happenings to find out anything
at all about Africa. I submit that our ignorance, if not complicity
makes behaviors such as Mobutu's possible. Face it, it has suited our
narrowly defined national interest to have the Mobutu's of the
developing world running loose.

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Catonsville Community College
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