Well, it's certainly a rigged game, and I would not want anyone to sit down in such a game. I do not think it would take the kind of time that Adonis Hoffman talked about. All it would take would be for the new head of state to announce tomorrow that they will allow the opposition parties that had tried to register originally now to compete and to free all the political prisoners. If the scenario laid out by Adonis Hoffman is true that Moshood Abiola is not going to be released, then I think we are going to see real crisis in that country and there is nothing upon which the United States can negotiate with this government. It seems to me that the bottom line in terms of our talking with that government has to be the immediate release of the political prisoners.
Prisoners have to be released, absolutely.
But the fact of the matter is-and you know very well, Ambassador Carrington, that that's not going to happen overnight without some concessions on the part of the government and without some corresponding concessions on the part of the United States. We only have a minute. Let me just get Ambassador Carrington on what's at stake here. Well, I would agree very much that that's at stake. And it seems to me that if we continue the same kind of policy, trying an engagement on a process that is flawed and transparently a farce, then I think the country is going to continue its slide into chaos, a slide that we have seen it under for the four years of the Abacha regime.