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LUSAKA, Zambia
(AP) Hundreds of stone-throwing students
fought running battles with armed riot police
Monday after complaining the government failed
to pay student subsidies.
Police said five students were arrested for
public violence after rioters smashed windows
at the main Zambia University campus in
Lusaka, stoned passing cars and torched trees
and hedges.
The campus faces onto a key highway into the
capital that students blocked early in the day,
witnesses said.
Police sent to clear the highway called in horse
mounted reinforcements to disperse about 1,000
protesters.
Student leaders said protests were planned at
a meeting on the campus Sunday. More than a
month after the university year began, book
allowances for government-sponsored students
were not paid.
The stipend was to be about $250.
Police fired tear gas into buildings on the
- campus and charged and beat students with
-riot sticks. No information on injuries was
available.
In a statement after the students were dis
- persed, university authorities said they will de
mand rioters pay damage caused in the unrest.
Students who failed to pay would face suspen
sion or expulsion from the university.
No estimate of the cost of damage was given.
After a series of protests at the campus last
year, the government dissolved the students’
. union and expelled several of its leading mem
bers. The union has not been revived.
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Rebel strength exaggerated,
Zaire government claims
B The strategic city of
Kisangani is not surrounded
on three sides by rebels, Zaire
government officials say.
By Beth Duff-Brown
ASSOCIATED PRESS Writer
KINSHASA, Zaire
Disputing rebel claims, the government
said Monday that rebels do not control
access to the strategic city of Kisangani
from three sides. A Western diplomat also
said the rebels were exaggerating the
strength of their positionsin eastern Zaire.
Meanwhile, President Mobutu Sese Seko,
who has been recovering from prostate
cancer at his villa in southern France, is
planning to return to Zaire, his son said.
Nzanga Mobutu said his father was “feel
ing great” and was preparing for the trip.
The younger Mobutu has announced his
father’s imminent return several times
since the president arrived for his latest
stay in France on Feb. 21.
Rebel forces of the Alliance of Demo
cratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-
Zaire have brought their six-month insur
gency closer and closer to Kisangani, a
strategic port city in eastern Zaire.
Rebel spokesman Nyembwe Kazadi said
the alliance was nearing the city from the
north, the south and east — leaving open a
corridor for civilians and soldiers to flee
west. He said wealthy residents had been
chartering planes to fly out before the
rebels take the town.
But in the capital, Kinshasa, Defense
Ministry spokesman Leon Kalima denied
that Kisangani was about to fall.
“They’re not even close,” he said, adding
the rebels were 50 to 60 miles away. “It’s
just propaganda to scare the people and
the refugees.”
A Western diplomat who visited the city
Sunday told The Associated Press on con
dition of anonymity that the rebels were
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airports, one in tewn and another north of
the city, which is the headquarters of the
Zairian army and the Croatian and Bosnian
Serb mercenaries who back it.
The rebels have captured much of eastern
Zaire since taking up arms in September.
Their main demand is the resignation of
Mobutu, whose 31 years of corrupt and
dictatorial rule has brought devastating pov
erty.
Both the rebels and the Zairians say they
support a U.N. peace plan to end the fight
ing, but neither is willing to meet the other’s
conditions for negotiations.
Rebel leader Laurent Kabilaindicated over
the weekend that he is ready to support the
peace plan, but only after Mobutu agrees to
face-to-face negotiations. In Kinshasa, the
government stood firm in rejecting talks
unless the rebels disarm.
“We will not negotiate with those who are
making war,” government spokesman Jean-
Claude Biebie said.
As the rebels approached Kisangani,
Kazadi said they were providing safe pas
sage to Rwandan Hutu refugees fleeing the
fighting. “Those that came back to us are in
good hands,” he said Sunday.
On Monday, thousands of refugees were
streaming into a new, makeshift camp at
Übundu, 60 miles south of Kisangani, U.N.
World Food Program spokeswoman Brenda
Barton said.
“There are nearly 100,000 people in
Übundu, overwhelming the small local
staff,” Barton said from Nairobi, Kenya.
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