Article: MOBUTU REMAINS IN GABON; REBEL CHIEF AGREES TO MEETING.(News)

Letting his country wait, Zairian President Mobutu Sese Seko kept his plane on an airport runway yesterday in neighboring Gabon, fueling speculation that he will choose exile rather than fly home as promised.

The ailing dictator, dying of cancer and losing a seven-month civil war, has agreed to long-delayed elections and acknowledged he is too ill to be a candidate.

Despite repeated assurances by his aides that Mobutu would return to Kinshasa yesterday, diplomatic sources said he would remain in neighboring Gabon for another night.

South African Deputy President Thabo Mbeki met yesterday with rebel leader Laurent Kabila in the southern Zairian ...

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