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Article: MOBUTU RETURNS TO TAKE ON `ENEMIES' OF ZAIRE.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- December 18, 1996
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With his army facing rebel advances and his government under fire, Zaire's cancer-stricken president came home yesterday after a four-month absence and promised ``final victory'' for his decaying nation.
Smiling and waving a silver-tipped walking stick, Mobutu Sese Seko walked down the steps of his chartered DC-8 and onto a red carpet, where he was greeted by traditional dancers, soldiers, tribal chiefs in feathered headdresses and schoolgirls in cheerleading outfits.
Hundreds of thousands of people lined streets and cheered wildly to welcome the 66-year-old Mobutu from two months in Switzerland, where he underwent surgery for prostate cancer, and ...