"The point is that we and our friends control the keys to the clubs and the treasuries that Kabila will need to tap if he is going to rebuild the country -- the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, our development funds, and those of the Europeans." -- Chester Crocker, former Assistant Secretary of State for Africa from 1981 to 1989 and now a professor at Georgetown University, explaining why the US would still have "a tremendous amount of influence" over the new government in Zaire, despite having installed and helped to maintain one of the most corrupt dictatorships on earth in that country for the last 32 years. (NYT, Saturday, May 17,1997, p.A6) ---------------End of Original Message----------------- ------------------------------------- Name: Mark Weisbrot E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Preamble Center for Public Policy 1737 21st Street NW Washington DC 20009 (202) 265-3263 (offc) (202) 333-6141 (home) fax: (202)265-3647
