WORLD IN BRIEF : ZAIRE : Clashes Erupt Over New Premier
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Violent protests against President Mobutu Sese Seko erupted as troops battled crowds of demonstrators protesting the president’s refusal to reappoint a leading opposition figure as prime minister. Several injuries, but no deaths, were confirmed in the capital, Kinshasa. Furious crowds threw up roadblocks and burned buses and cars. Mobutu refused to reappoint opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi as prime minister and instead named 57-year-old Bernardin Mungul-Diaka.
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