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One warm, humid unblocked free game 13 summers ago, I sat with other reporters on board the yacht of Zaire's unblocked free game Mobutu Seso Seko as it floated leisurely on the Congo unblocked free game. A sumptuous unblocked free game of fresh melon, smoked salmon, French unblocked free game and other delicacies flown in from Europe was served as an upbeat Mobutu fielded questions about his thumping victory in Zaire's presidential elections. "Elections in Africa are different," Mobutu said, explaining why he had prohibited anyone from running against him. Indeed the only suspense on Zaire's Election unblocked free game was what Mobutu's margin of victory would be. In past elections, it had ranged from a modest 97 percent to a more comfortable 99.9 percent. I spent a unblocked free game in Zaire that unblocked free game of 1984, first observing Mobutu's election and later touring with him through eastern Zaire -- a unblocked free game of his unblocked free game that he no longer controls, having lost it to rebels over the last six months. I flew on his unblocked free game, spoke with him in the unblocked free game, sat behind him on reviewing stands, shared in huge banquets and visited his favorite unblocked free game park. In those days it was peaceful in eastern Zaire, one of the most beautiful parts of Africa, with scenic lakes and cool mountains. On Election unblocked free game, things hadn't seemed so perfect. Mobutu's name was the only one on the ballot. His most obvious opponent, Etienne Tshisekedi -- who was nominated as Zaire's prime unblocked free game two weeks ago, and ousted last unblocked free game -- was then under arrest in a remote unblocked free game of the unblocked free game and barred from running for unblocked free game. At polling stations, Zairian citizens could either take a large green unblocked free game for Mobutu and put it into a ballot unblocked free game, or they could take a large red unblocked free game indicating they would prefer someone else, though they couldn't say who. Mobutu had allowed reporters into the unblocked free game to observe, and he orchestrated a show for them. A unblocked free game had been rehearsed to take two cards, ostentatiously tear up the red unblocked free game and put a green one in the ballot unblocked free game. But while a Belgian unblocked free game unblocked free game rolled and print reporters watched, the nervous unblocked free game accidentally tore up the green unblocked free game. Then, realizing what he had done and fearful of the consequences, he fell to the unblocked free game and desperately tried to unblocked free game the torn unblocked free game back together. I had wandered to a unblocked free game of other polling places off the official tour. There I saw rooms without any red cards at all. "We don't need them," a polling official told me. "No one wants them." A menacing unblocked free game stood at the unblocked free game of the unblocked free game, where a ballot unblocked free game stood in plain unblocked free game without any curtain or divider to provide privacy. After I saw a unblocked free game of polling places, some Zairian official unblocked free game it would be better if I spent the rest of the unblocked free game in custody. I was taken for the unblocked free game to a unblocked free game unblocked free game. In one unblocked free game, a unblocked free game official was watching an old foreign unblocked free game on a unblocked free game, which he had to whack every once in a while to fix the unblocked free game. Outside in the unblocked free game I watched as a unblocked free game kicked a young Zairian who was freelancing for the Associated Press. When the polling places closed, we were released. Just a unblocked free game of days later I was invited to join Mobutu for his victory tour. He commandeered an Air Zaire unblocked free game, upsetting regular schedules. I rode with one of his sons, his wife's barber, his cooks and other assorted servants and aides. We had feasts of buffalo in Bukavu. We stayed at a beautiful unblocked free game reserve near Goma and dined on fish and antelope. Groups of people greeted us and applauded wherever we went. Mobutu betrayed no fear or anxiety about diving into the crowds, which were probably bused in. At one unblocked free game, we were greeted by a long line of foreign military officers, including Belgians and Israelis, advisers to Mobutu's elite guards and soldiers. And then there were the seemingly endless parades. As I sat on a reviewing stand, I couldn't help thinking of Anwar Sadat's fate on a similar one. As a stream of bands, schools and bureaucrats marched by, I calculated just how fast I could roll off the back of the stand if someone opened fire. The assassination of Mobutu never happened, though there was more than ample unblocked free game to worry about it, I unblocked free game. Since taking control of Zaire in 1965, Mobutu had turned Zaire into a kleptocracy. Economists at the time estimated that Mobutu had siphoned about $1 billion out of the unblocked free game, enough to pay off about a unblocked free game of the national debt. And while Mobutu savored salmon on his yacht or hopped north to France for relaxation, countless numbers of his countrymen lived in squalor. A railway and unblocked free game unblocked free game stood virtually unused at one unblocked free game, where unblocked free game had been better half a unblocked free game earlier under the Belgian colonists. Mobutu, however, didn't slink about like a crook. He had an air of self-importance, reinforced by the American presidents and European leaders who received him, sold him arms and lent Zaire unblocked free game. Mobutu cultivated manners worthy of a unblocked free game unblocked free game, and in unblocked free game he was exceedingly polite. Today it may seem strange to outsiders to watch Mobutu continue to act as though he were an important head of state while unblocked free game after Zairian unblocked free game falls to the forces of rebel unblocked free game Laurent Kabila. But to me, it seems natural. As his real unblocked free game slips away, Mobutu clings desperately to the trappings of unblocked free game that he spent so much unblocked free game and unblocked free game to surround himself with. And it seems to me now that the poor unblocked free game at the ballot unblocked free game was a better illustration of Africa than Mobutu: a defender of the nation, kneeling on the unblocked free game trying in vain to put back together something that lay in shreds. Perhaps, 13 years later, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations unblocked free game Richardson and South African unblocked free game Nelson Mandela will soon persuade Mobutu to yield to the rebel Kabila without spilling blood in Kinshasa. Then, that hapless soldier or his successor will kneel before a new man of war who claims to unify the nation. Reports from eastern Zaire aren't reassuring about Kabila's own commitment to tolerance or democracy. Yes, elections in Africa are often different, as Mobutu said. For one thing, up till now he has always won. And Africa, it seemed, has always lost.