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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 2001
Page
5
In Kinshasa a Cabinet emergency meeting placed Maj. Gen. Joseph Kabila in command of the government and military while reports of President Laurent Kabila’s death circulate. Officials say Kabila is wounded but alive as gunfire rocked the presidential residence.
Hisham Mikki, 54, director of the Palestinian Corporation and ally of Yasser Arafat, was killed by three hooded gunmen who entered a Beach Hotel coffee shop in Gaza City. The murder follows a wave of shadowy killings amid tensions with Israel and accusations of collaborators.
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