NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports from Kinshasa on the growing anxiety among Zaire's wealthy elite, as anti-government rebels continue their relentless advance towards the capital. Some of the rich are beginning to hide their belongings--and their families--in anticipation of an eventual rebel victory. There is tremendous popular resentment of the wealthy, who have prospered under President Mobutu Sese Seko's corrupt dictatorship for the past three decades.
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