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Zairean Constitution suspended: National govt in 72 hrs

Kabila takes over
LUBUMBASHI (Zaire). May 17: Zairean rebel leader Laurent Kabila said today he had taken over as head of state of Zaire with the agreement of army generals in Kinshasa, report agencies.
Kabila, in a statement read at a news conference in the southeastern city of Lubum-bashi, said: "Mr Laurent desire Kabila assumes from today the functions of the head of state of the Democratic Republic of the Congo."
Kabila said he was assuming power and would form a government of national salvation within 72 hours and call a constituent assembly within 60 days.
He announced a suspension of the current constitution,
Kabila asked civil servants in Kinshasa to remain at their posts. He called for calm and said any act of revenge would be severely punished.
He said he had been talking by telephone from this southern stronghold to army generals in Kinshasa, who had declared their allegiance.
He said the new government
would honour its international obligations if they were In the interests of the people.
Diplomatic sources in Kinshasa today said Zaire s army chief was killed by units of President Mobutu Sese Seko's elite guard late on Friday night.
The sources, reached by telephone from neighbouring Congo, said General Mahal Lieko Bokungu was killed at
Camp Tshatshi. The camp is a military barrack and was also a residence of the ailing president who left the Zairean capital on Friday for his northern jungle palace at Gbadolite.
Rebels had taken over the Voice of Zaire radio station, near the city center, by midday. Five rebel troops, armed with mounted machine guns, stood guard outside the radio station as locals celebrated.
Mobutu's handpicked prime minister, Gen Likulia Bolongo, vowed to remain in power "until the end." urging government troops to remain in their camps — and then slipped out of the country himself.
"The situation is grave," Likulia said in a radio broadcast. "I will continue my mission to the end." he said.
He appealed to people to stay off the streets, and troops to stay in their camps, indicating he was acceding to Kabila's demands not to resist.
But an hour after the noon (1200 GMT) broadcast, a Western diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Liku-
lia had slipped across the river to Brazzaville. Congo.
Rebels were walking down the streets toward the centre of Kinshasa In large numbers.
Outside the radio station, in Lingwala — about two kilometres (1 mile) from downtown Kinshasa — hundreds of people wore white headbands that showed they support the rebels.
Gunfire flared around the capital and people took to the streets throwout the city. "Don't call them rebels, call them liberators". one Kinshasan cried in a crowd marching downtown.
As troops closed in on the city, there were few immediate signs or resistance by government troops.
Some civilians, toting automatic weapons, were patrolling Mobutu's patrols in order to ensure they did not loot or attack foreigners — characteristics of previous unrest in this country.
Kabila urged calm in Kinshasa. and warned that anyone who harms Zairians or foreigners would be "severely sanctioned."
An American evacuation team was on alert across the river in Brazzarille, Congo — as it had been for a week — but had not received an order to evacuate over 300 Americans in Kinshasa, said its spokesman, Cmdr Bob Anderson.
Kabila rejected Mobutu's ceding of power to his government, saying that was not enough to stop the civil war.- But in a victory speech, he said Mobutu no longer concerned him, and could remain in the home village to which he had fled on Friday.
"He can stay in his village, but I think it is not very important at all," Kabila said.
He said there were few pockets of resistance and that Zairian army generals, in Kinshasa had told him they were "ready to receive orders from me."