Leader Appoints a Crisis Cabinet

President Mobutu Sese Seko signed a decree approving a new crisis Cabinet to guide the war effort to retake land that ethnic Tutsi rebels have seized in eastern Zaire. He retained centrist Prime Minister Leon Kengo wa Dondo, who has been accused by radicals of weakness in the face of the rebellion. Most of the ministers in the outgoing 47-member Cabinet were changed, and radical opposition politicians were brought into the government for the first time. However, some members of both a pro-Mobutu alliance and the radical opposition were crying foul, saying no consensus had been reached over the appointments and the decisions had been taken arbitrarily. A spokesman said the new government took office in the Central African country immediately.