Rebels Reject Call for Foreign Monitors

Rebels rejected a call by the government for international monitors to be sent to the eastern region. “International monitors could become an interposition force, and it would just result once again in the protection of [President] Mobutu Sese Seko by his foreign friends,” one rebel official said. The government, under siege in the east, agreed to a United Nations cease-fire proposal Wednesday. Meanwhile, a Vatican newspaper reported that eight priests and three nuns, all ethnic Hutus, were massacred in eastern Zaire after it fell to rebel Tutsis.