UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, August 25, 1993
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BRAZZAVILLE, Congo
U.N. workers arrive in Zaire to aid victims of bitter ethnic wars
The unrest in Zaire, one of Africa's largest countries, has forced thousands from their homes in the past year. A team from the United Nations arrived on Sunday and planned to visit the trouble areas.
Ethnic fighting in northern Zaire has killed at least 6,000 people, a British charity said, and thousands more may have died in clashes in the country's south.
Belgium, the former colonizer of Zaire, has accused military dictator Mobutu Sese Seko of stirring up tribal tensions in his effort to deflect growing pressure for democratic rule.
Belgium, France and the United States have cut off aid to Zaire because Mobutu, considered one of the continent's most ruthless and corrupt dictators, refuses to end his 28-year rule and cede power to a transitional government.
The crisis had dragged on since 1901, plunging the central African nation into economic and political chaos.
The strife in Kivu, which borders Rwanda, has pitied the indigenous Nyanga tribe against Hutu and Tutsis of Rwandan origin.
The British charity OXFAM said Monday that at least 6,000 people have been killed in ethnic fighting in the northeastern province of Kivu.
In the southern province of Shaba, the clashes are between native Shabants and Kasai tribespeople.
"It is impossible to say accurately how many people have been killed" in Shaba, said Peter Casaer of the Belgian branch of Doctors Without Borders.
THE NEWS in brief
PHILADELPHIA
Siamese twin beats the odds
PHILADELPHIA
The single heart that sustained Stimene twins for seven weeks grows stronger every day in the chest of the one girl who survived and her doctors say her long-term survival prospects are looking better.
"There is nothing about this child at the moment that makes us worry something could go 'clunk' six months from now," said Dr. William Norwood, chief of cardiothoracic surgery at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, yesterday.
He said that the heart would continue to grow like any other heart grows from infancy.
Angela, who weighs 81/2 pounds, was listed in critical but stable condition. Norwood said it "could be a matter of weeks" or days before she is disconnected from a ventilator and breathes unassisted. According to hospital officials, that is normal for the particular type of surgery.
PASADENA. Calif.
PASADENA, Calif.
NASA still looking for lost craft
NASA engineers maintained a vigil yesterday for their Mars Observer orbiter, which remained lost in space while it was supposed to be entering orbit around Mars.
"We're not giving up, and I need to emphasize that point strongly," said Glenn Cunningham, project manager for the nearly $1 billion mission run by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Mars Observer last communicated with controllers on Saturday, but engineers insisted they were confident the spacecraft would execute automatic computer commands yesterday, fire its maneuvering thrusters and start orbiting Mars despite the communication problem
Engineers said the earliest possible signal from the spacecraft would have passed at 2:44 p.m. yesterday, but the time passed and there was no signal.
Mars Observer started its 450-mile-mile trip last year when a Titan III rocket carried it from Cape Canaveral, Fla., into Earth orbit, where another rocket thrust the Observer toward Mars.
LOS ANGELES
King of pop's homes searched
Michael Jackson's ranch and another of his homes were searched by police investigating a child abuse allegation that the pop star's security consultant blamed Tuesday on an extortion attempt gone awry.
Police confirmed that a complaint has been under investigation since Aug. 17, but officials wouldn't elaborate.
Jackson's security consultant, Anthony Pellicano,
said people Jackson knew made a false child abuse
complaint against the entertainer after he refused to
pay them $20 million.
"We do not want to feed any wild speculation on this matter," Cmdr. David Gasson said.
Search warrants were served over the weekend at Jackson's condominium in Los Angeles and his Newland ranch north of the city. The warrants were sealed.
Pellicano, who has worked for the musician for four years, saidJackson gets 25 to 30 such extortion attempts a year.
Compiled from The Associated Press.
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