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Rwanda plagued by continual violence, deaths
The Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya—Ethnic massacres have spread throughout Rwanda, and aid officials reported yesterday that tens of thousands of people have been killed and hundreds of thousands uprooted from their homes.
"The situation is calamrophic," said Jean-Luc Thevoz, representative for the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Thevoz reported "tens and tens of thousands of dead" and said at least 400,000 of Rwanda's 8.5 million people had been driven from their homes in the outbreak of fighting that started after Rwanda's president died in a suspicious plane crash April 16.
The massacres began in the capital the next day, and rebels began an offensive into Kigali, the capital, two days later.
An official of the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front met Sunday in Kampala, Uganda, with Rwanda's ambassador. The two sides agreed on the need for a cease-fire, but didn't sign one.
A cease-fire would allow joint U.N., rebel and army patrols to stop the looting and killing by marauding gangs, said Moctar Gueye, U.N. spokesman in Kigali. It also would permit officials to bury thousands of corpses littering the streets.
"We are heading straight into an epidemic if something isn't done soon." Gueve said.
About 26,000 Rwandans have fled to Zaire, Tanzania, Uganda and Burundi, according to the CARE aid agency; while hundreds of thousands are displaced within Rwanda.
Both sides of the feud have been warned the United Nations will pull its 2,100 Ghanaian, Bangladeshi, Senegalese and Polish peacekeepers from Rwanda, Kabia said.
Nixon listed 'serious' after stroke
37th president now in intensive care
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Former President Richard Nixon suffered a stroke yesterday and was hospitalized in serious condition, his representative said.
Nixon suffered the stroke at his Park Ridge, N.J., home and was taken by ambulance to New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, representative Kim Taylor said from New Jersey.
He was admitted to intensive care for observation and treatment with blood thinner, she said.
Carolyn Migliore, a hospital representative, confirmed that Nixon was there but said she could not give out further details.
In 1974, Nixon suffered a recurrence of phlebitis, inflammation of the veins and resulting complications from surgery. He nearly died. Nixon's wife, Pat, died last year of lung cancer.
Nixon was the nation's 37th president. He served in the White House from Jan. 20, 1969, to Aug. 9, 1974. He was the only president to resign, and he did so to avoid impeachment.
Nixon dropped from the limelight in his forced retirement but surfaced frequently through extensive travel, books, articles and speeches. He visited Russia last month and caused a stir by meeting with right-wing leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky.
Nixon was a dedicated anti-counseign at the start of his political career. As president, he ended two decades of distance and distrust between the United States and China
exchanging toasts with Chairman Mao Tse-tung in Beijing's Forbidden City. He established a live-and-letive policy of detente toward the Soviet Union and negotiated arm-control agreements with its leaders.
Nixon inherited the Vietnam War and the hatreds it engendered at home. In the 1968 presidential campaign Nixon asked voters, he recalled later, "to take on faith my ability to end the war."
Nixon came to the presidency after nearly a quarter century as a Republican officeholder — congressman, senator and vice president.
A month after he resigned, the country was outraged by Nixon's successor, Gerald Ford, issued a pardon for all crimes that Nixon "committed or may have committed or taken part in" during his presidency. Ford noted that Nixon had become liable "to possible indictment and trial."
The Nixons lived in virtual exile in San Clemente, Calif., for more than five years after his resignation then moved east in 1980 to be near their grandchildren, Jennie, Melanie and Alex Eisenhower and Christopher Cox.
Terrorized Muslims are 'at mercy' of Serbs
The Associated Press
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Confounded by Bosnian Serb guns they cannot silence, international mediators and U.N. officials said yesterday there was nothing they could do for the terrorized Muslim enclave of Gorazde.
"The town is at their mercy," said the U.N. commander for Bosnia, Lt. Gen. Sir Michael Rose. "We are on the edge of a major humanitarian catastrophe."
While Serb artillery pounded Gorazde and refugees searched for cover, U.N. officials said Serb leaders again promised a cease-fire.
But there was no immediate sign that the pledge would be kept. The Serbs have repeatedly broken promises to stop attacking the U.N.-declared safe haven.
U. N. workers in Gorazde reported heavy shelling of the town about 35 miles southeast of Sarajevo, said U.N. representative Joe Sills in New York.
Tuesday. April 19, 1994
were camped in the streets because they lacked shelter.
"People are trying to hide in every conceivable safe place, obviously to no avail," said Ron Redmond of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva. "People are literally exposed to any shelling, sniper fire, machine-gun fire. People are terrified."
U. N. staff said thousands of people
Shells fell at a rate of one every 20 seconds during the morning but slowed to one a minute by midafternoon, said Redmond.
The few U.N. workers in Gorazde reported artillery shells hit the town's hospital, a refugee center and the Red Cross building.
Russia's special envoy, Vitaly Churkin, lashed out at Serb leaders after a weekend of trying to negotiate a halt to the fighting, saying he had never heard so many broken promises.
He told reporters in Zagreb, Croatia that his government should break off talks with the Serbs, despite their cultural and religious ties with Russia.
President Clinton played down the possibility of further air attacks on Serb forces around Gorazde and renewed his call for ending a U.N. ban on arms shipments to the Muslim-led government.
U. N. officials said there would be little gained by calling in more NATO air strikes after the limited raids over the past week that did not blunt the Serb offensive. The only military officer in Gorazde to guide NATO planes was among seven British officers evacuated at dawn, U.N. officials said.
The European Union nations sought a meeting with the United States, Russia, and the United Nations to produce a coordinated diplomatic effort like the ultimatum that forced Serbs to pull artillery away from Sarajevo in February.
Aid officials said 302 people had been killed and 1,075 wounded since the Serbs began their attacks on the Gorazde enclave three weeks ago. Sills said about half the dead were children and more than 100 were women.
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