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Thursday. August 24, 1995
SUNFLOWER BIKE SHOP 804 Massachusetts 843-5000
Back to School Blowout Sale!
Head back to school with some of the best bargains of the year! All of our bikes from TREK, SPEACIALIZED, and BIANCHI are on sale at their lowest prices of the year. Hurry in for the best selection. Sale runs 'til Aug.30
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800 Sport $219.00 $159.00
800 $269.00 $329.00
820 $299.00 $479.00
820 $399.00 $539.00
830SHX $399.00 $399.00
850 $409.00 $369.00
930 $499.00 $469.00
930SHX $629.00 $999.00
950 $629.00 $329.00
6500 $599.00 $549.00
7000 $729.00 $669.00
970 $799.00 $699.00
8700 $1099.00 $999.00
8700SHX $1499.00 $1249.00
990 $1299.00 $1050.00
Hybrid Bikes
700 $269.00 $249.00
720 $299.00 $379.00
730 $399.00 $349.00
Road Bikes
370 $379.00 $379.00
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Refugees forced to flee once-safe Zaire
The Associated Press
GOMA, Zaire — More than 139,000 desperate refugees from Rwanda and Burundi have fled to the hills, into the countryside and possibly even to other refugee camps to escape expulsion from Zaire, U.N. officials said Wednesday.
"This has all the makings of a disaster," said Peter Kessler, the U.N. High Commission for Refugees spokesman in Nairobi, Kenya. "People see a Zairian soldier and they run into the hills."
Despite U.N. protests, Zaire pressed on with the expulsions today, in an apparent attempt to pressure the United Nations to find another country to take the refugees, most displaced by their countries' ethnic bloodbaths.
At least 100,000 people have fled from camps in Uvira on the northern end of Lake Tanganyika, 13,000 from camps around Bukavu on the southern end of Lake Kivu and more than 20,000 from camps around Goma on the northern end of Lake Kivu, he said.
More than 11,000 people have been driven into Rwanda and Burundi since the expulsions began without warning on Saturday. Zaire, in central Africa, borders nine neighbors and has 1.8 million refugees, more than any other country in the world.
"At Kanganiro camp in Uvira, Zairian soldiers approached the
camp and the entire population of 24,000 people either ran into the hills or began to run toward the nearest crossing point with Rwanda," Kessler said.
Five camps at Uvira were completely empty, he said, their residents seeking sanctuary in the hills.
The United Nations was trying to move some 700 unaccompanied children from Mugunga to one of the other camps in Goma so they are not forced to return to Rwanda alone, he said.
Most of the refugees at Goma were women, elderly men and children who seemed resigned to being forced back to Rwanda. They carried plastic buckets of water, straw sleeping mats and bundles of food.
Almost all the refugees in eastern Zaire are ethnic Hutus from Rwanda and Burundi. Nearly 2 million Rwandan Hutus led their homeland when Tutsi-led rebels seized power from the Hutu-dominated government in July 1994. The rebels took over after an estimated 500,000 people, mostly Tutsis, were killed by Hutu-led militias.
"If they say we must go, we go," said Ngeremenyera Bititweyechi, 50, as he waited at the border for his eight children, who were separated from him during the roundup.
Since Saturday, at least 9,500 refugees have been forced back into Rwanda and 2,000 more into Burundi. Zairian soldiers carrying
U. N. fear a major humanitarian crisis has erupted as Zairean troops violently force Rwandan and Burundi refugees to leave camps in Zaire. Situation and UNHCR initiatives in the region:
Refugee crisis in Zaire
out expulsion orders have beaten some of the refugees, looted their camps and belongings, and set their huts afire. There were unconfirmed reports of soldiers shooting refugees and raping refugee women.
Zaire will remain loyal to its generous humanitarian tradition and continue, as in the past, to honor its commitments as a country of asylum."
"These forced expulsions must stop immediately" said Carrol Faubert, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees special envoy for the region. "UNHCR hopes that
In Washington, State Department spokesman David Johnson said Zaire was violating international law and could precipitate a "human disaster" if it continues to expel refugees.
Mexican druglord negotiates surrender
The Associated Press
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — The head of one of Mexico's most powerful drug cartels is negotiating a possible surrender in exchange for a pledge by Mexico not to extradite him to the United States, a U.S. official said Wednesday.
Juan Garcia Abrego, one of the FBI's 10 most-wanted fugitives, is also asking that he be jailed in the Mexican prison of his choice under the protection of his top lieutenants, the U.S. official said on condition of anonymity.
Garcia Abrego, 51, heads the Gulf Cartel, which U.S. officials claim smuggles hundreds of tons of
Colombian cocaine into the United States every year and spends millions of dollars to bribe Mexican authorities.
In September 1993, Garcia Abrego was indicted in Houston on money laundering and cocaine distribution charges. Nicknamed "La Muneca", or the Doll, he is wanted on multiple charges of murder in Mexico.
In exchange for his surrender, Garcia Abrego also was asking authorities to give medical treatment to his brother, Humberto García Abrego, now in jail on money laundering charges and reportedly suffering from lingering effects of a gunshot wound to the abdomen.
He also is demanding that his relatives and girlfriends be allowed to keep his illicit gains. Garcia Abrega also wants one last trip to Colombia to arrange his affairs before turning himself in, the U.S. official said.
When rumors of a negotiated surrender surfaced this month, Mexican Attorney General Antonio Lozano said he had no plans to give any criminal lenient treatment in exchange for his surrender.
Nor would he allow Garcia Abrego's friends or family members to keep his ill-gotten wealth, Lozano said. "That wouldn't be done because it's against the law," he said.
Ciudad Juarez newspapers
reported that Mexican soldiers and police were searching for Garcia Abrego in the region last weekend. The operation ended Sunday, local reporters said.
Much of the Gulf Cartel's operations are based in Monterrey and Matamoros, near the Texas border. Garcia Abrego was born in the border town of Las Palomas, Texas.
U. S. officials have been putting increasing pressure on the government of President Ernesto Zedillo to make good on its promises to crack down on drug smuggling. The FBI has offered $300,000 for the arrest of Garcia Abrego. The Mexican government has offered $1 million.
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Informational Meetings: Tuesday, August 29, 1995 at 7:00 pm in Alderson Auditorium at the Kansas Union
Applications will be available at the informational meetings. You can also pick up an application between Monday, August 28,1995 and Friday September 15,1995 at the SUA Box office.The SUA Box office is located on level 4 of the Kansas Union. For more information call 864-3477.
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