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Wednesday, September 28, 1994
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More refugees leave Rwanda
The Associated Press
GOMA, Zaire — In a grim sign that the Rwandan crisis is far from over, the flow of refugees fleeing violence in their country is picking up again.
After weeks of trying to convince refugees it is safe to leave the squalid camps in Zaire and return home, U.N. officials say more refugees are now coming out of Rwanda than are going back.
The latest arrivals tell similar stories of killings, arrests and harassment by the army of the new Tutsi-led government.
Martin Semanza, a 20-year-old with bloodshot eyes, told The Associated Press yesterday that Tuti soldiers killed his parents and three younger brothers as they fled toward Zaire.
Another young refugee, Sebuhinja Rukeratabaro, said he saw a truck filled with the bodies of Hutus arrested by Tutsi troops.
It is impossible to verify the stories of young Hutus, who are among the newest refugees to arrive in Zaire. But their stories are consistent with a recent internal report by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, which found an "unmistakable pattern of killing and persecution" of Hutu refugees returning to Rwanda.
The report caused such a furor that Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali imposed a gag order on U.N. officials yesterday to stop them from discussing it. Boutros-Ghali also ordered a full investigation of the revenge killings.
Hutu militias massacred at least 500,000 Rwandans, most of them minority Tutis, earlier this year.
Plague continues to spread in India
NEW DELHI, India — A huge banner proclaimed "Plague Control Room" at the capital's train station, and police stood by yesterday to rush the sick to the hospital. There, feverish sufferers shivered while awaiting care; one alling man tried to sneak away.
The Associated Press
Officials urged calm, but as plague spread from western Surat to New Delhi and across the nation to Calcutta, authorities also escalated efforts to find the sick, rush antibiotics to pharmacies and spray insecticide to kill disease-carrying fleas.
TV broadcasts advised that the plague can be treated with common antibiotics like tetracycline — drugs available in India without a prescription.
But some pharmacies in New Delhi and Bombay ran out of antibiotics, and New Delhi officials released a list
of 200 stores that were well-stocked and would be open 24 hours a day. In Bombay, officials raided two pharmacies because they were selling antibiotics at black-market prices.
For the first time, confirmed cases of pneumonic plague were reported outside Surat, the port in Gujarat state that an estimated 400,000 people fleed after the disease struck a week ago. Nine cases were reported in New Delhi and Calcutta, hundreds of miles east of Surat.
At least 54 people have died in Surat, including three yesterday. Unofficial estimates put the death toll as high as 300.
Twenty people, most of them from Surat, were admitted to the Infectious Diseases Hospital in New Delhi, and two tested positive for pneumonic plague. Dr. R.C. Panda said.
The current plague outbreak is the first in India in 30 years.
Knight-Ridder Tribune
Children in cockpit may have led to crash
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — "Daddy, can I turn this?"
The cockpit tapes record a chilling scene: the pilot's children getting a flying lesson just before the Airbus jet crashed, killing all 75 people aboard.
"Get out! Get out!" Captain Yaroslav Kudrinsky shouts more than a dozen times to his 16-year-old son, Eldar, who was in the captain's seat when the plane began to plunge.
The transcript of the desperate final minutes before the March crash, published this week in the magazine, Obazrevatel, reveals that the Aeroflot crew almost succeeded in saving the plane.
But the presence of the children and the crew's unfamiliarity with the foreign-built Airbus helped doom the flight, according to the tapes and an aviation official's analysis.
The magazine would not identify its source for the black box transcript.
Aeroflot and Airbus officials said they could not comment until investigation of the March 22 crash in Siberia is complete.
A source close to the probe, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the transcript appears accurate, though not complete or official.
The scene quickly turns terrifying,
however, when the captain's son
The tapes show that in the half-hour before the crash, Kudrinsky gave up his seat to his 12-year-old daughter, Yana, and then his son.
"Daddy, can I turn this?" Yana asks as she sits at the controls.
"Daddy, raise me up," she asks, apparently trying to see better. Her father points out stars and city lights and warns her not to push any buttons.
Russian International Airlines, Aeroflot's international arm, has disputed that children were in the cockpit during the flight from Moscow to Hong Kong.
takes the wheel.
"Turn it! Watch the ground as you turn," the captain says. "Let's go left." Turn left! Is the plane turning?"
"Great!" savs Eldar.
But four minutes later, he asks,
"Why is it turning?"
"It's turning by itself?" his father asks.
"Yes!"
Then the copilot shouts, "Guys!" as the plane begins to dive.
There is a low whistling sound and a roar. For the next two and a half minutes, the tapes record the crew's frantic efforts to regain control of the plane.
State air-safety investigator Vsevodolov Ocharov was quoted in the Rossiksiev Vesti newspaper yesterday as saying the children were just one factor in "a chain of events and fateful circumstances."
The transcript shows the copilot finally shouting, "There's the ground!"
The Associated Press
Jordan renounces links to West Bank
A statement issued by Prime Minister Abdul-Salam Majali said Jordan was also dismissing hundreds of employees of nearly 40 religious sites in the West Bank.
AMMAN, Jordan — Jordan renounced its religious links to the West Bank yesterday in a move apparently aimed at avoiding further conflict with the Palestine Liberation Organization, but maintained its spiritual claim to Jerusalem.
The statement, read on national television, stressed that Jordan would continue to "support the Palestinians by all means and ways, and will not allow any side to harm the deep-rooted relations between the Palestinian and Jordanian people."
Palestinian officials and West Bank Muslims welcomed the announcement.
Relations between Jordan and the Palestine National Authority, which administers the self-rule areas of Jericho and the Gaza Strip, grew strained after Jordan and Israel signed a declaration July 25 in which Israel acknowledged Jordan's special role in caring for Jerusalem's Muslim sites.
Fashion world's dirty laundry aired
The Associated Press
ROME — Corruption has stained most of Italy's icons, from Fiat to soccer. Now, like tomato sauce on a ball gown, it is marring the world of fashion.
Days before the semi-annual shows in Milan, big "moda" names like Armani, Ferre and Versace are appearing in courthouse corridors instead of glittering runways.
Prosecutor Antonio Di Pietro, who has spearheaded 21/2 years of corruption probes, is questioning the royalty of "ready-to-wear" in
his investigation of payoffs to tax inspectors.
Newspaper reports say he and his investigators have found evidence of $650,000 in payments by fashion firms, so inspectors would overlook irregularities or tax evasion.
Giorgio Armani and Gianfranco Ferre were questioned Saturday. The timing — just a day before the opening of the spring-summer shows — stirred up talk of a propaganda campaign against fashion.
The shadow of the probe is bound to hang over the shows.
Bosnia rescinds demand
UNITED NATIONS — Bosnia's president dropped his long-standing demand that the United Nations immediately lift its arms embargo against his government and said yesterday he would accent a six-month delay.
The Associated Press
If Bosnian Serbs continue to reject an international peace plan, Izetbegovic said he wanted the Security Council to pass a resolution that would lift the embargo against his government.
Speaking to the U.N. General Assembly, President Alija Izbetebovic said he would agree to the delay if U.N. peacekeepers remained in Bosnia, the Serb blockade of Sarajevo was lifted immediately and U.N. safe areas for Bosnian civilians were expanded.
Britain and France, which have the largest peacekeeping contingents in Bosnia, have threatened to withdraw their troops if the embargo is lifted, saying more arms would only fuel the conflict. Russia also opposes lifting the embargo.
Bosnia also is worried that if the embargo is lifted, U.N. peacekeepers will withdraw and Bosnian Serbs will overrun eastern Muslim enclaves like Bihac and Srebrenica.
A withdrawals would also hamper efforts this winter to feed and care for about 2.7 million Bosnians who are dependent on outside assistance.
The need to lift the embargo is not considered as urgent as it once was because the Bosnian army is manufacturing arms and receiving smuggled weapons through Croatia, now its ally against the Serbs.
Power restored in Bosnian capital
The Associated Press
cuss threats against U.N. peacekeepers after the air strike.
The U.N. commander in Bosnia said he was optimistic that general utility services, including water and gas, would be restored gradually as Bosnian Serbs ringing Sarajevo got over Thursday's NATO air strike on one of their tanks.
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Electricity was restored to hospitals and other priority users after a 13-day cutoff.
Lt. Gen. Michael Rose met yesterday with Bosnia Serb leader Radovan Karadzic in Pale, the Serb stronghold east of Sarajevo, to dis
Rose said he came away with no security guarantees that would allow the United Nations to reopen the Sarajevo airport to vital relief flights. But he said he was optimistic the airport will be reopened "before too long."
The cease fire in place in Sarajevo since February has been unraveling recently, with increased fighting and sniper fire in the city. Serbs also have disrupted water, electricity and gas service, an especially worrisome move as cold weather approaches.
Supporters criticize Mandela
The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa Nelson Mandela campaigned for president on a promise his African National Congress would stop the "gravy train" of government corruption and special privileges
Now critics, even his supporters, are charging that the ANC only wanted to stop the train long enough to get on.
Mandela's uncharacteristic prickliness on the issue shows his sensitivity at being perceived as just another politician raiding the public coffers.
On Monday night, he lashed out at longtime ally Archbishop Desmond Tutu for complaining about the new parliament's approval of large salary increases for itself.
"A respected leader was unable to resist the temptation to jump on the
bandwagon," Mandela said of Tutu, a fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner for his work against apartheid.
Tutu shot back quickly, telling The Associated Press yesterday that the nation's first black president was "showing he's just like any other politician."
Under the former white-led government, President F. W. de Klerk was paid about $81,700 a year. However, De Klerk paid no income taxes, an exemption lifted by the new government. After taxes, Mandela will take home about $115,400.
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