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...Habyarimana of Rwanda and Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi, both Hutus, crashed Wednesday night on the approach to Kigali airport, killing both leaders. Witnesses reported hearing heavy weapons fire moments before the plane went down. "What happened was not an accident but an assassination," said Jean Damascene Bizimana, Rwanda's ambassador to the U.N. The two leaders were returning from a conference in Tanzania. Its topic: the ending of decades of Hutu-Tutsi savagery...
...news conference in Tokyo, U.S. Ambassador Walter Mondale somberly apologized to Japan for the carjacking murder of two 19-year-old Japanese students in Los Angeles -- the latest in a series of violent crimes against Japanese in the U.S. Three days later, the Los Angeles police chief announced the arrest of two suspects...
...include a threat of "further action if necessary" (i.e., sanctions) should North Korea continue to block international inspection of its nuclear sites. But China insisted on a milder statement urging compliance. "We don't think that the council should act in a threatening way," said Beijing's Deputy U.N. Ambassador Chen Jian. But North Korea repudiated the kinder, gentler statement anyway...
Busch-Reisinger Museum. Through April 24. "Danish Paintings of the Nineteenth Century from the Collection of Ambassador John L. Loeb Jr. " Features works by several masters of Danish...
...that could erode if the North were to escalate. Says a U.S. official: "Quite frankly, the real problem will be keeping extraneous issues -- Somalia, human rights in China, Whitewater -- from affecting our response and getting us off track." Then an embattled Clinton might be prompted to try what former ambassador to Seoul Donald Gregg calls "compensatory toughness": setting deadlines the North will snub or making demands from which neither side can back down. Getting off track with North Korea could cause...