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...pope's second stop, after a weekend of rest, comes Monday in Papua New Guinea, where a million Cathlics -- a fourth of the population -- wait to greet him with tribal drums, painted warriors and barefoot dancers...
...year ago this time, Nelson Mandela was standing amid a roar of adulation in Oslo as he received the Nobel Peace Prize, symbolizing the triumph of black African rights in his native land. Last week he had only words of hard truth for 2,000 blacks, many of them barefoot and clad in tatters, gathered at a soccer field among the shacks of Orange Farm, a township in the southern Transvaal. Seven months into his term as President of South Africa, the good times he promised have barely begun. "Don't expect us to do miracles," he told the crowd...
...looked like an episode of roadside vengeance. About 30 miles southwest of the capital city of Kigali, four Tutsi, one of them a soldier of the victorious Rwandan Patriotic Front, stood around a Hutu man in his 50s. He was barefoot and dressed in a torn shirt and baggy pants. A dirty strip of blue- and-white fabric roped his elbows tight behind his back. His three young accusers shouted that the Hutu was a member of a militia group that had slaughtered Tutsi and political moderates earlier this year. They had seen him beat an old woman to death...
...Bosnian Serbs apparently remain determined to keep fighting -- and to refuse the peace plan that both Croatia and Bosnia have now endorsed. On Friday three Serb mortar rounds were fired at Sarajevo -- the first such attack on the city in months. "We are prepared to be hungry, naked and barefoot," declared Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic. "But we must fight for our freedom...
Sometime after midnight, a neighbor out walking his dog found the bodies. Nicole, wearing only a nightgown, lay in a pool of blood, her head severed to the spinal cord. A barefoot Goldman lay nearby, his body laced with signs of a ferocious struggle and 22 knife wounds. It was the neighborhood dogs that sounded the alarm, their paws spreading a bloody mosaic on the sidewalk around the house. One of the first cops on the scene, a longtime veteran, said, "It was the bloodiest crime scene I have ever seen...