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...seized the town of Kabgayi, releasing up to 20,000 Tutsi who had been held captive by government soldiers. At one camp, a local priest reported that 50 Tutsi were dying each day, some taken out and killed under cover of darkness by Hutu militia, others dying from untreated bullet and machete wounds. "Our people have too much hatred," rebel soldier Patrick Kayilanga, 24, said last week in Kigali. When rebels took the city's main airport recently, Kayilanga discovered that both his parents and 10 brothers and sisters had been massacred. Now, he says, he is making plans...
...clear from the start how Ammar Shawa, 12, died. His family was posing for photographs with newly arrived Palestinian soldiers in Jericho when one of them allowed Ammar's 13-year-old brother to handle a loaded AK-47 rifle. It went off, accidentally, and the bullet shattered the younger boy's head. Immediately, local activists of the Palestine Liberation Organization put out a story to townsfolk that withdrawing Israeli soldiers had deliberately left the rifle behind to cause an accident. Later they said that an Arab collaborating with Israel had given the boy the gun, and then that ammunition...
...swamps. As the rainy season continues in the mountains, the dry cough of pneumonia and tuberculosis echoes through the camps. One Red Cross doctor has commandeered a partly built breeze-block structure and roofed it with blue plastic sheeting to make a hospital. More than 70 patients with bullet wounds and 100 others with horrendous machete gashes are presented at surgery each...
...deadly form of skin cancer. From Canada's McMaster University came a report identifying a telltale enzyme found in cancer cells -- but conspicuously absent from most normal cells. If cancer researchers can find a way to deactivate this enzyme, known as telomerase, they may at last have the magic bullet they have long been seeking. Equally tantalizing was the article published in Science by molecular biologist Alexander Kamb and his colleagues at Myriad Genetics, a Salt Lake City, Utah, biotech firm. A majority of cancer cells, they found, lack functioning copies of a gene that serves as a circuit breaker...
...Department issued a traveler's advisory warning American citizens to stay away from Guatemala, and the U.S. Peace Corps has ordered its more than 200 workers in the country back to the capital. Even there, the assassination April 1 of the president of the Constitutional Court and the sniper bullet that wounded a Congressman five days later have added to the instability. "Whoever is behind all this wants to provoke a state of emergency," says government investigator Claudio Porres. "They want us to return to a dark past when everything was resolved through a military coup." President Ramiro de Leon...