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...that magnanimous message has been undercut by reports of rebels killing the Hutu as they flee the country. In the huge camps of northwestern Tanzania, a number of refugees are telling stories of massacres that they claim are committed by the R.P.F. Those tales are difficult to confirm -- and the rebels argue that they have been planted by militia in the camps as a way of deflecting blame from their own misdeeds -- but the effect is the same. The Tutsi have a long way to go before convincing all Hutu that their intentions are genuine and that the cycle...
...ever-daunting Butler and a number of role players--senior Cara Frey and Proudfit, for example--who were expected to step up and make major contributions. An impressive pre-season trip to Ireland on which the team went 5-1 against a miscellany of Irish squads only seemed to confirm such promise...
Fitzsimmons refuses to confirm or refute the consortium's statistics, but said last year that Harvard does belong to the consortium and participates in its studies. He also says that the scores of any particular subgroups show that "all minority groups are well within the normal range for the institution as a whole...
...Kooning off. He came back in the late '70s with some big, rapturously congested landscape-body images with a deeper tonal structure that, though they do not support the comparisons to late Monet, Renoir, Bonnard "and, of course, Titian" that David Sylvester makes in his catalog essay, certainly confirm that the movement of De Kooning's talent was not on-off, but ebb and flow...
...month, after a Northern tank brigade attacked and defeated a force from the South in a town northwest of San'a, the country was plunged into war. As the fighting carried on in the rugged mountains that line the former border between North and South, it was impossible to confirm either side's claims to imminent victory. "There is not a military solution to the Yemen problem," said Robert Pelletreau, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, who was trapped temporarily in San'a after a failed mediation attempt...