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...smaller than Belgium). The latest Tutsi massacre was in retaliation for a three-pronged Hutu attack on Tutsi strongholds near the Tanzanian border. An estimated 15,000 have already been killed, and nearly 20,000 more Hutus have joined 30,000 refugees who had already fled to the safety of Tanzania, from which they frequently mount raids. TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs visited the area of the fighting last week and sent this report...
...into straw huts and burned alive. Refugees arrived in Tanzania with their hands, ears, even their feet chopped off. This year the Tutsis are being more discreet, killing mainly at night. But a nun assigned to the area to treat leprosy said she has no work because "everyone has fled-or is dead." Farther down the road a Jeunesse waved his rifle and boasted: "It's very simple. They want to kill us, so we must kill them first...
...withdrew into a brief marriage to an Assyriologist. Unlike many well-known artists, Akhmatova chose to remain in Russia. I am not one of those who left the land/ to the mercy of its enemies begins an uncompromising poem that goes on to be unnecessarily contemptuous of those who fled...
Several opposition Congressmen were reported to have fled the country for fear of being arrested. Others, though, vowed to fight. Wilson Ferreira Aldunate, who ran against Bordaberry for President in the last election, called him "an enemy of his people," and declared that his own National Party "will consider itself...
...dealer in antique furniture, silver and china. At 20, young Levai got a job with a large Viennese coal company, soon launched his own oil business, and by the mid-1950s owned a string of gas stations in Austria. When the Nazis came in 1938, the young entrepreneur fled to Paris and later to England. Broke and speaking only fractured English, he joined the Pioneer Corps and from there secured a transfer to the Royal Engineers as a battlefield tank mechanic...