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Soldiers of Rwanda's new Tutsi-led government began trickling into a formerly French-protected "safe zone" in the country's southwest -- the last territory not under the victorious rebels' control. United Nations officials worry that about 500,000 Hutus there, fearing Tutsi reprisals, might flee to the already-deluged refugee camps in neighboring Zaire. The U.N. officials cited scattered reports of apparent revenge killings by Tutsi officials, even though the new government has pledged to take no revenge for Hutu massacres of at least half a million Tutsi brethren during Rwanda's three-month civil war. Meanwhile, the defeated...
...help take some refugees off its hands. (They had agreed earlier to take some Haitians, but the U.S. found it unnecessary to send any.) As loudly as the U.S. proclaims that it will never let any of those interned in Guantanamo enter the American mainland, many Cubans preparing to flee, as well as those already in Gitmo, refuse to believe it. Others might even prefer camp life with three meals a day in Guantanamo to hunger in Cuba...
...effective attention getter for him in the past, and he has been disappointed that a Democratic Administration in Washington has not proved more receptive to dealing with him. So Castro let it be known that his police would no longer arrest or even try to stop Cubans attempting to flee by makeshift boat or raft. Ergo, two problems solved at once: angry Cubans were distracted from turning their despair against Fidel, and he certainly got Washington's attention...
Fearing reprisals, thousands more Hutu threaten to flee...
...officials guess as many as 3 million of Cuba's 11 million citizens would flee if promised safe passage -- an exodus that could be fatally humiliating to Castro but equally damaging to Clinton in Florida, an important re-election state. Having chided Castro for running a big prison, Clinton cannot very well tell him to keep the doors to the jail shut. But Floridians were adamant: they would not, could not bear the cost of absorbing a vast new population of exiles. Already blistered by criticism of his reversals on Haiti, Clinton needed a firm solution that would slow...