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Rwandan refugees beat to death two men who demanded more food in the Kibumba camp, the largest of three border camps around Goma, Zaire. Relief workers say brawls over food and supplies are growing more common, and they fear the unrest could spread out of control unless supplies of flour, corn and other grains increase. Visible about 3,000 ft. above them, Rwanda's Nyiragongo volcano erupted, spewing ash and dust but no lava on the preoccupied refugees. U.N. officials, meanwhile, launched a new campaign to draw them back home but reported no results...
...United States is dangling $15 million in aid to Haiti over the ruling junta's heads, most of it to come from sales of U.S.-donated wheat flour. The catch, Secretary of State Warren Christopher said, is that Haiti's impoverished people won't get the bulk until the military welcomes back exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Even so, about $3 million will immediately go to feed children, the elderly and disabled. BTW: The last time the U.S. gave Haiti aid -- $20 million last year -- the de facto government in Port-au-Prince reportedly froze several banks accounts so much...
...were different," Pisar says. "And the board approved everything. There was no dissension about the building or about our vision." Says Pillsbury: "It's not that we overspent; it's just that it's been a great struggle, as it has for every institution." Pillsbury, an heir to the flour fortune and a sometime actor and poet, will soon step down after 27 years as executive director to make "room for new leadership," as he puts it. Pisar seems headed for an emeritus position. It has been left to Frederick Henry to lead the center through this transition period...
...handful of wealthy families who directly or indirectly support the junta maintain their near monopolies on items exempted from the blockade, such as cooking oil, rice and sugar -- and are profiting handsomely. The Brandts control the market in flour, which shot up from $43 to $50 a sack, and have a corner on the country's chicken industry. The Mevs family continues to add on to a fuel depot capable of holding 50 million gal. Their cement business is booming as black-market millionaires build new homes. The Madsens are doing big business in humanitarian food at their shipping terminal...
These may sound like the crackly wafers served by Taco Bell, but they're not. They are a concoction consisting of a cinnamon-flavored apple paste (with chunks of real apples) wrapped up in a flour tortilla-ish object. They look a bit like white batons...