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...officials said mass graves containing as many as 10,000 bodies were found 60 miles west of the Rwandan capital, probably grisly testimony to Hutu death squads' handiwork during the country's recent civil war. U.N. peacekeepers had last month unearthed two graves containing 5,400 corpses, just a fraction of the 500,000 minority Tutsi believed murdered. The new repository surfaced only after the U.N. workers had begun digging for soil to fill in the smaller sites. Meanwhile, the flow of defeated Hutu from Rwanda has apparently ceased, in spite of internal U.N. accusations that the victorious Tutsi government...
...LSAT is only a small fraction of what we consider when looking at an applicant," Curil said...
...Half, found in the country's southwest, were not buried, and the rest were tossed in a mass grave 78 miles from Rwanda's capital of Kigali. The corpses are believed to be Tutsi murdered by the majority Hutu during the recent three-month civil war -- and just a fraction of the half-million thought dead. The find increases the pressure on U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to set up a war-crimes tribunal for the perpetrators before the surviving Tutsi -- who won the war -- take matters into their own hands...
Rhetoric about dioxin may push the same kind of emotional buttons. The chemical becomes relatively concentrated in fat-rich foods -- including human breast milk. Scientists estimate that a substantial fraction of an individual's lifetime burden of dioxin -- as much as 12% -- is accumulated during the first year of life. Nonetheless, the benefits of breast-feeding infants, the EPA and most everyone else would agree, far outweigh the hazards...
...good question. In Klawock last Thursday, the panel of judges was peculiarly constituted. Five of the 12 were named James; a sixth was Roberts' grandfather; a seventh was invited on at the last minute by Guthrie's mother. Relatives also made up a large fraction of the hearing's meager Tlingit audience. After the purification ceremonies and a speech by 92-year-old George Jim exhorting the Tlingits to "march together; that way we will not fall apart!" the defendants entered, dressed in reversed tunics, to indicate their shame, and traditional red head coverings...