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...bright morning sun. A rust-brown train under mortar fire. Gray figures in panic scrambling to hide. Faces wrapped in swaths of white. A muddy ditch. And along a hillside, red crosses...
...estimated 2,000 died in Rwanda when government soldiers opened fire on a refugee camp. Some were felled by bullets and mortar fire, but many were trampled in the ensuing panic. Tens of thousands of refugees fled the camp in Kibeho toward the provincial capital of Butare. Another 600, some armed with rifles and grenades, holed up in a church and vowed to die before surrendering to government troops. The group is apparently made up ofhard-line Hutus fearing reprisalfrom the Tutsi-led government army forlast year's killing of 500,000 Rwandans, most of them Tutsis. Kibeho was home...
Most of the fighting is taking place around the city of Erbil, which Talahani's forces seized last December. Barzani's army now surrounds the city, exchanging small-arms and mortar fire with the enemy and biding its time before launching a full-scale attack. Elsewhere in Kurdistan, the two factions skirmish and engage in terrorist acts. Three weeks ago, for example, a car bomb exploded in Zakhu, near the Turkish border, injuring 50 people. U.S. intelligence analysts haven't pinned down which side carried out the bombing or whether it was the work of Saddam's agents trying...
...mother then donated money to the college to build a library in his honor, with three stipulations: that no stone, brick or mortar in the structure be changed, that every Harvard undergraduate pass a swim test and that a memorial room be built and supplied with fresh roses every...
...when it became necessary to connect Widener to the Houghton-Pusey-Lamont complex, the University kept its promise to Mrs. Widener and took out a window--moving neither brick nor stone nor mortar--to build a bridge between Widener and Houghton...