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...When my neighbor and I headed out in his Whaler," says a construction contractor, 53, who was one of the first on the scene, "we thought we were going to find survivors. We came upon dead bodies, but we kept looking for people who were still alive. Then we realized nobody was alive. I saw legs, a head. I said, 'Please, God, don't let me see a kid.' Then...
BUJUMBURA, Burundi: Ever since at least 500,000 people were slaughtered in Rwanda's ethnic civil war two years ago, diplomats have been watching for similar tensions to boil over in its volatile Central African neighbor, Burundi. Now they have. Wednesday, Burundi President Sylvestre Ntibantunganya found himself holed up in the the U.S. embassy after what appeared to be a swift military coup led by ethnic Tutsis, the rival tribe that controls the military. Ntibantunganya, a member of the Hutu tribe, had led an unstable coalition government with the UNPRONA, a Tutsi-led party. "The president was a moderating influence...
BUJUMBURA, Burundi: Ever since at least 500,000 people were slaughtered in Rwanda's ethnic civil war two years ago, diplomats have been watching for similar tensions to boil over in its volatile Central African neighbor, Burundi. Now they have. Wednesday, Burundi President Sylvestre Ntibantunganya found himself holed up in the the U.S. embassy after what appeared to be a swift military coup led by ethnic Tutsis, the rival tribe that controls the military. Ntibantunganya, a member of the Hutu tribe, had led an unstable coalition government with the UNPRONA, a Tutsi-led party. "The president was a moderating influence...
...essential to unraveling his character, but, as Frady convincingly demonstrates, the pangs of racial insult are not the sole, or even most important, source of Jackson's relentless drive for attention and self-definition. The illegitimate offspring of 16-year-old Helen Burns and her married next-door neighbor Noah Robinson, Jackson suffered the taunt "Jesse ain't got no daddy" from other children in his native Greenville, South Carolina. After his mother married hardworking Charles Jackson and had a child with him, three-year old Jesse was sent to live with his grandmother...
...their backyard forced the people of Kossuth to question whether their confidence in local harmony had been misplaced--and to reconsider their own behavior. "It's scary to think of people doing something so mean so near," says Pauline Morton, who lives close to the Central Grove church. Her neighbor, James Wilbanks, a white man, says sadly of its congregation, "I hate now that we weren't more friendly with them...