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...best hope for Rwanda now seems to be the successful takeover of the country by the rebels, who have promised to end the chaos. Hundreds of rebel reinforcements were fighting their way into the capital. While guerrillas inside Kigali carried out hit-and-run attacks on government positions, thousands more bombarded the city from positions in the hills to the north. Rwandan army officers scoffed at the idea of a rebel victory in Kigali. But the Front, which claims as many men as the army -- about 20,000 -- is thought to be a better disciplined and more heavily armed fighting...
...with guns and machetes roamed the streets in search of victims. The numbers of dead were estimated to reach into the tens of thousands by week's end, with Belgian troops scrambling to evacuate the last foreigners from the city. Despite tentative talks with government forces that began Friday, rebel troops warned that any non- nationals remaining in the city after 24 hours would be considered hostile...
...born among heathens. Second, because of my feet I wasn't called up for the army--so I couldn't desert. And third, it so happens that I can only get it up with my wife. So I can't cheat. You see the paradox. As I couldn't rebel against the Church or the army or matrimony, here I am, a rebel, an infidel and a libertine by nature, living life like a scared bourgeois...
...Friday U.N. officials in New York City claimed that peacekeeping commander Brigadier General Romeo Dallaire of Canada had brokered a partial cease-fire and that an interim government had been named. But within 24 hours rebel leaders, denying knowledge of the agreement, had renewed their offensive. Meanwhile members of the regular army were still attacking Tutsis and murdering any member of the political opposition they could find...
Macdonald, who died in 1982 at age 76, has now been accorded a solid if not definitive biography. A Rebel in Defense of Tradition (BasicBooks; 590 pages; $30) by Michael Wreszin is the kind of academic "lumbering dinosaur" -- the author's modest self-appraisal -- that might have sent its subject to his typewriter harrumphing with dismay. Wreszin dutifully portrays the man and his times but too often paraphrases rather than quotes directly from a writer whose style was the essence of jaunt and spark. (In fairness, Wreszin does have the good sense to cite Macdonald's lead...