Word: safely
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Soldiers of Rwanda's new Tutsi-led government began trickling into a formerly French-protected "safe zone" in the country's southwest -- the last territory not under the victorious rebels' control. United Nations officials worry that about 500,000 Hutus there, fearing Tutsi reprisals, might flee to the already-deluged refugee camps in neighboring Zaire. The U.N. officials cited scattered reports of apparent revenge killings by Tutsi officials, even though the new government has pledged to take no revenge for Hutu massacres of at least half a million Tutsi brethren during Rwanda's three-month civil war. Meanwhile, the defeated...
...cinematic possibilities of Richard Preston's chilling true story about scientists battling to contain the Ebola virus, which is as deadly and gruesome as aids, yet has an incubation period of only one week. The story was full of pungent quotes like "There wasn't going to be any safe place in the world," and "Karl, you'd better come quick to the lab. Fred has harvested some cells, and they've got worms." It read like a ready- made movie in pleasing embryo form...
...shoulders. "I support stability and democracy and tranquillity," he said. "So it's not too hard to guess who I voted for." Jorge Alaniz, a bank employee in Mexico City, was thinking about voting for the P.A.N. but stuck with the ruling party. "I thought Zedillo was a safe pair of hands," he said. "I just hope he can make the economy take off so my kids can have a good future." When Zedillo assumes office on Dec. 1, the country expects continuity from him, not dramatic new policies. Salinas has already pulled Mexico back from economic catastrophe with free...
ENVIRONMENT: Are No Trees Safe...
...Bukavu fears a repeat of the huge exodus that brought 1.2 million Rwandans into Zaire last month. The latest tide could pour out of southwestern Rwanda this week, when the last of 2,500 French soldiers who established a safe zone in June for 1.5 million frightened Hutu are scheduled to depart. Under domestic pressure to bring its troops home, the French government last week ignored a plea by the U.S. to stay on until the situation stabilizes. The Hutu fear that the African troops of the United Nations force replacing the French will not be able to guarantee their...