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...less contagious than fear or cholera. Thousands of refugees kept dying in the ghastly camps of Zaire last week, as many as 2,000 a day. As the world struggled to assuage the suffering, word went out from the U.N., the White House, the relief agencies to 2 million sick and starving people: there is food in Rwanda and clean water and a promise of safety. Go home: that is the only real salvation. Some refugees, suspecting that they were merely choosing where they were going to die, decided to head back. But the vast, frightened majority lacked the strength...
...worst part of the triage is knowing that most of the sick never make it close enough to the medical tents to stand a chance. The refugees of Rwanda's civil war stretch for miles in every direction, building what are fast becoming death camps. The old, the young and the weak drop where they are. "You have to choose," says the young nurse, turning away from an older man crying out for help. There are always more voices, pleading with her, pulling at her legs. "You can't get to everybody...
...Goma was a quiet place on the shores of a lovely lake, tucked amid banana groves and thick woodlands in the shadow of a spectacular volcano that lit the northern sky at night. The town was home to 80,000 residents; now it has more than a million sick and starving newcomers. Outside the airport, a sign extols The Pleasure of Traveling...
...over to the pile of corpses, which they will douse in chlorine to disinfect them. But as they put her down, her head turns. Quickly they take her back to the tent where they are treating victims, but do not bother to set up an IV. She is too sick to save, the workers explained. "But she's moving," says one, "so you can't just leave her with the dead...
...object to your statement that battered women often deliberately provoke their batterers, thus perpetuating a sick cycle. Sure, it's normal for couples to get on each other's nerves. But it is not normal to deal with that by throwing a punch, or even threatening...