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Defense Secretary William Perry said the 750 U.S. troops aiding Rwandan refugees in Zaire and Uganda will swell to at least 4,000 within a week. And that number could further grow if the Pentagon sets up a "way station" system to draw fearful Hutu refugees back to Rwanda, where rival Tutsi now hold power. Meanwhile, a team of U.S. soldiers will assess the conditions in Rwanda's capital to determine if food, water and other supplies could be delivered faster using facilities inside the country -- though Perry said he hadn't yet decided on sending in a large force...
Richard Winters of Hershey, Pennsylvania, a first lieutenant in the 101st Airborne, came back to the outskirts of Ste.-Mere-Eglise and could identify every building, every wall, every swell of land where he had landed. Jesse Franklin of Concord, New Hampshire, a military policeman sent to Omaha Beach to direct traffic, recalled that there was no traffic to direct. He hugged the sand on the orders of Colonel George Taylor, commanding the 16th regimental combat team of the First Division. Looking up, Franklin saw the colonel caked with sand and mud to his shoulders, bawling the now famous charge...
...Boss, you can't do that anymore.' " Former Oklahoma Congressman Wes Watkins, who retired four years ago, says a friend once offered him a useful epigram about Washington: "There are some that go to the Capitol and grow, and some that go there and swell." He adds, "Some get power hungry and arrogant, and that leads to corruption." Which kind Rostenkowski will turn out to be is now up to a court to decide...
...There are no devils left in Hell," the missionary said. "They are all in Rwanda." Actually they brought Hell with them; you have only to watch the rivers for proof. Normally in this season, when the rains come to these lush valleys, the rivers swell with a rich red soil. They are more swollen than ever this year...
...about 1.7 million Rwandans, out of a population of 8.1 million, have fled their homes. Most remain within the country, dodging the army, the gangs or the rebels, streaming along roads carrying clothes in plastic bags, mattresses on their heads. Last week, as the numbers of refugees continued to swell, U.N. officials were desperately trying to sustain the horde...