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LlLO OW - Malawi
President Kamuzu Band ,"
under p ure to introduce
political reforms to his one­
party rule, ppointed an eight­
member p ne] to review
detention la .
o TO - The African
Development Bank annoWlCCd
$100 million in aid for the is­
land tate Sao Tome and Prin­
clpe ito rew rd economic
reforms and transition to multi­
party democracy.
r KTOWN - Sierra
Leonc'lmi1itaryrulers, who ex­
ecuted 26 alleged coup plotters
1 t month, released former
vice-pre ident S Ila Ju u
S�riff and ex-ministers Sheka
Kanu and Tommy Taylor Mor­
gan from detention but . d said
they would be confined to their
meso
IWtAJlK - Local officials
cancelled the' installation of
councillor Noel Chaya as
mayor of Harare after dis­
closures that he had once been
fined or contravening liquor
laws.
TUNIS - Ubya reopened Us
land borderwitb Tunisia after a
three-day closure in protest at
U.N. sanctions imposed over its
alleged role in airliner bomb­
ings.
AHUJA - More than 60
people have entered the race for
Nigeria's civilian presidency.
Rampant fraud scuttled the first
attempt and led to extended
army rule.
NAIROBI - A mob of 40
youths rounded up eight old
people they suspected of
witchcraft, locked them in huts
and burned them ,to death in
Western Kenya's Kisii district,
police said.
Household Help
by John Amantca
Q. I own a home that about 35
yean old. Our area' very damp
for six to ntae mODthi a year wbicb
results in a cbronic cue of mild
However, tbe bil problem tbat
plape my home' crackinl. ODe
crack' above the livin room
archway, aDd the other is below
the front of tbe bou and under
the interior window ill.
The cracks have grown to. space
of about one-eighth of n inch to
slightly larger, but have rem ined
that way for several years. C n you
tell me what could be causing this?
A. There are several f ctors to be
-considered. The humidity is more
than likely not the primary cause of
the cr cks that have developed.
As I had mentioned in a previous
column, structural settlem nt is
major c ntributor to cracks that p­
pear in th home. However •. ccor�­
ing to what you have descnbed In
that the cracks h ve not gotten I rger
. in some time. I would suggest a
simple patch repair.
Provided you don't h ve any water
le kage penn ting fr m the crac ,
you c n proceed by cleaning out the
cr cks. T per the line in a "V"
shaped fonn to benefit th r p ir j�b.
Then. purch ing good packl!ng
compound (t ny hom decor u
cent ) and pplying it generously to
th affected rea will suffice. You
h uld wait tit 24 hours bef
lightly nding to fini h. You may
nave to dd n th r thin layer of
compound t thi point. Hopefully.
thi rep ir will elimin te your pl1
1m. •
the holding of multiparty electio to
ch e a new ov rnm nt i ly
in October.
the' brea down 0 Angol' own
pe ce greement.
Dhl ama accu ed the
Moz mbic n government of
viol ling the Rome peace greement
and trying 0 ttack Renamo.
But he dded th t Renamo
(Mozambique ationa} Re istan )
howing p tlence in the ce of
uch provocatio •
The ome p ee accords provide
for U.N.- upervi ed ce efire
between Mozambique' formerly
M8IXi.st government and Rename, a
force et up by the former white
government in Rhode ia (now
Zimbabwe) and later upported by
South '.
This ceasefire is currently being
implemented and i due to be
followed by the inte ration of
government and Renamo forces into
a new maller national army of
30,000 men.
Other former fi hters will be
demobili ed and returned to civilian
life.
The final step to return the former
Portuguese colony to peace will be
15,000 troops ha e
entered police force and more
th n 3,000 membe 0 the tate
curity or isation have e tered
th police," Rename 1 de I\fonso
Dhla m told Portugu e t te
televi ion on Monday ni t.
" re i no provisj for this in
the Rome agreem t," be added,
referring to the October peace
greement which ended 16 years of
civil war in Mozambique.
Dhlakama accused the ruling
Frelimo party of copying the idea
from Angola, where the government
ha crea ed a special paramilitary
police force from demobilised
soldiers.
Libya hares land
borders with Tunisia,
Egypt, CJuuJ, Niger and
udan; but most
overland traffic is with
Tunisia and Egypt.
"The tr ffic ha re umed
nonnally ince this morning at 6
a.m.," an official at the Thnisian
border post of R Jedir told
Reute by telephone.
Libya, cut off from the world by
an air embargo, had cl the
border after saying the sanctions
had been a major contributing
factor in the road ccident death
last week of J tice and Public
1991
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SUtYlYorl TNII Fund. FIdnI
InIurance TNit Fund
THIS FORCE! at the forefront
of current fighting against the former
rebel movement tJNrrA following
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