2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 16, 1996 NATION/WORLD Burundi faces ethnic tensions, killings Newsday BUJUMBURA, Burundi - During a visit last month to this city on the northern edge of Lake Tanganyika, the U.S. am- bassadorto the United Nations, Madeleine Albright, described Burundi as a nation "on the verge of national suicide." The U.N. secretary-general has noted that Burundi is set "on agenocidal trend." And the country's president says "the spirit of genocide" hovers over the land. Everyone knows what is wrong with Burundi. No one appears ready to do anything about it. "No responsible figure will be able to feign surprise if genocide erupts in Burundi,"nterAction,agrouping ofpri- vate U.S. relief organizations, said in a letter Jan. 19 to President Clinton, in which they urged direct intervention, so far to no avail. As ethnic violence escalates and, ac- cording to a U.N. investigator, a "moun- tain ofcorpses" grows, the world is avert- ing its eyes from this disintegrating cen- tral African nation. An estimated 150,000 people of a population of 6 million have died since October 1993, when a longstanding power struggle between the minority Tutsi and the majority Hutu erupted into another round of massacres. In neighboring Rwanda, with an iden- tical ethnic mix of Hutu and Tutsi, a horrified world watched, paralyzed, in 1994 as thousands of bodies clogged lo- cal rivers and floated into nearby coun- tries, part ofan estimated 500,000 mostly Tutsi people killed by the Hutu. For the same tangled web of ethnic hatred, fear and a struggle for dominance, Burundi's Hutu and Tutsi are engaged in periodic acts ofgenocide. Unlike in Rwanda,how- ever, here, the Tutsi are doing most of the killing. Since violence erupted anew in 1993, much of the country has been "ethnically cleansed," with the Tutsi holding major towns andthe Hutu, the countryside. Hutu guerrillas recently have carried the war to the outskirts of Bujumbura, while the Tutsi-controlled army is engaged in bloody reprisals against the Hutu popula- tion. Dozens die daily. Thousands ofrefu- gees have fled into internal camps or across the border, westward to Zaire, or eastward to Tanzania. For those not yet displaced, routine movement of goods andpeople from one partof the country to another is almost a suicidal venture. But despite dire warnings from relief agencies operating in Burundi, and from political leaders and human rights inves- tigators, the U.N. Security Council de- cided last week to do nothing. The coun- cil, which is controlled by the United States, France, Britain, China and Russia, instead instructed Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to investigate. # ATI0NAL REPORT Railroad suspects sabotage in wreck ST. PAUL, Minn. - Sabotage was suspected yesterday in the wreck of a runaway freight train that slammed into a railyard building, hurling steel wreckage just short of an employee lunchroom and injuring nine men. "There appears to have been some tampering with the train. As a result we have called in the FBI," said Dick Russack, a spokesperson for Burlington Northern Santa Fe in Illinois. Russack said the brakes clearly failed, but he would not elaborate on w sabotage was suspected. FBI spokesperson Coleen Rowley refused to comment. The train, hauling lumber, grain and other cargo, left a Burlington Northern yard in Minneapolis on Wednesday night, bound for Galesburg, Ill. It descended a hill into a Canadian Pacific Railroad yard in St. Paul, speeding out of control at 40 mph to 50 mph. It crashed into locomotives parked outside a one-story office and flattened most of the building. The wreckage stopped 5 feet from the lunchroom, said Mike Johnson, a freight car inspector for Canadian Pacific. He said he was sure people would have been killed if the parked locomotives Don't Panic!! If you think you're pregnant... Call usl--welisten, we care. PROBLEM PREGNANCY HELP 769-7283 Any time, any day, 24 hours. Fully confidential. Serving Students since 1970. Buchanan co-chair leaves, linked to right-wing groups DENTAL HEALTH DAY 0 All Ages Welcome Free X-Rays Free Dental Health Evaluation Free Oral Cancer Screening Saturday, February 17, 1996 9:00 am..- 12:00 p.m. U of M School of Dentistry * PARKING IS AVAILABLE IN THE FLETCHER STREET PARKING STRUCTURE " PUBLIC MAY ENTER THROUGH N. 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He said he took part in at least one anti- government meeting in 1992 while look- ing intoethe incident at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, where federal agents killed the wife and son of white supremacist Randy Weaver, but didn't know racist groups were going to be there. He spoke only about gun rights, and made clear his opposition to other participants' racist views, he said. DEMS Continued from Page 1 "President Clinton has stood firm when it comes to things ordinary folks care about, like education, the envi- ronment and health care," said Alex Heneken, chair of the College Demo- crats ofMichigan. "That is why we are going to New Hampshire, and that is why young people in large numbers voted for President Clinton in 1992 and will vote for him in 1996." The MSU College Democrats have been planning the trip since Novem- ber. Because there were a few extra spaces, Spoon said, they invited some University ofMichigan College Demo- crats to join them for the trip. With the exception of transporta- tion, the New Hampshire Democratic Party is funding the group's trip. Kevin Greary, president of College Democrats of America, said students are motivated to work for Clinton's campaign. "President Clinton is a college student's best friend," Geary said. "The president has worked for students and now students are working for the presi- dent." With more than 800,000 members and 800 chapters nationwide, the Col- lege Democrats of America is the largest student political organization in the coun- try. Membership has increased 45 per- cent since January 1995, when Newt Gingrich became speaker of the House. REIGIOUS SERvICES AVAVAVAVA CAMPUS CHAPEL Christian Reformed Campus Ministry/ 1236 Washtenaw Ct. 668-74211662-2404 Pastor: Rev. Don Postema SA TURDAY: 7:00 p.m. Lecture: Christian responsibility in the political arena Speaker James Skillen Director, Center for Public Justice Washington D.C. 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But in a ruling that seemed to per- plex lawyers for both the government and the coalition of civil rights groups that sued to block the law, the judge upheld a separate section aimed at "patently offensive" material. U.S. District Judge Ronald Buckwalter said the plaintiffs have "raised serious, substantial, difficult and doubtful questions." "Due process, particularly in the arena of criminal statues, requires more than one vague, undefined word, 'indecent,"' Buckwalter wrote. However, thejudge left the govern- ment free to prosecute those who make available to minors any online com- munication that "in context, depicts or describes in terms patently offen- sive as measured by contemporary community standards, sexual or ex- cretory activities or organs." Lawyers for both sides seemed con- fused. Ms. Cinton opposed appointing lawyer * WASHINGTON - First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton led the White House opposition to a special Whitewaterpros- ecutor, and not even the president could get herto reconsider, accordingto White House notes disclosed yesterday. The January 1994 notes show that White House aides saw themselves caught between two strong opposing forces in the weeks before a special prosecutor was named .- Justice 11 partment officials seeking the appoint- ment and Mrs. Clinton opposing it. In notes of a Jan. 7, 1994 meeting, Mark Gearan, the president's former communications director, quotes Deputy White House Chiefof Staff Harold Ickes as commenting that Mrs. Clinton ada- mantly opposed the appointment. 'bY. Yi A b4 ' , Bosnian govt, Serbs blame each other for stalling peace effort SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - The architect of the Bosnian peace accord fired a stern warning yesterday at Bosnian Serbs for straining the pact, while a top Bosnian official said other tensions are tearing the agreement as well. Serbs, too, sounded the alarm, with one prominent leader, Nikola Koljevic, saying the government's arrest of two Serb military officers and their extradi- tion to a war crimes tribunal had thrown the agreement into crisis. In a sign that some provisions of the accord were being violated, NATO troops detained I1 people late yesterday in a round-up operation targeting the illegal presence of foreign troops in Bosnia. The men, many of them not natives of Bosnia, had been captured in posses- sion of a large quantity of weapons, ammunition and explosives "in a house west of Sarajevo," according to a short NATO statement. At least five of the detainees were Iranians who were believed to have left Bosnia earlier, said a senior State'De- partmentofficial in Washington, speak- ing on condition of anonymity. Mudslide kills 71, 12 missing in Brazil RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -Brazil- ians pulled bodies from the muck yes- terday and looked for someone to blame for mudslides that killed at least 71 people, many in hillside shantytowns of handmade shacks. The body of a young boy was found under mounds of garbage ine'te shantytown of Cidade de Deus, or of God, in Rio. In nearby Sitio do Pai Joao, civil defense workers pulled two more bodies from the red mud that buried shacks. Twelve people were still missiig in Cidade de Deus, civil defense officials said. Residents said there were twice that many. 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