2A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, October 28, 1996 NATION/WORLD Zaire torn by renewed ethnic massacres NIA iona REPORT a americans donatn more to charity Los Angeles Times KIGALI, Rwanda - Advancing Tutsi rebel forces captured new territo- ry yesterday in eastern Zaire as heavy fighting sent Zairian troops and pan- icked civilians in chaotic retreat and increased tensions in an area suffering the worst fighting in months in strife- torn Central Africa. Mortars and fierce gunfire roared on the outskirts of Bukavu, capital of South Kivu province, and witnesses said fleeing Zairian troops and civilian mobs hijacked scores of vehicles, broke into homes and looted abandoned offices and warehouses of international aid agencies. Many of the ill-disciplined Zairian soldiers used the stolen vehicles to drive themselves, their families and plunder away from the fighting. Food, fuel, water and other basic goods were reported in short supply in Bukavu, located on the southern end of Lake Kivu. The government radio sta- tion fed panic in the besieged city by repeatedly broadcasting warnings from the regional governor, who said the I r . 00 Receive $1 00 off any tax sen/ce with this coupon One coporcustomer. Tutsis were "murderers who want to kill us and exterminate the (Hutu) refugees." The rebels began battled Zairian troops after local Zairian officials earli- er this month ordered the estimated 300,000 Banyamulenge Tutsis to leave the country. The conflict has become an extension of the brutal ethnic warfare that has plagued the Great Lakes region of Central Africa in recent years. U.N. officials said the Banyamulenge-dominated rebel forces now control a 50-mile stretch of rugged territory from south of the Zairian city of Uvira to Bukavu. The territory, which follows Zaire's border with Rwanda and Burundi, includes Uvira itself and the lakeside port of Kamanyola. The rebels also apparently control parts of the Haut Plateau further west. The guerrillas' surprising gains stem in part from the apparent collapse of Zairian army units. Relief workers said several refugee camps emptied in panic after residents heard shooting or saw Zairian soldiers run away. The Tutsi insurgents' ultimate objec- tive is unclear. They initially organized to defend the Banyamulenge people, who have lived in Zaire for two cen- turies, from ethnic persecution by the local Zairian officials who had ordered the Tutsi group to leave the country or WASHINGTON - Americans gave $23.5 billion to the nation's 400 biggest charities last year, giving most generously to the Salvation Army, the American Red Cross and Catholic Charities USA. Giving was up 5 percent from a year earlier, The Chronicle of Philanthropy's- ' annual survey of the 400 nonprofit organizations receiving the most private money showed. The 1994 increase was 6.3 percent. Charities on the newspaper's "Philanthropy 400" list received about $1 out of0 every $6 donated to nonprofits. Although donations to the Salvation Army dropped 11.3 percent, that organization topped the list for the fourth consecutive year with collections of $644.3 million. The American Red Cross, number two for three years, raised $456.6 million, which represented a 7.9-percent drop from 1994. A 25-percent increase in giving to Catholic Charities USA boosted that organi- zation from No. 7 to No. 3 on the list, as it raised $419.4 million last year. The survey also found: Community foundations, which raise and distribute money in a single geo- graphic area, saw the biggest gain in donations - 93 percent. ® Giving rose 25.4 percent to museums and libraries, 17.5 percent to educatior groups, 17.4 percent to public broadcasting and 16.5 percent to arts organizations. 0 * Lecture Notes " Course Packets " Resume Services " Copy & Bindery * Fax Services Grade A Notes at Ulrich's Bookstore Second Floor = 549 E. University " 741-9669 A mayor who willingly helps provide a bridge between town and gown. STA Travel NOW OFFERS student discounts on domestic travel. PSST! Going somewhere else? STA Travel has great student airfares to destinations around the world. Mayor Ingrid Sheldon welcomes U-M graduate students to Ann Arbor during a September, 1996 program at Rackham Auditorium. Paid for by the Ingrid Sheldon for Mayor Committee Doug F. Ziesemer, Treasurer, 122 S. Main, Ann Arbor 48104 AP PHOTO A column of Rwandan Hutu refugees arrive at the Mugunga refugee camp. be "hunted" by the army. The fighting has spread more than 100 miles to the north since it began. Hutus, an ethnic group at odds with the Tutsis, claim that the Tutsi rebels are doing their own ethnic cleansing in an attempt to create a so-called "Tutsiland" along the borders of Rwanda and Burundi. Both countries are led by Tutsi mili- tary regimes and maintain that Zaire openly harbors and supports armed Hutu militias that have killed hundreds of people in cross-border raids. The broader question is whether the Zairian Tutsi guerrillas, who also claim support from ethnic-based secessionist groups in Shaba and Kasai provinces, are capable of toppling the 31-year dic- tatorial regime of Zairian President Mobutu Sese Seko. Mobutu has been under treatment for cancer in Switzerland since August, and his absence has added to the power vac- uum. Despite, or because of, Mobutu's brutal reign, Zaire has no real function- ing government, infrastructure or for- eign reserves, and the vast country increasingly appears in danger of disin- tegration. But it was impossible to obtain reli- able information about the scale or progress of the current fighting. No outsiders are known to have seen the rebels in action, and the size, composi- tion and tactics of their forces have been difficult to discern. Zaire has closed its land borders and barred most journalists from entering the affected area. Several reporters and television crews who have managed to enter Bukavu and the city of Goma, about 60 miles north, have been detained, deported, assaulted or robbed at gunpoint. Three journalists standing beside the border in Cyangugu, Rwanda, were fired yesterday by.Zairian troops, but escaped injury. Kitale, the northernmost camp in Zaire holding refugees who originally fled a genocidal war in Rwanda in 1994, also came under fire early yes- terday, but the attackers apparently were repulsed by camp guards. Paul Stromberg, spokesperson for the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, described the situation at the 150,000-person camp as "stable" after the shooting, which left one Zairian guard dead and three wound- ed. About 3,000 displaced Zairians and 1,000 Rwandan Hutus from Kibumba, a huge camp near Goma that was aban- doned early Saturday after it was repeatedly shelled by mortars, fled the growing turmoil yesterday by crossing the nearby border into Rwanda. The forlorn group and their ragged bundles were then ferried by 20 U.N. trucks to a transit center near Gisenyi, Rwanda. The refugees arrival, and indica- tions that thousands of others may be en route, raised hopes among interna- tional aid groups that the widening ethnic conflict may help finally con- vince a significant number of the 1.1 million refugees in Zaire since the 1994 Rwandan conflict to return home. "We're preparing for a big influx,' said John Keys, director of the International Rescue Committee here. ) AUSTRAIA 0 CANADA 0 CHILE 0 CHINAx 0' C 5p e - I as 0INFORMATION MEETING about U0 ©{ STUDY ABROAD a a nz #+ GOP steps up attack on drug dealer's White House visit WASHINGTON - Republicans and Ross Perot stepped up their attacks on the Clinton administration yesterday for allowing Miami drug dealer Jorge Cabrera- a convicted felon and major Democratic party donor - to attend al White House function last year. The Secret Service said a criminal record does not preclude entrance to a White House event. "The Clinton-Gore campaign cer- tainly invited to the White House a per- son who had a criminal record both of assault with a lead pipe, of importing commercial quantities of marijuana - that he had a criminal record," House Speaker Newt Gingrich said on "Fox News Sunday." Scott Reed, Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole's campaign manag- er, said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that Cabrera "went in the White House and got his picture taken with the president. at a Christmas party because he gave S aringsteen backs tve action LOS ANGELES - Rocker Bruce Springsteen, whose songs often chroni- cle people's struggles to achieve their dreams, used music and invoked Martin Luther King Jr. yesterday to urge a rally of about 1,400 people to battle against a state ballot initiative opposing govern- ment affirmative action programs. "I don't think any of us can look in our hearts and say we live in a color- blind society," Springsteen said, read- ing from scrawled-out notes and clearly a bit ill at ease with his role as a speechmaker at the gathering out- side the Federal Building in Westwood. him $20,000." Cabrera, a Cuban-born American, pleaded guilty in 1983 to conspiracy to bribe a grand jury witness and served 42 months in prison. In 1988, Cabrera was charged with overseeing a nar-, cotics ring but pleaded guilty to income tax evasion and served a year in prison.@ A R 01UN THE ORI : <.: ;: Pope resumes activity after appendectomy VATICAN CITY - Nearly three weeks after an appendectomy, Pope John Paul II resumed his pastoral duties yesterday by presiding over a service at St. Peter's Basilica to mark Christian unity. The pope walked with a labored gait during the opening procession of the service, leaning on his staff and bless- ing worshipers with his right hand. After the liturgy honoring the joining' of an Orthodox church to Rome 350 years ago, John Paul gave his regular noon blessing from his window over St. Peter's Square. He took note of the "profound com- munion of faith" tying Roman Catholicism to the Eastern churches. "During my recent stay in the hospi- tal, the expressions of solidarity by var- ious brothers of these churches was a great comfort to me," he said. The 76-year-old pontiff had an appendectomy Oct. 8 and left the hos- pital a week later. He has since appeared briefly at his window to greet pilgrims several times. Copter crash leaves 2 missing members DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Ships and aircraft scanned the Persian Gulf on Saturday without turning up any sign of two American crewmembers missing after their helicopter crashed. One crewmember was killed when the helicopter from the aircraft carrier d Enterprise crashed with 12 people on, board Friday in the northern part of the Gulf near Kuwait. "We will continue the search until it becomes clear that there is no possibil- ity of finding them," said U.S. Navy spokesperson Cmdr. T. McCreary. One of the nine rescued crew mem- bers suffered a fracture in the crash and was transported to shore for medical attention, McCreary said. The remain- ing eight remained on the Enterprise. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. . The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. Subscriptions for fall term, starting in September, via U.S. mail are $85. Winter term (January through April) is $95, yearlong (September through April) is $165. On-canpus sub- scriptions for fall term are $35. Subscriptions must be prepaid. The Michigan Daily is a member of the Associated Press and the Associated collegiate Press. ADDRESS: The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1327. 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