NATION T ~ /WORLD The Michigan Daily - Monday, November 18, 1996 - 7A Explosion kills 22 in Russiani apartment building bombing MOSCOW (AP) - Russia's prime minister flew yesterday to the site of an explosion that killed at least 22 people, including nine children, in a building housing Russian service officers and their families. Although dozens of people were res- cued alive, at least 33 people were still missing, including the unit commander and his deputy, the ITAR-Tass news agency said. Interfax said the number of missing was closer to 40. The pre-dawn explosion Saturday. destroyed at least 41 of the apartments in the building in Kaspyisk, a town on the Caspian Sea in Dagestan, a southern Russian republic neighboring Chechnya. President Boris Yeltsin sent his condo- lences to the victims and Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin Dagestan. "I took the traveled to news hard," More than 130 people, most of them Russian border guard officers and their families, lived in the building. Yeltsin's message ITAR-Tass. Officials say the explosion was probably caused by one or more bombs planted in the basement. "Witnesses heard two explosions before the building col- said, acco.rding to Witnesses heard two explosions before the building collapsed.' - Maj. Gen. Vsevolod Chernov Military prosecutor According to Russian news agenci es, authorities have several theories about the explo- sion, including revenge from organized crime groups angry about a crack- down on caviar and sturgeon lapsed," Maj. Gen. Vsevolod Chernov, the military prosecutor for the Caucasian Military District, told Interfax. poaching in the Caspian Sea or on the smuggling of drugs and weapons from neighboring Azerbajan. AP PHOTO A Rwandan woman who walked from Goma, Zaire, stretches over a mud puddle some 22 miles from the border yesterday in Rwanda. Hundreds of thousands of refugees are making their journey back home in a mass exodus from Zaire. linton -mayalter Rwandan policy e Washington Post WASHINGTON - The Clinton administration may be able to scale back planned U.S. military action to ease the humanitarian crisis in central Africa and may wind up helping to provide aid to refugees inside Rwanda instead of securing an airport as a base of assistance operations in neighbor- ing Zaire, senior U.S. officials said sterday. A formal decision on the nature of tie U.S. aid will be reached Wednesday, at a meeting with European nations, officials said. They said they were cheered by the continu- iig exodus of refugees to their homes iin Rwanda from camps in Zaire, but RWANDA Vontnued from Page 1A stragglers, the sick and others too weak to walk. No one knew how many really had returned, because all attempts to count, feed or register the arrivals were over- whelmed. But if the estimates were even close to accurate, they meant that .. -- .. that U.S. military forces could still play a role by helping aid reach them in Rwanda. On Wednesday President Clinton had agreed to send 1,000 ground troops and another 3,000 to 4,000 sup- port troops as part of a multinational rescue mission to Zaire to be spear- headed by Canada. "Now we're looking more at logistic support ... to make sure that the humanitarian assistance is given prop- erly," U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Madeleine Albright said on CNN's "Late Edition" yesterday. She said U.S. experts dispatched to the region estimate that between 12,000 and 15,000 refugees are cross- ing from Zaire to Rwanda every hour, with between 300,000 and 400,000 already back in their homeland. The chief of a U.S. military team sent to assess the crisis has been meet- ing with the Rwandan government to discuss "several alternative plans to send logistics support in there if neces- sary" on a day's notice, Secretary of Defense William Perry said on NBC's "Meet the Press." Perry added that roughly "2,000 peo- ple and dozens of airplanes" have been put on standby to provide the support. The Rwandan government has said so far that it welcomes international humanitarian aid but opposes the dis- patch of foreign troops to its territory. CHILD CARE Continued from Page 1A developing the program and has made it a focus in her administration. "I think this university really does need to say we support child care and we support it with public funds," Rose said, adding that "this was just step one." Rose said the task force will continue to consider other solutions to lowering the cost for student parents. The group also will discuss staff and faculty needs, she said. "We have a preliminary University agreement that child care needs to be dealt with," Rose said. Regent Daniel Horning (R-Grand Haven) said he voted for the program because it benefits students, but would not have supported a similar program for faculty and staff. "It's not to become an entitlement program," Horning said. "It's for stu- dent need:' Several regents said the issue is the need to provide access to students who may otherwise find it financially diffi- cult to attend the University. "We also spend general fund money on a variety of other activities also designed to increase student access to this University," said Regent Philip Power (D-Ann Arbor). Provost J. Bernard Machen told the board that the University already spends close to $140 million in general fund money for student financial aid. Interim President Homer Neal noted that $73,000 is a small part of the gen- eral fund. Baker asked for a more thorough report evaluating the need for child caye on campus. He said the task force's pro- posal is a "policy that is based on emo- tion and not on fact." The lengthy child care discussion and policy debate lasted for about an hour. "By the time we get this figured out, the kids are going to be old enough to take care of themselves," Horning said. - Daily Staff Reporter JeffEldridge contributed to this report University of Michigan School of Dentistry New Patients Welcome Need a dentist whileyou're away from home? Call us for quality dental care at a moderate cost. Insurance and MedicaidAccepted Major Credit Cards Accepted Appointment and General Information 763-6933 Mon-Fri 8 AM - 5 PM 1011 N. University, Ann Arbor the bulk of the 700,000 refugees in the giant camps that once surrounded the Zairian city of Goma were on their way home. 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