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atanfcria Datlg Zmn Sal Tuesday, April 19, 1994 A-3 Briefs Missiles arrive in S. Korea as North urges talks Rwanda unrest ZAIRE Demilitarized zone u1 Massacres spreading in Rwanda Thousands flee homes Gisenyi RWANDA KigaliflTTI i Airport Lake I Kivu i A Butafe V- BURUNDI Bujumbura Major roads f. TANZANIA hi iyoi ifina j- 40 milea 40 km kicking up a ruckus with noisy pressure," Kim was quoted as saying. Accusing the United States of having nuclear weapons in South Korea, Kim said: "The only way that the nuclear problem on the Korean Peninsula can be solved is through direct talks with the United States." Inspections unlikely Kim's comments indicated North Korea is sticking to its position that it will not accept the U.N. Security Council's request for full nuclear inspections.

In an interview with CNN Monday, North Korea Army Maj. Gen. Kim Young Choi said his country would not allow inspections. "In inspecting military sites the issue has to be dealt with between North and South Korea in the process of disarmament between the two sides," he said. If inspections are not allowed, it is unlikely Washington would accept Kim's call for direct talks.

Fears that North Korea, a reclusive Communist state, is building nuclear bombs grew last month when it denied inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency full access to its nuclear sites. If the North persists in that stance, the Security Council might seek to impose economic sanctions on the nation, although China, an ally of Pyongyang, could block such a move by using its veto. SEOUL, South Korea As the first American Patriot missiles arrived in South Korea Monday, North Korea's leader called for talks with the United States in an effort to prove his country is not developing nuclear weapons. South Korean military officials said three Patriot batteries with a total of 24 launchers arrived at the southern port of Pusan along with 84 Stinger missiles to defend the Patriots. President Clinton in late March ordered the Patriots shipped to South Korea as North Korea continued to refuse to allow inspections of some of its nuclear facilities, suspected of being used to make nuclear weapons.

The Patriots are to be deployed at major ports and airfields. Nearly 2 million troops have since remained on heightened alert along the demilitarized zone, the world's most heavily armed border. About 36,000 U.S. troops are stationed in South Korea. Rare statement North Korean President Kim Sung released a rare statement on Monday to assure the world he had no plans for making nuclear weapons.

Kim made his comments in a written response to questions submitted by the Japanese television network NHK, the network said Monday. "Although we have never had nuclear weapons America is unjustly finding fault with us and stops gangs from killing Tutsis in areas it controls. A Ghanaian peacekeeper was shot in cross-fire near Kigali airport Sunday and was evacuated with serious leg wounds, said Abdul Kabia, executive director of the U.N. force in Rwanda. Rebels blew up a government radio station in Kigali that had incited Hutus to slaughter Tutsis, Kabia said.

An official of the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front met Sunday in Kampala, Uganda, with Rwanda's ambassador. The two sides agreed on the need for a cease-fire, but didn't sign one. "My impression is that the fighting is dying down in the capital," said Moctar Gueye, U.N. spokesman in Kigali. "Unfortunately, we have no cease-fire agreement for the time being." About 26,000 Rwandans have fled to Zaire, Tanzania, Uganda and Burundi, according to the CARE aid agency, while hundreds of thousands are displaced within Rwanda.

About 6,000 Rwandans were camped Monday on the Ugandan side of the border. NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) Ethnic massacres have spread throughout Rwanda, and aid officials reported Monday that tens of thousands of people have been killed and hundreds of thousands uprooted from their homes. "The situation is catastrophic, not just in Kigali but in the rest of Rwanda," said Jean-Luc Thevoz, spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva. He reported "tens and tens of thousands of dead" and said at least 400,000 of Rwanda's 8.5 million people had been driven from their homes in the outbreak of fighting that started after Rwanda's president died in a suspicious plane crash April 6. The massacres began in the capital the next day, and two days later rebels began an offensive into Kigali, the capital.

The rebels, mostly members of the minority Tutsi tribe, had been in a demilitarized zone in the north since last year, but have now moved to take much of the capital. They say they'll continue to fight until the Hutu-dominated government Developments in Rwanda: A Ghanaian peacekeeper was shot in cross-fire near Kigali airport Sunday and had to be evacuated from the city with serious leg wounds. HI Rebel fighters of the minority Tutsi tribe blew up a government radio station in Kigali that had incited Hutus to slaughter Tutsis. United Nations actions in Rwanda: The United Nations has warned both sides it will pull its 2,100 Ghanaian, Bangladeshi, Senegalese and Polish peacekeepers from Rwanda "if the two sides continue to follow the logic of war." U.N. officials are trying to convince them to cease their fire, at least temporarily, so joint U.N., rebel and army patrols can stop the looting and killing by marauding gangs.

Mexican opposition demands reforms 1988 election to the Democratic Revolution Party's candidate, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, in balloting marked by accusations of fraud. Leaders of the opposition party on Monday issued a statement saying that "sufficient advances guaranteeing a clean election" are still awaited, despite some reforms. The opposition party demanded the "opening of the communications media," particularly TV, to all parties and a new revision of the national voter rolls and PRI's campaign after the March 23 assassination of his predecessor, Luis Donaldo Colosio. The government has made some changes. The Federal Election Institute has agreed to allow outside scrutiny of voter rolls for the Aug.

21 election, independent citizens to monitor the polls, and a special prosecutor for election fraud. It agreed to dismiss 235 elections officials as part of the reform process. other steps. It gave no details. Election officials and the government of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari had no immediate comment.

Democratic Revolution has positioned itself as the party of democratic change. But PRI candidate Ernesto Zedillo has also stepped up his campaigning, declaring that he stands for clean and democratic elections. "I aspire to be president with complete legitimacy before the Mexican people," Zedillo said last week in restarting the MEXICO CITY (AP) Mexico's leading opposition party demanded more democratic reforms ahead of the August presidential elections, saying Monday that a fair vote is still not assured. The announcement appeared to be part of a rising battle between the opposition Democratic Revolution Party and the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party to be seen as the party of democratic change. The ruling party, known as the PRI, has never lost a presidential election since its 1929 founding.

It came close to losing the Muslim divorce case NEW DELHI, India (AP) A court verdict striking down the traditional form of Muslim divorce has divided India's Muslims, with liberals welcoming the move and conservatives enraged. The order by the Allahabad High Court in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh on Friday overturned the practice of allowing Muslim men to divorce by simply saying the word "talaq," which means divorce in Arabic, three times. Breakthrough near PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) A breakthrough agreement to resolve South Africa's political crisis appeared imminent Monday when Zulu leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi dropped his demand for a delay in next week's election. Buthelezi, President F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela may approve today a proposal that would bring Buthelezi's Inkatha Freedom Party into the April 26-28 election, said a government source close to the talks.

Aborigines victorious CAIRNS, Australia (AP) Aborigines regained a large slice of their ancestral homeland on Monday. The area is about a third of the former Starke pastoral property on Cape York peninsula in Queensland, in the far north of the country. The rest of the property will become national park and will be managed by local aborigines. Insider trading MADRID, Spain (AP) State attorneys interrogated former Bank of Spain governor Mariano Rubio on Monday about allegations of tax fraud and insider trading. The inquiry is sending shock waves through the Socialist government of Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez.

The 62-year-old Rubio, who met with investigators for about 90 minutes, was greeted as he arrived for the session by hecklers shouting "thief! Scoundrel!" He left without speaking to reporters. Gorbachev speaks MOSCOW (AP) Mikhail Gorbachev said Monday that shortly after beginning his reformist policy, he feared he would eventually be toppled by Communist hard-liners like one of his predecessors, Nikita Khrushchev. "We remembered the experience of Khrushchev, but we underestimated the reactionary forces of the past," the former Soviet president told a conference commemorating the 100th anniversary of Khrushchev's birth. Lebanon cuts ties BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Lebanon severed relations with Iraq on Monday, saying that the assassination of a prominent Iraqi dissident in Beirut last week was ordered by Saddam Hussein's government. Information Minister Michel Samaha announced the decision following a Cabinet meeting, and said Iraqi diplomats had 72 hours to depart.

Two Iraqi diplomats arrested in connection with the shooting told interrogators they were ordered by the Iraqi government to kill Sheik Taleb Ali al-Suheil, Samaha said. Real road tax SINGAPORE (AP) Singapore started testing a system Monday that would bill motorists for using the city-state's roads as they are charged for water or electricity. The system, Electronic Road Processing, uses a credit-card sized card slotted into a device attached to each vehicle. As the vehicle passes under a gantry, a detector automatically deducts the cost of using the road from the card. Three different methods of charging motorists are under consideration: a per entry fee, one based on mileage or one based on traffic congestion.

Beer Lovers Party MOSCOW (AP) There's a sober side to the Beer Lovers Party: It wants to be taken seriously. But when the Beer Lovers tried to register as a bona fide political party, Justice Ministry officials balked. "They said our name was too "unusual" for Russia," said Konstantin Kolachev, 29-year-old secretary-general of the anti-party party. '-nf Rabin says peace closer than ever i I- ken and more terrorist attacks will not stop the convoy of peace," he said. Rabin said Israel knew from the outset that the accord it signed with the PLO in September would not stop all the hostilities.

The violence and differences over security matters have delayed implementation of Palestinian self-rule in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank town of Jericho. "Peace today looks closer than ever. There is a great chance to put an end to the wars, to 100 years of terrorism, blood and hostility," Rabin told Parliament. "When we set out on the path to peace, we knew that it was not possible to erase a hundred years of hatred with one signature." As Rabin spoke, constant heckling could be heard. JERUSALEM (AP) Amid taunts and loud heckling from right-wing legislators, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin told Parliament on Monday that peace is closer than ever despite attempts by extremists to thwart it.

As he spoke, the Islamic fundamentalist group Hamas claimed responsibility for another attack on an Israeli commuter bus that left four Israelis wounded. It was the fourth attack this month on an Israeli bus. "Our sensitivity to losses is not a secret, and the terrorist and rejectionist murderers are trying to break us with attacks, with knives, bombs, armed ambushes and car bombs," Rabin said. "But they don't have a The Israeli people are not panicked, they are not bro Associated Press Award-winning photographer Greg Marinovich Johannesburg Monday. Marinovich suffered a junded in Tokoza township east or serious chest wound.

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The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to republish news dispatches originated by The Alexandria Daily Town Talk. All other republication ond reuse rights are reserved Telephones Rillirvi Tokoza between ANC supporters and Zulus who back the rival Inkatha Freedom Party. As the troops and journalists approached a hostel that houses Zulu workers, shots zinged overhead. Soldiers and photographers rushed for cover while some troopers opened fire. Joao Silva, a photographer for the AP, said the shots that hit his two colleagues appeared to have been fired by the peacekeepers.

Col. Connie van Rensburg, a spokesman for the peacekeepers, said: "It's possible. It was cross-fire." It was not clear how Oosterbroek, 32, broke his neck in the confused scramble. He was the second South African journalist killed this year. In January, Abdul Shariff, 31, a freelance photographer on assignment for the AP, was fatally shot in Katlehong township.

Last week, Oosterbroek was named South African news photographer of the year the third time he has won that honor in six years. The editor of the Star, Peter Sullivan, said that at a recent staff meeting, Oosterbroek "got up and made a special plea to young photographers and inexperienced journalists to be especially careful" covering the unrest. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) An award-winning news photographer was fatally injured and two colleagues suffered bullet wounds Monday while scrambling for cover during a gun-battle in a black township. Ken Oosterbroek, chief photographer for The Star newspaper in Johannesburg, broke his neck when journalists and soldiers dived behind a wall after coming under fire. Dr.

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