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TODAY'S EDITORIAL The issue: Community agencies celebrating successful 'Drug Free Way To Be' program Our opinion: Widespread public awareness only method of establishing drug-free community EM ErioN Greater desperation in Rwanda in brief 1' i 9 11 1 .7 Jt f'A' One Red Cross delegate described the region as "the heart of darkness." The rampage was touched off by the deaths of the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi both Hu- tus in a mysterious plane crash in Kigali on April 6. That reignited a war between the Hutu-led army and the mostly Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic Front That conflict had been on hold since August when the two sides signed a peace agreement meant to lead to power-sharing interim government Most of the killing has come not as a result of the fighting between the army and rebels, but at the hands of marauding gangs of youths and loosely formed militias that have butchered men, women and children with machetes, spears and knives. "The Akagera River (on the Rwanda-Tanzania) border is full of dead bodies," the British aid group Oxfam said. It said the slaughter "amounts to genocide." The U.N. Commander in Rwanda, Gen.

Romeo Dallaire, said his men went to investigate a stench near their Kigali headquarters and found 82 bodies within 300 yards of the front gate. "There's a lot of death around that just hasn't even all been seen," he told the Voice of Ethnic slaughter enters its fourth week and shows no signs of ending NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) New discoveries of corpses in Rwanda left an increasing sense of desperation among the living Thursday as the ethnic slaughter entered its fourth week and showed no signs of ending. Rwanda's capital, Kigali, erupted again in heavy fighting that sent shells screaming over the roof of the U.N. headquarters. Huddled in flak jackets, harried officials sought ways to move relief supplies into the bleeding nation.

Private aid workers and U.N. observers, meanwhile, continued the gruesome task of accounting for the dead in the tiny Central African nation, where more than 100,000 people are believed to have been killed. An estimated 1.3 million more have fled their homes since the bloodbath began April 7. The Red Cross said Thursday the final death toll could be far higher. "When it comes to horror, this is one of the worst situations we have ever seen," said Tony Bur-gener, spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva.

Girl convicted in mom's murder HARRISONBURG, Va. (AP) A 12-year-old girl was convicted of helping her sister and boyfriend stab their mother to death the night before the girls were due to start military school. After a closed trial, the jury found Wednesday that Stephanie Fries was an accessory to second-degree murder in the 1993 death of her mother, Marilyn. "We were pleased that they at least found that she did not commit the crime itself," said Stephanie's lawyer, Danita Alt. Marilyn Fries, 35, was stabbed 16 times in the back and neck in the family's home.

In December, a juvenile court judge convicted Stephanie of second-degree murder. Her 14-year-old sister, Camellia, and Stephanie's 15-year-old boyfriend, Shawn Roadcap, were convicted of first-degree murder. All three appealed, and were retried in county court. A jury convicted Camellia and Shawn of first-degree murder on April 15. Their trial was open to the public at the request of one of the defendants.

All three were convicted as juveniles, and cannot be imprisoned past their 21st birthdays. Stephanie's sentencing was set for June 2. i Rwandan orphans huddle with blankets at the airport in Bergamo, Italy, on Thursday after being evacuated from their Central Africa nation. (AP Photo) Rwanda survivor relives horror Rwanda unrest 6 In my neighborhood, more than 1 ,000 Tutsis have been killed just in my neighborhood. 3 5 Resident of Kigali, Rwanda I came out of hiding today for the first time.

The roads are barricaded by the gangs. When you arrive at a barricade, you are asked to show your identity card. If you are a Tutsi, you are killed. If you are a Hutu, you can escape. I sent my wife and child away to the countryside a week ago.

She is an ethnic Hutu, so there was not much danger for her. But I could not go with her because of the way I look. I don't think people outside of Rwanda can imagine what it's like. Three weeks of slaughter, every day, and not just in Kigali, but everywhere. There is almost no food.

And anyway, the banks are closed and nobody has money to buy food. I ate only one meal a day, mostly beans. We are all afraid, and we are starving. So many people I know have died. Sometimes I cry.

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Very early the next morning, mobs were everywhere. They were armed with grenades, guns, machetes, spears, axes, and they House panel OKs limit on benefits WASHINGTON (AP) After a fractious debate about drug addicts and alcoholics on the dole, a House committee voted Thursday to kick substance abusers off federal disability rolls after 36 months. we were Hutus. But still we did not feel safe. Even Hutus were being killed by Hutus.

It is not easy to tell a Hutu from a Tutsi. I am an ethnic Hutu, but some people say I look like a Tutsi. I think that's because of my complexion. When you are thin and have a fine complexion, people say you are a Tutsi. That's why sometimes Hutus kill Hutus.

In my neighborhood, more than 1,000 Tutsis have been killed just in my neighborhood. I think the intensity of the massacre has diminished because most people have been killed. started chasing ethnic Tutsis. Some of those killers were my neighbors. They chose a place just in front of my home to bring people to kill.

I saw at least 100 killed there, on the street in front of my home. I saw people hacked to death, even babies. Month-old babies. Anybody who tried to flee was killed on the streets. And people who were hiding were found and massacred.

It was terrible. It was beyond imagination. The killers also entered my home and checked our identity cards. Thank God the cards said APWm. I.

Castello Ames given life sentence The vote by the House Ways and Means Committee came on an amendment to legislation that would spin off Social Security from the Department of Health and Human Services and make it an independent agency. The bill, which also restricts unsupervised cash payments to drug abusers and alcoholics who collect Social Security, is expected to be approved by the committee next week. A similar plan passed the Senate in early March, and President Clinton expressed support Thursday for making Social Security Researchers find gene in mice that controls their biological clocks plead guilty CIA agent, wife to Russians to selling secrets over the years," he told the court in a matter-of-fact tone. But the prosecutors said in court papers, "Ames' compromise of these penetrations of the Soviet military and intelligence services deprived the United States of extremely valuable intelligence material for years to come." Ames' wife, Rosario, 41, also pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit espionage and evade income taxes, but the government said she aided and supported her husband's treachery without ever handling or transmitting secrets to the Russians. U.S.

District Judge Claude Hilton deferred her sentencing until Aug. 26 so the government has time to see whether Ames fulfills his agreement to tell investigators everything he disclosed, how he operated and any help he may have received. "The results of his debriefing will be very influential," in her sentencing, her attorney William Cummings said. telligence) agents among the 11 were executed. U.S.

Attorney Helen Fahey told a news conference, "He traded people's lives for $2.5 million." Ames said he never learned the fate of those he betrayed. But reading his first public statement since his Feb. 21 arrest, Ames expressed "deepest sympathy" for those "who may have suffered from my actions." Professing "profound shame and guilt" for "this betrayal of trust, done for the basest motives," money to pay debts, Ames nevertheless said he did not believe he had "noticeably damaged" the United States or "noticeably aided" Moscow. "These spy wars are a sideshow which have had no real impact on our significant security interests ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) Aid-rich Ames, the highest-paid and highest-ranking Russian spy ever caught inside the CIA, was sentenced to life in prison without parole Thursday in what a prosecutor called "the most damaging spy case in the history of this country." Ames, 52, pleaded guilty without a trial and admitted being paid $2.5 million by the Soviet Union and then Russia since April 1985 for U.S.

secrets. Once head of counterintelligence in the CIA's Soviet-East Europe section, Ames admitted disclosing the identities of 10 Russian officials and one East European who were spying for the United States or Great Britain. Prosecutors said at least four Soviet KGB or GRU (military in- gene that plays a key role in the cycle. Takahashi said researchers in his lab located the gene by finding and then breeding mice that lacked the gene. "We isolated the mutation which affects the circadian clock in the mouse," he said.

"With this mutation, the mouse loses (its) circadian rhythm completely." The gene was located by an ingenious system that measured the circadian rhythm of 300 mice automatically at the same time. Takahashi said that exercise wheels in each of the mouse cages were connected to a computer. When each mouse awoke and started exercising, a switch was thrown that recorded the time. "They all started within a minute or two of the same time each day," he said. Except for one mouse.

Researchers discovered that this rodent started an hour later each day. When it was bred, some of its descendants also started late. By comparing the genetic pattern of the prompt and the tardy mice, Takahashi said they located a single mutation in an area of chromosome 5. Once the gene is isolated and cloned, Takahashi said researchers will be able to identify the protein that it Finding could lead to the identification of a similar gene in humans WASHINGTON (AP) A gene for the internal clock that sends the body wake-up alarms in the morning and brings on slumber at night has been located in laboratory mice, a finding that may prompt a similar discovery in humans. Joseph Takahashi of Northwestern University, senior author of a report to be published Friday in the journal Science, said the research could lead to drugs that will overcome jet lag, keep night workers from falling asleep on the job and solve narcolepsy, one of the most common sleep disorders.

The biological clock, located in the brain, controls the daily, or circadian, rhythms of life. It somehow triggers changes that invigorate or slow down the body on a 24-hour cycle. It is the circadian rhythm that is disrupted by rapid flight across time zones, causing jet lag. Circadian rhythms have long fascinated and confounded scientists, prompting research into sleep and into how humans adapt to daylight and darkness. But the work by Takahashi and his group is the first to locate in a mammal the an independent agency.

Man charged in wife's death ORANGE PARK, Fla. CAP) A man has been charged with helping his wife commit suicide in 1991 by giving her the gun she used, authorities said. Steven and Judith Gamble had both been drinking and got into an argument in their apartment, said Sgt Dan Smith, a spokesman for the Clay County Sheriffs office. When Judith Gamble said she didn't want to live anymore, her husband gave her a loaded revolver, Smith said. Mrs.

Gamble, 27, shot herself in the mouth on Oct 20, 1991, and died two days later. Gamble, who had moved to Rossville, was arrested this week on the little-used charge of assisting self-murder and brought back to Florida. He was being held Thursday in the Clay County Jail on $75,000 bond, Smith said. If convicted of the second-degree felony, Gamble Rural voters get one more chance Military helicopters reached remote villages in KwaZulu, where some polling stations have never opened. At Nongoma, the home of Zulu King Goodwill Zwelethini, trucks were sent into the mountains to collect voters.

"This is a vast area. People are poor and they haven't been able to reach us," said election official Carl Holdt. Tribal feuding hampered the distribution of ballots in some regions, but elsewhere chiefs and community leaders were sending runners to guide the election officials, Holdt said. Counting of South African ballots to begin Saturday DURBAN, South Africa CAP) Helicopters delivered ballots and trucks took voters to the polls today in black-dominated rural areas, where the election was extended another day to give some South Africans a last chance to vote. African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela, expected to become the country's first black president, said this morning that he was "confident that we will be able to pronounce these elections as having been free and fair." "The will is there to address these irregularities and I think that is more important than concentrating on the mistakes that have been made," Mandela said in interviews with foreign media.

While the rest of the country finished its three-day election Thursday, people in areas encompassing the former black homelands of Transkei, Ciskei, KwaZulu, Venda, Lebowa and Gazankulu were given a fourth day. could be sentenced to 18 years in prison..