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Page A3 THE DAILY LEDGER, Thursday, April 7. 1 994 I mMiM I Plane crash causes Rwanda chaos UN observe; kidnapped presidents killed UGANDA lac I iS Kmi- Ki9afi RWANDA PJ" Aburundi 50m8es 4 Rwanda jS I -50 ton 4 Jg HI 1 I' I 0. AMOdaMdPiMt Associated Press in air disaster NAIROBI. Kenya (AP) Fighting broke out in Rwanda's capital today after the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi were killed when their plane was apparently shot down. 7 Members of Rwanda's presidential guard also kidnapped three Cabinet ministers and three U.N.

military observers today, said U.N. spokesman Moctar Gueye. The identity of the kidnappers or those who allegedly shot down the plane was not immediately known. Both Rwanda and Burundi have been wracked for decades by fighting between the Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups, one of Africa's most savage ethnic feuds. Gueye, speaking by telephone from thd Rwandan capital Kigali, said there were reports of house-to-house killings and that the city's streets were empty except for small, quick-moving groups of youths armed with machetes and clubs.

No demands have been received for the. release of the ministers of Embassy tn Kigali said. French officials said hone of the 10 people aboard survived. The dead included two Burundi government ministers and three French crew members. "What happened was not an accident but an assassination." Rwanda's U.N.

ambassador. Jean Damascene Bizlmana, told reporters at the United Nations. Laura the economic officer at the U.S. Embassy in Kigali, said she was at her home, about a 10-mtnute drive from the airport There were all kinds of sounds 1 and explosions." she told The As sociated Press in Nairobi by phone. "We could hear some shots.

We did not know what It was and we were all instructed to stay in our houses, which we did." Rwanda's defense ministry issued a statement today saying the plane was shot down but the attackers and motives were unknown. Earlier, Francois Ngaruk-intwali. the Rwandan ambassador in Brussels, Belgium, quoted the chief of staff of the Rwandan Cabinet as saying the plane had been attacked. The Belgian news agency Belga quoted Ngarukintwall as saying the plane was a Mystere-Falcon belonging to Rwanda's president Meeting Wednesday night on other business, the 15 members of the U.N. Security Council, including Rwanda, stood for a minute of silence in an unusual tribute.

The council expressed its "shock and distress" and called for calm while the crash is investigated. The presidents were returning from a meeting In Tanzania of regional leaders seeking ways to end bloodletting between the rival," Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups. The Rwanda President Juvenal Habayarintana (left), seen above being greeted by French President Francois Mrtterrand In 1990, was killed Wednesday In a plane crash near Kigali, Rwanda. Nine others were also killed In the crash, Including President Cyprian Ntayamlra of Burundi. two small, neighboring countries have been racked by ethnic bloodletting since their independence in 1962.

Both presidents were Hutus. Although the Tutsi make up only 1 5 percent of Burundi's population, they controlled the country until President Melchlor Ndadaye a Hutu won the nation's first democratic election last June. After the assassination of Ndadaye in October, an estimated 100,000 people died in ethnic violence and 1 million fled to other nations. The 39-year-old Ntaryamira also a Hutu was elected president by Burundi's National Assembly in January, but the Tutsi still dominate the army. A vicious cycle of slaughter and retribution has persisted, reportedly claiming thousands of lives on both sides.

In Rwanda, Habyarimana's Hutu coalition reached a peace accord in August with the former Rwandan Patriotic Front rebels, comprised mainly of minority Tutsi, but they have failed to agree on a transitional government Labor and social ABairs. of infor mation and Agriculture or th three unarmed military tral African nations when their plane crashed Wednesday night near the Kigali airport 7 Rwanda's government said the plane "was shot down" while landing "by unidentified elements in circumstances which are still unclear." Gueye said U.N. officials had been denied access to the crash site and could not confirm reports the aircraft had been shot down. He said some U.N. troops had been detained near the crash site.

Witnesses reported hearing heavy-weapons fire moments before the plane crashed, the French "There is shooting, people are being terrorized," Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingryamana told Radio France Internationale. "People are7 inside their homes, lying on the floor." The prime minister -indicated that much of the shooting was being done by the army, which had been called out to put down the unrest Presidents Juvenal Habyar-imana of Rwanda and Cyprian Ntaryamira of Burundi were on their way home from a summit in Tanzania that was aimed at bringing peace to their strife-torn, cen said Gueye. He also said It was not who was involved in th; fighting. "So far as we can see. it seems' that there are a lot of guns in a lot of hands and we dont really know who is giving1 orders to shoot at who and for what reason." said Gueye.

P-E U.S. Si Gorg literal, D-Ualn. has bn nwrdomd promintntly at succMsor to recently retired Suprem Court Justice Harry UtohaS has canad tha spacuiation "flattering." People worried of jobs, crime WASHINGTON (AP) A new poll suggests President Clinton Is right when he says Americans are sick of hearing about Whitewater more than half the 2.001 people questioned In a Times Mirror 1 poll released Tuesday said there's too much news coverage of Whitewater. Nearly half the people In the survey cited financial pressures when asked to identify their family's biggest problem. More than half said they or a relative had lost a Job, taken a cut in pay or benefits or seen layoffs at their workplace.

Crime overtook economic concerns when people were asked to name the most important problem facing the country. Thirty-two percent cited it as the top problem, up from 25 percent last December. Low-fat food at White House WASHINGTON (AP) Lew-fat American cooking is replacing high-fat French cuisine at the White House with the hiring of Walter S. Schelb ID as executive chef. Schelb is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and a specialist in cooking organically grown fruits and vegetablerand other low-fat foodsTHis selection to replace French-trained Pierre Cham-brln was announced Tuesday.

Schelb has been executive chef at the Greenbrier resort in West Virginia since 1991 after earlier positions at hotels in Washington and Boca Raton, Pla. Khmer Rouge hold hostage PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) Khmer Rouge guerrillas holding an American aid worker are demanding "millions of dollars" for her release, a government official said Wednesday. Melissa Hlmes, 24. of Winston-Salem, N.C., has been detained since March 31 in a village in Kampot province where she went to try to settle a dispute over the drilling of water wells. Three Cambodians who also work for Food for the Hungry International, a Christian relief agency based in Scottsdale, are also being held.

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