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Friday, April 29,1 Friday, April 29, 1994 The Battalion Page 9 t Midwest at adding on Cougars cd Press TON — The Grtii : Conference is consif ng football to its p®. i lias met with Uni- Houston officials io he possibilitieso| e Cougars, KRIV-T n reported, we’re interested in j [' itball too, because'*; in phis State aec Slive said Wedties- e exploring thepos- th doing sometliiiis iall if it will helpoei uestion is, cantlis football, improveis and then be a parte! estructuring — at /e can. 'ague, our president d us to explore th; es of (adding NCM IA institutions fo; etball and football las I-A football anc las great athletic tta- Neighbors killing neighbors ... Rwanda survivor speaks of massacre The Associated Press EDITOR’S NOTE —- For three weeks, he was pre sumed dead, one of the 100,000 now estimated to have been hacked, shot and ripped to death in the orgy of eth nic murder that has swept across Rwanda since the presi dent of the tiny African nation was killed in a plane crash. On Thursday, this resident of Kigali, the Rwandan capital, emerged from hiding and called The Associated Press in Nairobi, Kenya. Asking that his name be con cealed to avoid retribution, the man told this story. KIGALI, Rwanda —- On the 6th of April, I remember RTLM (radio) broke the news that the president’s plane was on fire at the airport. 1 was at home with my wife and child. The massacres started almost immediately. Very early the next morning, mobs were everywhere. They were armed with grenades, guns, machetes, spears, axes, and they 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 K le hacked to death, even babies. Month- abies. 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. - a survivor in Rwanda 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 we were Hums. But still we did not feel safe. Even Hums were being killed by Hums. 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 Hums kill Hutus. In my neighborhood, more than 1,000 Tutsis have been killed — just in my neigh borhood. I think the intensity of the massacre has diminished because most people have been killed. 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 es cape. I sent my wife and child away to the coun tryside a week ago. She is an ethnic Hutu, so there was not much danger for her. 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 slaugh ter, every day, and not just in Kigali, but every where. There is almost no food. And anyway, the banks are closed and nobody has money to buy food. 1 ate only one meal a day, mostly beans. We are all afraid, and we are starving. So many people I know have died. Some times I cry. nful knee surgeries, rginia, a 6’-7 3M iom Virginia. Reii e as a medical risk, ers’ medical staff, the ball, Cris Disk- rt soon for greenei rs sans one formet ' the Warren Moot /is of Cincinnati,) iize, and better than Davis was a third e playing only two >e ball. Davis runs 3 seconds and pos- linebackers in the id the Oilers appear of their finest drafts f collapse last yeat, van to the Arizoni he greatest quartet- y, tne Oilers have e on starting offhls still luv ya, Blue. Parade drives people to decorate their cars The Associated Press HOUSTON — A car with a bad hair day? Yes, the sighting of an old station wagon covered with human hair and topped with giant colored curlers can mean only one thing — it’s time for the annual Art Car Pa rade. It’s an occasion where everyday cars pull over to let the exotic ones drive by, a time when regular peo ple join artists in honoring the auto mobile, a cultural icon in America. "The art car is another one of those mundane objects that gets transformed by an individual to fur ther express their identity,” said Jen nifer McKay, parade coordinator. The transformed cars will take a drive through downtown this week end for one of the city’s most popu lar parades of the year. Saturday’s event officially is called “Roadside Attractions: The Artists’ Parade.” A total of 220 art cars, classic cars, low-riders, motorcycles, travel ing bands and bicycles will partici pate in the parade, which is spon sored by the Orange Show Founda tion and the Houston International Festival. The entrants have come from other parts of Texas as well as other states, including California, Oregon and Massachusetts. Consider these drive-by cre ations: • The Eyes of Texas, created by Gregory Middle School students in Houston. This car is coated with eyeballs, arms, hands, fingernails, sheriff badges and mirrors. • Magic City Golden Transit. Thin sheets of gold leaf, thousands of pieces of mirror, hundreds of Day- Glo yo-yos, 600 pairs of Barbie doll shoes, rhinestones and three pieces of gold-leaf decorated luggage adorn this vehicle. • Bat Out of Hell on Wheels. Fairly self-explanatory. And of course there’s the bad hair day car, a concoction of human hair, rollers, curling and crirnping irons and other hair-care castoffs. “We all got rid of all that garbage we stuck in our hair for so long. It was a liberation process,” said Dawn Fudge, one of the creators. “We went to several beauty shops and they saved hair for us for about two months. We got about 30 pounds of hair. It was a real eye-opening ex perience dealing with all that hair.” Besides the parade, other events include a ball held Thursday night in a downtown parking garage with many of the cars on display and a noon cruise Friday along Main Street. The parade, in its seventh year, finds its origins at the Orange Show, a Houston house turned into a piece of folk art by a now-deceased re tired postman who loved the or ange. Eight years ago, the Orange Show asked Houston artist Jackie Harris to make a suitable “com pany vehicle.” She came up with the “Fruitmobile,” and the idea caught on. “The art car is another one of those mundane objects that gets transformed by an individual to further express their identity.” - Jennifer McKay, parade coordinator P/ayS PORTS Win $25,000 Trade imaginary shares of major league baseball teams over the Internet using the exciting new *SPorts Online Remote Trading System Only $89.00 for a Seat on the SPORTS* Exchange No Brokerage Fees $$$ Cash Prizes for 25 Winners /// For more info send e-mail to: sports@panix.com and include "sports" in the body of the message. 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