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Monday • August l, IJ)
Rwanda: A Welfare Nation
Officials expect Rwanda to remain a natldp on the Dole for yeats
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will need to complete a minimum of 60 credit hours in residence. (This requirement will be
waived if your degree is conferred and posted with less than 60 A&M hours.)
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KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — In a
shell-pocked garden cafe, a wait
ress serves sizzling kebabs and
warm Dutch beer to patrons
shaded by large blue umbrellas.
Few in Kigali are fooled by such
images of normalcy.
Just blocks away, scores of
returning refugees, surrounded
by the pitiful bundles of their
last possessions, huddle over
smoky campfires, cooking their
meager rations.
Even they are among the
lucky in Rwanda. They are sur
vivors, fortunate to have escaped
the butchery of up to 500,000
men, women and children. They
are better off than the millions
who fled only to find new horrors
of hunger, disease and death in
neighboring countries.
American and other foreign
troops coming here to rush food
and medicine to the sick and
starving will find a country loot
ed, bankrupt, shattered by civil
war and tom apart by genocide. It
has no money, little to eat, a scat
tered, frightened populace and no
chance of rebuilding alone.
Rwanda is a nation on the
dole. It believes it will remain
one for years.
“The economic situation in
Rwanda is a catastrophe,” said
Prime Minister Faustin Twagi-
ramungu.
“There is no money in the cen
tral bank or in private banks be
cause the so-called self-pro
claimed government has taken
all the money,” he said, referring
to the government recently dri
ven into exile by the Rwandan
Patriotic Front. “To find a solu
tion, we have to appeal to the
outside world.”
That means going, hat in
hand, to the International Mone
tary Fund, the World Bank, the
European Union and individual
countries, such as the United
States, for help.
“We need money, and for
that we need credit,” Twagira-
mungu said.
Rwanda has little to offer as
collateral other than plans and
promises. Infrastructure is in
pieces. War destroyed factories,
schools, hospitals and bridges.
Foreign help is needed to restore
electricity, running water and
telephone service.
Despite the huge interna
tional relief effort, Twagira-
mungu said people are dying of
hunger all over Rwanda. Food
crops are withering and dying
in abandoned fields. Without
continued massive aid, relief
workers fear famine.
No one knows how long it will
take for this tiny country to feed
itself. No one knows how long
millions of refugees and dis
placed people will stay away
from their homes and farms, liv
ing on handouts.
Most of Rwanda’s foreign ex
change came from exporting
30,000 tons of coffee a year. But
this year, because of the war and
the people’s panicked flight,
there will be no exports.
“The country is poor. We have
no natural resources, only ex
ports of tea and coffee,” Twagira-
mungu said. “The harvest was
supposed to be in April and May,
but the peasants could not pick
the (coffee) beans because of the
war. It is finished.”
With the crops dead and fac
tories destroyed, Rwanda needs
people to rebuild. To lure them
home and attract more aid, the
new government has to instill
confidence in its commitment to
reconciliation and rebuilding.
“We have to assure not only
the American people but the
whole world that we are not go
ing to get into the trap of re
venge, retribution and reprisals.
We are here to build our nation,”
Twagiramungu said Sunday.
U.N. High Commissioner for
Refugees Sadako Ogata said Sun-
Seeds t>f conflict
Seeds of the ethh|{J Violence that has caused 500,000 deaths in Rwanda
April were planteWtfinlLiries ago. The tiny nation was born as a kingdom in the
13th century, ruldfi hythe Tutsis, a political minority descended from herdsit®
Although the Tutsis maintained a tight rein on the kingship, they existed fairly
peacefully with the majority Hutus.
After a 29-year perM af Indirect German rule, a League of Nations mandate
united Rwanda with neighboring Burundi under Belgian rule. With the introductioi
of democratic government and the publication of the Bahutu Manifesto, the Tutsis
lost control. In 1962, the country regained independence, and ethnic strife has
simmered ever since, exploding in periodic coup attempts and massacres,
his death in a mysterious plane crash in April, Hutu President Juvenal
Habyarimana had established a fragile truce with the Tutsis.
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RWANDA:
■ Size: 10,169 squares
■ Population: 7.5 mil
90 percent Hutu; 9 percti
Tutsi; 1 percent pygmy
■Economy: About 93
percent is based on
agriculture, primarilycc'*
sweet potatoes,
and beans.
BURUNDI: Li
■ Size: 10,759 square
miles
■ Population: 5.5
million; 84 percent Huly
15 percent Tutsi
■ Economy: About 93
percent is based on
agriculture, primarily
coffee, beans, cassava,
corn, peanuts;
also nickel.
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day the international Relief effort
is “still far frorfl o4 e R Ua ^ e -” But
she said she is cpnVmced the new
leaders are seriotW ftpout reconcil
iation and natiop-hHlIding.
Twagiramungu acknowledged
that respect for h)P rule of law
and for democT^Py are key if
Rwanda hopes to keep from
coming another African <
surviving year to year on
temational community’s la
“We must have a clear pit
that is our duty as a govemme
he said. “But once we have
plan, they must help us.”
Guarding the people, not the clinics
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of violence to escort
abortion patients
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PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - They call
themselves escorts, volunteers who act as
human buffers to protect abortion patients
from the shouts and screams of protesters
opposed to abortion.
And now, following Friday’s shotgun
slayings of a doctor and his escort outside
an abortion clinic, they know and accept abortion protesters who gather outside
that their duties put them at risk of In trying to stop abortions, proteste:
ly violence. use tactics like displaying pickled fetusesLOS ANGE
“When you open your eyes in the morn- bloody baby dolls, mimicking an infantl Jackson and
ing, you almost have to be willing to say It cry, shouting that women have died dariil confirmed Me
might be the day you die,” said Debbie My? abortions or telling patients that they aa framed 11 wei
ers, coordinator of 20 escorts volunteerJlig murderers and are condemning themselv|of rumors abo
their services in the Pensacola area. to hell, according to abortion rights groups; he reclusive p
“We‘ve all had to look inside ourselves ftf But escorts say they are there for sutlL ' ur j' 0 ^
ter what happened. Everyone knew what the port, not as bodyguards. was announce
realities were. Wove always talked about it. We dont guard clinics. We are there. by Jackson's ^
Escorting is not for everyone,” she said, see that the women get safely inside,” M; The staten
An escort’s primary mission is to accompm ers said. “It used to be we were humf
ny abortion patients, many of whom are be- shields. We act as a human buffer. We
wildered and frightened, through throng $ to minimize the emotional pain.”
Program
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Camp. They miss out on some things.”
Freshman Dave Turner, from Portland,
Maine, said Saturday’s orientation gave him
something to look forward to when the fall
semester starts.
“This helps you remember why you’re
here,” he said.
Provisional freshmen may not be taking
the traditional path, but most say they think
it gives them a head start.
“We’ve got some hard classes over with,
some weed-out classes,” said Brandi
Schroeder, a freshman from Houston wbo
plans to major in business.
Students enroll while still in high school,
then get their class schedules when they
come to A&M the Sunday before summer
school starts.
“I started a week before my graduation,"
said Kelley Kinnard of Austin. “I had to be
exempt from all my finals to start.”
Kriss Boyd, director of General Academic
Programs, said the program offers freshmen
a chance to become familiar with the Univer
sity and campus before the rest of the stu
dents show up.
Elizabeth McCulloch of Wichita Falls
said, “We’re not going to be as lost in the fall.
It’s easier to adjust.”
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ichael, I dedi
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nd living hap
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For other students it s a chance to find: understand an
if college is really for them.
Boyd said, “If students can’t ma ^ el Texas Ol
grades in the summer, then we know tl
can’t in the fall.” With En<
Summer school may be less crowded tt
the regular semesters, but it can P ose P 1 | a it erna ij ve 0 (
lems of its own. litigation, mei
Schroeder said, “Because it moves soft that oversee:
there’s so much to remember.” the super c
Boyd said 80 percent of last sumnw Monday a
provisional freshmen made their requil°
ments and were accepted for the fall. Texas 6 Naturi
Castro said the orientation progri Commission,
might be repeated in the fall or next year, "good deal” fr
“It might be something that might beco: the federal go
a tradition,” he said. “Who knows?” "As a rest
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