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TAGHeuer SWISS MADE SINCE 1860 LIVE AT ADAIR’S Vour Entertainment Superstore In College Station: 2002 Texas Ave! t, Bryan: Corner 1 boohs mvtsic video software World Paj Tuesday • November 1S ; Workers insist internation forces still needed in Zair GISENY1, Rwanda (AP) — Out of food and out of touch, up to 700,000 Rwandan refugees still face death in eastern Zaire, aid agencies said Monday. The agencies urged Western powers to stick to their plans to quickly send soldiers to central Africa. Ragged columns of refugees returning home, many exhaust ed, hungry and with bleeding feet, stretched 35 miles into Rwanda. But those still trapped in eastern Zaire were in even greater danger, aid workers said. No decision on a military mission to help them is likely before Thursday. Although the crush of refugees had eased since the weekend, more than 5,000 people an hour poured across the border Mon day, U.N. officials said. An estimated 500,000 Hutu refugees have walked home to Rwanda since Friday — many barefoot over the rough, volcanic soil — after escaping from Hutu militants who once dominated the world’s largest refugee camp. Aid workers were caring for some 1,050 children — aban doned, orphaned or separated from their parents during the exodus. “I was holding her hand yes terday, and then suddenly she disappeared,” said Marceline Myiramzbrimba as she found her 8-year-old daughter Vestine at one U.N. tent. "I am so happy she is with me.” Aid officials say an interna tional humanitarian force must now focus on the refugees in Zaire’s hills and forests south and west of Lake Kivu, some 60 to 120 miles south of here. ‘‘People are dying because they’re out of touch, with no food or water,” said Peter Kessler, spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. “We need the kind of protection that could be provid ed by an international force.” Military officials from nations offering to join the 10,000- to 12,000-strong multinational force are meeting Thursday in Stuttgart, Germany, to decide the fate of the mission. Canada, which will command the operation, and the United States, which has offered up to 4,000 troops, agree that it is still needed, but officials in Rwanda think otherwise. The U.S. commander in the region, Maj. Gen. Edwin Smith, met with Zairian officials Mon day and later told reporters that no specific course of action had been determined. The Hutu refugees still in Zaire fled camps around the cities of Bukavu and Uvira in Oc- tober amid fighting between Zairian government troops and rebels supported by the Tutsi- led Rwandan army. The refugees have been cut off from the outside world since the rebels drove out the Zairian army and closed border cross ings from Bukavu into Rwanda and from Uvira into neighboring Burundi. Relief workers don’t even know where to find most of the refugees. Some of those refugees may still be under the control of the extremist Hutu militias who fled last week from advancing Zairi an rebels. In Goma, Zaire, just across the border from Gisenyi, the Hutu militias’ power was broken Thurs day by rebel shelling that cleared the way for the massive exodus. However, up to 150,000 refugees are believed to have fled west with the Hutu militias, U.N. spokesman Sylvana Foa said. Documents left by the Hutu militants included plans to blow up key installations in Rwanda as well as reports on old attacks and the formation of Hutu guer rilla groups in refugee camps in Tanzania. Also found were documents ■ Refugee camps Ugandan troops met stiff resistance ZAIRE Saturday from the Bwera Zairian army at Bwera The fighting forced about 40,000 • Ugandans to flee their homes and about Lake Edward 25,000 had arrived in Kasese. Area of detail (Vhi1 rom I ■ SI 800 miles 800 km Mugunga refugee camp Routes of the refugees Goma ZAIRE ae first af bates cor students yetting draft de |Hig die civil dochina in tb nfa Minorities v ^.presented in j* nt abroad wl " white college ere going to s •ft/r.tei i upted an eirwaytosu Giseny ' treers. Many < ime professic iok advantage lative action 1 RWA Ssed to it nov « desperate p ^^^Bdge issue t reposition 20! Urinative acti So often thi iade that the Bujumta eed for affirr Q eareallequ ^/n oUi y has 8 or ictimizing wl But how coi ossibly be vie indicating that Rwanda; hite males co Hutu government bouj 1 fthepopulati than $5.5 million 'V: o m p nsc bq p( weapons m 1001 tromai; nilr( . ( | protes based company, Mil-Tec|s. Represent dnsimea U.N. embargo. | S . Senators,! Bukavu a ^Cyangugu An estimated s§§ 500.000 1 refugees near Bukavuand Uvira may still be under the control of • Rwandan HuUV<ra militias. Now that so many re! are back, Rwandan autl orbes 400,97 TAMU Department of Health and Kinesiology ,. . tperintenden see no point in senainM *0. . . ei 8 n military force. rc Jf„ s ‘ onalat 'Troops? To do whal!f d 'OO percer Capt. Jimmy Mwesig\va,a ^ ^* ac ^P In * 1 dan military intelligence ^ a c °ll e g e d ‘‘No international fomWiv 3 ! 611 *°f a needed now. The chaino: high school di in the camps is broken., hitemalescoi pect the other refugees ti alary that was! suit and return home.” mn their conn din ic groups.) assrooms at tl lied with worn iese women w i the workplac Individual I Mile or 3 mile 3 person relay ChaUm TUrkey Walk Saturday Nou 23.9:OOam Research Pork Seminal pjw.berqeti-«mA A&M MIC Ihe Army f merpus A apparent! nough action ( ow facing chai irhe charges mses. 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