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THE BATTALION Putin consoles families MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin flew to an Arctic naval base Tuesday to console the families of 118 sailors killed in a submarine accident, but the gesture barely alle viated the nation’s crushing grief and anger at the bungled rescue effort. Former submariners wept in the streets as Russia mourned with striking openness over the loss of the Kursk, which suffered a massive explosion and sank to the Barents Sea floor Aug. 12. Candles Were lit in Russian Orthodox churches, and condolences poured in from around the world. Putin, dressed in all black, was greeted in Murmansk by somber, exhausted navy officials, then visit ed a nearby area where 400 relatives of the sailors are quartered. The families heard almost no official in formation about the rescue opera tion, relying on television for even the most basic news — including the announcement Monday that their sons and husbands were dead. Putin — who has been sharply criticized for taking so long to show concern for the crew — was expect ed to go later to the ship that led the rescue effort and throw a wreath into the sea where the sailors are en tombed in their wrecked submarine, 350 feet below. Dazed relatives demanded to be taken to the site, too. The navy was considering the plea. Emma Yevdokimova, whose son Oleg was a cook on the Kursk, wept uncontrollably as she recalled how he helped her prepare the holiday dinner last New Year’s Eve. "When they offered him to join the Kursk, he was so glad,” she said on Russia’s RTR television. “He was so good. He still is,” she said, col lapsing into tears as she added, "I still don’t believe that he drowned.” Russians have assailed Putin for not canceling a vacation more quick ly when the sub sank and the military for resisting foreign help. Trying to divert the public anger, the besieged military has tried to lay blame on its former Cold War ene mies — claiming the Kursk collided with a Western sub. The United States and Britain have denied hav ing any vessels nearby and Norwe gian divers who saw the wreck said there was no sign of a collision. The top brass has a lot to explain. The media has blasted them for try ing to hush up the disaster, then lying about it. Public anger increased when Norwegian divers quickly succeeded in opening the hatch Monday, after days of failed attempts by Russian rescue capsules to reach the subma rine. It was the Norwegians who de termined there were no survivors. The world joined in Russia’s grieving. British sailors and rescuers who had come to help in the operation but were never needed held a brief memorial service for the crew, throw ing a small bouquet of flowers into the sea as they left the site of the tragedy. Drink it up! Japste ANDY HANCOCKThiBsh Reveille takes a break with Bo Wilson, the mascot corporal, to get a drink from a football trainf at Kyle Field on Saturday. Reveille made appearances with the football team and the yell leadei for "Meet the Aggies Day" at Kyle Field. Peace deal threatens Buruni Pressure to sign agreement may lead to oppositii BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) — Lending his prestige to a faltering peace process. President Clinton travels to Africa next week to witness an agreement aimed at ending seven years of civil war in Burundi. But as Nelson Mandela struggles to get Tutsi and Hutu leaders to ac cept a peace deal they say they are not ready for, militants on both sides say that for them any peace deal will be a declaration of war. President Pierre Buyoya has plead ed with the former South African pres ident to extend an Aug. 28 deadline for signing an agreement. Without a cease-fire from Hutu rebels, the re tired Tutsi major has had little luck convincing war-wearied Burundians of a peace agreement’s merits. On Monday, Buyoya warned Tutsi hard-liners who oppose the peace deal not to try to stage a coup against him, a remarkable statement that revealed his vulnerability and his uncertainty of support from the Tutsi-dominated army. Buyoya also canceled a trip to meet Mandela in South Africa on Tuesday. Instead, he stayed home to chair a cabinet meeting ahead of his trip to Arusha, Tanzania, for next Monday’s signing ceremony, spokesman Appolinaire Gahuzu said. With Clinton scheduled to attend, Buyoya is loath to boycott the cere mony and snub such an important world leader. “It seems as if the mediator is re luctant to postpone the signing of a peace agreement,” Buyoya said Monday, adding that if he did not sign, “Mandela will see this as a sign of disrespect and that we, the Burun dians, do not want peace.” The 19 political and special inter est groups represented at the talks have been meeting for more than two years. Although the key facilitator, Tanzanian judge Mark Bomani, says they have agreed on more than 100 topics, several key problems remain. Mandela’s draft proposal calls for power-sharing in the army, govern ment and parliament, free elections after three years of transition and an amnesty for those responsible for more than 200,000 deaths since'the war began in 1993. But the two main actors — the Hutu rebels and the Tutsi-dominated army — have been unable to agree on a cease-fire or the future of the army. ian disaster in which more than! lion Hutus live as refugees in Tii nia. Many Tutsis are forced tosp nights in army-protectedca The U.S. government $35 million in aid last year alone,: gave an extra $1 million tofinn C0 Py r 'gh l i' 1 * 1 '’ 1 “Mandela will see this as a sign of disrespect and that we, the Burundians, do not want peace/' — Pierre Buyoya Burundian president Buyoya, Hutu politicians and Tut si opposition leaders cannot agree on a transitional president. Buyoya wants the job for himself but does not necessarily meet the qualifications because of he is widely believed to have been involved in the 1993 as sassination of Burundi’s first demo cratically elected president, a Hutu. The United States has no stated national interest 1 in Burundi, a small tea- and coffee growing nation, but wants to see an end to the humanitar- the Arusha negotiations in of stabilizing the region, years ago in neighboring more than 5()().()00 Tutsiswerekl in massacres orchestrated by that tion's extremist Hutu governmei Buyoya says he could sign Monday if pressured by but only on the points already ag® upon. He wants to leave the cos fire and leadership issues But on Tuesday, those poiffisii) posedly already worked suddenly called into question^ the 10 Tutsi political partiesjoini called for the accord to be ci ly renegotiated and refused to sifi The seven Hutu political paitu have agreed in principle to sign,k they have little or no influenceo« the rebels. With the signing date approacki and Buyoya wavering rebels have launched a seriespfw organized attacks aimed a targets. In the last three weeks,rtk am bushes have killed 27 army caif |' ul . LUlll “‘ uc 1 coming home from a basketballgJ | inin " 0 *? l u)n and a top military commanderanP P ans a a car escort returning from the capital The attacks have led to mil reprisals in Hutu villages around! capital, and the fighting has« hardened the army’s reluctanct share power. Tutsi hardline leaders have® refused to take part in tions, saying they will not deal Hutu rebel and political leaden* blood on their hands. he battle over MP3 distribu- |on and online )pyright in- ingement is ting to re- mble an Ipisode of TV’s Celebrity Deal In one corne [ontingency he; imp Bizkit. In senting stingy |\pect compen: operty. Althouuh thi Pi, Sp, p ip in clay on IV are much more Mills Lane cou Whether the room or the sqi lose its case ag; try Association Napster Inc. California coui quite correctly, ware company has unsuccessf players in the b through case aj Earlier this timillion-dollai site for making available to the suscribers. 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