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Show Page D2 - THE DAILY Ht RALU. Prmo. Utah. ThurUy, January 21. !Wi Freetown's war survivors scrounge for food, bury their dead Irish primef minister urges Arafat neighbors and my family are ber of rebel soldiers were Freetown's eastern suburbs and to Associated Press delay declaration of state and have seen too many in forests bordering the believed to be among the dead, 1 he I Sierra Leone Hungry and fearful, residents of Sierra Leone's capital yentured cautiously into the streets Wednesday in a desperate search for food and water amid a wasteland of gutted buildings and rotting corpses. For many, it was the first time they had left their homes since Rebels attacked Freetown two weeks ago, sparking ferocious street and artillery battles. "I don't know where my FREETOWN, bod- ies," one woman said on condi- tion of anonymity as she wandered through a Freetown neighborhood. Trucks carrying loads of decaying bodies to mass graves seemed to bear out her comments, and the stench of stiffened corpses still lying in the streets filled the air. Some were burying the dead in their backyards for fear of roaming too far from home. An unknown num city-dwelle- rs Witnesses claim hundreds and possibly thousands have been killed in days of artillery exchanges and door-to-do- combat between the rebels and forces defending the democratically elected government of Ahmed Tejan Kabbah. The sounds of gunfire subsided late Tuesday night, with a West African coalition army city. "Some of the rebels are try- ing to regroup in the hills and mountains overlooking the city. But sooner or later, they will be flushed out," said Lt. Col. Chris Olukolade, a spokesman for By IBRAHIM BARZAK Associated Press Writer hood. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said he was moved Nigerian-lecoalition. when Ireland's In Rome, Pope John Paul II Wednesday flew into the minister prime appealed for the release of newly opened Palestinian airFreetown Archbishop Joseph port, the first world leader to do Henry Ganda and at least 11 so aboard an official plane. militias Roman Catholic missionaries and President Clinton visited the saying they were mopping up and nuns held hostage by the airport while in the Gaza Strip pockets of rebel resistance in insurgents. in December and landed his helicopter there; most leaders border by cross the Israel-Gaz- a car. For many Palestinians, the international airport is a powlandmark on the road to erful M I U independence. I I SKU3344045 I ! "This touches our heart and we take pride in this act," Arafat said during a press con. I ' J II r ference at his Gaza City office with Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern. Ahem urged Israelis and Palestinians to continue talks and proceed with the Wye Limit 2 agreement, a deal. Israel per customer froze the with the agreement while supplies last Palestinians five weeks after it was signed, in part because of Arafat's repeated pledges to declare independence. Earlier in the day, Ahern said the Palestinians should seek an overall peace settlement with Israel rather than a quick declaration of statehood. Although Ireland supports Palestinian Ahern said the goal was a comprehensive agreement and sug- d " 7 -- MM ..gJ ft X 1 i.lV . I X I R f-- m U.S.-broker- ty :j3 it . 7 t ,1 SI 5 f ISCS si r if 2 Indonesia JAKARTA, Police fired warning shots into Features a black ind rosewood finished 36' x 60' tsble with tour metal upholstered choirs KIT I 77 Illl SKU33 III J J I j 151 the air Wednesday to keep apart rival Christian and plWvf .fell COMPARED VALUE 399.99 AZy QUILT, MISMATCHS1? 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Arafat instead pleaded vig-- i orously for international pres-sure to help nudge peace efforts! forward. Ahern, the first Irish premier to visit the Jewish state and Palestinian lands, met Tuesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem. Ahern said he found the Israeli premier com' mitted to further negotiations and that he had no doubts about Arafat's desire to see the process through. "In my mind, President Arafat, more than anybody else, wants to see that no time is lost and that the whole peace agreement that has been negotiated should be implemented," Ahern said. Southeast Asian nation as it grapples with its worst eco nomic crisis in three decades. Soaring inflation, unemploy ment and poverty rates have increased social tensions. Antara reported that rioting started Tuesday night after Muslims from the village of Batumerah attacked a man from the neighboring village of Mardika. They accused him of being drunk and of insulting their Islamic beliefs. 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