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Show ft A 55 It--' SfPiS Daily Hsrsld ! ? Sunday, April 2, 1995 - I- 9! jsarry wants linton s job ""'l.i 5ft'?-- ' travel a lot throughout this t ! f ""WW ,?"' " " " I IU1IU Ul UUI7, AMU CVClJf" rp.ol Uncertain times, people ask me r me same question. 1 1 "Excuse me," they say. P Are you using that ketchup?" Of course dial's not what really mean. What they lint to know, but are too shy Etfc ask, is: "Dave, are you going to run for president 4ain?" , I That is indeed a major " ques- - i tvfi pandering very seriously ever utiu vtiv uiai iuzvi ce I started writing this sen- Ice. Having thought it over, 3 on and only one or two pots to prepare food for the host of hungry mouths waiting outside in thfe Editor's note:' American Fork resident Jeffrey Durrani recently spent three weeks in Rwanda as a volunteer delivering emergency relief supplies to a hospital and orphanage. The supplies were donated by Provo-base- d Deseret international Foundation Inc., headed by Dr. William Jackson. The following is an account of what Durrant observed. IMS--- courtyard. A large pot of beans cooks on the stove, and while it looks like plenty to feed a large family, you can't help but wonder how it will feed all the children who count on it for their daily meal. The contrast between the desperate conditions within the Centre Benebikiru and the magnificent m ,The baby, still alive, was found another by the side of the road victim of the genocide and war that swept across Rwanda the past jf ,The Miami Herald y m I nwirlfvt tnnin y am I running? For the ie historic reason that moti- ted other U.S. residential timbers such as Vf top-quali- ty omas Jefferson, Abraham t Lincoln and Winston Church- tiff: All the other candidates are f"oobers. 1 uivais iiavv jfuu jvwii mivs J Binning this time? One of them "Lamar jWnamed really H Jexander. I m sorry, but the list powerful nation on Earth t cannot have a president named J'Lamar. ' ' How would he to jue just one presidential duty negotiate with the Serbs.' tfhe Serbs feed guys named I i'Lamar" to their eoats. No. if liimar hopes to be taken seri ously, he's going to have tothange his first name to something presidential, something Jhat has the ring of authority hd toughness. Such as "Hil- - tl j .we also cannot, in my opnf Jon, afford td have a president Jiamed "Arlen," as in "Arlen Specter," who is alsarunning, Respite published 'reports that the letters in his rianfe.can be rearranged to speli ?('Creep ; j t Arien and Lamar are two or ; jne approximately:; fjefcang Re- - ! declared or I publican candidates." (In a trag semi-fleclfer- o! icuy iUI IIUI1IUI WlllCIS CVCIJf" here, Dan Quayle has I Announced that he will not seek presidency, citing concerns auuui iiic pan wntit yvu tjhave to raise your hand and alk at the same time"). 2 ' The reason so many Repub- 3 Sicans are running is that they 1 Jail believe they can beat Presi- - zfhe f .... r:n r Af 2 3t)cni ror ruw oui uiuuuu nas njiciai Mono: My aian I Carefully Reviewed This I oto"). In fact, polls show hat a bale of peat moss, if it Off ere wearing a blue suit. A f . m i year. Estimated to be only a few months old, she of course was unable to give her name to the orphanage workers who received her. They gave her the name Umurer-w- a Solange. Lying on a bed of leaves and old newspapers, she shares her room with seven other infants who have also been given names and a place to stay at the newly formed orphanage in Ruhengeri. In a large courtyard outside the room where the infants are housed, another 138 children are gathered. They too have suddenly found themselves without parents and dependent upon the meager offerings the orphanage provides. Sister Marie Christine Faida, a Rwandan nun from the local Cath- olic mission, spends her days trying to care for the children who u have gathered at the Centre a, collection of four Bene-bikir- used by the government and now set aside to provide shelter for a few of the orphans, whose. numbers have swelled during" the" past nine ' jadnthjs..; v Teenage girls who have also lost their parents are given food and shelter in exchange for helping Sister Marie feed and care for the younger children at the orphanage. Apart from permission to use the buildings, the orphanage receives practically no government support. The workers constantly ask Sister Marie, "How can we work without money or things to help the children? You want us to work without anything . ' A tour through the orphanage courtyard and buildings shows how desperate conditions are. There are only a few beds and a few more mattresses on the ground. Many children must sleep on newspaper covering the concrete floor. There are very few plates to eat 1 The orphans' daily meal is set out and ready for them to eat on the concrete floor at Centre t year's conflict. Sitting at her desk, Alice Nyaru-hirir- a produces a list of several dozen orphanages that have sprung up over the past months. Nyaruhi-rir- a estimates that the number of orphans has multiplied by a factor from of 10 in the past year approximately 10,000 to nearly 100.000. This in a country about the size of Maryland, a country which, before the fighting, was the most densely populated in Africa. A few of the orphanages on list have an organization that gives some support, but most are like the Centre Benebikiru and must somehow fend for themselves. Last summer when the Rwandan crisis filled newscasts and wire reports, it was difficult to keep from running into numerous organizations and the large U.N. presence. Six months later, with the news moving on to stories about Haiti, Japan. O.J. Simpson and JJewt Gingrich, many organizations have scaled back or pulled oijt of Rwanda completely, 'i Unfortunately1, Rwanda's problems have not left with the news crews. Since then, Rwanda has ceived little assistance from the rein- ternational community, and its fledgling government has nowhere near the resources to sustain even a I lv snini a frjilayers have to put their hands id feet on whatever colored rcles it points to, thus wind-- g up in humiliating positions, 'hen this game is hauled out a nartv a nf Scrson such as yourself imme- iately wanders off to get a Itjeer. But the people who want Mi be president have to play . If n Hc spinning pointer of political Necessity points to "SUCK UP UNlUNo, mey nave to their left hands over on that ifclc; if the spinner points to SUCK UPTORELOOUS 'UTS," they have to put their ght feet on THAT circle; and (Sec BARRY, Page A 10) 1 fSm i t 2 fj I J . " -- , few of the orphanages. During her recent travels around the country, Nyaruhirira has come across many groups of children who are continuing to live at home even though they no longer have any parents... With' older children in charge, ( 5 ' in f I these parentless families are attempting to run the family fields and somehow stay together. Many of these children are as poorly off as those at the orphanages, yet they feel their best chance for survival is to try to maintain their homes. Because of the strong extended family bonds that exist in Africa, many of the parentless children in Rwanda have been able to find homes with aunts, uncles and grandparents. At the Centre Benebikiru. Sister Marie has succeeded in placing 54 of 192 children with their extended families. Whereas this has offered hope to several children, it also magnifies Editor's note: A mix of old animosities and deadly new technologies promises to make 053 ' 4& j y. the next century a dangerous one. Take the case of Iraq and Iran. This is the third installseries pn ment of a four-pa- rt nuclear smuggling and efforts to stop the spread of atomic weapons. 1 ,h'.mr-Photo - courtesy of Jeffrey I" 1 Sister Marie Christine Faida, a Rwandan nun from the local Catt mission, stands outside the Centre Benebikiru orphanage with a who is unable to walk because of an injured leg. how alone other children are as even extended family has disappeared. In the courtyard at the Centre ( TEL AVIV, Israel Declared nuclear powers Rist Sons Ukraine Belarus Kazakhstan ('Am surrendering weapons) UNDECLARED NUCLEAR POWERS India HaKisian Israel SUSPECTED NUCLEAR PLANS Iraq North Korea Iran Source AP research f BELIEVED ABANDONED WEAPONS PROGRAMS South Africa Argentina CAPABLE OF BUILDING WEAPONS Canada Germany Italy Japan South Korea Sweden Taiwan Switzerland Belgium Netherlands Finland up of the atomic age adorns an wall: an "after" photo of Osirak, the Iraqi nuclear site bombed to useless bits by Israel in 1981. Would Israel do it again, this time the building of a nuto short-circu- it clear weapon by Iraq's neighbor Iran? "It wouldn't be our first choice," the senior official said. "But if there are no results from other methods, then yes." The world is entering a perilous post Cold War phase, a period when it only began with more nations will seek the Korea and North Iraq clout that an atomic arsenal brings. The U.S. and Israeli governments contend Iran is one of those countries, embarked on what Secretary of State Warren Christopher calls a "crash effort" to develop nuclear arms. The Iranians deny it. protesting they are interested only in peaceful nuclear power. They counter that Israel is trying to deflect attention from its own refusal to sign the Nuclear mm i 1- -1 i 1 & i 1 Benebikiru. the children gatherjtb have their pictures taken in hojjes of finding outside donors foi the orphanage. "I . 5 January to complete Iran's first nuclear power plant, a project, under a deal strenuously opposed by Washington. One motive for an Iranian bomb is clear: Iran's traditional enemy Iraq has been trying to build its own since V the 1970s. But the known evidence on Iran remains sketchy: An Iranian vice president "declared publicly in 1991 that an "Islamic" nuclear bomb was needed to counterbalance Israel. long-suspend- The Iranians have shopped around for equipment to enriclj uranium, the process used to make power-plant fuel and, if intensified, e uranium. They fare weapons-gradknown to have obtained one or more an old enrichment decalutrons from China, and U.S. and vice Israeli officials say they may also have obtained more advanced equip1 ment, The Iranians are widely bclqved to have a clandestine Europca for procuring high-tec- h gear in violation of export controls. In January, illicitly shipped equipment, for testing reactors was seized by authorities in southern Italy. A small north German airport serves as a key transit point. German news mediij ave reported. Lj In separate cases in 1993 and 1994, Iranians were arrested, for try ing to smuggle enriched uranium through Turkey and out of RussiaIran has urged expatriate icien-tist- s to come home, ostensibly tMclp on nuclear energy, and is trytfe to 4 j jnct-wo- -- Brazil AP'Karl Gude - Deep inside the Israeli Defense Ministry, a pin- 1st KEIRS TO SOVIET WEAPONS Treaty and its own program. weapons "They are looking for a scapegoat, and that scapegoat is Iran." an Iranian diplomat at the United Nations. Behrouz Moradi. said in New York. But whatever its intentions. Iran is By CHARLES J. HANLEY AP Special Correspondent i V sj Mr! Success of nuclear containment may depend on Iran some- - minler. and the tM Jeffrey Durrant J4e Twister." wherein Benebikiru, a new orphanage in Ruhengeri, Rwanda. The orphanage helps many Rwandan children. W farms in the mountains to the market in the center of Ruhengeri . Fifty miles away in the capital city Kigali, the Bureau for Victims of Genocide and War has recently been created to help deal with the vast problems left over from last E 4 ' Photo courtesy of Jeffrey Durrani The mountains of Northern Rwanda are at the southern end of the legendary "Mountains of the Moon." and it's difficult to imagine such a beautiful area being the site of such a horrible disaster. The road running past the orphanage fills every morning with thousands of people descending from their -- Jwhy, even as you read these Nvords. leadine Republicans f !are tramping all over Iowa and Jew Hampshire, fawning over ? jvoters, feigning great interest J in their opinions, pretending I Hhat they actually care what ; tsome pig farmer thinks about Mexican peso bailout. They're doing these things tbecause that's how we make Jpeople run for president in this country: We make them go jthrough a lengthy and highly Embarrassing process that a 0erson with even the tiniest Sired of dignity would never get involved in. It's analogous the party game 'S-f- landscape that surrounds the town is incredible. Ruhenin lies lush a geri green valley surrounded by mountains and old volcanoes, some nearly 14,000 feet high. .would have a serious shot at ting Bill Clintoq. especially they had a debate. This is jnea ' F of Ruhengeri By JEFFREY DURRANT Special to the Daily Herald li;! Dairy i APBob Bianchini destined to be viewed as a new test case in an era of nuclear "contain- ment." Sometimes the containment works. In Prague, a Czech trade official confirmed to The Associated Press that U.S. pressure last month led his government to bltKk plans by the manufacturer Skoda Pilzen to sell Iran nuclear-reacto- r equipment. Sometimes it dotsn't. 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