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Show Al4 WORLD Friday, February 14, 1997 TheSalt Lake Tribune Rebels Advance Against Mobutu THE ASSOCIATED PRES in their battle to oust the country’s ailing presi dent But while rebel leader Laurent Kabila said his force e the city of Kisangani quick! Kisangani has oneof just two najor eastern airports controlled vernment. It is used by he said he wouldprefer the Zairian military and interna. tional aid agencies helping hu dreds of thousands of Rwandan to negotiate for the resignation of President Se ko Mobutu He knows that the people of this country don't need him any more. Hehas plungedthe country bels would step up their attack against Zairian forces if Mobutu and wounded 27, he said Kabila accused the Zairians. refugee camp killed did not step down. He also threat two rebels backed by mercenaries, of drop enedto attack the largest remain: ing refugee camp in eastern Zaire, saying it may be nece to drive out government-allied ping napalm on his troops Tingi-Tingi, 80 miles southeast of Kisangani Inits account of that fighting toward the driven fighting, said | ¢ by the High Commis. Sadako purely symbolic Russian lawmakers put the pro posal on today’s agenda in the Duma, the lower house of parlia ment, where a similar proposal was rejected three weeks ago. the area through which The ndan Hutu fighters enter Su for training, Kabila earlier promises not to do so, He accuses former Rwandan arm members of using the camp A base and the U.N. High Commi. sioner for Refugees of ignorin their presence same Communist deputy whoinitiated last month’s chaotic said debate on Yeltsin's health is back- The rebels’ reports couldnot be dependently verifiec The Zairian president is holed up in his jur deaway in Gba Jolite in northwestern Zaire, re iperating from surgeryfor pros tate cancer ernment, apparently reneging on litical embarrassment and drew attention to suspicions he is too Yeltsin's heis too ill to govern — would be ptured another town in north stern Taking Faradje les west of the Sudanese bor was critical because it con trols the president to resign because of Boris gests the president step down if abila said the rebels also have in the campaign for Kisan by showing up for work at the Kremlin. But the debate wasa po. — new effort Thursdayto persuade ta. harsh parliamentary opponents begana his poor health iven if approved the latest measure — which merely sug- more being sioner for Refugees While the attacks on Bafwa sende and Tingi-Tingi v they did slow the rebel who are moving on the city from the north, east and south Kabi aid rebels may attack Tingi-Tingi to drive out Rwandan Hutus allied with the Zz tion: Bafwasende, 150 miles to the east, Kabila said. Fighting near the Tingi-Tingi nd thousand: Dumaresolution on Jan. 22 just THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tingi had 20,000 refu- Thursday thundered out of Kisangani on Russian Lawmakers Plan To Debate Yeltsin’s Health MOSCOW towns along Zaire’s eastern border border of the Wednesday to attack rebel posi said inspecting recruits in rebel- the Defense Ministry blared ir communique read on state radio government's Kabil sanctu for the killers we shall be forced to clean them out m the abila pushing the rebels back toward Zaire’s eastern refugees in eastern7 aire Jets and helicop r gunships into misery,” Kabilasaid Kabila, who earlier had given Prime Minister Leon Kengo wa Dondo’s government until Feb. 21 to get rid of Mobutu, saidthe re government claim d hundreds of r n Lubutu, about four Tingi, and k least 30 of them The army will continue on to had ¢ Goma!” iquarters of used ey keep the camp as a the Zairi: government has angani to launch a large. ne counteroffensive inst the rebels, the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liber ation of Congo-Zaire. UVIRA, Zaire — Rebel vanced on three fronts Thu toward Zaire’s third-1 ¢ gaining ground It is the former R rom this.” ing the new measure. Yeltsin, whois recovering from heart bypass surgery and a severe LOS ANGELES TIMES foretold in Northern Ireland: Fir ing a high-poweredrifle from am terrorist sniper killed British in fantryman Stephen Restorick piercedhis flak jacket Restorick, 23, wounded Wed: ofattacks against police fell mortally lay night as he 3y Thursday, an embittered and outraged Northern Ireland seemedheaded again toward sec tarian combat McElroy, who was returning homewith her husband after buy ing ice creamfor their children said Restorick ce! handed it ‘checked my li back to me and smiled and thanked me. straight a y And just there a a crack and aflash McElroy was lightly injured from rapnel in the checkpoint. “You read in the papers about soldiers killed. but he was a man, and he died alone she said Bessbrook, a mostly Protestant village, is British army headquar ters in the most contentious rural part of Northern Ireland. It hometo the busiest helicopt landing port in Europe snipers and land mines make andsol peated near-misses. Failed bomb rocket and grenade attacks have been echoed by warnings that a new death seemed inevitable and widespread fears that it would provokeretaliation from Protes tant terrorists still nominally observing a 1994 cease-fire Thereis no way that Stephen's death shouldlead to the start of new killings. Hot heads on the other side must not react,” said Rita Restorick, the dead soldier's mother Similar appeals to restive Prot estant gunmen came Thursday from civie and church leaders and government officials Don't lower yourself to the standards, thelevels of the people who have done this.” urged Pat rick Mayhew, the British minister for NorthernIreland Shredded by three bomb at tacks against Catholies, the cease: fire by loyalists who seek contin. uedunity with Britain is the last vestige of a general truce that ex it ngerous to resupply police ta’ outposts by road The Irish Republican Army did not claim responsibility for the killing, but the attack inan areaof south Armagh where the IRA once put up a sign saying “Cau ploded after 17 months with an IRA bomb in London a year ago. 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Until Wednesday, there had been re was returning Lorraine McE] roy’s driver licensewitha smi t a checkpoint in the rural vil age of Bessbrook about 30 miles southwest of Belfast Kulikoy, him “carte blanche” for a war on economic crime “though within the limits of the law Horse Artillery wasthefirst 1997 fatality in an accelerating round with a single shot to the back that shownsitting at a table, leaning onthe edge with his hands deputy prime minister last week told reporters the president gave mostly at his countryretreat since tion, Sniper at Work,” bore the terrorists’ trademark With tensions high Thursday police defused a homemade anti personnel bombleft in a public housing project in the region wherethesoldier was shot The trooper from the Royal bush through a night scope, the Yeltsin made an effort Thurs: Kremlinand ordering a new cam: paign against white collar crime He met with Russia’s top cop, In terior Minister Anatoly Kulikoy and granted him new powers to fight tax evasion andcustoms vio. lations. Russian television broadcast footage of the meeting, in which a pale and haggard Yeltsin wa’ has stayed case of pneumonia, Soldier’s Slaying a Stake In N. Ireland’s Heart BELFAST. Northern Ireland — Such is the chronicle of a death sick to holdthe job day to appear robust, goingto the 1-000-799-4066, |