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Show tal today, forcing commuters to use boats instead of cars or rickshaws. The Associated Press crops, livestock and their homes. and authorities moved at least The Buriganga River, which flows through the city of 8 million, has spilled over into low-ly- BUJUMBURA, Burundi Soldiers removed roadblocks in Burundi's capital today and lif 2,000 people living in mud-and. thatch houses to safer locations. While the floods eased in the north, central and southern areas ing districts, but has not passed what is considered the danger mark for Dhaka. returned almost to normal a day after the Tutsi-led military top- pled the government and installed a new president The new leader, Pierre Bu- have been inundated by flood waters, down to the Bayof Ben. gal. Bangladeshis a delta nation of 120 million people. Flooding that began in north- ern Bangladesh after weeks of monsoon rains has killed 109 people nationwide. Police said yoya, defended the coupas an act necessary to halt the ethnically torn country’s “descent into hell.’ He was expected to outline his merece EDS STORAGE SH10X12 policies later today In a radio address to the country Thursday night, Buyoya invit- ed Burundi’s deposed Hutupresident to participate in aneffort to rebuild the central African na- T-1-11 Barn-Style Shed tion. President Sylvestre Ntiban- tunganya (pronounced En-teebahn-toon-gan-yah) has been at the U.S. ambassador's residence TENSE IN BURUNDI: Heavily armed soldiers and police patrol the streets in Bujumbura. since paratroopers surrounded governmentbuildings in the capital Tuesday night. Embass} spokeswoman Judith Kaula said he had not resigned. Buyoya (pronounced boo-YOyah) called on the world to “understand the purpose of our efforts.” “What happened today was not a change of regime through ambition, glory or anything else,” he said. “What happened today was an action ofsalvation.” Coupdrawscriticism ya, who headed a Tutsi-Hutu coalition government. This morning, the army lifted an overnight curfew that had closed businesses in Bujumbura and kept civilians at home. Soldiers in small groups patrolled the streets, nearly all stores were open andtraffic was heavy. Years of civil war The coup follows three years of civil war between the country’s Hutus and Tutsis that has killed more than 150,000 people. Western leaders condemned the coup, fearing it could bring on ethnic warfare on the scale of neighboring Rwanda’s genocide, but said nothing about sending troops to restore Ntibantungan- MOSCOW- President Boris Yeltsin and the Communist-led parliament are battling over legal protections for Western oil companies who want to develop the country’s vast reserves. For Yeltsin, the proposed law means the ticket to billions of dollars in foreign investment. Communist lawmakers say it means selling Russia’s treasured natural resources to Western capitalists. 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He was defeated in June 1993 by Melchior Ndadaye, who became the nation’s first ment on the part of the government to get this thing passed,” he said. “It’s important to domestic producers as well.” The legislation could be rein- & : troduced in August when parliament reconvenes briefly after Yeltsin’s inauguration to vote on his nomination of Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin. Otherwise, it is expected to be one of the first items on the agenda whenthe new session begins in ; tion-sharing legislation thelast 11’ paved the way for Burundi’sfirst Lake Tanganyika and is bordered by Tanzania, Rwanda and Zaire. “The politicians have failed to solve the problems, and we have decided the country cannot con- slaughtered a half-million Tutsis and moderate Hutus two summers ago. The Rwandan geno- SALE “There’s a serious commit- The Associated Press on tinue like this,” military spokesman Lt. Col Longin Minanisaid Thursday. Buyoya, who overthrew JeanBaptiste Bagaza in a 1987 coup, shire, lies on the northeast side of Burundi’s ethnic mix - and hatred - is similar to that of Rwanda, where Hutu militia Yeltsin, parliament squareoff overoil Russia’s economic national security Reg. $1350 cide was prompted in part by Hutus’ fears that Tutsis would try to regain the power theyheld until their monarchy was overthrown in 1959. In Burundi, however, the Tutsis have been in control since the country’s independence in 1962. The military coup does not alter the balance of power; no matter whohas occupied the presidency, Burundi’s Tutsi-run military has always run the country. Burundi, a mountainous country about the size of New Hamp- 7 the session. and only two-thirds of t he 450 deputies were around to vote The bill was poorly introduced Corp., according to Russian Fuel and Energy Minister Yuri Shaf- E ranik. The Timan-Pechoraoil project would involve investment totaling $45 billion over 50 years. 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