Show trtm A17 The Salt Lake Tribune Friday February 13 1998 wr i Presidents Nigerians Mop Up Sierra Leone THE ASSOCIATED DKry SiVle Find presidential savings on the classic business look PRESS FREETOWN Sierra Leone Nigerian-le- d peacekeepers trying to oust Sierra Leones military government have captured the State House from government "forces and were mopping up the juntas troops in the capital a 0 Nigerian general said Thursday The West African force which is trying to restore elected President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah to power also had rounded up a f number of surrendering junta troops Gen Timothy Shelpidi j said in a telephone interview from Monrovia Liberia where the force has its headquarters iS The capture of the State House where the president had offices is largely symbolic but indicates 5 ' Sf r lt'' IKK r irl i K r I ' x ifw J I D o the intervention force Kinown as Ecomog may be in con-trol of much of the center of Freetown the capital However Sierra Leone's mill-tar- y leaders remained at large 4 and fighting was continuing in the H 'city ! A I- - J it I wish I knew where they were" Shelpidi said referring to 6 Lt Col Johnny Paul Koroma and his allies who ousted Kabbah in a 2 bloody coup in May d The West African force soon after Koroma toppled J' Kabbah After bombarding Free-dow- n in a failed attempt to drive c'the junta from power the force "imposed a blockade of Freetowns port to prevent food fuel and oth-e- r necessities from reaching the city Fighting flared again last week Shelpidi said fighting in the "capital was nearing a close This is the beginning of the end he said " Heavy artillery slammed down 'Thursday on central Freetown where hundreds of thousands of civilians who had sought refuge ? were facing serious shortages of "food and other supplies and shelling The UN agency World Food - Program estimated that about c 500000 people around Sierra Leone were in need of food and the number could rise in the tens of thousands if fighting continued With the capital Freetown cut off from the mainland by continued fighting almost the entire population of the city is unable to find sufficient food the UN agency said in a statement At least 20000 civilians had fled Freetown and outlying areas 4o villages farther away from the fighting said Milton Tectonidis of Doctors Without Borders 4 T X Van Heusen inter-7'vene- Reg $32 White J shirts wrinkle-fre- e wrinkle-fre- collar or oxford with ' i y e button-dow- dress shirts in broadcloth with point n collar Men's Furnishings Sale 2499 Reg $35 Pinpoint with button-dow- Reg $30 oxford or broadcloth Short-sleeve- d n 2699 or point collar 2199 Vi indis-'trimina- te 4 iJ- -v Silk ties Chinas Catholics Zylos Trail Creek and Peter Thomas Reg $30-$3- 5 silk neckwear in hundreds of new Italian patterns Are Seeking Ties sewn With Vatican THE ASSOCIATED BEIJING A PRESS leader of the Catholic Church I told US religious leaders that the absence of ties with the Vuti-ca- n has hurt the faith in China n state media reported Thursday Liu Bonian vice president of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association urged the Vatican to open ties with the communist-ru- n government the official Xinhua News Agency said Liu made his plea at a meeting Wednesday with a delegation of 7 US religious leaders on a first of its kind mission examining religious freedoms in China which includes The group Archbishop Theodore McCarrick of Newark NJ hopes to estab-vlis- h regular contacts with Chinese religious leaders McCarrick and the other clerics "also were involved in meetings with Chinese President Jiang and other officials but access ! to the visitors by foreign report- ers has been restricted The controversy between China !and the Vatican centers on the allegiance of Chinese Catholics and dates back to the 1950s After coming to power in 1949 the Communist Party drove out foreign missionaries and ordered Catholics and Protestants to churches d Catholics were no longer al- lowed to recognize the popes authority and the church appointed I its own bishops L Beijing now wants the Vatican I to sever ties with Taiwan the is- land China claims as a rebel prov-inc- e and where many members of i Chinas Catholic clergy took ref-- b uge state-controlle- the USA Men's Furnishings Sale 2199 c A in j j H h-- s d s 0 A vf :ii v v? 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