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September 28, 1995 AUGUSTA FOCUS
Sierra Leone under siege
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone
(AP) Rebels recaptured three
towns from government troops
in fighting that killed up to 200
people, the military and news
reports said Wednesday.
The Revolutionary United
Front seized the towns after sev
eral days of fighting and was
using civilians as human shields
tokeep government troops away,
said Lt. Col. Tom Carew, a gov
ernment army commanderinthe
region.
The towns are Serabu.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. sons by drowning them in alake. woman Robyn Zimmerman said. After her July conviction, Ms.
(AP) — Susan Smith has been Ms. Smith now hasaroommate, “She moved in last week and Smith was on suicide watchin a
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sentence for murdering her two Corrections Department spokes- roommate or her job.
Officer charged with beating
blames ‘Fuhrman Synddrome’
TOWSON, Md.
(AP) A “Fuhrman phenome
non” stemming from the O.J.
Simpson trial prompted the pros
ecution of a white police officer
accused of shouting racial epi
thets while beating a drug sus
pect, the officer’s lawyer said.
Lawyer Henry Belsky said the
arrest of indicted Baltimore Coun
ty Police Officer William R.
Goodman Jr. was motivated by
public outrage over accusationsin
the Simpson trial that white Los
Angeles Detective Mark Fuhrman
used racial epithets and was re
corded boasting of brutality.
“Oh yeah, this is a reaction to
the Fuhrman phenomenon. Abso
lutely,” Belsky said.
Belsky said public criticism of
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Kpetema, and Walihun, outside
the city of 80, 135 miles south
east of Freetown. On Monday,
military officials said at least 80
civilians and seven soldiers had
died in fighting that broke out
when rebels attacked towns in
the area over the weekend.
The independent Concord Times
newspaper in Freetown quoted
its correspondent in Bo as say
ing the civilian death toll was
closer to 200.
Carew refused to give new
casualty figures Wednesday.
the videotaped beating of Califor
nia motorist Rodney King also
contributed to prosecutors’ deci
sion to pursue charges against
Goodman.
Prosecutors denied Belsky’s sug
gestion that public pressure
prompted the charges.
“We don’t file charges in reac
tion to things that happen across
the country,” said Deputy State’s
Attorney Sue A. Schenning, who
took the case to the grand jurylast
week. “We file cases based on the
evidence that’s presented to us.”
Police accounts say on July 29
Goodman was helpinga cadetbook
Melvin Maddox, 24, a black Essex
resident arrested for failing to
appear in court on a drug charge.
Goodman allegedly pushed
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The latest fighting cast further
doubts on reports last week that
the Front was prepared to begin
peace talks with the military
government.
The U.N. envoy to Sierra Leone
had said the rebels made their
request for talks via the Interna
tional Committee of the Red
Cross and that the warring sides
were trying to agree on media
tors.
In the past, though, the Front
has refused to meet with the
Maddox into a wall, then kicked
him and shouted racially deroga
tory remarks when he dropped to
the floor, according to police
spokesman Capt. Brian Uppercue.
Goodman said, “You black n—
— SOB’ and on and on and on,”
said Martin H. Schreiber 11,
Maddox’s criminal lawyer. “It was
the n-word.”
Schreiber said the incident was
worse than the police account sug
gested.
“He was severely beaten,” said
Schreiber. “His head was shoved
against a table, against several
walls. ... He was punched in the
body and dragged through the sta
tion house in the shackles and
kicked further.”
government, which it considers
illegitimate. It has said it will
hold talks only after the current
leaders resign and allow for a
transitional government.
Sierra Leone’s war began in 1991
when the Front took up arms
against a civilian government it
accused of corruption.
A military junta took power in
acoup a year later, but the rebels
kept on fighting, saying the new
leaders were no better than the
ones they ousted.
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Mexico blasts
U.S. on Cuba
UNITED NATIONS
(AP) — Mexico on Wednesday
denounced efforts by the U.S. Con
gress to tighten the 33-year-old
embargo on Cuba, saying the
planned measures would breach
international law.
The U.S. House of Representa
tives last week approved a bill
that would strengthen the unilat
eral embargo, partly by increas
ing U.S. pressure on other coun
tries to join it. A similar bill is
pending in the Senate.
“We appeal to the sense of jus
tice, equity and international sol
idarity of the United States Con
gress to stop what would be, if
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passed, a clear violation of inter
national law,” Mexico’s foreign
minister said in a speech to the
U.N. General Assembly.
Angel Gurria said Mexico de
nounces “any attempts to apply
laws of an extraterritorial nature
against citizens of third countries.”
The House bill would require
the U.S. president to bar aid to
countries that deal with Cuba and
deny entry to anyone dealing in
U.S. property confiscated by the
Cuban government.
The Clinton administration op
posesthebill, saying it would dam
age chances for Cuba’s transition
to democracy.