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OPEC deals with slump
VIENNA, Austria
(AP) With oil prices slumping, OPEC ministers
are expected to be in damage-control mode as they
meet this week to discuss production quotas that
some members are blatantly ignoring.
There likely will be grumbling about some mem
bers, particularly Venezuela and Nigeria, cheat
ing on their production caps. But leaders of the
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Coun
tries will be careful to avoid any words or action
that could further upset markets.
- “Probably OPEC is hanging on and hoping this
is as bad as it gets,” said Peter Bogin, associate
director of Cambridge Energy Research Associ
ates in Paris.
~ OPEC is getting about sl7 a barrel for its oil,
‘down from an average of close to sl9 a barrel in
'May and more than S2O per barrel during the first
quarter.
No escape from conflict for Hutu refugees
By Karin Davies
ASSOCIATED PRESS Writer
LOUKOLELA, Republic of Congo
Rwandan refugeesstepped from
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themacrossthe Congo Riverat the
‘end of an eight-month trek to find
a safe haven.
Instead, they’velanded ina third
country threatened by internal
conflict.
The refugees, most of them fit,
'young men, had walked thousands
of miles (kilometers) across Congo
‘through some of the world’s dens
est tropical forests to escape
Rwandan-backed rebels who have
taken over the former Zaire.
They’ve given up theirarms asa
price for entering Loukolela, 250
miles (400 kilometers) northeast
,of the capital, Brazzaville, and most
are resisting U.N. offers of repa
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“First, the Tutsi soldiers chased
us out of Rwanda, then they chased
us out of Congo. Why fly back into
their trap? They’d kill us back in
Rwanda,” said Francois Kabayiza.
The 23-year-old is among more
than 1.1 million Rwandan Hutus
the U.N.refugeeagencysaysfledto
the former Zaire three years ago.
They feared retribution for a geno
cidal campaign that Hutu militants
waged over a three-month periodin
1994, killing at least 500,000 mi
nority Tutsis.
The refugees spent 2 1/2 years in
U.N. camps just across Rwanda’s
western border in eastern Zaire.
They ran when rebels attacked the
camps to dislodge former Hutu sol
diers and militia who were using
them as bases from which to attack
Rwanda.
Thousands walked a distance
equivalent to that from London to
Budapest, Hungary, through equa
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Villagers from Loukolela, Republic of Congo, 400 kilometers (250 miles) north
east of Brazzaville, watch as a small group of Rwandan Hutu refugees walk
from the banks of the Congo River Friday June 20, 1997 after crossing it.
Loukolela currently has over 6,000 Rwandan Hutus who fled acress Congo
fearing attacks from Laurent Kabila’s Tutsi-led army - about 150 refugees
arrive daily. (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju)
torial jungle so thick they had to
hack out paths and through swamps
infested by malaria-bearing mos
quitoes. To survive hunger and dis
ease, they stole from local farmers,
locted hospitals and ate roots, tree
bark and grubs.
With precision that befits his mili
tary training, Sebastian Uwimabari,
30, kept a record of his odyssey in a
palm-sized notebook. By his calcu
lations, a circuitous route took him
2,500 miles from the Rwandan capi
tal, Kigali, to the Republicof Congo.
“Thesame enemy that has chased
us from Rwanda was chasing us
through Zaire,” said the one-time
military policeman in the defeated
Rwandan Armed Forces, or FAR.
Although he said heisinnocent of
genocide, he won’t go back even if
the United Nations offers him a
nonstop flight to Kigali. Uwimabari
is afraid that as a defeated soldier
he will be killed or thrown into
prison to face genocide charges.
More than 100,000 Hutus already
are in filthy, overcrowded prisons
in Rwanda.
“I’'m ex-FAR,” Uwimabari said.
“To the Tutsis, that makes me
guilty.”
About 20,000 Rwandans have
crossed the broad, languid Congo
River to the Republic of Congo.
About 80 percent are young men
who might have been among the
killers, though none admit to
wrongdoing. Loukolela’s 6,250
refugeesrepresent the single larg
est concentration in the country.
“Forthecivilians, thereisasense
of relief at crossingtheriver,” said
Paul Stromberg, a spokesman for
the U.N. High Commissioner for
Refugees. “These are the same
people whohavebeeninthejungle,
fed rumors, been attacked, and
who have been driven by the ex-
FAR to keep moving.”
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SCLC investigator says
fatal shooting was racial
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. friend white.
(AP) Police used the pretext of a
domestic disturbance call to con
front and kill a black man because
he had a white girlfriend, a civil
rights group investigator said at a
rally Sunday.
Frederick Gray, 26, was fatally
shot on May 15 while fighting with
officers who responded to com
plaints that he was beating his 18-
year-old girlfriend, police said.
But Gray never struck the
woman and didn’t resist arrest
when police came to his apart
ment with their guns drawn,
GeorgeA. Bates, aSouthern Chris
tian Leadership Conference inves
tigator, told about 75 people Sun
day.
Instead, Bates said, Gray was
the victim of a plan by some offic
ers who used another disturbance
in the same apartment complex to
seek out Gray and kill him be
cause he was black and his girl-
Group enters legal battle
to preserve black colleges
ATLANTA
(AP) Civil rights groups are lin
ingup in court to combat a lawsuit
they view as a threat to Georgia’s
three historically black public col
leges.
The lawsuit is aimed at elimi
natingracial preferences in hiring
and admissions practices in all
Georgia’s public colleges, but it
focuses on traditionally black Al
bany State, Fort Valley State and
Savannah State.
“We need to be a part of this,”
said Victor Bolden, a lawyer for
the NAACP Legal Defense Educa
tion Fund. “This lawsuit could
have a devastating impact on the
higher education opportunities of
African-American students all
across the state.” A
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People,
the Southern Christian Leader
ship Council and 16 black high
Bates, a lawyer, conducted an
investigation of the shooting at
the SCLC'’s request.
Police Chief John Miller and
Commonwealth’s Attorney James
L. Camblos 111 have concluded the
shooting by Officer Amos
Chiarappa wasjustified. But Miller
has requested an FBI investiga
tion, which is expected to get un
der way this week.
According to police, Gray
knocked a gun out of the hand of
one officer and pepper spray from
another when he advanced on
Chiarappa, who fired three times.
Gray was hit twice in the chest.
Miller said police received about
10 calls about the disturbance. He
said Bates’ account “is totally con
trary to what all the witnesses
said actually happened. My offic
ers did what they had to do. They
were forced into that decision and
it was justifiable.”
school and college students filed a
motion in federal court Friday to
intervene with the lawsuit that
alleges Georgia uses tokenism and
racial quotas to illegally perpetu
ate segregation in higher educa
tion.
The lawsuit was filed in March
in Savannah. The lawyer behind
the suit is Lee Parks, who led the
fight to overturn the state’s ma
jority-black legislative and con
gressional districts.
The suit was filed on behalf of a
group of white and black plain
tiffs, including educators and two
students who said they were de
nied admission to the state’s flag
shipschool, the University of Geor
gia.
Parks accused the NAACP and
other civil rights groups of allow
ing segregation to exist in
Georgia’s university system.