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_OCTOBERS, 1998 AUGUSTA FOCUS
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(AP) Gunmen fatally shot three brothers, all of
them members of the African National Congress,
in a region of smoldering political violence, South
African police said on Monday.
George Ngubane, an ANC branch secretary, and
his brothers Zenzamuhle and Sipho were slain
Sunday afternoon as they drove in the Midlands
region of the KwaZulu-Natal province. i
Police said six other people were seriously in
jured in the ambush and 53 spent AK-47 car
tridges were found at the scene.
The Indian Ocean province was the scene of a
low-level civil war in the 1980 s and 1990 s between
the ruling ANC and the Zulu nationalist Inkatha
Freedom Party that killed 10,000 people.
Though now more peaceful, political violence in
the region still flares. Recently a feud between the
ANC and another opposition group, the United
Democratic Movement, has cost dozens of lives in
the Midlands’ town of Richmond near Durban.
Political analysts fear that violence may be on
the rise again as the country gears up for national
elections next year.
Sipho Gcabashe, ANC provincial secretary in
KwaZulu-Natal, called for calm after the latest
murders. He blamed them on unnamed political
opponents trying to stop the ANC from organizing
in the area.
“This is an act by those elements who still be
lieve that their selfish sectarian political interest
can be safe if the ANC remains a banned organiza
tion in their areas,” Gcabashe said.
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THE WEEK AHEAD
Temperatures
U.S. 'lfflggea’s_ Cimies
Today Friday Saturday Sunday Sunday
City H LoW H LoW H LoW H oW H Low
Atlanta 7 60t 78 59 sh 79 57 pc 77 58 pc 80 60 pc
Boston 70 54 s 72 54 sh 68 48 sh 66 46 pc 56 40 pc
Chicago 60 47 c 66 47 pc 68 46 pc 69 50 pc 72 52 pc
Cleveland 70 50 sh 67 49 ¢ 66 46 sh 64 46 pc 67 49 pc
Denver 72 42 s 742 s 7% 42 pc 74 35 pc 65 38 pc
Des Moines 68 48 pc 69 48 s 70 47 s 75 55 pc 74 52 sh
Detroit 62 48 c 65 48 pc 65 46 sh 64 45 pc 67 49 pc
Houston 84 64 pc 86 62 pc 885 63 pc 89 67 pc 90 668 pc
Indianapolis 71 50 c 69 49 pc 68 47 pc 71 50 pc 74 52 pc
Kansas City 72 52 pc 73 52 s 73 51 s 78 58 pc 78 55 sh
Los Angeles 84 58 pc 82 57 pc 81 54 ¢ 78 48 pc 78 45 pc
Miami 88 76 sh 88 75 sh 87 75 ¢ 86 74 sh 87 76 sh
Minn.- St. Paul 63 46 pc 65 45 pc 63 43 pc 71 51 sh 69 46 sh
New Orleans 83 66 c 83 65sh 8364pc85 68 pc 87 69 pc
New York City 71 9pc7561 sh 71 57 sh 65 48 pc 62 49 pc
Omaha 70 47 pc 72 47 s 72 46 s 78 83 pc 75 48 sh
Phoenix 94 69 s 93 69 s 96 66 s 89 62 pc 89 61 sh
San Francisco 69 53 pc 68 50 pc 65 50 c 59 41 pc 60 42 pc
Seattle 60 48 sh 60 46 sh 58 44 sh 51 35 sh 51 38 pc
Washington 74 59 sh 76 61 sh 72 59 pc 70 50 pc 70 52 pc
WORLD TRAVELER'S CITIES
; Today Friday Saturday Sunday Monday
Citg H LoW H LoW H LoW H Low H LoWw
Amsterdam 63 54 pc 70 59 s 60 39s 48 35§ 47 40 s
Berlin * 69 52 sh 66 58 s 68 448 50 34 pc 47 34 s
Buenos Aires 68 50 pc 71 52 pc 72 S 2 pc 71 51 pc' 67 44 pc
Caiso 82 70 pc 92 69 pc 968 pc 90 68 pc 89 67 pc
Jerusalem 82 61 pc 860 pc 80 S 8 pc 79 58 pc 79 58 pc
Johannesburg 78 56 pc 80 59 pc 64 60 pc 84 61 pc 84 59 pc
London 66 57 s 73 59 s 60 40 s 50 40 s 59 49 s
Madrid 73 60 s 7% 52 s 7 SSO pc 75.51 pc 77 83 pc
Mexico Cliy 73 54 pc 73 S4pc 73 S4pc 7354 pc 73 54 pc
Moscow 556 47 s 61 46 s 59 50 s 50 43 s 55 45 sh
Paris 61 61 pc 68 578 66 43 s 52398 56 47 s
Rio de Janeiro 78 67 pc 77 68 pc 76 67 pc 78 60 pc 80 71 sh
Rome 71 56 sh 74 60 r 80 64 pc 80 60 pc 75 57 pc
San Juan 89 76 pc 89 75 pc 89 76 pc 89 76 pc 89 76 pc
Seoul 78 67 pc 78 66 pc 76 55 pc- 77 Si/pc 78 56 pc
Sydney 63 60 s 67 S4pc 76 63 pc 72,58 sh .72 54 pc
Tokyo 82 72r 75 65 pc 72 6pc 73 67 pc 74 69 pc
Toronto 73 49 sh 6545 pc 64 43 pc. 59 3p pc ‘6l 43 pc
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Thousands flee
Kabila’s iron rule
By Cwistophe Miowunzize
ASSOCIATED PRESS Writer
UVIRA, Conge
Congolese rebels say thousands
of ethnic Tutsis have fled persecu
tion by government forces and are
seeking refuge in rebel-controlled
parts of eastern Congo.
About 5,000 Congolese Tutsis
had reached rebel-controlled
Kalemie on Lake Tanganyika and
10,000 more were on the move,
rebel official Moise Nyarugagosaid
Thursday. The uprooted Tutsis
began their trek in the southeast
ern Vyura region, around the town
of Moba, he said.
Nyarugago accused government
forces were carrying out a genocide
against ethnic Tutsis known as
Banyamulenge.
“If a government can select one
category of people to kill or extermi
nate, I think this is what we call
genocide,” Nyarugagosaid. “Wethink
it is a very important humanitarian
issue and ask the international com
munity to assist them.”
President Laurent Kabila denies
the rebels are puppets of neighbor
ing Uganda and Rwanda, whosegov
ernment is dominated by Tutsis.
Besides accusing the government
of genocide, rebels alsoclaim Kabila
is recruiting and training former
Rwandan Hutu militia responsible
for the 1994 genocide of 500,000
Tutsis in Rwanda.
The insurgency began Aug. 2
when a coalition of ethnic Tutsi
fighters and other opponents of
Kabila began launching attackson
thegovernment from basesin east
ern Congo. The rebels charge the
government with corruption and
stirring up ethnic hostilities.
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THE WEEK AHEAD
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Fri.,Oct. 9 ........728am. 7:02p.m.
Sat,, Oct. 10 ... 728 am, 701 pm
Sun,, Oct. 11 .....720am. 7:00p.m.
Mon., Oct. 12 ... 730 am. 6:58p.m.
Tue., Oct 13 .....731am. 657 p.m.
Wed., Oct. 14 ... 731 am. 656 p.m
Moonrise Moonset
Thu,, Oct. 8 ........ 837 pm. 1028 a.m.
Fi.,Oct 9 ...... 1027 p.m. 1136 am.
Sat, Oct. 10 ... 1121 pm. 12:39 p.m.
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march during a protest in support of President Laurent
Kabila Saturday, Oct. 3, 1998, on ‘Boulvard 30 Juin’ in the
capital Kinshasa. The march was aiso in protest of Rwanda
ond Uganda’s support of rebel troops, a coalition of ethnic
Tutsi fighters and other opponents of Kabila, fighting
against the government. (AP Photo/Blaze Musuau)
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Tuesday
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Bomar, mother
lash out in court
By Wichae! Rubiniom
ASSOCIATED PRESS Writer
| MEDIA, Per
Arthur Bomar was sentenced to death Monday for "
the brutal slaying of a college athlete who was ab-'
ducted from her car on a highway off-ramp, raped,
beaten to death and dumped in a vacant lot. W
Jurors deliberated about four hours before making**
a decision between life in prison with no parole of -
dweuth by lethal injection for the slaying of Aimee-'
Bomar, 39, had no immediate reaction to the sen-*
tence, as a handful of Ms. Willard’s family and friends
let out an audible gasp. Bomar's mother, Carrie'’
Ganges, and two siblings, were not present.
After the jury read the verdict, Bomar asked to~
address the jurors. The judge refused. i
Under state law, the death sentence will be auto
matically appealed.
As Bomar was being led out of the courtroom, he' '
made rude gestures at the jury and swore at Ms.
Willard’s family. :
“This last gesture demonstrates what a vile, filthy,
disgusting human being Arthur Bomar is,” Assistant
District Attorney Daniel McDevitt said. :
Gail Willard said she was satisfied with the death
sentence given her daughter’s killer. :
“Twelve people deliberated very, very hard and
they made a decision none of us had to make,” said
Mrs. Willard, an outspoken death penalty opponent.
“There will never be closure. Aimee’s gone and we
miss her very very much.” :
Earlier Monday, Mrs. Ganges had lashed out, ac
cusing the jury of convicting Bomar because he is
black. Ms. Willard was white and 11 of the 12 jurors
are white.
“Your murderer is going free, whoever they may
be,” Mrs. Ganges testified. “He did not kill Aimee
Willard. He did a lot of things in his days —he ain’t
no angel — but he ain't killed nobody.”
Bomar was convicted Thursday by the same jury of
first-degree murder, rape, assault, kidnapping and
abuse of a corpse for Ms. Willard’s 1996 death. He was
on parole for killing a man in Nevada when he killed
Ms. Willard.
The 22-year-old George Mason University lacrosse
player was home on summer vacation when she
disappeared in June 1996. Her car was found with
the engine running on a suburban highway off-ramp.
Her battered and naked body was found hours later
in a vacant North Philadelphia lot.
See BOMAR, page 16A