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FRIDAY. APRIL 22, 1994 A15 LOS ANGELES TIMES Rwanda Death Toll Put at 100,000 SAVE 20 DURING ESTATE JEWELRY WEEK PLUS OUR TRIPLE BONUS 1 VII; Bonus One: Gift With Purchase. With each Estate Jewelry purchase of $300 or morR you'll receive a beautiful silverplated Victorian style jewelry box, valued at $20. Bonus Two: Receive an additional 10 off coupon with each Estate Jewelry ging the Rusizi River bcl.vccn Rwanda and Zaire came from Catherine Newbury, a piofessor who specializes in African affairs at the University of North Carolina. Tony Cavaiho of iLe U.N.

Children's Fund said his office had received report: of makeshift barricades on many roads uanncd by either Rwandan soldiers or gangs armed with gur.s, machetes, knives and spears. There were also fears that Rwanda is edging closer to a deadly outbreak of disease and famine sparked by growing fighting. The extent of the slaughter is masked by the absence of U.N. or private aid workers in Rwanda's green, rolling countryside. Virtually all foreigners left last week.

Only a handful, from the Red Cross and the humanitarian agency Doctors Without Borders, remain in the capital, where the orgy of violence began. Thq U.N. force's original mission was to provide a buffer between the Rwandan army, dominated by ethnic Hutus, and the Tutsi rebels of the Rwandan Patriotic Front. The two groups signed a peace accord last August that ended a three-year civil war. But the truce dissolved when the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi, both Hutus, died in a mysterious plane crash April 6.

Chaos erupted in Kigali the next day, and the army and the rebels went back to war. Those remaining from the U.N. mission to Rwanda would remain in Kigali, the capital, to try to arrange at least a temporary cease-fire and the resumption of limited humanitarian relief operations, Boutros-Ghali said. At least half a million people have fled their homes in the central African nation since fighting between the Hutus and the Tutsi broke out two weeks ago. But fewer than 20,000 have crossed into neighboring countries, their traditional sanctuaries in times of trouble.

Rwanda's interim government, which is dominated by the majority Hutu ethnic group, has put the number of displaced people at 2 million, nearly one-quarter of the population. But most aid agencies consider that figure inflated. Other aid officials feared the worst. Heather Wall, in charge of humanitarian affairs at the Canadian Embassy in Nairobi, said the Rwandan army had sealed the country's borders with Burundi, Zaire and Tanzania. "The Uganda border is open, but the few people arriving there are in very bad shape, many of them wounded," she said.

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214 QuUock's Pasadena Thursday through Sunday, April 28-Muy 1 rr.o firf'' the bloodshed, U.N. Security Council decides to pull its peacekeeping force out of the country. From Times Win Services NAIROBI, Kenya-The International Committee of the Red Cross said Thursday that more than 100,000 Rwandans may have been killed in the last two weeks of ethnic slaughter and called it a tragedy on a scale we have rarely witnessed." Powerless to halt the bloodshed, the Security Council decided late Thursday to pull the U.N. peacekeeping force out of the country, except for about 270 security guards and military observers. In a bleak report before the unanimous vote, U.N.

Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali wrotei "There is no prospect of a cease-fire being agreed upon in the coming days." He said the 1,705 U.N. peacekeepers now there should either be reinforced by thousands more and authorized to coerce the combatants into a cease-fire, or be mostly withdrawn. He advised against a complete withdrawal, saying that would cause further bloodshed. U.N. members are reluctant to provide troops for another operation like Somalia, where the United Nations came to be regarded as a hostile force.

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Buckingham Palace said the dog was lost Sunday while walking with Charles on the queen's Balmoral estate, 50 miles west of Aberdeen. "The Prince of Wales apparently went out walking with his two Jack Russell terriers, Pooh and Tigger. He took them along the River Dee toward a forest area and it seems that Pooh disappeared," said Stuart Fairlie, a journalist at the Aberdeen Press and Journal. An advertisement in the paper offering a reward for information about Pooh has brought no response, the palace said. From Timet Staff and Wire Report carbon monoxide was in relief of pain." Hyde did not die on Belle Isle, a park in the Detroit River, where Kevorkian turned himself in, Fieger said.

Hyde died in Kevorkian's 1968 Volkswagen van in a parking lot behind the retired pathologist's apartment in suburban Oakland County, the lawyer said. Only afterward did Kevorkian take the van, with Hyde's corpse in the back, to Detroit. Consequently, Fieger claimed, the prosecution would not be able to show that the crime occurred in Wayne County, where the case is being heard in Detroit Recorder's Court. Police witnesses concede thai they never asked where Hyde died. Police Inspector James D.

Arthurs grumbled later in a corridor! "I thought this guy wanted to confront the law. How come he's ducking and dodging?" No matter what the outcome, the issue of assisting suicide for the terminally ill will still be open here. The Michigan Court of Appeals is reviewing the constitutionality of the ban, which was enacted to keep Kevorkian from continuing his work while the Legislature considers whether and how to regulate help for suicides. Kevorkian is collecting signatures in hopes of placing an amendment to the state constitution on the November ballot Kevorkian Sought to Ease Pain, His Lawyer Says as Trial Opens By JUDY PASTERNAK TIMES STAFF WRITER ETROIT-Jack Kevorkian's 'attorney began his defense in fvy; IwfeJSM 1 Michigan's first assisted-suicide case Thursday by raising two issues, including the surprise revelation that the death of a 30-year-old suffering from terminal Lou Gehrig's disease took place in another county rather than in the city park where Kevorkian surrendered to police. In addition, attorney Geoffrey N.

Fieger told a jury in his opening statement that assisting suicide is banned if the motive was to ease pain and suffering rather than to cause death. He contended that Thomas Hyde, who spoke with difficulty, could barely move and increasingly had trouble swallowing, would find relief only through i dying. Kevorkian has admitted supplying carbon monoxide, tubing and a face mask to Hyde. A subsection of the law states that JLhe ban does not apply "if the intent is to relieve pain or discomfort and not to cause death, even if the medication or procedure may hasten or increase the risk of death." "It is not a crime if the only intent is to relieve pain," Fieger said. Prosecutor Timothy Kenny responded that "clearly, they are about medications and cedures that are experimental.

So far, there's nothing to indicate that illlllB II.