U.N. Ambassador Pushes for Probe
From Times Wire Reports
Bill Richardson, U.S. ambassador to the U.N., made a last shot at trying to persuade President Laurent Kabila to allow a U.N. probe into massacres he said “cast a shadow” over relations with the African nation. President Clinton has threatened to withhold economic aid unless Kabila allows the U.N. investigation into the slaughter of tens of thousands of mostly Rwandan Hutu refugees during the war that ousted dictator Mobutu Sese Seko. Kabila’s army and its Rwandan allies have been accused of the massacres.
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