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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 6, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday july 6, 1994 world the stars and stripes r Page 11 As Tutsi watch a French Soldier scope of his sniper Rifle at Hutu militia members in Rwanda last week. I Gongoro Rwanda a Tutsi rebels advanced toward elite French troops in southwestern Rwanda on tuesday and the Shell shocked capital of Kigali slowly adjusted to rebel Rule. About 500 soldiers patrolled the Woodlands around i Gongoro which the French marked off As a Haven for 400,000 refugees they estimate have fled to the area to escape ethnic massacres in Rwanda a civil War. Troops dug in mortars and howitzers As Giken Gorow a mayor drove through the streets with a Loudspeaker urging Calm and telling panicked refugees the French would protect them. The Tutsi led rwandan patriotic front said it would not respect the zone which cuts Between its rebel forces and the last third of the Central african country controlled by the Hutu dominated government. French president Francois Mitterrand insisted that the rebel front a is not our adversary and said France was not try ing to keep the rebels from defeating government forces As it did in 1990. A we say simply that there must be somewhere a place for people in danger to take cover. A we extend a helpful hand. Our action stops there a Mitterrand said during a visit to South Africa. But he also said French soldiers would defend themselves. Rebel leaders threatened to attack the French contingent which moved in last week to protect refugees and will reach its full strength of 2,500 men this week. A if the French stand in our Way then it is the French who will have chosen confrontation a the rebel fronts Secretary general Theogene Rudasi Ngwa said in London. A column of an estimated 2,000 rebels was on the March 12 Miles from the zone which is 85 Miles Southwest of Kigali French capt. Jacques Albert Roussel said. A French government official said in Paris that some rebels were less than six Miles from French positions around i Gongoro. The official who spoke on condition of anonymity said that those rebels were not moving and that there was no fighting. In the rebel held capital gunfire died Down after the final rebel assault monday. Quot civilians who had fled during the three month siege were beginning to return said a . Spokesman Pierre Mehu in Kigali. A the City is Calm no gunfire quiet a he  there has been no sign of vindictive killings.�?�. . Officials estimate 200,000 to 500,000 rwandans have died in the latest round of the War most of them Tutsi civilians slain in ethnic massacres. The fighting began after Rwanda a president a member of the majority Hutu ethnic group who had signed a peace Accord with the rebels died april 6 in a suspicious plane crash. Germany s Genscher linked to nazis Bonn Germany apr Hans die Trich Genscher who helped the West win the cold War is now fighting to keep his prestige after acknowledging the existence of a document identifying him As a teen age nazi. Genscher said that without his knowledge the nazis signed his name onto a membership list in 1944 while he was a 17-year-old auxiliary or Helper in an air Force anti aircraft unit. A at no time was he informed by the a soap the nazi by the Hitler youth or any other organization of the nazi state that he was made a member of the a soap a says a statement from Gensch Eros office. Genscher who was foreign minister for 18 years until retiring in 1992, a was never invited to any events of this party. He never participated in any events of this party a his office said. German news Media have suggested that Genscher a name May have been among thousands added to the nazi membership Rolls by functionaries trying to boost party morale As Adolf hitlers troops suffered devastating losses during the last year of Genscher the War. Still discovery of the nazi document is a blot on an illustrious political career. Focus newsmagazine said of Genscher a the Monument is  Genscher a troubles started when German news Media reported last week that he is listed As a former member of the Hitler youth in papers at the Berlin document Center a vast repository of nazi files confiscated by . Soldiers at the end of world War ii. The Center turned Over to German administrators last week was created by the . Government in 1945 As a collection Point for documents to be used in trials against alleged nazi War criminals. The files Are under lock and key because of a German Law that guarantees citizens privacy. Genscher a office said that in the Early 1970s, he a was informed that his name is listed in the document  it Wasny to until recently Genscher a office said that he Learned precisely what was in that file. Genscher a office said that a according to information now available to him his name is on an August 1944�?� list of people belonging both to the nazi party and to the Hiller youth Fri agents to Start in Moscow Moscow a Fri director Louis Freeh in cetus russian counterpart signed a protocol tuesday paving the Way for two agents to be stationed permanently in Moscow to fight the spread of organized crime., a the world is a Small and dangerous place and its getting worse with regard to organized crime a Freeh said at a news conference after he and Interior minister Viktor Erin signed the agreement. Freeh left Moscow later tuesday in route to Vienna Austria wrapping up a 10-Day tour of former soviet satellites. Under the protocol two Fri agents will be assigned to the . 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