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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 6, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday july 6, 1994 world the stars and stripes Page .11 As Tutsi watch a French Soldier Peers through the scope of his sniper Rifle at Hutu militia members in Rwanda last week. Rwandan rebels heading toward elite French i Gongoro Rwanda a Tutsi rebels advanced toward elite French troops in southwestern Rwanda on tucs Day and the Shell shocked capital of Riga i 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 s civil War. Troops dug in mortars and howitzers As Nikon 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  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. A Quot a. A. A 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 said. \ a there has been no sign of vindictive killings a . 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. Post-fascist7 Leader honors slain jew Rome apr hours before Rushing to Rome for a july fourth party at the . Embassy Italy so Post fascist Leader tossed a Wreath into the Mediterranean from the Achille Lauro in memory of an american jew thrown overboard from the cruise ship during a 19s5 hijacking by palestinian terrorists. Gianfranco Fini also led the 700 passengers aboard on a fund raising cruise for the National Alliance party in a minute of silence for Leon Klinghoffer the wheelchair user killed during the hijacking reported journalists aboard ship and a party spokesman. The ceremony a was a spontaneous gesture a said spokesman Salvatore Sottile. Sottilo said Fini who Heads a party trying to distance itself from its no fascist roots was angered by reports questioning the taste in the chartering of the vessel on which a jewish passenger was killed. In the years since the hijacking the Achille Lauro has kept up a regular cruise schedule. Sottile said it was the Only vessel available that could accommodate 700 passengers. Fini got off the ship on Cyprus and flew Back to Rome on monday to at. Tend the reception Given by . Ambassador Reginald Bartholomew the first time the Leader of the far right was invited. A far left Leader was also invited but did not show up an embassy spokesman said. The newspaper la Stampa said the Klinghoffer tribute was. A another Symbol Fri agents to Start work in Moscow Moscow a Fri director Louis Freeh and his 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 i a agents will be assigned to the , embassy to coordinate activities against organized crime both in Russia and the United states. / your bavarian . Spec. Motorcycle Center in gesture to assure a Good reception at the Independence Day party. Fini rejects the Label a Oneo fascist a and Calls the National Alliance  a. Since joining prime minister Silvio Berlusconi a conservative governing coalition he has repeatedly pledged allegiance to parliamentary democracy. But leaders of Italy s 40,000-member jewish Community approved a Resolution at their Congress tuesday that expressed a a preoccupation. 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