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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 27, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The Sims and tripes vol. 53, no. 132 500 saturday August 27,1994 d 8693 is Ken George a rwandan refugee child pleads for food earlier this week at the squalid Kib Umba Camp near Goma Zaire. . Hate radio worries Aid officials operating in Kigali by Doyle Tillman staff writer Kigali Rwanda mysterious anti american radio messages May be undermining . Relief efforts in War ravaged Rwanda  officials say the radio attacks Are dangerous said army sgt. 1stclass Edward Reponte assigned to military intelligence at the Kigali Airport. The messages create animosity toward the  personnel and an unsafe environment Tor Ameri cans he said adding that the Campaign also work against the . Objective in Rwanda. Both Reponte and Marc ague an agent with the local air Force office of special investigations said no one knows the source of what officials in Kigali have la bleed hate  however both French and american officials said the broadcasts do not tar get american forces for harm. Instead they Are reportedly intended to intimidate rwandan refugees and halt their return to their country. American authorities suspect the huts Are  Hutu rulers were overthrown in a bloody civil War that began in april and left an estimated 500,000 to 1 million people dead. One such message Reponte said alleges that president Clinton ordered . Military members to Rwanda to sup port the new government. The message also charges that americans Are in the country to lure refugees to return to see Kigali �  gets his crime Bill Washington a climaxing a parti san election year struggle a $30 billion crime Bill is headed for president Clinton s desk. The measure promises Money for More police offi cers and tougher terms for criminals. This crime Bill is going to make every neigh boyhood in America safer and the bipartisan spirit that produced it should give every Ameri can Hope that we can come together to do the Job they sent us Here to do Clinton said in a statement shortly after the Senate gave final approval to the Bill. The vote was 61-38 As lawmakers responded to voter anxiety about crime. But it also belied an intense Battle waged Over the measure for months in both houses and particularly in the past two weeks. Fifty four democrats and seven republicans voted for the Bill. Thirty six republicans and two democrats voted against. The White House said Friday that Clinton would not sign the crime Bill until sometime after labor Day. The president was preparing Friday for a vacation on Martha s Vineyard off the Massachusetts coast. Shortly before final passage the Democrat controlled Senate choked off an Effort by the National Rifle association to kill the measure because of opposition to a ban on Many As Sault style weapons. Hours earlier Senate democrats bolstered by six republicans prevailed Over a gop at see crime on Page 2 president Clinton meets with people outside the Whitehouse after his morning jog on Friday. . Prosecutors allowed to keep All blood samples los Angeles a prosecutors Don t have to immediately provide blood samples for Dan tests by . Simpson s attorneys even though investigators were a picture of confusion miscommunication and noncom Munica Tion a judge ruled Friday. Superior court judge Lance Ito in a three Page ruling said prosecutors showed it is reasonably necessary for them to perform multiple genetic tests before giving any of the evidence to the defense. The judge ordered the prosecution to proceed with Dan testing in As conservative a manner As is scientifically reasonable and to maintain for potential defense testing any residual or remain ing  Ito said prosecutors must give Simpson s lawyers 48 hours notice of any testing and must make the testing accessible to defense experts while criticizing prosecutors and police Ito rejected a defense motion for a portion of blood samples collected at the scene of the june 12 murders of Simpson s former wife and one of her friends and at Simpson s mansion. The prosecution is relying heavily on forensic Evi Dence including sophisticated Dan tests because there Are no known eyewitnesses to the killings. During a two Day hearing this week the defense accused the prosecution of conspiring to Burn up evidence by Over testing it before Simpson s lawyer scan get their hands on it. The testing process would see samples on Page 2 inside today Estonia seizes nearly seven pounds of u ran i u m smog g the  
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