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IN BRIEF
28 Palestinians dead,
131 wounded in Gaza
JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP,
Gaza Strip — Israeli troops struck
deep inside the largest Palestin
ian refugee camp Thursday, bat
tling masked gunmen in an un
precedented campaign to stop
deadly rocket fire on Israeli
towns. T\venty-eight Palestinians
were killed and 131 wounded,
the bloodiest single-day toll in
fighting in 30 months.
— The Associated Press
Life is calling.
How far will you go?
Peace Corps on campus.
Tuesday, Oct. 5
Information Table
EMU Lobby
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Slide Show and Info Meeting
Eugene Downtown Library,
100 W. 10th Ave, Tykeson Room
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Wed. Oct. 6 - Thurs. Oct. 7
Information Table
Fall Street Fair
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wednesday. Oct. 6
Video Presentation & Info Meeting
EMU International Lounge
6:00pm - 7:30pm
www.peacecorps.gov — 800.424.8580, opt. 1
22nd Annual Lane County
IMPROVEMENT
October 7-10
Fairgrounds — 13th & Jefferson, Eugene
Thursday & Friday 5-9:30pm
Saturday 10:30am-9:30pm Sunday 10:30am-5pm
FREE Admission!
Please bring canned food donations to help fight hunger.
Over 200 Home & Garden Exhibits!
Aisles of New Ideas & Expert Advice
"Artist's Marketplace" - Show & Sale
Oils, Watercolors, Clay & Photography - Rm #1
"Plant Sale" - Fall Is Perfect For Planting!
Hourly Home & Carden "How-To's"
in the Green Thumb Garden & Dream Home Theaters
Fun Kid s Activities
Extension Service - Nature Crafts & Games
Rm #2, Sunday l-3pm, Adults Must Accompany Kids
Register for Valuable Prizes!
Ducane Gas Barbeque Grill
From Premium Spas & Stoves and KVAL-TV
Maple China Hutch
From Country Woodworking and KVAL-TV
Homecrest Holly Hill Patio Set
From Emerald Pool & Patio and KVAL-TV
a Barg Production
U.S., Britain back French
Security Council resolution
Under the agreement, the U.N. will provide
military aid to the Congo in an attempt for peace
BY EDITH M. LEDERER
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
UNITED NATIONS — France in
troduced a Security Council resolu
tion Thursday that would increase
the U.N. force in the Congo by 5,900
troops, less than half the amount re
quested by U.N. Secretary-General
Kofi Annan.
The draft resolution, backed by
the United States and Britain,
would reinforce the 10,800-strong
U.N. force in the Congo. It would
also give peacekeepers a broader
mandate to deploy to potentially
volatile areas to deter the use of
force, seize illegal arms and protect
civilians “under imminent threat of
physical violence.”
U.S. deputy ambassador Stuart
Holliday said the sponsors “will
be looking toward a vote” on
Friday, when the force's current
mandate expires.
In a report to the Security
Council last month, Annan said the
transition to peace in the Congo
is at “a critical juncture.” He called
for the U.N. force to be more than
doubled to 23,900 troops to support
the country's fragile peace process
and move toward free elections
in 2005.
But the United States, Britain
and France — which pay a signifi
cant chunk of U.N. peacekeeping
costs — decided on a smaller num
ber and to re-evaluate the situation
in six months.
The draft resolution would au
thorize an increase of 5,900 troops,
including 341 international police
officers, and call for “the rapid de
ployment” of additional forces and
logistics support to North and South
Kivu in volatile eastern Congo.
Four new battalions, totaling
about 3,550 troops, are earmarked
for the two border provinces. Pak
istan's U.N. Ambassador Munir
Akram said his country, which al
ready has a large contingent in the
Congo, would be providing two of
the new battalions.
A June uprising in South Kivu
launched the most serious military
threat to the Congo's transitional
government since the end of the
country's devastating 1998-2002
war that claimed more than 3 mil
lion lives and involved six African
nations. The clashes displaced thou
sands and heightened tensions with
the Congo's neighbor and wartime
enemy, Rwanda.
A new divisional headquarters
in Kisangani, a northeastern city
on the banks of the Congo River,
is expected to be established much
closer to the fighting than the
capital, Kinshasa. Diplomats said
the idea would be to keep a rapid
reaction force at the divisional base
that could deploy quickly.
Bombs kill 35 children
during celebration in Iraq
Tawhid and Jihad group claims responsibility
for additional attacks scattered throughout Iraq
BY ALEXANDRA ZAVIS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD, Iraq — A string of
bombs killed 35 children and wound
ed scores of others as U.S. troops
handed out candy Thursday at a gov
ernment-sponsored celebration to in
augurate a sewage plant. It was the
largest death toll of children in any
insurgent attack since the start of the
Iraq conflict.
Grief-stricken mothers wailed over
their children’s bloodied corpses, as rel
atives collected body parts from the
street for burial and a boy picked up the
damaged bicycle of his dead brother.
The wounded were rushed to
Yarmouk Hospital, where angry rela
tives screamed for attention from the
overwhelmed doctors, many of whom
wore uniforms covered in blood. One
woman tore at her hair before pulling
back the sheet covering her dead
brother and kissing his body.
The bombings in Baghdad’s west
ern al-Amel neighborhood — at least
two of which were in cars —• came
amid a series of savage attacks that
killed at least 51 people and wound
ed 230 nationwide. At least one U.S.
soldier was among the dead and 13
were wounded.
Early Friday, U.S. and Iraqi forces
launched a major attack against the in
surgent stronghold of Samarra, secur
ing government and police buildings in
the city, the U.S. command said.
The offensive came in response to
“repeated and unprovoked attacks by
anti-Iraqi forces” against Iraqi and
coalition forces, the military said in a
statement. Its aim was to kill or cap
ture insurgents in the city, 60 miles
north of Baghdad.
Jordanian terror mastermind Abu
Musab al-Zarqawi’s Tawhid and Ji
had group claimed responsibility for
bloody attacks in Baghdad on
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