Signs of the times on kids baseball and the shift to organized leagues
Gus Schrader reminisces about self-run games in Mitchell Iowa before Little League and Babe Ruth leagues. He contrasts old free play with adult organizing, uniforms and Umpires, praising Cedar Rapids Kids League past efforts and quoting coach John K Rosemond on letting kids choose teams and run play, while noting scandal of Long Beach stealing signs.
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Iau
Cedar Rapids
Barney Morrison
Jack Ogden
Nevin Nichol
al Smith
George Thompson
John K. Rosemond
Gastonia
S.C
Rosemond
Billy
Sally
Long Beach
Calif
Jeff Boroughs
Good Old
Mitchell
Iowa
Lone child survives killings at church site in Rwanda
An AP report describes a two year old survivor found alone beside a church where hundreds were killed a month earlier. Lt Emmanuel Rutaisire of the rebel army recounted discovering the child amid ruins and clothing, noting the boy subsisted on bananas and would be sent to a rebel run orphanage.
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Musha
Rwanda
Juliana Mukankwaya
Mukankwaya
Interahamwe
Burundi
Kigali
Rwandan Patriotic Front
Associated Press
Vincent Anyakarundi
Rugende
Emmanuel Rutaisire
Rutaisire
Mass killings in sector as militia hunts neighbors
A survivor recounts 200 deaths in his sector including his wife who refused to join Intera hamwe. He says militia gathered bodies near a large hole and villagers wept. he alleges the army supplied killing tools and supervised the slaughter, with victims pleading that they were neighbors.
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Interahamwe
Heavy fighting rocks Kigali as rebels push on interim government
Fierce clashes erupt in Rwanda's capital ending a four day lull. Rebels shell areas near the airport and government offices as they threaten to overrun Kigali while government officials flee toward Gitarama. Up to 200000 killed in six weeks amid ethnic violence and renewed RPF clashes.
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Nairobi
Kenya
Rwanda
Defense Ministry
Abdul Kabia
U.N
Kigali
Akanyaru
Gitarama
Juvenal Habyarimana
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