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B Thugs roam streets in war-tom Liberia MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Bands of armed thugs roamed the streets of Monrovia looting homes and shops and smashing cars and win dows Wednesday while hundreds of people lined up outside the U.S. Em bassy in hopes of being evacuated. Many Americans are among the more than 300 foreigners who have been airlifted out of the capital, where the stench of bodies fills the streets after the worst outbreak of violence in three years in Monrovia. Navy Cmdr. Bob Anderson, a spokesman for the U.S. European Command who is in Freetown, said about half of those evacuated late Tuesday and Wednesday were Ameri cans. An Egyptian official said only one-fourth of the evacuees were Americans. About 470 Americans live in Liberia, mostly in Monrovia, includ ing48 employed at the U.S. Embassy. American officials say nobody has been ordered to leave but a team of 18 Navy SEAL commandos was flown to Liberia to reinlbrce security at the U.S. Embassy. Although the violence in Monrovia was not directed at U.S. citizens, the military nevertheless dispatched two AC-130 gunships to Sierra Leone. Liberia’s only international airport has been destroyed, the control tower bombed, and U.N.-donated helicop ters and a commercial jet lie gutted on the tarmac. Exactly how many people have been killed since fighting broke out Saturday is not clear. One Red Cross worker, James Jallah, said he counted 16 bodies when he went outside for the first time in five days. The U.N. envoy to Liberia, An thony Nyakyi, said a cease-fire was reached between government troops and rebels who have been holding hundreds of Liberians, Lebanese and other foreign civilians hostage at a military base in the capital. Frank Akinola, a spokesman for the 12,000-mcmbcr African peace keeping force in the country, said some of their troops were released Wednes day along with some civilians. But he “This is the rebels' livelihood: to loot and kill." PETER BARBAR Lebanese businessman said the cease-lire was holding only in western parts of the city. Paul Koulen, an official with the U.N. Development Program, said that tanks from the peacekeeping forces had moved into the Mamba Point neighborhood, where foreign embas sies and U.N. offices are located, but that troops were doing little to protect people or property. He said dozens of peacekeepers in front of the U.N. offices just sat by and watched as young men stripped and destroyed a half-dozen aid vehicles. “This is the rebels’ livelihood: to loot and kill,” said a Lebanese busi nessman, Peter Barbar. Clinton leads mourners as Brown laid to rest WASHINGTON (AP) — Ron Brown was laid to rest Wednesday after President Clinton celebrated his “truly American life” in a funeral that reflected the commerce secretary’s upbeat style. “He would have loved this deal today,” the president said. The funeral produced an outpour ing of respect unusual even in pomp loving Washington. High-ranking bu reaucrats and government clerks shared pews in the stately National Cathedral, crowded to capacity. Thousands filed by his coffin overnight in the Com merce Department lobby. “Ron Brown’s incredible life force brought us all joy in the morning,” the president said. “No dark night could ever defeat him.... This man loved life and all the things in it.” Brown, the first black commerce secretary, was killed along with 34 others a week ago in a plane crash while on a trade mission to Croatia. His son, Michael, began by thanking the Croatians whoclimbed the hillside to bring down the bodies. The son smiled during his tribute to a father so close that they still kissed on the lips until last week. He brought on laughter when he told of hearing him described as smooth as a swan, and graceful under pressure. “And then I said,' Wait a minute, these people have never played golf with him before,”’ Michael said. “He has problems with about 2 1/2-foot putts, and grace under pressure I would not call that." The 54-year-old Brown qualified for interment in the cemetery of heroes because he was a Cabinet official who had an honorablemilitary background. He served in the Army from 1963-67,. including tours in Germany and Ko rea, and attained the rank of captain. As chairman of the Democratic National Committee in 1992, Brown was a sparkplug in Clinton’s campaign for the presidency. “Ron Brown enjoyed a lot of suc cess,” the president said. “He proved you could do well and do good and have a good time.... He lived his life for America, and when the time came, he was found laying down his life for America.” “I want to say to my friend, just one last time, thank you,” Clinton said, glancing down at the coffin, “If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t be here.” But it was not merely the dignitar ies who were moved by Brown’s un timely death. “This is probably one of the sad dest moments in American history for all of us,” said Vclton Lewis, 43, a labor relations assistant at Commerce, who stood along the funeral proces sion route. “Ron Brown was a unique individual. ” U.S. expels Sudanese diplomat UNITED NATIONS (AP)— The United States has expelled a Sudanese diplomat suspected of aiding terrorists who plotted to blow up the United Nations and assassinate Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. The expulsion order was is sued Tuesday against Ahmed Yousif Mohamed, a second sec retary at the Sudanese mission to the United Nations. U.S. Mission spokesman James Rubin said Wednesday that Mohamed was given 48 hours to leave because he had “been identified as being in volved in terrorist and espio nage activities, including in volvement in connection with the plot to bomb the United Na tions.” A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Mohamed and a second Sudanese diplomat, Siraj Yousi f, were suspected of giving infor mation to terrorist groups in 1993. Yousif has already left New York. Sudanese officials dismissed the U.S. claims, but said Mohamed has left the country. 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' Clinton said the procedure is a “po tentially lifesaving, certainly health saving” measure for “a small but ex tremely vulnerable group of women and families in this country,just a few hundred a year.” “This is not about the pro-choice, pro-life debate,” Clinton said. “This is not a bill that should have ever been injected into that.” Abortion opponents said the proce dure, dubbed a “partial birth” abor tion, is particularly gruesome, some times carried out after the fetus is pul led by the legs from the birth canal. Nebraskan Editor J. Christopher Hein Night News Editors Rebecca Ottmans 472-1766 Melanie Branded Managina Editor Doug Kouma Anne Hjersman Assoc. 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