Fearing Army Move, Aid Workers Flee
From Times Wire Reports
Several British aid workers left the eastern city of Goma under mounting fear that the army was preparing to launch an airstrike against rebels holding the city. The government, meanwhile, accused neighboring armies of joining the fighting in the east and said drugged children were being used as human shields. The rebels have humiliated the government, seizing a 400-mile stretch along the Burundian, Rwandan and Ugandan borders in the past four months.
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