61.   Zairean soldiers Tuesday looted food aid destined for Rwandan refugees as it was being unloaded from planes in Goma airport in eastern Zaire, UNHCR spokesman Panos Moumtiz said.

62.   Zairean soldiers were on the runways and on the perimeter of the airport, which according to some reports had been taken early Thursday by unidentified armed fighters.

63.   Zairean soldiers who are responsible for security in the refugee camps are either poorly paid or not paid at all, and extort food and goods from the refugees.

64.   Witnesses said the Zairean soldiers were separating families and stealing their belongings.

65.   Zairean soldiers arrested two journalists of the Associated Press news agency, an American and a Frenchman, in Goma, their driver said.

66.   Zairean soldiers began pulling back amid exchanges of rocket-grenade fire and mortar and automatic weapons fire, he said.

67.   Zairean soldiers on the edge of the Bukavu plateau told AFP that their comrades were fighting Rwandan troops on the Uvira plain, to the south.

68.   Zairean soldiers were completely in control of Goma airport, an AFP correspondent reported on Thursday, but fighting insurgents in the area hard by the border with Rwanda.

69.   It was unclear who was responsible but one unconfirmed report said the second barrage was fired by Zairean soldiers from the area of the airport towards the border.

70.   Kagame reiterated that the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan army was not involved in fighting in eastern Zaire between Zairean soldiers and local Tutsi rebels, known as Banyamulenge.