The leader of a failed coup, Gen. Andr Kolingba, and his associates are said to be hiding in eastern areas of the city. The ruling Taliban's religious police raided a hospital in Kandahar run by the International Committee of the Red Cross, arresting some of the Afghan workers, Agence France-Presse reported. Last month they raided an Italian-run hospital, charging that men and women were working together in a breach of the Taliban's interpretation of Islamic law. The Japanese government said previously that the estimated 5,000 survivors of the bombing who live overseas were not eligible for benefits under laws for atomic bomb victims. A Supreme Court judge rejected Argentina's plea to extradite Gen. Augusto Pinochet for questioning in the 1974 killing of a former Chilean army chief, Carlos Prats, and his wife in Buenos Aires.
Investigators say the former dictator and six intelligence aides ordered the assassinations.
General Prats opposed the coup that brought General Pinochet to power in 1973. The Security Council voted unanimously to put off for 30 days a vote on an American and British plan to lift restrictions on the sale of most civilian goods to Iraq while tightening controls on arms purchases and oil smuggling. Iraq, which opposes continued supervision of oil sales and wants sanctions lifted without admitting arms inspectors, threatened again to cut off oil sales. The high commissioner for refugees said a shortage of donations from national governments would force it to end operations in the Balkans and East Timor as part of a cutback in employees and programs. The agency, which assists 22 million refugees and displaced people worldwide, is cutting almost 800 people from a staff of 4,828.