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To: Bob Fairchild who wrote (1076)	1/13/1999 5:52:00 PM
From: 1st.mate	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2522

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To: Bob Fairchild who wrote (1076)	1/13/1999 6:27:00 PM
From: Gord Bolton	Respond to of 2522

Sierra Leone Leader Makes Demands Wednesday, January 13, 1999; 10:43 a.m. EST FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) -- Two Roman Catholic missionaries kidnapped by rebels in Sierra Leone have been rescued by the West African intervention force fighting to protect the government, a Vatican envoy said today. The Revs. Maurizio Boa and Giuliano Pini, both Italian, were being used by rebels as human shields during fighting Monday at the presidential palace in the capital, Freetown, envoy Antonio Lucibello said. The soldiers initially thought the priests were European mercenaries working for the rebels and assaulted them, said Lucibello, speaking from Conakry, the capital of neighboring Guinea. After their identities were confirmed, the priests were flown today to safety in Lungi, across the harbor from Freetown. They were not seriously injured. ''We were hit, they wanted to kill us,'' the Rome-based Catholic news agency MISNA quoted Pini as saying. A local priest eventually confirmed the missionaries' identities, he said. The two clerics were seized after being told they would be taken to see a kidnapped priest, the Rev. Mario Guerra, who is still being held. Also today, the rebels' jailed founder demanded his freedom in exchange for a cease-fire in civil war, a senior U.N. official said. It was unclear whether Sierra Leone's president, Ahmed Tejan Kabbah, would agree to this and other conditions, said U.N. special representative Francis Okelo. Foday Sankoh, founder of Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front rebel alliance, made the demands during three hours of talks Tuesday in Conakry. The negotiations were attended by government ministers from Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Togo and Guinea. Sankoh has been jailed by Sierra Leone's government since a court in Freetown convicted him of treason and mass murder in October. He was transported to Tuesday's talks in a prison uniform. ''Sankoh said he is completely committed to peace and that he doesn't believe in a military solution for Sierra Leone,'' Okelo said. Okelo was to fly today to Freetown to present Kabbah with Sankoh's conditions. Besides his freedom, the rebel leader is demanding official recognition of the RUF, which has been accused by aid officials and civilian witnesses of mass atrocities against unarmed villagers. Okelo said the West African intervention force, ECOMOG, had pushed rebels from much of Sierra Leone's battered capital and calm was slowly returning. The city had been heavily damaged by shelling and raging fires and casualties were ''significant, although we don't know how many,'' Okelo said. Rebel snipers continued to fire at ECOMOG troops carrying out cleanup operations in the city, he said. © Copyright 1999 The Associated Press