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DATE: FRIDAY, June 17, 1994                    TAG: 9406170519 
SECTION: FRONT                     PAGE: A6    EDITION: FINAL  
SOURCE: SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS 
DATELINE: 940617                                 LENGTH: WASHINGTON

U.S. IS SENDING TROOP TRUCKS TO U.N. IN RWANDA

{LEAD} Stung by criticism that its bureaucratic sluggishness has delayed humanitarian aid to Rwanda, the Clinton administration has conceded the massacres there are ``genocide'' and is sending in armored personnel carriers to aid U.N. workers.

The APCs, as they are known, will be operated by soldiers from Ghana, not by Americans. A senior White House official said Thursday that the carriers are to be shipped from Germany to Uganda, beginning Sunday.

{REST} It has been a ``regrettably slow process,'' the official said.

The APCs, for which the United Nations is paying rent, are to be used to protect humanitarian workers and to try to prevent as much slaughter as possible by using 5,500 U.N. peacekeepers from Europe and Africa.

{KEYWORDS} RWANDA by CNB