WORLD IN BRIEF : UGANDA : Pope Calls for End to Rights Abuses

Pope John Paul II appealed for an end to human rights abuses in a country where reports of massacres form an epilogue to one of the continent’s most brutal chapters. Hundreds of thousands lined the road to Kampala and packed the capital’s streets as the Pope, his head and shoulders poking through the sunroof of his black limousine, rode through town. Last September, Amnesty International accused the army of slaughtering hundreds of civilians and prisoners since President Yoweri Museveni took power in 1986 after a five-year rebellion. Museveni, who has brought a measure of stability and has promised elections in 1994, denies organized oppression and blames the deaths on soldiers.