NAIROBI, Kenya (February 21, 2002 12:22 p.m. EST) - Seventeen people were killed when a Sudanese army helicopter fired five rockets at thousands of civilians at a U.N. food distribution point, World Food Program officials and Sudanese rebels said Thursday. The helicopter gunship hovered over the U.N. agency's compound Wednesday in Bieh, about 600 miles south of Khartoum, and fired the rockets at civilians who had gathered to collect food, said Laura Melo, a WFP spokeswoman based in Nairobi, Kenya. The Sudan People's Liberation Army, the main southern Sudanese rebel group, confirmed the attack and reported 17 people killed, dozens ...