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ROME (AP) - President Bush said Friday he had chosen former Sen. John Danforth of Missouri to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. If confirmed by the Senate, Danforth, a Republican who is a popular figure among both Republicans and Democrats, would succeed the current ambassador, John Negroponte, Bush's choice to be ambassador to Iraq. Since 2001, Danforth has been Bush's special envoy to war-torn Sudan. He served in the Senate for 18 years. Bush made the announcement in a statement released while he was in Rome on a three-day European trip during which the U.N.'s role in post-occupation...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - A senior U.N. official said Friday that fighting in western Sudan has intensified in recent weeks, accusing Arab militia of systematically attacking villages and raping women. Mukesh Kapila, the U.N. resident coordinator for Sudan, said that attacks against tribes in the Darfur region were "close to the definition of ethnic cleansing." "In my view this is the world's greatest humanitarian crisis and possibly the world's greatest humanitarian catastrophe," Kapila told The Associated Press. "There has been systematic burning of villages and displacement of the population. There are reports of women being raped, other men and women...

<p>WASHINGTON — An Army division commanded by Wesley Clark supplied some of the military equipment for the government's 51-day standoff with a religious sect in Waco, Texas, and Clark's deputy, now the Army Chief of Staff, took part in a crucial Justice Department meeting five days before the siege ended in disaster, according to military records.</p>

Head of Sept. 11 Probe Allegedly Obstructed Danforth's Waco Inquiry Former FBI Counsel Held Onto Papers By Richard Leiby and Dana Priest Washington Post Staff Writers Saturday, June 22, 2002; Page A06 The official in charge of ferreting out information about the FBI for a joint congressional intelligence panel allegedly obstructed a Justice Department probe of the bureau two years ago. As the FBI's deputy general counsel, Thomas A. Kelley was the bureau's point of contact for special counsel John C. Danforth's inquiry into the 1993 Waco debacle in which 75 Branch Davidians died in a fire after a 51-day...