Last Week in the World of News

3/18, Washington, D.C.

The White House announced that the nation's largest gunmaker, Smith & Wesson, has agreed to install trigger locks and impose other restraints on how it designs and sells firearms.

In return for these and other concessions, a long list of states and cities have agreed to drop lawsuits against Smith & Wesson.

3/17, Mexico City, Mexico

Po1lution has left millions gasping in Mexico City. Hospitals are filled with people suffering from lung problems such as bronchitis and asthma.

A recent report from World Resources Institute says that pollution here is hurting the development-of children.

At least 235 followers of a doomsday cult burned to death in a remote part of southwest- em Uganda. It was unclear if the leader, Joseph Kibweteere died. A police officer said reports indicate that the leader led his followers into the church and then set it ablaze.

3/16, Jerusalem, Israel

A land transfer that had threatened more fighting between Israel and Palestine won approval from both sides.

JPrime Minister Ehud Barak persuaded ministers to approve the transfer of 6.1 percent of the West Bank to the Palestinians. Barak and Yasir Arafat, Palestinian leader, are feeling pressured to keep promises that they made in September.

3/20, The Hague,

Netherlands bunal has been investi- gating the systematic use of rape in the Balkan war. The rape trial will be the first time an international court has addressed the issue of sexual enslavement.

According to the indictment, the Bosnian Serb defendants ran a "rape factory" in Foca, Sarajevo in the summer of 1992.

-Jessica Giordano