2
African
leader
overthrown
A day after the over­
throw of Gen. Moussa
Traore March 26 in the
African nation of Mali,
people were returning to
work and normal 'activity,
the Associated Pres
reported. .)
Mali officials said 200
people died in the coup. Lt.
Col. Amado u Toumani
Toure, the coup leader, in­
itiated discussion with pro­
democracy leaders to
Cop a sault
cost up here
Detroit citizens are
paying more to ettle I w­
uit again t the police
force than ever before, ac­
ording to a Free Pre
report March 28.
Th ci ty paid $24.1 mil­
lion in 1990, twice the
i989 bill. The amount to
ettle a ault cases, $2.9
million and $ .2 million of
fal e rre t .
By compari on. Lo An­
gele with a ore twice the
.' ize of the Detroi t police
force, paid $9 million in
19 to ettle law uit .
MARION A. BOWDEN, a
retired Federal employee, was
In tafled President of Black In
Government (BIG) at a recent
meeting of, the Board of
Director. He replace Rubye
. Field, who e rved tbe
m ximum four years. Bowden
retired s Director, OfOce of
Equal Opportunity, U.S.
Department of Energy In June
1990 where be h d erved lnce
June 1986. He bas more than
31 ye rs of Federal ervlce,
primarily in the management
of equal opportunity
pro r m, per ounet and
admini tration. BIG I a
n tionwide, nonprofit,
nopartl an organization of
career public employee at all
Ievets. It I dedicated te)
enb nclng the quality of public
service thr-ough promotin
equ I opportunity and oelal
ju lice.
lIdr d Harpole
implement reform in the
w t Afric n country.
S veral of the Tr ore
go ernment dmini tr tor
bad b en rre ted in their
own intere t to prevent r
lynching ,.Toure ide
The new leader
promised "th army will no'
longer meddle in politic."
Traore ruled for 23 year.
Bi hop TuTu
pleads for
peace
Saying that at some time
"we have to top blaming
apartheid," South African
Bishop Desmond Tutu told
South African polltician
to top making "bel­
ligerent, bellicose utteran­
ce" to help halt the
violence. The remark
were made by Tutu in a er­
mon March 27 following a
rash of violence.
Attacker armed with
AK47s and knifes killed 15
people holding a vigil �n
Alexandra Township for
victim of, previous
violence.
Tutu, winner of the 1984
Noble Peace' Prize, said his
country is, developing a
"culture of violence" in
which people are becoming
ane thctized to killing,
There h ve been 75 ill­
ing in the p t two week
in AJexandr . '
Anti-Apartheid
ctlvl t free
South Afric n Pre ident
F.W, de lcrk made good
on promi e to the African
ational Congre , On
March 22. the government
granted immuni ly from
'pro ecution to 2,605 anti­
apartheid activists includ­
ing 1,818 member of the
ANC.
The de Klerk premise
wa' part of an agreement
made in August by which
the ANC promised to halt
the guerri lla campaign
against ap rtheid. '
Indi n
leaders
organize
Leaders of Michigan's
five unrecognized Indian
tribes met last week to take
steps in getting aid for their
people,
Chairman Ron Wemig­
was said his Little Traverse
Bay Band of Odawa In­
dians, 'most of them scat­
tered across the state,
might go directly to Con­
gress for recognition and
'. ,
, .
Cost
S22.5 million
S280.8,million
S62.7 million
avoid the moras of red
t pe ere ted by the Bureau
of Indian Affairs, Feder I
recognition brings federal
aid, "We want to get some­
thing for the people, an
education for be kids,
maybe some kind of tribal
1 nd for housing for the
elderly," Wemigwa said,
Also seeking recogni­
tion are the Pokagon Band
of Potawatomi the Not­
tawaseppi Huron Band of
Potawatomi, the Burt Lake
Band of Ottawa and Chip­
pew a a the Manis tee
Band of Ottawa,
Doug Wi er
takes first step
a Governor
Wilder filed
pape rch 27 to form a
committee to study tbe pos­
sibility of his candidacy for
the Democratic nomination
for president.
The move allows him to
begi n raisi ng money for a
pres tial bid. By law,
Wilder is limited to one
four-year term as Governor
of Virginia,
He was' elected 15 ..
months ago and has pent
much of that time cam­
paigning across rhe
country,
THE POWER OF ONE-A strlklDI bronze Itatue of civil rlahts
heroine Ro a' Park (right) now on display In the National
Portrait Gallery In Wa hlnaton, D.C., Is ala tlnl reminder tbat
one per on can make a dlfferen'ce. The bust, created by sculptor
and Detroit native Artis Lane, (left) wa recently unveiled before
hundred of dlgnltarle In tbe nation' capital. Lane Id the
Parks' bu t "embodies tbe dllnlty and quiet courage" of the
woman affectlon,atel, known as the "motber of the civil rl hts
movement." Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a Montaomery,
AI., bus to a �blte pa senger in 1955 led a sueees ful, year-Iona
boycott of the city's bus system and parked a nation.1 movement
for racial Ju tlce.
World and National Briefs
- "The Guardian" London.
Item
23 Patriot mi iles
216 Tomahawk cruise missiles
Two F-l 5E fighter jets
One bomb on a B-52
Cost oftraining one Tornado
jet pilot
NNPA Pr,ss S,rvic, J
The Na tional Associa tion
for Black Veterans (NAB- V)
is developing a "Working
Group" of private and public
organizations to implement an
advocacy program to as s l t
Persian Gulf war veterans'
return to civilian life.
According to Thoma H.
Wynn, Sr., NAB-V's director
of organizational develop­
ment, the African American
Per ian Gulf war veteran
face coming back to. a
troubled dome tic ituation
involving racial di crimina­
tion and Iimi ted' employment,
which provide few oppor­
tunities outside the military.
"Immediate action is
needed to organize on the,
homefront in order to
eliminate the limited civilian
opportunitie encountered by
Would ...
Buy 12 month of clothes, eeds, and pot
and pay for their torage for 2 million
people in Mozambique or cover the Amnesty
International Secretariat's 1990 budget
Buy food needed in Ethiopia for six months
Nearly equal British Save the Children Fund's
over ea budget, 1990-91
511,000
Run a clinic for 4,060 patient in Bangladesh
for one month or et up a self-running medical
supply ystem for a tural population of 100,000
55.8 million
Provide 25,000 Eritrean families with enough
seed and tools to recover from drought
'African Amertc n veterans,"
Wynn pointed out.
African Americans have
proudly served, fought and
died in all war' involving the
United States, Wynn said.
"Historically, African
American veterans have al-
ways faced enormou
problems that were theirs -
and their alone - once they
returned from military duty.
FOR EX M LE," Wynn
aid, "the unemployment rate
for African Americans i three
time that of white veteran.
African Ame rican receive a
greater proportion of other­
t han -. h 0 nor a b I e dJ c h a r g e ,
and 55 percent of all incar­
cerated veter n nd 50 per-
cent of all homele veteran
are African Americ ns."
"Operation Return," aid
Wynn, is de ig ne d to insure:
a) current programs 'and er­
vice actually reach minority
veterans and their families, b)
new programs and service
are created to addre s the un­
recognized, or unforeseen,
needs of veterans, and c)
government and private
re ources are organized to im­
prove the o pp o r t u n i tie of
minority veteran succe in
civilian life.
A long range goal of
"Operation Return," accord­
ing to Wynn. i to e. tabli h 8
nat ion wid e m o'd c I pro g ram
that. would addre the
problem and need of
minority veteran that will in­
directly impact po ilively on
the economic and o c ia t
problems experienced by low
income minoritie .
WE'RE ALL CONNECTED - In' Jerusalem, an Etbloplan
Je I h Immi r nt, no In �he I r ell army, call Addis Ab ba,
wbere members of hi family-ori in lIy from the Gondar
re lon- It ith tbou nd of other to be reunited wltb
relative In Israel. The waltlnK pelod In' Ethiopia Is u ually
marked by extreme bard blp and ufferlng. Free telep one call
between I r el and Ethiopia are made po lble by a "hotllne"
project pon ored by the A oclatlon of Reform Zlonl t of
Amerlc (ARZA). ARZA offlclal In I rael y the convers tlon
are invariably "emotion I and even painful, It Ince m ny
Ethiopian Immlgran have been ep rated from do e r latlve
for long nve year.
'Operetion Return' seeks to help temilies