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BLJsh behind cover-up
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According to Bri n Bee er,
n tion I org nizer of the
Co lition to top U.S. Inter­
vention in the Middle E r, un­
cen ored video-taped age
of former Attorney Gener I
R m ey CI r ' vi it to Ir q
during the w r, contribut d to
the firing of two televi ion e -
ecutive , and cau ed another
t ti n to tot By hun the
footage.
Becker id n NBC execu-
tive w terminated after
greeing to how the video on
televi ion, a was CBS execu­
tive Tom Bett g when he
agreed to how it. ABC'
declined to show fOOL age of the
video re ult of the prior hood going up in mo e.
termin tions, according to Be- Taped foot ge featured n.
cker. He s ys he think pres- interview with hep erd who
ure from the Bush admini tr - wa the lone urvivor of a
tion prevented the video from trafting attack by U.S. pi ne ,
being sown. ccordin to Bec er.
Becker say the f ot ge He cl im the U.S. went f r
shows that the U.S. military beyond the United tion
strategy in the Gulf w r t r- resolution to get Ir q out of
geted civilian areas as well as Kuwait, by destroyin in­
military, with entire neighbor- frastructur I y tem nece­
. sary to maintain life. He y
structure uch a dam, and
dike were de troyed, le ving
very little cle n drinking water.
Becker id commi ions
have been organized in 10
countries to t ge interviews,
collect document , video , and
reports a evidence of war
crimes by the U.S. led coali­
tion.
Ma s hearings will be held
in May to determine if "the
Bush administr tion engaged
in massive war crime ," id
Becker.
He said the ffort is "an p­
peal to the court of world
public opinion to determine
the truth about the U.S. war
AAAlLU' ut Iraq."
By Gwen McKln ey and Len de ire for a istance in build- point out that he i a private
McDowell ing the fledgling' new citizen, played an active role
democr cy. in the movement which was
Sp cillltoMichigan Ciliult The election la t Februa y upported by the poor,
WASH INOTON. DC -"Our of Ari/tede, popular priest gra sroot and forgotten sec-
pe op I e are hungry fo r pa r- and grassroot acti vis t, ended to rs 0 f the Ha i tian soci ety.
ttctpation: hungry for ju tice. three decade of brut I dic- Adrien returned to hi native
We have dearly paid the price t torial rule in the world's land in 1986 to help build that
for both with our blood." olde t republic. movement fter pending 16
That pa ionate m years in the United State a
wa delivered recently by ADRIEN, who i quick to an activist in the refugee up-
Father Antoine Adr i e n , a port community.
Ie der of the Haitian move- H · h t Haiti i hoping to increa e
ment which wept into power I e I 9 � cooperation with the U.S. on
a new government that, for drug interdiction and to cur-
t fl t ���,"j.,�.tt;ii����"�P4INI"�l;m������1j.���i number of H ilian
e u f1eein by bo to' e
U.S. ' I
"Since February 1990 not
one boat ha left Haitian
pte.
Adrien, a Catholic prie
and clo e adv isor to "Hai ti 's
new p re s i d e nt. Father Jean­
Betrand Aris tede, visi ted the
United States recently. He
conducted a serte of meet­
Ing with U.S. tate depart­
ment officials and member of
Congress to press his Ila tio n's
lack and White Methodi t
Bishop Con ider Mer-ger
by LARRY A. STILL
Sp.cilll to Michigan Ciliun
the African Methodist Epis­
copal (AME), the African
Methodi t Episcopal Zion
(AMEZ) alnd t he Chris t ian
Methodist Epi copal (CME)
churches approved a resol u­
lion req ue ti ng tha t the top
religious prelates "petition
thei ... re pective General Con­
ferences to authorize a study
comrnis ion for the purpose of
exploring pos ible merger,"
Nancye Willi of the United
Methodist News Service
reported.
"New form of relation­
ship , mi sional structures
and pos ible me rge r.e.In a
world torn by such evils as in­
ju tlce and racism" were cited
a goal of the study.
Representatives of the
predomi nantly whi t Uni ted
Methodist Church and three
major Bl ack Methodist
denominations have taken
definite steps to strengthen
their ties of common heri tage
by authorizing a joint com­
mission to study pos ible
union of all the churches, of­
ficial of, the denomination
announced recently.
Meeting at St. Simons is­
land, Ga., recently near a
memorial to John Wesley, the
founder of' American
methodism, approximately 30
bishops representing the UM,
The commission to be com­
posed 0 f fi ve represen tati ves
from each denomination,
"would be mandated to make
regular progre s reports to
each denomination and to
prepare a proposal for each
General Conference no, later
than 1996," Willis said.
THREE
OF
TH
denominations will meet in
1992 and the CMEs in 1994.
Two of the Black organiza­
tions, the AMEZs and the
CMEs have already agreed to
a merger. 'The AMEZ's have
about 1.2 million members
and the CMEs have 700,000.
The AMEs have approximate-_
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by MICHAEL SCHILLICl!TT
Investigation into the af­
fair at Muskegon Heights
Public Schools continue.
. Superintendent JoAnn
Robert has definitely been at
the "bow" of controver y.
After last ,month's
firebombing at her home,
Muskegon County Prosecutor
Tony D. Tague called the
State Police to inve tigate
fRobert's allegations of cor­
ruption in the heights school
district. All the di trict's
alaried employee files and.
hourly workers' time cards
arc being reviewed and ex­
amined.
State police with as i lance
from chool di trict offici Is
re doing 8 general weep.
Initial re earch has hown
that orne current employees
do not have the credential
normally required for the
postrions they hold.
It i unknown how soon the
investigation will conclude.
State Police Detective Sgt.
-Rlchard Griffith of the State
Police Post in Grand Haven
said "there were years of
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