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honor?
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D vid Du e will ddre Lin-
coln 0 y Celebr lion in Ark
ponsored by the Republican Com
mittee. Duke, a Republican legis
lator, bernatorial candidate in
Louisiana, and former Ku Klux
Klan grand wizard . d to be
more likely gu t of dishonor.
The GOP chairman ays, "This
doe not, in any way, reflect the
Ark ns Republican Party, and
I'm emb rassed that thi has to
happen,".
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W hin ton ed in corner
bac M rtin Mayhew recently
returned from vi it to drought-
tri en re of Senegal nd
M lit with a new per pective of
Africa.
Mayhew, who erves a a
volunteer in the Wa hington. DC
headqu rter of Africare. a
development org nization
which specialize in Africa.
tr veled to the continent to get
"first-hand" look at orne of the
organization' projec .
"Before I went to Africa, I
w Africans as needy," aid
Mayhew. "Now I ee them as
intelligent, hard-workin
people. Like people in America,
they sometime have trouble
maki ng end meet. "
May hew, a thi rd eye r pro
from Florida State who led the
Red kin with even intercep
tions last season, recently made
a ub tantial donation to
Africare. , .
In 1987, when Warren Mc-
Clesky, a Black death row inmate
in Geor' peti· Oiled e Supteme
Court, he argued his capital sen
tence hould be overturned be
cause of the race of his white victim.
He said this played an important
role in his sentencing. His claim by CAROLYN WARFIELD
wa rejected. The court did not _C_o_rn_sp_o_n_d_enl _
agree "he received the death sen- DETROIT - "This is not a
tence because, and only because, world for children. Every day
his victim was white." . 40,000 children die of diseases
McClesky petitioned again last from hungar," said Dr. Ge.orge
week to the Supreme Court. This Waldo a Harvard University
time he sought to have his convic- Nobel Prize recepient. Speak-
ing on the subject "Towards a
tion reviewed on the ground that Better World for Children: Dis-
his constitutional right to' counsel arm to End Third World Debt,"
had been violated when the police at the 17th Annual Third World
used a jailhouse informer to obtain Conference held recently at the
information. Westin Hotel.
In the studies done it does not Wald' stressed that "every
child should be in our care. The
100 like McCIesky wu the only chronically hungry are taken for
one not' treated f*ly. In fact, of granted a the first world ex
the 144 executions since the 1976 ploi ts global neighbors for hard
r e inst tement of the death currency to initiate its policies
penalty, not wone white person while 72 percent live near
was executed for killing a poverty."
Black person. Also, in those "The 6 to 1 kill ratio became.
144 killings, 86% of the victims another reali ty in the Persian
were white, although roughly Oulf War," Wald said.
half of all murder victims are RENAMO's destabilization
BI ck. tactics in Zimbabwe, Angola
and Mozambique have hit South
-Africa, though it is propagated,
as "Black on Black" violence,"
Wald noted.
"Thi rd world debt increases
,$60 billion annually. Once in
'debted, developing nations 'are
told they cannot participate in
the world's re ources. So they
are driven off the land and
replaced by migrants or technol
ogy."
"America i ignoble," Wald
said. "Since 1895, America has
favored dictatorships while talk
ing democracy. A new defini
tion of Thi rd World
development must become
reality. "
Mor POW r for
Polle In Pur ult
,The Supreme Court
strengthened the authority of
police, ruling that law enforcement
officers may chase suspects without
reason to arrest them and may use
items discarded during the pur uit
as evidence of guilt.
By a 7-2 vote, the justices
decreed that the constitutional
protection of unreasonable search
and seizure does not begin until a
person is subjected to physical
force or submits to an officers
"show of authority".
Cop d mot d fter
King bating
A C Iifornia Highway Patrol
lieutenant has been recommended
for demotion and a captain and ser
geant who 'work with him for
uspension without pay for failing
to investigate the March 3 beating
of Rodney King quickly enough.
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L tar
HE OW HOPE to mobi
lize other members of the
Red kin ,player from N tional
Football Le gue team, well
a other athlete nd enter
t ine rs, to upport relietf and
development activities in
Africa.
Afric re , which provides
technical and materi I support
to more than 300 project in
rural Africa, i also working to
educate people here about
Africa and African development
i ues.
The trip, aid M yb w,
changed hi life: "I have b
forced to re-think some of
own val ues and, in some w
my perspective on life.
"It's such a-rat race here-get
this car, buy lhi hou e. Over
there, you ee people working
hard, not to get material things.
but to improve 'their everyday
lives."
Conference e
of lopsided world
ON LEAVE from the Univer-
ity of Michigan, Dr. Ali A.
Muzuri, an Albert Schweitzer
Profe or in the Humanities at
State University in New York,
keynoted the Conference speak
ing on "The Co t Benefit
Analysis of Third World
Developm.ent ver us Eastern
European Democracy."
"Africa and Third World
countrie are cau es of momen
tum in the European world," he
aid. "Freedom fighter caused
poli tical tructures to change.
These role models relea ed
feuda'll m and empire for elf-
sufficiency. "
"Hist al crutiny bear wit
ness to A. eria and France from
1954 to 1962. The use of
Tunisian military bases by Mo -
lem Algerian nationals strained
France's relationship with
Tunisia. The uprising drew the
French Army into Algeria.
Protest by French officer.
against the war's po li ti cal
leader hip lead to events. that
put de Gaulle in power," Muzuti
said.
"Each freedom revolt caused
European imperiali m to be un
dermined. Angola's cry for
freedom from colonial master
ta in the 1950's and inten-
sified b volt in'196l. The
Portuguese government was
overthrown in 1974, Muzuri
said.
"The past several years of un
eq ua I de mocra tic exchange
proves that eastern Europe is
less willing to end Third World
oppression, therefore, intolerant
of liberation effort. Europe
needs a fundamental change in
its attitudes and values.' They
have a debt to repay if-they want
to build a better temple," the
African scholar said,
THE CONFERENCE drew
dignitaries and academics from
around the world: Africa, the
'Caribbean, Central and South
America, the United Kingdom,
Finland, Poland, India, the
Orient and Soviet Uni n were
represented. ' ,
Attendance' peaked near
1,000 during the three days
which included .s cho lars hlp
recipients from 20 high schools,
An Inter-national Art and
Cultural Fe tival showca e d
regional and culturally diver e ,
talent.
The City of Detroit, College
of Life Long Learning at Wayne
State Univer ity and The Third
World Conference Foundation
spon ored the Conference which
toru ed on geopolitical i ue
that challenge mankind a' it
face the 21 t century ..
The Third World Conference
Found tion, based in Chicago, i
the oldest independent, non
profit re e rch and educational
forum focu ing it, attention on
per pecuves and olution for
.cbange in in developing nations.
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Part one: The Land Probl m
W bin ton ) I e on Afri a
Special to Michigan Citizen
Zimbabwe, one of Africa'
newest nation , closeu its tenth
year of independen e on April
18th. The co un try ha had a
myriad of 'U e but to date
h been unable to ati fy the
most ba ic dem nd of the Zim
babwean peopl : the demand for
nd.
A qui k review of tati tic
ndicate cl e rl that one of the
main oal f Zimbabwe' long
and b lo o d war for inde-
p e nd e n -lhe " hirnuran
War" a It I P pularly known
still ha n t been met. Of th
162,000 Black, Iarnilie in need
of land at th war ' end in 1979,
only 52,00 have been resettled.
Zimbabwc s war, which
began in 1 6 was �ought
ai t a wl\i . ority r
who had C ia Iistted an apart-
heid-lik y t m. The war,
fought largely throughout the
Zimbabwean country ide wa
charact rizcd by indi criminate
bombing, brutal au ck on the
civilian population, and collec
tive puni hment of civili n
through confi cation of land,
property and good .
The co t of the w r were hor
rendou: an e timated 40,000
dad, . nd incalcul ble environ ..
mental damage from bombing
large areas of the fragile gra y
countryside. But despite the ter
rible costs to the people and the
country, it may be a decade or
more before land redistribution
is successfully completed.
THE PRINCIPAL con tr int
to fair land distribution resulted
from the Lancaster Hou e Agree
ment-the cease-fire and peace
. greement ending the war. The :
arran ement impo cd ten year
mor urn restrictin the
my experience in"
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r
government from eizing farm .
or ot er property. Purch ea.
only llowed on "illing ,
eller/willing buyer" basis. .
. The Agreement ha expired:
nd fter much deb te tbe Zim-:
vernment p ed a'
con titution I amendment that:
How t em to "identify" land:
and pya fair price for it. The:
fi t priority ill be unutilized·
I nd. The law ha raised con-:
cern for ome white landholders:
who fear confiscation or inade-·
quate payment.
According to a spokesperson:
for the Emb ssy of Zimbabwe,:
the mechanics of the law re still
being worked out and no land bas:
been purcha ed using it. But'
perhaps thi new cbange repre-;
sents the first real tep 'of hope,
for the remaining 110,000 Black:
families still waiting to realize'
tbe ,drea� of land ownership-.\}
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They ay things are changing in South Africa. But
30 million black people are still denied the right to
vote because of the color of their skin.
Now President Bu h i talking about rewarding
the Pretoria government
by lifting anction.
Nelon Mandela says we
should maintain
nctions until he and all
South African have the
right to vote.
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