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A Cree Indian chief
from Quebec's sub-Artie
, , : came to New York city last
week to urge that state to
. cancel hugh contracts for
hydroelectricity that would
be generated on his native
land, flooding traditional
, - hunting and fishing
grounds - "eating away at
the soul of my people."
:. New York officials
, =strongly suggested to Mat
.. :thew Coon Come, the
'·:grand chief of Quebec
:'Crees, that they favored
: moving ahead with the pur-
: chase.
Ten e calm
.
:. eturh to
�Z \r
• A week after violence
broke out across Zaire, the
guns are silent but tensions
1'emain high as the new
: coalition government of
• Etienne Tshisekedi tenta
: tively takes control.
:. The question of how
much power Tshisekedi
can actually wield is
paramount. The 26-year
long hold of dictator Presi
dent Mobutu Sese Seko is
the source of the tension.
Will Mobutu share
power as he agreed ,in
order to stop the looting
and violence that swept the
country?
Under the power-shar
ing arrangement, Mobutu
remains head of state,
while Tshisekedi is to form
a new coalition govern
ment. Tshisekedi, 59, told
· reporters he expectes to be
· in-charge of all sectors of
the government, including
the armed forces. Few ex
pect Mobutu to simply
relinquish power without a
potentially bitter fight.
· Ju�ge finds
bla In prison
Black and Hispanic in-,
mates at a state prison in
" " Elmira, New York, have
� � been regularly dis-
. - ," criminated' against in dis
cipline, job assignments
and housing, a Federal
judge ruled last week. -
Prison officials violated
the constitutional rights of .
, minority inmates, Judge
, I' David G. Larimer ruled.
,- - .• He ordered officials to
, . meet with an inmates' ad-
r <vocacy group within 30
days to begin planning ways
, to remedy the discrimina
, tion.
A lawyer for the inmates
, ' said Blacks and Hispanics
. were punished twice as
often as whites, meaning
they have tc wait longer for
, parole. ' .
Eighty percent of New
, York's inmates are Black
, or Hispanic.
The class action uit was
filed by the Prisoner
Rights Project of the New
'York Legal Aid Society,
who said the ruling sets a
precedent for across the
country.
WORLD AND NATION
ho ehol
AFRICAN GUESTS VISIT THE MARTIN LUTHER KING CENTER- (I-r) Chief Kayode Ogunmekan;
Mrs. MuS&, Mrs. Inna Adamu, om missioner Martin Luther King III, welcome Nigerian guests to the Kina
Center; AJhajl Hassan Adamu, Mrs. Bisl Ogunmekan and Dr. Ronald Qunle)" Director, Martin Luther King
Center.
Mand·ela calls for ANC to
support outside Black community
BY SAHM VENTER
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Hance with the South African
Communist Party and its
.Jongst anding support for
nationalizing some sectors of the
economy.
1 n a speech Friday night,
Mandela said the group was will
ing to consider alternatives but
still believed nationalization of
mines and some other industries
would be necessary.
"If you are able to give us an
alternative option we will reject
nationalization," he said at a din
ner attended by business leaders
and academics.
He said some form of state
intervention appeared to be the
only way to address the
economic inequalities that have
, resulted from apartheid. ·
and diamonds, and mining is the
nation's largest industry.
In other developments, police
said one man was killed in politi
cal unrest. Assailants hack-ed
and stabbed the victim on Friday
in Natal province, scene of fre
quent fighting between sup
porters of the ANC and the
Inkatha Freedom Party.
Both groups oppose apart
heid; but have deep tribal and
ideological differences.
Violence between their sup
porters has continued, despite a
national peace pact signed Sept.
14 .
Inkatha leaders on Saturday
reiterated their commitment to
the accord and said training
manuals aimed at negotiating
peacefully with opponents would
be prepared for Inkatha mem
bers.
1
p
Richardson, a i tant vice presi
dent for cultur I diver ity. "He
has been extremely ucce ful in
his career as a phy ician, yet he
is a humble and caring per on:'
On July 19, 1965, Holmes
entered previously all-white Mis
sissippi State the second summer
term. Then a 21-year-old pre
medicine major, he. transferred,
from Wiley College in Texas .
After receiving hi under
graduate degree, Holme got a
master's degree and doctorate in
microbiology and nutrition at
Mississippi State before being
accepted into Michigan State
University's medical college,
where earned his degree in 1977.
Holmes completed his inter
nship at the University of
Alabama's College of Com
munity Health Sciences in Tus
caloosa and his residency at St.
Vincent Hospital in Toledo,
Ohio .
He is the recipient of the
American Medical Association's
Physician' Recognition Award
and a three- time recipient of the
American Academy of Family
Practice's teaching award.
A major in the Army Reserve
medical corps, he served in
Saudi Arabia earlier this year.
11 BlackS killed in fighting; _
anti-apartheid leader killed
BYGREGMYRE
fighting erupted at a workers'
hostel Saturday night between
"different ethnic groups." It said
the violence was not related to a
recent strike that had caused
earlier violence, though the
labor problems have political
overtones between Black fac
tions.
W orkers at the mine walked
off the job in July, and eight
Blacks were killed last month in
a battle between striking and
non-striking workers. The strike
was settled Wednesday when
workers accepted a 16 percent
pay hike. .
THE COMPANY described
the situation as quiet but tense.
General Mining Corp. owns
five platinum mines in the
Bophuthatswana homeland and
is the world's second largest
producer of platinum.
There has been a longstand
ingdispute between the African
National Congress and Lucas
Mangope , the conservative
president of the nominally inde-
pendent homeland.
, The workers- who were on
strike want to be repre ented by
the National Union of'
Mineworkers. The union is
aligned with the ANC, South
�frica's leading Black opposi
tion movement.
But Mangope' government,
a frequent critic of the ANC, ha
refused to recognize the union.
SOUTH AFRICA is the
world's largest' producer of gold
ppl
e t Germ ny, ttl ure
percent. But in t U.S. nd
t picture w m edly di erent:
only 12.5 percent-one out 0
ei h -moved out of poverty in
y r.
1bere ere
in Ion - rm po rty. Over three
y r period in th mid-I , vir
tu Uy all p or f milies In We t
Germ ny, Luxembourg, nd the
ethert ped from poverty.
In the U.S., one out of seven poor
faroili yed poor throughout the
period. JO
The earche ttributed the dent Eddie Willi
differences between countri in the only a problem t t can
ith children, t it tion w even rat d duration of poverty to v t i one we m t find the ill lve."
bl r. Aim t 40 percent of the difference in government response The Joint Cen r for Political and
ho eholds in th U.S. were poor. In to it. The tudy reports on a variety Economic Studie i a nonprofit
Can d , the corre ponding figure of European programs de igned to public policy earch Institution
ne rly 30 percent, nd in the founded in 1970 that fOCUlCl on is-
U.K. one quarter of young help ne entran into the labor ues of p rticular importance for
ho eholds with children i poor. By market, to provide critical upport Black America . Support fori Ia
cont t, the figu in W t Ger- for famili in need, and to help en- temational poverty project comes for
many, th Netherlands, France, and ure for f: mill an adequate livin The Rockefeller Foundation, the
tandard. Says McFate, "Govern- -
Sweden were 18.8, 13.1, 9.1 and 5.3 ment policl can and do mea Carl Stewart Mott Foundation, the
percent, re pectively. difference. Americans seem to have R�ll Sage Foundation, � other
� Poor f mili in the U.S. were adopted the view that poverty' an JOint Center donors.
more likely to tay poor for long .
period than the poor in other _1_n_tra_c_ta_b_l_e_p_���_m���t_d_efi_����lU_-�������������
countries. In the Netherlands, nearly
45 percent of poor families over- M I
came poverty after only one year. In S
France, Luxembour , Ireland, and tat
Tuesday. from class to cl and barged
The dean .of the Arts Fac�lty, into lecture halls, chanting and
John Cartwright, .suffered shght 'shouting at students. They
leg burns when his pants caught danced on desks and wrote
fire as he tried to kick a flaming "war" on the chalkboard and'
tire away from a.barr.icade. sprayed other students' with
About 300 university workers, water and foam from fire
mostly main�enance personnel, hydrants.
w�nt .on str ike Tuesday, aft.er University dministrators say
rejecting a 13.5 �er�ent pay �n- they recognize the workers' right
crease. South Africa s anaual in- to strike and that of student to
nation rat� is 1? percent. support them.
The umversity call.ed off clas- "But nobody is entitled to u e
ses Wedne.sday amid student violence or coercion to stop
threats to disrupt �hem.. other from working or others
Thursday mo(n�ng, t�e Black from studying," said the
s�udents erected burning bar- university'S principal and vice
ricades at most entrances to .
campus, overturned garbage The univer ity is considered
cans and marched across the one ofthe be t in the country and
university grounds singing ha about 14,000 students.
protest songs.
About 100 Black tudents ran
CAPE TOWN, South Africa -
The African National Congress
must woo supporters from out
side the Black community in
order to successfully challenge
the ruling National Party, ANC
President Nelson Mandela said
Saturday.
Speaking at a regional ANC
conference, Mandela said the
National Party is bettor or
ganized and is recruiting mem
bers from the Indian and
colored, or mixed-race, com
munities. The traditionally white
party opened to all races one
,year ago.
Mandela said the ANC, con
sidered the leading black opposi
tion group, must eliminate
internal conflicts and work to
gain support among non-Blacks
in order to win national elec
tions.
For the past 18 months, the
ANC and de Klerk's government
have held talks aimed at setting
up multiparty negotiations on a
new constitution to end white
minority rule .
The ANC wants free elections
that include the nation's 30 mil
lion Black majority. De Klerk,
who has p shed for reforms
aimed at dismantling apartheid,
seeks a system that would keep
some power for the nation's 5
million whites.
Black
tudent try
to hut down
unlver ity
BY SAHM VENTER
ASSOCIATED PltESS WRITER
CAPE TOWN, South Africa
(AP) - Black students at one of
the nation's most prestigious
universities disrupted classes
and set up burning barricades
Thursday in support of a striking
maintenance workers.
But the protesters at the
predominantly white University
of Cape Town were unable to
close down the school as they did
Wednesday in a show of support
for the workers, who struck
honoring
fir t Black
graduate
STARKVILLE, Miss, (AP) - Dr.
Richard E. Holmes, a Birmin
gham, Ala., physician, will be
honored Oct. 16 when Mississip
pi State ren mes the school's
Cultural Diversity Center in his
honor.
Holmes was the first Black to
enter and graduate from Missis
ippi State.
Born in Chicago and reared
in Starkville, the 47-yeer-old
Holmes is an emergency room
physician in Decatur, Ala.
A complete schedule of the
day's events will be announced
. later.
The center, formerly the Of
fice of Minority Affairs, changed
its name and location last year to
. accommodate more programs
and activities.
"Dr. Holmes is obviously an
excellent role model for all stu
dents," said Brenda J.
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
JOHANNESBURG. South
Africa - More fighting between
Black workers at a platinum
mine in the homeland of
Bophuthatswana left 11 dead
and 26'injured, officials said, and
an anti-apartheid leader was
killed Sept. 30 in a Black
township.
The fighting Saturday night
near the Impala Bafokeng North
Platinum Mine, northwest of
Johannesburg, marked one of
the worst clashes since the
government and leading Black
groups signed a peace accord
Sept. 14.
, Black factional fighting has
claimed more than 6,000 black
lives in the past five years and has
delayed negotiations between
black groups and President F.W.
de Klerk on a new constitution to
end apartheid.
The General Mining Corp.,
owners of the mine, said the
THE ANC WANTS . the
homeland reincorporated into
South Africa, but Mangope says
he intend to maintain hia inde
pendence, which is Dot recog
nized by any other country.'
In a eparate incident, Sam
Ntuli, leader of an anti-apartheid
coalition, was shot and killed
Sunday in Tokoza, .
UNDER THE current con
stitution, which prohibits Blacks
from voting, a national election
must be held by 1994.
Conservative whites and bu i
ness leaders fear the ANC's al-