,
J
communi t
countrie, id Ron ld
Re n reported in The
Europe n.
Re an urged We tern
bu ine t offer "inve t­
ment, tr ining nd techni­
cal a i t nee on m ive
. c 1 to dev lop function­
ing m rket economie ."
This, the former pre i­
dent said, will be of "vital
importance to providing
hope for the younger
gen r lion who ri k find­
ing them elve un­
employed, un killed and
unwanted."
Reagan did not explain
why he didn't have that
same concern for innercity
youth of America.
Race hate
thrive In
Germany
The worst racist
brutality since the Nazi era
continued to plague Ger­
many for the fourth con­
. ccutivc week, bringing the
total number of attack
against foreigners to well
over 600 since the begin­
ning of the year. Police
raided flats in 12 cast
German cities la t week
seizing caches of weapons
and piles of banned Nazi
propaganda materiaL
Xenophobia is also
spreading in Czechos­
lovakia where skinheads
screaming: "Czechos­
lovakia for the Czechs" as­
saulted gypsic and other
foreigners living in the
country. Most of the at­
tackers were young un­
employed thugs, said to be
suffering from "social dis­
location."
Racial tensions fester in
Sweden, Poland and
France as well.
In France, a former .
junior ininister and the de­
scendent of an aristocratic
emigre Polish family,
described France as a
country "occupied" by im­
migrants equivalent in
strength to 100 army
divisions.
He said, unless right­
wing parities united, the
country would turn into a
"socialist African
boulevard given over to.
anarchy," according to
reports.
01 covery of
3,000
year-Old
pyramid
A team of German and
Swiss archeologists are
slowly expo ing the
remains of a 3000-year-old
pyramid buried and un­
known under the sands of
Egypt.
With a commanding
view over the ancient
temples of Karnak across
the Nile, the pyramid -
about the size of a large
house-lies on a hillside
near the Valley of the
Kings at Luxor. It is the
tomb of the Parenefer, high
priest during the reign of
King Tutankhamen, who
died at the age of 18 in 1352
BC.
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rectly from the government, but fran
individuals connected with institu­
tions in South Africa," Mocwnbi .
at W hington pres briefing.
The Foreign Minister also sug­
gested that upport in the U.S. is
being provided to RENAMO by ul­
tra-conservatives uch the Heri-.
tage Foundation and the World.
Communist League. .
''These groups C<X11>1etely out·
of date," noted Mocwnbi. "They do­
not realize that the cold is ovee..
There is a new order."
The talks between the Govem-'
ment and RENAMO were being.
conducted in Rome under the me-.
diation of the Italian Gov t:
and the Catholic Church. ,
Despite the igning of a partial,
cease-fire agreement in December
1991, RENAMO violated the accord
and attacked Mozmnbique's railways.
six months later.
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. W shington - Th influence
ielded by the United St t the
m [or orld power can be put to the
ic of peace on behalf of coun­
try racked by nearly two dec d s of
w , de th and d abiliz tiona
Th t th vi expressed by
P co Mocurnbi, foreign minister
of Mozambique, southern African
country which h been eeking to
negotiate peace for nearly two years.
Th two patti , th Mozambique
Government and th Mozambique
Resistance Movement (RENAMO),
returned to conference table in
e.ly October for the venth time
since July 1990.
"We hope the U.S. can use its
influence to help speed up the proc­
ess," . d Mocwnbi during a recent
visit. He reportedly reiterated that
point during a meeting with Assis­
tant Secretary of State for Afric
Herman Cohen, urging the Admini­
stration to pply pressure on U.S.
and South African b ckers of RE­
NAMO.
Th w' by RENAMO, formed
in the mid 1970 by form colonial
powers of Zimbabwe and the South
African military establishment, has
reportedly taken more than one mil­
lion lives and caused more than $15
billion in dlmage to the Mozam­
bique infrastructure.
IN 1984, the South African gov­
ernment igned an agreement pledg­
ing to cease all support to RENAMO
which is blamed for committing
grotesque mutilation and torture of
innocent peasants.
"Ow- intelligence sources tell us
that there is still support coming
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WaYne State Universitv's Pan­
African Student Union (PASU) has
started a Pan-Afric. Research and
Documentation Project (PARDP)
in order to fill the current gap
related to serious and substantive
research and documentation ef­
forts related to African and Afri­
can-American Studies.
THIS PROJECf will be
headed by Robert L. Norfolk, Jr.,
who is the current editor of the
Pambana Journal, a publication
on Pan-African affairs which was
founded in 1984.
According to the project state:
ment: "Over the years since the
founding of P ASU, we have accu­
mulated a tremendous amount of
educational materials related to
African and African-American
affairs. As of the present time pe­
riod, we possess appoxirnately 5,000
documents including books, rare
newspapers, audiotapes, videotapes,
films, unpublished papers and inter-­
views by scholars and ctivists, rare
journals and other primwy source
material."
The project will hold an open
seminar in February of 1992 in order
to announce its program in more
detail. This effort will include the '
publication of the on-going "Pan­
Africanism: The Contemporary
Struggle," lecture series taking place
at WSU. In addition, the publication
of numerous conference and forum
proceeding will be forthcoming.
areas are: .
- African-Americans and the
Contempnry Crisis in Education;
- African Development and
the Changing World Economy;
- Women and Development
in Africa and Diaspora, and
, - Pan-Africanism: 'A Politi- .
cal History.
THOSE SEEKING more in­
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following ddress:
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