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influx from neighboring ,
well second year of low
raiDfall, President Daniel Arap
Moi made Kenya' first ppeal
for intern tiona} food relief.
Untest in Ethiopia, Sudan and
SotnaJia has sent people
treaming into Kenya to eek
food and safety.
Whit
guard
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JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH
AFRICA - Louis van Schoor, a
white man who killed 39 BI cks
while working as a security
guard, w entenced last week
to 20 years in prison. He had
been convicted of murder in
seven of the cases. The shoot­
ings took place between 1986
and 1989, when van Schoor
was working as a security guard
for homes and businesses in the
coastal city of East London.
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K ping Clean" Keeping H althy - Children In Sierra Leone sing a song about. soap In a unique personal hygiene pro­
YI.3W developed by CARE, the wond's largest private relief and development 'Organization. In the program, called Child·
to·Chil:1, village children learn about washing their hands before meals then teach what they have learned to their
younger brothers and sisters. One out of every four children dies in Sierra Leone before reaching age 5, often from dlar­
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Ten-year $300 billion to "Save" Cities
• The foundation urged the Presi­
dent and Congress to increase
biapartisan support of "proven effec.
tive policies and programs to rescue
generations of at-risk youth, break
tbe cycle of violence, invest in
economic growth for low-income
neighborhoods, instill pride and re­
store safety through community­
oriented' policing on forgotten
streets," fund president Lynn A. Cur­
tis declared.
The foundation directors, police
mentors and youth members of suc­
cessful inner city projects in Boston,
Chicago, San Juan (Puerto Rico),
and in L.A. "Challengers Boys and
Girls Club" presented testimonials
for their projects through poetry,
dance, songs and tatements.
'The Challengers club has
launched a campaign to build a new
community building with the help of
Los Angeles Laker star Ervin
"Magic" Johnson and the Eisen­
bower Fund.
mE FOUNDATION is the
private sector continuation of the
Kerner Riot and Eisenhower
Violence commissions established
by President Lydon B. Johnson in the
late 1960's to address "inner city
violence, civil unrest, drug use, the
school drop-out rate and welfare de­
pendency."
Most of the recommendations of
the two group have never been im­
plemented because of lack of funds .
"The (proposed new) policy is
just common sense. It is based on
what works" Curtis declared. Unlike
those who claim that the nation lacks
the knowledge or ideas to save
today's youth and cities, the Eisen­
hower Foundation concluded' "we
know enough to act and can't afford
not to act, " said Curtis. "The issue is
not knowledge or money. The issue
is adequate political leadership and
political will from both parties," he
added.
By LARRY A STILL
Sp!CI!I to "/chi pm CitIZIIn
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A mayor,
private foundation, which supports
model youth gang training
programs in Los Angeles and several
other cities, is seeking to develop a
federall y aided $300 billion, the year
national plan "to break the cycle of
urban violence," officials announced
at a news conference here in the U.S.
Senate office following the latest
series of police-community riots.
Executives of the Milton S.
Eisenhower Foundation and former
members of the 1967 National Ad­
visory Commission on Civil Disor­
ders(Kemer Riot Commission)
unveiled a comprehensive, decade
long "investment plan to save the
inner cities" at the rate of $30 billion
a year, provided possibly by in­
creased gasoline taxes.
DENVER (AP) - White
America t ok i licks from b th
minoritie in th audien nd on th
panel during a televi ed "town
meeting" on raci m where the Rain­
bow Coalition picketed to prot t the
controversi 1 Bl c commentator
named moderator.
But Ed Sardella, news anchor for
one of the forum' ponsors, KUSA­
TV, erved th main moderator
during the 9O-minute live teleca t,
titled "Beyond Color."
Ken Hamblin, a conservative
new paper columni t and former
talk show host earlier named as
moderator, moved through the
audience with a microphone to give
I individuals a chance to air their
views.
Black members of the audience
heaped pointed critici m upon Israel.
the Vatican and the nation's educa­
tion system.
Colorado Ku Klux Klan leader
Shawn Slater was in the audience but
did not speak.
A MAN WHO identified him elf
as Joe Salazar. a tudent at the
University of Colorado at Boulder.
criticized organi;le for not includ­
ing a Native Amertean on the panel.
The recent riots in I.A$ Angeles,
sparked by the acquittal of three
white policemen accused of beating
Black motori t Rodney King. cast a
hadow over much of the meeting.
"We don't want love, we don't
want accommodation. We want jus­
tice. Take those officers who beat
Rodney King and put them in jail,"
one Black man in the audience said.
"What you need to understand is
this country is built on racism. From
the time this country was built it has
been shedding blood of anybody
who is not white. How you going to
tell me I got to (abide) by this sy -
tern," another young Black man
said.
Dr. Gwen Thomas, a Black
panelist and urban affairs specialist
from Metropolitan Stater College, ad­
dressed white members of the
audience she said might be feeling
uncomfortable with the comments.
"YOU DON'T have to wake up
each day and think about being
white. You can take it for granted,"
Thomas said. She said another gall­
ing aspect of American society for
people of color is that white people
take credit for everything of value.
Earlier, when a young Black man
began shouting from the audience,
he was drowned out by music and the
show cut to a commercial.
The young Black man attacked
the public school system, saying it
"teaches white supremacy. The
1I ••• another
galling
a pect of
American
ociety
for p ople
of color is
that white
people
take
credit for
everything
. of value. II
textbooks are white, mo t of the
people (at school) are white. Most of
the people you read about are
White."
And Black community activi t
Oamani Camera accused Sardella of
ignoring him becaus of hi race and
his attire.
PRIOR TO THE show, con­
troversy over Hambli ns role
prompted Chet Whye, president of
The Rainbow Coalition, to say the
group would picket the meeting at
Teikyo Loretto Heights University.
He called Hamblin a
"charbroiled David Duke" --and
the wrong person to serve as
moderator for a forum on racism.
Two Black panelists, Denver
District Attorney Norm Early and
Geri Grimes of the, Colorado Black
Roundtable, withdrew rather than
cross the picket line. KUSA- TV
found replacements for both.
"We don't have a problem with
Ken being there. His perspective is
so different we need to have him
there, but to have him as a facilitator,
a moderator. is what we're objecting .
to," Whye said.
"You wouldn't have: David Duke
moderating a show on the
Holocaust," he said, referring to the
former white upremacist who made
an unsuccessful bid for the presiden­
cy this year.
Hamblin. a well-known colum­
nist for The Denver Post and a
former KUVO radio talk how host,
said the, coalition and Black
roundtable have opposed his views
for years.
