Icolm
X' mor
op 0 Itlon
pi e Lee previe ed
mer Brother br his
3 h ur nd 20 minute com
pleted ver ion of the
widely nticip ted" 1-
colm X". .
VV rner Brother offi
ci I were left une y by
th 11m. Ho ever offi-
ci 1 e reluctant to di -
cu the movie or the
potenti 1 problem they
see the movie might
ca e.
art of VV rner
Br t er disputes re
cent red on the length of
the film swell s its cost.
. .c' M lcolm X' cost
bout $35 million while
'Bz man" Iso produced
by rner Brothers cost
mor than $100 million.
to its length, Lee r
gued 'JFK' ran for more
than three hours, so
should his film about the
BJ a' leader.
Black Coli ge
Black students at his
torically Black colleges
feel more comfortable
and get better grades than
th ir peers 'on
predominantly white cam
puse I a study shows.
A survey of 4,000
Black students on 16
public campuses found
that t eight historically
Bla schools, Black
student's grades averaged
2.60, UCLA sociologist
VValter Allen said.
By comparison, at eight
predominantly white
chools, Blacks averaged
2.43.
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WORLD NATION
to
report
Fir t African American Woman Into Space
Dr. Mae Jemison will earn the distinction as the first African
American woman in space with her flight aboard Endeavor Sept.
11, 1992. Dr. Jemison became an astronaut in 1987, She is tM only
female African American astronaut.
Guns do all the talking
. as anarchy reigns in
starving Somalia
BY GREG MYRE
ASSOCIA TED PRESS WRITER
�OGADISBU, Somalia (AP) - Three trucks loaded with 49 tons of
donated food were ready to roll out of Mogadishu's port, but gunmen
blocked the way.
The starving people of Somalia's capital would have to wait another
day. .
It seems only firearms can' guarantee a steady food supply in
Mogadishu, "where rival gangs with machine guns milled about just
outside the port gate, sizing up the convoy like lions on the prowl. It
was the second day they had blocked its movement.
This is anarchy. This is Somalia. .
The impoverished nation that forms Africa's eastern 'hom is an
ongoing riot of self-inflicted misery; descending into ever greater
chaos by the day.
With 1.5 million people facing starvation and no fun tioning .
government, Somalia cannot save itself. And belp from abroad i .
painfully slow in arriving.
"This is the worst place in the world nght now, t , said o mar Abdule,
an accountant before Somalia imploded with the overthrow 0 dictator
Mohammed Siad Barre in January 1991.
. "P�OPLE ARE STARVING in the desert and they are fighting
In the CIty. No one cares about us because we are a poor country," aid
Abdule, now a worker with the International Red Cro .
Somalia's crisi is a mix of Beirut's factional anarchy and
Ethiopia's devastating famine horrors that engulfed those areas in the
1980s.
Chaos reigns in the capital, where the crackle of guafire night and
day has become background music .. There is no police force or army.
The jail have been emptied, The telephone y tem has been des troyed.
Electricity is available only to a lucky few with generators. ,
See GUNS, A10
. t
BY RANDOLPH E SCH 10
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
W HINGTON (AP) _.!_ The
Veterans Department is -moving to
avoid another Agent Orange- type
problem by launching a program to
identify any unusual illne es in
people who served �. th� . Persian
"They have lot more nco- Nazi
inhe ds... the' most
violence-prone group in the hate
movement today .' M . Lowry
aid.
Seiters id the Ku Klux Klan
u ceeded in mating inro ds
into Germany.
He aid Klan representativ s last
year "made contact" with German
right-WIng extremi with the
intention of tting up branches in
thi country.
"Th re are signs that KK
group have been formed in om
DID OT Y
many membe the German
11 re th�ught to have. olice
inve tig ting KKK ctiviti in
Germany raided om 30 buil .
thi P t May, Seite 'd. He did
not di clo e the results of the
earches.
M. Lo ry id' 'm ny
countri , not just in Europe, are
experiencing this sort of problem."
"In Can d , they h ve <1
attemp by hate group leaders to go
in and organize there," Ms. Lowry
said. "For them to do that in
Canada is interesting. Canada .
very stringent hate law . Tbeydon't
have the protected peech we have
in the U.S. For them to go in there
and buck that ystem eems to y
they are very dete�"
"
veterans to join a health register to
help track any patterns of illness.
And a cross-check of Gulf vets
who have recently been treated by
VA do tors was begun today, be
aid.
service-related.
DERWINSKI Sf\ID be wa
surprised that issue went on 0 long
and was dete'rmined not to have a
repeat this time.
In 1991, after years of
controversy, the government
approved di bility payments fOI.
,l ? , �". ""."'f,,",,' ,..,,..., t
VETERANS, A10�
Th y gave birth to a democracy A system of
government bas d on human rights. Th arne
system ironically that now allows for million of
children to go without adequate health ar . Or
food. Or a decent pl t live.
Jt seems inconceivable that the condition'
would have lived up to our forebearers' id al f
liberty and justice for all. Who knows. Judgiu
by the tatistics, maybe that concept di with
them. Consider the following facts:
- On in five American childr n lives b I w th
official pov rty
�l. (The major
icy are from rural
and suburban
communities. )
- In immunizing
infants against
polio, the United
States ranks
behind sixteen
other nations.
- 28·nations �
lower infant mor
tality'rates than
the United States.
- Approximate1y
2.5 million Ameri
can chiklren we
reported abu d
or neglected in
the last y ar.
- An e timated
.5.5 million Am
erican children
don't regularly
get enrugh to eat.
Many of these
children tend not
to do as well in
chool. (You try
and concentrate
when )lOU haven't
eaten all d�) As
are ult, wh n
they � up, they're able to compete' r good
jobs. Which 1 ads to high r unemployment. And,
along with it, increased welfare and crime.
But believe it or not ther i some good n
in all of thi . We can do 80 thing about it; the
i a way to break this cycle. And it tart by
� a plan devised by the Children's Def n
FUnd. One that ensures ry Am rican chi)
a Healthy Start, a H ad tart and a Fair • t . t.
Kids can't vote But Yi u can.
h � He Start Children need basic health care
t grow into heal� productive adults. Yet many
families simply cannot aft'ord it. Congre has \d.ed
to xtend health care to all poor children by the
year 2002. But what about tJnJe who get sick in the
m antime? Clearly, thes children cannot wait
for basic health care.
� A 1:Iead Start Qualey Jl'esdxds, child care ard
Head Start programs � children a tremerxbls
boost in school. TOO president and Corwess�'
ha expre s d t up rt for the programs. Now
they must put
tMrnmeywhere
their mouths are.'
Only by getting
children ready
for school can we
begin to achieve
other national
education goals.
3. A Fair Start:
Poor children
need a leYeI ptq.
ing field to suc
ceed. Should we
be the on\y indus�
trialized nation
txt to ensure fam
ilies a minimum
. �l fi economic
secUl'icy? Vk can.
through jobs,
refundable tax
credits for fami
lies with children
and stro�r en
ircement ci chikI
support laws.
All told, these
investments will
prevent thou
sands of child
deaths and save
million of tax
pay r d llar in
lat r m dical, educati n an I w lfar ct.
W cannot afford t to m ilMWnenta.
For '92, must commit to' putting children
fir t. And, at th very guaran ey child
H althy tart, a Head Start and a Fair Start.
Because th wa.y to move our nation ahead
i t k pour childr n from falling behind.
Join ow campaign to Lea No hild Behind.
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