Only light
Improvem nt for
Black In key te t
PRINC TON NJ-African
American students last year
continued to how slight im
provement on what is generally
considered the nation's most
important tandardized test.
1be combined verbal and math
scores of Black students on the
Scholastic Aptitude Test rose
by one point last year to 737.
But, the slight rise continued
a is-year increase in Black
scores. Nevertheless., the
average combined score among
Blacks still ignificantly trails .
t avera ICO
among whi studen of 933.
The comparable figure for
Asian-Americans was 94S and
816 for Hispanics. Tbe SAT is
normally taken by students at
tempting to get into the nation's
COlleges and universities.
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WORLD NATION
P BOlD ITY,
malnutrition and I of education m y I d
to more evere p ychic di orde . Hai ., onI Y
public p ychi tric ho pit I treated 3,720
people I t month, double the 1,869 p tien
in Au t 1991.
R chel Kajo , director of Defilee de
Beudet P ychi tric H pital, . d children
d begun howing up for the first time.
Marotte, the p ychologist, said: CCI have been
told th t Haiti i not Somalia.
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By CLARE NULLIS
MMJcMt«i P,.... Writ.,
GENEVA (AP)- Devastated by is
years of civil war and a relentless
drought, Mozambique i in danger of
becoming a econd Somalia a U.N.
official said Tue day.
Drought and warfare in Somalia
already have killed more than
,000 op . ted
tions e timates 2 million more will
die unless 0 is deli red oon.
• cc We-n warn e world t a(-
the situation is extremely erious and
worsening every day," Charle
Larnuniere, Geneva head of the U.N.
humanitarian affairs department,
said of Mozambique.
Lamuniere said the plight of
civilians in Malawi was also
desperate, while the situation in the
rest of rain-parched south rn African
nations was deteriorating rapidly.
However, the South African
Development Community, a
regional group of 10 nation , main- .
tains there is no imminent danger of
a disaster like that in Somalia. While
the situation in war-ravaged Mozam
biqu is erious, few people in other
nations in th region are in imminent
dangerof tarvation, the governmen
tal agency aid in recent reports.
In an ominous parallel to the be
lated international response to the
crisis in Somalia, Larnuniere aid th
world wa doing far too little to stem
the looming emergency in outhem
Africa.
y
U
,
y
because outhern nations --now im
porting about 1.8 million tons of
food per month _ normally provide
food for the famine-prone countries
to the north like Ethiopia and Sudan.
Lamuniere aid Mozambique
wa the harde t hit and could become
"the Somalia of tomorrow." He aid
it was impos ible to e timate the
number of people killed b drou ht
and .
a full cease-fire Oct. 1, armed attacks
continue. The fact that civil war has
left mo t of the roads in ruins makes
the relief effort even more difficult.
He warned of a likely upsurge in .
people fleeing the country, many on
the verge of death. Of the population
of about is million, about 1.S million
are refugees and 2 million are dis
placed.
I I
"The numbers of malnourished
children are increasing sub tantial
ly," the report said.
In Angola, the ravages of civil
war and drought have combined with
the return of refugees and mass
demobilization of troops to over
whelm the government's meager
resources, the report said.
-v • q E,lse� e I • port said an es-
timated 600, people Jl • a
urgently need food. .
. am& we, the national
cattle herd, which stood at 4.4 mil
lion in 1991, was expected to be half
that by the end of 1992.
H AID THAT al thou h
governmen had J!!omi about
SS6<Jml non towaro8n appeal f�rM""''''''''_''''
$8S8 miltion, only about one-fifth of Even though the government and
that has been sent. The appeal, rebels reached a tentative peace
launched in June, covers 10 outhern agreement last month and are to ign
African nations ravaged by an un-
precedented drought.
Lamuniere said at a news con
ference that although food aid was
slowly arriving, offers of help with
water and medical care were inade
quate. A U.N. report aid that even
if rain arrived, lack of eed and
other farm supplies would drastical
ly cut next sea on's harvest. It
predicted that dependence on emer
gency food import would continue
until at lea t June 1 <>94.
The drought i e. pecially serious
Children of city
violence suffer more
than children of war
By SARAH NORDGREN
A .. oc/at«i Pr ... Writ.,
CHI AGO-Children carry the
s�rs of war long after the fighting
ends, but tho e rai ed in the
chronic violence of America's
inner cities fare even worse, a
child development expert says.
T, e uncertain but constant
threat of violence in ., urban war
zones" can be devastating, the
psychologist said at an interna
tional meeting on infant mental
health. "In war ... you know who
the enemy is, there i orne
prospect for peace, and you tend to
have more complete families ...
facing the trauma together," aid
psychologist James Garbarino,
president of Chicago' Erickson
Institute for Advanced Study in
Child Development.
"Children in chronic com
munity violence in the United
State' urban war zone tend to
come out on the hort end on mo t
of tho e dimensions,' Garbarino
told The World ociati n for In
fant Mental Health. Th group'
conferen c nclud unday.
Garbarino a child develop
ment expert who visited Kuwait in
March 1991 on behalf of UNICEF,
has al 0 studied the effects of
chronic violence in the United
States. Israeli p ychologtst
Rachel Levy-Scm . tudied th ef-
fects of the Persian Gulf War on
children under the age of 3.
�'WEWEREV RY urpri ed
to ee the extent to which these
young children were affected by
the war," said Levy-Schiff, who
tudied 99 mothers and their
children.
She said 78 percent of the
children showed stress reactions
during the war, including distur
bances in leep and eating pat
terns, sensi tivi ty to loud noi e, and
physical problems such as
tomach aches and v miting.
While many of the symptoms
di appeared after about six
months, ome children continued
to have trouble leeping and noise
en itivity, much like victim of
po t-traumatic stres di order, he
aid. Garabino aid children who
live in dangerous place need
." adul ts in their lives, who can help
them feel safe, help them interpret
the experience."
He aid ciety must change to
h Ip children lead etter lives.
.. W hay a lot 0 v ry frightening
and fright ned kid ut there ., he
aid.
" As long we just re pond to
the frightening, we will just have
more pri ons ... Or we could recog
nize that th e frightening kid are
Iso fri hten d and begin to
pond to their needs."
ONLY ABOUT 13 percent of the
promi ed food aid has arrived, ac
cording to U.N. figure.
The Children of Somalia
Need Your Help Now
One out of every four children in Soma
lia may have already perished of starvation
and hunger-related illnesses since the be
ginning of the civil war. These young
victims are dying in silence.
At least 1.5 million' people face ·the threat of starvation.
US humanitarian agencies must deliver food and medical
upplies now. Those brave relief workers who have been feed
ing and providing medical care to the starving have received
little upport to date. American private donations for relief to
omalia total less than 3°k, of the amount which went to
Ethiopia in 1984/85.
The private voluntary agencies listed below must receive
more support to pay for the transportation, relief personnel
and medical upplies that are needed � the Somalian people
today. Thes volunt�ry agencies are essential to distributing
the food being airlifted, and to providing medical care and
supplemental feeding of infants and voun children in Somalia,
a w II a in the refugee camps to which hundreds of
thousand have fled. Your support is needed to help save live .
'vVe call on all Americans to give today, while there is
till time. The following agencies pledge to see that your
donations are used where they will do the most good.
Amtric.., IfwM YtbrId CONC£IN/AmericJ
Service 2024 N. Broadway
15 � 261h Street 91h Floor PO Box 1790
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(212) 68l-1161 1n4) 953-8576
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30 P.ockefel� PIau Ism
- New M NY 10112
(212) 649-5961
One child dies every minute in Somalia.
Ple.ase don't let the children's cry go unanswered. Send your tax-deductib/e check to any of the age1lcies listed be/ON, earmarked for
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