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. J ·MICIDGAN CITIZEN Published Each Sunday By New Day Enterprl e 12541 Second Street P.O. Box 03560 Highland Park, MI 48203 (313) 889-0033 FAX (313) 889'()430 Benton Harbor Bureau 175 Main Street Benton Harbor, MI 49022 (616) 927-1527 FAX (313) 927·2023 Publlaher: Charles D. 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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 SS694. 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 New � NY 10010 Santa Ana CA 92702 (212) 68l-1161 1n4) 953-8576 DodDn IordIn USA) 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 Somalia Relief: �n'ist DMIopment & k . I f tn3550 WIrtd Cone"" PO Box 33(0) Se 98133 (2061 S46-7201 lief, ,