WORLD NATION
HA 0 - The
outh African police p
pointed i first non- hi
eoe try whi
domination of the force and
improve relation with
Blacks.
Cot O'ivoir
ABIDJAN - The United
tio IXI United S
are pulling DOn- ential
taff out of the Uberian
capital Monrovia. which
under i most serio rebel
for two YeaJS, U.N.
and emb urcea said.
ABIDJAN - Senior aides
of Liberian rebel leader
Charles Taylor were di
vided over a cemefire order
by West African leader,
and reacted ngrily to
threatened anctions.
Mozambique
MAPUTO - The Mozam
bican government accused
the cppostticn Renamo
movement of serio viola
tions -of a peace pact aimed
at ending 16 years of civil
war.
., I f
ca s rue a Imllmalrk
deal with once�ltter�foet"
Tanzania on producing
electricity from eoal, offi
cials said.
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Patrolman pictured in Klan robe ·given new dutie
A
PA 1 - Through narro ,
muddy p th ay, omen itb
b trapped on· lu
to cro dcd, ft e • It
100 like an African refu camp
the neet is pi t
Pari cafe.
For nearly ve mon ,more
than 1,000 Afri immigran
have camped on a dirt-covered plot
ide the historic medley castle
of Vincenn . They are pro ting
the scarcity of decent low-income
ho ing in Pari •
Tbeircampaign emb d
officials aero s the political
pectrum, par� anti-immigrant
protes by the far-right National
Front, and spotlighted ,the bleak
-lodging alternatives that confront
many poor people in and around
this proepero , ape ive capital.
"We're not here to demand
financial aid," ·d one of the tent
camp's leaders, Kunte Serinte of
Mali. "We're orke. We've got
jobs. What we want houslng."
" ecau e .we are
African and we can't
vote, we can't get
housing. "
speuding half our salary for ren in
apartments ith no ater or
electricity," Serinte d.
and e can't vote, we can't get
housing."
'The camp no running water,
nd only four portable toilets
provi<Sed by the city. Women lug
tel in jup from a fountain aoss
the street to do their cooking and
ashing in ten cobbled together
from blue plastic sheeting, boards,
metal traffic barrien and cardboard.
S bo ·d his tamhy
had been on a waiting t for public
bo In Ince 1984, h counted
1,424 camp residen ,mostly from
Mali, but also from Senegal,
Mauritania, Guinea and Algeria.
VIRTUALLY ALL THE camp
occupants are legal residents of
France. Many of the men are
employed by the city of Paris
LOUlSVIUB, K1. (AP)-A Jeffer- and Yates had discussed the matter Cbristmu party at Young's ho e.
Ion County police officer. Tuesday and decided that the furor He said he never sympathized with
pbotographed in a Ku Klux Klan over the phOto "wu becoming a bit the Klan and was not member of
robe in 1978 is transferring to the of a distraction for the judge' of- Young's Klan faction, which Young
chlers office after serving a press flce.". claimed included many 20 local
aide to County Judge-Executive . Smith said Armstrong does not \ police officers.
Dave Armstrong. view the Yates transfer punitive, YATES ACKNOWLEDGED
Patrolman Bob Yates requcated because It carries no reduction in that be had made n error in judg-
�ft; "fo � .�tt � pay.B Smithadmow tba as" ••. ,� u c ·_- -.. ••
_�rJDII_.��.�OIIC*aoD�� .. -:Y , I J u..; ;) "
cba .. ThUllday' . r meeting with ortk:e, the Judp-exeeutive might be CUNTO N D
fo G Civil- tip cadem: . '.. . ubjcct to pubUc criticism. '.. ." - - -
"I suspect the Klan thing bad. Tbccivil-rightsleadersurgedtbat BUSH -COUSINS
ome bearing on it," said P�lice Yates be given a less-visible job after
CUef Leon Jones. The Courier-Journal reported that a
He and the county judge reaf- photo of Yates in Klan garb was
firmed that they and several previous among evidence seized recently in a
county police chiefs had never found raid by federal agents.
any involvement by Yates with the Former Resthaven Cemetery
Klan. owner David Tingley paid $5,000 in
1989 to Alex Young - a former
county police officer and a Klan
leader - for photos, including the
one of Yates, and other materials that
TIngley thought eventually might be
used against the police departmenL
Yates, who was on vacation
Thursday, said lut week that be
donned the robe as a joke at a
LONDON- President George
Bush and his Democratic challenger
Bill C1i nton are not just distant cous
ins -- they share royal ancestors
traced back to 13th-century Eng
land, according to Britain's leading
genealogical authority, a report from
Reuters news service reported.
Burke's Peerage, in new re
search published on Thursday, said
Bush, who is already known to be
Queen Elizabeth's 13th cousin, am
Cinton are royal oousins -- at least
20 times removed.
Both are descended from King
John of Bngland.
"THERE IS absolutely no
evidence," Jones said. "There is a
lot of evidence to the contrary.'
Effective Monday, Yates will be
igned to the planning and special
projects section in Jones' office.
Armstrong spokesman Larry Smith,
who is Yates' supervisor, said that he
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JEAN- GALLOU, bo
represen the front on the regional
council, d the camp
could be the first of a "belt of
tytowns around Paris" un}
autboriti remove it
He contended that immigrants
obtain more than 60 petcent of the
25,000 houting added amrUally
in the Paris region.
Many of those wi are in bleak,
SHE AND HER baDd ha e 10 -income uburbs para1ed from
been in France iDee 1981- he Paris" by commutes of an hour or
orb a street cleaner in the posh more. The Vi.ncenncs protesters ant
lodging in or next to Paris, and they
cOntend that the conservative-led
muniCipal government bas little
interes t in accommod ting
low-income residents.
Jean-Baptist Eyraud, president of
ment and said he had not tried to keep the organization Right to Housing,
the photo's exi tence a secret from estimated there are 200,000 people
• his commanders. with unacceptable bousing in Paris,
Yates, 44, w hired a oounty four times the munber that sought
officer in 1973; be i eligible for statc-subsidized housing in 1980.
"We're not afra!d," SeriDte said.
20-year, retirement next April.
F . "We're here to demand our rights."
ormer . County Judge-Executive
Harvey Sloane transferred Yates to Will they have to spend the winter
his s p office about y y�. in their ? Serintc makes gesture
• ..••. . iF. ... y t:j)Jl �*� of pray ys 'Wtio JaIOws'"
�trong. With the title of director
of tiublic atf'alrs. ...... the No.2r persoa, •
in the office, under Smith.
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