C
In m rch pI nned fter
Centr I City c nceled it
Christ pa ether than
110 the Ku Klux Klan to p r­
ticipate, do en Kl nsmen
paraded through the city
d ed in white ro tur­
d y.
Itw th city' chamberof
commerce that decided not to
hold the par de because it
could not keep the Klan from
taking part. But KKK Ken­
tucky Grand Dragon Chri
Connor aid he blamed Central
City Mayor Hugh Sweatt.
"In my opinion, now thi
i my opinion, not the KKK's,
but in my opinion he' one of
the orriest piece of cum that
ever walked this earth," Con­
nor aid.
The mayor aid, "I won't
even dignify that with n
answer."
A few dozen extra police
officers were on duty Satur­
day, but no disturbances were
reported. Saturday's march
drew about 150 to 200 pee­
tators,
Haitian
re I t return
PORT.AU.PRINCE, HAITI
(AP) ,-A small group of retur­
nee kept shouting "We don't
want Haitil" and resi ted
repatriation Monday from a
U.S. Coast Guard cutter carry­
ing 321· boat people back to
their homeland, witnesses
said.
One young man had to be
carried down the gangplank.
U.S. Coast GUard officials per­
suaded seven others protesters
to disembark on their own.
Police and immigrations of­
fi_9-ials took custod 0 the
the dock and led them to a
nearby processing center along
with other repatriates. The
refugee are routinely ques­
tioned, fingerprinted and given
$15 bus fare and a food-aid
card before being set free.
U.S. cutters arrive peri­
odically to repatriate Haitians
intercepted at sea. Coast Guard
authorities said those on
Monday's boat were found
near the Bahamas in two sail­
boats. .
The Bush administration
says most Haitian refugees are
fleeing economic hardship in
the hemisphere's poorest
country and do not qualify for
political as ylum. Refugee
rights groups say political
repression is widespread and
that many boat people face
possible reprisal at home.
Blacks
sueWSU
DETROIT (AP) - Otis
Mathis says he felt stupid when
he flunked Wayne State
University's English
proficiency test after complet­
ing course work for a degr eel
"I wasn't the cream of the
cro I wasn't a scholarship
student, " he said. "But I had
made it through four years of
test taking, blue book essay ."
Failing the test, which is re­
quired for graduation, "made
me feel stupid," he said. .
He entered Wayne State
through a program for students
whose grades are too low for
regular admission. His high
school grade point average
was .97, or ju st under aD.
Mathis, now a Wayne
County commi stoner and
worker in the univer ity
veterans office, and another
former WaYM State student,
Martina Gifford, are suing the
university. They say its test is
biased because more Black
students than whites fail it.
Malhi and Gifford are Black.
Wayne State ays the test is
necessary to ensure graduates
are proficient in English.
The trial got under way this
week before Wayne County
Circuit Judge Samuel Turner.
Testimony resumes next week.
C ' victor, Ca ar
Mai , ccording to Brazil-watchers,
"i n e ample of fading white
political elite." He toow anational
congre man, nd through hi
po ition amiddle-cl university
profes or and legislator, proved to
be formidable opponent.
Half of Rio' residents are of
African de cent, but only four
members of the 42-member city
in
Chri t . th one of Kin ong."
Silv ho bro e four
centurie of r cial tradition in
Brazilian politi in bidding for the
office, . d, " or ye , Brazili
politici n h been rich,
whit m e. 0 e have
new profile: a Blac oman from a
poor b ground. "
"Bened1ta could function a
non-traditional role model," Carlo
Ha enb I, ociologist t the
Center for Afro-Asi Studies,
aid before the election. "Rio'
whit have to get used to eing
Blac in po itio of importance
beyond ports and entertainm nt,"
he aid. Demographers tim te
that BI c make up nearly half of
Brazil's 150 million people. In her
televi ion dvertiscmen ,d Silva
billed herself "the face of Rio. "
o
00
n
ban in
r
na
a
ich I
of U.S.-b Brazil e
ttention focu ed by the
intern tion community blunted
orne 0 f the open raci m
The aces's
victor, Cason
Maia, according
to Brazil­
watcher. , "i an
exampleofa
fading white
political elite. "
THE CITY 0 Rio, which has
130,000 employees, been in
free fall for two decades, and its
crime bas soared. Maia won on hi
promi to curb crime. In wild
shooting wars, cocaine traffickers
have ized control from police of
The fight against censorship in
Grenada will continue until "the
government withdraw the decree
prohibiting the entry of 'banned'
books."
So declared Dr. Terence A. Mar­
ryshow of St. George 's, Grenada,
leader of the Maurice Bishop
Patriotic Movement, in response to a
reque t from the Organization of
American States for information on
continuing censorship of books in
Marryshow is a plaintiff in a suit
seeking to overturn a governmental
decree proscribing more than 80
books published by Pathfinder Press
of New York.
The banned authors include Karl
Marx, Fidel Castro, and Malcolm X,
many of whose workS are read as
basic texts in schools throughout the .
world, notes Steve Clark, editorial
director of Pathfinder.
THE CENSORSHIP ORDER,
based on a 1951 law enacted under
British colonial rule, "remains in ef·
fect to this day" Clark �nformed the
OAS Commission on Human Rights.
The OAS has monitored the case
since the book-ban decree was issued
more than three years ago.
"Many of these same' books were
at one time also banned in South
Africa," Clark said.
"But the struggle waged by the
. African National Congress to bring
down the apartheid regime is ad­
vancing, and one result is that the
people of South Africa have won the
right to read the books they had been
denied access to in the past."
"In Grenada this right remains to
be won. A legal suit seeking to have
the ban overturned is' till before the
courts there but has yet to be heard."
The battle against censorship
began in October 1988 when ,
Grenada customs officials of the
Herbert Blaize government seized a
shipment of books from a Pathfinder
representative. At that time
Grenada's police commi loner aid
the books were being checked
against "a list of banned books."
. IN MARCH 1989 another ship­
ment of books was confiscated and
Pathfinder director Clark, who was
in conference, was asked to leave the
country. In April 1989, the govern­
ment issued a decree banning 86
Pathfinder titles by name.
The Grenada censorship decree
has been widely condemned around .
the world.
Statements of protest have been
issued by the Congressional Com­
mittee to Support Writers and Jour­
nalists, a bi-partisan committee of 15
U.S. senators and 74 members of the
House of Representatives; U.S. Con­
gressional Represenatives Charles
Hayes, Ronald Dellums, Sidney
Yates, and George Crockett, Jr.,;
Rev. Allan F. Kirton, general
secretary of the Caribbean Con­
ference of Churches; members of the
Bri tish, Canadian, and Australian
parliaments; the Oil Fields Workers
Trade Union of Trinidad; and the
Grenada Trades Union Council.
Incam growth fall behind Inflation
u.s. Income per person grew 2.4% in 1991; the personal spending
index, measure of price inflation, increased 4.4%. Per-capita
incomes for 1991, state by state:
$18,001 - 0 $16,001 - 0 Below
20,000 $18,000 $16,000 MaIn .
�__'r--T-----'---�""""'__ N.H.
Vt.
·Lowest: MI
$13,328
(Up 4.90/0 from '90)
Ky·r/'7.W
. �' .Va.
:.tg .
In dark ... rJed
states, per-capita
- .income gr mOl"
than the 4.4%
inflation rate in 1991
SOURCE: Commerce DIpl
surrounding the campaign. Franklin
pointed out that, "one popular jo e
in Rio had da Silva replacing the
touri l city's gargantuan statue of
Back From Outer Space
An Alpha Kappa Alpha flag was among the articles Astronaut Mae Jemison (A) selected to share their
historic flight into space. Dr. Jemison retumed the flag. along with a certificate of authentiCity, to AKA
international president Or. Mary Shy Scott (c) and first vice president Dr. Eva. L. Evans (L) dl;lring a
ceremony held this month in Chicago. Dr. Jemison's flight aboard Endeavor marked the first flight by
a woman of color into space.
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