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Editor:
Teresa Kelly
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Bernice Brown
Patricia Colbert
Mary Golliday
Allison' Jones
Shock Rock
Leah Samuel
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Ron Seigel
Turek Turk
Carolyn Warfield
Vera White
Production M nag r:
Kascene Barks
Production:
Antia trona
Thurman Powell
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Orlando Karim
J).o-When
conven in
Jan ry,on ofi m tPQ er-
ful m mbe c uld well be
ryl nd Repre entative
K wei i fume, the ne ly
elected h d of the Congres­
ional Bl c Cauc • ,
Wi th a record 40 members,
the c ucus will be i trongest
in hi tory. And, ince all the
caucus m mbers, except one,
are Democra .the role Mfume
may play with a Democrat in
the Whi te Ho e i viewed
being even greater.
Mfurne, from th 7th Oi -
trict in B timore, captured the
'chairmanship by beating off a
Challenge by Houston Repre­
sentative Craig Washington.
Mfume was firs t elected to
Congress in 1986.
Third trial for
white
premaelst
J CK ON� MS- The Mis­
sissippi Supreme Court, in
contentious 4 to 3 vote, has
cleared the way for avowed
white supremacist Byron De
La Beckwith to be tried third
time for the 1963 murder of
civil rights leader Medgar
Evers.
'Two previous all-white
juries were unable to reach a
verdict. Both e rlier trials
took place in 1964. Beckwith
is now 72 and has argued that
he sho d not stand trial be­
cause 0 his poor health.
Prosecutors believe Be-'
ckwith shot Evers 'in the back
because he w g to
I teg' t Blac
Evers ki ling is 0
one the turni .. �_ ....
civil rights movement,
Deadline for all newspaper
and advert' ing copy is 12 noon
W dne day prior to publication.
Th Mi hi ran itizen i avail­
abl on lin throu It Ethnic
w , at h and to sub crib rs of
M ad Data Central.
fo U oceu do
"We're beginning to dUally plan
fo bow the· UN would come in to
rep "ta lieu OeD. Robert
Johmtonwb<)' incbargeoftheovemll
Somali ope tion.
Hopes for beginning to put this in
place' focoscd on the January 4-5
UN· ponsored confercDce in Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia, which will incJude
hea of the vario Somali warring
faction. No U.S. official are
scheduled to attend they claim they
don't want to be so directly involved in
the country' political restructuring.
. The Pentagon hopes to tart
withdr3wing some of the U.s. troops
by the end of January with plans for the
non-U.s. troops to form the basis of an
ongoing � occupation force that will
W hington no bopes to begin
puttin in p longer-term izabl
United Nation oceup tion force;
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ble of carryin out the U.S. 0 1 -
tive of setting up a ble client regime
in Somalia.
With much fanfare, U.s. president
George Bush paid two-day visit to
Somalia December 31-January 1.
This marked the first time ever that
U.s. president d made an offici
visit to an cas African country.
Taking stock of tHe progress mad
in reasserting the u.s: government's
right to militarily intervene abroad,
Bush exclaimed, .. "We're not only wel­
come here (but] they're going to be
I sorry to see us go." with sandbags to fortify new gun pi
. . and mac� gun]>OS • Marines 0
set up new roadblocks on major treelS
S�I»Oed· P poJjtlcallDbne�DU4)IJ
Accordln to the W'asntJWlO
U.s. State Department offici have
been quietly tepping up their politi
intervention into the country. They've
been conducting w 1 are euphemisti­
cally descn'bed "town meeting" -
ty io throughout Somalia.
U.s. forces ve also beensetting up
what they call "in rim security Q)UD­
-dls" in vario towns that they hope
can be transformed into governing
groups.
In ddition to tarting up a radio
tation, the U.S. military also produces
newspaper called Hope,
y
Bush' vi it and the pre tio or
it provided ther opportunity for
public di play of U.S. military might.
"Bush for his , did not vi it the
orphanage so much upy it," wrot
the Washin on P t reporter on i.be
cene in Baidoa."Marin et up
machine gun positions on perimeter
�d the roof."
Razor wire barriers were strung at
the i Bush vi i1ed in ogadi$ U,
t."
" deed if not yet ord, the pc
of the [U.S. military] operation
broadened," mi tted the December 31
w York Tim which bailed the
intervention from the very beginning.
Of course, this get-tough disarma­
ment policy doe not include the
leaders of the major warriog� who
are being allowed by U.s. officials to
retain control of their huge arms Caches.
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