e
end to fie..
• enyans, including women,
out of their cocoons," aid
MuilbODi' Ukimani, a grammotber,
rand former Nairobi city coun
dllor.
Particularly the women.
their concerns •• in isolation from the
bro der national development pro
grams."
She heads the National Commit-
_,..&" _ID 0 the rul- tee on th Status 0 Women which
my a �can National Union � wants 30 percent of the 200' ts in
atuc to laudmg the government of Parliament erved for wom n.
ident Daniel arap Moi, while
inoppo ition tended to repeat 'ONLYTWOWO we in
lCClBatiODS of corruption. . the last Parliament, aoo both were
Women ere much more con- Moi's caMida
Black veterans
side withClinton
on homosexuals
AUGUSTA, Oa. (AP)- Af
rican American veterans say the
controversy over the military's
ban on homosexuals is a haunt
ing reminder of their own stnig
gle with discrimi nation in the
armed forces .
. Before President Harry Tru
man ordered the military deseg
regated in 1948, opponents kept
Blacks out of the armed forces
could remain on the front line.
"They didn't let any Blacks
come back from overseas at that
time. They let the whites come,
but I never heard of a Black that
did come home," Brown said.
ARTHUR DUDLEY, 71,
served in the Army both before
and after desegregation. He
joined in 1942 and retired 23
ring unfoulXled feaJS, African
American veterans say.
• 'The contention was that
Bl� couldn't fight, that they
were. cowards," said Phil War
ing, an 81-year-old World War
II veteran who lives in Augusta.
The same kinds of arguments
now are being used to prevent
homo xuals from serving, he
am other Black veterans said.
Waring aid he agree with a
judge's recent ruling that the
ban against homosexuals i un
constitutional.
So does Allen Brown. -
class.
Although the desegregation
order was issued in 1948,· it
wasn't instituted until the Ko
rean War, Dudley said.
Blacks had to prove they
were as good as whites, he said.
. 'In fact, we had to be tw ice as
good."
Dudley was sent to the 24th
Divi ion in Korea. He remem
bers a young white soldier from
Georgia who refused to take or
ders from him.
Another white soldier from
Virginia stepped in and took the
matter in hand. "He beat the
crap out of him," Dudley said.
The Georgia soldier apologized .
"He said, • Sergeant, I'm
sorry. I didn't know. It was just
the way I was rai ed,'" Dudley
said. "He turned out to be one
of the best soldiers I had.' '
"THEY ARE HUMAN .be
ings and nobody has a right to
discriminate against them," he
said of homosexuals.
Brown, 69,. fought with the
all-Black 41 t Signal Company
from 1943-45. During World
War II, hi unit fought in several
European battles, including the
Battle of the Bulge.
Serving ina segregated mili
tary was humiliating, he said.
Whe is mother died in Oc
tober 19 ,Brown wasn't told
unti 1 two eeks later. He be
lieves he was purposely not t ld
about' his mother's death 0 he
DUDLEY RECEIVED the
Di tinguished Service Cro for
hi tour in Korea.
·'1 gues if I had been white
I might have gotten the Con
gressional Medal of Honor,' , he
aid.
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..... .II..L� ... .LII. (AP)- The RJ v. Je J on said will 0 0 Cub
next week vi it everal hundred Haiti n refug awaiting ylum
heartn t the U.S. military b e in Guantanamo Bay.
. lac on, who been p uring the Qintor dministration t
help re democracy in Haiti and return ousted Presid nt Jean
Bertrand Aristide to power, led a march of 7,000 people Sunday.
February 7, ugh Miami' Little Haiti reighborh d.
"We w nt new policy- Ari tide b k and. ate in Haiti,"
J on aid.
Ari tide, the first democratically elected' p id nt of Haiti erved
only few mon be 0 be w forced out in September 1991. Lt.
Oen. Raoul Ced , Haiti' ranking military ·trongman now rul ,
along with Prime Minister M Bazin.
Ari tide had planned to b in Miami with J on but can led
Saturday.
Several hundred Haitians ar bing h ld in immigration limbo in
Ouantanamo, some or more than a year.
They ha� qualified for. ylum hearings in Miami, but are barred
from en ring the United States beca e they have t ted 00 itive for
the AIDS virus. .
More than 40,000 Haitia hav tried to flee their country ince
Aristide was forced out.
The Clinton admini tration has tuck with President Bush' pol
icy of directly returning all Haitians who try to flee to the United
States by bo t.
___ 1 .", t·
am
b ors, but three were not career
diplomats and ed their a point
mcnts to t>Olitical connections. Of
the olb r two on w (.f to the
tiny Central African nation of
Rwanda and the other Well once de
nied promotion so he would not
overtake h r usband in the for ign
erviee.
,. In this country, good women
are not suppo ed to be in politics,"
said Wangari Maatbai, who became
the first African female profes or al
U' niversit y of Nairobi and now
is ao internationally knowu environ
mentali t. ':A woman pot.ucian
need the kin of an elephant."
NZOMO, "!,T TIlE diplomacy
institute, i .ued a report about hard-
" .
\ I "
"
•
I
on.
Worn n th m' n 11 on for
t m politi i t open
tiona! opportuni ti 0
t mint p t two d
1,0 -fourth of th 20 37
first-year dmi ions to eoy'
four ta unive iti we women.
In 1 , wh n th re re only
1,77 tud nts t tl Univ ity
airobi, then Kenya' only univer
ity, the Finance Ministry l' ted for
ei gn tudent, but not Kenyan
women. "At that time, an Afri
woman with a university d gJU w
a novelty," aid Likimani, tbe
author and form r counei mber.
Terry Kantai, deputy di tor of
the etherla Development Or
ganization in Kenya, aid education
h made worn n confident eoough
to uccced in busines and nearly all
4'
prof ions.
"Tin ," ill.. ID," in-
creased our ability to n gotiate."
The women in Parliament realize
tbey will hav little impa t immedi
a ly because of their small num
bers, but are not deterred.
, . We have made it this far and we
arc not just going to it around:' aid
Martha Njoka, a lawyer and human
rights activist who won in a land
slide. "That' what' happening."
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