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"This ay everyone
will win, "said We
'NOuld get the
originals, the Indians
'NOuld get,
employment and the
museum will get
duplicates. "
t ."
quires museum r c iving federal
funds to return human r main
well fun ral, acr d and cultural
Objects to ei ther the famili 0 the
Indians or th tribe.
"The theft of these items from
the dead and wounded i till a
ource of great anguish and suffer­
ing to the victims' descendants and
the entire Sioux Nation," Gon­
zalez aid a few weeks ago in.re­
questing t�at the items be returned.
"IT 0 D LI id
ituatlon," John P. Cirelli, p
dent of the 37-member library
oc tion, aid Saturd y. .
ore than 200 unarmed omen,
children nd elderly men were
killed by the 7th Cav Iry at
Wounded Knee, S.D., in 1890.
Congres i ued formal pology
to the Siou ation for the m
ere in 1991.
Cirelli aid th items were do­
nated around the tum of the century
by Frank P. Root, a local resident
and collector who apparently ob­
tained them from so ldiers clearing
the battleground.
Since then, Cirelli aid, th cen­
tral Mas achusetts town of about
4,000 people has done its best to
preserve the items.
• 'We've taken exceptionally
good care of them for about 100
years," Cirelli said.
The collection includes about
1,000 items, including a Ghost
Dance shirt, medicine man's bag,
prayer pipes, dolls, cradle boards,
clothing and hair orna ments.
The Sioux learned of the collec­
tion'In Barre last fall from Robert
Goss, an anthropology professor at
Worcester State College.
In commemoration of the 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee, S.D., PhUlip Gilbert, Ie
Cheyenne River I ndian Reservation led marchers toward the site February 28. A siege by Indians
who contended that the tribal leadership was corrup took p ace in 1973 a er the killings of two F.B.I.
agents on the Pine Ridge Reservation. In 188�, between 150 and 300 Indians and 29 U.S. so diers
were killed at 'Hounded Knee in the last major clash of the Indian wars.
Community -
forum slated
A Community Forum, "The
United States As World Police:
Should We? Can We. " will be pre­
sented Sunday, March 14, 2 p.m.,
at tbe International Institute, 111 E.
Kilby in Detroi t.
Guest speakers include: Fr. Pe­
ter DOUgherty (a pacifist),and Con­
gressman Jobn Conyers Jr. (an
advocate of an international police
force).
There will bequestions by a
panel of peace and justice activists
as well questions and comments
from the audience.
Clinton Administration seeks
continued1nterceptions of Haitians
WA lUNG 0 ( P) - Tb Clin- at trial, his No. j deputy _ career
ton administration want the Su- lawyer Maureen Mahoney _ will ar­
preme Court to uphold the gue it before the nati on's highest
exclusionary policy on Haitian court. The Clinton administration
refugees that Pre ident Clinton d not yet have an attorney gen­
sharply criticiz d during the elec- eral or olicitor general.
tion campaign. The Haitian repatriation policy
The new admini tration will a k replaced one under which inter­
the high court uesday to allow lh cepied refug who bad piau ible
government to continue inter ept- claim Cor political lum received
iog Haitian boat people not far [rom hearing, often after they were
their homeland and returning them- taken by U.S. Coast Guard cutters
without considering their pie (or to the U.S. Naval Ba e at Guan-
political asylum. tanamo Bay, Cuba.
As' a candidate Clinton aid he
elected President Jean-Bertrand
Ari tide in September 1991. The re­
patriation policy virtually ended
uch boat traffic.
The Bu h admini tration aid
rno t of those people were not flee­
ing violence, but were trying to es­
cape economic dev tat ion in the
p re' t imp 0 eri bed
nation.
Oth IS remain I optimis-
tic. Elizabeth Mayo said she
w a bit puzzled by th idea of
elcctio and had little faith that
employers would abide by the
, w laws giving more rights to
domestic workers, including the
pportunity t raise their pay to
v r 1 a m nth for hour
w rk da . -
et th re is 0 evlderee
that change i indeed slow. One
worker said whenever he com­
plains of th long hours and low
pay, h r employers told her: "If
you want tter. you k Man­
d I for a job."
, ) I • • Admi ion is free. For more in-
1990 F DERA law re- fonnation call 548-3920.
011 AID THE newer policy
"has encircled the people of Haiti
with a n ating Berlin wall."
H added: cc 0 government in
the We tern world has ever before
taken to the high seas to intercept
fleeing refuge and to return them,
forcibly and without proees , to
their persecutors."
Some 40,000 people had fled the
aribbcan nation in boats since
their country's army overthrew
was "appalled" by such treatment
of Haitian refugees.
"We know what. view th ad­
ministration will present but it has
not yet unveiled th legal ju tifica­
tion,' aid Harold H: Koh. a Yale
University law prole r who will
represent Haitian refugee. efore
the high court.
•
gan
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"TIlI I OT just a broken
campaign prorr.ise. Whatever hap­
pened to the rule of law?" K h id
in an intervi w Monday.
Th adrnini trati n inherited the
Supreme Court case [rom the Bu h
adrnini tration w ln h hegan tb
"repatriation' strategy last May. A
federal appeal court had truck
down the policy as illegal a viola-
. tion or immigration law and inter­
national treaty Obligation _ and
Bu h administrati n wy rs had
appc aledo '
The upr me urt in Augu t
allowed th poli y f high ea. in­
terception to continue until it rul
in the case.
Many legal e pert thought
Clinton would crap the policy and
the appeal. That expectation was
b d on tatement like th ne
Clint n made last May: ,I 'I am ap­
palled by th deci 1 n of th Bu h
admini tration to pick up 0 ein
Haitians on the high eas and fore­
ib Iy return them to Hai ti before con-
idcnng their claim to p liti (I
lurn ... Thi mu tnt tand. '
Iter hi election, the pre id nt
reass . cd hi position.
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Blacks,
Hispanics
clash over
Cuban post
WASHINGTON, D.c.-Presi­
dent Clinton's plan to name a
Cuban-born Black lawyer to the
admini tration's top Latin
American policy post hit a snag
wh n the conservative Cuban
American community opposed
) the appointment of Mario
Baeza.
. . The group Charged Baeza
. with being "too polite" oralmost
friendly towards Cuban leader
Fidel Castro,' according to The
Los Angelo Sentjnel. The
Congressional Black caucus
_ feel that Baeza has become a
victim of ra ism from the pre­
dominately white group. Some
members of the Black Caucus
f cl that th current anti-Castro
U .. policy i outdated and only
hurts average Cubans.
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