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By DAVID BAUDER
Auoc/ated Pr 55
A Y, N.Y. (AP) -AI.
S t n, try' to tweak Demo­
era he claims are takin Bl k
voters or granted, met Monday
with the head 0 ew Y rk tat '
Republican Party.
"I've g t th newenrollm nt
form," quipped Republican
Party Chairman William Powe
after emerging from a 45-minute
01 ting with the civil rights 2ro­
test leader at tat GOP head­
quarters.
Sharpton, who fini hed third
in a four-way Dem ran pri­
mary for U.S. Senate I 't year,
said he isn't changing party alle­
giance. But he aid Bl � politi­
cians "need to cxerci e the
options 0 talkin t oth r p -
pie."
lie called on D m fa to
name a Bl k to repl Demo­
cratic Party Chairman John Ma­
rino and exp cd an er with
recent tatem n by U.S. Sen,
Patrick Moynihan and Bronx
Democratic chi f Geo e Fried­
man.
By PATRICIA COLBERT
Mlchlp.n Citizen
LEWIS COLSON
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Trinidad: Failed
politician kills
elf, family of four
PORT·OF PAIN, TRINID D (AP)
- A failed politician trangled his
5-year-Old daughter then bot two
older daughters, his wife and bimself
last week.
WInston Ali called a nearby
rno qu just b for th killing po­
lice aid. By the tim police rushed
to hi up cale apartm nt e t of the
capital all five people were dead.
Ali, forty - IX, W a marketing
consultant and a 10 109 g veming
party candidate for Parliarn nt in the
1991 elections. Poli aid .Iettcrs
found in t apartm nt indicated h
decided to take tu own ufe because
be w heavily indebt and could not
pay his bills.
Neighbors . aid they heard
cream be tran ed hi ,5-year-
old daughter th n . h t 111 poi nt­
twenty-two-ca1ib r r volver into the
b ck th head of hi eleven and
thirteen- r-old dau hters, hi
thirty-four- car-old WI ,Indra, and
himself.
Weepin rclanv
athered ou ide the 11 me. They
watch d th die: were taken
from th apartment, which appeared
tripped f furni ture.
John Arnold, 1 how ho t of
W HB. f und r nd pr rd nt of
Black M I Incorporat d, (BMI)
nd Malik F.M. el Shabazz, p ident
o Th ew Garvey Movem nt and
Stop M rchant Selling Food In
Filth. (SMSFIF) were am ng the 1-
untee who agreed to erv men­
to ,
n the meeti w re-called
• to order th group of ered lutio
to mot probl InS.
Lewi A. Co on executive bo rd
m mber of BMI nd chairman 0 th
youth committee, aid t r the tu­
den m t, they elected a president
and decided to call themselv a
gang but a p itive on complete
with colo and group nam .
Calling themselv "Brothers On
a Mi ion". they agreed to meet very
Monday from 9 to 11 :10 a.m.,
"Hopefully thi will occupy them
mo t of the day," id Colson, "leav­
ing them with little time for getting in
trouble. We ar hoping to have one
male mentor for every four young
men."
Some of the after chool programs
include teaching entrepreneurship,
African American hi tory, field trip ,
cultural and educational level, rec­
reational activities uch ports, rap
ions that teach individuals how to
cope with negativ peer pres ure and
conflict mediation training.
IN ORDER TO FUND some of
the activities the group plans to rai e
money by giving after chool dances
during th early afternoon hours.
"That way we don't have to worry
about tudents leaving school and
coming back with drugs or alcohol.
The can leave their cl room and
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o KlAND, LIF. (AP) - Nathan
Inwood' ch 1 year tarts Sept. 1
and ends Aug. 1. He likes it that
way.
"I don't have t wait for after
school to have fun," the 17-year-old
senior ay. "I'm having fun in
school."
Inwood i on of a ut 350 tu­
dents attending the private Beacon
Day ard High School, on of only a
handful of schools in the nation with
a continuous school year.
The schools are open 10 In. hours
a day and the long t break' a week
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chedule w to both improve the cur­
riculum and cut out w ted review
time ch fall.
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Tun Y 0 tim
means th y don't h ve to panic if they
ar lowto grasp a particular concept.
Another advanta e i that they ar
placed according to developmental
level in vario ubjects, n t by age
and there i little forma} testing.
The concept of year-round school
is not new. School irr Japan and
Europe have long had extended
chool y day .
One 't yealr-N�.
Other than t t students who want to chool,offi i Y is paying t
vacation'do whattheir parents do - ers for the extra time and getting them
k for time off and cheduJe a week t agree to the 10 t holiday.
But te ch rs at Beacon aid th
10 t time off i a mall price for the
IT' A BI HANGE from the - pleasure of bein able to tea h prop-
traditional chool year, wh re June erly.
heralds the textbook-to sing tart of Medine declined to give herteach­
what can eem like an endles urn- ers' alary range' she said they are
mer vacation. paid more, commensurate to the
But Inwood aid it i n't a big added time they must work. She said
wrench getting up and going to chool he runs Beacon on about the same
in July: "It's not like I am on my own amount of money per student as her
with it." Set in a converted ware- pubuc scbool peers, with the advan­
house along OakJand's gritty water- tage of not paying for "all those folks
front, Beacon attracts a diver e downtown doing whatever it is
student body. they're doing down there."
The high chool i about 60 per­
cent white, 30 percent black, 5 per-
cent Asian and 5 percent Hispanic R a ,- ns
said co-founder Leslie Medin . Fees
are 450amonthforelementarystu- bless Africa
dents, $550 a month for the high
chool,
Clas time takes up about ix hours
a day, with before- and after- choor
programs available.
Day schoolers attend 240 day ;
high chool students have a 215-day
year, compared to the typical public
chool year of about 180 days.
"It' a lot of erious work," said
I pok woman Diana Gordon.
Beacon' innovative approach
drew a vi it in March from the Na­
tional Education Commission on
Time and Learning, which will report
to Congress next year on whether
American kid hould spend more
time in chool.
Medin aid the idea behind the
or two
neces ary.
COU
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llARARE. ZIMBABWE - After
uffering through the worst drought
in over 100 years, the rains began
falling in outhern and eastern Africa
s veraJ weeks ago and now experts
are projecting a new di aster will be
averted. According to the S uthern
Africa Development Community-­
an ociation of 10 countrie --the
region i expected to more than dou­
ble its cereal and grain production
thi year.
The greate t exception i Sudan
where drought and a civil war have
brought about fami ne and tarvation
greater than that which gripped So­
malia for nearly two years.
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