Pre Ident Clinton gr ted the Head of Stat of flv Engll h- peaking Caribbean n tlo
during th Ir rent di cu ion at the White Hou on NAFTA, trad ,drug tr fficklng, nd th
environment. From left to. right: Prime Mini ter Hubert Ingraham of th Bah ma , Prim
Mini t r Patrick nning of Trinid d nd ob go, Pre id nt Ch ddl J g n of Guyana,
Pre ident Clinton, Prim Mini ter Er kine S ndifo d of Barbados and Prim Inl t r P.J.
Patter on of Jamaica.
Ian give CP office
equipment in settlement
RALEIGH, N.C. <AP) - Much of
the 190t obtained by the NAACP
here from the Ku Klux Klan as
part of a court settlement was
purely symbolic - Klan earrings,
lapel pins and "White only"
bumper stickers.
Other stuff was useful, like a
nearly-new copying machine and
an old computer, a printer, two air
conditioners, boxes of office sup­
plies, 10 tabl and 69 folding
chairs.
The Invisible Empire, a Kl n
group headquartered near San­
ford, lost a federal court lawsuit
filed by the Southern Poverty
Law Center of Montgomery, Ala.
The lawsuit was filed after Klans­
men attacked black marchers in
-January 1987 in Forsyth County,
Ga. 'and refused to allow reporters on
Part of the settlement was for his property.
the empire to hand over its office The settlement also barred
equipment to the plaintiffs on members of the Klan chapter
Monday. The plaintiffs gave it to from using the name of their
.the Raleigh-Apex chapter of the newspaper and from using their
NAACP. Other Klan groups also mailing list.
were named in the lawsuit. McKinney, representing the
"This whole operation is sym- marchers, gave the equipment to
bolie, " Billy McKinney, a Georgia the NAACP chapter during a
state repr ntative and one of ceremony at the Martin Luther
th plaintiffs in a law uit apinst King Gardens. Raleigh police
the Klan, said Monday at a cere- . stood watch over the proceedings.
mony. "We're trying to show Morris Dees, founder of the
Black people you can fight the law center said the Invisible Em­
Klan." pire was o�e of the first Klan or-
ganizations, founded in 1865.
Now, the Black marchers own its
symbol - a red and white CTa38
with a drop of blood in the center.
JAME FARRAND , leader
of the empire, was ordered to pay
$37,500 in damages. Farrands re­
fused to comment by telephone
Treasury Depa
to keep some c
DAU.A.S (AP) - The 'I'reasury
Department wants parts of its re­
port about the failed raid on the
Branch Davidian compound to
kept secret, The Dallas Morning
News reported last week.
"The report itselfwill be a pub­
lic report. There will be no rele­
vant or critical fact that will be
withheld," Assistant Treasury
Secretary Ron Noble. told the
News. Noble is overseeing the
Waco review.
Officials said they want to keep
information about law enfor -
ment techniques and pending
criminal eases out of the public
domain.
Jack Zimmerman, lawyer for
some members of the Waco cult,
blasted the agency' efforts.
"It means that they can release
what they want to release, and
they can k p t what they
want to k pet," Zimmennan
id.
FOUR AGENTS FROM
Treasury's Bureau of Alcohol, To­
bacco and Firearms were killed
and 16 were wounded Feb. 28 in
the failed raid hat led to a 51-day
standoff. More than 80 cult mem­
be , including I der David
Koresh, died during or ju t before
massive fire that ended th
standoff April 19.
According to the newspaper,
FIGHTI
LIFE'
ts
mentwa
t findings secret
the Treasury Department report,
to be released this month, is ex­
pected to criticize planning and
execution of the raid, and to
charge that senior A TF officials in
Waoo misled the public about why
it failed.
Under federal law , people can
obtain information about them­
selves contained in any federal
documents or records unless an
agency announces its intent to
use the federal Privacy Act to ex­
empt records from disclosure.
au
CallinS th latio hip to be
d loped a ·twin oontinent con-
"with NorthAm .cs, South
America, Central Am rica and
th tropical islands of the Carib­
bean, the Prim Ministersm:aJE�
th negati economic imp ct
that the North American Flee
Trade Ament ould have on
the dep economi of the
Caribbean.
c
"ITWOULDB a t rror
to conclude that the Caricom
countri no Ion r of signifi-
cance to America," id Prim
Mini ter Patrick Manning of
Trinidad and To go. "We are all
experiencing high levels of un m­
ployment ... There is an urgency in
th way we deal with develop­
ment. That is a point that wag
. today."
Calling th meeting "very
fruitful", all did not seem to be in
accord on the' ues that were
How r, wh n th qu tion
w directed to th Prime Minis­
te ,th po was more defi­
nite. "Cuba i a Caribbean
. country and hould be a part of
the dialog di i ng trade in the
hemisphere and that all countri
should work toward a normali -
tion of relationship with C "
said Prime Minister Patterson of
Jamaica.
LOSANGELFS (AP) -The school voucher meas­
ure on the November ballot is racist and minori-
ti hould reject it, Black leaders said.
About a dozen Black elected officials criticized
Proposition 174 on Mon&\Y at a ne conferen
held at the headquarters of the Las Angel U ni­
fled School District.
"This is simply an initiative to privatize public
education and to make it OK to discriminate,
whether on the basis of race, gender or physical
handicap," City Councilwoman Rita Walters said.
Backers of the measure disagreed.
"ITS ALWAYS EASY to charge racism in a
poUt·cal campaign. It' hard to defend, creates a
lot of attention and appeals to the emotions,"
replied Andrew Cunningham, the Yes on 174
r
o
mpaign' South-Central Los An les director.
"But we are finding th re is a lot of upport out in
the Black community. "
Prop. 174 would provide parents $2,600 an­
nual vouchers to pay for public or private school­
ing for their children.
Critics charge that the measure encourages
gregation by helping wealthier whites abandon
public schools to poorer minorities, who even with
vouchers cannot afford private education.
Supporters say the system would force public
schools to improve by giving them competition.
A Field Poll held last month found that 44
percent of Black and Hispanics opposed the moos­
ure, 38 pe nt sup it nd bout 19 pe nt
were undecided.
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