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A Rwandan r fugee tried to load some wood earlier this month while American
soldiers looked on at the Kibumba camp, north of Goma, Zaire. The refugees use the
wood to build �wellings and for cooking fires.
bet n
t hich is domi-
nated by hite 00 , th d
cendan of Berbers and A ;
and the Pulsar, Wolof, Soninke
And Bambara, the indigenous
Blac e hnic group of the south.
Perha the la t popula-
tion group is t Haratin , the
so-called Black oors,
Arabicized Blac s raised as
sla for centuri , ho con­
tinue to fill a vast servant class.
All t groups tumble to-
gether in thi d ert capital, a
sand- nd sun-blasted city of
square, Middle Eastern-sty le
buildings erected after Maurita­
nia became independent from
France in 1960. Moors in flowing
blue 1'0 and Black scarves
mix ith Blac Pulaars and
Wolof in color-splashed, form­
fitting W em and West Afri­
can tyles and patterns. Tens of
thousands of Blacks were driven
from their land by the military
in 1989, when race riots broke
out over a grazing dispute be­
tween Black farmers and white
herders near the Senegalese bor­
der.
CHICAGO (AP) -A federal ap- ov rlook d in th count.
peals court has ruled that th Th 1990 census put Illinois'
1990 U.S. census undercounted popu] tion at 11,430,602, a fig­
blacks and Hispanics, a decision ure I � than 1 p r nt higher
that could mean millions mo 'than the 1980 nsus. Chicago's
dollars for Chicago nd other popul tion stood at 2 7 3,726 a
major cities. 7.9 percent decreas from
Chi go and 17 oth r big U.S. 3 005 072 in 19 O.
cities ued the omm rc D - In 1990, th C nsus Bur u,
partm nt fter th nsus, con- r cognizing it traditionally
tending many people were mis peopl in i count, ug-
sted a formula it said would
accurately include the harder­
to-reach populations. Those
populations, incidentally, have
been more likely to support
Democrats'.
Robert Mosbacher, the Bush
administration Commerce Sec­
retary, . refused to use the gov­
ernment's post-census survey,
which would have added
tat ued by
ity co tracto
BABACAR NYON, IDS sib­
lings, and his father, a Wolof
chief, were forced to leave. His
white mother stayed to watch
the family homestead - 10
ho , 100 herd of cattle, three
tractors and numerous other
possessions - plundered by her
fellow Moors.
"What can you do, when
maybe 200 or 300 people are
Court:
nd
lacks,' ispanics
counted in big cities
THOUGH BOTH Blacks
and whites in Mauritania are
Muslim, he said, a new brand of
radical Islamic fundamentalism
that is tied to Arab nationalism
and excludes Black Africans is
driving many of the conflicts in
the region.
"The predatory white nomads
who have been trading Negro
people for centuries look on them
as ancient slaves who are
metaphysically inferior," he
said.
"Now, they feel in competition
with the Black population for
the propagation of Islam. "
"We can't buy or sell some-
body."
BAYETAKESO slavery
amber at: Human
Rights Association Sometimes
she wins. "The master always
says 'No, she is only a maid or a
servant," she said.
Even if slavery has gone un-
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and 5 million people nationwide.
THE U.S. COURT of Ap­
peals in Manhattan in its ruling
said Mosbacher did not suffi­
ciently justify his decision to
overrule the Census Bureau and
use a different formula more fa­
vorable to Republicans.
A higher number would not
have altered the size of Illinois'
congressional delegation, which
stands at 20 House seats, down
from 22'85 a result of the count.
But Chicago would have
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INDIANAPOLl (AP) - A law­
suitch rgesth .IndianaD p rt­
m nt of T'r rispor tation is
ignoring federal rules calling for
female- nd minority-owned
companies to receiv 10 percent
of road-building contracts.
Th class-action la wsuit filed
by minority contractors Friday
in U.S. District Court in Indian­
apolis ch n in th w y
highway cons rue ion p d
ward d in this ta nd
for mor than a d ad
of Administration; th Build In­
diana Capital Project Review
Committ ; and U,S. Secretary'
of T'ra n port tion Frederico
Pena.·
THE
tary dama
n
ti
incapable of ensuring that the
benefits of the federal-aid high­
way construction and (minority
contracting) programs are dis­
tributed evenly on a racially
non-discriminatory basis," the
suit said.