---I --_ _The Michigan Daily - Friday, September 16, 1994 - 7 NAACP hopeful errs in endorsement claim DETROIT (AP) - One of the candidates in the heated race to head the nation's largest NAACP chapter has retracted his claim to have Rosa Parks' endorsement. The civil rights pioneer denied backing either candi- date. In launching his campaign for president of the Detroit chapter of the National Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People, the Rev. Jim Holley spent several minutes Wednes- day talking about how Parks sup- ported his bid. "That, to me, is more important than anything else," said Holley, who is challenging the incumbent, the Rev. Wendell Anthony. "The mother of civil rights' feeling that there's a need for leadership in this community." But Parks' spokeswoman, Elaine Steele, said Parks was not endorsing either candidate in the November elec- tion among members. "She represents humanity and will work with whoever the membership chooses for all good causes," Steele said. "'Mrs. Parks is a person who heals, not a person who competes." "Evidently I misunderstood," Holley said. "I felt in talking I had her support. However, I apologize for any discomfort." The battle between Anthony and Holley in the 51,000-member chapter reflects the wider struggle in the NAACP that surfaced over the ouster of the group's national chief, Ben- jamin Chavis. Anthony is closely associated with Chavis. Both are seen as promoting self-reliance in the black community. Those who question Chavis', and Anthony's, leadership said the civil rights group should continue to build POSITIVE NEGATIVITY JONATHAN LURIE/Daily "Snoopy" wraps a negativity-absorbing onion for Michelle on State Street yesterday. U.S. consdersnsendn combat troops to protect peace forces in Somalia alliances with white groups. Rosa Parks was No. 10on a list of Holley's endorsements, which in- cluded the powerful Council of Bap- tist Pastors, Michigan AFL-CIO Sec- retary-Treasurer Tom Turner and the Michigan Chronicle newspaper. Anthony, who won a narrow vic- tory two years ago, announced his bid for a second term Tuesday. His supporters include UAW Vice President Ernie Lofton, Detroit City Councilman Gil Hill and U.S. Reps. John Conyers and Barbara-Rose Collins. Pilot used radar signal in White House crash Newsday WASHINGTON--Federal inves- tigators have discovered that the pil& who crashed a small plane on the White House grounds turned on a radar be con designed to pinpoint his location for air-traffic controllers as he ap- proached northwest Washington in the final minutes of his fatal flight. But Frank Corder, the Cessna pilot who died in the crash, did not use the proper location code for the transpon- der, as the device is known, and didn't attempt to contact controllers as re- quired, a source close to the investiga- tion said Thursday. A skeleton crew works at National Airport in the early-morning hours- Corder crashed at 1:49 a.m. Monday - and a controller staffs the radaronly when aircraft are scheduled to arrive in the airspace, officials have said. Just 10 to 20 minutes before the crash, the source said, the radar con- troller had directed a passenger flight en route from Dulles Airport near Washington, D.C. to John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. The controller then left the scope to attend to admin- istrativetasks. The disclosure raises new ques- tions about Corder's intentions during the flight. Officials have ruled out any attempton the president's life, but are still debating whether Corderplanned to commit suicide ordiedduring an ill- fated publicity stunt. Using the transponder would seem to indicate that Corder wanted to be noticed by controllers, but improper use of the transponder's location code off makes itunclear whathe was trying to do, investigators said. Corder was able to steal the plane because it had been rented earlier in the evening, and the renter returned the plane with the keys on the pilot's seat because the office was closed, investi- gators said. Contrary to earlier reports that Corder approached the White House with the plane's engine turned off, of- ficials have determined that the engine was running at the time of the crash. No suicide note has been found. The medical examiner detected traces ofcocaine in Corder's blood and said he had a blood alcohol level of 0.045, just above the legal limit for flying. Dave Adams, a spokesperson for the Secret Service, which is heading the investigation, declined to comment about the transponder. The information concerning the transponder was discovered during 4 review of computer data stored in the National Airport radar. It's still unclear if the controller would have seen Corder's plane on the radar because the computerretainsmoreinformation than what is readily observed on the scope, the source said. The computer data also indicates that Corder's altitude was somewhat erratic, with the plane dipping and ris- ing as he flew toward the White House. The Washington Post UNITED NATIONS - The United States may send American combat troops back into Somalia to protect U.N. peacekeeping forces as they withdraw from the increasingly chaotic country, U.S. and U.N. offi- cials said Thursday. Behind the planning under way at the United Nations for a withdrawal of the 18,900 U.N. troops in Somalia is an anguished recognition that the mission, started in April 1992, has failed to bring peace among feuding clans or re-establish even a rudimen- tary government. U.N. officials said they asked for U.S. help because they fear attacks on the departing peacekeepers by Somali militias, and believe millions of dollars' worth of U.N. weapons and equipment could be looted or stolen. The United Nations has formally asked the United States for military aircraft and vessels to help carry its troops away from Somalia, officials from both sides said. Top U.N. peace- keeping officials also are seeking U.S. provision of a quick-reaction force of combat troops to be stationed off the shore of Somalia, ready to aid U.N. troops if they come under fire. The United States has reached no decision on the requests, U.S. offi- cials said. U.S. military planners rec- ognize that the United Nations will need assistance to leave Somalia quickly. But the Clinton administra- tion has not forgotten that 18 Ameri- can service personnel were killed in the streets of Mogadishu in October 1993. That incident forced the adminis- tration to abruptly initiate a pullout of U.S. troops from Somalia that was completed in March. Administration officials are also reluctant to commit U.S. forces to rescue a failing U.N. mission in So- malia when they are relying on the authority of the United Nations, and eventually on the help of U.N. peace- keepers, to carry out the impending invasion of Haiti. The United States would like to see the Somalia mission closed down by the end of this year, U.S. officials said. The Security Council is scheduled to review the mandate for the mission by Sept. 30. In a meeting Thursday morning with the five non-aligned nations on the council, U.S. Ambassador Madeleine Albright argued that be- cause Somali leaders have made no progress toward a settlement, the mis- sion is not producing results that jus- tify the huge international commit- ment, U.S. officials said. The opera- tion costs about $1 billion a year, of which the United States pays about one-third. "We just don't see the evidence it's doing any good anymore," a U.S. official said. "The burden of proof is on the United Nations to show why it should continue into next year." But U.N. officials, who have also sought assistance in the Somali with- drawal from France, Britain, India and Pakistan, have warned that this will be the most dangerous retreat U.N. peacekeepers have ever under- taken. "There will be no safe with- drawal," a top U.N. official in the Somalia operation said. "We can't negotiate a peaceful exit with the So- malis because we have no one to talk to. The last 10,000 of our troops will be tremendously endangered." Repeated efforts by U.S. and U.N. officials over the past year to per- suade Somali clan leader Gen. Mohamed Farah Aidid to make peace with 12 other faction leaders have failed. 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