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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Wangari Maathai
made a typically combative start to her
first full day as a Nobel laureate on Sat-
urday, defending a recent suggestion
that the HIV virus might have been
made in a laboratory as a plot against
icans,

The outspoken Kenyan environ-
mentalist became the first African
woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize on
Friday for aiding the Poor with a cam-
paign to plant trees and slow deforesta-
tion.

Maathai, rarely reluctant to chal-
lenge the status quo or confront the
powerful, said her comments in August
were intended to promote an inquirin
attitude to AIDS among Africans an
combat the fatalistic notion that it was a
curse from God.

Proposed black busin

By Sarah Karush

DETROIT (AP) - Detroit has a
Greektown section that tempts visitors
with moussaka and baklava, and a
Mexicantown neighborhood with Latin
American groceries and restaurants.
Now, politicians are pushing for a busi-
ness district identified with the city Ts
biggest racial group - blacks.

The plan, dubbed oAfrican Town T
by some proponents, has stirred fervent
Opposition, in part because the new dis-
trict would be established usin taxpayer
money that would be available only to
black business owners.

Detroit, with a population of just
under 1 million, is more than 80 per-
cent black after a decades-long white
exodus that was driven in part by racial

Fewer black recruits

By Chris Cooper

_ NEWYORK- The U.S. Arm Ts ability

feanAmmerican:siéldiets has
plummeted recently, a trend that threat-
ens to-place further strains on a military
already stretched by wars in Iraq and
Blacks attracted to the force

moerving Easte:

oWould you solve the problem ifit
you believed it was a curse from God? ?
she told a news conference, adding that
one theory was that AIDS was created
by a scientist in a laboratory as an agent
of war. oI was encouraging people to ask
questions, which is what | always do. ?

Maathai caused a furore in Kenya
when she was quoted in Kenya Ts East
African Standard daily as calling AIDS a
biological weapon devised to destroy
black people.

oDo not be naive. AIDS is not a
curse from God to Africans or the black
people. It is a tool to control them de-
signed by some evil-minded Scientists,
but we may not know who particularly
did (it), ? the August 31 article quoted
her as saying at a seminar in her home
town of Nyeri. :

AUSS. State Department spokes-
man on Friday congratulated Maathai

tensions, including the 1967 riots.

A majority on the City Council has
endorsed the basic tenets of oAfrican
Town. ? But the plan is unlikely to be-
come a reality. The mayor is against it,
and many community leaders say the
very notion undermines the city Ts efforts
to promote economic revitalization
through regional cooperation,

The plan was drafted by Claud
Anderson, author of a popular book on
black economic empowerment. The
former Detroit resident was paid
$112,000 (90,950) for the City Coun-
cil-commissioned report and says he
could be involved.as a developer in the
projects he proposes.

Anderson's 2001 book
oPowerNomics: The National Plan to
Empower Black America ? spent more

numbered 12,103, or 15.6% of the to-
tal enlistment. pool, in the year ended
Sept. 30, down from a peak of 16,695,

or 21% GF recruits, in fiscal 2002, Statis-

tics gathered by the Army's recruiting
command show. The timing of the drop
in the share of black recruits roughly cor-
responds with the mass movement of
troops to the Middle East and the out-

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elaborating that Washington did not
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A senior U.S. State Department of.
ficial, who spoke to reporters on coindi-
tion that he not be identified, said:

oShe has made some statements
about the source of HIV/AIDS that we
have very much disagreed with. She said
it was invented as a ioweapon in some
laboratory in the West. We don't ree
with that, ? a senior U.S. official told re-
porters.

WELL-WORN THEORY

The idea that AIDS began as a plot

y Western scientists to control Africa T
population is commonly heard across

ca. :

Maathai, speaking at the office of
her environmental lobby group, said she
never suggested any particular region was
responsible for creating AIDS but she

ess district

than two years on the best-seller list of
fice magazine, which tracks sales at
black-owned bookstores.

Under his proposal, the city would
dispense grants iii loans to

lacks only, using a $30 million (24 mil-
lion) minority business-develo ment
fund that Detroit's casinos agreed to pay
into long before the African Town idea
ever surfaced

Anderson says the new district
would include such things as.a fish pro-
cessing plant, a black cauty-supply
store, and soul food and Caribbean res-
taurants.

He does not use the term oAfrican
Town. ? He says he is concerned only with
the plight of onative black Americans, ?
or descendants of slaves. In fact, he says
immigrants have taken resources away

break of the Iraq war. Fi for the
Reserve Shon T similar albeit Saeco
matic, drop " of about 27% for the
smeperid.

By contrast, the percentage of white
recruits has held relatively steady. White
enlistees made up 65.2%, of 50,586, of
the recruiting pool in fiscal 2004 and
62.7%, or 49,846, of recruits in fiscal
2002.

In each of the past four years, the
Army overall has recruited about the
same number of enlistees, and so far, it
has been able to reach its goals for the

. regular service, says Brig. Gen. Michael

Rochelle, head of the U.S. Army Recruit-
ing Command. Gen. Rochelle says he

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Saddam Wasn Tt Pursuing

By John J. Lumpkin

WASHINGTON (Oct. 6) " Under-
curting the Bush Ts eee fatio-
¢ for invading Iraq, the It 0
the chief US ea or concludes
that Saddam Hussein did not vigorously
pursue a program to develop weapons
of mass ion after international in-
spectors left Baghdad in 1998, accord-
ing to lawmakers and others briefed on
the report.

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by James Clingman

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Undercuts Bush Ts Rationale for Iraq War In

Weapons of Mass Destruction ...

was suspicious about what she called the
secrecy surrounding the origin of the vi-
rus.

oSome people say it came from the
monkeys and I doubt it...others say that
it is a curse from God. But I say it can-
not be that only black people are cursed,

Cause we are dying more then any
ae People on this planet and that Ts a
ct.

Maathai has campaigned for years
to educate Kenyans that lling swathes
of woodland wreaks irreparable
on Kenya's ecosystem, estroying vital
water catchment are that sustain the
backbone farming and hydro electric
sector.

She said Mount Kenya, the
continent's second highest peak and the
source of 13 of Kenya's rivers was en-
dangered because several acres on the
mountain had been cleared for firewood
and charcoal while marijuana was being

Pi dttipts bitter debate

from black Detroit residents and con-
tributed to black poverty.

Late last month, a few dozen people
led by Hispanic and Asian commun;
groups protested in front of City Hall,
oyna ing an apology from the coun-

A spokesman for Mayor Kwame
Kilpatrick, Howard Hughey, said the
mayor, who is black, supports the con-
cept of an oAfrican Town ? but believes it
would be wrong to use public money in
a way that would beneht only blacks.

The City Council, on the other
hand, already has passed two related reso-
lutions that are part of Anderson's plan,
with seven out of nine council members
voting in favor. The first resolution de-
fared | blacks Detroit Ts omajority minor-
ity, ? and the other resolved to create a

the Armed Forces

believes he will meet the next annual goal
of attracting 80,000 regular Army sol-
diers overall and 22,000 reservists, al-
though privately many people both in-
side and outside the Pentagon are skep-
tical.

Far from an exact science, recruit-
ing is subject to a number of variables,
and Army officials caution that the drop
in black recruitment may not signal a
trend. Indeed, the Arm says the drop
in black recruits as part of the overall force
is a positive sign, since it wants to build
an organization that roughly matches the
demographic makeup of the nation.

s Americans accounted for 24% of
the Army as of fiscal 2003, but make up

In drafts, weapons hunter Charles
Duelfer concluded that Saddam Ts Iraq
had no stockpiles of the banned weap-
ons but said he found signs of idle pro-
grams that Saddam could have revived
ifinternational attention had waned.

oIt appears that he did not vigor-
ously pursue those programs after the
inspectors left, ? the official said, speak-
ing on condition of anonymity in ad-
vance of the report's release.

Duelfer was providing his findings
Wednesday to the Senate Armed Ser-

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development agency to administer the
loans and grants.

Many Detroit residents still mourn
the loss of Black Bottom and Paradise
Valley, vibrant black business-and-enter-
tainment districts that were leveled to
make room for Interstate 75 and other
projects in the 1950s.

According to the 2000 census, 26
percent of Detroit residents lived below
the poverty line. Unemployment in the
city has averaged 14 percent this year,
about double the statewide rate.

oNobody's addressing those issues.
They keep pretending that somehow if
they ignore the problem it will go away, ?
Anderson said in a telephone interview
from his office in Bethesda, Maryland.

Kay Everett, one of the two council
members to vote against the resolutions,

in Detroit
said Anderson's plan is oreverse racism. ?

oThis money belongs to everyone.
It doesn't belong to one race. We cannot
be race specific - it's also illegal, ? said
Everett, who is black. oWhat if you came

up with a white town? ?

JoAnn Watson, the plan's main pro-

ponent on the City Council, denied the
African Town idea is anti-immigrant or
promotes racial separatism. oAfrican
Town is proposed as a cultural and eco-
nomic vehicle ... which can attract and
serve all citizens, ? she said.

Anderson said he was not surprised
by the controversy his plan has evoked.
Detroit leaders, he said, oare hiding be-
hind a colorblind, race-neutral myth and
using it as an excuse to do nothing for
the underserved, black population.

about 13% of the U.S. population.

oWe want the Army to be represen-
tative of the overall population, ? says
Douglas Smith, a spokesman for the
Army T recruiting command. Even with
the recent drops, black recruits, he says,
oare still at or above their percentage in
the overall population. ? .

Though the decline in blitkveccyit-
ment isnt unprecedented " the Arm
also had a 15.6% black enlistment rate
in fiscal 2001 " such dips usually come
when the economy is booming and high-
school graduates have more employment
options.

The current decline comes at an
awkward time for the Army, which is
being pressed by the Pentagon to pro-
vide more combat-ready soldiers, In Au-

t, the Army began off ring $10,000
Onuses to recruits. Yestérday, it sweet-

vices Committee. His team compiled a
1,500-page report after his predecessor,
David Kay, who quit last December, also
found no evidence of weapons stockpiles.
Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., briefed
on the report earlier Wednesday, said
Duelfer found Iraq's capability to pro-
duce and develop weapons of mass de-
struction had degraded since 1998.
The report was oinconclusive ?
about what ultimately happened to
Saddam's supposed weapons stockpiles
from earlier in the 1990s, which might

CINCINNATI - The more I see the
statistics relating to the so-called Black
economy and Black buying power, the
more desperate m Becomes and
the more insulted I feel. How can we
_ Bet so excited about having an annual
ageregate income of more than $700
billion while we are at the bottom of
every economic category in this coun-
try? Do you feel insulted, maybe em-
barrassed, about the fact that Black
Americans create vast wealth for others
at the expense of creating and retaining
wealth for ourselves? Can we look our
children in their eyes and assure them
that we, asa collective body, will leave a
strong economic foundation upon
which they can stand? Black America is
operatin at a huge deficit. We must
change that.

fast as the government gets a bit
antsy when the U.S. tradedeficit goes
askew, Black folks in the United States
should feel the same about ours, and
we should finally do so ething about
it, Our trade deficit is horrendously out
of kilter, and it Ts getting worse every-
day. Oh yes, I almost forgot, we are cur-
rently enthralled with who will be our
next president, and it Ts difficult to draw
Our attention away from that circus,
isn't it? But can't we walk and chew gum
at the same time?

Black Americans cannot afford to
neglect our trade deficit, and continue
to allow it to spiral out of control, while
we discuss politics as usual and prepare
to cast our votes for two guys who ei-
ther don't care about us or take us for
granted. What a choice, huh?

Well, we have another choice,

vin the United States;

osted a group of other North Carolinian yors in their city.
|___ Former State Supreme Court Judge and now newly electected Con
G.K. Buttermfield, ong with Judge Jim Wynn who sat on the Court of Appeals,
and is currently campaigning for a seat on the Supreme Court of North Carolina,
jserved av a keynote speakers. Unlike at the federal level, where Supreme Court
udges are appointed by the President, judges sitting on North Carolina Ts Supreme
ourt must be elected the it Ts citizens,

The group above gathered in front of the Princeville Ts recently constructed
town Hall. The old town hall (pictured at bottom) was innundated by flood waters
that submerge the town during Hurricane Floyd. The town's residents, rejecting
ferderal buy-outs, chose to rebuild their town rather than to.abandon it

Photos: Jim Rouse

to

redirect more of our $700 billion to-
ward our own businesses; we can choose
to start and grow more businesses; we
can choose to create more jobs for our
children; we can choose to teach our
children how to be entrepreneurs; and
we can choose economic freedom over
economic enslavement and modern-day
sharecropping.

I read an article by the so-called
Black conservative, Larry Elder, in which
he stated, odespite slavery, Jim Crow and
racism, the progress of American Blacks
is simply astounding. Black America, if
divided into a separate country, ranks
No. 16 in Gross Domestic Product,
ahead of Australia, Turkey, Thailand, Ar-

entina, the Netherlands, Taiwan and
outh Africa. ?

A little economics lesson isin order
here. The broad components of Gross
Domestic Product are: consumption, in-
vestment, het exports, government pur-

and inventories. Consumption is
by far the largest component, totaling
roughly two-thirds of GDP
Let's see now, Blacks save and in-
Vest very little, as evidenced by our me-
dian net worth per family, which is one-
tenth that of white families, Exports?
Not much going on there either, al-
though our Brot ers and sisters in Af-
tica and the Caribbean eagerly await the
day when get our act together and start
taking care of business. Government
purchases? Well, we have a lot of gov-
ernment jobs, if that counts. And finally,
Our inventories are not much to speak
of either as we don't seem to care much
for ownership of distribution channels,
¢.g., The MATAH Network.

Now let's look at consumption. As

the definition of GDP tells us, consump-
tion is the largest of its components, to-
taling roughly two-thirds of GDP Now
we're talking, right? Now Blacks folks
really make the grade. We have that con-
sumption thing down pat. Two-thirds
of GDP? Nah, we can do much better
than a measly 66 percent. Our con-
sumption is as high as 95 percent "and
our consumption is from businesses
other than our own!

No, Mr. Elder, I don Tt think we can
use Black GDP to show how far we've
come in America. Quite frankly, it Ts em-
barrassing, I'd be willing to bet that Tai-
wan and Thailand export a whole lot
more than they import; we can look
around our homes at labels and tags and
see that. Comparing our GDP aie of
the Taiwanese, vl the rest of those 14
countries, is a real joke, even if we do
carn more money than they earn. We
may rank 16th, but we'd have a huge
trade deficit.

Yes, it feels and looks good when
we use that line about Blacks being the
10th, 12th or the 16th richest ocoun.
try ? in the world. It Ts balm for our inju:
ries, consolation for our wounded psy-

es and ammunition for those who say,
We've come a long way, baby! ? But
what good is it doing us if we consume
everything someone else makes, fail to
save a minimum of 10 percent of what
we earn, have no import/export relation.
ships with brothers and sisters who live
in Africa, the richest land in the world,
and fail to support the one distribution,
channel we have in this country?

What good does it do us to have
$700 billion if we are in a constant trade
deficit with the other roups in this
country, i.e. Koreans, Indians Vietnam-

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ened the offer, tacking on a $3,000
oquick ship ? bonus for recruits who are
teady to enter immediately. Also in Au-
gust, it bumped up the cash awarded
or college to $70,000 from $50,000.
Such incentives, Pentagon officials and
others say, often marl to potential re-
cruits from less wealthy families. The
Army has traditionally used cash bonuses
to nudge up enlistments in peacetime.
Some military officials and outside
ysts say a sustained decline in black
listment could disrupt how the Pen-
on staffs its operations.
Black recruits have historically been
overrepresented in obehind-the-line ?
support roles. Indeed, Pentagon statis-
tics from fiscal 2003 show that 67% gf
all black soldiers were in combat service
Or support units. At the time that the
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have been destroyed or transferred to
Syria, said Roberts, chairman of the Sen-
ate Intelligence Committee.

Pointing to apparent prewar con-
fusion inside the country itself, the re-
port suggests that Saddam's senior advis-
ers, and perhaps Saddam himself, actu-
ally believed Iraq had weapons of mass

estruction even when it did not, Rob-
erts said,

A Democratic senator briefed on the
report, Dick Durbin of Illinois, said the

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ese, Lebanese, et al? What good does it
do for us to brag about how far we have
come when, relatively speaking, we are

no further than our grandparents were
two generations ago when it comes to
business and land ownership?

The Black trade deficit is way out
of balance, and we had better get busy
fixing it before we become totally de-
Pendent on oforeigners ? to supply our
sustenance. No one can take care of us
better than we can take care of ourselves,
We proved it once upon a time; we can
do it once again.
~ James E. Clingman, an adjunct

a

professor at the University of

Cincinnati's African American Studies

Department, is a former editor of the
Cincinnati Herald and founder of the
Greater Cincinnati African American
Chamber of Commerce. He ean be con-
tacted at his Web " site,
www.blackonomics.com or by tele-
phone at 513- 489-4132.

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In an incredible (and true) story, a
19 year-old New York University un-
uate student was recently ar-
rested and with committing
three felonies, including criminal sale
and possession of a controlled substance,
and criminal sale of a controlled sub-
- Stance on or near school grounds " each
carrying a maximum sentence of
in prison. The undergraduate

high-grade marijuana, co-
an undercover New York City police

+ elficer on e t occasions from
-thelobby ofhes deratons But that Ts
- | ; Mot the incredible part.

female from a wealthy family, will actu-
_ ally never see a prison cell if she satisfies
_ the gracious terms of the deferred pros- - rebuild
. -@cution agreement brokered between a
". -sManhatran District Attorney and the
T defendant's
heart deal -

; for this one -
includes 10 months at a drug rehabilita-
tion center in Idaho followed by 8 months
of work or school, and 5 years i

_ - Moreover, she will be permitted to plead
guilty to lesser

charges (perhaps misde-
ve . ther ? me Perhaps
completion of her osentence. ap
most importantly, her case was handled
state, rather than federal, authorities,
ing her to avoid severe man-
datory minimum laws that would have
likely resulted ina prison sentence.
What is striking about this story is
that the district attorney treated this
white offender's crimes as a public
health problem requiring treatment and
rehabifitation rather than incarceration
~an approach that should be available

The Tra

Kevin Pina, Associate Editor

untae Storm pape ie

lice literally rin T awa

from the city, leaving behind a horrific
huiman crisis. As Kevin Pina reports, the
U.S.-installed Valian regime is hardly a
government at all " just a gangster clique
incapable of carrying out the most basic
Civic services,

A political storm hit northern Haiti

__ long before Tropical Storm Jeanne came

along. On March 20th, Interim Prime
Minister Gerard Latortue flew into
Gonaives where a huge and boisterous
crowd of thousands welcomed him.
Latortue embraced gang elements and
the former military that helped over-
throw the democratic government of
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide as
i fighters. ? Since then, Latortue
and his government have done little to
take control of Haiti Ts third largest city
and have allowed gang leaders like

Wilfor Ferdinand
to run it like a private fiefdom. This has
had serious consequences since Tropical
Storm Jeanne arrived to stake her claim
of Haiti's misery.

The political storm took many vic-
tims as well and left Haiti ill-prepared
for the devastation brought about by
Tropical Storm Jeanne. One of its first
victims was the Civil Protection Office
following a rampage led by the ofree-
dom fighters ? against suspected Aristide
supporters. This politically benign in-
stitution had been catablished in coop-
eration with the local municipal gov-
ernment by grants provided by United

- to all i g offenders on the same
terms Tees

- This story presents a vivid illus-
tration of the fara thee the architects of
bed cxonng ven cies rae
¢ .
cole students in their dragnet.
ae orene inner cities, however,
on is waged against
low-iftcome Black and Brown people,
forcement strategies. In bce, the crimi-
bel han mae tatbors a deeply held
belief that, unlike many white offend-
ers, Black and Brown offenders are be-
yond rehabilitation.

But America Ts present obsession
with the mass incarceration of Black
people is by no means a recent phenom-
enon. Indeed, as historian David
Oshins notes in his compelling book,

orse /

to warehouse Black folks
historical roots that can be traced back to
the conclusion of the Civil War.

In 1865; the South attempted to
iid its bankrupt economy after it suf-
fered a humiliating defeat at the hands
of the North. Institutions like
Mississippi's Farm were quite
literally transformed from slave planta-
tions into prisons, intended not to reha-
bilitate offenders, but to produce revenue
for a state that had lost its greatest eco-
nomic resource: free Black Ebbor.

In an atterapt to regenerate the
South T labor supply by incarcerating as
many Blacks as possible, Southern legis-
latures quickly passed acts known as
oBlack Codes. ? which listed specific
crimes for free Blacks only, including omis-
chief ? and oinsulting gestures. ? Not sur-
prisingly, through enforcement of the
Black Codes conviction was almost al-
ways imminent for Blacks accused b
white men or women of the slightest of
fense.

As convictions mounted, Southern

jails turned Black. Once incarcerated, the

States for International Develop-
ment (USAID) and administered through
the Pan American Development Eoun-
dation, (PADF). PADF Ts own website
confirms that, oPADF Ts émer; ncy re-
sponse and reconstruction cHort are
complemented by community training

in disaster p Mitigation train-

~ ing promotes the development of civil ac-

tion plans that enable communities to
identify priorities and reinforce key infra-
structure. Last year, 23 local civil protec-
tion committees were formed and over
5,000 People were trained in disaster
awareness, leading to safer communities. ?
Unfortunately, with Washington, Paris
and Ottawa ushering in a man-made di-
saster with the destruction of constitu-
tional authority in Haiti, all of the tax
dollars USAID invested in preparing for
natural disasters like Tropical Storm Jeanne
were wasted as well.

Tropical Storm Jeanne is exactly the
type of disaster USAID and PADF Ts pro-
grams were set up to manage. There were
components that monitored incomi
tropical storms and provided an advanced
warning and preparedness network de-
signed to plan a response before disaster
struck. Plans included advising commu-
nities in advance of approaching storms
and preparing for them by storing large
supplies of drinking water, food, medical
supplies and rable tents for those dis-
placed from their homes. When Tropical
Storm Jeanne hit these structures no
longer existed and all of the trained and
competent participants in the pr
had lo n driven out of the area and
their offices pillaged and burned. No-

oeppears there (near p, |
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labor of forinar slaves was oleased ? to
ivate parties, often to perform the same

waves ? by arresting Blacks, judges were
awarded ah bonus for convictions
jails profited from chargi i

and planters profited from Bleck Boos
Mass incarceration became the ocash
crop ? of the South.

Of course, white men rarely sent fel-
low white men to jail even for serious
crimes like murder, and when they did,
it was not for long. Southern culture
taught that to deny a white man his lib-
erty was to treat him like a slave. And to
deny a white female her liberty, irrespec-
tive of her crime, was virtually unheard

; . Against this historical backdrop, it

is not surprising that today, in the era of

the owar on , ? Black people com-
prise nearly baler our nation Ts swelling
incarcerated population of 2.1 million
ple, notwithstanding the fact that
Blacks represent only 13% of the
country Ts overall population.
ese absolute numbers translate
into catastrophic rates of imprisonment
for Black men, with 1 in every 21 adult
Black men incarcerated on any given day.
For Black men in their late twenties, the
is 1 in 8. Given the current trends,
¢ Sentencing Project reports, 1 in ev-
ery 3 Black born today can expect
to go to prison in his lifetime.

While the incarceration rate is lower
for Black women, who paeie the fst
gst growing imprisoned population, the
rach disparitiee are era dramatic
Black women comprise nearly half of the
nation Ts incarcerated female population
of about 150,000. If current trends con-
tinue, | in every 18 Black females born
today can expect to go to prison.

Federal sentencing guidelines con-
tribute to the over-incarceration of the
Black community b requiring harsher
penalties for drug o that Blacks are

where was this more evident than in

Gonaives where many associated with the

oAristide, government and the Lavalas
ed through .

were reportedly dr
ee an burned rik
Instead of reasserting control of the
State and rebuilding the necessary infra-
structure that was destroyed following the
coup of February 29th, Latortue followed
a policy of benign neglect and accommo-

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more likely to be convicted of. These
guidelines treat crack cocaine as being
one hu: times worse than powder,
despite the fact that each gram of pow-
der produces .89 grams of crack. Pos-

session of 500 grams of powder cocaine,

_ but only 5 grams of crack, results in a

mandatory minimum sentence of 5

Among all controlled substances,
ctack is the only one with a federal man-
datory minimum sentence for a first of
fense of simple possession. Asa result,
crack users and dealers, who over-

ic. _whelmingly tend to be Black, receive

more severe penalties than users and
dealers of powder cocaine, who tend to
be white.

As intended, targeted law enforce-
ment techniques have resulted in Blacks
constituting more than 80% of crack
defendants, despite the fact that ap-
proximately two-thirds of drug users in
the general population are white. Con-

of Haiti; Victims
(POT rae oe

placed what they consi a3

state with an even more failed state.
The dated Nations also bears a
responsibility for the armed

an clements of the former military cu

rently hampering relief efforts in north-

ern Haiti. Like Latortue Ts accommoda-

dation with thugs in the region that has __ tion of the gangs in Gonaives, the UN
led to needless death and s ering inthe forces have stood by while the former
wake of Tropical Storm Jeanne. In all fair- military has taken over several towns in
ness, the fault does not lie exclusively with the north. The official excuse of the UN
the US-installed government. The Bush has been that they do not have enough

COE

Zacism might keep you ftom geting rich, but...

Racism must be overcome if Black
people are to succeed and excel. We can-
not limit ourselves to simply hoping and
praying that it will go away; Just as our
ancestors had to stud and work harder,
run faster and jump higher, so must we
today. Anyone who suggests otherwise,
parti to their chidren, is ignorant
to the realities of life in America and are
guilty of child abuse.

Black people who have and con-
tinue to achieve do so not because rac-
ism was not present but in spite of it.
They achieve because they made the
conscious decision to not allow racism
to prevent them from the pursuit and
attainment of their goals. It was many
years ago that my grandfather said to
me, for the moon and even if you
fall short, you'll wind up amoung the

at

by Rick Crawford,
ilere is a sobering quote by Abe

oI see in the near future a crisis ap-
proaching that unnerves me and causes
me to tremble or the safety of my coun-
try. . . . corporations have been en-
throned and an era of corruption in high
places will follow, and the money power
of the country will endeavor to prolong
its reign by working upon the preju-
dices of the people until all wealth is

egated in a few hands and the Re-
abl is destroyed. ?

-S. President Abraham Lincoln, Nov.
21, 1864
This quote was taken from a letter
hhe had written Col. William:E. Elkins

was extracted from The Lincoln En-
yclopedia by Archer H. Shaw
(Macmillan, 1950, NY)

Some people expressed doubts
about its authenticity, given Lincoln's
work as an ai ilroad corpora-
tions! It was an interesting job tracking
it down and verifying its authenticity.

The first ref erence I heard for this
quote was Jack London's 1908 Iron
Heel. And although the quote indeed

00), Jack Lon
ffered neither context nor source,

More recently, David Korten Ts

When Corporations Rule the
World (1995, Kumarian Press), sources

the qubte to Harvey Wasserman

Lincoln Foresaw:

of our own
ing) that we can find ourselves in that
we make poverty a likely eventuality. None
of these, by de wae oe ightest
ing to do with racism. One is being a
high school drop out. In this day and age,
even a high school graduate who doesn Tt
pursue further education " either aca-
demic or ional " exposes himself
or herself to the risk of being eventually
being counted among the nation's poor.
Another is being an unwed mother or
being the child of an unwed mother. Still
others are being a thief, robber or'a dope
dealer or user. And of course being an
abuser of alcohol. None of these lead to
success and all should be avoided at all
costs.
Even these situations, though, don't
have to be permanent. The alcoholic,
the shopaholic, the crack addict or any

(America Born and Reborn, Macmillan,
1983, p. 89-90, 313), who in turn
sources it to Paha the news-
paper of the Black Hills Alliance, Rapid
City, South Dakota, 4 March 1982. But
given Wasserman T ties to Howard Zinn,
and his status as co-founder (?) of the
Liberation News Service, citing that kind
of trail is like waving a red flag for the
skeptics ;-)

Fortunately, after some
in the university library, | was able to
confirm its authenticity. Here it is, with
more surrounding context:

oWe may congratulate ourselves
that this cruel war is nearing its end.

It has cost a vast amount of treasure
and blood. .. .

It has indeed been a trying hour
for the Republic; but I see in the near
future a crisis approaching that unnerves
me and causes me to tremble for the
safety of my country. As a result of the
wat, Corporations have been enthroned
and an era of corruption in high places
will follow, and the money power of the
country will endeavor to prolong its
reign by working upon the prejudices
of 9 soda all wealth is
gated in a few hands and the Republic
is a

I feel at this moment more anxic
for the safety of my country than ever
before, even in the midst of war,

God grant that my suspicions may

Corporations Being o
Civil War and Re-Writing the Laws Defining Thei

ng

sequently, 57% of all drug offenders in
o

state prison, and 41% of federal drug
offenders, are Black.

Kemba Smith was a casualty of
America Ts owar on drugs. ? Like the New
York University student, Kemba was a
college student in 1995 at Hampton
University. But unlike the New York
University student, Kemba never
handled or sold drugs but was in an abu-
sive relationship with a drug dealer.
Unlike the New York University-student,
Kemba is Black, which is a critical dis-
tinction.

Law enforcement spent months
trying to make a case against Kemba Ts
boyfriend, but he was murdered before

olice could catch him. Incredibly,
Kemba was sentenced under federal sen-
tencing guidelines to nearly 25 years in
prison Be her dbase t ? in the crack
Cocaine conspiracy. Altho rosecu-
tors admicned thre she ee sold
drugs, Kemba was held accountable for

forces on the ground to challenge the
former military from seizing control of

the region. It seems thiat by eine they |

do have the necessary forces they wi
wake up to find themselves bunkmates
with the very forces they claim to want
to keep out of power. This does not bode
well for the inhabitants of Port au Prince
should a natural disaster ever strike the
ital to combine with the current po-
litical disaster as it has in Gonaives.

In the end, the UN and Latortue
are victims of their own failed policies
and ultimately the failed policy of the
Bush administration in Haiti. The ones

course they have set themselves upon.
Keepin mind that racism doesn Tt make
an alcoholic, a dropout or an unwed
mother. Similarly, racism does not per-
petuate crack addiction, thievery or any
of the other abusive and economically
punitive behavior patterns we adopt "
only ignorance does.

Here's what racism can do. It can
retard job promotional opportunities
even alter we have adequately prepared
ourselves.It can allow a lesser capable
companieis secure a major contract that
will net millions of dollars. And it can
prevent us from securing a job we want
at a time we really want it But even in
those instances, only poverty can result
if we give up " and I submitted that
giving up isan act of ignorance. Racism
must be fought " not submitted to.

Ignorance is not limited to a lack of

undless, ? spl
ina m
Lincoln to ( ) Wiliam F Elkins, Nov.
21, Fort clable
ora pedigree
The Lincoln Encyclopedia, by Archer
H. cy ( i » 1950, NY). That
traces the quote Ts lineage to page 954 in
another book on Abrahart T fcoln: A
New Portrait, (Vol. 2) by Emanuel Hertz
(Horace Liveright Inc, 1931, NY).
Based on 3 hrs of research, it
ITIZED FOR OUR PROTE
TION. The Hidden Lincoln; from the
Letters and Papers of William H.
n, by Emanuel Hertz (Viking
Press, 1938, NY), details how Herndon
(Lincoln's lifelong law partner) collected
an extensive oral history and aggregated
much of Lincoln's itings into a collec-
tion that served as the basis for many oau-
thoritative ? books on Lincoln,

» cite p. 40 of

oThey are aiming, first, to do a su-
petb piece of literary work; second, to
repair | SES

| em-
hasis ] It will result in delineat-
f the real Lincoln about as well as does

a wax figure in

the crack cocaine distributed by her

boyfriend. It wasn Tt until President
Clinton granted ayaa: for
clemency that she was finally freed after
serving 6 ¥ years of her sentence.

e contrast between the stories of

these two young women " one white,
one Black ~ and the criminal just
tem's treatment of them is as stark as
day and night. Itis the result of policies
that wage owar ? on one community and
treat oepidemics ? in another. Until we

expose the color of justice, the color of

incarceration, and the harmful racial
undercurrent of our criminal justice phi-
losophies, we will continue to be a na-
tion that attacks its people of color, par-

dons the transgressions of the privileged,

and builds an economy that thrives
upon caging Black bodies.

Ryan Paul Haygood is an attorney in
New York City

of Storms

who will suffer the most as a result of .

these failures are the very people they
Claim to have éome fiothis fsland nation
to help. The disregard for institutions
destroyed during the Jatest coup and the
lack of planning and,response for natu-
ral disasters onl symptom ofa politi-
cal storm that is far from over in Haiti "
a storm that is being fed by poor politi-
cal judgment. Sadly, this has resulted in

more needless suffering for the people of

Haiti during this time of crisis,

Kevin Pina is an independent jour-
nalist, filmmaker and currently resides
in Haiti.

academic . It can and often isa
refusal to face the world Ts contradic-
tions realistically. It can and often is our
refusal to realize mat what punishes one
of us can ultimately punish us all. It is
our failure to understand the necessity
to address the evils of racism collectively
regardless of the diverse nature of our
Current circumstances,

Black America, because of racisim,
can ill afford class division. Black
America, because of racism, has but one
collective defense to it and that is unity.
Finally, there Ts an old axiom that I to-
tally agree with that is appropriate to
this discussion: oIf you're not a part of
= solution, then you're part of the prob-

Nona isa noted pours andi
ternationally recognized scholar and lec-
turer on th subject of African-American
History and socio-economic affairs.) ?

In several books, I found numer-
ous places where Lincoln spoke about
Capital and Labor ( oWogki en ?). Lin-
coln re-used his own materi frequently,
and virtually identical Passages appear
in several places. Lincoln praises the monal
rightness of both Capital and Labor, but

is is invariably in the context of a na-
tion where NO MORE THAN ONE
MAN IN EIGHT is a Capitalist or a
Laborer, ie, where 7/8 of the population

are eerie on their own farms

This social context of general self-
sufficiency would explain how Lincoln
could serve for years as a railroad co,
ration lawyer with (apparently) no

ms, yet pen the ocorporations en-

ined ? passage to Elkins.
A final Lincoln ar although it
pertains to one very specific case:
oThese capitalists generally act har-
moniously and.in concert to fleece the
people, and now that they have got
into a quarrel with themselves, we are
called upon to a propriate the people's
money to settle the quarrel. ?
_ this speech was made to the Illi-

nois legislature in Jan. 1837,
See Vol. 1, p. 24 of Lincoln's complete
5)

Works, Ed. by Nicolay and Hay, 1

Rick Crawford can be e-mailed at
crawford @cs, ucdavis,edy - College of Engi-
neering, Univ. of California, Davis

WASHINGTON (NNPA) - Lucenia
Williams-Dunn, mayor of ly all-Black
Tuskegee Ala, bles her cg oamene
the most insecure in the nation. All 60
members of its local National Guard unit,
ice Company, have

that, Ti sits between two military
bases that feel could become terrorist

targets. .

caso tension because we live be
tween some major military depots, ?
Williams- Dunn whoee cy so es
Black. oTerrorism becomes a reality when

500 Ready Reservists Seek oldi From Reactivation, Risk AWOL Status

diers Slow

By Tom Squitieri, USA TODAY

Fewer than two-thirds of the former
soldiers being reactivated for duty in
Iraq and elsewhere have el on
time, prompting the Army to threaten
some with punishment for desertion.

The former soldiers, part of what
is known as the Individu Ready Re-
serve (IRR), are being recalled to fill
shortages in skills needed for the con-
flicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Of the 1,662 ready reservists or-
dered to report to Fort Jackson, S.C.,
by Sept. 22, only 1,038 had done so,
the Army said Monday. About 500 of
those who failed to report have re-
quested exemptions on health or per-
sonal grounds,

China tells its arm

BEIJING - On September 30th,
Reuters News reported that the Chi-
nese Communist Party chief and
President Hu Jintao has urged the
People Ts Liberation Army (BLA) to
prepare for a military struggle, but
stopped short of singling out rival
Taiwan as the target.

Many security analysts see the
Taiwan Strait as the most danger-
ous flashpoint in Asia. China claims
sovereignty over Taiwan and has
threatened. to attack if the demo-
cratic island of 23 million people
declares independence.

Hu, who assumed the role of
military chief less than two weeks
ago, told the 2.5-million-strong
PLA to oseize the moment and doa
good job of preparing for a military
struggle ?, the People Ts Daily and the

Nig

NEW YORK (AP) - Thé African Union

to help end the looting and killing in

western Sudan, but it needs hundreds

of millions of dollars to deploy the force

and so far it Ts received just $20 million,

ys Nigerian President Olusegun
jo.

oThe troops are ready, ? said
Obasanjo, the current president of the
53-nation regional bloc. oThe first
pledge which we got was from Canada, ?
which contributed $20 million Wednes-
day, but the vastly expanded force now
needed ohundreds of millions. ?

In an interview in his hotel suite on

Deaths

GENEVA (NNPA) - The high mortal-
ity rates documented by the World
Organization in the past few
weeks in camps of internally displaced
People in the region of Darfur in west-
ern Sudan are comparable to those seen
in Rwanda during the genocide of
1994, said an expert from the United
Nations agency.
WHO does not describe what is oc-
curring in Darfur as genocide, but it did
not use that term to classify the mass kill-

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leaders. They've got t begin to focus
te smal ul ns bate eae
protected ed group pro-

Whether whole cities, rural and ur-
ban, families or individuals, people across
the nation are being impacted by the
Hah number of National Guard sol-

i deployed to ) Currently more than
159,700 in Iraq and Kuwait alone. They
account for at least 40 percent of the U.S.

oThe numbers did not look good, ?
said Lt. Col. Burton Masters, a spokes-
man for the Army's Human Resources
Command. oWe are tightening the sys-
tem, reaching the people and ringing
them in. ?

Masters said most of the requests
for exemptions are likely to be denied:
oTo get an exemption, it has to be a
very compelling case, such as'a severe
medical condition. ?

The figures are the first on the IRR
call-up. They reflect the challenges the
Pentagon faces in trying to find enough
troops for ongoing operations and show
resistance among some servicemembers
who returned to civilian life.

The ready reserve is an infre-
quently used pool of former soldiers

Liberation Army Daily said of
Thursday. .

Hu did not say against whom
the struggle might be fought. But
on Wednesday, a spokesman for
china Ts policymaking Taiwan Af-

i

fairs Office accused Taiwan Premier
Yu Shyi-kun of clamouring for war
with flere to fire missiles at Shang-

eria Troops Ready To

Wednesda night, Obasanjo expressed
hope that the nited States will be more
generous in helping Sudan's conflict-
wracked region than it was in last
year's Liberia crisis when it offered $200
million to help stabilize and rebuild the
country. .

On Saturday, the U.N. Security
Council adopted a resolution strong]
endorsing the deployment of a beefed-
up African Union force with an ex-
panded monitoring mission that would
actively try to prevent attacks and medi-
ate to stop the conflict from escalating, It
threatens oil sanctions if the government
doesn't move quickly to help stop the

Rise In
ings of around 800,000 people in
Rwanda either, said David Nabarro,
WHO director general representative for
Health Action esis

In some of the camps, the mortali
rates registered by the teams of WH
and Su Health Ministry staff were
as high as 3.8 deaths per 10,000 people
a day - several times the highest mortal-
ity rate in poor African communities not
in crisis, which is 0.6 deaths per 10,000.

Nabarro said the threshold for an
emergency situation is one death a day
per 10,000 people.

oThese mortality figures are a source
of considerable concern for us and
frankly a source of sadness, ? the U.N.
official told reporters in Geneva Mon-

, He said that after'six months of hu-
manitarian efforts in Darfur, owe would
expect...to be seeing death rates of be-
low one per 10,000 per day. ?

The results of the investigation car-
tied out between Jun. 15 and Aug. 15
in three areas of Darfur indicate that
mortality rates are higher than those reg-
istered during the crises in East Timor
and the Balkans, and in Iraq during the
first Gulf War in 1991, said Nabars,

He said the conditions in Darfur
were more difficult than the i 5
tacked Iraq, which is occupied by Us.
led coalition forces that invaded the
try in March 2003.

In North Darfur, where there are
around 380,000 displaced people, the
mortality rate stood at 1.5 ge 10,000
people, and at 2.5 per 10, among
childre:

ren under five.

In western Darfur, the mortality rate
was 2.9 per 10,000, and in the only
camp that the teams of experts were able

coun-

THE POWER
OF THE
BLACK VOTE
IS USING IT...
NOV. 2ND!!

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i. a) * Pome ae oe, Bane Mah tebe e gy sce

military forces serving in those two ad-. Iraq's first military police academy. In total,
joi ing countice , _ approximately Lon more than a third

Teskegee is located between Max of Alabama's 11,600 National Guard
well-Gunter Air Force base in Mot troops, have been deployed to ,
ery and Fort Benning Army Base in cor Williams-Dunn has reason to be con-
gia. cerned says Edwin Dorn, former under

oSo, we're kind of in the middle of secretary of defense for personnel and readi-
all of this, ? the mayor says. oThat givesus ness in the Clinton Administration, but
alittle ing. ? not for the reason she thinks.

Alabama National Guard Spokes- oTerrorists tend to go after soft tar-
man Col. Robert Horton says the 60 gets and highly i and a mili-
Tuskegee Guard members, apart of the _ tary base, whi tends to be very spread
130-member 214th, headquartered in out, would probably not produce the kind
Alexandria City, Ala., recently returned of affect that a terrorist organization wants
home after being on a mission to train the to produce, ? says Dorn, now dean of the
Iraqi police force and helping to establish Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Af.

who can be called to duty in a national
emergency or war. On June 29, the
Army announced it would call 5,674

_ members of its IRR back to active duty

this year and next.

Several of those who received re-
call notices have already been declared
AWOL (absent without official leave)
and technically are considered desert-
ers. oWe are not in a rush to put some-
one in the AWOL category, T Masters
said. oWe contact them and convince
them it is in their best interests to show
up. If you are.a deserter, it can affect
you the rest of your life. ?

Fourteen people were listed as
AWOL last week; six subsequently told
the Army they would report. Punish-
ment for being AWOL is up to the unit

hai if the PLA attacked the self-ruled
island.

Taiwan needed a counter-strike
capability, Yu said in defence of
plans to buy T$610.8 billion
(US$18.2 billion) worth of weap-
ons from the United States.

He made the remarks hours be-
fore thousands of people took to the
streets of Taipei on Saturday to de-
mand the government scrap the
weapons package they said would
trigger an arms race with China and
Squeeze social welfare and state
spending on education.

Tension between China and
Taiwan has been simmering since
the re-election in March of the
island Ts President Chen Shui-bian,
who Beijing is convinced will push
for statehood during his second

whey

attacks, ? tte

The resoltition owill caution the
government of Sudan to know that the
world is not just folding its hands look-
ing - and that the Sudanese government
cannot do what it likes, ? Obasanjo said.

oThe internal affairs of every coun-
try today is the concern of the interna-
tional community and more so, in Af-
rica, the concern of the AU, ? he said.

The African Union currently has
about 80 military observers in -a
region about the size of France - pro-
tected by just over 300 Soldiers, moni-
toring a rarely observed cease-fire signed
in April by the government and rebels.

Darfu...

to visit in the southern part of the re-
ion, Kalma Camp, the rate climbed to
38 deaths per 10,000.

Nabarro explained that the teams
of WHO and Sudanese Health Ministry
officials were unable to visit other camps
in the south due to the violence and

ts.

oWe were unable to complete the
survey as planned, ? said the official. oIn
some areas the settlements were inacces-
sible because there was fighting going
on and because our survey team...was
held up at gun point. The experience
was sufficiently unsettling that we de-
cided 19 suspend data collection for a

But Nabarro added that when the
experts realised how high the death rates
were, owe decided we have to report it,
even ifit is incomplete. ?

In all three regions of Darfur, the
main cause of death was diarrhoea, while
oinjuries and violence ? were responsible
for perhaps 20 percent of the deaths,
and fever and pneumonia were to blame
for another large proportion, according
to the study. .

One-fourth of those interviewed in
the camps said their main source of wa-
ter was ounprotected wells ?, one-third
said they had no access to latrines, 45
percent had no soap, and one-third had
not received food rations in the past
month.

However, Nabarro refused to define ° the h

the mortality statistics as formin part of
a broader context of Tgenocide ?, a term
that political leaders in some countries
have recently begun to use to describe
what is occurring in Sudan,

oTcannot comment on that because |
in no way can our report be.used to infer
cue ali not, ? said the WHO official,

?,? cannot say that this is due to any
kind of systematic violence. ?

Secretary of State Colin Powell told
the Senate Foreign Relations Commit-
tee last Thursday, that he had reached
the conclusion that what was occurring
in Darfur amounted to genocide against
the majority black population.

"He said the government of Sudan
and ethnic Arab militias known as
Janjaweed - armed men on horseback -

- o.e, 2 bem so dm 2. 2.

to Report

commander and can include prison time
and dishonorable discharge, said Col.
Joseph Curtin, an Army spokesman.

With a force that generals say is
stretched thin, the Army is considering
$1,000-a-month bonuses to ex-soldiers
who volunteer to return for overseas
duty.

Ready reservists are soldiers who
were honorably discharged after finish-
ing their active-duty tours, usually four
to six years, but remain part of the IRR
for the rest of their original eight-year
commitment. The IRR call-up is the
first major one in 13 years, since 20,277
troops were ordered back for the Per-
sian Gulf War.

Tom Squitieri writes for USA Today

y to be ready for war

four-year term.

Beijing and Taipei have been
rivals since their split at the end of the
Chinese civil war in 1949, but trade,
investment and tourism have blos-

somed since detente in the late 1980s. .

Hu also urged the PLA, the
world Ts biggest army, to ocomprehen-
siyely revelutionise modernise and
standardise ?, newspapers said. No
details were given.

Hu, 61, replaced Jiang Zemin,
78, as chairman of the Central Mili-
tary Commission on Sept. 19, com-
pleting the most orderly leadership
succession in the 55 years since the
Communist Party took power.

The following day he promoted .

two senior officers in a move that
was likely to help consolidate his
position in the PLA.

The conflict began when two

Darfur rebel groups with roots in the

: regions ethnic African tribes tose up in
ruary

F 2003, accusing the Arab-domi-
nated government in Rharroura of ie-
glect and discrimination. The govern-
ment is accused of trying to suppress
the rebellion by backing ethnic Arab
herdsmen known as Janjaweed

During the past 19 months, over
50,000 people have been killed, doz-
ens of lag have been burned, and
over 1.2 million people have fled their
homes. The United Nations calls in the
world Ts worst humanitarian crisis and
the U.S. Congress has called it geno-
cide, a label Obasanjo i with
because he does not see deliberate tar-
geting of a religious, racial or ethnic

group.

ings in Darfur.

The conflict, which erupted in
2003, involves the Janjaweed, which
have been accused of massacres, gang

rapes, abductions, torching villages and
crops and slaughtering cattle belonging
to members of black ethnic groups in
Darfur: the Fur, Masalit and wa.

The Sudanese government has not
only been accused of creating the mili-
tias but also of turning a blind eye to
their continued killings. An estimated
50,000 black Africans have been slain
and over 1.5 million displaced in Darfur,

he black ethnic groups formed the
Sudan Liberation Army and the Justice
and Equality Movement to counter the

awed

Janj :

The U.N. describes the humanitar-

ian crisis as the worst in the world.

he European Union, which also
refrains from using the term genocide,
said the government in Khartoum has
failed to take the necessary steps to dis-
arm the Janjaweed militias, as demanded
bya Jul. 30 U.N. Security Council reso-
lution.

Foreign Minister Bernard Bot of the
Netherlands, which currently holds the
EU rotating presidency, said the 25-na-
tion bloc may apply sanctions against
Sudan if progress is not seen in the hu-
manitarian situation in Darfur.

Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa
Osman Ismail accused the U.S. govern-
ment of manipulating information on

¢ humanitarian crisis in Sudan.

The U.S. government is planning
on using Sudan, as it did with Iraq, as a
oscapegoat...for its own political agenda ?
ahead of the November presidential elec-
tions, said Ismail during a visit to Stuth
Korea. |

The problem in Darfur is not a ques-
tion of genocide, but a conflict between
nomadic and agricultural tribes, the min-

ister argued.
abarro said U.N. agencies must
work hard to improve supplies of clean
water and bring hygiene and health in-
stallations to all of the camps of displaced
persons in Darfur. He also insisted that
security must be eee and the
administration of the camps improved,
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fairs at the University of Texas at Austin.
oBut, she is on to something else, which is
that because police and firemen make up
a tage of the guard around the
states, Tuskegee and a lot of other areas are
less capable of dealing with any kind of
disaster than they were before the Iraq in-
vasion :

Such circumstances get little empa-
thy from the Guard itself. ms

oQuite obviously we know that any
time the Guard Se it Se urs of
strife toa » j. J
M. Toniolli eee forthe Neal
Guard Bureau Public Affairs in Arling-
ton, Va. oIt Ts not chat we can look and
necessarily go, Oh, we can't take
from there because ¥¢ would hurt ¢ t
whole town. T It Ts, oWe need this parti
talent and people have a talent. They are
experts in their jobs. Otherwise, they
wouldn't be in the Guard. ?

Alabama National Guard spokesman
Norman Arnold says Tuskegee is in no

oTt Ts been trying and demanding for
families, ? he says. oWe can respond across
the state to any types of national emergen-
Cies as quickly and efficiently, I think, that
we have in the past. ?

uring the Vietnam era, men joined
the Nati Guard to avoid going to war.
The military draft was discontinued in
1973, easing the interest in joinihg the
Guard.

Enlistees in the National Guard and
all other military service are voluntary.
Many signed up for various reasons, in-

ing patriotism, educational benefits ot

use they have certain skills training,
not expecting that they would be called
to active duty, atte not in Iraq and

But they guessed wrong. Many of
tsar in their 40s, 50s,

o ir prime fighti Conse-
quently family units ere best effected
when one of its members are to ser-
vice.

Sgt. First Class Daniel Hawkins, 42,
of the 1297 Combat Support Battalion
of the Maryland Army National Guard is
Heis prepar-
ing for deployment for the first time in his
nearly 25-year military career. He will be
leaving for Iraq on Sept. 9.

An accountant by trade, Hawkins,
42, has worked behind a desk on person-
nel issues and human resources manage-
ment in the Guard for the past 15 years.
He volunteered for deployment to Saudi
Arabia in i Storm, but was
were needed in Maryland. He isn't as for-
tunate this-time around.

Actress Fields
Urges Aid for

f

hg

Kim Fields
NEW YORK (AP) " Actress Kim
Fields, who recently learned that she has
roots in the Caribbean, is enlisting other
celebrities to help the region recover from
the hurricanes. .

Fields is producing public service
announcements for television and radio
in which actors such as Blair Underwood
ask viewers to support an aid campaign

sponsored by the Caribbean Tourism

India Ts economy grows

Indias economy expanded 7.4 per-
cent in the April-June quarter, surpass-
ing expectations and prompting some
economists to revise their full-year

forecasts.

The latest government data, re-
leased Thursday, showed that a pickup
in new investments by Indian businesses
and brisk growth in the services sector
led the economy's expansion.

Domestic companies have been
bullish on new projects since India T gross
domestic product - the total value of
goods and services produced by a coun-
try - expanded 8.2 percent in the last

fiscal year, its highest growth rate in 15
years.

During the April-June period, this

year Ts Rest uarter, manufacturing
output in 8 percent. On the ser-
vices side, trade, hotels and transporta-
ion grew 11 percent, compared with
the same period a year earlier, said the

~ Central Statistical Organization, Agricul-

ture grew 3.4 percent.

The market cheered the news
and the benchmark index of the
Bombay Stock Exchange, the Sensex,

closed 56 points, or 1 percent, higher
Thursday, In early ing Friday, the
market was bullish.

Even though oagriculture output

is below trend, it is eartening to see
that the cyclical momentum (in indus-
Wind services) continues tobe stro .

ishlaya Pathak, an economist with
Standard Chartered Bank, told Dow
Jones Newswires.

Newspaper Page 3

been pretty much home state, ? says

Heed in Maryland. So we have things to

Prepare o

lies.

Though he is uncertain exactl
where he will be stationed, Hawkins say
he comforts his wife of 16 years; his

tet, 15; and son, 10, by assuring them
int adenine

his duties are
~ not combat. oI say, I can Tt see it bei
that bad. ? being

Of soldiers on active duty, 22 per-
cent are Black. Twelve percent of African
Americans are of military age. And it Ts not
just the seasoned troops who're caught off
guard.

Beauty queen, Mise Ti ; Uni-
versity Margaret Tiffeny Gunn, 23,
ated in May 2003 and found heed
Ployed to Iraq a year later. Queen of her

iddle school, high school and college,
Gunn, a second lieutenant in the 50 1st
Military Intelligence Battalion of the First
Armored Division of the U. S. Army, was
excited to go, according to her father, re-
tired Army Reserve Col. William Gunn.

oTeall a part of duty, honor, coun-
try, ? says Gunn. He says his daughter
served three months to replace rotati
soldiers this summer before she returned
to Germany, but she is slated to return to
jeateatly next year for another 12 months,

?,? says

A recent college graduate, Gunn had

not begun exploring the job market out-

num-
bers of National ieee
are reportedly complaining that their U.
S. civilian employers have not reserved
their jobs, benefits or promotions. A 1994
federal law guarantees active duty Na-
tional Guard troops their old or equiva-
lent jobs back upon arrival home.

Himself military man,Gunn says
he is aware that he, too, could be calledto

return to active duty under President
Bushs new recall plan that is activating
some retirees.

More than 45,000 individuals have
been mobilized more than once between *

den 2001 and May 31 this year,
according to the most recent Department
of Defense stats,
his Ne as enthusiastic as he was about
is daughter going to Iraq, Gunn was
uick to respond with a chuckle about
?,? prospects of his being called: oLet Ts
hope not. ?

Hazel Trice Edney isan NNPA Washing-

ton correspondent.

Organization and its Web site,
www.onecaribbean.or
Fields, who TV shows

oThe Facts of Life ? aad ey oe

also plans to organize a series of concerts

to benefit those islands hit hardest by ,

the storms.

oThe Caribbean is a favorite vaca-
t for many people, myself in-

tion
cluded, ? Underwood, whose latest show
is NBC's oLAX, ? says in one of the ads.
oRecent hurricanes have disrupted many

Caribbean countries. ? He then asks view-
generously ? to the relief effort.

ers to opi

Fields announced the aid campaign
at a news conference Wednesday in New
York where she showed the ad turing
Underwood.

She added that oafter proddin my .
" 90-something-year-old grandmother, I

recently discovered that my great-grand-
parents are from Jamaica. ? She also said
me and worked in the Car-
i and enjoyed m snmecaely
Fields il oh who
have pledged to help out include actors
Flex Alexander ( oOne on One ?), Duane
Martin ( oAlll of Us ?) ap -
Martin ( oMy Wife and Kids ?), an sing-
ers Anthony Hamilton and India.Arie.

The majority of Caribbean islands

were untouched by the hurricanes, but
the storms caused extensive eona
handful of islands. Haiti, Gran Cay-
man, Grenada, Grand Bahama, Jamaica,
the Dominican Republic, St. Vincent
and the Grenadines, the Turks & Caicos
islands and Cuba were the hardest hit.

7.4 percent
Several economists and research
ies earlier predicted that economic
growth for the fiscal year ending March
005 would be significantly lower than
during last year, because of a drought in
some parts of the country and high oil
prices that have pushed up inflation.

The government has said it would
be happy to see growth touch 6.5 per-
cent this year.

But the first fiscal figures have raised
hopes that stronger growth in manufac-
turing and services will more than offset
the impact of a bad crop.

¢ industrial and services sectors
account for 75 percent of India Ts GDP.
while the farm sector _ which employs
nearly two-thirds of the country Ts work
force _ contributes a quarter of the na-
tional output.

oServices and manufacturing will be
the key growth drivers, ? Pathak said,
adding that he planned to revise upward
his earlier full-year growth estimate of 6
percent.

Some analysts believe high oil prices
and inflation will not harm growth as
much as earlier feared.

oThe impact of the monsoon and

oil prices is overestimated, ? said Domin-

ique Dwor-Frecaut, emerging market
strategist at Barclays Santa re, |
n

oWe haven't yet seen the impact o the

monsoon season, but I think we °

wil continue to be surprised on the up-
side, |
Dwor-Frecaut expects T India Ts

economy to expand 7.5 percent this year,

They must also prepare their fami- .

ws

By Mike McLaughlin

RALEIGH - North Carolina is no
stranger to discussions about race rela-
Gons. But recent research from the North
Carolina Center for Public Policy Re-
search shows the need to change the fo-
cus of the discussion from the a to
the concrete. What should North Caro-
lina do about real numbers that show
wide disparities in public policy out-
comes by race and ethnicity across a
broad-range of indicators - in education,
economic well-bei ing, voter par-
ticipation. Internet access, health, and
criminal justice?

The Center for Public Policy Re-
search believes this conversation should
take place at the highest level of govern-
ment. That's why we recommend after
more than a year of study that the next
Governor of North Carolina - whether
its the Democratic incumbent Gov.
Mike or the Republican

Patrick Ballentine - convene a Governor's

Poor,

by Mike Davis

The evacuation of New Orleans in
the face of Hurricane Ivan Jooked sinis-
terly like Strom Thurmond Ts version of
the Rapture. Affluent white people fled
the Big Easy in their SUVs, while the
old and car-less - mainly Black - were left
behind in their below-sea-level shotgun
shacks and aging tenements to face the
watery wrath.

New Orleans had spent decades
preparing for inevitable submersion by
the storm surge of a class-five hurricane.
Civil defense officials conceded they had
ten thousand body bags on hand to deal
with the worst-case scenario. But no one
seemed to have bothered to devise a plan
to evacuate the city Ts poorest or most in-
firm residents. The day before the hurri-
cane hit the Gulf Coast, New Orlean Ts
daily, the Times-Picayune, ran an alarm-
ing story about T the olarge
group. ..mostly concentrated in poorer

ut couldnt.

Only at the last moment, with
winds churning Lake Pontchartrain, did
Mayor Ray Nagin reluctantly open the
Louisiana Superdome and a few schools

ate

to desperate residents. He was report-

edly worried that lower-class refugees
might damage or graffiti the § me.

wir the event, Ivan the Terk spared
New Orleans, but official callousness to-
ward poor Black folk endures.

Over the last generation, City Hall
and its entourage of powerful develop-
ers have relentlessly attempted to push
the poorest segment of the population -
blamed for the city Ts high crime rates -
across the Mississippi river. Historic Black
public-housing projects have been razed
to make room (or upper-income
townhouses and a Wal-Mart. In other

Ousing projects, residents are routinely
evicted tor offenses as trivial as their
children Ts curfew violations. The ultimate
goal seems to be a tourist theme-park

ew Orleans - one big Garden District -
with chronic poverty hidden away in
bayous, trailer parks and prisons outside

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Disparities in Pub cy Outcom
Governor Ts Summit on Racial and E

Summit on Racial and Ethnic Dispari-

ties in North Carolina. Such a gathe represented among students suspended Health outcomes represent yet an-
would allow the governor to chartaclear _ or expelled from =, bor other area where disparities emerge for
course for pr toward a North Garo- he gap-in education outcomes minorities. African Ameri Na-
lina where all are progressing toward feeds into a wide gap in economic well- tive Americans have death rates higher
higher ground and no race or ethnicity is being. White per capita income- that is than the white majority for almost every
left behind. annual income pet person - averages major cause of death, including heart dis-
The evidence for a gap in public $23,237. This is more than Asians at case, stroke, AIDS, and diabetes-related
policy outcomes by race and ethnicity is $19,815, more than African Americans _ causes. Infarit mortality also is elevated
clear and comipelling. Consider these at $13,548, more than Native Ameri- for African Americans and Native Ameri-
facts: cans at $13,441, and more than His- cans. And, in terms of revention, all mi-
In education, whites and Asians con- panics at $11,097. This puts Hispanics _ nority groups are less li to have health
tinue to score higher than other racial _at only 48 percent of whites T per capita _ insurance than whites and are less likely
and ethnic groups on such indicators as_income. Poverty rates show the disparity _to have seen a doctor in the past year.
performing at ot above grade level on ; even more starkly. Only 8.1 percent of The sispenttics cxaend to voter reg-
end-of-grade tests, enrolling in advanced ° whites live in poverty-in North Carolina _ istration an voting as well. While 72

placement classes and classes for gifted
students, graduating from high school,
scoring on Scholastic Achievement Tests
required for college admission, and
graduating from college Meanwhile, Af-
rican Americans are over-represented in
special education classes where selection
criteria are more subjective, such as classes
for behaviorally or emotionally disabled

the city limits.

But New Orleans isn Tt the only case-
study in what Nixonians once called othe
politics of benign neglect. ? In Los Ange-

?,?s, County supervisors have just an-

nounced the closure of the trauma cen-
ter at Martin Luther King Jr. Hospital
near Watts. The hospital, located in the
epicenter of LA Ts gang wars, is one of the
nation Ts busiest centers for the treatment
of gunshot wounds. The loss of its ER,
according to paramedics, could oadd as
much as 30 minutes in transport time to
other facilities. ?

The result, almost certainly, will be
a spate of avoidable deaths. But then
again the victims will be Black or Brown
and poor.

On the fiftieth anniversary of the
1964 Civil Rights Act, the United States
seems to have returned to degree zero of
moral concern for the majority of descen-

atone

or mentally disabled. They also are over-

- defined as $12,490 in annual income
for a family of two - compared to 21

percent of Native Americans, 23 percent
of African Americans, and 25 percent of
Hispanics. The bottom line: an African-
American family is almost three times
more likely to live in poverty than a white
family, and an Hispanic family is more
than three times as likely to live in pov-

Black and Left Behind

dants of slavery and segregation.
Whether the Black poor live or die seems
to merit only haughty disinterest and
indifference. Indeed, in terms of the life-
and-death issues that matter most to Af-
rican-Americans - structural unemploy-

Ment, race-based super-incarceration,

police brutality, disappearing affirmative
action programs, and failing schools - the
present presidential election might as
well be taking place in the 1920s.
But not all the blame can be as-
signed to the current occupant of the
former slave-owners T mansion at the end
of Pennsylvania Avenue. The mayor of
New Orleans, for example, is a Black
Democrat, and Los Angeles County isa
famously Democratic Bastion. No, the
political invisibility of people of color is a
strictly bipartisan endeavor. On the
Democratic side, it is the culmination of

the long crusade waged by the Demo-

ethers
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lic Policy Outcom

percent of voting-age whites are regis-
tered to vote, only 63 percent of African

Americans and only 12 percent of His-
nis ar regiteed to vor Annas
y The Charlotte Observer of 82 coun-

ties in the 2000 election found that 58.9

rcent of voting-age whites cast a bal-

(oe but only 47.7 percent of African

Americans and 8.4 percent of Hispanics

t

Pethaps the most striking disparity
in public policy outcomes occurs in
criminal justice. Minorities make up 67

rcent of the state Ts prison population
bur only 29 percent of the state's overall

ulation. And, among the findings in
study by two Univer of Nor Coe
lina law professors was that persons con-
victed of murder were almost twice as
likely to get the death penalty if the vic-
tim were white than if the victim were
minority. .

The Center's dial pees found
disparities across racial ic groups
in such areas as whether a home has a
complete kitchen or indoor plumbing,
whether a family could afford its
monthly rent, and in Internet access and
computer use.

State government has the power to
address almost all of these areas of dis-
parity, and the Center is not the only
group to have pointed out the need to
address them. A Governor Ts Summit on

s Show Need for
hnic Disparities

Racial and Ethnic Disparities would
rovide a great opportunity to examine
potential Sohutlons to racial and ethnic
disparities and put the power of th
state's highest office behind eliminating
these persistent differences in public
policy outcomes. The Center urges the
candidates for Governor to commit to
calling such a summit and urges citizens
to ask each candidate how they plan to
act on these challenges.

Copies of the issue of North Caro-
lina Insight containing the Center's re-
search on race, ethnicity, and related
public policy outcomes are available for
$20, which includes tax, postage, and
handling. To order, write the Center at
P.O. Box 430, Raleigh, NC 27602, call
(919) 832-2839, fax (919) 832-2847,
or order by email from
tbromley@nccppr.org. For more infor-
mation, contact Mike McLaughlin, edi-
tor. North Carolina Insight, at the North
Carolina Center for Public Policy Re-
search, (919) 832-2839,

cratic Leadership Council (DLC) to ex-
orcise the specter of the 1980s Rainbow
tion.

The DLC, of course, has long
earned to bring white guys and fat cats
ack to a Nixonized Democratic Party.

Arguing that race had fatally divided
Democrats, the DLC has tried to bleach
the Party by marginalizing civil rights
agendas and Black leadership. African-
Americans, it is cynically assumed, will
remain loyal to the Democrats regardless
of the treasons committed against them.
They are, in effect, hostages.

Thus the sordid spectacle - por-
trayed in Fahrenheit 9/11 - of white
Democratic senators refusing to raise a
single hand in support of the Black Con-
gressional Caucus's us challenge
to the stolen election of November a.

The Kerry campaign, meanwhile,
steers a straight DLC course toward
oblivion. No Democratic presidential
candidate since E cCarthy Ts run

in 1968 has shown such Patrician dis-

dain for the Democrats T most loyal and
fundamental social base. While
Condoleezza Rice hovers, a ti t-lipped
and constant presence at Dubya Ts side,
the highest ranking, self-proclaimed oAf-
rican American ? in the Kerry camp is
Teresa Heinz ((born and raised in white-
colonial privilege).

This crude joke has been com-
pounded by Kerry's semi-suicidal reluc-
tance to mobilize Black voters, As Rain-

bow Coalition veterans like Ron Waters .

have bitterly pointed out, Kerry has been
absolutely churlish about financing voter
registration drives in African-American
communities. Ralph Nader - I fear - was
cruelly accurate when he warped recently
that othe Democrats do not win when
they do not have Jesse Jackson and Afri-

can Americans in the core of the cam-
. »

a so
In truth, Kerry, the erstwhile war
hero, is running away as hard as he can

from the sound of the cannons, whether .
in Iraq or in Ameticas equally ravaged

inner cities. The urgent domestic issue,
of course, is unspeakable socio-economic
inequality, newly deepened by fiscal
plunder and catastrophic plant closures,
But inequality still has a predominant |
color, ot, rather, colors: black and brown.

Kerry's apathetic and uncharismatic
attitude toward people of color will not
be repaired by last-minute speeches or
campaign staff appointments. Nor will
it be al for by his super-ar-
dent efforts to woo Reagan Democrats
and white males with war stories from
the ancient Mekong Delta.

A party that in every real and figu-
rative sense refuses to shelter the poor in
a hurricane is unlikely to mobilize the
moral passion necessary to overthrow
George Bush, the most hated man on

Mike Davis is the author of Dead
Cities: And Other Tales as well as Ecol-
ogy of Fear and co-author of Under the
Perfect Sun: the San Diego Tourists
Never See, among other books.

oe, lt

U.S.
By Charles Aldinger and Paul Eckert,

WASHINGTON/SEOUL, (Oct. 6) -
The United States agreed under pres-
surefrom South Korea on Wednesday
to stretch out over an additional three
years until 2008 the withdrawal of
12,500 U.S. troops trom that country.
~S. troops patrol a military base
Wednesday in South Korea,
he joint announcement came af.
ter We n had signaled in June that
it intended to remove the troops " a
third of the 37,000-strong U.S. mili-
tary presence in South Korea " by the
end of next year,
_ Under the plan, announced after
eeks of negotiations, 5,000 U.S. troops
will leave South Korea this year, 3,000
Next year, 2,000 in 2006 and the final
2,500 in 2007 and 2008.
South Korean officials had publicly

Feds Probe

WASHINGTON - The Bush
administration's Justice Department is

trying to secure the cooperation of an.

indicted businessman as it pursues Sen.
Hillary Rodham Clinton Ts 2000 Senate
campaign for possible fund-raising vio-
lations, according to interviews and
documents,

The FBI has told a U.S, magistrate
in Los Angeles it has evidence the former
first lady's campaign de iberately under-

Stated its fund-raising costs so it would

have more money to spend on elections.
Prosecutors contend that businessman
Peter Paul made donations because he
wanted a pardon from Mrs. Clinton Ts
husband.

Paul has denied he raised money
for Mrs. Clinton in order to boost his
chance for a pardon from President
Clinton, and he asserted that campaign
officials told him the contributions
would be disclosed as required by law,
his defense team said. He never received
a pardon.

Noel Hillman, the Justice
Department's top public corruption at-
torney and a career official, has met three
times - most recently in May - with law-
yers for Paul to discuss a plea deal. Jus-
tice wants to interview Paul to see
whether he can substantiate his allega-

tions that Clinton's campaign engaged

in wrongdoing, the defense lawyers said.
Pa is 2 three-time convicted felon

Extends South K

|

agreed to the pullout based on assur-
ances from the usa instration of
continued strong military support but a
uick withdrawal had ras worties in
ul because of North Korea Ts contin-
ued nuclear and missile development
programs.

oThis decision was made fully tak-
ing into account the concerns of our citi-
zens about a weakening of war deter-
rent capability against North Korea and
a security vacuum, ? said Ahn Kwang-
chan, South Korean Defense policy
planning director.

The Pentagor , in a statement re-
leased early on ednesday, strested that
the bilateral consultations had considered
public security perceptions in South Ko-
rea, aclose U.S. ally against the Commu-
nist North since the 1950-53 Korean War.

oWe have worked together closely
and there has been give and take, ? said

for Clinton Cam

who hosted a Hollywood fund-raising
event for Mrs. Clinton in 2000 and is
currently facing stock fraud charges in
New York. He alleges he underwrote
most of the costs for the event. Prosecu-
tors contend he did so in an effort to try
to win a pardon from President Clinton.

Lawyers for Mrs. Clinton and the
former chief fund-raiser for New York
Senate 2000, David Rosen, say their cli-
ents have done nothing wrong. oNew
York Senate 2000 properly reported all
donations in 2000, ? said David Kendall,
Clinton's attorney.

The investigation, which has
dragged on for more than three years,
places the past-fund-raising of one of
the Democratic Party's rising stars in the
direct sights of a Republican-run Jus-
tice Department.

Sei. Clinton is considered a pos-
sible presidential candidate in 2008 if
Sen. John Kerry loses this year. But she
first faces a re-election battle in 2006 -
possibly against former New York Ci
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani or New York
Gov. George Pataki.

Most allegations of campaign fi-
nance irregularities are handled admin-
istratively Brough the Federal Elections
Commissions, although the Justice De-
partment has investigated such matters
in the past. : .

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administration, when Attorney General

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one Pentagon official, who asked not to
be identified. But the official said Wash-

ington stood firm on the total number
o

troops to be withdrawn as part of a
global realignment of U.S. forces after
the Cold War

Ahn dismissed speculation in
South Korea that Seoul had agreed to
extend the deployment of its 3,000
troops in northern Iraq in exchange for
the U.S. timetable concession.
REMOVAL IN THREE PHASES -

The first phase of the withdrawal
will come this year when about 5,000

of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team
will Ee returned to the United States.

During the second phase, the
United States will redeploy 3,000 troops
in 2005 and another 2,000 in 2006,
the Pentagon said.

In the third and final phase duri
2007 and 2008, the United States will

Janet Reno ran the Justice Department,
a department campaign finance task
force charged more than two dozen in-
dividuals and two corporations with
fund-raising abuses that occurred in the
1996 election cycle. Many of the abuses
involved Democratic fund raising.

Documents obtained by The As-
sociated Press show an FBI agent told
the Los Angeles magistrate two years ago
that the government believes Mrs.
Clinton's campaign understated its costs
for the Paul fund raiser:

oThe event's costs exceeded $1 mil-
lion, but the required forms filed by New
York Senate 2000 ... months after the
event incorrectly disclosed that the cost
of the event was only $523,000, ? said
the 2002 FBI affidavit, which was un-
sealed in the summer. oIt appears that
the true cost of the event was deliber-
ately understated in order to increase the
amount of funds available to New York
Senate 2000 for federal campaign ac-
tivities. ?

The document also said a
$366,000 donation to the gala was in-
correctly listed as coming from the com-
pany Paul co-founded, Sean Lee Media,
waen it really came from Paul person-

y.
Hillman, chief of the Public Integ-

rity unit, has met with Paul Ts lawyers
three times - last Oct. 30, Feb. 11 and
May 25 - to discuss a possible arrange-
ment but no deal has been reached, said
Paul attorney Robert Sticht of Los An-
Reles. Sticht and lawyers for Judicial
atch, a conservative government

watchdog group, comprise Paul's defense
team.

oHillman was anxious to get mov-
ing, ? Sticht said in an interview, Sticht

. Said the public corruption prosecutor

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bring home 2,500 troops consisting pri-
marily of support units and personnel,
the Pentagon announced,

oThroughout these consultations,
the United States has made clear that it
remains committed to the defense of the
ae of Korea, to the security and
stability of the region and'to a strength-
ened Republic of Korea-U.S. alliance, ?
the Pentagon said.

oThe future of the alliance is strong
and will be adaptive to change and re-
sponsive to the needs of the Korean
people. ? .

The United States would maintain
a multiple-launch rocket system battal-«
ion and associated counter-fire radars on
the peninsula. It would also review
pFepositioned U.S. military equipment

and make adjustments as appropriate, ?
the United States said in the announce-

ment.
Violations
assure you that it Ts not true. ?

Justice Department spokesman
Mark Corallo said he had no comment.

The negotiations could help deter-
mine whether charges are brought
against people involved with Mrs.
Clinton T successful campaign for the
Senate four years ago.

Rosen, the campaign's finance di-
rector, is a subject of the criminal inves-
tigation, said legal sources who could
not be quoted by name because it is a
grand jury matter. A subject is a person
with relevant information, who later
could face potential charges

oFrom my review of, all the facts, I
am convinced that Mr. Rosen has done
nothing improper. To the contrary, he
has done everything right, ? said Paul
Mark Sandler, Rosen's attorney.

Paul alleged to the FBI that hun-
dreds of thousands of dollars contrib-
uted to Clinton's campaign went unre-
ported, much of the money payments

or the private Hollywood fund-raisin
event he hosted on Aug. 12, 2000, FBI
documents show. -

An FBI document written in 2001,
based on an interview with Paul that
year, said Rosen worked in Paul Ts office
for one month putting together the
Hollywood party. According to Paul,
Rosen watched him write checks total-
mee $1.5 million to pay for the

oPaul stated that none of the cam-
paign reports list the names of the com-
Panies used by him to pay for the party, ?
an FBI document said.

Another 2001 FBI document

ased on an interview with Paul said,
oPaul advised that David Rosen sat in
on every planning meeting (for) this
event and met every supplier. ?

The indictment against Paul does r
not mention campaign contributions, .
ut a prosecution memo by Assistant }

USS. Attorney Catherine Youssef, last July
does make a link. Youssef, a prosecutor
in New York, describes in the memo
some evidence the government may pro-
duce at a trial.

She said that in August 2000, Paul
borrowed approximately $225,000
from business partner Stan Lee, telling
Lee he needed the money for a party for
Bill and Hillary Clinton.

In the summer of 2000, the memo
said, Paul sought to bribe Bill Clinton
in an attempt to win a pardon for his
three felony convictions. Part of the al-
leged bribe was Paul's financing the bulk
of fund-raising events for Mrs. Clinton Ts
campaign, Youssef wrote.

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South Korean officials had stressed
that the rapid-fire rocket system was a
major deterrent against North Korean ar-
tillery stationed just north of the demilita-
drone btw the two orcas that
was of devastati in
Gua (50 km) fom the border.

To assuage South Korean concerns,
the United States has also earmarked $1 1
billion to beef up defense installations
and equipment in the South in the three
years through 2006. .

In July, the United States and South
Korea finalized a long-delayed deal to

Cut Until 2008.

move the American military headquar-
ters and all U.S. troops out of the heart
of the capital Seoul.

Under that plan, all 8,000 U.S.
troops from the Seoul metropolitan zone
will move to the Pyongtaek area, about
50 miles (80 km) south of the capital by
December 2008.

Most of the U.S. Army's 2nd In-
fantry Division, now positioned just
south of the border with communist
North Korea, will also move to the cen-
ter of South Korea, out of reach of most

North Korean artillery fire.

N.Y. Times sues Ashcroft
to protect sources...

NEW YORK (AP) " As Septermber
came to a close, The New York Times
sued Attorney General John Ashcroft,
seeking to block the Justice Department
from obeaining records of telephone calls
between two veteran journalists and
their confidential sources,

The lawsuit said the Justice De-
partment was oon the verge ? of getting
records as part of a probe aimed at learn-
ing the identity of government employ-
ees who may have provided informa-
tion to the newspaper. It asked a judge
to intervene.

The paper said the government in-
tends to get the records, which reflect
confidential communications between
the journalists Philip Shenon and Judith
Miller and their sources, from third par-
ties unlikely to be interested in challeng-
ing its authority.

The lawsuit said the Justice Depart-
ment has advised the Times that it plans
to obtain records of all telephone by
Shenon and Miller for 20 days in the
months immediately following the Sep-
tember 11, 2001, terrorist attacks,

The lawsuit said the scope of the
government's demand for telephone
records meant that the records would ex-
pose the identities of dozens of confiden-
tial sources used by the reporters for an
array of articles about September 11, the
government's handling of continued
threats from al Qaeda. and the war in
Iraq.
, A telephone message left with a
government spokeswoman for comment
was not immediately returned Tuesday.

George Freeman, a lawyer for the
Times, said most of the sources had no
connection to the government's probe.

oWe are very troubled at this bra-
zen intrusion into our relationship with

our sources, which is unconstitutional
and endangers our free press, ? he said.

Floyd Abrams, the attorney who
filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court
in Manhattan, said it was oa very dan-
gerous and unprecedented notion ? for
the Justice Department to seek telephone
records from third parties rather than
the Times.

oIn this case, we're talking about
the potential compromising of iterally

dozens of sources because telephone .

records relate to an enormous array of
stories, ? he said. oIt would threaten the
ability of all journalists to promise confi-
dentiality to their sources. ?

Shenon was one of two Times re-
Porters sent into combat with U.S. troops
during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Since
the fall of 2001, he has reported on
homeland security, terrorism and the
work of the September 11 commission.

Miller, who won a Pulitzer Prize
for her January 2001 series on Osama
bin Laden and al Qaeda, has reported
extensively for the Times on national
security issues, especially terrorism, the
Middle East and weapons of mass de-
struction.

U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, a
Chicago special prosecutor appointed to
investigate government leaks, asked the
Times in August 2002 and again in July
to produce Shenon and Miller for inter-
views and to produce records of their

calls, the lawsuit said.

He threatened to obtain telephone
records from third parties if the Times
did not cooperate, the suit said, In a let-
ter dated Friday, Deputy Attorney Gen-
eral James Comey said the Justice De-
partment had decided it was onow
obliged to proceed ? to obtain the
records, the lawsuit said.

A Nation Says Thanks

(NAPSA) -Thanks to the Paralyzed Vet-
erans of America (PVA), the nation now
has an easier way to say thanks to its
veterans and members of our active mili-
The group has launched a new Web
site-www.thantkyouvetet ans. org-Where
Americans from all walks of life can write
to, or simply thank, either a veteran or

an active-duty service member.
Every person who sends an e-card

can also enter PVA's "Most Patriotic
Ok

are essenti

Fai in your own Rowers and confidence in
methods to success. ri

Community Contest." The sender sim-
ply enters his or her address after send-
ing the e-card to give credit to his or her
city or town. PVA will track all greetings
sent to veterans and troops and the com-
munity with the highest per-capita par-
ticipation will be honored. .

The e-cards can be sent to one or
multiple recipients. E-card senders can
also send their card to an anonymous
hospitalized veteran, which will be de-
livered by PVA.

E-cards already sent have had an
impact.

Blake Ortner, a lieutenant colonel
in the Army National Guard deployed
to Afghanistan, said, "I rely on e-mail
and other technologies to stay in contact
with my family and friends.-Neverthe-
less, the e-cards from caring citizens re-
mind me that.the American people are
keeping us in their thoughts."

To learn more about PVA, visit its

Web site at www.pva.org.
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The High Price of

Having a mate keeps away the

I ng, lonely nights, But constant com-
pantonship comes with a lot of rules
attached. What can't you do because
you are in a couple? Laura Kipnis in
her book, oAgainst Love ?, lists these:
You cant leave the house with-
cut saying where you are going. You

Do tell Black women spill b

hy Mary Mitchell

CHICAGO - We do it but we don't like
to talk about it. Sex, that is.

African-American women may be
stereotyped as Lil T Kims in music videos,
but for the most part, black women can
be extremely prudish when it comes to
discussing sex.

Thats why the results of a landmark
sex survey of black women appearing in
the October issue of Ebony magazine is
sure to raise a few eyebrows.

Black Fi

by Nayaba Arinde
Challenge Group

NEW YORK (NNPA) - In all of the
celebrating on the anniversary of the
Sept. 11 attacks, Black heroes were
strangely absent. /
Black firefighters who died in 9-
11 didn Tt receive the recognition th
deserved, ? Capt. Paul Washi nsaid
"Out of the 12 firefighters killed, six

ditioner up as hi

eed

ces

can't stay out past midnight or 11, or
10, or dinnertime, or not come right
home after work. You can't go out
when the other person feels like stay-
ing home. You cant go to parties alone.
You can't make plans without consult-

ing the other person, particularly not
even and wean, orale os
sions about leisure time usage with-
out a consultation. You can Tt accumu-
late things that you think you just
might use som
son thinks you won't. You can Tt

responsibility for domestic decisions
the other person has made that you've

-gone along with to be nice but don Tt

really care about.

You can Tt not make the bed. You
cant sleep apart; you can Tt asleep
on the couch without being awakened
to go to bed. You can't eat in bed. You
cant get out of bed right away after
sex. You cant have insomnia without
being grilled about what's really both-
ering you. You can't turn the air con-
as you want. You
can't sleep late if the other person has
to get up early. You can Tt take naps

the other n is home because
the mate feels leisure time should be
shared. You can't work when you're
supposed to be relaxing

You can't spend too much time
on the computer. And stay out of
those chat rooms. You can't have e-mail
flirtations, even if innocent.

For starters, according to the survey
of em women nationwide and pe:
ro aren't taking care o
their busines Whee med oHie satis-
fied are you with your sex life? ? 26.8 per-
cent of | ts said they were osome-
what satisfied, ? 13.6 percent said they
were osomewhat irr hema ig ro only
15.7 women sai were

co! sete satisfied.
SI SPEAK OUT
1. How satisfied are you with your sex

ters were Forgotten Heroes of

were members of our Vulcan Society, ?
said Washington.

He is the proud president of the
Vulcan Society, but he is disgusted at
the way that oBlack ters who died
in 9-11 didn't receive the recognition
they deserved. When [then-mayor]
Giuliani went on Sa Night Live, T
just after 9-11, and had those firefighters
behind him - every last one of whom

Ae a

%

' You cant play computer solitaire blow money just because you're in a listen to talk radio in the car. You cant
because the clicking drives the other feally bad mood, and yourcantt be in a et eager when delving, o¢ weer at _ handyman to repair something if th
person crazy. You can't tallcon the bad mood without being required to - other driver. You can'tsay the wrong consider thems eee ey:
ou can't talk on the phone when ut money or anything else. You no fight thing to say. You cant use the when the mate does something insup-
they're in the room withour themcom- can't drink without the othe person owrong tone of voice. ? You can't re- portable. You can't make jokes about
menting on the conversation or trying counting your drinks. You cant leave peat yourself, you can't be overly self- spots, ear shape, fat, of any other ;
to talk to-you at the same time. a Hace bebare hey T ready to go. You dramatic; you can Tt know things the sensitivity, even if u didn Tt know
Your bes friend cant call afer 10. can't be late, even if you prefer being other person doesn't know, or appear until that moment th t it was an area
You can't read without them starting _ late. You can Tt fo things and then to par: knowledge. You can't of sensitivity. You cant talk about past
to talk, and you're not allowed rest go back in the house for them once overly cliebenee rate your own accomplish- relationships. Or you talk about past
when they Tte talking to you. Youccan- the door is closed. You can't drive too _ ments, partic arly if the mate is less relationships, and can't refuse to re-
not pay attention to their presence. _ fast, or faster than the mate defines as successful. You can't say what you _vealall the long-forgotten details when
You can't make major purchases alone, _ fast. You can't honk. You may notcriti-. think the mate's family. You also asked. ee
or spend money on things the other _cize the other person's drivi signal- cant compare the mate to any of their THUSLOVEIS OBTAINED.
person considers excesses. You can't ing, or lane-changing habits. Youcan't family members, especially not the oo.
} = ion sound effects. When children enjoy grow oldes, keep books where they
: being read to, they will tolove can em. oe
books and be pie to aaate read "_7. Read favorite books again and
3. Read to your children often. Set helps children learn to read by hear-

(NAPSM)-When it comes to instill-
ing a love of reading, it Ts up to par-
ents to write the first chap-ter. That's
because children can benefit from the

Completely satisfied: 15:77%
Mostly satisfied: 25.42
Somewhat satisfied: 26.85
Somewhat dissatisfied: 13.62
Mostly dissatisfied: 9.09
Completely dissatisfied: 9.25

2. How often do you engage in sexual
intercourse?

3 6.36%
Once a week or more: 41.64%
Once a month: 11.69%
Two or three times a month: 23.31%
Once or twice a year: 9.05%

The captain said that he was not
paralyzed by the grief of the day, oMy
thoughts go out to the families of those
who lost someone. We have got to know
some of the family members very well.
Some are coping better than others. Some
have been devastated by what hap-
pened, and are still trying to come to
terms with it. ?

PBS aired a documentary oAll Our
Sons -Fallen Heroes of 9-11, ?

children from

9/11

closeness and heari their parents

voices, even when they're just six
old.

Here are 10 ti

8 on reading with
e Partner-ship for
Reading elrafil a
Pralcbortion bora
Institute for Literacy, the National
Institute of Child Health and Hu-
man Development, and the U.S. De-
partment of Education:

1. Make reading a pleasure. Read
to children in a comfortable place and

show them that reading is fun and

2. Show enthusiasm as you read.
Read the story with expres-sion and
talk as the characters would, making

?,?ans on their sex lives

Notat all: 7.95%
3. How often would you like to have
sex?

Daily: 32.01%
Once a week or more: 58.04%
Once a month: 1.79%
Two or three times a month: 6.22%
Ince-or twice a year: 0.44%
Less than once a year: 0.18%
Notat all: 1.32%
4. How often do you experience orgasm?
Very often: 22.07%
Often: 25.23%

Washington added, oRetired lieu-
tenant Craig Kelly was instrumental in
getting this film done. It is a tribute to
the Black firefighters who died, mainly
seem through the eyes of their mothers.
It is very good. ?

On Sept. 11, 2001, two hijacked
planes were flown into the World Trade
Center between 8.45 am and 9.20 A.M.
Another plane, United Flight 93, crashed
in Pittsburgli, 80 miles north of Somerset

, County Airport; and a short while later

another plane was flown into the military

aside special times for reading each
day. Reading times can be brief "five
to 10 minutes.
4. Read a lot of different kinds of
ks. Read poetry and other rhym-
ing books to your children. Read

magazines and together.
5. Tall with your chidcen as ou read

There are a number of thi ts
can do to get (and keep) chil en in-

_ terested in read:

6. Encourage children to ex-plore
books, Provide sturdy books to look
at, touch and hold. As your children
Sometimes: 26.43%
Once ina while: 18.41%
Never: 7.86%
5. Have you ever cheated on your part-
ner?

Yes: 44.23%
No: 41.47%
Considered it, but did not: 14.29%

- The survey included 8,000 black

women, most of whom answered ques-

tions online. Some mailed responses to

Ebony. The survey was conducted be-

tween March 8 and April 30, 2004.
Even more telling, while ocheating ?

is usually seen as a primarily male behav-

ing of the Pentagon. The towers were
both to collapse, and in the rubble of all
the disaster zones, 3,000 people died.
Born and reared in Staten Island,
N.Y., Washington now lives in Brooklyn,
works as a captain in Queens, and
fought fires all over the city for 16 years.
He hasbeen a captain for two anda
half years, first working out of Manhat-
tan. He graduated from Cheyney Uni-
versity in Pennsylvania in 1983 with
degree in geology, and became a

firefighter in 1988. His father, older

ing familiar words and seeing what
they look like in print,

8. Build a book collection for your
children. Look for books at book-
stores, garage sales, used bookstores

and library sales. Suggest books as

9. As you're reading, point out letters
your children tc listen for words that be-
gin with the same sound and say them
aloud. Point out words that have similar

eign to your children read
words and books from school. Let
them know you are proud of whal
they are learning.

Reading is mor than asl II help
children explore the world and learn
how to shake the most oj their sur-
roundings. |
ior, the Ebony sex survey found that 44.2
percent of the women said they had
cheated on their partners, while 41.4
percent said they had not strayed. ©

The 56-question survey asked
about the kind of sex that most black
women wont even discuss with their best
friends, like what is your preferred posi-
tion for sex and method of penetration.
That black women tend to shy away from
openly discussing their sexuality is un-
derstandable.

Mary Mitchell is a Afro-American col-
umnist for The Chicago Sun-Times

brother and other relatives have all been
firefighters, he said.

It was just something that ap-
pealed to me, the chance to do some
Positive things. ?

Reflecting on the loss of his col-
leagues, he said: oPeople should remem-
ber the loss that everyone suffered and
the ters who died that day. Three
thousand people died - that is 3,000

ilies who were effected. We should
remember their loss. ?

" "

MAKE SOME MEMORIES
1. Have at least one meal a day where all
members of the tamily sit down together
to eat.
2. Encourage your children to enter into
the conversation.

3. Don't be tempted to use mealtimes at

the time to correct your children. Your

family should look to pleasant, encour-

aging conversation at the dinner table,

not lectures.

4. Children can also leam how you ap-

proach and handle problems by listen-

ing to your discussions about your day

and asking questions. .

5. At least once a week, set aside time to

read to your children, even after they

are older.

6. Know where your children are at all

times. This is a part of the parents T re-

sponsibility.

7. Make some memories with your fam-

ily. Many-children who are out in the

streets are the tragic results of neglect of
our family responsibility. LOVE- ?They_

tshow their lave

How may we be examples of love?

We can give our time to those in need:
help out financially teach and guide oth-
ers, show concern; be helpful, support-
ive and kind, forgive, be responsive and

responsible. WORDS - Your home en-

~ vironment - is it polluted with unkind

words, thoughts and actions? For many
children, living on the streets is seen as
easier than living at home.

Words can hurt. Much of the pain
and sorrow with which we all live come
from words. Words used as a curse can
destroy us. ,

Think of marriages that have been
destroyed, the friendships shattered, the
churches divided, because of careless
words. | ,

oFor by your words, you will be

_ justified, and by your words, you will
be condemned ?. Matthew 12:37
DINNERTIME
Dinnertime is really a ritual time.

_ Ritual means certain roles and expecta-

tions of each other. It offers safety, secu-
rity, love. | like it when my family gets
together. Sacrifice and be home for din-
ner. Spend 30 minutes at he table and
once a week extend it up to one hour.
Exception - small kids. Everybody sits
together for the stability of the family.
Sitting at barlike tables on stools doesnt
make for warmth and comfortable to-
getherness for family meals, Do you
agree? Some No T at the Dinner Table:

1. Don Tt turn on the TV. ynner meals
are for conversation, not TV viewing,

2. Don't criticize or lecture. .
3. No telephone calls or answering the
telephone. Turn on the answering ma-
chine or take the telephone off the hook
This is family time.

4, Get home from work on time for din-

August 30 - September 15, 2004 The Minority Voice Newspaper

ner, This lets all know your family is im-
portant. Note: There are some excep-
tions, W are aware of. Some Do's:

1. Teach to perform our service in the

community.
2. Let's bring in a new word for dinner -
each member. Ad

3. Do invite friends or family guest occa-
sionally.

4. Play games. 5. Bring something from
antiques.

6. Bring in a song we used to sing.

7. Bring in a prayer.

8. Finding: schedule for next day (at
school), sign papers

9. Give some things up so you can have

time together to share a meal.
10. Eat together as a family - ALWAYS -
New pe re Mothers Day, athe s
y July 4 (outing/coo! icnic).
Iving Chriss he a ritu-
als or memories we should never forget.
Note: Never eat in a separate room, to
pet away from family, or to view a foot-
» basketball or any other game. Is the
game more important than your family?
11. Do always tel the cook, moder
grandmother, how delicious the meal
was: If you do it Dad, the kids will, too.
Try it! :
Breaking bread has been a tradition.
Mealtime traditions are special.

cry slr for more hes Mas te
, silver, for more ikely, the
yard sales, the Salvation Army will get it,
for most of our children's homes are

no place for your hand-me-downs, and
your kids will have less to fight over.
Money is their main interest after you
are dead. Believe me!

Underachievers in High School

Some reasons or concerns:

1. Expectations are often toolow for
Black males and among Black males.

2. Too many Black male students come
from families that don Tt support or en-
couirage them.

3. Many girls don't want the guy who

has his head in a book. 27

# Becuas you sre the only bio ina

group you can't let it get f you.
5. Mi

norities are underrepresented in

advanced and honor classes.
6. Show these students they are appreci-
ated.

7. Too many students today own beep- .

ers but can't conjugate verbs.

8. They have gold teeth and nickel-
platedbrain. =
9. They spend money to get their hair
done but have nothing in their heads.
10. They think you have to be a dummy
to be cool.

The Story of Sycamore Hill
Missionary Baptist Church
byAudreinee Harvey-Tyson
SHBC Secretary

GREENVILLE, NC - When the Civil
War ended in April 9, 1865, the issues
of freedom and equality for Black

eopleill had not been attained... As
cee slaves ran the streets, celebrating
aloud Tsongs of freedom in Pitt County
U.S.A., 22 individuals gathered at a lo-
cal home here in Greenville, North Caro-
lina, where they began to worship God
freely. These individuals called their reli-
gious organization The Colored Religious
Society. .

From 1867 to 1869 this church
was called the African Baptist Church.
The membership grew beyond the walls
of that tiny home, ad was greatly in need
of a lot on which to build church on.

On First and Greene Streets there
was property that was purchased which
bore the signature of a towering and cool
shade of Sycamore Trees. This is the rea-

son why our church bares the name to-

day of Sycamore Hill Missionary Baptist
Church. . .

The struggles and triumphs of Black
people in the City of Greenville, a people
whose Christian & Family Roots are
embedded in the life Ts breath of Sy-
camore Hill Missionary Baptist Church,
which is now located at 1001 Hooker T
Road, Greenville, NC, where the Pastor

- is Dr. Howard W. Parker, Jr.

This October 2004, of the 139th
Homecomins Celebration, these events
will take place. ,
The Fall Revival will began Tues-
day, October 19th, 2004 thru Thurs-
day, October 21st, 2004 -7 pm Nitely.
The Revival Evangelist will be Rev-
erend Richard E; Joyner, Pastor of the
Conetoe Chapel Missionary Baptist
Church in Conetoe, NC Special invited
ests will be Bishop Randy B. Royal,
Bastor & The Philippi Church of Christ
Family of Greenville, NC and Reverend
A.C. Batchelor, Pastor and the Phillippi
Missionary Baptist Church family of
Simpson, NC

ebration Worship Services will take teens
at at Sycamore Hill Baptist Church on
Sunday, October 24th, 2004 at 10:40
am. .
Dr. Howard W. Parker, Jr., SHBC
will be the officiating Pastor for the

Homecoming Celebration Worship Ser-

vices.

Everyone who remembers the free-

dom songs of their great-grandparents

andparents, parents and family mem-

es are invited to come rsp par ;

ift up the Mighty Name of Jesus and...
Panks to ae for 139 Years of His-

Knowing that God's Word contin- F

give
tory.

ues to stand true. As it says in Hewbrews
13:5 -6, oLet your conversation be with-
out covetousness; and be conten: with
such things as y have: for he hath said, I
will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
So that we may boldl say, The Lord is

~ my helper and I will not fear what man
shall do unto me. ? .
These are the Family Members who

Im ily History to Me T. Grand-

7 parted Family
The 139th Year Homecoming Cel- Daughter of the Late Mr. George Francis

he Second Horseman
Do You Recognize The Signs?

Many have been told that Jesus

Christ could returmatanyier 0 cr...

._ moment "perhaps even tonight!
oYet the Bible reveals something very dif-
ferent! Jesus told His disciples to watch
because His second coming would be

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preceded by a recognizable series of
events. Jesus used symbols of Four

Horsemen to picture major global events
__ that would escalate out of control just

before His return. Jesus said at the end
of the age the Second Horseman "riding
a fiery red horse and waving a great
sword "would otake peace from the
earth, and... people should kill one an-
other ? (Revelation 6:3-4). The sober-
ing reality of modern world news indi-
cates that end time prophecies "of in-
creasing violence and wars "are coming
alive

When Jesus was asked by His dis-
ciples, owhat will be the sign of Your
age? ?
(Matthew 24:3), He responded, Fou
will hear of wars andrumors of wars...
nation will rise against nation, and king-
dom against kingdom... these are the be-
ginning of sorrows ? (Matthew 24:6-8;
Mark 13:7-8; Luke 21:8-10). Wars have
raged throughout history yet in the last
century the scope and magnitude of de-
structive warfare reached unprecedented
levels.

Jesus T prediction that onation
will rise against nation, and kingdom
against kingdom ? is an accurate descrip-
tion of what is happening today

The Apostle Paul warned that
oin the last days perilous times will come:
for men will be lovers of themselves,
lovers of money, boasters, proud... un-
loving [callous], unforgiving [irreconcil-
able]... brutal ? (2 Timothy 3:1-5). These

words describe what we have seen in
recent years on a global scale " tribes-
men in Africa raping, mutilating and
hacking neighboring tribes to death (in-
cluding women and children); rape and
esome ethnic killings in the Balkans;
uman bombers detonating themselves
on crowded buses; airplanes carrying
civilians blown up in mid-air or delib-.
erately flown into office buildings! In-
ternational terrorism came into its own
with the dawning of the 21st centu
Never before have a few individ
armed with high explosives or biologi-
cal weapons been able to intimidate
major powers. Weapons of mass destruc-
tion have become household words to-

day.

Against this background of in-
ternational terror and threats of nuclear
blackmail from rogue states, once formi-
dable nations are beginning to rearm
Japan is altering its constitution to per-
mit Japanese forces to be deployed out-
side Japan. Germany has already begun
to participate in military actions outside
Germany. Europe "the site of numer-
ous blood conflicts "is creating its own
army. While these beefed-up forces are
being organized for opeace-keeping
duties, they will be capable of fighting
wars! A disturbing parallel development
is that modern nations are increasing]
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fairs of other nations under the label of
opre-emptive strikes. ?

Jesus made other predictions
about condition that would prevail just
before his return. While He cautioned
that no one would know othe day or

hour ? of His coming, He warned that -

oas the day of Noah were, so also will the
coming of the Son of Man be ? (Mat-
thew 24:36-39). Scripture reveal that
in the days of Noah, othe earth was filled
with violence... all flesh had corrupted
their way on th earth ? (Genesis 6:9-13).
Today our society is permeated with vio-

Facts and the Faith Community form

By Faith May

What happens when FACTS and
faith are mixed? In Farmville, it results
in unique

educational opportunities for

school choldren. Members of the faith

community and FACTS (Farmville Area.

Coming Together for Our Schools) met

for an informational exchange onTues- -

day, September 21 at the
mmunity Center.

oChurch. Sponsored Educational

Initiatives for Children ? was the topic of

B. Sugg

the meeting. Ed Joyner, a Farmville ria-

tive and the Executive Director for
School Development Program at Yale
University will be the featured speaker.
Joyner has a master of arts degree in
teaching and a doctorate in education in
school administration and organization
behavior from the University of Bridge-
port. He has held a number of educa-
tion-related jobs at every level, ftom
teacher to principal.
The idea for FACTS emerged after
Joyner visited Farmville in 2001 and spoke

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media, in homes, in schools, in

communities and on the world scene:

it is everywhere! Jesus explained
that because of escalating violence, war
and the erosion of godly values, ounless
those days were shortened {by the return
of Christ}, no flesh would be saved ?.

(Matthew 24:21-22). Jesus clearly

foresaw the possibility of cosmocide,
which became a real danger with the
advent of the atomic bomb in the mid-
20th century!

_ Weare living in perilous times,

but the news is not all bad! Jesus con-
cluded His prophecies of the end of the

"age on a positive note, saying that owhen

you see these things ha; pening know,
that the kingdom of God is near ? (Luke
21:28-33). In the days of Noah, God
intervened with a flood to put an end
to human corruption and violence. This
time, Jesus Christ will return to estab-
lish the kingdom God on this earth.
The sobering prophecies about events
will occur just pats Carmes eesti
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to residents about how important itis for parents, residents, businesses, churches and
a community to get behind its schools in other groups to be stakeholders in the edu-
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man, and Mr. Bill Dorey, Principal, FMS:

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Bynum Satterwhite and Farmville Mayor
Robert Evans took the suggestion and cre-
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ration and empowers citizens to be cata-
lysts for change in their schools. In addi-
tion to sponsoring free-on-site SAT
preparation courses, FACTS coordinates
a Reading Rescue program that places
volunteer readers in kindergarten classes
to help struggling readers.

In the two years since its inception,

FACTS has received awards from the Pitt

County Educational Foundation, Bank
of America, Pitt County Board of Edu-
cation, and the Greenville-Pitt County
Chamber of Commerce. The Informa-
tional Exchange will focus on ways that
FACTS and the Faith Community can
work together to provide after-school
enrichment programs, summer school
and classroom mentoring opportunities.
For more information, call Mayor
Robert Evans, 753-6721 or Bynum
Satterwhited, 753-6920.

Coming to Greenville
Discovery Day, a multimedia show
about opportunities in digital film, ani-
mation and audio careers is coming to
the Hilton Greenville Hotel, 207
Greenville, on Saturday October 23, at
10:00AM. The free presentation is
sponsored by the School of Communi-
cation Arts located in Raleigh, NC.
oWith the explosive growth in digi-
tal imaging for film, advertising, com-
puter gaming and the Internet, we re-
ceive many questions daily. To better
inform those who are trying to catch
hold of this dramatic change in enter-
tainment and business communications,
we decided to create a special presenta-
tion. Discovery Day looks at the direc-
tion in which computer graphics, com-
puter animation and digital ing
is moving for today Ts job seekers, ? re-
ports school director Debra
ooper. Those attending the event will
learn how important it is to develop a
combination of creative and technical
know-how through a balanced educa-
tional program. Job descriptions and
specific career opportunities will be de-
tailed. Reservations and informatigin for
the event may be obtained by calling
800-288-7442 or checking online at
wwwihigherdigital.com

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By Jeff Leeds and Lola Ogunnaike

NEW YORK - Jay-Z arrives fora partyin -

South Hampton, New York on July 3.
As the Universal Music Group nears
a deal to buy out the rap star Jay-Z. and his
Partners from their venture, Roc-A-Fella
rds, the company has renewed an
unconventional plan to bring the artist
into its executive ranks by naming him
ope Def Jam Recordings la-
» according to people involved in the

negotiations.
Universal Music, part of Vivendi, is
set to pay about $10 million to unravel
the ip in Roc-A-Fella, which has
provided the label with a series of plati-
num-selling hits, most recently Kanye
West's oCollege Dropout. ? While there is
a analy ere could cnevd, these
a deal would be
made before the elena of the venture

agreement at the end of February.
One twist 'to the negotiations is the

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future plans of Jay-Z, whose real name is
Shawn Carter. He has said he is retiring
from making albums, a proclamation he
has made numerous times before. If he
did record new music, he would be under
contract to release it through Universal.
But he is free to strike a deal for the cre-

- ation of a new start-up label or take an
- ?,?xecutive post with any music company,

and at the thoment he is being hotly pur-
sued by both Universal and a rival; Warner
Music Group. (Executives from both
companies have recently paid visits to Mr.
Carter while he is on tour with the R&B
star R. Kelly.)
. Major record companies routinely
reward or placate top recordifg artists by
ing to finance their own small labels,
like Madonna's Maverick Records (since
bought out by Warner). Few, however,
have tumed out to be little more than van-
ity projects that are quickly forsaken.
_ In Mr. Carter's case, however, Uni-
Versal would hand him the vacant posi-

: Executive Post for Jay-Z

tion as chief of one of its biggest divisions,
with authority over everything from al-

bum production to ing strategies,
and an artist roster farinche acts like
LL Cool J and Ludacris. (After taking full
ownership of the Roc-A-Fella venture, the
company would also probably provide Mr.
Carter with a new mini-label, tentatively
called S. Carter Records.)

Close associates of Mr. Carter said
finding an executive role for him at Warner
Music had been mentioned as a possibil-
ity, though it is unclear what that role would
be

For Universal and Def Jam, a deci-
sion to hire an artist for such a senior post
could thrust the label into uncharted man-
agement territory, and it is unclear how
other artists on the roster might respond.
There are also some areas of apparent con-
flict. For example, Mr. Carter Ts own al-
bums are distributed by Def Jam but he
would still be overseen by Antonio Reid,
the new chairman of the division that in-

cludes Def Jam.

Any deal would not be the first in-
stance of a record company Ts turning to its
own roster for executive talent. In 1999,
another Universal unit, Interscope
Records, appointed Fred Durst, the
of the rap-rock band Limp Bizkit, as a
senior Vice president and talent scout for
the label as part of an effort to dissuade
him from accepting a similar deal from
Def Jam. In that role, Mr. Durst has si
such acts as the rock band Puddle of
Mudd.

As job candidates go, Mr. Carter
would seem to have better instincts than
most for sensing what sells. Since releasing
the gritty oReasonable Doubt ? in 1996,
the prolific rapper's albums have racked
up sales of more than 21 million copies in
the United States alone, according to
Nielsen SoundScan.

Adding executive stripes, though,
could afford Mr. Carter even more pres-
tige as he seeks a rhew chapter for his career.
And his relationship with one partner in
Roc-A-Fella, the entrepreneur Damon

Dash, has been under strain, people close

to both men have said.

As for Universal, signing Mr. Carter
to an employment contract is seen as a
move to the street credibility of
the Def Jam label, which has been strug-
gling to break through with new rap stars.
Mr. Carter would esseritially succeed
Kevin Liles, who left the Def Jam label in
August after clashing with Mr. Reid. Mr.
Liles later took a job:with the Warner
Music Group, where his former boss at
Def Jam, Lyor Cohen, now heads domes-
tic operations.

Solidifying ties to Mr. Carter has also
taken on added importance as Universal

proaches the expiration of its deal with

the Roc-A-Fella venture, which has
brought Def Jam its Piggest rap release
this year, Mr. West's oCollege Dropout ?
album, which has sold more than two
million copies. Universal had previously
paid the partners, who include Mr. Carter,
Mr. Dash and Kareem oBiggs ? Burke,
roughly $20 million for a three-year ex-
tension that is due to end in February.

Representatives for Universal, Warner
and Jay-Z declined to comment.

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For many veterans, the health con-

While protected through vaccination symptoms. Possible causes being i
sequences of serving in the armed forces seid ptr health measures, US gated by researchers include oil and
far outlast their years of service. These troops and peacekeepers remain at risk for smoke, sand flies, infections, inoculations
conisequences not only include physical _ several infectious diseases. These include: against anthrax and botulism, chemical
injuries inflicted in battle, but health viral hepatitis A and E, typhoid fever and and biological warfare agents, and con-
problems related to exposure to infec- _diartheal diseases from consuming con- eaminatest food and water,
tious diseases, contaminated food and _taminated food and water, malaria, West _ VIETNAMAND
water, and chemicals, as well as post-trau- from Mosquito bites, tuberculesis from AGENT ORANGE
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Tohelp those whose healthhasbeen rabies ftom animal contact. of herbicides were used in Vietnam be-
adversely affected by military duty, the Environmental health hazard prob- tween 1962 and 1971 to remove un-
Department of Veteran Afkirs (VA), lems include the effects of sand, wind - wanted plant life and leaves that other-
Veterans Health Administration, pro- and dust on skin, eyes, throat and lungs. wise provided cover for enemy forces .
vides numerous health benefits and ser- The VA reports that the ae being during the Vietnam Conflict, ? accord-
vices to veterans and, in some cases, to used, inc uding DEET, ohave been ing to the Veterans Health Administra-
their family members. Some of these widely used for many years in the United tion. oShortly following their military
benefits and services require that the States without health oproblems. ? Con- services in Vietnam, some veterans re-

health problem be oservice-connected, ?
while others do not. |
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. : INIRAQ

Concerning the current conflict in
Iraq, a VA brochure ublished in May
2003 notes: oLike all Peeardous deploy-
ments abroad, some service members will
return ohome with deployment-related
health problems. In Iraq, troops are es-
pecially at risk for traumatic injuries and
infectious diseases. As in all wars, some

troops will suffer from psycho-
geal dict that result from surviving
a life-threatening experience, and some

will return with symptoms that are diffi-
cult to explain.

HH. Deas, M.D,

In the game of baseball, when one

comes up to the plate,

othree strikes

and you're out. ? Hovwever,

it does not mean that you are out of the |

game. You may come up to the plate
several times before the game is over and

ossibly hit a homerun with bases
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known asa ogrand slam, ? and win the

e.

Often, when folks hear the word
ocancer ? they think that they have
struck out. I beg to differ with that be-
lief. I have treated many patients who

have undergone medical and surgical

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_ cerns that exposure to a combination of
pesticides and other compounds might
cause health problems are the subject of
ongoing federally funded research.

PERSIAN GULF SYNDROME
Veterans who served in Operation
Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm
in 1990 -1991 have reported suffering
from symptoms including fatigue,
memory loss, difficulty concentrating, diz-
ziness, rashes, muscle and joint pain, hair
a sinus ape rth sore/
eeding gums and dizziness. Co ectively,
these Syraptoms are known as Persian Gulf
Syndrome or Gulf War Syndrome.
No single diagnosis or group of di-
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strikes, you're not out!

Heccemues for cancer and have hit a
omerun and are ready for the next
game of life. If you have cancer, you also
can come up to the plate and knock that
medical condition right out of the ball
park with proper treatment.

To enhanee whatever medical treat-
ment that you receive,

I would suggest
the following. So, Des
ball:

batter up, let Ts play

* Choose a physician who is not
only good, but compassionate.
oin a survivors group.
* Meditate and pray ona daily ba-
sis. This plays a major role in healing.
* Eliminate alcohol. nicotine and
caffeine. Avoid artificial colors.

__* Eliminate meat with excess fat
and add fish (uncontaminated). Avoid
luncheon meats which contain high
concentrations of nitrites and never eat
charcoal-cooked foods.

* Drink only bottled or filtered wa-

* Eat plenty of fresh fruits and veg-
etables, making sure you wash them.

* The addition of antioxidants,
which prevent cancer, are found in foods
such as broccoli, Brussels sprouts, spin-
ach, cabbage, onions, garlic and mush-
rooms. A supplement of vitamins A/C
and E will keep your body in an ace
condition.

After following this list you will be
able to mt a homerun in the health park
and be able to run your home and your
life! .

ter.

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been identified for these

ported a variety of health problems and
concerns, which some of them attributed :

to exposure to Agent Orange or other *

herbicides. ? The VA pro developed
to respond to these medical problems and
concerns includes healthcare services,

isability compensation forveterans With

service-connected illnesses, research and

*ducation,
The VA has recognized a number
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Dr. Jefftey Koplan of Emory University

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such as reducing smoking and getting
people to use seat belts,

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happen overnight, ? she said, though
some things can be done quickly, such
as making schools commercial-free zones.

Strong, coordinated leadership will
be needed to make the effort succeed,
said Russell R. Pate of the University of
South Carolina, and ogovernment at all
levels should provide coordinated lead-

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longer need or: use. Consignment
shops or garage sales-traditionally the
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with military commanders, ©

Bushs election rival, Democrat John
Kerry, pounced on Bremier's statements
that the United States opaid a big price ?.
for having insufficient troop levels. On
weapons, however, the Massachusetts
senator has said he still would have voted
to authorize the invasion even if he had
known none would be found.

White House spokesman Scott
McClellan said the Duelfer report owill
continue to show that he was a gather-
ing threat that needed to be taken seri-

ously, that it was a matter of time before
he was going to begin pursuing those
weapons of mass destruction. ?

com ioe the words of Vice
President Dick Cheney, tn speech on
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the invasion:

oBut frankly, ? shé added, ohow
many more of these reports. do we need
before the government actually starts

adopting some of these policies? How
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isease before the nation starts treating
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America, said the food industry is refor-
mulating products to reduce calories, fat

ind salt and is offering smaller package
sizes. ;

oTo achieve successful behavioral
change, we will need to emphasize posi-
tive, motivational messages and tools
across society, rather than relying on re- ,
strictions or negative messages, * the said.

Robert Earl of the National Food
Processors Association also noted
being made by food manufacturers, and
added: oThe food industry also supports

Programs to promote physical activity
among children. This report emphasizes
the importance of including physical
activity in any effort to address obesity -
at school, at home, and in communities. ?

Dr. Thomas N, Robinson of

Stanford University, a member of the

, standards for school food,

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of mass destruction, ? Cheney said ;
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ah =k ana

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also continued to assert that there were
clear ties between Saddam befo
invasion and the al-Qaida linked terror-
ist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. But a CIA
report recently given to the White House
found. no conclusive evidence that
Saddam harbored al-Zarqawi before the
war, two U.S. government officials said,
speaking on condition of anonymity
They stressed, though, that the Te-
port did not make a final conclusion and
the question of the al- i-Saddam
ties is still being pursued. One of the
officials said itis clear that al-Zarqawi had

that many health care providers are wor-
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pares miss hours, that schools

provide healthier food, that restaurants
offer nutrition information and that
communities provide more recreation
opportunities,

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federal involvement, including creation
of an interdepartmental task force to co-
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setting guide-
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: the same subject for the National Medical all health has improved in the U'S. over When looking at international life rate the most advantaged B the entire U.S. population and have.
Association and moderated a panel atyet the past 50 years, racial differences in eB aes white women, averag- group (college graduates), ? he observed. soon pomaive consequences for non-
| another conference in Virginia organized health are unchanged or widened. ing 80 years, would rank 19th and white Because income, education andeven _ as well. ? ae
by Hampton University Ts Health Dispari- men (74.5 years) would rank 20th. Men where one lives help determine a person's (George E. Curry is editor-in-chief
ties Reduction Project. ° oThe age-adjusted overall death rate in Hong Kong live an average of 77.4 _ life expectancy, Williams argues thatin of the NNPA News Service and
At each event, the same point was for African-Americans was 20 percent years, lo + than males anywhere else. _ order to eliminate these disparities, efforts BlackPressUSA.com. He can be reached
~ made: Of the 151 causes of death higher than that of whites in 1950 but They are followed by Japan (77.2), Swe. should made to end housing discrimina- _ through his Web site, georgecurry.com.)
in the United States, Blacks had higher ag feet higherin 2000, ? Williams says. den (76) and Switzerland (76 3), Women
death rates than whites in 11 areas: heart oSimilarly, a lack baby born inthe U.S.A. live longest in Japan (84 years), Followed a
: disease, cancer, stroke, accidents, diabetes, was 1.6 times as likely to die before his/ + by Hong Kong (83 years), °
+. fluand pneumonia, kidney diseases, sep- her birthday than a white infant in 1950, Asa country, Blacks would rank 36th
ticemia, homicide, cirrhosis of the iverand " buts 2.5 timesas likely in 2000. ? in infant mortality deaths (14.6 per 1,000
_ hypertension. African-Americans had To show the significance of the gap, births). In life expectancy, Black men
lower death rates than whites asa result of in 1985 the Department of Health and would rank 34th if measured against other
aay diseases, Alzheimer's, suicide Human Services began using the term men in the world (67.6 years. Black
and aortic aneurysm _ oexcess deaths, ? defined as the number of women would rank 35th among females
_ Professor David NA arsine e sehr who would re die (74.8 years), en
Dior research scientist at the niversityof " eq, if Blacks and whites e oThe subjective experience of dis- .
Michigan's Institute for Social Research, same mortality rte According tothe Ne crimination isn ecto T bur important re Here ss what you need to know
= has done significant research inthisarea. tional Center for Health Statistics, there source of stress, ? Williams points out. oRe- ut Diabetes is asec; ed with obe
; He presented many of his findings tothe were 66,900 excess Black deathsin 1940; search indicates that acute and chronic aa. hiss s ooldera wi d oo
- Within the past two months, Ihave audience at Hampton and has written _ 50,900 in 1960; 80,600 in 1980 and experiences of discrimination are stressful irr aah how dain _
given the keynote speech at a health dis, about them in the National Urban 96,800 in 1998. From 1940 to 1998, incidents that are adversely related to tional diabetes (which occurs uring
parities co: in Chattanooga, Tenn., League's oState of Back America 2004. ? according to the ete 4.27 rp physical and mental health. Pregnas be Americans and Hispani
er ees - " " can-Americans died premature y. He adds, oAsmall but growing 4 : Hispar ules
ee . . Whites in the U.S. are hardly a _ of research indicates the health of Afri- betes increased risk of developing dia-
: can-Americans is affected when ae ;
Williams says that when the infant they buy into the paper society negative PQ ni Sorin are
4) mortality and life expectancy figures are characterization of Blacks. ? takes der anine whether or not you
calculated for whites alone, Caucasians Even with the clear health dispari i © ate. th diabetes: a fast yo
fared poorly when measured against other ties, Williams argues that race is less of a are le vn %6 i. abovet glu-
industrialized nations. If whites aa health factor than education and eco- firmed b ° me) ) orabove hove
their own country, they would rank 24 nomic status. diaber Y asccone T rest) means you have
in infant mortality deaths. At 5.8 deaths oThe differences in life expectancy a If, re living with di ;
per 1,000 births, whites would trail rop- by education, within each race and gen- TT Sng wit art aes:
ranked H ong Kong (3.1), Ja an (3.4), der group (with the exception of white vers anette oe a ; ear montoring o plood gl
Sweden (3.4), Singapore (3.5), Finland women) are larger than the racial differ- (NAPSM)-Diabetes is one of the nation Ts betes ein control Bl ood glucose levels
(3.7) and seven other countries (Norway, ences, ? hestates, greatest health concerns, affecting more consisten tly above 126 mg/dL are con-
6 nr ta than 1.5 times more African Americans sidered oout of control. ?
. " Sip / than whites of similar age. Further, the * Diabetes not treated can
NY WA ( ry iP Li total ee with diabetes is ex- lead to serious and potenti com-
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ancy at a post-debate rally in a Cleve-
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and even camel to vaccinate 250 mil-
lion children under age five against the
crippling virus. ,

Eighty million children in 23 West

~ year, ? David Heymann,

In addition, almonds are an excel-
lent source of iowa E, a powerful an-
tioxidant thought to slow the agi pro-
cess and ee heart disexe,

According to the American Heart
Association (AHA), almonds can signifi-
cantly lower bad cholesterol levels. The
more almonds eaten in place of higher-
saturated-fat foods, the greater the
chance of lowering cholesterol.

For more information about Al-
mond Accents, including additional
recipe ideas similar to the one below,
visit. the Web site at

_ www.almondaccents.com.

Condemned

and Central African countries and 170
million in India, Pakistan and Afghani-
stan are being targeted, according to the
United Nations agency.

oWe believe that if political com-
mitment and technical activities reach the
quality that they must reach in Africa
and continue with high quality in Asia,
the world will become polio free next

head of WHO's

polio eradication program, told a news

riefing.
Campaigners had hoped to wipe
out polio this year, but the virus has

ROASTED VEGETABLES
2 Ibs. winter vegetables (e.g., Brussels
sprouts, potatoes, onions,
turnips, carrots, etc.)
1/4 cup olive oil
1 clove garlic, minced Pinch of salt
1/2 cup red wine vineg
1 Thsp. Dijon-style mustard
1 cup olive oil
1/3 cup fresh basil or thyme, finely
minced
1/3 cup Sunkist Almond Accents
Original Oven Roasted or Italian
Parmesan sliced almonds

Place vegetables in large roasting

to Major Polio

is was mainly due to the north-
ern state of Kano banning vaccines a
year ago, out of Fittest] fear that it
caused infertility and spread HIV, WHO
officials said.

oThere will be a major epidemic of
polio, unfortunately, in Africa, because

?,? vaccinations will not stop what is

already going on... Aftica will have an
epidemic this year, they are having it
right now, ? Heymann said.

597 CASES IN NIGERIA

Nigeria is home to 597 of the
world Ts 786 polio cases so far in 2004,

spread in the past 18 months from Ni-
peria to 12 African countries where it
ad been wiped out.

against a total of 784 global cases in all
of 2003.
oWe see at least 1,000 cases in Ni-

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pan. Drizzle with olive oil, Roast at
375 degrees for 30-40 minutes. In
small jar, combine remainin ingre-
dients, except sliced almonds. Mix
well. Place vegetables on serving

platter and drizzle with vinegar "

dressing. Just before serving,

sprinkle with Almond Accents

sliced almonds.

Makes 4 servings.
Almonds are said to be the most nu-
trient-dense of all nuts.

Epidemic

geria by year-end. It is possible that in a
fot of counties che ving can be sspped,
bat it will de =7 ne dbase a

ai » WHO spokesman Oliver
Rosenbauer told Reuters.

_, But political and Muslim religious
leaders in Nigeria and throughout Af-
rica are now united to fight back against
a resurgence of the disease, according to
H 5

In Kano, where immunization re-
sumed in late July after a 10-month ban,
70 percent of children under age five
have received at least one dose in recent
months, Heymann said.

Rima Salah of the U.N. Children Ts
Fund (UNICEF) said that mobilizing
Muslim religious leaders was key.

oA religious leader and traditional
chief can mobilize people more than a

litical leader. When he speaks out, they
isten to him and will vaccinate their
children, ? she said.

As for Asia, there have been 62 cases
so far this year in India, 31 in Pakistan
,and three in Afghanistan, the WHO
said.

oAsia, we believe, is in the last throes
of polio eradication. India has gone fora
week and a half now without a case of

olio which is quite a long time in the
igh season of transmission, ? Heymann
sal

Salah said that one million vaccina-
tors being deployed in Africa were de-

termine to reach oevery child in every

oWe're using helicopters in Liberia
and Sierra Leone, camels in desert coun-
tries such as Mauritania, and boats for

countries on Africa's coast, ? she added. .

NORTH CAROLINA

pany system. Founded in 1898, North

The eastern part o
plishments that North
years, It has evolved from a home servicing co
monies were collected door to door on a weekly
nary operation in which includes bank drafts
Parker, who is the current district m
sees operations all over the Eastern
again risen to another challenge. Over the past
has been in a very familiar place, located
Greenville. Jerry Parker has b
almost 25 years understands
ment. As he continued to hel develop new
Carolina Mutual products and how th
in the Eastern part of North Carolina,
order for them to better serve the present
Raa he challenged the company to relo

brief meeting

They are very grateful to

everyone in the Hothe
them the opportunity,

to stop in for a visit. We say thanks to th
North Carolina for their continual support.

LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

Walter Gorham, Jr. Isabelle Baker | Rev. Jerry Parker
THE GREENVILLE-EAST DISTRICT
GREENVILLE, N.C.
North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company began its opera-
tion as a district office in Greenville in 1974. Since that time, the

Greenville-East district has been one of the top districts in the com-
Carolina Mutual has grown
into one of the world Ts largest black managed businesses in the world.

North Carolina is proud of all the accom-
Carolina Mutual has made down through the

and mail pay. Jerry
in Greenville, and over-
part of North Carolina, has once

on 1209 W. 14th Street in
een with the North Carolina Mutual for
the meaning of growth and develop-
ways to market North
would bes
anges had to come about. In
» along with the future
ocate
ocation. Mr. Parker and his staff were up for the challe
with the Company President (James
Orleans in June 2004, it was agreed upon to give him a new location.

Their new location can be found at 202 Arlington Blvd., Suite
F. Jerry encourages policy owners, friends and the enti

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Davis was born inWashing- Officn 2 = © the trail that led to his b ecoming chair by extension practic ally every other Robinson is recognized as someone
ton, D.C. and followi gradua- Noted for his tireless efforts to of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, . professional ! - was a proud sym- whe ceneimeced much to pisos

tion from high school f ¢volun- promote racial equality in the U.S. - Baseball Great Jac i¢ Robinson Dies * bol for Black mericans, sUcA b ik, ont every aspect o

S. teered for service in the Spanish military, Davis spent 50 years as a sol- October 24, 1972 - Baseball fans and Robinson not only played the A?"? oSan | y, the black :

Sr. American War. After that war dier and lived to see most of the barri- humanitarians everywhere were sad- game with a high deapee of ill, but ho ¢ R bi pened and
D. gen- Davis decided to join the regular ers he fought overcome and the dream dened by the deat of one-of the most also with dignified presence that owho had Bee : the forefema an
armed forces and p ed acom- of an integrated army realized. In a significant personalities in American earned the admiration of humanitar- Who en in the for nt of ung:
petitive examination to an _ later era, Gene Colin Powell would _ histe t Jackie Robinson, the man who ians and the wrath of bigots. tacuarball val foe sof th Bal

Fewer black recruits joining Forces
Continues age 1 y; the war is one major factor ? in the age recruits to stick with the Army and wanted to ensure that the offspri of

Iraq war began, abies Aaa chap decline in black recruitment, he make it acareer. , wealthy citizens shared phe sito

iers were in combat arms units. This _S2YS- Northwestern's Mr. Moskas says burden of war. And though Mr. Rangél

gravitation toward roles reflects Ina recent discussion with report- of the main reasons that black recruits co his argument in terms of class,

what some tial beckenlisnss hope ¢r8, Gen. Rochelle of the Army's recruit- stick with the Army is the perception man black Americans equated it to race,

to receive from a career in the Army: ing command says that while a variety of that African-Americans have of it asa = Mr. says, .

stable employment with good benefits conditions have an effect on enlistment relatively célor-blind institution that al- A second event occurred at the be-

and the ability to p skills that can . " Such as the econom "combat also lows minorities opportunities for ad- ginning of the Iraq war, when Pvt. Jes-

be easily transfered to the civilian sec- can have a powerful i uence on overall vancement. Rare is the ?,?rican insti- sica Lynch, a white female soldier in an

tor. Front-line positions, such as those - induction rates. oObviously, there's a war tution, Mr. Moskos says, owhere whites y maintenance company, was taken

in the infantry, don't provide much in going on and, for some of our pro: are routinely bossed around jw hostage by marauding Iraqis. The story,

"the way of marketable job skills, that Sa drawbackand tilde _ Sotne say, however, that spercep- of Pvt. Lj and her eventital rescue

But the war in Iraq has turned such he says. | tion of the Army as an egalitarian insti- bse es lien eens

distinctions on their head. Almost from If the trend toward a lower share of tution may be eroding, again because of ; nicled by the Pentagon and the U.S.

outset, enemy fighters concentrated black recruits continues, however, its ef- the Iraq war. David Segal, a University media. | .

their attacks on rear-guard soldiers, and fect could be wide-ranging. ranging. Black recruits _ of Marylar sociology professor, says two Less noticed was the story of Spe.

soldiers in support functions make generally deviate from their white coun- recent events connected to the war may Shoshona Johnson, a black woman, who

many of the more than 1,000 Amerh terparts by re-enlisting in greater num- resonated among potential black was in the same maintenance unit as Pvt.

cans that have been killed there. oThere Ts bers after their initial tour of duty is over. recruits in a way that wasn Tt reflected " Lynch and was also taken hostage and

really no front line/rear echelon any Though unable to provide current sta- amo g white enlistees, later rescued. Her story got far less atten

more, ? says Charlie Moskos, aNorth-_ tistics, an Army spo says that ¢ first was a recent bill submit- tion, and Mr. Segal says he has heard

a Uni iy sociolag: , who spe- _?,?atly-career black soldiers routinely re- ted by Rep. Charles , a black con- anecdotally that this has fostered resent-

al in military organizations. oObvi- enlist at a higher rate than their white from New York, which called ment in the black community, _

counterparts. In 1998, the re-enlistment fora Fesumption of a universal military Whether the Pentagon was fair in

rate for Biack male specialists was 82%; " draft. Though the bill was killed this its treatment of the two women is beside

a -_ the corresponding rate for white special. week by Congress, it drew extensive at- the point, Mr. Segal says; the perception
ists was 74%, One of the primary ben- tention, as did Mr. 'sjustification is all that matters. oThe Department of

efits ofa volunteer force as opposed toa for submitting it. Mr. Rangel says he Defense needed a hero, and it was nice

is that increased incentivesencour- wanted a draft, in part, because he

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oFamily Serving Families ? "

receive a $100, int from the fed
Department of Health and Human Services announced the
faculty, staff and students who work with community organi
gow and development in eastern North Carolina,

t. Ronald N associate vice chancellor for

families in Pitt County

ECU-ON, said the work on the application process showed how stu
high-caliber work for clients. "The Opportunity to work with community
for working in collaboration with others as we
this experience will help them in other endeavors, "T'm proud o
dovey added. "They ba

directed by Dr. David Ames, targets its
a community in which
enhance the public understan

rts at the more than 25,000

medical community and the public, and activities for youth in the area.

is project is the secon
with a local nonprofit organi
Urban Development's ommunity Outreach Partnership Centers (CO:
creation of the East Carolina University-Central Rocky Mount Partnership,

programs and enhance homeownership opportunities, The ECU-ON has
lina in a variety of projects, including:
* Census 2000 in Pitt County
* Restoring and preserving historic downtown Tarboro

* Enhancing park facilities and strategic lanning for Weldon
* Remodeling an historic building in en

* Expanding job training and mentori Pp in Pitt Coun
Cag ang cn nen Cu

to eligible community organizations, To qualify
* A project that addresses social, health, env;
* Private, nonprofit, tax-exempt status
+ Insufficient knan

ECU helps Coalition get $100,000 grant to fight youth a

GREENVILLE - With the help of East Carolina University's Regional Development Services, a Greenville coalition will
eral government to fight substance abuse among local school-

on its application, which was coordinated by the ECU Outreach Network (ECUON). The network is a team of
tions to find resources for Programs that promote sustainable
e're excited to be a part of the Process in this grant application," said
ional Development Services at ECU. "This project is designed to do
ill benefit directly from its success." Dr. Jan Th
dents can both get real-world experience and produce
of ny orga i an) Provides ee with strategies
as wri t applications," said. "The kno
m proud. fa the graduate alee and their work for this o
ve contributed to their own education, to the university, and to the community. ? The City of
also was a partner in the grant application. Marvin Davis, assistant ci gran
visibility of efforts to educate the community about ways to fight the growth of substance abuse. "It is great to have this
partnership with ECU to address adrug g problem facing not only our City but the entire country, ? oDavis said. The Coalition,
ool- aged children in Pitt County, working to build
- The group plans to use the grant funds to

ty manager, said the

ung People reject tobacco, alcohol and other drugs
n

g of substance abuse problems through community events. The coalition plans to have
televised discussions and [oS forums on youth substance abuse and ways to prevent it, information campaigns for the

large award the ECU-ON has helped to secure for North Carolina. In 2002, the group worked
tion in Rocky Mount to secure a $399,950 t from the U.S. Department of Hi

Bo) Programs. Otic é?,?slilt of thiat wotk was the
which targeted development efforts in six
deteriorating neighborhoods that were in the most urgent need ofrevitalization. Effo

improve access to health care, Provide outreach to elderly and Hispanic popuiations, develop crime prevention trainin
ped

and water management rogram in Belhaven. The ECU-ON services are free of charge
for elp, an organization must have:
» nvironmental or community-based needs

cial or personne! resources for program planning and development. :

ed children. The
receive the grant

CU

ce Abuse Coalition wi

ovey, coordinator of the

edge they gained from

ization,"

twill help raise the

ousing and

rts continue to help these neighborhoods

many communities in eastern Nor

ville, NC 2783

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Students must register at least three

For more information, please call our main office at 252-321-4388

(2) working days before the class starts,

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Remodeling

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time you remoda your kitchen or

ik

Visit our website at www-coned. pittcc.edu

on fixtures and appliances such as cabi-
nets.

The steam of a bathroom and the heat
of a kitchen are difficult environments
for fixtures and appliances, Cabinet
doors are prone to warping as well as
scratches and other damage.

Home improvement experts suggest
installing products made specifically
to stand up to the hard wear and tear
kitchens and baths get. For instance,
you'll find many fixtures and appli-
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