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Newspaper Page Text2 January 18, 1996 Strike busts, youths threaten capital By Chris Tomlinson Associated Press Writer BUJUMBURA, Burundi With a call for a general strike ignored, stone-throwing Tutsis set up roadblocks around the capital Monday in a last-ditch effort to intimidate Burundians from go ing to work. But it didn’t work. Shops were open, traffic flowed normally and there were no reports of wide spread absences. A gang of about 20 young men brandishing stones turned cars Black journalists group considers La. hoycott NEW ORLEANS (AP)Ablack journalists’ group is considering holding its con vention in 2000 somewhere else because of Gov. Mike Foster’s order to end affirmative action programs. “Wehad been extremely inter ested in bringing our 3,000 ... members and the enormous eco nomic impact of our convention tothisgreat city,” Arthur Fennell, president of the National Associ ation of Black Journalists, said at a news conference Saturday. “But now we must strongly and seriously question whether our members will want to spend their time and money in a state Bl Start ‘96 off ; right, by opening , (7 a 9 mo. g 2 m ’ & % Annual Percentage Yield : To com memorate A : : the new year Security . Federal is offering this spe cial CD for a lim : ited time only. : All you need is a mini- : mum balance of SIOOO and earn the stated Annual Percentage Yield of 6.00%. Come by today and help us celebrate 1996 at Security Federal. ' WhereYoute Worth More! Jecurity Clearwater, S.C. Denmark, S.C. Graniteville, S.C. Langley, S.C. N. Augus?a, SC. 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Tutsi extremist leaders last week called for all workers to strike until President Sylvestre Ntibantunganya resigns. whose governor has so little re gard for affirmative action and equal opportunities.” Foster announced Thursday that he had signed an order to end programs that give prefer ential treatment to minorities and women in hiring and that set aside a portion of govern ment contracts for minority owned businesses. “This act has the potential to set back employment gains for people of color and women in Louisiana. ... This kind of polit ical posturing also, sets a tone that could derail efforts to diver sify other areas, including the news media,” Fennell said. Aiken, S.C. '641-3000 World News The strike raised the specter of further clashes between extrem ists ofthe Hutu majority and their Tutsi counterparts. About 15,000 people were killed in ethnic fighting last year, aid groups say. Escalating vio lence in the tiny Central Africa nation since December has re newed fears that Burundi might explode into massacres similar tothe Rwandan genocide of 1994. Both nations share the same, volatile ethnic mix. The strike call was a response to gun, shoots FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) A 3-year-old boy found a loaded .25-caliber pistol in his parents’ bedroom drawer and fa tally shot his younger sister, po lice said. - Kaile Hinke, 2, was pronounced dead at Lee Memorial Hospital Sunday night, about 30 minutes after the 7:15 p.m. shooting. “The boy didn’t even know what wasgoing on,” said Chris Robbins, a neighbor who heard the gun shot. Colton Hinke and his sister were inthebedroom playing while their mother, Sherri Hinke, 24, was in another room, police said. The fa ther, 27-year-old Michael Hinke, was at work. Robbins said heran tothe apart ment when he heard the gunshot, the president’s New Year’s Day address in which he said the na tion would collapse if extremists of both ethnic groups don't stop the violence. It was unclear why the strike didn’t come off. Sources close to the Tutsi-led military said soldiers on Sunday had arrested some of the strike leaders. If true, it signals an about-face for the military, which has done nothing to stop Tutsi youths and militias from killing and intimi dating people. ° ® little sister and found the mother in hyster ics, kneeling over her daughter. Robbins ran into the bedroom and found Colton. “I just picked him up and took him outside,” Robbins said. “He was just scared, shaking. I rubbed hisback and told him everything’s going to be OK and that he had to be a good boy.” Under a state law passed in June 1989, parents canbecharged with a misdemeanor if they leave loaded firearms where children can get to them. If a child injures or kills someone with a gun, the parents could be charged with a felony punishable by five years in prison. The Fort Myers Police Depart ment hadn't filed any charges in thedeath as of Monday afternoon. HELP? SLOW CREDIT -NO CREDIT * BANKRUPTCY - DIVORCE *REPOSSESSION WE LISTEN & CAN HELP! CALL JIM DAVIS ON OUR CREDIT HOTLINE TODAY! 731-9000 GM, FORD, MITSUBISHI Program Cars Available & Over $2 Million Used Car Inventory Flag death From page one has to spend the rest of his life in prison.” Morrow and Darden must serve 25 years in prison before they are eligible for parole. They will be sentenced Feb. 16 on the kidnapping charge, which car ries a sentence of 8-12 years, and civil rights conviction, which could mean another 2-4 years. Prosecutors said the three teen agers were angered by the Con federate banner flying from Westerman’s pickup when it ? 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