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U.S. troops headed
to seven countries
WASHINGTON
(AP) Even as Congress considers whether to finance
the project, the Clinton administration is planning to
send U.S. troops to seven African countries beginning
next month to set up an ali-Africa military force.
Its mission will be to conduct humanitarian and peace
keeping operations in Africa.
The Pentagon and State Department declined to iden
tily the countries that will receive U.S. troops beginning
in July. But they were thought to be Uganda, Senegal,
Tunisia, Ethiopia, Mali, Malawi and Ghana.
State Department spokesman John Dinger said Mon
day the U.S. troops were being sent to Africa so the
countries there could be tr: 'ned not to rely so much on
others to respond to crises on the continent.
Britain and France are cooperating, Dinger said, and
the project was endorsed at the Summit of the Eight in
Denverby Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan and Russia, as
well.
New faces, propaganda in Congo’s new press
By Tina Susman
ASSOCIATED PRESS Writer
KINSHASA, Congo
For years, Wivine Moleka was one
of the most visible television news
anchors in Kinshasa, dishing out daily
doses of government propaganda on
what was then called the Voice of Zaire.
When Laurent Kabila’s rebel army
marched into Kinshasa last month and
drove out President Mobutu Sese
Seko’s government, it also drove
Moleka and more than a dozen other
TV anchors off the air.
Moleka and others who lost high
profile on-air jobs call it an attempt to
replace one brand of propaganda with
another on state-run TV and radio, the
primary source of information for most
Congolese.
Kabila’s ‘government calls it an es-
Shahazz
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Ppercent of her body. Authorities
‘honored the family’s request that
o autopsy be performed.
7 A funeral was scheduled Friday
at the Islamic Cultural Center in
New York City, followed by a pri
vateburial at Ferncliff Cemetery in
Hartsdale where Malcolm X is bur
icd, said Edward R. Culvert, amem
ber of the Black Studies faculty at
City College who is acting as a fam-
Police “terrorize” family
From page one
why would he come to any of the
family’s house if the police are look
ing for him?,” Ms. Roberson said.
“Any of that shouldn’t have any
thing to do with me and my kids,”
he said.
. Indeed, before the police had
barged in on Ms. Roberson, they
had conducted a similar raid at the
home of her children’s grand
mother. According to Rosa Rob
erts, Bobby Lee’s mother, the po
lice threatened the health of her
sickly 76-year-old mother, Marga
ret Robinson.
« “They just walked on in. They
didn’t knock,” Ms. Roberts said. “It
shook her up so bad, she couldn’t
talk. I kept telling the police not to
Augusta Mini Theatre announces fund-raiser
« Augusta Mini Theatre, Inc.’s
founder and executive director an
nounced June 19 the Theatre's 1997
fund-raising campaign to raise
$40,000.
< The campaign will include solicit
ing donations through letters sent to
érea businesses, civic groups,
¢hurches and individuals.
2 The Theatre’s students will par
ficipate in the Talent Scholarship
Performances contest, and the male
gnd female students that raise the
most funds will be crowned Mr. and
iss Augusta Mini Theatre for the
?913?7-98 school year. The perfor
mances will take place on August 7,
at the Grover C. Maxwell Perform
mg Arts Theatre on the campus of
Augusta State Universityat 7:30p.m.
AUGUSTA FOCUS
fort to reverse the effects of Mobutu’s
31-year dictatorship, when the “news”
was mainly an instrument for portraying
Mobutu in a flattering light no matter
what the circumstances. Without ques
tion, the coverage now is less fawning
than it used to be.
“We’ve won the war of arms, but
we’re still fighting a political war,” said
Jose Kajangwa, the director-general of
television and one of several new media
chiefs appointed by the Information
Ministry.
Television and radio aren’t the only
media to have changed since Kabila
won hiseight-month waragainst Mobutu
and changed the country’s name to
Congo.
The state-run news agency has a new
director, Andre Ojate, who first held the
job four years ago but was fired by
Mobutu’s government for alleged op
ily spokesman. An ecumenical me
morial service was planned Sunday
at Riverside Church in Manhattan,
he said.
Malcolm had been sent to live
with his grandmother about three
weeks before he allegedly poured
gasoline on her home. He report
edly wanted to be sent back to live
with his mother, Qubilah Shabazz,
in Texas.
Motherandson had lived together
for several months, which were
marred by longabsences from school
and callstothe police over the fights
between them.
In Albany, Gov. George Pataki
asked that flagsfly at half staffat all
bother her. She lives alone,” Ms.
Roberts said.
The police didn’t find Bobby Lee
or anyone else in the house except,
the frightened grandmother. Fam
ily members are livid and feel they
were beingunnecessarily harassed.
“Why go around terrorizing my
family,” Ms. Roberson asked. “I
deserve privacy!”
The Roberson family has been
unusually traumatized by the inci
dent in light of their previous un
pleasant experiences with the Au
gusta police. In March, Larry
Roberson was chased and shot four
times by police. They claim Larry is
lucky tobe alive. When he was shot,
hewasontheground andunarmed,
the family says. The family further
suffered because Larry has been
held in jail without legal represen
The performances will include pi
ano, flute, dance, singingand drama.
are Daphne Nicole Chambliss, Sacoya
Simone Hankinson, Jennifer Mar
tin, Keiwana McGaw, Por-Chia
McCarter, Rommie Lewis Royal Jr.,
Genita Ida Smith, Mrs. Jannie
Streetman, Ms. Frankie J. Madison,
Coribbia ThomasandJoe Thompson
Jr.
The drama students are Jordon
Alexander Clemons, Feleicia Curry,
Martin Jenkins, Angela Mays, Anto
nio M. Mosley, Reginald Bertron
West, Keena Aldrich, Nicole Will
iams, Dyanna Lynette Adams,
Victoria Y. Bert, lan Bridgforth,
Sherica Meshell Hall, Antwaine
Hinton, Phillip Jenkins, Sonya Renee
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position sympathies. Today, he is trying
to revive the long-moribund agency,
whose neglected building reeks of urine
from leaking toilets and whose bureaus
have neither telephone nor telex lines to
maintain contact with Kinshasa.
The dozens of daily newspapers re
tain their freewheeling style but have
had to adjust to life without Mobutu, the
man most of them loved to hate. Now
they hate Kabila.
But the biggest changes are those
within the dilapidated studios of state
run broadcasting, whose headquarters
was one of the first buildings seized
when the rebels entered Kinshasa on
May 17. ;
Moleka and Francine Mokoko, an
other news anchor bumped off the air,
say they and other journalists from
Mobutu’s northern Equator region were
told that the public did not want to see
state buildings in honor of Mrs.
Shabazz.
From page one
cent have a college degree.
B About 63 percent of blacks
age 16 and over are in the labor
force, compared with 67 percent
of whites. The black unemploy
ment rate is 11.6 percent; it is 4.6
percent for whites.
B Per capita income for blacks
was $10,982 in 1995, compared
with $19,759 for whites.
tation (none of three court ap
pointed attorneys were able to get
him in front of a judge for a bond
hearing) and no bail has been set.
The Roberson children are jittery
around police.
- “My kids are scared to stay at
home by themselves. They say, ‘the
police shot my daddy,” and wonder
if they are going to shoot them as
well,” Ms. Roberson said. Twelve
year-old Larry Robersonisthe most
disturbed, Ms. Roberson said. “The
night they busted in, he couldn’t
sleep therest of the night,” she said.
Ms. Roberson, who in the last 90
days has contacted the FBI, the
U.S. Department of Justice, and
the NAACP about the plight of her
husband, Larry, plans to ask for a
local probe of police activitiesat her
home the morning of June 26.
Patterson, Audreianna LaTeisha
Smith, Alexandra Stocker, Ebony Th
ompson, Jamal Walters and
Anastacia Del Valle.
TheflutestudentisTyeashaPerry.
The program’s Mistress of Cer-
WRDW Television. Actress Makeda
.\l:fimon and dancer Crystal Fuller
ill perform.
Former drama student Tonya Ru
therford, now a lawyer, will make an
appearance.
Ticket pricesaresloforadultsand
ssforstudentsandarenowonsaleat
the Augusta Mini Theatre (430 Bth
Street) or by calling 722-0958. Tick
ets may also be purchased from par
ticipating students.
Contributions are tax-deductible.
Mobutu-era faces on the news.
They were given off-airassignment:
such as reporting and editing and re
placed with—they say — people from
Kabila’s southern Kasai region.
“I’s a kind of hunt of journalists,”
said Mokoko, who said her new bosses
have repeatedly accused her of trying
to sabotage the Kabila government and
of being in secret contact with the
ousted Mobutu.
“It’s like being in a prison, with
somebody always watching what you
do, who you speak to,” she said.
Moleka said she welcomed Kabil.'s
victory over Mobutu at first, thinking it
would let her work as an objective
journalist — rather than a puppet who
said what the government wanted said.
“I'm disappointed, and I feel a bit
deceived,” she said.
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Blacks in New Haven
allege police target them
NEW HAVEN, Conn.
(AP) Charles H. Allen 111, an
assistant to New Haven Mayor
John DeStefano and a former state
senator, said he knows the drill
when police pull him over: hands
on the wheel, no sudden moves, be
extremely respectful.
Allen said he was stopped sev
eral weeks ago on Route 34 in
Derby. After a quick check of
Allen’s license and registration,
the police officer let him go.
“This cop was just looking for
any reason to stop me because I'm
black,” Allen said. “(Police) feel
there’s a good chance of finding
something, because, in their
minds, all blacks are criminals.”
In interviews with the New Ha
ven Register, black men reported
being stopped by police for no ap
parent reason in the New Haven
area.
But police deny they engage in
this practice, known as “profil
ing,” or stopping motorists who
“look” like they might be suspects
in a crime or criminals on the
make.
Derby Police Sgt. Don Margiano
flatly denied Allen’s claim.
“We have to stop you for a rea
son,” Margiano said. “Profiling,
just because of a person’s color or
Alabama girl becomes
first black Junior Miss
MOBILE, Ala.
(AP) Tyrenda Williams of Bir
mingham was named on Saturday
night America’s Junior Miss, the
first black winner of the title and
$30,000 college scholarship in the
competition’s 39-year history.
Miss Williams plans to attend
Birmingham-Southern University
and study public relations and
marketing.
She will take home a total of
$36,500 in winnings including
$1,500 in prize money from the
preliminary rounds and a $5,000
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the type of car they're driving is
unacceptable, and our officers
know it.”
Melvin Wearing, New Haven'’s
first black police chief, said his
officers do not profile black driv
ers, but heacknowledged profiling
is common among police.
“Profile stops happen,” Wear
ing told the Register in Sunday’s
edition. “The incidents usually
involve police tailing young Afri
can-American men driving fancy
cars. They're hoping to pull them
over and find contraband.”
Some minorities are reluctant
to question police officers’ actions
or file complaints.
Othersare also were fearful that
a routine traffic stop might turn
tragic, asin the case of Malik Jones,
who was stopped and killed by an
East Haven police officer after a
high-speed case in April.
A national study by the U.S.
Commission on Civil Rights re
ported minorities filed most of civil
rights cases logged from 1984 to
1994. Police officers, however, are
rarely disciplined or found guilty
of misconduct if their accounts of
anincident differed from what the
complainant alleged, the report
said.
bonus for winning the Miss
America Organization Overall
Creative and Performing Arts
Award for a Finalist.
On Saturday, she performed a
ballet piece to “Rhapsody in Blue.”
Miss Williams won as her family
was ' split between Mobile and
North Carolina, where her sister
was competing in the state’s Miss
America qualifying pageant.
Shevaun Kastl of Passaic, N.J.,
was first runner-up in the compe
tition, good for $15,000 toward
the college of her choice.