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BLOOMINGTON, ind.
(AP) Indiana University researcher Sileshi Semaw
already discovered the world’s oldest-known stone
tools in E‘thiopia. &
Now, he’s planning a return trip in January to
look for the tools’ makers. It’s possible those crafts
men were descendants of Lucy, the famous 3-mil.
lion-year-old skeletal fossil found only 10 miles from
the site where Sileshi discovered ahout 3,000 stone
tools that date between 2.5 million and 2.6 million
years old.
Sileshi came to IU in January on a postdoctoral
fellowship with the Center for Research into the An
thropological Foundations of Technology, known as
CRAFT. He plans to do extensive follow-up work in
Gona, Ethiopia, with fellow IU researchers and others.
When the discovery of the stone tools was an
nouncedindJanuary 1997, Sileshi, who wasat Rutgers
University at the time, noted that they were prob
ably made by ancestral humans. No fossils were
found along with the tools, however.
But because the area is a hotbed for fossils with
Lucy and other ancient prehuman bones found in
the area, Sileshi is confident the tool makers can be
discovered in future research.
“Thereareancestral humansin the area,” hesaid.
“We expect to find some.”
Another goal is to find more stone tools even older
than the onesheexcavated in the early 19905. Kathy
Schick, co-director of CRAFT with her husband
Nicholas Toth, said it’s doubtful that stone tools
suddenly popped up 2.5 million years ago.
“They were so well made it seems that there was
a tradition before this find,” she said. “That’s one
reason why one thrust will be to look at earlier
deposits to see if we can see any stages leading up to
this point. It seems to have predecessors.” :
Toth and Schick have worked with SileshTTif the
past and are excited to be part of his continued work
in the anthropologically rich Gona area.
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Rwandans celebrate Marley’s
message of African unity
By Brvoje Hranjski
ASSOCIATED PRESS Writer
KIGAL, Rwanda
Rwandans sought release
Monday from the threat of
death and hardship as they
danced in homage to reggae
star Bob Marley, whose mes
sage of unity has found fertile
ground in the central African
nation.
“That’s what we need —
Eeo and unity,” said a tooth
, Jocal reggae singer known
as Bongo Man.
He clapped and shook before
some 7,000 young people who
gathered on the Nyamirambo
soccer field to commemorate
the 17th anniversary of the
Jamaican’s death in a Miami
been an annual event in
Rwanda except during a 1994
genocide.
That year, Rwanda lost at
least 500,000 people to a Hutu
government-organized slaugh
ter intended to wipe out the
country’s Tutsi minority.
Fouryears after Tutsi rebels
ousted that government and stopped the
slaughter, Rwandans struggle to come to
grips with weekly raids by Hutu rebels and
reprisals against Hutu civilians by the
Tutsi-led army.
Jobsare scarce, and theannual per capita
i‘noome has plummeted to an estimated
165.
On April 24, on a red dirt field just
outside Nyamirambo stadium, 22 Hutus
convicted of genocide crimes were executed
by firing squad in public —the first carried
out by the government.
The executions, universally criticized by
human rights organizations and the United
Nations, were necessary, authorities said,
to demonstrate to genocide survivors that
justice was being done.
But on Monday, there was a different
message emanating from Nyamirambo.
“I love my country,” 24-year-old David
cried. “I was born a refugee, I lived in
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The late reggae singer Bob Marley championed
the cause of African unity in concerts in Africa,
Evrope and the United States.
England and only now returned to Rwo:la.
I'm grateful to be here, and today it’s a
message of peace.”
Several dozen Rwandan Rastafarians
wearing the emblematic green-red-yellow
knit hats sped around the stadium on - n
torbikes, and two soccer teams played a
friendly match. :
And a young American woman from New
York City made her singing debut beforc the
upbeat, friendly crowd.
“I'm in Rwanda since 1995, initially n= an
aid worker. But I stayed on singing with a
local band out of frustration,” said Drnise
Gordon. “Now, I'm curious to see how far I
can go.”
“This country is a work in progress.‘ It’s
an amazing recovery, given the situation.”
And Bob Marley?
“I feel his message is needed here mnre
than anywhere else. People have to come
around,” Gordon said.
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Eric Adams, one of the group’s
co-founders, said the ::cmhfmfix
cident was a case of profil
ing,” in which where the men were
m)wedbouun of their skin color.
“We're calling on U.B. Attorney
General Janet Renoto stop having
a blind eye to these forms of at
tack,” he said. “She must step in
and ensure that the highways of
our nation do not turn back to the
era in which people of color could
not safely drive through this coun
try.” :
Adams’ group was joined by six
cars from the African American
Society of Long Branch.
“We have children we want to
feel safe on the roads,” said Tho
mas Armour, one of the drivers.
“I'd like to think they are pro
tected by law enforcement, not
targeted by it.”
A spokesman for the state police
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Attorney J Cochran and
two eolm from the O.J.
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to represent three men wounded
in the turnpike incident in a civil
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State police said the two white
troopers — James Kenna, 27, and
John Hogan, 28 — opened fire on
the Dodge Caravan carrying three
black men and a Hispanic man
from the New York area when the
vehicle backed up toward the of
ficers after a traffic stop on April
23. Three of the van’s passengers
were wounded; two remain hospi
talized.
At issue in the case is whether
the troopers stopped the van le
gally and whether they had suffi
cient reason to believe their lives
were in danger before opening fire.