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ASSOCIATED PRESS Writer
apartheid ended, South Africa
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[inls itself torn over foreigners seeking a role in
one of the century’s great political and social
tr.msformations.
Some come to make a profit, or maybe just a
gnod day’s wage. Others — such as the parents of
skiin American scholar Ay Biehl — are on mis
sions of reconciliation.
~ Put with 40 percent of its own people unem
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and residence requirements, and the stress of
dealing with an abundance of “helpers” is starting
to show.
. For instance, ever since Ms. Biehl was killed by
a mob im & black township in 1993, her parents
hove worked to maintain her legacy of helping
Sinth Africa’s transformation to democracy.
' When Peter Biehl, her father, tried last year to
l bring in three boxes of sports equipment for poor
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blick children donated by U.S. companies,
, toms officials held up the shipment because it
lacked a nonprofit organization import license.
“ “Now we have to go to the people in the United
St..tes and say stop donating,” Biehl of Newport
B. uch, Calif., complained at the time. “It makesus
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To some South Africans, Biehl’'s complaint
s cked of arrogance toward South African law.
| simply walk into this country with their bounty of
Liv.esseand ... (expect) you must bow and scrape,”
s, Jill Washkansky, an administrator at [kamva
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dent Laurent Kabila and carrying a Congolese flag in front of the Peopies
Palace, formerly the pariiament building before parlioment waos disobved,
colebrates the one-year anniversay of the the end of Mobutu Sese Seke’s
rule ot a Kishasa party Saturday, May 16, 1998. Kabiio's rebels custed |
Mobutu after a nine month rebellion. (AP Phot/Dawd Guttenteicer
By lan Stewort
ASSOCIATED PRESS Writer
~ KINSHASA, Conge
Arriving at ceiling-high French doors, the
scurrying cluster of aides and rifle-toting
Laurent Kabila into a pristine, white confer
ence hall past flashing cameras and ap
plauding Cabinet members.
A rural guerrilla for almost 40 years, this
isnow theunlikely world of President Kabila
— in previous incarnations a Marxist, a
kidnapper, a warrior, a student of philoso
, and always a pan-African nationalist.
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Sese Seko from power, the countryside popu
list is still on unfamiliar turfin Kinshasa —
a world of diplomacy and bureaucracy, of
jackets and ties.
The trappings of Afrrica’s powerful elite
don’t quite jibe with Kabila’s lifetime of
rebellion.
Marching headlong into a new era for
Congo — formerly Zaire — Kabila remains
an enigmatic rebel-turned-president.
Kabila has set the country on a course
intolerant of dissent, while reserving power
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Political opponents and jowrnalsts have
taries have been soubbed.
The international commmamity i growing
frustrated with Kabala's unenilimgmess or -
ability to deal with Congo’s wredked economy
and its staggering $15.6 tallbom foresgn debt.
Payments in arvears to creditors sre esti
mated at S3OO mallhon.
Kabila’s mix of authortarem politics, unfo
cused economic policies and ome-person rule
has a growing number of Congolsse question
ing the fature.
“We are not goang tocontime to be fooled by
those who have always doessmated Africs”
Kabhila procisims im a booming voice to a
crowd of villagers m the northwestern town of
Mbandaka
The declaration lan unspoken condemrs
tion of Mobutu and the late dictatior’s forespn
investment partners, who for decades con
spired to rob the coumtry of its sbumdent
natural resoureces.
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subsidies or other benefits from
1983 to 1997.
The lawsuit was filed last sum
mer, shortly after the Agriculture
Department admitted its own pro
cess of resolving discrimination
compimints had been in disarray
and caused » huge backlogof cases.
USDA has acknowledged there was
past discrimination.
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1983 was chosen to define the pos-
Department disbanded its civil
or
Trying to resolve each one indi
wadually, as the Clinton adminis
trataon wants, is nearly impossible,
Pires ssad.
“You camnot reconstruct most
of these cases,” he said. “There’s
Graduates for kente
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the graduation.”
“While the kente cloth is a sym
bol of great dignity and respect,
other individuals might choose to
wear adornments intended to con
vey a viewpoint that others might
find offensive,” he said.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf
of Miss Ocansey and Aisha Price,
17, and their parents. It alsonamed
as a plaintiff Miss Ocansey’s
brother, Ezekiel, an Arvada High
freshman The other two seniors
In 1996, three Muskogee, Okla.,
High School graduates were or
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cation motion, but Pires said the
case will go forward either way. |
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bars most of the black farmers |
from receiving any cash settle
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tations for black farmers have not -
yet proved fruitful. '
dered to serve 30 days in a summer
dresscode. Two seniors wore kente
cloths and a third wore an eagle
feather in honor of her American
Indian heritage.
In 1997, school administrators
and students agreed to a compro
mise allowing students to display
“items of expression,” such as a
tion. during ceremony,
the items could show only as col
lars under the robes.
A-‘flrwumc.hid
last year in Albuquerque, N.M.,
to wear traditional dress under
their gowns.