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OCTOBER 1, 1998 AUGUSTA FOCUS
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NIGERIA
exiled writer to return
PARIS
(AP) Nigeria’s leader said Saturday that he met
in New York with his nation’s most-prominent
exile and urged writer Wole Soyinka to return
home.
“I met with him yesterday (Friday) in New York
and told him I wanted him to come back. That’s a
sign of the extent we will go to,” Gen. Abdulsalami
Abubakar said at a news conference in Paris. “We
want them all to come home and join us in what
we're doing.”
Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for
literature, has cited as recently as a week ago
security concerns for his refusal to end his four
years of self-imposed exile. Abubakar did not indi
cate how Soyinka responded, and the writer could
not be reached Saturday for comment.
At Abubakar’s urging, several exiles have re
turned to Nigeria in recent months. The general,
who took office after the June death of dictator
Gen. Sani Abacha, pledges to return Nigeria to
democracy and has freed many political prisoners.
Earlier this month, he had the treason charges
filed against Soyinka in March 1997 dropped.
Soyinka, who teaches at Emory University in
Atlanta, said then that Nigeria had a long way to
go toward democracy, but praised the government
for dropping the charges.
Abubakar had been in New York to address the
U.N. General Assembly.
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Atlanta . 85 64 sh 79 .59 r 77 59 sh 81 61 sh 81 63 pc
Boston 72 46 sh 60 46 pc 64 48 s 66 50 pc 72 59 pc
Chicago 66 46 pc 66 48 pc 67 48 sh 79 57 sh 77 56 pc
Cleveland 67 46 pc 63 45 s 65 47 po. - 73. 58 pc 76 58 &
Denver 72 46 sh 77 46 pc 73 43 c 79 50 ¢ 79 50 ¢
Des Moines 69 49 sh 67 50 sh 69 50 sh 80 58 pc 78 56 pc
Detroit 64 46 c 62 46 pc 66 46 pc 73 ssh 75 55 pc
Houston 90 68 pc 88 68 pc 89 68 pc 92 70 pc 90 69 pc
Indianapolis 73 51 sh 68 50 sh 70 SSO sh 79 58 sh 80 57 pc
Kansas City 73 53 r 69 53 sh 71 53 sh 83 61 pc 80 59 pc
Los Angeles 85 59 pc 86 60 s 83 56 pc 72 43 ¢ 74 44 sh
Miami 90 78 pc 977 pc 89 76 pc 89 76 pc 88 75 pc
Minn.- St. Paul 62 44s 62 46 pc 66 47 sh 75 54 sh 73 52 pc
New Orleans 88 70 pc 86 68 sh 885 68 c 88 69 sh 87 69 pc
New York City 77 85 pc 73 52 s 66 54 s 70 57 pc 73 63 pc
Omaha 70 49 sh 68 48 sh 70 50 sh 82 spc 79 55 pc
Phoenix 98 72 s 97 73 s 97 70 s 92 62 pc 86 57 sh
San Francisco 74 56 pc 74 54 s 68 50 pc 59 42 pc 63 46 pc
Seattle 68 52 pc 66 50 pc 59 44 sh 56 47 sh 66 46 pc
Washington 77 56 pc 70 51 s 70 53 pc 75 58 pc 78 63 pc
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Today Friday Saturday Sunday Monday
City Hi LoW Hi LoW H LoW H LoWwW HloWw
Amsterdam 55 38 r 52 3 ¢ 46 35 sh 47 36 sh 49 37 sh
Berlin 58 41 sh 56 40 pc 52 38 pc 51 38 ¢ 52 39 sh
Buenos Aires 61 45 s 87 48 pc 69 49 pc 67 50 pc 72 56 po
Cairo 94 72 pc 95 73 pc 94 73 pc 94 71 pc 93 70 pc
Jerusalem 84 64 pc 885 65 pc 85 65 pc 85 64 pc 83 61 pc
Johannesburg 79 Sspc 79 Ssspc 79 55 pc 77 50 pc 74 52 pc
London 58 41 r 63 35 pc 48 36 sh 49 37 sh 57 38 pc
Madrid 76 49 pc 71 47 pc 72 48 pc 72 47 pc 72 49 sh
Mexico City 76 56 pc 75 56 pc 76 57 pc 76 57 pc 75 55 pc
Moscow 57 42 r 48 3pc 45 27 pc 38 28 s 40 32 s
Paris 57 39 pc 54 34 pc SSO 36 sh 51 38 sh 53 39 sh
Rio de Janeiro 78 67 pc 75 62 pc 72 64 pc 73 66 pc 75 67 pc
Rome 72 55 pc 71 S4pc 71 53 pc 72 56 pc 75 60 pc
San Juan 877 pc 978 pc 889 76 pc 89 76 pc 89 77 pc
Seoul 83 66 pc 884 59 pc 73 52 pc 73 85 pc 77 59 pc
Sydney 85 68 pc 78 68 s 83 68 pc 79 58 sh 71 57 pc
Tokyo 84 78 pc 86 78 r 87 78 sh 82 72pc 79 72 pc
Toronto 58 38 s 59 43 s 65 47 pc 68 52 pc 71 52 s
Winnipeg 62 47 pc 71 SSO pc 69 48 sh 64 39 pc 59 44 pc
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Cleanup begins
after Lesotho
disturbance
By Andrew Selsky
ASSOCIATED PRESS Writer
MASERU, Lesotho
The sweet singing of
hymns drifted from a ca
thedral in the burned and
pillaged capital of Maseru
on Sunday, while wor
shippers prayed for the
salvation of their tiny
kingdom of Lesotho.
Meanwhile, thousands
of people began cleaning
up the capital, which was
calm but in ruins after
South African and
Botswanan troops came
to Lesotho to prevent a
military mutiny from es
calating into a coup.
Much of Maseru’s busi
ness district was de
stroyed by arson and loot
ing after Tuesday’s mili
tary intervention.
Energy Minister
Monyane Moleleki said
officials planned to seek
aid from the International
Monetary Fund and the
World Bank to help re
build this impoverished
country of 2 million, the
South African Press As
sociation reported.
Thousands of refugees
have fled to towns in
South Africa, which sur
rounds Lesotho, seeking
shelter and food.
Meanwhile, South Af
rican troops backed by
armored vehicles found
widespread destruction
when they were deployed
for the first time in
Mafeteng, 40 miles south
of the capital. Many busi
nesses in Mafeteng had
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been looted and torched.
The intervention,
which troops from
Botswana joined
Wednesday, also tried to
bolster the civilian gov
ernment elected last
May. Lesotho soldiers
fought arriving South
African troops, who had
expected to easily secure
the situation, because
South Africa had not
given advance warning
of its peacekeeping mis
sion.
Lesotho army troops
and army mutineers
thought they were being
invaded. At least 67
troops from both sides
died.
South African Presi
dent Nelson Mandela on
Sunday defended his
country’s action, telling
reporters in Cape Town:
“We went there not to
fight but .. so that the
parties couldsitdownand
explore a peaceful settle
ment. We did not fire
first.” ;
The 2,000 members of
the Lesotho Defense
Force, some of whom re
volted in support of oppo
sition politicians and for
pay increases, have been
ordered toreport forwork
in uniform Monday.
They have been or
dered to turn in their
weaponswith theammu
nition removed. South
African officials said the
weaponswill be returned
once the Lesotho soldiers
sort out their power
struggle.
Tuesday
Clouds and
sun; warm,
87/63
Wednesday
Clouds and
sun; warm.
88/58
THE NATIONAL §UMMARY
The Gulf Coast states and the
Southeast will be subject to tropical
moisture with heavy rain in these
areas. Much of the Northeast, Great
Lakes and mid-Atlantic will be dry
with temperatures near to above
normal. An upper-level system will
bring cool, wet weather to the
Northwest, northern California and
the northern Rockies. Warm weather
will continue across Texas and the
southem Plains. |
Woeather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy,
c-cloudy, sh-showaers, t-hunderstorms,
v-rain, si-snow flurries, Sn-snow, Hoe.
Sun & MOON
Thu., Oct.l ........ 72am. 7:13p.m.
Fri., Oct. 2 .....cc... 7:232.M. 7:11 pm.
Sat., Oct. 3 ........ 7223 am. 7:10p.m.
Sun., Oct 4 ........ 724 am. 709p.m.
Mon., Oct.s ........ 725a.m. 707 p.m.
Tue., Oct. 6 ........ 7:26a.m. 7:06 p.m.
Wed., Oct. 7 ......726am. 7:.05p.m.
Moonrise Moonset
Thu., Oct. 1 ........ 433p.m. 234 am.
Fd., Oct. 2 ......... 5:17p.m. 336 am.
Sat,Oct3 ........559pm. 442 am.
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South African troops ride on an armored vehicle as they patrol
the streets of Maseru, Lesotho, Thursday, September 24,
1998. Soidiers from South Africa and Botswana moved to
quell an outbreak of looting after suppressing mutinous
Lesotho troops in the mountain kingdom. The South African
and Botswanan troops played a cat-and-mouse game with
the looters. (AP Photo/Adil Bradiow)
Ex-Rwandan mayor begs for forgiveness
ARUSHA, Tenzania
(AP) A Rwandan ex-mayor con
victed of genocide dismissed his law
yers on Monday and begged for for
giveness while pleading for a light
sentence for the 1994 slaughter.
‘'m seeking pardon from the
people of Rwandan for what hap
pened,” Jean-Paul Akayesu said in
a 30-minute statement before a
U.N. tribunal. “I was unable to
stop the massacre. I regret this
from the bottom of my heart.”
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Rwandan Hutu extremists
killed more than 500,000 minor
ity Tutsisbeginning April 7,1994.
Tutsi-led rebels ousted the Hutu
government 90 days later.
Akayesu, in the first judgment
by an international court on geno
cide, was found guilty Sept. 2 of
nine counts of genocide, crimes
againsthumanity and rape. It also
was the first time aninternational
tribunal defined rape as a geno
cidal erime.
Poverty
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been sharply increasing. And
black high school graduation
rates, which long lagged behind
those of white students, are now
nearly equal to white rates.
“We are seeing some welcomed
improvement in areas,” Price said.
“But there are still some stubborn
gaps in standardized test scores
and black and white family assets
and wealth that won’t go away.”
Simms said the demand for
higher job skills means educa
tional leaders and business lead
ers should do more to match the
skills of newcomers to the
workforce with job providers. She
pointed to a South Carolina pro
gram in which managers at a
BMW manufacturing plant work
closely with administrators at
community colleges to let student
know exactly what skills they will
need in the coming years.
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