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DECEMBER 3, 1998
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Farrakhan, Gadhafimeet
- CAIRO, Egypt (AP) Louis Farrakhan, the con
‘troversial leader of the Nation of Islam, met with ‘
‘Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi on Sunday and
-congratulated him on his recovery from a hip
-injury, state-run Libxan radio reported.
. Improved health will enable Gadhafi to “carry
‘on his leading role in the service of Islamic causes
‘in the world,” Farrakhan was quoted as saying by
igxe radio, monitored by the British Broadcasting
.Corp.
. Ir:ter, state-run television showed Gadhafi —
‘dressed in a brown robe and holding a cane —
-meeting Farrakhan at his ceremonial tent in the
- Libyan capital, Tripoli. The broadcast was moni
-tored in Cairo.
" Gadhafi underwent surgery last July after in
‘juring his hip, reportedly while exercising.
" The visit was Farrakhan’s fifth to Libya in the
‘past three years. He most recently visited in
- December 1997.
: It was not immediately clear how Farrakhan
- arrived in Libya or how long he would stay. Most
: visitors arrive by ferry from Malta or travel over
-land from Egypt or Tunisia; U.N. sanctions im
- posed in 1992 ban air travel to and from the
- country.
Farrakhan has called repeatedly for an end to
-the sanctions, which were imposed to try to force
- Gadhafi to surrender two Libyans wanted in the
- 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jetlinerover Lockerbie,
- Scotland, that killed 270 people.
L Citing the sanctions and U.S. regulations, the
" Treasury Department prohibited Farrakhan from
accepting a $250,000 prize he was awarded by
Gadhafi in September 1996 for human rights
" work. The Treasury also barred his group from
accepting Gadhafi’s offer of a $1 billion gift for
Nation of Islam activities.
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Atianta 69 50 c 65 48 ¢ 65 47 ¢ 64 45 pc 62 42 pc
Boston 60 40 s 62 4 s 59 4pc 55 41 pc 53 23 pc
Chicago 68 40 pc 58 42 pc 51 38 sh 650 25 sh 37 24 s
Cleveland 60 40 s 57 42 pc 54 40 c 52 38 sh 42 25 s
Denver 50 32 pc 60 26 pc 46 18 ¢ 3B 8c 40 17 pc
Des Moines 56 39 pc 54 35 sh 651 32 sh 39 177 pc 37 24 s
Detroit 60 40 pc 56 38 pc 53 39 sh 50 32 sh 37 22 pc
Houston 74 60 sh 74 58 pc 74 55 ¢ 72 49 sh 71 50 sh
Indianapolis 61 43 pc 59 41 ¢ §5 40 sh 54 34 pc 45 27 s
Kansas City 59 43 r 59 43 sh 55 36 sh 46 24 sh 43 29 pc
Los Angeles 75 46 pc 69 44 pc 68 41 pc 57 31 pc 62 36 pc
Miami 80 68 sh 80 67 sh 80 68 sh 82 67 pc 81 66 pc
1 Minn.- St. Paul 50 35 pc 49 31 r 227 i 28 6pc 26 21 s
{ New Orleans 76 54 pc 73 56 ¢ 7% 6 c 71 51 sh 70 52 pc
1 New York City 64 465 64 486 pc 67 42 s 57 45 s 54 30 pc
Omaha 56 37 pc 55 34 pc 651 28 sh 37 14 pc 37 23 s
Phoenix 74 50 s 70 46 pc 66 43 pc 57 33 sh 58 33 sh
1 San Francisco 57 43 r 64 40 sh 52 40 sh 45 36 s 55 41 pc
] Seattle 43 32 sh 39 30 sh 40 33 sn 44 41 sf 52 41 pc
Washington 66 46 pc 68 46 s 68 42 s 62 45 pc 58 33 pc
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Buenos Aires 8465 pc 884 68 pc .8663 pc 77 56 s 76 61 s
Cairo 74 57 pc 77 60 pc 78 59 pc 77 §7 pc 76 56 pc
Jerusalem 61 45 pc 63 49 pc 68 51 pc 66 49 pc 65 50 pc
Johannesburg 78 53 pc 76 54 pc 77 spc 79 68 pc 82 61 pc
London 44 34 pc 44 3B pc 44 Mpc 42 B s 43 36 s
Madrid 4 2pc 39 23 pc 44 27 pc 46 28 pc 48 32 pc
Mexico City 69 47 pc 68 46 pc 68 46 pc 68 47 pc 69 47 pc
Moscow 42 32s 33 21 s 25 2pc 30 24 sn 20 22 s
Paris 37 27 ¢ 3 27pc 37 27 pc M 428 s 36 28 s
Rio de Janeiro 81 70 pc 80 6pc 78 68 pc 79 70 pc 80 70 pec
Rome 54 40 r 66 39 sh 52 34 pc 46 32 sh 48 33 s
San Juan 88 76 pc 89 76 pc 88 75 pc 87 75 pc 87 75 pe
Seoul 38 2pc 44 opc 47 28 pc 44 24 pc 35 13 80
Sydney 77 66 pc 74 59 pc 68 67 s 71 60 s 72 60 pc
Tokyo 60 44 pc 54 48 pc 60 54 pc 68 657 pc 68 57 r
Toronto 57 44 pc 56 43 s 63 41 pc 51 37 s 38 21 pe
Winnipeg 3 2pc 37 19pc 34 9Ssn 14 18 212 s
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Al]b;:')o;frner rebels, troops clash
LUAKDA, Angola
(AP) Troops of the former rebel
group UNITA have overrun a
northern Angolan town, news
reports said Monday.
The offensive on Caculama, in
northern Malanje province, took
place Thursday, church sources
told Luanda’s Radio Eclesia.
Another church source, Father
Miguel Botachim, told the radio
that UNITA and government
forces also were clashing in
neighboring Uige province. It
At quiet frontline, Congolese
rebels await marching orders
By Hrvoje Mramjski
ASSOCIATED PRESS Writer
NYUMIU, Comgo
Despite talk of a cease-fire,
Rwandan-backed Congolese
rebels said Monday they were re
grouping for a new offensive while
battlefields were quiet.
Moving by night and resting by
day, columns of insurgents carry
ing machine guns and antitank
missiles marched silently beneath
afull moon across bridgesin south
east Congo to avoid Zimbabwean
warplanes and helicopters seek
ing to stop their advance.
Rwandan and Congolese rebel
commanders paid little attention
to last week’s Paris agreement
among leaders of Rwanda,
Uganda, Zimbabwe and Congo.
They agreed to stop fighting but
have not pulled back their troops.
Speaking Sunday on the Brit
ish Broadcasting Corp., Patrick
Mazimhaka, a minister in the of
fice of Rwanda’s president,
downplayed the importance of the
agreement and said Rwandan
troops will continue backing the
rebels in the absence of a political
solution in Congo.
Congolese rebel leader Ernest
Wamba dia Wamba, who was in
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was not immediately possible to
confirm the reports.
The reports come amid signs
of increasing hostility between
the former foes, who signed a
1994 peace accord to end a two
decade civil war that broke out
when Angola won independence
from Portugal in 1976.
The government has threat
ened to push UNITA out of the
areas the former rebels still
hold, and has severed all con
tact with UNITA leader Jonas
northern Congo welcoming new
recruits into rebel ranks, said the
cease-fire will work only if the
rebels are part of it.
The truce was to be signed next
week at peace talks in Lusaka,
Zambia. It wasn’t clear if the
rebels has been invited.
Congolese President Laurent
Kabila has refused to negotiate
directly with a rebel coalition of
minority Tutsis, disenchanted
members of Congolese army and
opposition politicians who took
up arms Aug. 2. He accuses them
of being the puppets of Rwanda
and Uganda.
But while both countries are
supplying troops, arms and food
to the rebels, an estimated 60,000
rebel force is still doing most of
the fighting on the ground in the
eastern half of the country.
On Monday, a Rwandan com
mander, who only identified him
self as Milton, said he had re
ceived no cease-fire orders and
instead was reinforcing positions
in preparation for an attack across
the Congo River at Kabalo, 300
kilometers (185 miles) south of
the eastern rebel stronghold at
Goma.
“We are waiting for orders to
attack. There is no cease-fire,”
Tuesday
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Mild weather will continue across
the eastern half of the country.
Temperatures may average 10 so 20
degrees above normal across the
Great Lakes, Southeast and
Tennessee Valley. Stormy weather
will plague Texas with rain. Cool air
will settle across the Southwest and
Rocky Mountains. Storm systems
will continue to enter the Northwest
with rain, wind and mountain snow.
Waeather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy,
c-cloudy, sh-showers, {-thunderstorms,
r-rain, si-snow fiurries, sn-snow, Hce.
Sun & Moon
Thu., Dec. 3......... 7:lsam, 520p.m.
Fr., Dec. 4 .......... 716 am. 5:220 p.m.
Sat., Dec. 5 ... 7:l7am. 5:20p.m.
Sun.,Dec. 6 .....7:lßam. 520p.m.
Mon., Dec. 7 .....7:l9am. 520p.m.
Tue., Dec. 8 ........ 7:l9am. 520 p.m.
Wed., Dec. 9 ...... 720 am, 520 p.m.
Mocnrise Moonset
Thu., Dec. 3 ........ 549 p.m. 657 am,
Fri., Dec. 4 ......... 6:46 pm. 8:04 am.
Sat, Dec. 5 ....... 746 pm. 9:07 am.
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Savimbi.
UNITA —the National Union
for the Total Independence of
Angola accuses the government
of human rights abuses against
UNITA supporters in areas al
ready handed over.
Botachim also told Radio
Eclesia that nine church work
ers — six Italians, two Angolans
and a Portuguese priest — who
were thought to be missing were
in Uige province.
Milton said.
Zimbabwe, Kabila’s main ally,
flew MiG-21s fighter jets, Puma
helicopter gun ships as well as
Russian-built Mi-24 HIND
transport helicopters over the
southern frontlines. Rebelsscur
ried for coverin thick forests and
banana groves.
Occasional airstrikes have
slowed down the rebels and dis
rupted the communication lines,
but Milton said most of the bombs
missed their targets and changed
nothing on the battlefield.
“Theaircraft keepustieddown
while helicopters drop off the
Zimbabweans behind our de
fense lines,” Milton said. “But at
theend, we always engagethem,
and there has been little advanc
ing on either side.”
He said so far his forces had
killed more than 100 Zimbabwe
ans. The claim could not be con
firmed independently, although
identity cards of some of Zimba
bweans were put on display.
Milton dismissed the
government’s claims of a coun
teroffensive at Kabalo and Lake
Tanganyika ports of Kalemie and
Moba, saying the towns were
quiet on Monday..
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Book fiap lands teacher
in hot water with parents
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removed from the classroom while school officials
investigated.
Board of Education spokesman J.D. Laßock
downplayed the incident on Wednesday, saying it
was a misunderstanding by residents — not par
ents — who were unfamiliar with the book.
Officials believe Miss Sherman “may have used
poor judgment” in choosing a book that may offend
some people, Laßock said. But he added that no
disciplinary action would be taken.
Students, parents and colleagues were urging
Miss Sherman to return.
“My daughter is crying. Please come back,” said
Lydia Flores, whose daughter, Jennifer, is in Miss
Sherman’s class.
Ifshe does return, Miss Sherman says she will not
change her teaching style.
“I'm a multi-cultural freak,” she said, “and if I can
find a book that teaches a child about our differ
ences in a positive way and shows us to feel good
about our differences then I'm going to do every
thing I can to use it.”
Students complain
From page one
We have an obligation to the merchants who do
business here.”
The mall routinely has security officers patrol
ling the three levels of Four Seasons. Those officers
regularly hand out copies of the courtesy code to
young shoppers, especially those in groups.
Mack said the mall sent copies of its code only
after A&T requested it to include in the school’s
student orientation packet.
“Some of the people will refuse to listen,” Mack
said. “If they’re not interested in learning our rules
of conduct, we'll ask them to leave.
But some A&T students say they’re not willing to
be subjected to that security. Sophomore Ray Howie
said he’ll gladly take his money and spend it at
outside black-owned businesses.
“That’s what we need to do if (the mall) doesn’t
want our money,” he said.
Security is heightened even more so this time of
year, a mall’s busiest season. Four Seasons recently
in stalled a number of security cameras inside the
mall and out in its parking lots. Mall security
officers also patrol on foot, bicycles, and cars.
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