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to accept south’s secession
KHARTOUM, Sudan
(AP) Sudan’s president signaled Monday that he
isready to accept the secession of southern provinces
if that would end the country’s 16-year old civil war.
But Omar el-Bashir stressed that his Islamic
government will continue efforts to maintain the
unity of the African country. :
His comments, made in an interview with a Qatar
television station, were reported Sunday by state
run television. A number of state-run newspapers
carried excerpts.
“The possibilities of unity stand, as do the possi
bilities of separation,” el-Bashir was quoted as say
ing.
Headded: “But the option of separation with peace
is better than that of unity with the continuation
with war.”
El-Bashir has said before that he is willing to give
southerners a chance to vote on their future _ and
that the government would try to persuade them to
stay as part of Sudan.
Southern rebels have been fighting since 1983 for
mor2autonomy for the south’s largely Christian and
animist population from the Islamic north. More
than 1.9 million people have died in the fighting and
resulting famines. :
Under a peace agreement signed with seven
breakaway rebel factions in 1997, the government
committed itself to holding a referendum in four
years so southerners can vote on whether they want
to remain part of Sudan or secede.
That pledge also was repeated in a new constitu
tion adopted last June in a national referendum.
In his remarks, el-Bashir apparently was refer
ring to his government’s earlier declaration that it
wasready toaccept the results of such areferendum.
Theseven factions that have sided with el-Bashir’s
regime broke from the Sudan People’s Liberation
Army, headed by John Garang, which has led the
fighting in the south.
Garang has rejected the government’s peace pro
posal as not going far enough.
In the Kenyan capital Nairobi, SPLA spokesman
Justin Arap Yaac said that if el-Bashir is serious
about allowing secession, he should present the idea
at the next negotiations sponsored by the Intergov--
ernmental Authority on Development.
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HOMELESS IN NIGERIA: Tony
Obanor, a homeless artist who lives
in a plasic sheet tent on the beach in
Lagos Nigeria, flies a flag for the
Alliance for Democracy political
party Sunday, Feb. 21, 1999. Obanor
says he will vote in all rounds of
Eritrea says Ethiopia has
launched large-scale attack
ASMARA, Eritrea
(AP) Eritrea said its forces were en
gaged in pitched battles with Ethiopian
soldiers today following an early morn
ing tank and air assault along the dis
puted border dividing the two Horn of
Africa neighbors.
Eritrean soldiers destroyed nine
Ethiopian T-55 tanks and captured two
others in clashes today at the Merib-
Setit front, 60 miles southvest of the
capital, Asmara, the Eritrean Foreign
Ministry s~id.
Ethiopia’s ground assault at Merib-
Setit — which Ethiopia calls the Badme
front — began after Russian-made
Antonov warplanes and artillery began
bombarding Eritrean positions before
dawn, the ministry said in a statement.
Combat in the area had been rela
tively quiet since an initial outbreak of
intense fighting more than two weeks
ago, the statement said.
The two countries are contesting parts
of their 620-mile border that were never
By diversifying our workforce to employ
the talents of African Americans and
other ethnic groups in the development,
manufacturing and sale of our products.
By expanding our supplier base to ensure
that companies owned by African Americans
have the access and opportunity to provide
us with goods and services.
By partnering with cultural service and
charitable organizations to improve the
quality of life for the African-American
community and society at large.
B.y striving to incorporate the legacies
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Nigeria’s elections because he can
not make a living and wants change
for his country. Saturday’s legisia
tive elections marked a transition
from military to civilian rule winding
up with presidential elections on Feb.
27. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
demarcated after Eritrea won inde
pendence from Ethiopia in 1993.
In the Ethiopian capital, Addis
Ababa, government spokeswoman
Selome Tadesse confirmed fighting at
the Badme front but offered no further
details.
An earlier government statement
said Ethiopian air force planes and
artillery had pummeled Eritrean units
at two other fronts along the frontier,
inflicting what it described as “heavy
losses.”
Eritrean Foreign Minister Haile
Woldentensae called the latest attacks
by Ethiopia “a frantic second stab” fol
lowing what he said was the failure of its
airstrikes Monday against the Tsorona
and Merib-Setit fronts.
Tensions between Eritrea and Ethio
pia have escalated since May, when war
broke out along the largely uninhabited
border and 1,000 people were killed. The
latest fighting that began Feb. 6 ended
an eight-month stalemate.
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for comment.
Not all commissioners are sup
portive of the proposed legisla
tion. Mr. Ulmer Bridges said that
he wanted to find out more about
the proposed legislation. “If they
want to simply transfer duties,
then I am opposed to it.” Accord
ing to Mr. Walker, the legislation
secks transfer the work of the
Equal Opportunity Office to the
city’spurchasingdepartment and
move Ms. Byrd-Pelaez to the Au
gusta Human Relations Commis
sion. Mr. Bridges assertsthat “if
they are doing away with the po
sition with the government alto
gether, than it is no longer need
for the school board as well.”
However, school board presi
dent, Mary Oglesby, and former
school board president, Adna
Stein, reveal that no such office
exists for the board. Mr. Bridges
added: “Brenda has shown her
self to be fair, impartial and col
orblind and some folks don’t like
that.” Cominissioner Bill Kuhlke
believes that “petty politics are
involved.”
Ms. Byrd-Pelaez simply states
that she doesn’t know why any
one would want to do away with
the office. She has received sev
eral calls from residents and busi
ness owners expressing support.
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“Most realize the need to have
such an office to help ensure fair
ness in hiring, promotion and pro
curement,” she said. She ex
pressed the hope “that fairness
will always prevail whether this
office is in existence or not.”
Commissioner Willie Mays
shares similar sentiments. Mr.
Mays hopes that, “the original
signers of the consolidation bill
recognize the presence of discrimi
nation in the governmental
workforce, both historically and
in the present. In my opinion,
being the only person to serve in
the previoustwo governmentsand
this one, we have made some
progress but the ugly head of dis
crimination has not died.” While
Mr. Mays did not say directly
that he was for or against the
proposed legislation, he did ex
press the need for such an office.
In addition, he challenged the
Mayor and fellow commissioners
to take a more active stand. “The
real buck stops and starts with
our own intestinal fortitude, if we
have it.”
When contacted this week, Rep
resentatives Alberta Anderson,
Ben Allen and Robin Williams
indicated that they are not in
clined to approve the bill. Repre
sentatives Henry Howard and
Jack Connel reserve judgement
until the bill is formally intro
duced.
silence on a dining room TV, wait
ress Lisa Barthol said King and
his two co-defendants would get
their due — no matter what the
punishment.
“They’re still going to have to
stand in front of God,” she said,
“and answer for whatthey’ve done.”