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Mbeki to push for vote
in Zulu stronghold
SOWETO, South Africa
(AP) Thousands of supporters of the ruling Afri
can National Congress streamed into a soccer
stadium Sunday to bid farewell to President Nelson
Mandela and show support for the man expected to
be elected South Africa’s next president this week.
It was a festive atmosphere outside the stadium
in this sprawling township near Johannesburg, as
crowds of people sang, danced and displayed ANC
campaign posters. Women cooked sausages and
other food on open grills.
Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, the ANC leader
and Mandela’s likely successor, was expected to
address the crowd at midday. Mandela also was
expected to appear, ANC officials said.
The event was thelast scheduled ANC massrally
before Wednesday’s election _ South Africa’s sec
ond free and democratic vote since the fall of
apartheid in 1994.
The ANC is seeking an overwhelming victory,
which it says is necessary to continue dismantling
the vestiges ofapartheid. Whites still control much
of South Africa’s wealth, leaving millions of blacks
in poverty.
Recent polls show the ANC with more than 60
percent support, and none of the many opposition
parties with more than 10 percent.
Lions kill warden in front
of tourists in Namibia
WINDHOEK, Namibia
(AP) A lion killed a game warden at a private lodge
outside Namibia’s capital whileninehorrified tourists
looked on helplessly, local media reported Friday.
The warden, Steyn Lusse, 28, was attacked Thurs
dayinsidethelions’enclosure on the popular Okapuka
game farm outside Windhoek as he tried to free up a
mechanism used to feed the lions, witnesses said.
They said Lusse ignored warnings from the group of
tourists from the United Kingdom, the United States
and South Africathatoneofthelionswasstalkinghim.
Tthappenedsoquickly. Therewasnothingwecould
do,” said Usi Hoebeb, a Namibian. “We threw rocks at
them, but the lion had him by the throat.”
Game farm owner Fritz Flachberger subdued the
330-pound cat. The tourists were given psychological
counseling.
Myrtie Beach
from page one
mission and the federal Equal
Employment Opportunity Com
mission.
On April 21, the state commis
sion gave the officers permission
to sue.
The suit names Chief Warren
Gall, Sgt. Davis Cooke, Sgt. Hook
Dempsey, Capt. Tommy
Timberlake, the city of Myrtle
Beach and the police department
asdefendants.
Dempsey, Galland Mark Kruea,
the city’s public information of
ficer, would not comment. Gall
and Kruea said they had not re
ceived a copy of the suit. Cooke
and Timberlake could not be
reached Wednesday for comment,
the newspaper said.
« Less than 13 percent of the
department’s 162 employees are
minorities, the suit said. That in
cludes two of 13 sergeants and 16
6f the 99 patrol officers.
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CASUALTY OF WAR. Aninha, 16, sits next to the rusting body of a car in which she
sleeps Friday night, May 28, 1999. Aninha shares the carwith a 17-year-old friend
and her one-year-old baby. Humanitarian organizations estimate thatthere are
some 5,000 children living in the streets of Luanda, most of them sent to the capital
by theirfamiles to escape the civil war in the interior of Angola. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)'
Congolese rebels vow to
fight on without Rwanda
ASSOCIATED PRESS Writer
KIGALI, Rwanda
Congolese rebels said Saturday they will
continue their fight to oust President Laurent,
Kabila despite the their Rwandan allies’ decla
ration of a cease-fire.
Rwanda, which has backed the rebels with
troops and equipment in southern and eastern
Congo, began observing the cease-tire last Fri
day night. Foreign Minister Amri Sued [smael
told reporters the cease-fire was intended to
help chances for a negotiated settlement of the
ten-month war.
But Alexis Thambwe-Mwamba, the rebels’
foreign minister, said his troops would continue
fighting regardless of what Rwanda does.
“Nothing will change on the ground,”
Thambwe-Mwamba said by telephone from the
eastern rebel stronghold at Goma, on the
Rwandanborder.
“We have several dozen thousand men who
aremotivatedtofighton. Rwandaisasovereign
country, and their declaration will prove to
Kabila and theinternational community that
this is an independent rebel movement.”
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Thambwe-Mwamba,whometearlierinthe
week with Rwandan vice president and minis
terofdefense, Maj. Gen. Paul Kagame, said he
was informed of the Rwandan intention to
declare a truce, and said that the rebels had
taken necessary steps to continue fighting
without the Rwandans.
The rebels rely heavily on Rwandan troops,
weapons, logistics and aircraft to advance
across the broad savannah of southern Congo
where they fought intense battles last week
outside the diamond center of Mbuji-Mayi.
It was not immediately clear how the fight
ing could progress without Rwandan air and
logistical support.
Rwanda and Uganda backed the rebellion
sinceitsinception last August, saying Kabila,
whom they helped put in powerin May 1997,
had failed to protect their security interestsin
eastern Congo where rebels opposing both
countries have bases.
Sued said the cease-fire would be effective
only if it is respected by all the parties in the
conflict. Zimbabwe, Angola and Namibia are
backing Kabila with troops and equipment.
Chad, another backer, began withdrawingits
troops this week, saying the war was over.
Armey takes on
Spike Lee over
Heston comment
(AP) House Majority Leader
Dick Armey, who has been posi
tioning himselfas a cultural arbi
ter, is taking Spike Lee to task.
The House’s No. 2 Republican
denounced the filmmaker Wednes
day for saying that actor Charlton
Heston, the National Rifle Asso
ciation president, should be shot
“with a .44-caliber Bulldog” pistol.
Armey, who recently tried to
keep shock rocker Marilyn
Manson from performing in Dal
las, condemned Lee’s “embrace of
Flag challenge survives.
From page one
proper about the flag. Ifthat issue
ultimately gets litigated in the
Supreme Court, we’re confident
that will be upheld,” said Cole.
In a separate case last fall, the
Supreme Court refused toban use
of a Confederate flag on the Mis
sissippi Gulf Coast as part of a
historical flag display, but Justice
Fred Banks said the flag is offen
sive to blacks. -
Banks, the only black member
of the court, said in the Septem
ber decision that the flag “has
been used throughout history, not
only to commemorate the sacri
fices made in support of the Con
federacy, but — most importantly
—asasymbol of white supremacy.”
Supporters contend the flagisa
sign of Southern heritage and a
part of the state’s history.
Colesaid documents ofthe flag’s
past are part of the state’s de
The Atlanta International Museum of
Art and Design, 285 Peachtree Center
Ave., will be ending two current
exhibits on June 19: “The Art of
Ndebele: Evolution of a Cultural
Identity” and photography exhibit
“Mandela’s Cell.” The museum is open
Tues. - Sat., 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., $3. For
more info, call (404) 688-2467.
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violence except more violence and
more hate,” said Armey, R-Irving.
“He should apologize immediately
for this unfortunate remark.”
Lee didn’t offer any immediate
comment.
He was quoted in Saturday’s
New York Post assayingthe NRA
should be disbanded. As for
Heston, “Shoot him with a .44-
caliber Bulldog,” Lee was quoted
as saying.
sense.
Controversy over the flag ,
prompted the University of Mis- |
sissippi in 1997 to disavow it asa -
university symbol and ban it from |
sporting events. 5
“Symbols are not as important -;
as other forms of discrimination, .
but symbols can be harmful and .:
inflame discrimination we see in !
our state,” said Langston. ;
Then-Hinds County Chancery ..
Judge Chet Dillard dismissed the .
lawsuit without a trial. The high
court ordered both sides Thurs
day to begin preparing written ,
arguments. 7
Among the plaintiffs are U.S. ;
Rep. Bennie Thompson and the
late Aaron Henry of Clarksdale, ;
former head of the NAACP and a ,
crusader against the flag in the ~
state Legislature. 7
The United Sons of Confederate .»
Veterans is also involved in the .
case in defense of the flag. .