By The
Associated Press
Edited by Kristine Long
News digest
Nelrraskan
Tuesday, March 29, 1994
US to send aid
to El Salvador
WASHINGTON — After spend
ing billions ofdollars during 12 years
todefeat leftist insurgents in El Salva
dor, the U.S. government now is giv
ing them millions to help finance land
purchases and business endeavors.
The former rebels, once derided by
the Reagan admin istrat ion as left-wing
terrorists bent on infecting the hemi
sphere with Marxism, have become
part of the U.S. foreign aid portfolio.
Members of the Farabundo Marti
National Liberation Front, or FMLN,
arc to receive a share of the $300
million that the administration has
targeted for El Salvador over five years,
said Mark Schneider, AID assistant
administrator for Latin America. The
FMLN’s one-time foes from the Sal
vadoran military also are eligible for
some aid.
One example: Several dozen left
ists, including three female FMLN
commandantes, laid down their arms
to launch an organic coffee coopera
tive.
If it seems ironic the United States
is lending support to forces it tried so
hard to defeat, Schneider says El Sal
vador requires just as much readjust
ment as the post-Cold War relation
ships in the rest of the world.
“We’re trying to help the people of
El Salvador move away from the divi
sions of the past, and to provide them
with an opportunity to work together
for a more peaceful and democratic
future,” said Schneider.
The assistance goes far beyond the
initial U.S. offer to house and feed
combatants in temporary camps while
they laid down arms and made the
transition to civilian life.
The money, the U.S. share ofaid to
help implement programs under the
1992 peace accord, covers a variety of
programs — from building and train
ing a new civilian police force to
rehabilitating roads and public ser
vices.
Already more than $ 12 million has
gone to the former rebels, beyond the
initial funds for the temporary camps.
Protests leave 31 dead
JOHANNESBURG, South Af
rica — Black factional fighting
spread to the heart of South Africa’s
main city for the first time Monday
when a march by Zulu nationalists
set of! gunbattles, stabbings and
beatings that killed at least 31
people.
Gunfire echoed off skyscrapers
and shattered windows around a
park near city hall where thousands
of Zulus carrying spears rallied to
protest the all-race election next
month. Several blocks away, guards
fired on more Zulus outside offices
of the rival African National Con
gress.
Leaders of the ANC and the
Zulu-dominated Inkatha Freedom
Party accused each other of starting
the violence.
People sprawled in the dirt and
under cars, cowered behind pillars
and trampled each other trying to
escape the shooting. There were
bloodstained streets and sidewalks
in at least three areas. Hospitals
reported more than 200 wounded.
Late Monday, icaders of the ma in
political parties were trying to ar
range a summit between President
F.W. dc Klerk, ANC leader Nelson
Mandela, Zulu King Goodwill
Zwclithini and Inkatha leader
Mangosuthu Buthclezi. They were
expected to meet later this week to
confront the worsening crisis over
Zulu demands for autonomy after
the April 26-28 election.
The ANC rejects Zulu demands
for a separate homeland, saying the
country’s racial and ethnic groups
must learn to live together after
generations of segregation under
apartheid.
ANC leaders are demanding that
troops of the white-minority gov
ernment take over KwaZulu to en
sure the election can proceed. Sol
diers recently seized control in two
other black homelands.
Monday’s march was intended
as a show of force by Zulu national
ists, whose ethnic group is the larg
est in South Africa, and many stores
did not open for fear of violence.
Reports of clashes linked to the
march and to a Zulu strike call
began filtering in at dawn from
nearby black townships where fac
tional fighting has gone unchecked
for years. Zulustrying tostoppcople
from going to work fired along the
streets of the Soweto and Kagiso
townships, police said.
A few hours later, as the first
spear-wielding Zulu protesters en
tered downtown, clashes erupted
wi th ANC guards outside the ANC’s
regional office. More shooting
broke out as groups of marchers
poured in fromdiffercntdircctions.
S nipers i n build ing w indows and
on rooftops fired at marchers, some
of whom returned fire with auto
matic rifles.
The worst incident occurred
outside the ANC’s national head
quarters, known as Shell House, a
skyscraper in one of the most con
gested areas of downtown. As the
marchers approached from the side
and back of the building, ANC
security guards opened fire.
ANC officials said at a news
conference the Zulus were trying to
storm the building. Witnesses re
ported nine people killed in the
incident.
Pastor grieves daughter, comforts victims
PIEDMONT, Ala. — After losing
her 4-year-old daughter and much of
her growing young congregation in
the Palm Sunday tornado that devas
tated her church, the Rev. KellyClem
isn’t yet ready to answer the question:
“Why?”
“I wasjust walking around minis
tering and praying with people after it
happened, and people were lying on
the ground and asking: ‘Why Kelly,
tell me why?’
“We do not know why,” she said. “I
don’t think ‘why’ is the question right
now. We just have to help each other
through it.”
On Monday, the 34-year-old pas
tor was struggling between her dual
roles as grieving mother and the spiri
r
tual leader of a congregation shocked
by death during the week that cel
ebrates the resurrection of Jesus.
Her daughter Hannah was with
other children waiting to sing in a
musical drama telling the crucifixion
story when the tornado struck.
One minute, the song “Jehovah
Jireh”— Hebrew for “the Lord will
provide”—filled lhe airofthe church,
a witness said. The next minute, de
bris was flying.
The tornado collapsed the Goshen
United Methodist Church, crumpled
the walls and buried dozens of the
140-person congregation. At least 20
people died at the church and some 90
worshippers were injured.
The Clems’ other child, 2-ycar-old
5>aran, was in me enuren nursery mai
escaped the brunt of the tornado. She
had minor injuries.
Mrs. Clem, who suffered head and
shoulder injuries and a badly swollen
left eye, walked with her husband
around the wrecked church and par
sonage.
Mrs. Clem and her 34-year-old
husband, the Rev. Dale Clem, are
well-known among Methodist clergy
in Alabama.
“Some people told me that you
must almost wish you never had a
child,” Mrs. Clem said. “It hurts, but
I’ll never regret these four wonderful
years with that child. We had some
wonderful last days. I had her picture
nadc, and we made a video of her
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We do not know why.
I don’t think why’ is
the question right
now.
—Clem,
pastor
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Easter parade."
“She had talked about death. She
said she thinks heaven is like Disney
World, and I told her that was right.
Thatchild understood a lot. That gives
me a lot of peace right now.”
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