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Army: Prosecutions on sex charges will go forward
WASHINGTON — Judicial proceedings involving charges of sexual
misconduct at the Army’s Aberdeen Proving Ground will go forward,
Army Secretary Togo West said Wednesday.
West and Defense Secretary William Cohen said the Army will ex
amine allegations by five women soldiers that military investigators
tried to coerce them into falsely accusing superiors of rape. They said
they resisted, and rape was not among charges filed against the men.
West, pressed by the House National Security Committee, said he
“would certainly consider an internal review” of the women’s coercion
allegations aired Tuesday. He said he interprets the women’s statements
as allegations of “untoward and perhaps illegal” behavior by the inves
tigators.
U.S., other embassies begin evacuation in Albania
TIRANA, Albania—The newly designated premier met a rebel leader
in southern Albania today, then rushed to Tirana to try to quell unrest
that crept closer to the capital.
Fearing more violence, the Italian, French and British embassies
said they would send all non-essential embassy personnel out of the
country. A source with the U.S. Embassy in Tirana said the United
States was evacuating diplomats’ families.
In Tirana, gangs who apparently supported embattled President Sali
Berisha took guns from a vacated military academy. Police took no
action as men calmly walked out of the academy’s gates with AK-47
automatic weapons slung over their shoulders.
Rosa Parks honored as ‘first lady of civil rights’
WASHINGTON — Rosa Parks, who took the most famous bus ride in
U.S. history, was honored by the American Public Transit Association
on Wednesday with its first lifetime achievement award.
“It is because she chose to sit where she sat that I can stand where I
stand,” said Gordon J. Linton, the head of the Federal Transit Admin
istration. He called Parks the “first lady of civil rights.”
Parks was honored for her refusal on Dec. 1,1955, to surrender her
seat on a segregated Montgomery, Ala., city bus to a white passenger
as die law required. Her arrest sparked a yearlong boycott of Mont
gomery buses by blacks that propelled the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr. into prominence.
Latest Israeli-Palestinian crisis cools somewhat
JERUSALEM — Softening his tone after days of harsh statements,
Yasser Arafat said today he was ready to continue peace talks despite
the crisis over Israel’s limited West Bank troop withdrawal offer.
The United States, meanwhile, pressed Israel to delay construction
of a Jewish neighborhood in disputed east Jerusalem and to make other
gestures to avert the collapse of the peace process.
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First lady urges U.S. help
for African democracy effort
WASHINGTON (AP)—First lady
Hillary Rodham Clinton declared
Wednesday there are “far more
grounds few hope than despair” in Af
rica and said America’s values and
interests are at stake in supporting the
growing democratic movement on the
continent.
Clinton, who is preparing for a
goodwill journey to Africa this week
end, said African nations are ripe for
economic investment. She pointed out
that the United States accounts for
only 7 percent of the African market
at a time when the number of demo
cratic governments there has risen
from five to 23.
“Africa is on the move with a new
generation of leaders,” Clinton said
during an address at the State Depart
ment commemorating International
Women’s Day. “For the first time in
history, we can say in Africa there are
far more grounds for hope than de
spair.
“We will make progress together,”
she said. “America’s interests are at
stake, but far more importantly,
America’s values are at stake.”
The first lady leaves Saturday for
a two-week mission to six countries
that will survey African history from
the horrors of the 17th century slave
trade to the promise of post-apiartheid
South Africa.
Clinton is going to Africa at the
request of Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright and the president, who has
not visited the continent since taking
office.
Albright said she lodes forward to
the first lady’s report on her travels,
calling Africa “a region of importance
to the United States.”
Clinton last visited in May 1994
for the inauguration of South African
President Nelson Mandela. During
that visit, Clinton said she was moved
by Mandela’s decision to invite three
of his former jailers to his inaugura
tion.
“People have to change their
hearts. Tliey have to be able to for
give,” she said.
The first lady will meet with
Mandela again and will accompany
him to Robben Island, the prison
where he was jailed for 27 years. She
then will tour Soweto, a black town
ship that is slowly emerging from the
rigors of apartheid, South Africa’s of
ficial system of racial segregation that
was dismantled with Mandela’s rise
to power.
Clinton will travel to Tanzania for
a discussion on genocide and rape with
officials of a war crimes tribunal. And
she will visit a grassroots democracy
training session in Senegal after stop
ping at Goree Island, once a hub of
the African slave trade.
The first lady also will stop in
Eritrea, Uganda and Zimbabwe to ex
plore efforts on AIDS prevention, fam
ily planning, education and helping
small businesses get started.
Florida frees 300 felons
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Mitchell
Sexton fatally stabbed his father with
a double-edged knife and used an elec
trical cord to hang the body from the
handle of an exercise bike.
Norman James Eastman beat a 2
year-old to death for vomiting in his
Corvette, punching the child so hard
that the youngster’s bowels ruptured.
Johnny L. Yearby led a gang of
teens who cornered a homeless man
in a courtyard and beat him to death
with a baseball bat as he yelled, “Why
are you doing this to me?” They picked
over his body, even removing his shoes
to look for money.
Hie men were among 300 rapists,
robbers and other felons freed this
week from prisons across the state in
one of the biggest mass releases of vio
lent lawbreakers in Florida history.
Two hundred more will probably be
released on Monday, and an additional
2,200 will go free in the coming
months and years.
The convicts left prison on Tues
day because of a U.S. Supreme Court
decision last month that restored “gain
time” — time off that the state auto
matically granted to prisoners to re
lieve overcrowding, then took away.
“A hell of a lot of innocent people
are going to be robbed, raped and
murdered,” Lee County Sheriff John
McDougall said Wednesday. “How
many people are going to have to die
in order to pay for this blunder?”
He predicted most of the released
felons will commit new crimes.
“Here we are telling all these
people, ‘Come to Florida. Enjoy our
sunshine. Enjoy our beaches,’” he
said. ‘“Oh, and by the way, we’re send
ing all these hardened criminals out
onto the streets to strike again. But
have a good time.’”
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