University Daily Kansan / Monday, August 29, 1988
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Nation/World
55,000 celebrate King's 'Dream'
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Tens of thousands of civil servants attended Martin Luther King Jr., on the 25th anniversary of his "I Have a Dream" speech Saturday with the full "Fulk's king" dream of equality as far from ever.
Singing "We Shall Overcome," demonstrators led by Jesse Jackson, Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis and Corretta Scott Kearney. The march was marched from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial waving signs and barricades in the hot midday sun.
U. S. National Park Police estimated the crowd at 55,000 people, far fewer than the 250,000 who throughed the National Mall for King's famous oration that climaxed the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. The crowd was equaled five years ago at a 20th anniversary march.
Dukaik's appeal to banish all forms of racism has been met with a resounding victory. Jackson — his former rival for the nomination — who got the biggest cheers of the day. His speech was a scathing attack on Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump.
Jackson made no mention of the Democratic
candidate, who said black audience to vote in the Nov. 8 elections.
"Hands that once picked cotton can now pick lawmakers, legislators, governors and presidents," he
Bush and his running mate, Dan Quayle, did not respond to invitations to attend the rally, march organizers said. Bush was campaigning Saturday in Texas.
At the time, the 1963 demonstration was the biggest ever held in Washington. The peaceful, orderly march — and King's galvanizing speech — are credited with sparing Congress to pass the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 under pressure from President Lyndon Johnson.
Coretta King said the 1983 march "helped break the spine of racial segregation"
Polish leader faults party strike policy
WARSAW, Poland — Polish leader Gen. Wojciech Jaworski yesterday called for national reconciliation and said top government officials should work together to deal with the strongest wave of strikes since 1981.
The Associated Press
Solidarity leader Lech Walaes was slightly injured in a scuffle with police. Troops blocked the entrance to the bridge and struckbearound Lenin shipyard in Gdansk, where Walaes founded the independent union federation of Lena.
Talks ended a stubborn mine strike in the south.
but 10 strikes continued at ports, shipyards,
factories and one mine. There were no reports of
police attempts to dislodge workers in occupation
strikes.
The 230-member Central Committee endorsed continuing economic and political reform with no "halfway measures," but it condemned "law-making and destruction," a reference to illegal strikes.
Solidarityity that about 8,500 people still were occupying workplace, striking for higher pay and legalization of Solidarity, which was the result of position of martial law in 1981 and outlawed in 1982.
Jaruseielli, the Communist party leader, severely criticized the party's hand-picked government for failing to deal with building economic and social problems out of control in the strikes, which began Aug. 16.
News Roundup
Walesa left the Lenin shipyard Saturday to confer with advisers about the possibility of talks on a new agreement.
When he tried to enter the cordoned-off shipyard Sunday morning, a police officer tried to stop him, said a Walesa aide who spoke on condition of anonymity. Walesa pulled away but lost a shoe and scratched his hand when he climbed over the 7-foot fence into the yard.
TROPICAL STORM: A tropical depression strengthened yesterday into tropical storm Chris, lashing out with heavy rain and sustained winds of 50 mph, and sustained winds of 40 mph from Georgia to North Carolina.
FOREST FIRES: Thousands of U.S. army troops joined firefighters who were battling blazes in several Western states, while officials requested that fire crews on 400,000 acres in Yellowstone Park.
DUKAKIS CAMPAIGN! The campaign of Michael Dukakis,容合作者,in the polls, is under increasing pressure to take a more aggressive stance in the presidential contest, but there is a growing suggestion he might do just that.
FOREIGN WHEAT: Three consumer groups said yesterday that they had asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture to stop subsidizing wheat sales to foreign countries, including the Soviet Union and China, to avoid depleting heavily-damaged domestic supplies.
PEACE TALKS: The Persian Gulf peace talks ran into trouble yesterday after Iraq blamed Iran for sabotaging the negotiations and
said Baghdad was ready to confront any aggression from Teheran.
ARMS RACE The long-smoldering nuclear arms race in South Asia is being restrained by strategic and political factors, opening the way for limited non-military involvement in India, Pakistan and possibly China, according to a Senate study published yesterday.
IRISH BOMBINGS: Seventeen bombings hit the capital and two other cities of Northern Ireland while a demonstrator, police to protest the extradition of a convicted IRA guerrilla, leaving 15 people injured, police said yesterday.
PALESTINIAN CHARITIES:
Police shut down a federation of 108 Palestinian charities, accusing it of being a PLO front. In the West Bank, the body of an armed was found burned and tied to an electric pole.
RACIAL CLASH: A racial confrontation in Bradenton, Fla., between whites welding baseball bats and blacks cutting them as they culminated yesterday in the explosion of a grenade, which injured seven people, authorities said.
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