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University Daily Kansan / Monday, April 24, 1989
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GOVERNMENT CALLED RACIST:
Black Muslim minister Louis Farrakhan brought a fiery close to African American Summit 89 yesterday, accusing government leaders of formulating secret policies to perpetuate poverty and drug abuse among blacks.
Citing statistics showing declines in white births, Farrakhan said powerful whites wanted to destroy the black community to keep from losing power in the next century.
"I firmly believe that the National Security Council of the United States, and the president, as well as former presidents, have had this question under serious consideration and have quietly formulated a policy to deal with this problem." Parry said of about 1,000 gathered in the New Orleans Convention Center.
ALASKAN ANNIVERSYA!Alaska's governor Saturday asked Alaskans to observe five minutes of silence yesterday in remembrance.
Farrakhan called poverty a subtle form of genocide and said highly addictive crack cocaine may have been introduced in low-income by people who wanted black youth to "sell death to each other."
brance of the way things were before the Exon Valdez oil spill fouled hundreds of miles of pristine coastline.
Gov. Steve Cowper set the period of silence to mark the 30-day anniversary of the grounding of the Exxon Valdez. The fully loaded tanker struck a reef and spilled 10.1 million gallons of crude oil into wildlife-rich Prince William Sound.
In Cordova, a fishing community 40 miles from the accident, organizers planned an afternoon of activities, including speeches, disks photographs and a children's mural depicting America's worst oil spill.
WKRP AIRS AGAIN: Johnny
Fever doesn't work there and the
musical format is country instead
the air again. but WKRP is on the
air again.
NVMI-AN in North Vernon, a town of 6,000 people, has adopted the call letters of the fictional “WKRP” and is comedy “WKRP in Cincinnati.”
Chinese protests become violent
"Everybody's heard of WKRP," said station manager Shawn Lynch. However, only listeners in and around Jennings County will be able to hear the 1,000-watt station.
BEJIING — Rioters attacked the provincial government office in the northwestern city of Xian, burning about 2 houses and to vehicles and other vehicles. Xinhua, Xinhua News Agency reported early yesterday.
The Associated Press
No deaths were reported. Eighteen people were arrested, Xinhua said.
Xinhua said that a crowd that included students had gathered in Xincheng's Xiancong Square, in front of the Shaanxi provincial government compound, to listen to a broadcast from Beijing of a memorial for former Communist Party secretary Luo Jiankun quickly left the scene when "some lawbreakers from society" began shouting anti-government slogans and tried to force their way into the government compound.
compound near the gate and a truck at the gate.
They also stoned a tourist bus that was carrying foreigners into the square, Xinhua. It did not say if anyone was hurt or what country the tourists were from.
the rioters then set fire to two rooms of the
At 7:30 p.m., the mob pulled down a wall of the compound, set fire to an oil tank and a garage, and burned two cars, a jeep, a truck and a motorized tricycle, the report said.
Some rioters entered court offices, where the smashed windows and set curtains on fire, it said
The rioters fled after armed police "imposed traffic control around the square" at 8 p.m., Xinhua said. They burned two more buses while retreating and robbed a garment store.
Xinhua said that the area was quiet by midnight. In Beijing, the students faced about 8,000 flood-related injuries in recent months.
with corruption" as top members of the Communist Party filed out of a funeral for Hu.
The protest in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, the symbolic political center of China, was one of the clearest rejections ever of the Communist system by China's increasingly disaffected youth.
Pushing and showing began, and troops rushed the crowd once, although no injuries or arrests were reported.
Bedlam set in shortly after noon when authorities opened up the square to pedestrian traffic and the numbers swelled to more than 200,000. Workers in the well-organized students' dormitories flooded the well-organized student ranks.
Student leaders called off the rally about 1 p.m. and only about 10,000 people remained in Tiananmen Square three hours later.
Bush allocates grants in war on drugs
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Drug abuse grants totaling $118.8 million will be distributed to the 50 states, five territorial governments and the District of Columbia. Attorney General Thorburnn announced yesterday.
These grants will assist state and local criminal justice agencies in carrying out their part of the interna
tional war on drugs," Thornburgh said.
The awards are intended to strengthen local efforts to curtail illegal drug trafficking and consumption. The funds are to be matched by a 25 percent local government contribution
The Bureau of Justice Assistance, which allocates the grants according to population, will award approximately $30 million more during the current fiscal year.
Although President Reagan's budget proposal for fiscal 1990 eliminated such grants, President Bush's proposal would restore $819 million to the program for that budget year, which begins Oct. 1.
strategies to the department to get the funding. The local governments will be able to use the money to supplement their existing programs.
Kansas will receive $1.4 million
Missouri will receive $2.4 million
Nebraska gets $1.1 million, and Colorado and Oklahoma both get $1.7 million. California will receive the largest allotment, $10.7 million.
A portion of the grants being distributed will go to local jurisdictions, all if which submitted anti-drug
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