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Tuesday, January 16, 2001
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Bush celebrates King
The Associated Press
HOUSTON — President-elect George W. Bush celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. for seeing "the image of God in everyone" and, in yesterday's commemoration of the civil rights hero, promised wary black Americans: "My job will be to listen not only to the successful, but also to the suffering."
The former Republican governor of Texas, who won a dismal 5 percent of Black votes in his home state and one in nine nationwide, took a brief break from preparations
for his inaugural activities to reach out to minorities on the King holiday.
"I will remember the promise etched in this day," Bush said at the predominantly Black and Hispanic Kelso Elementary School, which was closed for the federal holiday. "Dr.King's dream placed demands on each of us."
Bush cast education reform as his own civil rights mission and said
Bush: said King's dream placed demands on all
equal opportunity eluded students in bad schools.
"The dream of equality is empty without excellent schools — schools that stress reading and discipline and character and decency, Bush said. "That goal will take presidential leadership. It is a goal we will work endlessly to achieve."
Bush has pledged that his first priority after being sworn in Saturday will be congressional passage of his voucher plan to take government money away from consistently falling public schools and give the
funds to parents to send their children elsewhere, including private or religious schools.
At Bush's side in the stuffy elementary school gymnasium, whose 100 invited guests barely outnumbered the reporters, was Education Secretary-designate Rod Paige, the Black chief of Houston's school district.
Paige told students, parents and teachers that Bush's appearance at Kelso Elementary "signals he understands the importance of this day to you and to me ... that he understands the character that Martin Luther King represented."
During his campaign, Bush turned off many Black voters by speaking at Bob Jones University, which until recently banned interracial dating, refusing to condemn the flying of the Confederate battle flag over the South Carolina Capitol and opposing a hate crime measure in Texas.
By better than a 2-to-1 margin, most Blacks believe they will lose influence under Bush, a Pew Research Center poll this month showed. And a CNN-USA Today poll last month showed less than a quarter of blacks thought Bush would work hard to address their interests.
Bush representative Ari Fleischer said Bush's need for repair work with Black Americans did not drive his King holiday schedule.
"If President-elect Bush had won with 75 percent of the African-American vote, he would be going to this event in all cases to commemorate the life of Dr. King." Fleischer told reporters.
Houston attorney Lynden B. Rose, an invited guest, saw in Bush's Cabinet and White House staff picks a leader who "really reached out and tried to include everyone."
"He's extended an olive branch," said Rose, who is African-American.
Man in intensive care after quake
The Associated Press
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — For two days and a night, a young musician lay beneath 15 feet of cinderblocks and mud.
But the elation when Sergio Moreno was finally freed turned to agony yesterday when heart and kidney failure left him fighting for his life.
"After so much joy when we saw him pulled out, we are again living in anguish," said his mother, Leticia del Carmen de Moreno, weeping in the hospital.
Saturday morning, Moreno, 22, was painting his new home when an earthquake sent the hillside above crashing down on top of him.
Moreno was trapped in darkness in the bathroom, with cinderblocks pinning his legs.
He had a cellular phone with him and dialed a friend. He got through and within an hour, rescuers Jhonny "Cannibal" Ramos and Manuel Guzman were cutting through concrete to open-a pathway.
Digging mostly with their hands, the two rescue workers tunneled down 15 feet and opened a small hole to where Moreno lay. They pushed in a garden hose, and told Moreno to put it in his mouth. They attached the hose to an oxygen tank so the young man could breathe.
Ramos eventually made the hole big and told Moreno to stick his arm
through it. Ramos inserted an IV tube to provide medicine and nourishment.
Finally, at 6:30 p.m. Saturday — 31 hours after the earthquake — the rescuers pulled Moreno from the rubble.
The cinderblocks had cut off circulation to Moreno's legs, and when his blood began flowing again, his body reiected it.
His heart stopped and paramedics got it started again. His kidneys shut down, and they gave him dialysis.
When his father, Juan Moreno, arrived at the hospital, Moreno fell into a coma.
Yesterday, Moreno lay in intensive care with a neck brace, a respirator and a web of tubes snaking into his arms and torso. Doctors prepared to amputate his left leg.
Commission studies holocaust repayment
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A remarkable international campaign to compensate victims of the Holocaust 50 years after the fact proves that "there's no statute of limitations on human rights violations," says the lead U.S. envoy in the effort.
Clinton administration officials are working to the last minute this week — and urging George W. Bush's administration to follow through — on the half-decade campaign that has won billions of dollars for the aging survivors of Nazi brutality.
what's owed victims has altered the story of how the world dealt with one of the darkest chapters of the 20th century.
Though it is far from finished, the reexamination of history and recalculation of
But an addendum written in the last few years also will show that private organizations and governments worked in the late 1990s to, as Stuart Eisenstad, the Clinton administration's point man on Holocaust issues says, "bring some measure of justice to a million victims."
The Bush transition team had no immediate comment on how it would handle the issue.
A U.S. commission reports today to President Clinton on inadequacies in the
The first big fight was the 1996 claim against Swiss banks, which eventually agreed to a $1.25 billion settlement.
The case tarnished Switzerland's reputation as a neutral wartime country that had helped save Jews, adding revelations that its banks profited from the Holocaust by keeping assets of slain Jews, acting as Hitler's banker and trafficking in plundered gold.
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