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 Farrakhan
calls for International Peace Conference sponsored by UN,
moratorium on violence in Israel
DOHA, Qatar�On last evening I was very disappointed in the Peace
Initiative by my own government as represented by our president,
President Bush. I think his advisers caused the President to
miss a great opportunity to give hope to the suffering
Palestinians, ease the fear, mistrust and even cause the hatred
that exists in this part of the world for America to decrease
instead of increase. Unfortunately, the peace initiative was tied to so many
concessions expected of the Palestinians, that in my humble
judgment, it increases the anger of the Palestinians, their
despair and, unfortunately, it increases the desire of some to
continue to use their bodies as weapons against Israeli
occupation.
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Reparations
activists plan lawsuits in South Africa
JOHANNESBURG (GIN)�Following a protest
called �No Amnesty without Reparations,� a support group for victims of
apartheid has announced intentions to sue the government of President
Thabo Mbeki for failing to include the community in reparations
legislation. Shirley Gunn, chairperson of the Khulumani Victims
Support Group�s Western Cape branch, said the action against Justice
Minister Penuell Maduna was decided on after several attempts to see the
draft legislation, and to become involved in discussions on reparations,
failed.
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Prison confession reignites the Central Park jogger case
NEW YORK
(FinalCall.com)�If the confession of a
convicted killer and rapist proves credible, it may have a significant
impact on the Central Park Jogger incident in 1989, when an investment
banker was beaten and raped. According to the Manhattan district attorney�s office, an inmate at
Attica prison confessed a month ago to a crime for which six teenagers
were convicted, all of whom but one have served their sentences. A senior prosecutor, James Kindler, an aide to District Attorney
Robert Morgenthau, told the press that he was not at liberty to disclose
the name of the confessor.
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 African
Union set to launch
DAKAR, Senegal (PANA)�After years of a formally structured
alliance, African countries are about to launch an economic and
political union. When distinguished statesmen, such as the late Ghanaian Kwame
Nkrumah, Egypt�s Gamal Abdel Nasser and Tanzania�s Julius Nyerere,
proclaimed Pan-Africanism in the 1960s, the rest of the world virtually
ignored them. Even at home, the idea was mainly a subject for academic debates,
while the rest of the citizenry hardly got a handle on it. To a large extent, African Union (AU) as a concept has been unfolding
since the creation of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in 1963,
but there had been very little evidence that integration could be
realized through the OAU.
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