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2A NEWS / The Charlotte Post Thursday, March 26, 1998 Don’t ‘shy’ from Africa .. . . ..... ............ • Mayor Pat McCrary may not look like it, but h^s got some downhome training in him. Fly spotted the good mayor mcddng a hbeline for Pricds Chicken Coop on Camden Road, where he stood in line with the usual gathering of bird and fish lovers during lunch hour. This was a Friday, so you know it was packed up in the house. Flyls spies say the mayor is a regular at the Coop and is on a first mane basis with most folks woridng there. But thats not why Fly knows McCror^s a homey. Its that nifty little u-tum he made to catch that parking^pace. • Shut up and take it depart- menkAlocalsister was fired from the CocorCola Consolidated Bottling Co. after she complained aboutarecndtingadwhichranm the local daily during die 1996 NAACP convention. At least thats what Shaixmne Harris contends in a lawsuit she filed against the nadoiis second largest Coke bottler, which is based in Charlotte and last week cqipointedboodngchampEixmder Holyfield to its board ofdirecturs. The ad for sales manager trainees read in part “successful camkdaies will possess excellent communications dolls (ie. listens attentively uses prcper grammar, gets points across, etcj, leader ship traiis (ie. sets agoodexam- ple, demonstrates initiative, maintains self-control underpres sure) cmd a high d^ree of int^ri- ty, among other skills and abili ties.” When Harris complained drat the ad was roast by assuming African Americans wouldiit understand ‘^excellent communi cations stalls" or found it ^fficult to use ‘firoper grammer” or to “maintain self control underpres sure,” she claims she was told by the recruiter that the president of thecorrqxu^didritwantldcuksin the comptmy, anyway. She e-mailed the president, making note of the recruiter's comments. Within two months, Harris said, she was fired. • Doiri the right dung; Last weeHs city-wide bone marrow drive on behalf of UNC Charlotte basketball player Charles Hayward was, by all accounts, a slamdurtk.Scores offirlksshowed up at UNCC, Johnson C. Smith Viuversity and Central Piedmont Community Collie to have their blood typed for addition to the national registry of donors. The week wrapped up with a doom- home celebration at First Mayfield Baptist Church. First MayfieUFs pastor, the Rev. C. McArthur Sanders, said his con- gr^atioris irwolvement was sim ply a rruitter of looking out for someone who needs he^-“Wdre a commuruty church, so we help ourcommunityf’he said. “And are we not our brother’s keeper?” Amen. Continued from page 1A on Albanians in Kosovo with rrmehine guns and nujrtar fire, as Western ministers rrweting in Bonn strolled to find a way to quell the fighting. ‘We are rertunded of the capaci ty of people everywhere ™ to slip into pure evil. We cannot abolish that capacity but we rrmst never accept it,” Clinton said. He acknowledged the intema- tional community did not rrmve quickly enough when eviderwe surfaced of the daughter, and did not prevent killers from seeking safe haven in UN. refugee camps lateroru Gerwcidecanoccurar^fwhere.It is not an African phenomenon. We must have global vigilance. And never again rrmst we be shy in the face of the evidence,” he Bwamkis president Pasteur Biamungu thanked Clinton fiir rruddng the three-hour step at the ISgaUrdrport. ‘Your decision to visit Rwanda is an eloquent statement of your condemmdionofgenocide,ashow of solidarity with the victims and a challenge to Rw intarmtional community to work te^ether to stem the recurrence of genocide,” hesedd. Biamungu saidthekillings con tinue in eastern Rwanda even today andberruxinedthattheper- petrators of the 1994 rrmssacre have eluded justice. Clintansaidthe Rwandan crisis demonstrated the needtocreatea permanent intematiomd court to bringlallerstojusticequicklyand he vowed to bowk such an effort, which is bang discussed at the United Natiam. Clinton met with six survivors of the genocide before his speech, incbwBng Gloriosa Uwimpukwe, a woman whose mother, fiither and fimr siblings were killed. Ihe neighbor who led her family to slaughter has rrmved back next door, she said. ‘None of us is gdng to harass her or to kill her or to attack her. But its finished withour relations with her,” she said with rvo emo tion. Venuste Karasira, another sur vivor, was among 4,000 Rwandans whohculsoughtrefuge at a school outside ISgati, think ing they would be protected by Belgian troopers. But UN. forces withdrew after 10 soldiers were killed and ihe slaughter b^cm. “The cries of the people in agony were everywhere. They took us to a MIL Some were killed along the way. We accepted our fate to dSe,” he told Clinton, whose face tensed. “The next morning, among the crymg of the dying, canong the blcxxl, they brought us to the hospitcd and we survived.” Clinton annouruxd that the United States would become the first to contribute to a survivors fund, givwg $2 rrullion this year. The pretident also cmnaunced $67 million in UB. aid to promote thejustieesysteminRwandaand elsewhere, and to cwoid future Afriecmccmfhcts. Economic ties to Africa strengthened Continued from page 1A recently was passed by the House, to reduce duties on Afriecminqxjrls. SubSaharanAfiieahasbecome alluring to corporations that see a vast market of about 600 rrullion pecple, a combination of peace andstabiUtyinagrowmgmimber ofcountries,cmetulto(qxwthdd in South Africa, and cmnucd growth that has cweraged 4 per cent in the last three years. Witii hcUfthe population younger them 20, forgwg bremd identity now cem pay dividends well into the future, exeemtives said. Despite those strides,Africastill suffers from the stigmaofdecades of strife, erratic leadership and grindmg poverty, cm irturge that Clinton has said he hopes to ekerr^ Investing in Africa is fremght with challenges and setixwks. Artwrica Mineral Fields ofHcpe, Ark, for excurple, cut a rtmeh- hcralded $1 billion cepper and cobalt deal witii lament KabileFs rebel movement befirre it won power in a military coup in Congo, butthenwas unceremoni ously dropped by Kabila's govern ment late last year. Even with the risks, the payoff can be enormous. The Commerce Department said US. investment in subSakarxm Africa generated a return of 31 percent in 1996, corrqmred with 12 percent in Latin America, 13 percent in the Asia-Paeificr^ionandl7percent in the Middle East. That kind of return is what attracts conqxmies like CoccvCola Co, now in the midst of five-year $600 nulBon speruting program. The conpany is carefully target ing the money on people such as Hassem — in Kenya alone Coca- Cola has supplied 750 kiosks and has made similar irwestments in other micro-enterprises across Africa “We believe we can obtain sus tained double-digit growth in Africa firr many, memy years to came,” scud Carl Ware, CocaCala senior vice president ami presi dent of the corrqxutys Africa Group, and one ofthe dozen or so business leaders aecotrqxmying Clinton on the trip. South Afiriea, which the compa ny has used as abase andtesting ground for its Africa expansion strategy, now is its 10th largest market in world. If economies inprove in other countries, growth is almost unlimited. In Ethiepia, with 55 rrullion poten tial customers, annual consump- tionperpersonofCoca-Colaprod- ucts is just three, compared with 370 products per person in the United States and 155 in South Africa. In Kenya, where the com pany helped Hasson, its 29 a year. “The story in Afiriea is getting in early,” said Jaideep Khanna, rrwnager of Morgan Stanleys $250 rrullion African Investment Fund, But it also requires getting in carefully, he said, “Our fund will try to cwoid the more volatile rmukets.” The funds largest irwestmerds are in South Africa, Egypt, ZitrAabwe, Mauritius caul Ghana. Investors who are interested in natural resources such as cil and gas ami minerals have been will ing to take a chance even in sonw of the more unstable countries. Population, privatization and natural resources ate Afirieds greatest assets in terms of increasing trade andinvestment. Many countries in Africa are privatising poorly run govern ment corwems. US. exports of telecommunications equipment to Africa have increased by more them 60 percent, said Commerce Secretary William Daley, adding that “these antiquated state-run telecommunieations network” r^ncsent a huge opportunity. The willingness to privatize reflects cm importemt genera- tiarudekange. "The generation that led Africa into irMqxndence locked at cepi- talismasbeingpcatofihecolorual prbblem,” said David Miller, firr- mer canbassador to Zimbabwe and Tanzania and executive ctiredor of the Corporate Courwil onAfiica. Around Charlotte Panthers looking for TopCats Auditions begin Saturday for the TbpCais, the Carolina Panther^ cheer- leading squad. This yearns audition begins at 9 ajn. and will be held at Ericsson Stadium. Candidates should be 18 years of age or older and have graduated high school by Saturday. For more information^ call the TbpCat hotline, 358-7533. Taylor sews up award Charlottecm Gladys E. Taylor recent ly garnered one of Las Anuga^ top award. Parliamentarian for the Charlotte chapter of National Women of Achievement, Taylor received the Outstanding Member of Las Amigos for 1998. Ihylor also received The Presidents Award from National Women of Achievement. Active in the community, Taylor spearheaded **Give to Live,” a program to aid people in nursing homes and homeless shelters as well as a Zairian clothing drive and an adopt a senior program. In addition to her work for National Women of Achievement, Taylor serves as audit analyst for the Charlotte Chapter of Las Amigos. Registration open for vets All Mecklenburg County veterans Holloway^ s Men’s Shop Boys Suits Starting J- 2T - 20 HUSKY $i Q99 Maize, Gold, Lima. Red, Black, White, M MENS SUITS Starting At 99 Off White, And Many Others Good Selection of Men’s & Boy’s Neck Ties • Hats Hankies • Accessories 5430 N. Tryon 597-8153 James Holloway Master Tailor All Major Credit Cards Accepted Freedom Mall 391-9453 wishing to receive medical treatment from the Veterans Administration after Oct. 1,1998, are encouraged to register with the Veterans Service Office. ‘‘Though veterans are not required to enroll, and no one will lose their med ical benefits if they don’t enroll, it is important for them to do so,” says VSO director Dan Cravey. “The VA allocates resources and funding based on the numbers of registered vets, so its cru cial that we report accurate levels of registration in order to continue to receive adequate funding and support for the veterans in Mecklenburg County.” Veterans who have received medical treatment at a VA center since Sept. 30, 1996 will be aiitomaticully registered. For more information call 336-2102. Today See AROUND on page 7A Comments? 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