National
Briefs
A.I.D.S. Patient Receives Award-
Kimberly Bergalis, a 23 year old
A.l.DS. patient received a $1 mil
lion dollar award. This Florida
Woman claimed to have contracted
the disease from her dentist, now
deceased victim of A.l.D.S.
Concert Deaths-Three teenagers:
Curtis Child, 14, Jimmie Boyd, 14;
and Elizabedi Glaus, 19, were
crushed: to death during an AC/
DC concert in Salt Lake City Utah
on Janu^ lS. During this concert,
the crowd surged forward and
irampl^ the teenagers, Curtis'
fadter is filing an $8 million dollar
suit against concert promotors.
StudentGuarantee-A new program
whi^ will provideemployers with
a guarantee or "warrant/' for
rewucation of high school gradu
ate employees. This program,
being ' tested in ; Md,; Mass., Mo.,
Colo., Harlem:;;: and other: :scho61
districts wdll provide remedial
course instruction to : employees
who are found to read; write, and
olculatebelowanormallevel. This
"warrahfy" will be applied for 1-3
years after graduation
Philadelphia-Teachers and school
admmistrators are banned from
wearing any religious garb or sym
bols on sdiool grounds. If the
school staff do not toniply, they
risk disdplinary action, uiteman-
date Was isstiM on j^u^ 9 by
Albert Glassman, Superintendent
of schools in light of controversy.:
College Credit-^tibanic; Am^cap
Express, Chase ahd DiKdyjSi' arO
the leading aedltorsln the $13 bilr
lion credit market of coUe^ stu
dents. In 1988-M the; number of
imdergraduate credit .increased
37%. Most students haVe an inter
est rate of 18.86% with a limit of
$500. Obtaining credit haS become
relatively easy for stud^tsi With
creditors waiving credit history.
PgU-ANetcsaiaeit polIstatesfoat86%
of Americans: support President
Bush's Middle East policy.::.
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Who is Colin Powell
Matt Haney
General Colin Powell,
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, is our Presidentss
senior military advisor. He is
possibly the most powerful
man from the Pentagon since
Eisenhower. Under this
commander's leadership, the
military is regaining the re
spect that it has lost over the
past two decades.
Colin Powell is a man
with impeccable personal
integrity. While other men
scramble to be in the sp>ot-
light. General Powell tries to
avoid the public eye. Two
weeks ago U.S. News &World
Report wanted to put him on
their magazine cover, he
encouraged them to put
General Schwarzkopf on
cover instead. In spite of
himself, he ended up on the
cover of both Business Week
and U.S. News & World
Report this past week, the
press shows no mercy.
Colin Powell was bom to
Jamaican immigrants. His
first taste of leadership came
as a platoon leader in Ger
many. He obtained a degree
from the City College of New
York and holds an MBA from
George Washington Univer
sity. He isoneofthe few Joint
Chiefs who have not gradu
ated from West Point or
Annapolis. Following Ger
many and college, Powell
served as an infantry officer
in two toursof Vietnam; while
there, he was awarded the
Bronze Star and a Purple
Heart, both are testaments to
his bravery.
By 1972, Powell had
achieved the rank of Lieuten
ant Colonel and was working
in the Office of management
& Budget as a White House
Fellow. There he caught the
eyes of the future Secretary of
Defense, Caspar W. Wein
berger. When Weinberger
came to power during the
Reagan Administration, he
put Powell in charge of weap
ons procurement, and soon
after into the position of Na
tional Security Advisor.
Powell was the first black to
ever serve as the NSA; from
that position he was instm-
mental in the development of
many of our arms control
agreements with the Soviets.
Today, Powell serves not
just as one of the Chiefs of
Staff for the armed services,
but as the Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff. But, he is
not a war monger as one
might expect, he is a man who
knows the military's role in
National Affairs. !^actlyone
year before the commence
ment of Operation Desert
Storm he delivered a speech
in Vienna's Hofbuig Palace.
In the palace there were mili
tary representatives from 34
nations, including Gen.
Mikhail Moiseyev of the
SovietUnion (Powell's Soviet
Counterpart). Powell did not
talk of military strategies nor
did he use elaborate charts or
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