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NATIONAL Gunmen Fire at Black History ? < T jj j Month Fest Wounding Onlookers PALM SPRINGS. Calif. ( AP) ? Hie gathering of families at a picnic started out a^ a das of cele-j bration marking Black History Month. It ended when an apparent dispute between at least- two gun man erupted into a hail of gunfire. More than 500 people dove tor. coyer just after 3. p.m. Saturday when rapid blasts of automatic weapons fire spra\ed across the Desert Highland l.nitv Center. A man and a 3-> ear-old boy were w ounded. * "It was like we were in the middle of a war." said Bernetta lay ton. 35. of Palm Springs, who wa> at the picnic with two ot her three children. "Thank God more people didn't get hurt." Both injuries were minor, and police and witnesses said they w e re amazed more people were not hurl. "We luck-cd out a whole bunch." said Officer Don Fallon. Christopher Bernard "Te rfy" Spears. 30. ot Cathedral Citv was arrested tor investigation of attempted murder, assault with a deadls weapon, threatening a police officer and reckless driving. Fallon said. Police were looking for at least one other suspect, said Sgt. Joe Zirigg. "It sounds, like it might just be two people that didn't like each other and had weapons avai.able and started shooting." Fallon said. Black leaders from through out the Coachella Valle\ said they would organize a community meet -ing in response to the shooting, said Tahlib Mc.Micheaux. a member of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of ' Colored People. "It's so senseless. Here are \oung blacks killing blacks. I can not help but feel that the problem of education, drugs, lack of jobs, the surrogate parent. TV and Holly wood are accountable for this type of behavior." said Joseph Beaver, ? 7K executive director of the Rlaqk - Historical and Cultural Society of the Coachella Valley. Some witnesses said thp shooting erupted when a man who appeared drunk shot at a small parade of cars arriving -at the cele-"" brat-ion. Passengers in those vehi cles returned fire. the> said. The da\-long celebration included a parade, barbecue and car show M -.iny piirtiripants wrrp singing when the shooting broke out. , a 1 "People |ustv dropped to the ground. The music stopped. People were screaming. Every bod \ was tr\ing to make it to the auditorium. It was just chaos." said Dionne Skinner. 2K. of Cathedral City. A number of people were injured in a "mad dash" to flee the gunfire, but none of the injuries uere serious. Fallon said. When the shooting ended, police found the park littered with bullet casings, said Sgt. Mike NlcCracken. Three people were taken to area hospitals for treatment and released later in the day. Lionel Henderson. 3. of' ...Cathedral City was grazed in the chest by a ricocheting bullet. He was treated at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, officials said. His aunt. Zella Robinson. 38. of Palm Springs, injured her right 1 shoulder as she dived onto her - granddaughter to protect her from - the bullets. ? Bruce Allen. 26. of Fontana suffered a bullet wound in the jaw and was treated, at Desert Hospital in Palm Springs. Palm Springs police sum moned officers from three addi tional departments ? the California Highway Patrol, the Cathedral City police department and the Riverside __ rmimy Sheriff's departmeni-=-^ after a group a/ men prevented j police cars from reaching the center, j "They blocked the car, yelling at me and cursing." said Officer Ruth- Alvarez, the first to arrive. "When I savs m> backup arrive behind me. I put the car into * reverse and backed out. We were waiting for more people to get there so nobody Would get hurt." Under Fire: N o Minor i ty Repre sentation On University of Va.'s Governing Board { hari.o j rr:s\ n. u:. \ u <APi (io\ Cici>r?!c Allen lias iome under lire tV>r his decision to lea\c the I tmcrsit\ ol YirpiniaH? L'o\ernmjj hoard without minority representation tor the first. time in 1 6 \ ears. ?? i ' I his kind ot turns hack the clock," said Kick Turner, the school's* dean ot African-American affairs. "You don't make that kind of mistake in I WM. h:v mM-even a mistake. It's an act ot insensitivit\ Allen, a Republican, on Fri day replaced three members ot the whooL n haaxiLot trn ste.es all. at_ them -DemocraTic supporters. I lie \ include Freddie \\ Nicholas Sr.. the board's onl\ black. The first black member of the Charlottesville school's board w as appointed b\ Republican (io\. John ~~"N. Dalion in Ws F.\er\ eor^TuTT since has ensured, that .1 biack per son held at least one 'of the lb seats - until Allen's nun e The um\ersit\ Iuin struct: led in its lelatumships with black sin ? dents, who make up percent of the school's l.N.0~5 students "1 1 1 ri-.:?r said the uni\ersit\ retains per cent of its black students into' their v -second >car and graduates "5 per- , cent. _ . "People are not eoine to heliCN c me. .when 1 iclUUicm abotit our retention, and ^ r.ti i 1 :.ii 1 . >t r in', u hen thc\ find out our decKion makers are predominantK white males." he said. Ratiq Jeffries. 20. a member of the Black Student Alliance, said Ins -jroup "thinks tlv.s js a slap in the t ik e to ?ill black students at the uni \e:sit\ and parents who send then-, ! ;? :v- au^c v- e arc not representee : v-ucture ot the urroer The largest selection of BOORS in the Triad African American Authors Tom Morrison Maya Ancelnu T.pn\vnoff Davi? Alice Walker ,!"v Haley ^iph Kliison ...and others' At. ?; .? .? v:\-.a 8?C< 0' ogram Silas Creek V,? i Coliseum Crossing ^r". * Park Plaza 768-6400 bzc<.::.c ; 722-6909 "I'm furious." said Kimberh Warden, a lumor. "Though I can't sa\ I'm comple.teh surprised. Allen iv not your most multicultural kind ol person." Warden .said the school's race relations are under an "accepted ten sion" and that the lack ot black rep re se n t a 1 1 p n o n . t he_boa rd_vs on llJiel p,_ "I nintentionalK or intention al l\. he sent a tremendous mes sage, '- VV afden said. "The board of visitors should reflect the interests ot the students. It seems like we're ue* er.-izoinu to iiet out ot this noix] s w c old bo\ tradition." -- - . Allen's press secretary . Ken Stroupe. said the criticism is unfair. "We're in the first month of his administration," Stroupe said. w**and these are IhcTfirsi ^ppo i njr^en t s that we have made to this board. We have four more years in this administration." Stroupe said Allen has named _ a black and the first Latino to his - Cabinet and picked minorities for panels that oversee everything from transportation to technology. "You have to look beyond the one board and look at the efforts of the administration thus far. and I _ihi-nk-the-v-re- unprecedented^' -~hc said. ^PRIDE IS AN EVERYDAY THING!!! Be proud of your heritage and help educate future generations VUir tlx'm and kmm with <>iir ,iuonip.inv Ivoktu w!iu h features c,u!i ptrsoii with their Mpntu I'M .luomplishment NOW \ mi i.m *>lun\ .mil ti BLACK HISTORY Sportswear featuring over SO famous inrlnHtng II TV. r\l\lTTT[^ Maya Angelou Duke Ellington... Martin Luther King. Jr.... Ronald McNair and more .. 'lease rush me my very own BLACK HISTORY SIVRISW'LAR so 1 can proudly promote my heritage. !;A thw id check the .wd send the item cost plus S2 shipping and handling with vour rorvv order orMSA 'MA5mrARbnamtem CWJ ENTERPRISES . 1423 E. 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