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Hurricane Roxanne Hits
GuH Coast of Mexico
MEXICO CITY Reborn Hurricane
Roxanne took aim Sunday at Mexico’s
southern Gulf coast, bearing down with
85-mph winds on areas the storm side
swiped with heavy winds and rain days
earlier.
Roxanne, which had been downgraded
to a tropical storm, was a category 1 hurri
cane on Sunday, the weakest on a scale of
1-5. The U.S. National Hurricane Center
issued a hurricane warning from Progreso
to Tampico.
Richard Pasch, a forecaster at the hurri
cane center, said Tabasco and Campeche
states on the southern Gulf rim could be
inundated after having been pounded by
Roxanne and by Hurricane Opal a week
earlier. “The big problem is that the dams
are right at the top and the grounds are
saturated,” Pasch said. “There is a poten
tial for some serious flooding” in Tabasco
and Campeche.
At 2 p.m. EDT Roxanne was located
about 125 miles north of Ciudad del
Carmen and moving southeast at about 7
mph with maximum sustained winds of 85
mph, he said. Hurricane-force winds ex
tended 115 miles from the center.
Russian Commandos Free
5 Hostages From Tour Rus
MOSCOW Firing into the air, Rus
sian commandos swarmed out of the night
and onto a tour bus near the Kremlin early
Sunday, freeing four South Koreans and a
Russian driverheldhostage for lOhoursby
a rifle-wielding assailant. The gunman died
in the attack.
About 20 commandos attacked the bus
before dawn, unleashing a barrage of gun
fire and tossing stun grenades that exploded
with searing flashes. Several commandos
crawled aboard the bus through its win
dows.
The five freed men were hustled from
the bus looking shaken and dazed. The
gunman had released some 20 other hos
tages in the hours before, and the Interfax
news agency reported that all were unhurt.
The dead gunman was Russian, Mos
cow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov said. He gave
no further details. The gunman had de
manded $lO million, then lowered his de
mand to $1 million.
The commandos made their move at
. 2:45a.m., just as the Kremlin chimes rang
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an apparent signal to them, since the
chimes do not usually ring after midnight
to avoid awakening Muscovites.
The hostages—some 25 South Korean
tourists had been visiting Red Square
and the Kremlin Armed with an AK-47
assault rifle, the gunman seized the bus
with the tourists aboard Saturday evening.
The gunman bad released the hostages in
several groups, including all the women on
the bus, until just the five men were left,
police said.
Hussein Runs Unopposed
In Iraq's First Referendum
BAGHDAD, Iraq From the mo
ment they entered polling stations Sunday,
Iraqi voters were swamped with pro-
Saddam Hussein propaganda in an effort
to guarantee the Iraqi leader a landslide
victory in the nation’s first presidential
referendum.
The massive effort should work. Saddam
was the sole candidate in Sunday’s elec
tion, which Washington has dismissed as a
sham.
Iraq’s state-run newspapers, along with
its television and radio stations, have inun
dated voters for
weeks, urging them
to vote for Saddam.
On Sunday, the ||t
campaign moved to W
the polling stations. :
Outside a school in %
downtown
Baghdad, seven
large posters told
peopletovote“yes” |
for the man who has Iraqi leader SADDAM
ruled since 1979 HUSSEIN s victory in
without ever facing the referendum was a
a general election, foregone conclusion.
Voters walking
toward open ballot booths saw more large
pictures of the president inside the school,
some with the slogan “Long Live Saddam
Hussein.”
At one point, 25 women and children
marched through the balloting room clap
ping, carrying Saddam posters and shout
ing: “Yes, Yes, for Saddam Hussein.”
Saddam’s first wife, Sajida, and his
daughter, Hala, cast votes at a school in
Baghdad to show their support. Hala is the
only one of Saddam’s three daughters by
Sajida still in Baghdad. The other two,
Raghda and Rana, fled to Jordan with
their husbands Aug. 8, a defection that
rocked the beleaguered Baghdad regime.
Saddam’s supporters worked hard to
make polling places even as far away as
Karbala, aholy ShiiteMuslimcity in south
ern Iraq with a tradition of dissent, look
like campaign rally sites.
The paper ballots said: “Do you agree
that Saddam Hussein should be the presi
dent of the Republic of Iraq for another
seven years?” Voters used pens to mark
“yes” or “no.”
Few voters bothered to fold their ballots
as they carried them into anotherropm
STATE & NATIONAL
and placed them in a wooden box. The
many ballots that were visible were all
marked “yes.”
The government was expected to an
nounce the results of the referendum late
Sunday or early Monday, but Saddam’s
victory was a foregone conclusion.
Washington has ridiculed the ballot,
especially Iraq’s claim it marks the begin
ning of a process that will bring democracy
to a country ruled by Saddam alone for 16
years.
Saddam appears to be holding the vote
to show the world that he remains popular,
despite the massive problems that he and
his government face.
U.N. trade sanctions imposed after
Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in August 1990
have devastated Iraq’s economy, leaving
many of its 20 million people beggared and
hungry.
Mexican Elections Smooth
Despite Threats of Violence
OCOSINGO, Mexico—Threats of vio
lence forced the postponement of voting
Sunday in some areas of Chiapas, home of
an unresolved peasant rebellion, but most
citizens elected local and state officials
peacefully.
There was fear that violence could en
danger peace talks between the govern
ment and the Zapatista National Libera
tion Army, the rebel group that staged the
Jan. I,l994uprising in the southern Mexi
can state.
In the municipality of Ocosingo, the
scene of some of the worst violence of the
rebellion, the state governor’s office post
poned voting until Nov. 5.
The office refused to delay voting in 11
other municipalities, however, as the cen
ter-left Democratic Revolution Party, or
PRD, had also requested.
“The state is a bubbling soup of contra
dictions,” said Amado Avendano, a pro
rebel political leader. “The elections are
just throwing gasoline on the fire, because
no one’s going to be happy.”
The vote was postponed after a pro-
PRD peasant group had threatened to bum
polling stations.
They said some peasants had to walk up
to 10 hours to get to voting precincts and
that precincts were located to favor the
well-entrenched Institutional Revolution
ary Party, orPRI.
In the municipality of Tila in the north,
opposition party members said late on Sat
urday they had no confidence in the elec
tions and were prepared to take over their
local government if the PRI declares vic
tory. There are 1.6 million registered vot
ers in the state. Results were not expected
for several days.
Violence is common in Chiapas,
Mexico’s poorest and southernmost state.
In Tila, probably the most violent munici
pality, at least 20 people have been mur
dered this year, some hacked to death with
machetes.
FROM WIRE REPORTS
BOG Names Alvin Schexnider
Chancellor at Winston-Salem State
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOONE—A top administrator at Vir
ginia Commonwealth University will be
the next chancellor ofWinston-Salem State
University.
Alvin Schexnider, 50, was approved by
the UNC-system Board of Governors Fri
day during a meeting on the Appalachian
State University campus.
“It’s been a longtime desire of mine to
work at a historically black institution,”
said Schexnider, who earned a bachelor’s
degree from such a school. He attended
G rambling State University in Louisiana
before earning master’s and doctoral de
grees in political science from Northwest
ern University.
Schexnider will take office on Jan. 1,
succeeding Gerald McCants, who has
Black Men Ready for Million Man March
■ Participants in today’s
rally started gathering at the
Mall site early Sunday.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON, D.C. Black men
converging on the nation’s capital for
today’s Million Man March described it as
a undying, uplifting event that transcends
its controversial originator, Nation of Is
lam leader Louis Farrakhan.
“It’s not about a march, a man, words.
It’s about a movement,” the Rev. Vernon
Gay said after a Sunday sermon urging the
men of Lincoln Congregational Temple in
Washington to attend.
The event, actually more of a rally and
prayer meeting than a march, is termed “a
dayof atonement and reconciliation.’’Sup
porters describe it as a call for black men to
take responsibility for their own lives and
families and to dedicate themselves to fight
ing the scourges of drugs, violence and
unemployment.
Organizers asked women —and men
who can’t come to the rally—to stay home
from work or school to mark a “holy day”
and to avoid spending any money as a
demonstration of black economic power.
No one knows how many will take part.
The idea originated with Farrakhan,
and he has been its chief organizer, with
the help of ousted NAACP chiefßenjamin
Chavis Jr. But the march has attracted a
wide coalition of support, including Jesse
Jackson, Rosa Paris, several black mem-
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UNCsystem President
C.D. SPANGLER said
Schexnider is qualified
to be chancellor.
served as interim
chancellor since
Cleon Thompson
Jr. retired June 30
after a decade at the
post.
Schexnider
taught at Southern
University, Syra
cuse University and
the Federal Execu
tive Institute in
CbaiiottesviUe,Va.,
before going to
VCU.
The native of
Lake Charies, La., first joined Virginia
Commonwealth University in Richmond
in 1979 as associate dean of the school of
Back balm support
the march in spite of
the controversial
LOUIS FARRAKHAN.
bers of Congress,
mayors and minis
ters. Many say it’s
unfair now to char
acterize it as
Fanakhan’s event
“It was his idea,
he dropped the
seeds,” said
Clarence White, a
postal worker who
traveled from San
Antonio, Texas, for
the rally. “But it’s
no longer his. It’s
ours.”
Scattered early arrivals —black men of
all ages as well as several women—milled
about the event site on the National Mall.
Several exchanged greetings of “Brother!”
or “Hey, black man!”
Vendors hawked T-shirts and hats that
said “One in a million,” and city crews
began closing some streets along the Mall.
Three members ofthe Coalition for Jew
ish Concerns appeared on the Mall with
signs that said “David Duke and Louis
Farrakhan—two sides of the same coin.”
They became involved in a brief shouting
match with some black passersby.
Farrakhan’s remarks have infuriated
Jews, Catholics, gays, feminists and oth
ers. He has called Judaism a “gutter reli
gion” and recently defended his use ofthe
term “bloodsuckers” to describe Jews or
others who open businesses in minority
communities and take theprofitselsewhere.
Farrakhan canceled all his public ap-
Monday, October 16,1995
community and public affairs. He left five
years later to become the assistant vice
chancellor for academic affairs at the UNC-
Greensboro.
He returned to Virginia Commonwealth
in 1987 as associate vice president for aca
demic affairs and professor of public ad
ministration, and in 1991 he added the tide
of vice provost for undergraduate studies
to that of vice president.
While at VCU, Schexnider has helped
develop Project BEST, a partnership be
tween the university and the Richmond
public schools.
“Alvin Schexnider is a seasoned and
resourceful administrator who is excep
tionally well-qualified to lead Winston-
Salem State University in the years ahead,”
said UNC-system President C.D. Spangler.
pearances Sunday to prepare for the rally.
Huge speakers and giant video screens
were being set up on the grassy Mall Sun
day afternoon, and yellow tape marked the
spot behind the Capitol where organizers
planned to erect a stage.
Crowds were expected to begin con
verging on the Mall soon after midnight
Some city subway stations were opening at
12:30 a.m., five hours earlier than usual, to
accommodate them.
Activities start at 5 a.m. with prayer and
African drumming, followed by speeches,
music and more prayer throughout the
day. Weather forecasters predicted a sunny
and breezy day with temperatures in the
60s.
Helena Ramirez came to look over the
site but said on Monday she and her daugh
ter would stay home, offering support to
the men. “I think it’s been too long since
there’s been something for young black
men,” she said.
No one knows how many men will
arrive. City officials say they are preparing
for 500,000 to 1 million. Organizers pre
dict more than 11,000 buses will bring men
to the rally.
Reaching the goal of 1 minion would
take more than one out of every 10 of
America’s black adult men. The 1963 civil
rights march led by Martin Luther King Jr.
President Clinton will be out of town
Monday. Deputy White House Chief of
Staff Harold Ickes reiterated the president’s
support of the march’s goals and his oppo
sition to the “bigoted, hateful, anti-Semitic,
sexist comments of Louis Farrakhan.”
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