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$18.4 million in substance abuse treatment funds awarded The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) CenterforSubstance AbuseTreatment has awarded $18.4 million dollars to support 43 grants to expand substance abuse treatment and HIV/AIDS services in Afri-can-American, Hispanic/Latino and other racial or ethnic minority communities impacted by the twin epidemics of substance abuse and HIV/AIDS. The grants are designed to address gaps in services by increasing substance abuse treatment and HIV/AIDS-related services. Awardees are government jurisdictions and community based organizations that have a proven record of reaching and serving hardcore, chronic drug users and their sex or needle-sharing partners.

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“SAMHSA is committed to stopping the spread of HFV/AIDS through injection drug use and risky behaviors related to alcohol and non-injection drug abuse,” SAMHSA administrator Nelba Chavez said. “This program will give additional support to minority communities that have been combating the twin epidemics of drug abuse and HIV/AIDS,” Chavez said. “These new funds will help reach people in need of substance abuse treatment and link them to appropriate and culturally relevant services.” Explained CSAT director H. Westley Clark: “For too long the AIDS treatment community and the substance abuse treatment community have looked upon each other as addressing separate problems. “The goal of this initiative is to demonstrate that outreach to substance abusers, particularly injecting drug users, can reduce their risk for acquiring or transmitting HIV.” Clinton increases opportunities, access for disadvantaged businesses President Clinton recently signed an executive order to increase access to federal contracts for disadvantaged businesses, a major factor in the growth of Black economic wealth since desegregation. The order directs agencies to take affirmative steps to increase contracting between the federal government and Small Disadvantaged Businesses, 8(a) Businesses,

and Minority Business Enterprises. These businesses play a vital role]-) in our nation’s economy, but have, ) faced historic underutilization in, t federal procurement. v, 7 The administration is also work-) ing to expand opportunities andti access to advertising and informq- i tion technology for disadvantaged) > businesses, recognizing these industries play an important role in, > our economy and society. . The order directs federal depart-^ i rhents and agencies to ensure that., all creation, placement, and trans-,, mission of federal advertising are f , fully reflective of the nation’s diversity. ,, 4 It also directs each federal de- , partment and agency to aggres--. sively seek to ensure small and disadvantaged businesses partici-, • pate in procurement for informa-. • tion technology and telecommunications industry. Shortly after the release of the of . the FCC-chartered report that found ■ discriminatory business practices , against minority broadcasters. Vice . President Gore addressed the,, American Advertising Federation ‘ (AAF) and challenged its mem- , bers to demonstrate their under-, j standing of the value of diversity and the business sense of serving , minority customers. „ ■ , In response to Gore’s challenge, , AAF developed the Principles for Effective Advertising in the Ameri- . can Multicultural Marketplace, a ' strategic plan for boosting minor-, ‘ ity representation in the advertis- , ing industry. The administration., commended AAF for its leader-’, ship in adopting these principles. .

International News

Kinshasa says Eyadema ready to mediate DRC conflict KINSHASA, DR Congo (PANA) — Togolese President Gnassingbe Eyadema has agreed to mediate in the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo following, a request by President Laurent Kabila, the ministry of communication in Kinshasa said in a statement. Kabila sent communication minister Sakombi Inongo to Lome with a special message to Eyadema, who is also current OAU chairman, requesting him to get further involved in the Congolese crisis. The crisis broke out Aug. 2, 1998, after a segment of the army rebelled in the eastern and western parts of Congo. The insurrection supported by Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi, rapidly turned into a rebellion aimed at overthrowing Kabila’s government. In their fight against the rebel forces and their allies, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Angola militarily support the loyalists. The former president of Botswana, Ketumile Masire, was appointed as “facilitator” in the inter-Congolese dialogue. But Kabila has rejected him, accusing him of impartiality. The Lusaka peace accord on the DRC has remained unimplemented, culminating into repeated violations of the ceasefire.

(PANA) — A project on artificial t neural networks, a form of artificial intelligence emulating the func-' tions of the human brain, has won. ' I a gold medal in the Computer Science and Application competition at South Africa’s Expo for Young Scientists.

The winners from St. Albans ] College in Pretoria, Bernard Willes ' and Sep Urba, emerged from’ ’ 29,000 entrants spread over 28 regions in South Africa and Namibia.'. ’ Kate McLaughlan, a student , from Cedar House in Cape Town | . won the award in the Astronomy ' and Space Sciences category. The winners will represent South ‘ Africa in the final leg of the com-./ petition at the global Intel Interna^. 1 tional Science and Engineering Faif ( j in California. . Willes and Urba used the re/ ‘ search gathered from their studies to train an intelligent alarm system to differentiate between human beings. The duo used a Web site ! they designed with a functioning" j neural network, which is capable of discriminating between conceivable and inconceivable six letter r

words.

“Living in acountry where crime , is such a big problem, we thought' ( it would be a challenge to design an ' intelligent alarm system to help'.J combat crime. Furthermore, we ‘ wanted to inform the public about neural networks as well as theif applications in the real world,”

Urba added.

South African students win science award CAPE TOWN, South Africa “Let’s Rid The Entire Criminal Justice System Of Racial Profiling.’

V.P. & Presidential Candidate Al Gore 2000 Democratic National Convention

REDEMPTION SONS

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