Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 October 2001 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26,2001

Bar’s happy*hour policy kept out Ttiskegee students

AUBURN. Ala. (AP) —A bar owner's lawyer said race was not an issue in excluding Tuskegee University students during a "happy hour” drinks special open only to Auburn and Southern Union students with proper IDs. The Black Tuskegee students complained to the Auburn City Council about being denied entry last month at Bourbon Street Bar. which earlier had a dress code that barred cornrow hairstyles. Bar owner Gianfranco Frojo’s attorney, Nancy Davis, said in a letter to City Manager Doug Watson that the incident “was a result of a misinterpretation of my client ’ s business policy and actions during a happy hour or drink special.” It was not a racial question because Blacks from AU and Southern Union already were inside the bar, the attorney wrote. Davis said the happy-hour restriction is used during the two-hour drink special. “At all other times. Bourbon Street Bar is open to the general public. This decision was made solely out of concern for safety,” Davis wrote. She said the bar adopted the restrictions because Auburn and Southern Union students have been diligent about using designated drivers.

The Opelika Auburn News, which reported on the complaint against the bar, said Frojodeclined comment. Earlier this year. Frojo had agreed to change the bar's dress code to allow cornrow hairstyles after an Opelika resident complained that the restriction discriminated against Blacks. The bar had also prohibited bandannas, gold chains, visors, tattoos, jerseys and sleeveless and collarless shirts. On the Tuskegee complaint, Auburn's city attorney, Arnold Umbach Jr., said the business has the right to set its own policies “as long as they do not discriminate based on race, sex, religion or age.” The policy also must be evenly applied. “You can’t have a sign saying that you can’t get in without an Auburn ID, and then wink your eye and let people in without the proper ID,” he explained to the City Council. The council is considering a resolution that urges businesses to eliminate any entrance barriers to any group regardless of affiliation and to serve customers on a firstcome, first-serve basis. It also would allow the council to review the business or alcohol license of any business found in violation of anti-discrimination laws.

International News

Anti-U.S. demonstrations continue in Kano LAGOS, Nigeria (PANA) — Muslim faithful in Nigeria’s northern Kano state continued to participate in violent anti-U.S. demonstrations to protest the ongoing U.S.-led reprisal bombing of Afghanistan. A Kano resident told PANA via telephone that thousands of people poured onto the streets to continue the protests, which began on a recent Friday after prayers. “A serious demonstration is going on right now,” said the resident, who identified himself simply as Jibrin. “There are thousands of people on the streets... They are burning houses, shops and vehicles,” he said. Asked if the police were on the streets to control the violence, he said: ““I can’t see any policeman from where I am right now. I don’t know if the police have been deployed to quell the violence.” Jibrin said most businesses were shut down to prevent looting. At least four vehicles, including a bus that belongs to the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and a patrol van belonging to the police were

burned when the protests broke out. The protesters, chanting slogans in support of Osama bin Laden, also burned U.S. and British flags, as well as an effigy of U.S. President George W. Bush. World Bank determined to hold WTO conference LUSAKA, Zambia (PANA) — The World Bank is determined to see the World Trade Organization ministerial meeting take place as scheduled in November because “it represents a hope for poor countries of the world.” World Bank president James Wolfensohn says substantial trade liberalization would be worth tens of billions of dollars to poor countries and it is for this reason the bank wants the WTO summit to go ahead in spite of the terrorist attacks that hit the U.S. on Sept. 11. The WTO is scheduled to hold its fourth ministerial conference beginning Nov. 9 in Doha, Qatar. The meeting is expected to adopt important decisions related to trade liberalization and removal of economic barriers. Wolfensohn’s remarks were circulated to the media in Lusaka

by the Zambian office of the World Bank. He says Africa in particular will feel most sharply the poverty fallout from the terrorist attacks on America. “It is Africa, a continent that today is making great efforts to improve, that may feel most sharply the poverty fallout of the terrorist attacks. We cannot let Africa fall off the map as we turn our attention elsewhere,” he declared. Wolfensohn says the bank should scale up foreign aid, which in Africa, has declined from $36 per person in 1990 to $20. Also, trade barriers should be dismantled through the WTO so that trade can be a tool for poverty reduction and development. The World Bank will focus on development assistance to ensure the improvement of the climate for investment, productivity, growth and jobs. On terrorism, Wolfensohn says the scourge has to be confronted internationally at the same time as such other crimes like money laundering were tackled, while combating communicable diseases like AIDS and malaria.

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Demo Rep. McKinney criticizes Mayor Giuliani over donation

By JOHN PRICE Special to the NNPA From The New York Amsterdam News NEW YORK — Criticizing New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani for rejecting a $ 10 million gift from Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed bin Talal for the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks at the World Trade Center, Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga., has asked the prince to consider donating to those Black Americans who need the assistance. Giuliani recently refused to accept the check from Prince Alwaleed, a nephew of Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd, after the prince issued a statement urging the United States government to reexamine its foreign policy and “adopt a more balanced stance towards the Palestinian cause.” “I was disappointed that Mayor Giuliani chose to decline your generous offer and instead criticize you for your observations of events in the Middle East,” wrote McKinney to Prince Alwaleed in an Oct. 12 letter. “Whether he agreed with you or not I think he should have recognized your right to speak and make observations about a part of the world which you know so well.” “1 think Mayor Giuliani would do well to listen to the words of one of our greatest Americans, former Sen. Robert Kennedy,” stated

McKinney. “In 1968 (Kenned^) said that America ‘is a great nation and a strong people. Any who seek to comfort rather than to speak plainly, reassure rather than instruct, promise satisfaction rathef than reveal frustration—they deny that greatness and drain that strength. For today as it was in the beginning, it is the truth that makes us free.’” Prince Alwaleed toured the World Trade Center ruins on Oct. 11 with the mayor and offered his condolences to the victim’s families. He gave a $10 million check to the mayor after a morning memorial service held at Ground Zero. After the ceremony, the prince later released a statement, issued by his Kingdom Holdings Co. in Riyadh, saying the U.S. “must address some of the issues that led to such a criminal attack.” “I believe the government of the United States of America should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause,” the statement said. “While the U.N. passed clear resolutions numbered 242 and 338 calling for the Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza Strip decades ago, our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek,” it continued.

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