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British Defense Minister Malcolm Rifkind, whose country is contributing more than 6,000 troops to the new force, said flatly, "We are not going to wage war. That is not the role of the U.N." But even beyond that, he said, the kind of peacekeeping that is required can be carried out only when the combatants basically agree to it. "If the consent is not there, the U.N. will not remain," he said. Britain's Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd went further, saying the reinforcements were intended not to change the character of the U.N. force "but to increase its ability...
...Juneteenth, a new service, "NetNoir," is making its bid to bring black culture to the mostly-white, mostly upscale online world, via America Online and the Internet. "We're creating something to encourage people to buy the hardware, to buy a computer and a modem," says co-founder Malcolm CasSelle. "Before, they didn't feel there was any reason to be on line." The service will include live conferences and written pieces by figures such as journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Olympic champion Carl Lewis, as well as information on African, Caribbean and Latin American cultures...
...Malcolm X once wrote, "Conservatism' in America's politics means 'Let's keep the niggers in their place." Unfortunately, this assessment is as true now as it was 30 years ago. While the overtly racist tenets of conservatism have largely been forced out of political discourse, they have frequently been replaced by covert race-baiting and what Senator Patrick Moynihan (DNY) has termed "benign neglect." And overt racism is beginning to gain more and more legitimacy, as neoconservatism encourages "angry white men" to search for scapegoats...
...Panther" opens with a barrage of news clips showing us documentary footage of racial violence from the '60s. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks, and is silenced by a shot. Malcolm X surfaces with his declaration, "We are nonviolent with anyone who is nonviolent with us. But we are not nonviolent with anyone who is violent with us." He, too, is silenced by a shot. In this climate, Huey Newton (Marcus Chong) and Bobby Seale (Courtney B. Vance) found the Black Panther Party for Self Defense...
...Panthers are not anti-white, but anti-oppression. In a scene that refers directly to Spike Lee's "Malcolm X," a couple of young white students ask Newton if they can help with the Party. Unlike Malcolm X, who dismissed a similarly well-meaning white student with a brusque "No," Newton takes the time to explain kindly to the students that it is important for Blacks to do this for themselves...