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NATIONAL NEWS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY March declared enormous success, brings lessons home ■ RACE: The organizers say the demonstration helped bring unity to African-American men W AS! UN< ,Tt )N {APS - Hl,i< k men ener gized by the Hugo rally in the nation's t up ital began spreading lh>* spirit luesilnv. making plans tot lean up inner-city neigh borhoods bat k home, register voters and simply help each other survive As Washington got back to normal, meanwhile, both blat k and white mem ber* of Congress urged President Clinton to create a commission to study A merit n's racial divisions Organizers of the "Million Man March” celebrated their suet ess and at < used the government of a rat ist undercount the 400,000 estimated by the C S Park Stir vitat After Monday's long tiny of prayer, stings and speeches, many men traveled all night by bus. car or train to return home in time for work Tuesday, tirmi but still inspired by the brotherhood they felt on the nation al Mall Others who only mw the m oot on l"V said they too were 11p11ft*-<i I ho|*s it reverberates around the eoun trv in energizing people right where they are." Joseph E l owers. president of the Southern (.Christian Leadership (onfereni e. told AIK TV Some men said they .dreads are volun teers in their i ommunities but left Wash ington determined to take on more responsibilities Frederick Heard, a 1 tetroit postman who helps out svith an after school sports league, said he wants to plan a l<x al march with the same themes of self-help and self* respei t We should get to all the inner cities," he said Heard's IS year-old son. Justin, said he hop's the spirit kindled Mondas ssill keep some black men alive 1 want brothers to come together, stop killing ear h other " Abertis Simmons of Denver promised toBncounitj# blat k fathers to pav the child support they owe Brothers, make this i.ommttmoni." fie said "If you know a brother who is not paying i hi Id support, rut him off Ins ause ini should be taking i are of his kids " lames Bolden (r caught some of the event on television from his home m Toja* ka, ban The speeches were inspiring. Holden said. But he hopes the talk lends to action on issues sin h as job discrimi nation Hie mart h is general," fie said. We need to break it down and make it more spot ifit to the problems a! hand " Several meitilmrs of Congre ss sent (‘Jin ton a letter urging him to appoint a com mission on rm >• i'l.iiuins to issue .1 report on the progress and failures that our nation has made on rat e since URirt " I hat was the year the Kerner t'ommis sion. appointed by President Johnson. issued its famous study that c oticluded "our nation t* moving toward two sm:i otins. on« him k. one whit*# separate and unequal." I he letter was signed bv Charles S* hunter. I»N Y . John Lewis. l) (,a . Jim beach. K lots a. Hill McCollum. K-KIct . ( harles Rangel D-N V . and liloanor Holmes Norton, tin' 1 itstrti t of I d I uni hi a s delegate llierv have Ihshi several c alls in the past fur another Kenier type study Hut St Jmmer said the rally and reat tioti to the () | Simp son trial undersc ored the need for it liuruig a wide-ranging two and a half hour speech that ended the rally, l,outs farrakhan exhorted the men to improve themselves, take care of their families, rebuild their communities and incest m blai k owned businesses He urged them to attend a i him h or mosque and to join poli!u al and ial organizations that w ill help intprove the lives of hluck .Americ ans March leaders claim racism in undercount ■ DEMONSTRATION: Organize' :; c aim tt ey go! a rr marchers. Parks Service believes only 400,000 WASHINGTON \i Hie Million Man March" lived up <o its name, lenders insisted Tuesday, accusing the l! S Park Service of a racist undercount and threatening a lawsuit "They falsely said to the world that 400,000 black men i ante when they well know there were more than a million," said Louis t-urrakhnn. leader of the Nation of Islam "There never was a demonstration or gathering in the < itv of \\ ash ington to equal what happened yesterday," Karrakhan told a news conference. "For what reason would anyone fail to give us i redit hut racism?" The U.S Park Service announced hours after the day long event that aUaut 400,000 people had attended That would make it the fourth largest demonstration ever, some 200,000 short of the anti-Vietnam War march in 1009. "We don't think we are racist, we think we a< ted in a profession al way." said Nlaj Kohert Hines, spokesman for the Park Service, which estimates crowds for major Washington events "Wo know they are unhappy with the count as have been a lot ol other organizations in the past," he said The co-chairman of the group's legal committee, Alidul Arif Muham mad. said, "We intend to file suit and seek evidentiary proof that more than one million men came to Washington," Where and when sut h at tion would !»■ filed has not been dot ided he said. Hines said the park service made three photos from a helicopter, the first at 9 a m and the last at 1 p.m when the crowd was at its |>e,ik The count is made by comparing density of |>eop!e in various sectors, and getting input from city police and transportation authorities The march was hilled as a day of atonement and renewal for black men and Karrakhan said the day w ill lie repeated — not necessarily with a march Air bag found to be cause of five-year-old boy’s death SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -An autopsy has implicated an air bag in the death of a 5-year-old hoy who broke his neck when tus grandmother’s car bumped into a concrete planter box in a parking lot, The dual air bags inflated in the Oct 10 accident, twisting Jordan West's head, said Val Wilson. North Salt Lake police chief Medical examiners said "the air hag definitely had a cause in the death,” Wilson said Monday Lynn Oliver was trying to park the Catnaro V.-iH and was driving slowly, Wilson said General Motors Corp spokesman Ed Lechlzin said, "because we haven't had a chance to investigate the «ase ur the car, it would lie inappropri ate to comment on it.” Ms. Oliver said she and the boy. who lived in Bountiful, were wearing seat belts But investigators have not been able to confirm that since the young ster's body had no marks or bruises that would indicate seat la>lt live Dr. Jeffrey Augenstein. a Miami trauma surgeon who is studying auto accidents, said the only known cases in which an air-bag deployment led to a death were when the victim was not wearing a seat belt. Medical examiners have not yet provided a specific cause of death but said the hoy's broken • • buted, Wl :id Ms. Oliver was not hurt, and no charges were filed “We don't feet there was any negligence on her pari We have checked it out several times." Wilson sail). "The damage to the car was almost minimal." ©1995 CLOSEOUT! ■GOLF BGT1 ■JETTA ■ PASSAT AH Remaining 1995 Models Discounted! 1995 GOLF III A* CofuMwmna. SsWOOl. i .•*!* •0 't*JH 10.000 Vise united Wintnti s13,999 Volkswagen has come home Sttooppaurdl MOTOna LTD 2300 WmI ?th Avenue, Eugene 34 >8811 Look min mil’; Classifieds! 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