March 9. 2005
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Selma March 40 Years Later
purchased with the precious
(A P) - Rep. John Lew is re
blood o f m any,” said King,
turned to the Edm und Pettus
w ho c ro ssed the Edm und
Bridge, 40 years after he braved
Pettus Bridge in a car.
billy clubs and tear gas in one
Pol ice estimated the crowd
o f the grim m est, goriest spec
at nearly 10,000.
tacles o f the civil rights m ove
Certain provisions o f the
ment.
Voting Rights Act, such as
O thers on hand Sunday to
the use o f federal exam iners
co m m e m o ra te the m arches
and a requirem ent for Justice
across the bridge included the
D epartment approval o f elec
Rev. Jesse Jackson, Senate
tion law changes, will be up
M ajority Leader Bill Frist, and
for renew al by Congress in
L ynda Johnson Robb, whose
2007.
f a th e r . P r e s id e n t L y n d o n
The Rev. Joseph Lowery,
Johnson, signed the Voting
longtim e head o f the South
Rights Act into law later in
ern C h ristia n L e a d e rsh ip
1965.
Conference, urged the nearly
“President Johnson signed
Georgia Congressman John Lewis (center), walks arm in arm with other members
three dozen House and Sen
that act, but it was w ritten by
o f Congress, in Selma, Ala., on the Edmund Pettus Bridge to mark the 40th
ate m em bers w ho p a rtic i
the people o f Selm a,” said
anniversary o f the Selma to Montgomery voting rights march. (AP photo)
pated to renew those por
Lewis, who was clubbed on
tions o f the law.
the head during the "Bloody
“T heir presence here is a m ock
M artin Luther King Jr., led a second
Sunday” attack on m archers by state bridge.
Participants also included singer m arch tw o w eeks later to the state ery unless they go home and do the
troopers and sheriff’s deputies on
right thing,” said Lowery, who also
March 7, 1965. He was am ong 17 Harry Belafonte, who was at the dem Capitol.
joined
King on the m arch to the
“The
freedom
we
won
here
in
Selma
onstration
40
years
ago,
and
C
oretta
blacks hospitalized as that m arch
Capitol.
and
on
the
road
to
M
ontgom
ery
was
Scott
King,
whose
husband,
the
Rev.
was turned back w hile crossing the
Gang Member Charged in Rapper Shooting
A man police say is a documented Crips gang member has been
arrested for attempted murder in the shooting of a local rap
musician. The victim, Ladarius Davis, who goes by the stage name
Korbell, survived 12 gunshots wounds during the Feb. 27 shoot
ing on North Interstate Avenue and Skidmore Street.
Alan Jerome Bates, 23, faces charges of attempted murder,
assault, being a felon in possession of a firearm and unlawful
possession of a firearm.
Police say he was arrested March 2 during search warrants in
the 15900 block of East Burnside Street. A high-capacity gun and
seven grams of crack cocaine were seized during the arrest.
Police said Bates apparently got into a dispute with Davis
before the shooting. Investigators said there was no evidence that
Davis was involved in gang activity.
A man and woman were also arrested in connection with the
case. Michael Dee Collins, 31, was charged with drug and firearm
offenses; and Monique Roshell Crane, 22, was charged with
hindering prosecution.
Alan Bates and the gun police
seized in the shooting o f a
local rap musician.
Army Behind
in Recruiting
Many blacks site a war
they don’t believe in
(AP) — Young blacks have grown markedly less
willing to join the Army, citing fear of being sent to fight
a w ar in Iraq they don’t believe in, according to
unpublicized studies for the military that suggest the
Army is entering a prolonged recruiting slump.
Fear of combat also is a leading reason fewer young
women are choosing the Army, the studies say. Al
though female soldiers are barred by law from assign
ments in direct land combat, they nonetheless have
found themselves under attack by insurgents in Iraq, and
33 have died.
“More African Americans identify having to fight for
a cause they don’t support as a barrier to military ser
vice,” concluded an August 2004 study for the Army. It
also said attitudes toward the Army among all groups of
American youth have grown more negative in recent
years.
“In the past, barriers were about inconvenience or
preference for another life choice,” the study said. “Now
they have switched to something quite different: fear of
death or injury.”
Statistically, the fear factor is about twice as strong
among potential recruits as a whole as it was in 2000, the
study said. That and other studies, all o f which are posted
on an obscure Defense Department Web site, cited the
Iraq war as a major turnoff for many.
The Army has suffered more of the 1,500-plus U.S.
deaths in Iraq than any other service, and thousands
have been wounded. Some soldiers will serve their sec
ond tour in Iraq this year. W hile Army leaders say
soldiers have shown a strong interest in re-enlisting, the
strains of war seem to have become a barrier to first-time
enlistees.
The Army ’ s recruiting challenge is critically important
not only to the long-term commitment in Iraq but also to
the A rm y's goal of expanding by 30,000 soldiers. Through
the first five months o f the budget year which began last
Oct. 1, the active Army is about 6 percent behind sched
ule to meet its 2005 recruiting goal.
The Army isn’t the only service having trouble finding
recruits. The M arine Corps fell slightly short of its
recruiting goal in January - the first month that had
happened in nearly a decade - amid parents’ concerns
about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Deadly AIDS Impact Grows
I
(AP) - More than 80 million Afri
cans may die from AIDS by 2025,
the United Nations said in a report
released Friday, and infections
could soar to 90 million - or more
than 10 percent of the continent’s
population - if more isn’t done soon
to fight the disease.
More than 25 million African
have been infected with HIV, the
virus that causes AIDS. UNAIDS
estimated that nearly $200billion is
needed to save 16 million people
from death and 43 million people
from becoming infected, but do
nors have pledged nowhere near
that amount.
In its report, “AIDS in A frica,”
the U.N. agency exam ines three
potential scenarios for the conti
nent in the next 20 years depend
in g on th e in te r n a tio n a l
com m unity’s response.
R esearchers determ ined that
even with m assive funding and
better treatm ent, the num ber of
A fricans who will die from AIDS
is likely to top 67 m illion in the
next tw o decades.
They all warn that the w orst of
the epidem ic’s im pact is still to
come.
T ro o p D eath s Top 1,500
(AP)— The numberofU.S. troops
killed in Iraq has topped 1,500, an
Associated Press count showed
Thursday after the military an
nounced the deaths of three Ameri
cans.
The military said twoU.S. troops
died of injuries suffered when a
roadside bomb in Baghdad struck
their vehicle. Another soldier was
killed in Babil province, part of an
area known as the “Triangle of
Death” because o f the frequency
of insurgent attacks on U.S. and
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