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Black leaders affirm solidarity at church service
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Fired
NAACP leader Benjamin Chavis
Jr. affirmed solidarity with Na
tion of Islam leader Louis Far
rakhan at a rousing Sunday ser
vice of the breakaway African-
American Catholic church.
Chavis also denounced as “a
crime against humanity” the
Clinton administration’s policy
of incercepting Haitian and
Cuban refugees at sea to pre
vent them from reaching the
United States.
“We must say to our sisters
and brothers in Cuba and Haiti
we stand with you” and work for
policy changes, he said.
“You can take away my job,
you can take away anything, but
I am not going to forsake Mr.
Farrakhan as my brother,”
Chavis said. The Chavis-bro
kered alliance with Farrakhan
was one of the issues involved in
his dismissal eight days ago as
executive director of the Nation
al Association for Advancement
of Colored People.
Chavis, an ordained Protes
tant minister in the United
Church of Christ, preached the
main sermon and received a
footstamping, drum-beating
ovation from more than 1,000
worshippers at the recently
opened Capitol Hill Imani Tem
ple of the African-American
Catholic Congregation.
The church’s Archbishop
George Augustus Stallings Jr.
praised Chavis as a freedom
fighter who shook up the oldest
U.S. civil rights organization.
Stallings was excommunicated
from the Roman Catholic
Church after founding the con
gregation five years ago and de
claring that Jesus was black.
NAACP board members who
fired Chavis last week “have
lost touch with the average
African-American on the
street” and deferred to wealthy
New York and Los Angeles in
terests, Stallings said.
Chavis returned the compli
ment, calling the archbishop
“one whom the pope himself
could not hold down. If the pope
were wise he would ... meet
with Archbishop Stallings, a
brother who is trying to restore
the Catholic church to its au
thentic roots.”
Chavis asked God’s “forgive
ness for the board of the
NAACP” and asked the congre
gation to “pray for them. They
made the wrong decision.”
He also asked prayers for for
mer NAACP employee Mary E.
Stancel, whose sex discrimina
tion claim he settled with
8332,400 in NAACP funds with
out board clearance, precipitat
ing his dismissal.
“Once the truth comes out,”
Chavis said, “you will know
there was no sex harassment, no
sex discrimination. It was an
employment dispute.”
Chavis said despite the 830
billion federal anti-crime bill
passed by Congress last week,
“crime will not stop in our com
munity until you and I stop it”
through greater unity among
African-Americans, their
churches and organizations.
“Black on black crime has a
solution and that solution must
be a black solution,” he said,
stepping up his campaign for a
black leadership summit on such
issues.
The campaign will “focus like
a laser on economic development
of the African-American commu
nity,” as well as moral and spiri
tual needs and grassroots unity,
he said. Interim NAACP leaders
have indicated they might coop
erate with Chavis on a summit.
“Until we change the way we
live with each other, as sisters
and brothers, we are not going
to be able to stop this self-de
struction ... Forces out there
want us to kill each other,”
Chavis said.
DEA plane crashes
Bleak outlook
for five missing
WASHINGTON (AP) - A
Drug Enforcement Administra
tion plane crashed in the jun
gles of Peru and five U.S.
agents were missing, a
spokesman said Sunday.
DEA officials had not yet
reached the site of Saturday’s
crash to confirm if there were
any survivors, but “it does Ipok
bleak from the air,” said DEA
spokesman Bill Ruzzamenti.
The missing agents were
assigned to “Operation Snow-
cap,” a program aimed at
stemming cocaine traffic from
Peru and Bolivia.
The twin-engine DEA trans
port plane was traveling from
Santa Lucia when it lost con
tact with air traffic control, a
DEA statement said.
DEA aircraft and Peruvian
military officials were search
ing the area around Puerto
Pizana in the foothills of the
Andes mountains about 285
miles northeast of Lima. They
spotted wreckage of what was
believed to be the downed plane
on Sunday, the DEA statement
said.
Rescue teams were working
through the dense jungle, but
Ruzzamenti said they might
not get to the crash site until
Monday.
The five DEA agents in
cluded two pilots and three
agents assigned to the anti-co
caine program, Ruzzamenti
said. Their names were not be
ing released pending notifica
tion of relatives.
The anti-cocaine program
was begun in 1987 to allow
DEA agents to help law en
forcement officials combat co
caine traffic in Peru and Bo
livia. About 10 DEA agents are
assigned to Peru and another
12 are assigned to Bolivia, the
DEA statement said.
Peru is the source of more
than 60 percent of the world’s
coca, from which cocaine is
manufactured.
DEA Administrator Thomas
Constantine said in a state
ment, “Cocaine users in the
United States and the greedy
drug lords like the Cali cartel
in Colombia are the reason that
DEA agents put their lives on
the line every day.
“Our prayers go out to our
agents and their families dur
ing this trying time,” Constan
tine said.
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a scanner, and a personal printer
that in her words, “was as big and
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Panetta hints
of changes in
White House
WASHINGTON (AP) - Fora
White House staff nervous
about a possible shakeup, Leon
Panetta’s message is not reas
suring: “There is no job security
here.”
Six weeks into his job, Pres:
dent Clinton’s new chief of staf
has established himself as tte
power center, chief negotiate
and strict disciplinarian for;
White House that in the pas;
has veered from being fres
wheeling to chaotic.
“You can’t have an operatia
work well for the president ua
less it is well-managed and has
a discipline to it,” Panetta saii
“It just doesn’t work.”
Long-rumored personnel
changes are likely, Panetta saii
The most probable targets are
believed to be in the areas oi
scheduling, communications ani
political affairs.
“If there’s a better waytt
structure this, I can’t be hesi
tant about doing that if I think
it provides the best operation foe
the president,” Panetta said.
It was Panetta who dealt!
with the House over changes it
Clinton’s crime bill. He also
has staked out a role for him
self in Clinton’s foreign policy
operation.
“I wanted to be directly it
volved in foreign policy issues as
one of the principals because !
think the president needs to
have a chief of staff who’s cover
ing all the bases,” Panetta salt
in an interview in his spacious
West Wing office.
All memos going into th
Oval Office have to be route!
through Panetta, even whet
they’re signed by such senioi
aides as Mack McLarty ant
George Stephanopoulos. Clin
ton’s outside political advisers
also have had their easy access
restricted.
“We had a lot of kind of cote
selors to the president, advisers
to the president,” Panetta said it
an interview. “What I’ve tried®
do is establish much clearer n
sponsibilities for those advisers
Panetta also got assurance
he wouldn’t be second-guessc
by Vice President A1 Gored!
Hillary Rodham Clinton, W
other powerful figures.
“Every chief of staff has tM
relationship to deal with and
frankly, from the very beginnini
I asked for the clear line of at
thority not only from the press
dent but from the first lady ait
the vice president, and got tbs
assurance,” Panetta said.
“They all need to be involves
They all have important roles
Whatever policies I try to imp®
ment, I have to coordinate wit
them as well.”
Panetta inherited a WW
House staff overseen by McU
ty, a man whose gentle Sote
ern ways earned him the nic
name “Mack the Nice.” Paneft
though, is a different breed.
He said the White House
making an attitude chanf
switching from a campai!
mode to a governing mo 1
where Clinton has the oppoit
nity to be presidential ratb;
than racing around like a car- 1
date.