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Wednesday, April 16, 1:30 - 2:15 pm
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Zachry 204. For more details, contact Chris
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Debriefjiv
Pagel
Tuesday • April 15,
Blacks march against racial crimes
â–º State
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — White
residents came out onto their front
steps Monday and turned their
backs on about 500 blacks who
marched through the working-class
neighborhood in a protest against
racial violence.
Hundreds of police kept watch
on the mostly white Grays Ferry
section, where racial tensions have
been running high since the beat
ing of a black family by a mob of
whites and the killing of a white
teen-ager during a robbery.
Angry words flew between some
of the marchers and the onlookers,
but there was no violence, and
â–º This day in history
Today is Tuesday, April 15, the 105th day of 1997.
There are 260 days left in the year.
On this date:
In 1817, the first American school for the deaf
opened in Hartford, Conn.
In 1850, the city of San Francisco was incorporated.
Irul861, three days after the attack on Fort Sumter,
S.C., President Lincoln declared a state of insurrection
and called out Union troops.
In 1865, President Lincoln died, several hours after
he was shot at Ford’s Theater in Washington by John
Wilkes Booth. Andrew Johnson became the nation’s
17th president.
In 1912, the British luxury liner Titanic sank in the
North Atlantic off Newfoundland, less than three hours
after striking an iceberg. About 1,500 people died.
In 1945, during World Warll, British and Canadian troops
liberated the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen.
In 1947, Jackie Robinson, modern baseball’s first
black major-league player, made his official debut with
the Brooklyn Dodgers on opening day. (The Dodgers de
feated the Boston Braves, 5-3.)
In 1959, Cuban leader Fidel Castro arrived in Washing
ton, D.C., to begin a goodwill tour of the United States.
In 1986, the United States launched an air raid
against Libya in response to the bombing of a dis
cotheque in Berlin on April 5; Libya says 37 people,
mostly civilians, were killed.
In 1989, 95 people died in a crush of soccer fans
there were no arrests.
“They’re turning their backs on
the reality that Philadelphia has to
become a city of brotherly love,”
said Rasheeda Ali, who marched
through the narrow streets of the
rowhouse neighborhood with a
baby in her arms. “They’re turning
their backs on brotherly love.”
“Grays Ferry Residents Marching
in Unity,” one banner proclaimed.
Others held signs that read “Bring
good to the hood.”
“They walk by here, they stroll,
they want to start trouble,” said white
resident Michael McBride.
Angry at the turned backs, many
of the marchers shouted taunts.
“White trash!” one black man yelled.
“God loves us all, white trash!”
The march and service were in
response to the Feb. 23 beating of
Annette Williams, her son and
nephew by a mob of white men
outside a Roman Catholic Church
social hall. Eight men have been
charged with ethnic intimidation.
A month later, two black men
shot and killed a Christopher
Brinkman, the 16-year-old son of a
white police officer, during a drug
store robbery that police said was
not racially motivated. Two black
men were charged.
at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England.
In 1990, actress Greta Garbo died in New York at age 84.
Ten years ago: A jury in Northampton, Mass., found Amy
Carter, Abbie Hoffman and 13 other protesters innocent of
charges stemming from a demonstration against CIA re
cruiters at the University of Massachusetts.
Five years ago: Russia's deeply divided Congress of Pea
pie’s Deputies formally endorsed President Boris Yeltsin’s
economic reforms. Countries barred Libyan jets from their
airspace and ordered diplomats to go home because of
Libya’s refusal to turn over suspects in the bombing of Pan
Am Right 103. Hotel magnate Leona Helmsley began serv
ing a prison sentence for tax evasion (she was released
from prison after 18 months).
One year ago: President Clinton began a weeklong,
round-the-world trip, heading for a three-day visit to
Japan after a brief stopover in Cheju, South Korea. Fu
neral services were held in Pescadero, Calif., for Jes
sica Dubroff, the 7-year-old girl who died trying to be
come the youngest person to fly across America.
â–º Today's birthdays
Actor Michael Ansara is 75. Country singer Roy Clark
is 64. Actress Claudia Cardinale is 58. Rock singer-gui
tarist Dave Edmunds is 53. Actress Amy Wright is 47.
Actress-screenwriter Emma Thompson is 38. Singer
Samantha Fox is 31. Rock musician Ed O’Brien (Ra
diohead) is 29.
â–º Weather
Today
Tonight
Tomorrow
Partly cloudy.
Partly cloudy.
Partly cloudy.
Highs & Lows
Today’s Expected High
75°F
Tonight’s Expected Low
46°F
Tomorrow’s Expected
High
77°F
Tomorrow Night’s
Expected Low
50°F
Information courtesy of TAMSCAM
Alsobrook named
Bush Library directoi
College Station (AP) —DavidE.(
sobrook, acting director of the B.?
Presidential Materials Project,i«
been named director of the $82ri
lion George Bush PresidentialLiliiai
Alsobrook, 51, was a supewT
archivist at the Carter Libraryinii;l
lanta for 10 years before comin^r
the Bush complex on the Texas®
University campus in 1993, the J
tional Archives said Monday.
Scheduled for a Novemberd
cation, the Bush library and musM
include a 2.6-ton chunk of the Be â– 
Wall and a restored World fe
bomber as well as 38 million pad
of official and personal papers.
Man executed for!
22-year-old crime
HUNTSVILLE (AP) — Almost3
years after a disabled 62-yeai-;
Houston woman was bludgeoned
death with a frying pan, the manta
victed of killing her was headedtoa
Texas death chamber Mondayeverntj
Billy Joe Woods, 50, who is sixty
seniority among the state’s 456co|
demned inmates, faced lethal injects
for the October 1975 beating and
ing of Mabel Ehatt after breakingri
her apartment.
Woods, who was 29 atthetimel
the murder, was the first personsa
tenced to death in Harris Countyii
der the law that reinstated thedei
penalty in Texas.
While the average time ondea
row before execution in Texas
nine years, Woods, with nearly^
years and nine months on di
row, becomes the longest-serwj
Texas inmate to head to thee
chamber gurney.
Woods’ case languished ii
courts while judges wrestled
appeals that primarily concei
whether testimony from a psyclij
trist should have been allowedi!
his trial. Defense lawyersarguedi?’
successfully that Woods was gw
insufficient warnings that info®
tion he gave the psychiatrist cots
be used against him during the?/
ishment phase of his trial. |
Final appeals were rejected.;!
week.
Woods, a lOth-grade dropouts
parently climbed up a trellis tog# â– 
woman's second-floor apartr®
pulled himself through a wind#
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the woman and crushed her he#
with a frying pan.
Woods becomes the fifth Texas/
mate to be executed this year and®
third this month.
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The Class of 1997 joins
Dr. Southerland
to wish the Class of 1997
ie best of luck!
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