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The Road To Stahilitv: Africa in the Next Millennium Past Economic Success Stories: Germany -1950’s Japan-1 Asian Tigers-1^<su s l-1990’s Eastern Europe-1990’s Future Economic Success Story: Africa-2000? 27 March 1998, 8:00 p.m., Rudder Auditorium Featuring a panel of experts on African economic, social, and political issues including F.W. de Klerk, former president of South Africa. Jjfb- WILEY =yr - Tickets Available at the MSC Box Office 845-1234 rrmro SERIES Sterling C. Evans Library presents: Am I A Crook? Copyright Issues on the Internet A live teleconference produced by Dallas County Community College. April 2, 1998 1:15 to 3:00 p.m. MSC, Room 292 Registration not required. For more information contact: Leila Payne at 862-4647 or the AMIGOS website at http://www.amigos.org/Flyers/teleconference.htm r j£.EJfc. Thursday‘Ma; God fails to make TV appearance Cultisy get she jail ten GARLAND (AP) — Onlookers, satellite trucks and legions of re porters streamed Tuesday into a Dallas suburb where a Taiwanese religious group awaited God’s ap pearance on television’s Channel 18 — an event they say presages His re turn to earth next week. But the appointed hour passed early Wednesday without the promised TV appearance. The group’s leader said his faith was not shaken. “Even though the image doesn’t show on television, I don’t have any reason to doubt the existence of the Supreme Being, God, in this uni verse,” church leader Chen Heng- ming said through a translator at a midnight-hour news conference. Police erected barricades and cordoned off a 165-house area in the tree-lined neighborhood around Ridgedale Drive, where nearly 140 members of God’s Salva tion Church are living in various up scale houses. The main house, their leader’s, serves as their church. Chen, known to followers as “Teacher Chen,” had said God would appear on Channel 18 “I don’t have any rea son to doubt the existence of the Supreme Being, God, in this universe.” Chen Hengming God's Salvation Church leader across the country at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday to mark the beginning of his return. In Garland, cable Channel 18 of fers religious-oriented program ming: in nearby Dallas, it is a home- shopping channel. There is no sta tion on broadcast Channel 18. After midnight, the cable chan nels continued with their scheduled programs. The broadcast channel had only white noise. Though church members — most clad entirely in white, with white hats — have spoken openly about their principles in the past, on Tuesday they politely declined comment as they entered the fenced-in backyard of Chen’s house. “I’m sorry. I can’t,” one said gen tly in Mandarin Chinese, smiling as he waved off a reporter. At 8 p.m. Tuesday, church mem bers began arriving at Chen’s house with their children. Most carried sleeping bags or bedrolls. All the adults wore the trademark white cowboy hats that the group has favored in recent months. Ex-mistress sentenced to 3-year term LUBBOCK (AP)—The ex-mistress of former Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros, at one time the star witness in his inde pendent counsel investi gation, was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in federal prisonWednesday for ob struction of justice and bank fraud. It was Jones who pros ecutors say received $185,000 in hush-money payments from Cisneros from 1990-92, after their 2 1/2-year extramarital af fair disintegrated. Attorney General Janet Reno called for a special prosecutor in 1994 when it appeared Cisneros might have grossly un derstated the payments during an FBI back ground check. Jones, 48, became a tar get herself in 1996 when prosecutors caught her in a series of lies about evi- Jfev"' ’ ■ dence, including whether she provided original copies of taped conversa tions with Cisneros or copies. She was indicted on 28 counts last year and agreed to a plea , deal Jan. 15. “My defini tion of a crimi nal is someone who committed a crime against society or against another person,” said Jones, who will spend her sen tence at the Carswell Fed eral Medical Center in Fort Worth because of a decade-long bout with depression. “By no means do I think of myself as a criminal, that I ever have been or that I ever will be.” Even without Jones’ as sistance, prosecutors won an 18-count indictment of Cisneros in Washington on i/i Cisneros Dec. 11. Jones also faces two obstruction counts there that are not covered by her Lubbock plea arrangement, which does not require her testimony against Cisneros. In her first public state ments about the 3-year-old inves tigation, Jones lamented that she was going to jail for what she said was a victim less crime. “We have children across the na tion shooting other chil dren, and we’re spending millions and millions and millions of dollars on this,” said Jones, refer ring to Tuesday’s Arkansas school shoot ings. The price tag on the Cisneros investigation is estimated to be between $4 million and $6 million and climbing. Independent Counsel David Barrett did not re turn a phone message left at his Washington office by The Associated Press. Jones had entered into a 1996 immunity agreement in exchange for testimony against Cisneros, but Bar rett said she nullified it by continuing to lie and hide evidence, such as original. recordings of phone con versations with Cisneros. Jones, who returned to her hometown of Uibbock after the affair ruined her marriage, pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice, con spiracy, bank fraud and money laundering. 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