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BORN: Feb. 4, 1947, Mobile, Ala. EDUCATION: Morehouse College, B.A., 1968; Emory U, J.D., 1971 FAMILY: Divorced RELIGION: Baptist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: Georgia House, 1977-91, Senate, 1991-92; U.S. House, 1992- ADDRESS: 106 South Slappey Boulevard, Albany...
BORN: Feb. 21, 1940, Troy, Ala. EDUCATION: American Baptist Theological Seminary, B.A., 1961; Fisk U, B.A., 1963 FAMILY: Wife, Lillian; one child RELIGION: Baptist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Civil-rights activist political career: Atlanta city council, 1982-86; U.S. House, 1986- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 2323, Atlanta...
...Iraqis I see in Baghdad this week bear little resemblance to those I met before the 1991 Gulf War. The same faces, yes; the same names: Sadoun, Ala, Sa'ad, Mahoud, middle-class government officials, merchants, staffers at international companies. Right after the Gulf War, these were the people the U.S. hoped, maybe expected, would overthrow Saddam Hussein. But the political discontent I saw then seems to have dissipated. Now, after enduring rigorous economic sanctions that have stripped away their wealth, the educated merchant class has settled into numb resignation. The dinar has been devalued to one five-hundredth...
...also designed the 1993 Museum of African Art in New York City, the Civil Rights Memorial at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala. and Eclipsed Time in New York's Pennsylvania Station...
...least democratic the world over. The specter of another dictatorship imposed on a people that suffered the iniquity of occupation and exile should be resisted at all costs. Unfortunately, I cannot agree with the two speakers' unstated belief that Israel's momentary security should outweigh Palestinians' external degradation. --Ala M. Alryyes, graduate student, Dept. of Comparative Literature