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...That's the message of a $12.5 million verdict handed down in Portland, Ore., last week against television repairman Tom Metzger, his son John, their national racist organization White Aryan Resistance, and two of the three partying skinhead punks who, incited by WAR, arbitrarily bludgeoned a 27-year-old Ethiopian man to death two years...
...Portland, Dees and colleague Elden Rosenthal are asking a $10 million punitive judgment against WAR and the Metzgers. A member of WAR's Portland affiliate, East Side White Pride, was convicted last year of murder in the 1988 beating death of Mulugeta Seraw, a 27-year-old Ethiopian man; two other members were convicted of first-degree manslaughter in the case. Metzger, a television repairman, and his son run WAR from their family's home in Fallbrook, Calif., north of San Diego. The organization's cable-television show, Race and Reason, is carried on 50 cable-access channels...
...United Nations has estimated that 200,000 children under the age of 15 are bearing arms around the world. The Salvadoran army has forcibly conscripted boys not yet 18, while soldiers as young as 13 have sworn allegiance to Ethiopian leader Mengistu Haile Mariam. But most child warriors belong to rebel groups, where how much they fight depends on how desperately their services are needed. The mujahedin of Afghanistan have boys as young as + nine battling Kabul. In Burma twelve-year-olds are recruited by the Karen rebels to defend their jungle territory. In El Salvador the F.M.L.N...
With all the stories of victory and disappointment from yesterday's race, nothing was as dramatic as what happened to Ethiopian Ibraim Hussein, the winner of the 1988 Boston Marathon who was in solid position yesterday to challenge for the victory again...
...Tigre province. As Soviet aid withers, Arab countries are increasing their military and economic assistance to the Eritreans, who claim to be running up military gains. In search of a new patron, Mengistu re-established diplomatic relations with Israel last November after a 16-year hiatus. Now dozens of Ethiopian officers are being trained in Israel, which is also providing Mengistu with small arms...