Word: lumumba
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After former president George Bush delivered a speech in China in 1998, a bright young American student stood up to ask a question. Why, Patrice Lumumba Ford wanted to know, had charges against Oliver North concerning the Iran-contra scandal been dropped during Bush's term in office nearly a decade earlier? Bush was taken aback by the directness of the question, according to several people present at the Johns Hopkins Nanjing Center...
Ford grew up in a disciplined household, with a set time for homework and an early bedtime. The civil-rights views of his father Kent greatly influenced him. Ford is proud of being named after Patrice Lumumba, the Congolese independence hero, though he eventually chose to be known as just Lumumba--because, says his half-sister Cindy Fontenot, "Patrice sounded girlish to him." Says Fontenot, 34, a human-resources professional: "He was always very mature, someone to lean on because he was so strong but very sensitive...
...have been paying attention. The arrest last week of four U.S. citizens accused of conspiring to join al-Qaeda was the culmination of yearlong cooperation among a clutch of curious neighbors, more than 100 fbi agents and an alert deputy sheriff. Officials have accused Jeffrey Leon Battle, 32; Patrice Lumumba Ford, 31; and Muhammad Ibrahim Bilal, 22, of trying to travel to Afghanistan late last year to support al-Qaeda. (They flew into Hong Kong but apparently lacked the cash and contacts required to pass border controls.) Two other accused men--Ahmed Ibrahim Bilal, 24, and Habis Abdulla al Saoub...
...simply do not receive the publicity they deserve. This is where Mitchell feels he comes in as a critic—he says he can help steer moviegoers towards excellent films that fly under the mainstream radar. In fact, throughout the one-hour session Mitchell mentioned a film called Lumumba that has been sorely ignored and urged the audience to try to see it if at all possible...
...DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO Show You're Sorry The government dismissed Belgium's apology for its role in the 1961 killing of Patrice Lumumba, postcolonial Congo's first Prime Minister, but demanded reparations. A Belgian parliamentary report found that the former colonial rulers bore "moral responsibility" for the assassination...