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Diamond traders on the Zambia-Angola border also say UNITA still has a rich source of diamonds at Mavinga, in southeastern Angola, long a UNITA stronghold. Mavinga's proximity to the Zambian and Namibian borders makes it ideal for the transfer of diamonds for money, goods or weapons. The border between the countries is just a cut line in the bush, with few fences, and runs for some 625 miles through remote scrubland. It's the kind of majestic rural space where you can see Africa at its best. Or, from the front seat of a diamond trader's truck...
Atlanta prides itself on being "the city too busy to hate," but it's not too busy to quarrel about the mayor's pugnacious strategy for battling the Southeastern Legal Foundation. That conservative group filed a federal lawsuit in August alleging that the city discriminates against white males by requiring prime city contractors to set up joint ventures with minority- or female-owned businesses. Tucker supports affirmative action, but she complains that Campbell has abused the program by showering lucrative contracts on his wealthy black supporters. She argues that courts have become so hostile to affirmative action that spending hundreds...
...business for minority firms, he argues, because national companies could easily qualify by setting up Atlanta-based subsidiaries. Campbell says he is prepared to use "any means necessary" to protect the program in its current form--not only in the courts but also by picketing the homes of the Southeastern Legal Foundation's supporters and boycotting their companies. As for charges of cronyism, he notes that many of the wealthy black contractors who have contributed to his campaign have also donated to his political foes...
With a plethora of ethnic and social groups on campus, there seems to be a group for everyone, from the Asian American Association to the Black Student Association to the Southeastern Europe Society...
...evidence comes from a cave in the Ardeche region of southeastern France, overlooking the Rhone River, where archaeologist Alban Defleur of Marseilles' Universite de la Mediterranee discovered 78 Neanderthal bones about 100,000 years old. They were from at least six individuals--two adults, two teenagers and two six- or seven-year-olds. Like the deer bones with which they were intermingled, most bore unmistakable signs of deliberate butchery...