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...passed her over for a job and that later, when it did hire her, she was paid $7,000 less than a comparable black teacher because of her race and gender. Farmer, who is suing for back pay, claims that university officials explicitly told her JOHNSON MAKOBA, a black Ugandan, was hired first and paid more because "he's black and you're not." The university acknowledges that race played a factor, since it was seeking to increase its diversity, but maintains that Makoba was a better candidate and that the market justified his higher salary. Farmer's lawyers...
That was clear enough after Thursday's massacre; Michaels is worried about how far the Hutu-Tutsi conflict could escalate. Will Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni, a Tutsi, send troops on behalf of his friend Paul Kagame in Rwanda? Will Kabila? There are rumblings that Tanzania favors the Hutu side, as may Angola. "No one is sure who will intervene," Michaels says, "and if so, on whose side. This could very quickly get out of control...
Gates and several other black literary figures are being honored on a series of Ghanaian and Ugandan postage stamps with their pictures on them...
...compunction about supporting similar campaigns in neighboring countries. The West has generally looked the other way, despite unspoken rules forbidding meddling across Africa's delicate borders. But Museveni believes African rulers have not only the right but the duty to intervene when they see a just cause. The Ugandan leader befriended Kagame when exiled Rwandan Tutsi raised their children among Museveni's Ankole tribe and the two later fought together in the Ugandan bush. Kagame even served in Uganda's army from 1986 to 1990. When the time came to lead an invasion of Rwanda, Kagame relied on Museveni...
...cooled the fighting and the violence threatens to spill over into Tanzania. Museveni told TIME that before U.S. ambassador Michael Southwick left Kampala at the end of July, he delivered a "verbal note" warning Uganda against exercising a military option in Burundi. Says Museveni: "I ignored it." The Ugandan President has also been told by Washington to keep out of Kenya, where riots are undermining the increasingly troubled regime of Daniel arap Moi, or the U.S. would "drop him like a hot potato." Though his antipathy for Moi is common knowledge, Museveni has lately bent over backward to bring...