7 oe(JVe LA. td When Ne was aekedt by Attorney General Robert Kennedy to postpone acivil-rights demonstration to allow people to “cool off,” James Farmer refused, saying, “We've been cooling off for 350 years.” But Farmer also believed in achieving equality : Lo eehets)1) - tte to bas" ere cUiiate Ge ee ai ae aa : Bei). wie bekehce eae without violence; if asked, “When will 3 you start fighting back?” he answered: “Weare fighting back; we're only using new weapons.’ The last survivor among the four great founders of the modern civil-rights movement—the others were Martin Luther King Jr., Whitney Young and Roy Wilkins—Farmer, the longtime head of CORE, died last week at the age of 79. JERRY ADLER SETH STEVENSON DEVIN and V [CTORIA a Pa: ; i | 7 a ¢ GZ 8 ‘) ) & po 4 ~~ J y 4 4 ws ’ 6 \ f GORDON STEFANAKOS PL wo TOP TO BOTTOM: NASA\ DAV ID N. BERKWITZFOR NEWSWEEK (7). / DAVID CHESKIN—AP. UPI >| 106 Rice pla Hing trip to Europe, Middle East BY ANNE GEARAN The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Condoleezza Rice worked the phones on her first day on the job as America’s top diplomat Thursday, reaching out to European allies and partners in the war on terrorism and_ echoing President Bush’s inaugural charge to promote liberty across the globe. “The president has set forth a really bold agenda for American foreign policy,” Rice said in a brief address to State Department employees who applauded as she entered the lobby. “I can’t think of a better call than to say that America will stand for freedom and for liberty, that America. will stand with those who want their aspirations met for liberty and freedom.” Among dozens of phone calls with foreign ministers and heads of government, Rice spoke Thursday with Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Italian Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini. Lavrov congratulated Rice on her confirmation and discussed the upcoming meeting between Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Slovakia, a statement from the Russian foreign ministry said. Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Masood Khan said Musharraf also congratulated Rice and that the two “briefly discussed Pakistan-U.S. relations as well as regional and international issues of mutual interest.” Rice has a heavy task to rebuild European and other alliances worn thin by international opposition to the U.S.-led war in Iraq, and to help guide Middle East peace efforts after the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. The war, which has claimed the lives of more than 1,400 U.S. troops, plus looming diplomatic and security problems in Iran and North Korea also top Rice’s agenda. Rice _ will travel quickly to. the Middle East and Europe, the State | Rice Department said Thursday. The eight-day trip begins next week, ahead of Bush’s own planned fence-mending trip to Europe later in February. Secretary Rice and her designated deputy, Robert Zoellick, plan to visit all NATO capitals in the next few months, starting with this trip to Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland and Turkey, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said. He gave no precise details or dates of each Stop. In France, Rice plans to give her first major speech as secretary of state. Boucher said Rice will discuss NATO and separate European government help for training Iraqi security forces. As part of the same trip, Rice will meet with leaders on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Israel and the West Bank, Boucher said. “She will, first of all, look to hear from them about the opportunities and how they’re proceeding,” Boucher said. Foreign travel will probably take much of Rice’s time for her first year or so in office, although contacts from her last job mean she needs fewer introductions to international leaders than many new secretaries of state. Rice’s large collection of football memorabilia and Shelves of her personal books were waiting for her in her new office. In announcing her nomination, Bush joked that Rice’s dream job would be commissioner of the National Football League. ‘War, poverty dampen King’s legacy Jackson: Social equity better birthday present BY HARRY R. WEBER The Associated Press JONESBORO, Ga. — War, poverty, violence and social injustice are dampening Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy as the nation prepares to celebrate the slain civil rights leader’s birthday, the Rev. Jesse Jackson told a church gathering Sunday. In a passionate speech at Dixon Grove Baptist Church in Jonesboro, south of King’s native Atlanta, Jackson assailed the war in Iraq and insisted the gap between rich and poor in America is Atribute widening despite King’s to Martin Luther King Jr/8A message equality. of peace and ; “It's easy to admire Dr. King,” Jackson told the 650 people at the church. “It’s a challenge to follow him.” Jackson, who was standing beneath the motel balcony where King was fatally shot see KING/5A The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. speaks during the 20th annual Clayton County ecumenical service in celebration of the national holiday observance of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Sunday at the Dixon Grove Baptist Church in Jonesboro, Ga. GREGORY SMITH The Associated Press From throw things off.” Cragun admitted it is possible to create multiple accounts on his Web site. But he said he is battling this by checking to make sure the accounts are from individual e-mail addresses. In the past, the only evaluation information available to Weber State students has been two general questions, rating the course and professor on a sliding scale. The results were compiled in a binder kept in the basement of the university library. The university’s online evaluation includes nine questions, on both the course and the instructor. Once the data Page One is available online, a registering student will be able to click onto a potential course, then click onto a drop-down menu for the _ professor’s evaluation. “Online is a lot more conve- nient,” Williams said. Penrod overall, agreed, teacher saying evaluations are extremely helpful. “I find it very useful cause you can see be- whether the teachers are going to help you or not,” she said. “You pay a lot of money for tuition and our grade is everything,” Penrod - said. “So it would be good to see if they’re helpful and what everybody rated them.” King Monday, January 17, 2005 5A legacy? The legacy is to fight for jobs, justice, health care, education and end to war.” About war in Memphis, Tenn., on April 4, 1968, suggested a good birthday present to King would be for Americans to strive more for financial and social equal- ity. “You can be out of slavery and gut of segregation and have the right to vote and starve to death without access to capital and industry,” Jackson said. He added, “You got the birthday. But do you have the Jackson, founder and president of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, said the war in Iraq is a quagmire of death and destruction with no end in sight. “We call the home team the insurgents and we’re the home team,” Jackson said sarcastically “Dr. King, what are we doing?” More events commemorat- ing the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday were scheduled for today, when the nation celebrates King’s birthday. Thousands are expected to gather in downtown Atlanta for the 19th annual march and rally honoring King in his hometown. The march will follow a morning commemorative service, attended by the King family and other dignitaries, at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King preached until his death. Meanwhile, volunteers with Hosea Feed the Hungry and Homeless will be busy serving thousands at Turner Field for its annual King Day dinner. Special events and parades marking the holiday are planned around the country. ——— ee rests Kenyan takes Nobel Prize for work with forest BY TOM they MALITI The Associated Press are not destroyed way of ensuring conflict.” there date, for is a is no got Maathai, Kenya’s deputy environment minister and a former presidential candi- day, she was campaigning to half her life to protect the en- IHURURU, When Wangari Kenya Maathai word she had won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize on Frti- protect Kenya’s forests in the coun- childhood home tryside — just one hill away from her — when a club told she had won the $1.3 million prize, joining that includes Nelson Mandela, Kofi Annan and the Dalai Lama. The 64-year-old Maathai, the first black African woman to win a Nobel Prize in any category since the awards were first handed out in 1901, gained recent acclaim for a campaign planting 30 million worked nearly vironment and human rights. and distributing food to villagers suffering from drought — the same work she’s been doing for decades. Maathai was has Maathai trees to stave off deforestation. “Many of the wars in. Africa are fought over natural resources,” Associated Maathai Press. told The “Ensuring During 1990s, she the also 1980s and campaigned sion founded against government Green Party and in oppres- Kenya’s 1987. She was repeatedly arrested and beaten for protesting former President Daniel arap Moi’s environmental policies and human rights record. With a record 194 nominations, the Norwegian Nobel Committee had a broad field to choose have from conferred someone tied to and could the prize on one of this year’s hottest issues, such as the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Many Se ulated that the might Hf¢Og committee try to send a message about the U.S.-led war in Iraq, as it did in 2002, when members said the choice of former President Jimmy Carter should be seen as criticism of the Bush administration’s move to topple Saddam sein. Hus- Indeed, oddsmakers and speculation had pointed to Mohamed FlBaradei and the International Atomic Energy Agency as likely winners. Last year’s award went to Iranian lawyer and human rights activist Shirin Ebadi. committee the But chewed politics this year. es- “This is the first time environment sets the agenda for the Nobel Peace Prize, and we have added a new dimension to peace,’ committee chairman Ole Danbolt Mjoes said in Oslo, Norway. | Bri Cossy, Part II Entert FD BY DON ie REAR iT NN LLL en, PO Pl SEN Ane PR MA * ~ OOO Ls ainer rips-culture of blacks who squande opportunities, shirk responsibility / 2 /§ + BABWIN interrupted several times by applause. He castigated some blacks, saying that they cannot simply blame whites for problems such as teen pregnancy and high school dropout rates. “For me there is atime when we have to turn the mirror around,” he said. “Because for me it is almost analgesic to talk about what the white man is doing against us. And it keeps a person frozen in their seat, it keeps you frozen in your hole you’re sitting in.” Cosby lamented that the racial slurs once used by those who lynched blacks are now a favorite expression of black children. And he blamed parents. The Associated Press (another — Bill Cosby went off on another tirade against the black community Thursday, telling a room full of activists that too many black men are beating their wives whil e their children run around not knowin g how to read or write. Cosby made headlines in May when he upbraided some poor blacks for their grammar and accused them of Squandering opportunities the civil rights movement gave them. He shot back Thursday, Saying his detractors were trying in vain to hide the black community’s “dirty laundry.” “Let me tell you something, your dirty laundry gets out of school at 2:30 every day, it’s cursing and calling each other n as they’re walking up and down the street,” Cosby said during an appearance at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition & Citizenship Education Fund’s annual conference. “They think they’re hip,” the entertainer said. “They can’t read; they can’t write. They’re laughing and giggling, and they’re going nowhere.” He also had harsh words for black Bill Cosby, with Jesse Jackson (right), head of the Rainbow Push Coalition, blasts critics Thursday who complained when he upbraided low-income blacks for squandering opportunities afforded them by the civil rights about their lives. “You've got to stop beating up your women because you can’t find a job, because you didn’t want to get an education and now you’re (earning) minimum wage,” Cosby said. “You ‘should have thought more of yourself when you were in high school, when you had an opportunity.” In his remarks in May at a commemoration of the anniversary of the Brown v Board of Education desegregation decision, Cosby denounced some blacks’ grammar and wind up behind bars “are not political prisoners.” “I can’t even talk the way these people talk, ‘Why you ain’t,’ ‘Where you is’ .. and I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk,” Cosby said then. “And then I heard the father talk Everybody knows it’s important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can’t be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth.” Cosby elaborated Thursday on men who don’t have jobs and are angry | Said those who commit crimes and “When you put on a record and M. SPENCER GREEN/The Associated Press movement. his previous comments in a talk Wlueneteeeneeeee that record is yelling n- - and you ve got your little 6-year-old, 7-year-old sitting in the back seat of the car, those children hear that,” he said. Cosby appeared Thursday with the Rev. Jesse Jackson, founder and president of the education fund, who defended the entertainer’s statements. “Bill is saying let’s fight the right fight, let’s level the playing field,” Jackson said. “Drunk people can’t do that. Illiterate people can’t do that.” Cosby also said many young people are failing to honor the sacrifices made by those who struggled and died during the civil rights movement. “Dogs, water hoses that tear the bark off trees, Emmett Till,” he said, naming the black youth who was tortured and murdered in Mississippi in 1955, allegedly for whistling at a ¢ white woman. “And you’re going to tell me you're going to drop out of school? You’re going to tell me you're going to Steal from a store?” Cosby also said he wasn’t concerned that some whites took his comments and turned them “against our people.” “Let them talk,” he said. ee Rr aeons aerate en ee Src e arama e ee Earl Woods, father of Tiger, dies > Earl Woods, who was more determined to raise a good son than a great golfer and became the architect and . driving force behind Tiger Woods’ phenomenal career, died Wednesday morning at his home in Cypress, Calif. He was 74. “My dad was my best friend and greatest role model, and I will miss him deeply,” Tiger Woods said on his Web site. “I’m overwhelmed when I think of all of the great things he accomplished in his life. He was an bab amazing dad, coach, Earl Woods men- tor, soldier, husband and friend. r wouldn’t be where I am today without him, and I’m _ honored to continu his legacy e of sharing and caring.” A habitual smoker who had heart bypass surgery in 1986, Woods was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1998 and was treated with radiation. But the cancer returned in 2004 and spread throughout his body. | Last month, he was too frail to travel to the Masters for the first time. The last tournament Woods attended was the Target World Challenge in December 2004, when his son rallied to win and then donated $1.25 million to the Tiger Woods Foundation that his father helped. him-establish..The T/jger Woods Learning Center, another vision inspired by his father, opened in February. Earl Woods was more than a golf dad, more than a zealous father who lived vicariously through his son’s achievements. He had played catcher for Kansas State, the first black to play baseball in the Big Eight Conference, and he had been a Green Beret for | | two tours in Vietnam. But he felt his true purpose was to train Tiger, and he watched his son evolve into the dominant player of his time — the youngest player to win the career Grand Slam — and one of the most celebrated athletes in the world. Besides his wife and Tiger, Woods is survived by three children from his previous marriage. Cosby criticisms raise controversy some angry, some agree with comments BY DEEPTI HAJELA Fy £22) The Associated Press ; 2 eee Seg oe $e ee we 2 SHR «2 2 L22 3 bd * / x | | EW YORK — Remarks Bill Cosb made earlier this month upbraiding certain segments of the black community on issues from their grammar to complaints about police brutality have been attacked by some as a classist, elitist attack on the poor. Others say the entertainer revealed unpleasant truths that need to be dealt with. Speaking at a commemoration of the anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education desegregation decision, Cosby, a longtime education advocate, cited elevated school dropout rates for inner-city black students and criticized low-income blacks for not using the opportunities the civil rights movement won for them. “These people marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education and now we’ve got these knuckleheads walking around,” Cosby said at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund observance. “T can’t even talk the way these people talk, “Why you ain’t,’ ‘Where you is’ ... and I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk,” Cosby said, according to published reports. “And then I heard the father talk ... Everybody knows it’s important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can’t be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth.” He also turned his attention to the population of black prison inmates, saying, “These people are not political prisoners. ... People getting shot in the head over a piece of poundcake. ... We’re outraged (saying) ‘The cops shouldn’t Bill Cosby (left) appears on KCET/Hollywood’s Tavis Smiley in Los Angeles Wednesday to explain his recent controversial remarks he made during a Constitution Hall bash commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education. have shot him.’ What the hell was he doing with the poundcake in his hand?” Among blacks, reaction has been a bag of praise and criticism for mixed _ the entertainer. “T think he could have said a lot of the same things in a constructive manner instead of coming down hard on people who don’t have the same podium to defend themselves,” said Jimi Izrael, of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, a columnist for Africana.com. But the Rev. Conrad Tillard of the Eliot Church of Roxbury, Mass., said Cosby “could absolutely have” gone even further. “What’s so true about what he said is slavery and the pathology of Jim Crow have absolutely hurt us, but at the end of the day, we have got to turn the tide.”’ Tillard said some of the concern over Cosby’s remarks was others would use them to criticize blacks instead of admitting discrimination still exists. In a statement issued the weekend after his remarks, Cosby said his comments were intended to be a call to action. “T feel that I can no longer remain silent. If I have to make a choice between keeping quiet so that conservative media does not speak negatively or ringing the bell to galvanize those who want change in the lower economic community, then I choose to be a bell ringer,” he said. Ogden judge denies ame motions VE, BY TIM GURRISTER es clears the je for all five defendants to go to trial in August on the third-degree felony riot charges. OGDEN — A judge has dismissed the last of the Initially 10 concert-go- © defense motions alleging ers, all black, were arrestpolice misconduct in the ed at the June 27 concert, arrest on riot but five have charges of rap “Not that I agree since entered fans at a Union into plea _ barwith everything Station concert gains. last summer. Events _ spithe officers did Second Disraled after or said, but it trict Judge W. Ogden -—_— gang Brent West’s detectives redidn’t arise decision to sponding _ to to the level of throw out the alleged alcohol motions seekand marijuana outrageous ing dismissal violations shut conduct.” of the charges down the conagainst three cert when they JUDGE W. BRENT black men were denied WEST from a scuffle admittance. that closed Eventually the concert follows last an estimated 50 more ofmonth’s withdrawal of the ficers from several agenfirst of the three defense cies were called as backup motions. That motion had when the concert crowd claimed prosecutorial racbecame irate at the arrest ism in even bringing the of two concert organizers. charges. One officer suffered a In backing off the racbroken finger and two ofism claim, the defense also ficers beat Tanoka Beard, apologized for making it, owner of concert sponsor Saying evidence promised Dub Dub Records, with banever materialized. Standard-Examiner staff tgurrister@standard.net West’s decision this see CASE/8A Another win fo. Woods at Doral The Associated Press MIAMI — Tiger Woods knew he had to keep making birdies to stay ahead of the pack, and he delivered the kind of shots that make him so difficult to beat. Everything changed on the 18th hole Sunday in the Ford Championship. All he needed was a bogey. He did that, too. With a one-shot lead, his ball in the rough and a 9-iron in his hand, Woods watched from 170 yards away as David Toms ran his 60-foot putt to the bottom of the green, then missed the next one to fall two shots behind. “I just said, ‘Anything in the back bleachers, right eachers, just anything over here to the right and over the water was all I had to do,” Woods said. “I was just trying to play for 5. I wasn’t even trying to make par.” Despite a _ bogey-bogey finish on the Blue Monster, Woods closed with a 3-under 69 for a one-shot victory over Toms and Colombian rookie Camilo Villegas. It was the 13th time he has successfully defended a title on the PGA Tour, and he became the first player in 25 years to win back-to-back at Doral. Even more frightening for his peers is that Woods ap- pears to be hitting his stride. He now has won four of his last six tournaments (two overseas), with the exceptions being a third-round loss in the Match Play Championship and withdrawing from the Nissan Open with the flu when he was 11 shots behind. “ve put myself there in virtually every event, which is nice,” Woods said. A %,é Tiger Woods smiles as he lines up a putt on the third hole Sunday during the final round of the Ford Championship at Doral in Doral, Fla. WILFREDO'LEE The Associfited Press ty of help, not that he needs it. In all three of his victories this year — the Buick Invitational, Dubai Desert Classic and Doral — his closest challenger made bogey on the last hole. “T look at it this way — I put myself there,” Woods said. “If I put myself there enough times, those things are going to happen, as well as other guys are going to make birdies to beat me. That’s the way it goes. As long as I’m there each and every time, it’s not a bad place to be.” He hit 9-iron so far to the \ r bunker, nearly 100 feet from the hole, slightly against the back lip. The ball sat up on a rake mark, making the shot Slightly easier, and Woods blasted out to 12 feet. Woods finished at 20-under 268 and earned $990,000. It was his 48th career victory, and it enhanced his reputation as the best closer in golf. Woods now is 34-3. when he has at least a share of the 54-hole lead on the PGA Tour, and he has never lost in 20 tries when leading by at least two going into the last round. Toms and Villegas each shot 67 to finish at 269, and they left in a different frame bm or click on “Contact Columnists” at our Web site. | have a few questions about U.N. Secretary- General Kofi Annan: What's his job description? How much is he paid? Who pays him? To whom does he answer? GLORIA BRONSON, Albany, Ga. Annan’s “boss” is the 191-member U.N community. And, as head of what is essentially the world’s governing body, he wears many hats. He must be “equal parts diplomat, advocate, civil servant and CEO,” says U.N spokesman Stephane Dujarric. “He is the spokesman for the interests of the world’s peoples, particularly the poor and vulnerable.” Annan, 65, gets $227,253 a year (plus a cost-of-living adjustment), paid out of the U.N. budget, which is made up of dues paid by each member country. He also gets free housing in New York and $25,000 for entertainment. Annan, an economist from Ghana, lives with wife Nane in a Sutton Place mansion. He was re-elected secretary-general in 2001 and is serving his second five-year term. . ° — lal _ . ~ as ~ nee ; : as LG ps ee TT. . : ae «Standard-Examiner Wednesday, February 1, 2006 National Coretta Scott King, widow of Martin Luther King Jr., dies at 78 BY ERRIN HAINS The Associated Press ATLANTA — Coretta Scott King, who worked to keep her husband’s dream alive with a chin-held-high grace and serenity that made her a powerful symbol of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s creed of brotherhood and nonviolence, died Tuesday. She was 78. The “first lady of the civil rights movement” died in her sleep during the night at an alternative medicine clinic in Mexico, her family said. Arrangements were being made to fly the body back to Atlanta. She had been recovering from a Serious stroke and heart attack suffered last August. Just two weeks ago, she made her first public appearance in a year on the eve of her late husband’s birthday. Doctors at the clinic said King was battling advanced ovarian cancer when she arrived there on Thursday. The doctors said the cause of death was respiratory failure. News of her death led to tributes to King across Atlanta, including a moment of silence in the Georgia Capitol and piles of flowers placed at the tomb of her slain husband. Flags at eg eee the King CenLY on ter — the institute devoted to SLIDESHOW: Photos the civil rights from the life of leader’s legacy Coretta Scott King — were lowered to half-staff. “She wore her grief with grace. She exerted her leadership with dignity,” said the Rev. Joseph Lowery, who helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with King’s husband in 1957 Former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, one of Martin Luther King’s top aides, said Coretta Scott King’s fortitude rivaled that of her husband. “She was strong if not stronger than he was,” Young said. Coretta Scott King was a supportive lieutenant to her husband during the most dangerous and tumultuous days of the civil rights movement, and after his assassination in Memphis, Tenn.,.on April 4, 1968, she carried on his work while also raising their four children. “I’m more determined than ever that my husband’s dream will become a reality,” the young widow said soon & 23.3 The Associated Press after his slaying. She pushed and goaded politicians for more than a decade to have her husband’s birthday observed as a national holiday, achieving success in 1986. In 1969 she founded the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta and used it to confront hunger, unemployment, voting rights and racism. King became a symbol in her own right of her husband’s struggle for peace and brotherhood, presiding with an almost regal bearing over seminars and conferences. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who was with her husband when he was assassinated, said Tuesday that she understood that every time her husband left home, there was the chance he might not come back. Jackson pronounced her a “freedom fighter.” In Washington, President Bush hailed her as “a remarkable and courageous woman and a great civil rights leader.” After her stroke, King missed the annual King celebration in Atlanta two weeks ago but appeared with her children at an awards dinner a few days earlier, smiling from her wheelchair but not speaking. The crowd gave her a standing ovation. Gov. Sonny Perdue ordered flags at all state buildings to be flown at halfstaff and offered to allow King’s body to lie in repose at the Georgia Capitol. There was no immediate response to the offer, the governor’s office said. King died at Santa Monica Health Institute in Rosarito Beach, Mexico, south of San Diego, said her sister, Edythe Scott Bagley of Cheyney, Pa. 3A Coretta s a young girl srgwing up d on her parents’ farm an attending clas¢S In a one- in room. school if Alabama d no idea she the 1930s, Coretta Scof ha e in would become an infjéntial voipic and — America’s civil righf leadersh d public re King, one of the nation’s Sttsadmi Scott Y VE E W figures. HO rwidow of slain c#4 Tights leader Ma of tin Luther King» became a leader t jy righ national conse/nce in her own in ion her huss assassinat after 1968. as she struggle 5g ageously continued his 2m change equal justice ay/conomic opportunity for all: ._/ death at 78, after a long ill- el Rithe lights in a movement that om ’ Jiration from the life’s work of hath and her late husband. Co ‘ d be a mistake to think of Scott King as mainly a minis- ‘ ife living in his shadow. To be sure, she was there with him from his first day as a pastor in 1953, and she was seen by his side in civil rights demon- strations and marches as well as in Oslo at the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. She was with him when the Montgomery bus boycott began and in their Ala- bama home with her daughter when a bomb was thrown on their porch in 1956. Mrs. King was also on the receiving end of despicable attempts by the F'BI to smear her husband, their marriage and the civil rights movement. Through it all, Coretta Scott King, raising a family of four children, remained a figure of strength, grace and dignity. “Those of you who believe in what Martin Luther King Jr. stood for,” Mrs. King told an audience in Memphis years ago, “I would challenge you today to see that his spirit never dies.” Coretta Scott King lived up to that challenge. — The Washington Post { f PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS/The Associated Pr ess National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice (right) watches as Presid ent Bush answers reporters’ questions after attending Easter Services Sunday at 13th COSCOM chapel at Fort Hood, Texas. Questi ons about a recently declassified briefing prior to 9-11 are still being raised in some quarters as Iraq thregtens to boil over, stirring up the debate over the U.S. policy in Iraq. Drive against insurgents taking political toll BY HAMZA HENDAWI The Associated BAGHDAD, dad to donate food, blood, medicine INSIDE: the turbulent city. Britain — Press Iraq — The US. and white campaign to uproot Sunni inyi surgents in Fallujah and Shig@@gecenees em ite militiamen in southern Iraq is carrying a heavy political cost, withsome of Washington’s closest Iraqi allies angry at the blood- Ea (Ree §@ yee! seme “AM Wee | wie gee coffin shrouds — for Some members of the U.S.- will stand behind cd , policy /2A tees bad calls by American officials in Iraq for the situation, by far the lowest point of the 1- =_ year-old occupation of Shed and surprised at what “3% Peete = Iraq. they see as U.S. mistakes. etl” Critics say the miliThe Fallujah offensive has . tary has used excessive become an anti-American rallying | force in moving to put down cry across Iraq, with mosques on this past week’s Shiite and Sunni Sunday urging the faithful in Baghuprisings and U.S. administrators have _ declares it appointed Iraqi Governing Council blameaseriesof ee (pee e27-e — current U.S. the underestimated depth of Iraqis’ Suspicion of American intentions. US. handling, they say, has played into the hands of U.S. oppo- nents in Iraq, raising the profile of radical Shiite cleric Mugtada al-Sadr as well as the insurgents at a time when the focus should have been on the scheduled June 30 transfer of power to Iraqis. “Everything points to the fail- see FALLOUT/8A standard-Examiner Fallout From 1A ure of the Americans’ security policy in Iraq,” said Mahmoud Othman, an outspoken member of the U.S.-backed Governing Council. “The Americans cannot solve the problems of Iraq because of their ignorance of the language, customs and traditions.” “It did not come as a big surprise to me that they are trying to settle problems with more than one party through military means,’ Othman, a Sunni Kurd, said Sunday. U.S. occupation authorities say they had no choice but to act decisively to eliminate what they say was a threat to future Iraqi democracy — Sunni insurgents, who killed and mutilated four American civilians in Fallujah on March 31, and al-Sadr, who has repeatedly challenged the authority of the Americans and their Iraqi allies. “What is the risk of not acting? What is the risk of turning our head and just ignoring the trouble?” said Dan Senor, spokesman for the U.S.-led co- alition. “We certainly woke up a lot of people,” boasted Ibrahim al-Janabi, a senior official of the al-Sadr movement, whose militia fought U.S. and other coalition troops in Baghdad and at least six cities across central and southern Iraq in the past week. A Newsweek poll released saturday said nearly two-thirds of Americans are concerned Iraq could become another Vietnam in which the United States fails to accomplish its goals despite many years of military involvement. It also found 40 percent are “very concerned” and an additional 24 percent are “somewhat concerned.” s, King’s family gat FYherIp / _ ’ La be Coretta Scott nth minor heart attack and a major stroke that impaired her ability to speak and affected her right side, but she is “completely aware,” a doctor said Thursday. Dr. Charles Wickliffe, a cardiologist at Piedmont Hospital, where the 78-yearold widow of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. had been hospitalized for two days, said a blood clot had moved from King’s heart and lodged in an artery in the left side of her brain. “This same clot caused a small heart attack and a big stroke,” said Wickliffe, addressing reporters along with King’s four children. “She’s completely aware,” he said. “She’s not able yet to relay her wishes.” Her daughter, Yolanda, said she was stricken about 10 a.m. Tuesday at her home in Atlanta. She said they were having aconversation when her mother suddenly stopped talking. Family members immediately took her to the hospital. “We are completely assured she will come to a complete recovery. We believe this is a cleverly disguised opportunity to grow,” she said. “We have all prayed in our own ways. There’s been a lot going; tat TS 19/05 Desperate diva takes a hit “Desperate Housewives” star Eva Longoria was injured during a taping of the hit ABC comedy and was taken to a hospital for treatment, a spokesperson for the show said. Longoria, 30, was “bumped on the head by something” while shooting on location Wednesday, the spokesperson said. She was released from the hospital and is expected to return to work on Sas J schedule. Longoria “Access Hollywood” reported that Longoria was injured when a pole fell on her. Longoria plays former runway model Gabrielle Solis on “Desperate Housewives,” a dark satire about life in suburbia. The show recently received 15 Emmy nominations from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. eer} ba Todays birthdays _ Actor Gerald McRaney is 57 Actor Adam Arkin is 49. Actor John Stamos is 42. Actress Kyra Sedgwick is 40. Actor Kevin Dillon is 40. Country singer Lee Ann Womack is 39. Actor Matthew Perry is 36. — Wire services Bill Cosby serves as a pitchm: BY ALVIN WILLIAMS O Fe to cries to racism. This is the case in regards to the epidemic that presented the context of Cosby’s remarks — the fact that 50 years after the Brown decision opened doors in public education, the dropout rate among black males in major urban areas hovers at around Knight Ridder/Tribune In addition to being recognized as an actor, comedian and philanthropist, Bill Cosby is one of America’s most recognizable pitchmen. Known as “America’s Favorite Dad” throughout the 1980s and 90s, Cosby lent his charm, credibility and humor to promote products by Mattel, Kodak and other companies. His most famous product endorsement was as the official “spokesman” for Jell-O pudding. In a recent speech at a gala marking the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Topeka Board of Education decision, Cosby used that same charm and personality to make another pitch. This time not for pudding but for personal responsibility In his remarks, Cosby, in his distinct style, spoke on several issues facing blacks. In addressing these issues, which ranged from academic underachievement to crime, Cosby linked both the prevalence of and the solution to these issues to one concept — personal responsibility. Although he stood alone on the podium that evening in Constitution Hall in Washington, he is not alone in his expressed sentiment. Throughout black America there is a great debate about the legacy of racism and its contemporary manifestations. The forum for these discussions prior to Cosby’s remarks had been pulpits, for personal responsibility 30 percent. college dorm rooms, dinner parties and barbershops in black neighborhoods. The crux of the debate is whether the contemporary effects of racism offer a fitting explanation for current circumstances faced by many blacks or serve as an outdated excuse for lack of personal responsibility. Cosby, like many blacks, feels that it is the latter, and he is cor- rect. Granted, the effects of racism are still felt in many circles today. However, the windows of opportunity for us as blacks are more open than our grandparents and their parents could have ever imagined. Blacks of all socioeconomic backgrounds have access to more educational and employment options than past generations who were subject to the wide-reaching effects of segregation. The onus now is on individuals to locate these opportunities and maximize them on a personal level, taking responsibility for their future success. As Cosby correctly noted, in many cases rather than taking this responsibility we collectively pass the buck The rise in violent crime in the inner city, the growing number of black males in the prison system and rise in teen-age pregnancies can all in some sense be traced back to this epidemic. The response to Cosby’s remarks is a microcosm of how we address many of the issues he raised — we assailed the messenger without hearing his message. Cosby was the subject of ire among commentators and columnists, many of whom had not been present at the event to hear the full scale of Cosby’s remarks. This same thing happens in society when we attempt to find racism at the root of problems or circumstances that were not influenced by any prevailing race-based policy or philosophy. Racist views or policies did not fire the bullet that killed an innocent 8-year-old girl of Washington as she sat innocently on her porch last week. A biased criminal system cannot be scapegoated for all instances of young black males being involved in criminal activity or the prevalence of guns and gun violence in the inner city. Rather than speaking out OF aoe on these issues and taking responsibility for their solutions, we still cite the effects of the mythical figure known as the “man” — a personification of racism in our society It is this lack of responsibility that Cosby correctly addressed in his remarks, which were not just an assessment of the current situation but a call to action. The proper response to this call is to take responsibility on an individual basis for our plight and the improvement of that plight. This is especially true in regards to the dropout rate among black males in the inner city. In the 2003 Black America’s Political Action Committee nation- al opinion poll, two-thirds of blacks felt that parents bore the greatest responsibility for their child’s education. Bill Cosby has been an effective product pitchman because his words in commercials have led to consumers taking action to buy products. Let’s hope that the response to his pitch for personal responsibility leads to folks taking action to make a difference in society. Alvin Williams is president and CEO of Black America’s Political Action Committee, www.bampac.org, a conservative federal PAC. Readers may write to him at: BAM- PAC, 2029 P Street NW, Suite 202, Washington D.C. 20036. DESERET MORNING NEWS, TUESDAY, MAY 18, 2004 COMMENT A1i1 Is America better off since Brown ruling? WASHINGTON - Is (school desegregation) chiefly a movement to abolish a caste system? Is it at heart actually a class struggle intensified by racism? Should tt be measured strictly im constitutional terms? By educational yardsticks? By how much tt may a _ | unite or separate the races? By its WE. importance as the dept dh ; which many other cuil rights William gains have been balanced? By Raspberry some combination of these elements? Noel Epstein, my former Washington Post colleague, wrote those words nearly 29 years ago in an article in which he tried to assess the impact of busing to achieve racial desegregation in the public schools. His point: You can’t hope to reach consensus on an answer unless you can agree on what the question is. Epstein’s admonition is worth recalling today as America takes note of the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that outlawed school segregation. How much better off are we as a society as a result of that decision? “Tt’s too simplistic to say, aS some are saying, ‘that it didn’t work,’” Theodore Shaw, the new director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, said over a recent lunch. “Tt worked to end legal school segregation, and I think you’d agree that’s a good thing. It helped launch the modern civil rights movement, and at least some of the desegregation, not just in schools but in all walks of life, is directly traceable to Brown v Board of Education.” Shaw, who was born six months after the decision came down, says the LDF is not prepared to fold its tent on the issue. Indeed, he says he plans to redouble the organization’s efforts against what he sees as a rear guard assault on even voluntary desegregation. Sheryll Cashin, nearly a decade younger than Shaw, is less sanguine about the legacy of Brown. A law professor at Georgetown, daughter of an Alabama civil rights activist and former law clerk to the late justice Thurgood Marshall, Cashin would answer in the negative to virtually every permutation of the Epstein question. Brown ended state-sanctioned Jim Crow laws, she admits, but it didn’t end what she calls “our tacit agreement to separate along lines of race and class.” As a result, blacks in 21st century America remain largely separate and unequal. “Worse, our public schools have been resegregating rapidly,” she said at a recent celebration of her excellent new book, “The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream.” “Fifty years after Brown, the beautiful, integrationist vision that animated that Supreme Court decision could not be further from the segregated reality of the American public schools.” Duke University’s Charles Clotfelter (“After Brown: The Rise and Retreat of School Desegregation”) finds a contradiction: White Americans may favor the idea of desegregation, but they are reluctant to embrace the actuality of racially mixed schools for their own children. Integration avoidance — “white flight” in the North, “seg academies” in the South — is so widespread that it no longer seems newsworthy. One result, says Clotfelter, is that the North is now more segregated than the South. So, is America better off for Brown? Of course it is. Just think of the disastrous educational, social and political implications if the decision had gone the other way. Moreover, thousands of black children from middle-class (in attitude if not in income) families benefited from the opportunity to attend better-endowed schools and to compete with their white peers. But these youngsters would mostly have done all right even in segregated schools. Desegregation was, for them, at most a marginal advantage. The mistake was to imagine that what made a marginal difference for children of the educationally committed black middle class would make the critical difference for children already failing in segregated schools. It doesn’t work that way. Fifty years after Brown, we should have learned that there is no magic in white classmates. The magic lies at the intersection of educational opportunity and attitude — the coming together of teachers who know how to teach and children who are ready to learn. No one thing — not the ballot, not changes in school governance, not desegregation — will | produce that happy confluence. We have to demand that the schools get ready for our chil- | dren. But we also have to make sure, using every | resource at our disposal, that our children are ready for school. William Raspbeny’s e-mail address is willrasp@washpost.com Washington Post Writers Group Pop quiz: Match up presidents with their accomplishments FGA The Washington Post See if you can match the< names of the presidents ng their accomplishments or ox interesting facts. Georae Washinaton rr Adoni g Thomas Jefferson James Madison James Monroe John Quincy Adams Andrew Jackson Martin Van Buren \9 _) sine fr he rover Benjamin Harrison William McKinley Theodore Roosevelt William Howard Taft Woodrow Wilson Calvin Coolidge Herbert Hoover Franklin D. Roosevelt Harry S. Truman Richard M. Nixon Millard Fillmore Franklin Pierce James Buchanan Abraham Lincoln Andrew Johnson Ulysses S. Grant Rutherford B. Hayes James Garfield Washington Dwight D. Eisenhower James K. Polk Lyndon B. Johnson Gerald R. Ford Jimmy Carter Ronald Reagan George H.W. Bush Bill Clinton George W. Bush ANSWERS ON PAGE 6E. 1. Defended the British after the Boston Massacre. 2. Our smallest president, he was 5 feet 6 inches and 100 pounds. 3. Served as a minister to Britain for his father 4. Got the nickname “Little Magician” for being such a good politician. Warren G. Harding John F Kennedy Zachary Taylor " | Clevelan William Henry Harrison John Tyler eR Hoover 5. Was Virginia governor and senator who supported slavery. 6. Was poorly educated and likely to be a farmer until his brother died and he entered the army. 7 The term “dark horse” for an unlikely winner was first used to describe him. 8. Worked as a rail-splitter, ferryboat captain, postmaster and store clerk. 9. His name got changed by accident when he entered West Point. 10. Was principal at Hiram College in Ohio. 11. Taught at a school for the blind and wrote a book about cows. sssarzasses 12. Was twice elected governor of Ohio and served in the House of Representatives for 14 years. 13. His love of baseball led to a new presidential tradition. 14. Editor and publisher of an Ohio newspaper. 15. Worked as an engineer in mines in China. 16. His family couldn’t decide if his middle name should be Shippe or Solomon, so he just got an initial 17 Only president to win a Pulitzer Prize, for the best nonfiction book in 1957 18. Son of a grocer, he got the nickname “Tricky Dick.” 19. He was a peanut farmer. 20. He ran the nation’s spy agency. 21. Owned part of the Texas Rangers baseball team. 22. He adopted his wife’s two children. 23. An early laptop user, he wrote the Declaration of Independence on a portable desk. 24. Wounded in the Battle of Trenton, George Washington commended him for “bravery under fire.” 25. In a duel, shot a man who insulted his wife. 26. Defeated Shawnee Indians at the battle of Tippecanoe. 27 The oldest kid in a family of 10, he never had any children of his own. 28. Married his teacher. 29. Russian ambassador and secretary of state for President Polk. 30. A tailor’s apprentice whose wife taught him to read and write. 31. Civil War veteran and governor of Ohio. 32. Taught penmanship in Vermont to pay for school. 33. His great-grandfather signed the Declaration of Independence; his grandfather was president. 34. Although he had asthma as a child, he became a hero as a See QUIZ/6E | Quiz From 1E “Rough Rider.” 35. Taught at Bryn Mawr and Wesleyan colleges; was president of Princeton. 36. His nonchatty nature earned him the nickname “Silent Cal.” 37 Developed polio as a grown man, making it hard for him to walk. 38. Led the invasion of Europe 60 years ago. 39 Everyone in the family had the same three initials, including a dog named Little Beagle Johnson. 40. Played football at the University of Michigan. 41. Sports announcer, ac- tor, governor. 42. Only Rhodes Scholar to become president. % oe & = é : : ss ie les = ecco. Seen Ne: $e sshBie £38 LOR poeceen a Washington-22; Adams1, Jefferson-23; Madison-2; Monroe-24, J.Q. Adams-3; Jackson-25; Van Buren-4, W.H. Harrison-26; Tyler-5; Polk-27; Taylor-6; Fillmore-28; Pierce7, Buchanan-29; Lincoln-8; A. Johnson-30; Grant-9; Hayes31, Garfield-10; Arthur-32; Cleveland-11, B. Harrison-33; McKinley-12; T. Roosevelt-34, Taft-13; Wilson-35; Harding14, Coolidge-36; Hoover-15; F Roosevelt-37; Truman-16; Eisenhower-38; Kennedy-17; L. Johnson-39; Nixon-18; Ford40; Carter-19; Reagan-41; G.H.W. Bush-20; Clinton-42; G.W. Bush-21 Sources: “Eyewitness: Presidents” by James Barber (D.K. Publishing, 2000), biography.com; The World Almanac 2004, “Facts About the Presidents” by Joseph Nathan Kane (H.W. Wilson, 2007), Washington Post archives. of National Young People's Department of Woman's Department, Auxiliary to N.B.C., U.S.A., Inc.