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day.
“It’s been hell,” he said, referring to
the barrage of interview requests from
reporters. He would not comment fur
ther.
At the midtown Manhattan rally, peo
ple marched along Fifth Avenue, chant
ing “killer cops have got to go,” and “it’s
a wallet, not a gun,” a reference to the
four officers’ assertions that they thought
the wallet in Diallo’s hand was a gun.
Some members of the mostly young,
multiracial crowd taunted police who
tried to keep them on sidewalks. They
marched south from 59th Street to City
Hall, where the crowd was met by a laige
contingent of police officers. Eventual
ly, protesters were dispersed without
much incident.
“I’m just outraged... this is just the
most blatant shooting of an unarmed black
person, but it’s not the only one,” said
marcher Bruce Kayton, 40. “If the races
were reversed, they would probably have
been calling for the death penalty.”
Many at the Harlem rally — where
speakers included Democratic U.S. Reps
Charles Rangel and Jose Serrano, Sharp
ton and New York Civil Liberties Union
executive director Norman Siegel —
echoed Diallo’s mother’s assertion that
her son was a victim of racial profiling.
Sharpton promised to press on with '
legal action in the case,'calling for fed
eral criminal civil rights charges against
the officers and saying he hoped Diallo’s
death would help improve the way po
lice forces deal with black and Hispanic
people.
“We’re going to use this Amadou Di
allo case to stop this in these United States
once and for all,” he said. “Just like we
needed the federal government to come
into Alabama and Mississippi 30 years
ago, we need the federal government to
come into New York to deal with the po
lice today.”
Sharpton compared the case to the
1991 videotaped beating of black Los
Angeles motorist Rodney King, where
federal prosecutors won convictions of
two officers. If federal charges were ap
propriate in that case, where no shots
were fired, they were even more neces
sary in Diallo’s death, he said.
“This was Rodney King multiplied
by lead,” he shouted.
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by William C. Mann
Associated Press
Washington — Madeleine Albright,
America’s Czech-bom secretary of state,
will return next week to her homeland,
where there is talk she might seek the
presidency of the East European nation
after her tour in Washington ends.
Some Czechs are speaking of her as
a possible successor to President Vaclav
Havel, who must retire in 2002. Havel,
a playwright-turned-politician, helped
lead the “Velvet Revolution” that in 1989
persuaded communist rulers to resign.
He has openly talked about the pos
sibility of Albright succeeding him.
Michael Zantovsky, former Czech
ambassador to Washington, said Sunday
in Prague that he met last week with Hav
el and discussed, among other things, the
possibility that Albright will run to suc
ceed Havel.
“I never made it a secret that I
think that Madeleine Albright could, one
day in the future, play a big role in Czech
politics,” Zantovsky said.
He stressed that the idea is not new
and that it would not dominate Albright’s
agenda in the Czech Republic next week.
In Prague, Havel’s chief policy ad
viser, Pavel Fischer, told Tune magazine:
“It is not impossible that they will talk
about this.”
The secretary of state has not pub
licly discussed her plans. In its new issue,
Time quoted unidentified sources as say
ing she “has begun to consider the pos
sibility of running.”
Albright’s spokesman, James P. Ru
bin, would not discuss the matter Sunday.
“The secretary is completely happy serv
ing the United States,” he said.
Albright’s March 5-8 visit coincides
with the commemoration of the 150th
anniversary of the birth of national hero
Tomas Masaryk, who served as the first
president of the Czechoslovak Republic
after the collapse of Austria-Hungary in
1918.
Albright’s visit will have some trap
pings of a political barnstorming tour. She
will receive a gold medal from Masaryk
University in Brno and will go to
Masaryk’s birthplace at Hodonin. She will
lay a wreath at his tomb in Lany, west
of Prague, and go to the capital to unveil
a Masaryk statue.
Albright’s maiden name is Marie Ko
rbelova. Her father was a Czech diplo
mat who took his family to London as
Germany took over their homeland at
the start of World War EL The family then
moved to Denver in 1948 rather than
serve under a communist Czechoslova
kian government.
In an unscientific poll, published by
Lidove Noviny, the leading daily news
paper in Prague, Albright was listed among
the greatest living Czechs. Havel was first.
The poll, taken in March 1999, preced
ed NATO’s war in Kosovo, which was
widely unpopular among Czechs.
Havel first brought up the presiden
cy idea in 1998. After returning to Prague
front an official visit to the United States,
he expressed regret that he hadn’t asked
whether she would be available to suc
ceed him. “It occurred to me on the plane
on my way back home,” Havel said, “so
I did not have the chance to ask her.”
Russians close in on
last rebel stronghold
by Yuri Bagrov
Associated Press
Chiri-Yurt, Russia—Russian forces
have encircled the last major strong
hold held by Chechnya’s rebels but
face intense and bloody fighting to over
come their heavy defenses, Russian offi
cials said Sunday.
About 2,700 rebels are concentrat
ed around the village of Shatoi, deep in
the southern mountains, the last section
of Chechnya where rebels have a
strong presence.
Russian forces are aiming to wipe out
the rebels before spring, when rebels can
move more easily than they can in the
snow and when new-leafed foliage gives
them better cover.
“There will be no easy road for fed
eral. Fierce battles are in store,” a Russ
ian commander, Lt. Gen. Vladimir Bul
gakov, was quoted as saying by the news
agency ITAR-Tass.
The remaining rebels are “diehards
who have no way out” and their desper
ation is expected to drive them to fight
intensely.
Russian warplanes and helicopter gun
ships have pounded the rebels in the
mountains heavily for weeks, likely in
flicting substantial damage. But as Russ
ian troops close in, they will not be
able to count on air attacks to soften up
the strongholds, another top commander
said.
Eventually, “we will not be able to
use aviation for fear of damaging our own
units,” said Lt. Gen. Gennady Troshev,
according to ITAR-Tass.
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Cuban diplomat expelled
by George Gedda
Associated Press
Washington — A Cuban diplomat
who ignored a State Department de
mand that he leave the country on his
own was taken into custody by U.S. au
thorities Saturday evening and flown
out of the country on a government
plane.
Jose Imperatori, 46, accompanied
by his lawyer, was escorted away in a
late model Buick by FBI officials
who turned up shortly after 8:30 p.m.
at his suburban Maryland apartment.
He was not handcuffed and looked
impassive as he entered the vehicle. He
made no statement.
U.S. officials said he was driven to
Reagan National Airport in suburban
Vnginia and flown aboard a U.S. gov
ernment plane to Montreal. From Cana
da, he was to catch a Sunday morning
flight to Havana, the officials said
“He has been expelled from the
United States for not voluntarily de
parting by the appointed time,” the
State Department said
Late Saturday morning, Imperatori
announced his plan to defy the State
Department expulsion order so he could
contest allegations linking him with a
U.S. immigration official charged with
spying for Cuba.
“I declare myself in a hunger strike
until I have been absolutely cleared
of the accusations brought against me,”
Imperatori said He spoke less than three
hours before the State Department’s
deadline for him to depart the country.
This past week. State Department
spokesman dimes P. Rubin had warned
that Imperatori could be subject to ar
rest once his diplomatic immunity had
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