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Nation & World Flag from page 4 Georgians surveyed oppose changing the flag, compared with 31 percent who sup port removing the Confederate emblem. The remaining 13 percent had no opin ion. “It’s going to continue to be a sub ject matter for debate and consideration. But I don’t believe the sentiment is out there to change the flag,” said House Ma jority Leader Larry Whlker, D-Perry. “I’m confident there’s not support to pass changing it right now.” Michael Binford, a political scientist at Georgia State, agreed that it’s unlike ly for lawmakers to change the flag if that means going against the grain of public opinion. “It might be the right thing to do. But if there’s not a lot of public support be hind you, it’s the sort of thing politicians would like to avoid,” Binford said. But he said Georgia could be forced to confront the flag issue if it becomes the target of a tourism boycott like the one that’s cost South Carolina an esti mated $10 million since January. The National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People, which ini tiated the South Carolina boycott, has n’t announced any similar plans for Georgia. Calls to both the national and Atlanta offices of the NAACP were not' returned. Some lawmakers, like Charles Whlk er and Rep. Tyrone Brooks, D-Atlanta, see boycotting Georgia as a natural next step if South Carolina resolves its debate over the flag, which continues to tie up the state’s Legislature. But Howard of the Atlanta conven tion bureau said a boycott is less likely here because it would mostly hurt At lanta, where many blacks have thrived in business and politics. Atlanta began years ago to distance itself from the state flag. City Hall has n’t flown the Georgia flag since 1993, when it was removed to support Miller. The convention bureau and several of the city’s major hotels also no longer fly the flag. Though black Democrats have almost exclusively taken up the vocal opposi ion to the flag since Miller tried and 'ailed, three white Republicans added heir names to the dissenters this year. Sens. Mike Egan, R-Atlanta, and Clay ^and, R-Columbus, have one thing in :ommon - neither is seeking re-election. *ep. Kathy Ashe, R-Atlanta, is running. >he introduced a bill to change the flag ate in the session, when it was too late o have a chance of passing. ‘I'm confident there's not support to pass changing it [Georgia’s flag] right now.' Larry Walker Georgia House Majority Leader Parents belonging to cult led children to their deaths by Craig Nelson Associated Press Bunyarigi, Uganda—After her young grandchildren’s abrupt departure, after the gas-fueled flames and the charred re mains, 74-year-old Margaret Kibetenga wonders if there’s something she could have done. On Dec. 28, her daughter-in-law came to her mud-walled home to fetch two children she had left in Kibetenga’s care. Saying she needed to take them to visit a sick relative, Jane Ayebare began pack ing her youngsters’ belongings. When Ayebare muttered something about the end of the world being near, Kibetanga thought little of it. Ayebare had joined a strange religious group, but as far as Kibetenga was concerned, she was still Catholic. Of course, the world didn’t end Dec. 31, as the sect had predicted. But for Ayebare and her four children, life end ed 10 weeks later in the flames of a sealed chapel belonging to Uganda’s dooms day cult. They were not alone. Terrified, trust ing or willingly marching off to glory, children of the cult streamed out of hill villages by the hundreds to die trapped in the flames of the sealed church or by ropes and knives in the hands of grown ups. Children made up a large part of the bodies recovered from mass graves in southwestern Uganda since the March 17 inferno at the chapel at Kanungu alert ed the world, and some Ugandans, to the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God. Authorities now are pursuing the sect’s leaders, who they believe masterminded the murders of at least 924 people. “I never took it seriously,” Kibeten ga now says, her eyes dropping to the ground. For the movement, childhood was an occasion of sin. “These days... the ma jority of the youths go to hell; only very few go to heaven in a day, ” its hand book states. The sect’s leaders went to brutal lengths to ensure children wouldn’t fall into what they believed were the clutches of Satan. In the early 1990s, Credonia Mretvinde, one of the movement’s founders, forced 60 children to live in a 15-by-40-foot backyard shed in the vil lage of Kabumba, according to Juvenal Rugambwa, son of sect leader Joseph Kib wetere. He said the shed’s windows were nailed shut and the children forced to sleep on the dirt floor, where many con tracted scabies, a contagious skin disease. Children and their parents were placed in separate living quarters when they joined the sect, Rugambwa and former sect members said. Parents also were forced to withdraw their,children from school. Rev. Paolino Tomaino, who became acquainted with the sect when he worked in Kabumba from 1976 to 1989, says it was inevitable that the children would follow their parents, even to their deaths. “You would expect a Uganda child to follow his parent,” Tomaino said “They were with their parents. I’m sure they couldn’t leave.” John Katebalirwe sold his mud hut for $30, then forced his wife, 27-year old married daughter and her seven younger brothers and sisters away to at-, tend a gathering at sect headquarters in Kanungu. 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