2 Mountain West Minority Reporter & Sentinel, August 24, 1990 tah News Police probe Federal mediators begin work morning shootings among Navajos, whites The Salt Lake City Police Department’s ‘special gang unit is in- vestigating a string of Monticello, Utah (AP) — Federal mediators have been visiting Navajo drive-by shootings early Wednesday morning. when the suspects fired four shots from a small-caliber handgun into a home at 563 E. Wood Ave. (1580 By Richard Drew, South). One of,the shots came close to hitting a man standing on the lawn in front of the house, said police P spokesman Lt. Marty Vuyk. RIDE: Adnan Khashoggi rides a subway with son The same suspects fired two more shots into a home at 230 Garfield Ave. Hussein and daughter Nabila after he was cleared of charges. Acquitted Khashoggi plans to file suit extradition in Switzerland. Monday, he rocketed back into the jet set, interrupting a phone conversation to take a congratulatory call by Lee Michael Katz Adnan Khashoggi, once reputed to be the world’s richest man, celebrated his fraud acquittal Monday by having dinner with co-defendant Imelda Marcos and preparing to sue the United States for $7 million he spent financing the Iran-Contra affair. “Tm still out of that money,”’ from the Saudi Arabian king. Other well-wishers included Jordan’s King Hussein, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, singer Frank Sinatra, and actress Elizabeth Taylor. “It’s a nice feeling that the world Khashoggi said. ‘‘I hope now we’ll direct our attention to collecting it.”’ Khashoggi, 54, also wants to make a pilgrimage to Mecca, but he still faces Marcos-related racketeering and fraud charges in the USA. Khashoggi was arrested in Switzerland in April 1989 and extradited last July. After posting $10 is again yours,’’ he says. Although he often rode the subway to his trial, court records show Khashoggi with a $54 million fortune and homes in New million bail he had to wear an elecaS Saudi Utah’s director of Hispanic affairs has resigned to accept a position with informed of his whereabouts. At his low point, the man who once _. the National Coalition of Hispanic. | had his own DC-8 jet and owned A third shooting occurred about 5 a.m. when the suspects fired a shotgun into a residence at 156 East 1700 South. Thursday. ‘““We’re in the agreement stage at ee “The gang unit has been doing in- oR Continued from page | terviews all day,’’ the lieutenant said. ‘We feel fairly confident we’ve idenWhile pointing out that the protified the people responsible.”’ gram had its difficulties when it began, Dr. James said the number of The suspects and the victims represtudents that the program has served sent rival gangs, he said. ‘‘The one guy standing in the yard may have been an intended target,”’ Lt. Vuyk said. ““But the woman in the house, we don’t know about.’’ Police are also trying to find a A statement from Utah’s Hispanic Affairs Office released said that Maria Ortiz will resign.effective.Sept..7 to 12. | _ Health and Human Services Organiza- : become a division: director with the homes: cleaned” toilets: while awaiting ~~ has risen over the past five years and now involves more than 20,000 in 57 locations. tion, state Officials: said. 7 coalition. ficulties, and the major one accompanied to the first meeting by a parent or an adult. *‘ After the schools send us a list of the names of the children, we ask that primitive COONS “Th addition, many A. avaios| ete of the oil royalties derived from the rich oil and natural gas fields of the Aneth area of the reservation. Maryboy has spent much of his first term tracking the royalty payments, the commission’s sole Democrat, also is working together in various ways to help the students improve their self images. ‘We get to the teachers and stress positive reinforcement to the students,’’ 99 she is seeking re-election. Rick Bailey, the commissioners’ admunistrative assistant, said many county officials believe that some of the tensions derive from confusion about said. who is supposed to provide services. _ Because of the reservation, the county, state, tribe, and federal At the start, the program focused where afraid on high school students, but Dr. James says that she and her staff and volunteers are now working with students in the lower grades. 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LENDER agencies are required to provide which services,’ Bailey said. ‘*A lot of times the Navajo Indians don’t know where to go for services.”’ Once Hansen and fellow mediator Art Montoya evaluate their preliminary information, they will at the high school level will be greatly enhanced.”’ While the **Back to School/Stay in School’ program has proven its suc- some 30 years experience in the school system. A charter member of EQUAL HOUSING Member FDIC/Equal Opportunity Lender in which many each child be accompanied to the first they have not received their full share students throughout the school day — bank, 175 So, West Temple administrators, are resistant.”’ As he has in the past, Maryboy cited a lack of road projects on the Utah portion of the Navajo Indian Reservation, inadequate health care and educational opportunities, and the but he has taken no formal action. Another of the important facets of This year, he has spearheaded a the program — and perhaps the most Navajo voter registration drive and a important one since teachers and campaign to elect Indian Democrats other school officials are with the to five other county offices. Maryboy, could ask f 711 So, State Street 23509 So. Redwood Rd. of resources,’’ he said. ‘‘But we run into problems where non-Indians, the Dr. meeting by a parent or an adult. ‘One of the things that I find that helps it (the program and the student’s participation) is some adult in a supportive role with a youngster,”’ Dr. James declared. Everything Salt Lake City ‘I’ve been pressured by my constituents to provide equal distribution With all such programs come dif- Utah Hispanic affairs director resigns and racism is there, that organization ha a problem, simply because there’s clearly a conflict between them and the people they’re dealing wi Hansen said. Commissioner Mark Maryboy, a Navajo and the county’s sole Indian elected official, said most problems stem from lingering misunderstandings between whites who hold most elective offices and administrative positions, and Navajos who make up more than half the county’s 13,000 residents. to get a joint problem-solving process, as opposed to an accusation-defense situation,’’ mediator Silke Hansen said eliminate it, Dr. James and her staff made it a requirement that in order to participate each student had to be Spain, } Arabia. tronic ankle bracelet to keep officials ‘Tt sounds simplistic, but one of the motive for the shootings. France, we’re doing the same thing among the Navajo people, individually and with groups — seeing where the issues are, where the areas of conflict are.’’ Because of federal requirements of confidentiality, Hansen could not divulge details about the meetings and specific complaints. But she said the allegations of racial discrimination, real or imagined, would have to be settled. ‘“*As long as the perception of most valuable services we provide is getting the key people together to talk, James faced in the beginning was getting adults and parents involved. To York, in county and local government, agencies, and institutions,’’ she said. ‘‘And issues. (101 East) about 2:30 a.m. One of the shots went through a window narrowly missing a woman, he added. Vii . to commissioners, other leaders, both offices this week in the first phase of an effort to ease simmering racial and economic tensions in San Juan County. The mediators from the U.S. Justice Department’s Community Relations Service in Denver were summoned by local officials and Navajo activists who hope to identify and resolve longstanding disputes over services, employment, health care, and other The shootings began at 1:50 a.m. FREEDOM this point. We’ve been trying to talk tribal chapter houses and government she received a law degree from Hostfra University and was appointed to the Board of Trustees of Nassau Community College in May 1987. retumn to San Juan to meet with representatives of both sides. Operation PUSH pushes Nike boycott . Chicago — Operation PUSH leaders Saturday turned up the heat in their battle with Nike Inc. by calling for a national black boycott of the athletic shoemaker. “Don’t buy Nike. Don’t wear Nike,’’ exclaimed Rev. Tyrone Cride, executive director of the Chicagobased civil rights organization founded by Rev. Jesse Jackson. He said blacks spend millions of dollars each year on Nike products, but, accviding to Crider, the firm deposits no money in black banks, has no blacks on its board of directors, no black corporate vice presents, and does not use any black advertising agencies. oe