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Show 0 The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, February 26, 1978 1 mm: r Blacks to Revive Old Ways John Edlin Associated Press Writer By SALISBURY, Rhodesia Looking to the day when they will run the country, black Rhodesians are culling their past for African dress and language to supplant the neckties the English brought more than 100 years ago by white colonizers. If some black nationalists have their way, ties, skirts and jackets, will become blouses . passe and English will become a second language. "Colonization wasn't just a political process," one black nationalist said here. "It also made us ashamed of our traditions, the way we speak, the way we dress. We want to change all that and revert to the past. Just as Arthur Haleys yv ' V Associated Press Laserphoto f, t Editor's Note: A lot of digging it going on in Hambach Forest where archaaolog-ist- s are trying to stay ahead of strip-minerResearchers looking tor are missing links in history before miners, in search ot brown coal, cover them forever. By Roon Lewald Associated Press Writer P HAMBACH, West Germany Theres a race going on near this town, a race between ar-- . 5 Rhineland who have unearthed 'chaeologists 'thousands of cultural treasures from mines and miners who find coal .foal : more valuable than relics. 'r. i The diggers, who have been working In the area for two decades, have thousands of relics that ; Unearthed provide invaluable information about life in the Rhineland as far back as 4500 , B.C. Now the archaeologists J face their biggest challenge as the miners prepare to rip into the Hambach Forest, a area between Cologne and Aachen. 2.4 Billion Tons Starting in September, giant ex,icavators will claw away the topsoil to reach an estimated 2.4 billion tons of brown coal. The dark brown fossil fuel of West Germanys , provides one-thir- d electricity needs. "On the whole, strip mining is a gain dor archaeology, says Manfred Rech, .who heads an archaeology team from the Rhineland Museum in Bonn. A .Cologne University team also is digging Min this area. - ' stirred Roots in American blacks a desire to seek out their links with Africa, the immi- - German Coal Mining a Boon to Archaeology r .. planning on expanding their operation over area. West Germany, trying to work of the strip miners who are Archaeologists carefully uncover a Roman site at Bedburg-Harf- In Hambach Forest, he says, diggers will get a comprehensive, simultaneous look at all the cultures that existed Nearby were two large Roman villas equipped with luxuries like heated floors and baths. there. The Hambach Forest contains traces 5 Main Sites of perhaps the oldest fortifications in Rechs five main digging sites are Europe, dating back to the tucked away in woods only a few miles "band ceramic culture. south of the Ruhr River, a World War II Burial Pottery defense line where invading Allies pounded at crumbling German opposiThe people, named after band marktion in 1945. ings on their burial pottery, were the One of the team's best finds was first to introduce systematic farming as made on the overgrown site of a they move from Turkey throughout wartime German air base. It was the Europe during the period from 4500 to furnaces of a sophisticated Roman 4000 B.C. plant and graves of the men who worked there, with Band ceramic settlements have been found all over Europe, but in the examples of their craft. Hambach Forest the characteristic Only two other Roman houses were surrounded by deep, plants have been found, both in nearby long Roman a A period was discovered in Italy. from later third Cologne. plant Nearby deposits of fine quartz sand are still used by modern German and Rech says he strongg ly suspects more Roman plants will be found in the area. glass-blowin- g glass-makin- g glass-blower- Motorcycle Qub Raided by Police s, glass-makin- Police arrested MONTREAL (AP) 45 persons, mostly Americans, and seized drugs and arms at two headquarters of the Outlaws motorcycle club. Among the items confiscated Friday were hashish, LSD, speed, five pistols, five shotguns, four rifles and nine knives, police said. Names were not given. Roman Glasware That might help answer one question puzzling German archaeologists: The origin of Roman Glassware found in graves of Germanic tribesman as far away as Scandinavia and Russia, which were beyond the frontiers of the ancient Roman empire. At other sites, archaeologists uncovered remains of the Roman Road that once led from Cologne to Belgium. ditches ring-shape- d with fences. palisade The fortifications may have been part of the first systematic phase of warfare in European history, says Rech. "Could population r in the final culture have led them to each other? We are still land-hunge- out." "Weve 5 Rhodesians Look to Past explosions or phase of tills make war on trying to find only started digging here, Rech says. "Who knows what well find? TV Nudity Causes Coronary Attack Agence France-Press- e The founder of the Irish DUBLIN League of Decency was in hospital here Saturday after suffering a heart attack at the sight of a naked woman on television. a woman Shocked by the seer.e undressing for a life drawing class Joseph Murray decided to fire off a letter of indignation to the T.V. station, but collapsed with a heart attack before finishing it. nent prospect of black government in Rhodesia has awakened in local Africans sudden new pride in their past. Urges Awareness "We want to bring cultural and social awareness among Zimbab- Chris said weans, Mbanga, an adviser of black nationalist leader Bishop Muzorewa. Zimbabwe is the black African name for Rhodesia. The perplexing prob-le- facing the traditionalists is how far to go back through history and what to salvage from it Most urbanized, and many rural, blacks speak English and favor Western dress. To wear the white man's clothes and converse in his language carries certain prestige." says a black jour- nalist. After all, I dont think all Dutch people wear clogs and all red Indians dont go to work speaking Cherokee or Sioux or whatever." Standard Language English has become a standard language in Rhodesia over the decades, bridging a gap between ethnically diverse tribes with two Shona main languages and Ndebele and a host of dialects. Most blacks today talk to people from different tribes in English. Bishop Muzorewas African National Council, one of three black nationalist movements, has ordered an investigation to create a popular national dress for when independence comes. A national dress . . . may bear little or no resemblance to a peoples traditional dress, said Tsanga Shanga, columnist for the country s only daily newspaper for blacks, The Zimbabwe Times. A national dress is a a political statement byproduct nationalism. In of many former French colonies black leaders tend towards formal Western dress. In West African countries, such as Nigeria and Cameroon, the Boubou a loose flowing robe, sometimes brightly colis popular. In ored socialist Tanzania, President Julius K. Nyerere sets the fashion by wearsuits. ing Mao-lik- e What appeals to many Rhodesian blacks is national dress of multicolored cloth, common throughout the rest of independent Africa open necked dashiki s shirts for the men, and bandanas for the women. bou-bou- The Rohodesian blacks sudden interest in national dress is reminiscent of efforts at cultural revival elsewhere on the continent. Both Zambia and Tanzania, after their independence in the early 1960s, unleashed hordes of youths through the streets of cities and tow ns to crusade against Western garb. Western Dress They confiscated womens wigs and beat up youths wearing tight trousers. Some womens miniskirts were ripped off in public. Others got their hemlines lowered with razors. No such taboos seem to exist in black Africa about language. English, French, Portuguese and Spanish still are spoken as official or second languages in former How Regions Solons Voted on Key Issues Continued From Page 4 Not voting: Hansen. Authorized, 267 to 125, U.S. participation in the supplementary financing facility for the International Monetary Fund, so loans can be made to developing nations to offset balance of payments deficits brought on by increased world oil prices over the past four years. For: McKay, Santii. Against U.S. participation, which opponents said would mean overextending American responsibilities abroad: Symms and Hansen. Not voting: Marriott and Roncalio. moratorium Voted, 257 to 47, to place a one-yeon increases in public lands grazing fees, to allow time for Congress to analyze administration-supporte- d increases which would double grazing fees by 1981, to the detriment of Western cattlemen and sheep raisers. 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