Show A2 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday August 18 2002 Nation Q I I Search for 9-year-- DaeEss iraSs® cry old ff©ir frustrated of blacks rallied in front of the Capitol ff I I I I t M on Saturday to demand slavery reparations saying that compensation is long overdue for the ills of that institution “It seems that America owes black people a lot for what we have endured” Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan told the crowd “We cannot settle for some little jive token We need millions of acres of land that black people can build” “We’re not begging white people” said Farrakhan one of several speakers at a rally organizers billed as “Millions for Reparations” “We are just demanding what is justly ours” While Farrakhan and Rep John did attend many Conyers names the in black civil rights major I - in w i tf vW ffinmitM ch movement were absent including the Rev Jesse Jackson and the Rev A1 Sharpton “The people on the ground are the ones we want to give exposure to” said one speaker Hannibal Afrik 68 of Put Gibson Miss “If it’s grounded in the people it will be victorious” Conyers who has proposed a commission to study the institution of slavery for the past 13 years urged the crowd to pressure Congress “Only the Congress can do what we want done” Conyers said Lawmakers are now on their summer break until September The reparations movement has gained momentum in the past year Earlier this year a group of slave descendants sued three companies claiming the companies — or their corporate predecessors — unjustly profited from slavery co-wor- i- -- am 50-mil- i WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds BASSETT Va (AP) — Volunteers combing the area's rolling hills for signs of a girl whose missing shot to ' found were parents death have turned up no new evidence and planned to end their search Saturday officials said TWo days of scouring the rural area near the family's vehihome on foot cles and in cars found no traces of Jennifer Short said Richard Cox head of the Old Dominion Search and Rescue team “Frankly we need to keep looking" a weary Cox said Saturday morning as he strained to hold back tears “But realistically and logical- ly putting all the evidence together over the past couple days we don't have a direction to look in” Police believe Jennifer Short was abducted early Thursday morning when her parents Michael and Mary Short were each shot once in the head Police were notified after a of Michael Short 50 found his body in an enclosed carport around 9 Henry County Sheriff's deputies later found the body of Mary Short 36 in the bed-room No weapon was found and there was no sign of their daughter authorities quickly ruled out the possibility that Jennifer shot her parents and ran away There were signs that the girl had beat in her bed the night of the shootings but there was no evidence to suggest she was harmed sheriff's Capt Kimmy Nester said Police initially thought Jennifer hid in the hills behind the home during the shootings but when she didn’t turn up " authorities issued an Amber Alert transmitting information about the missing child to law enforcement agencies and media across the country A team of trained volunteers and about ISO area residents searched the area around the dock since the alert was issued State police were continuing their search of a 20- - to e radius around the Shorts’ home Saturday assisted by sheriffs deputies from several counties and at least four FBI agents reparatiDCiras ' 11 AP photo Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan speaks to demonstrators for reparations for slavery on the National Mai in Washington on Saturday It seems that America owes black people a lot for what wS have endured he told demonstrators at the rally TheReparations Coordinating Committee which includes many promi- - AP photo A rally participant with a painted face calls for reparations for slavery on the National Mall in Washington Saturday nent attorneys and scholars is working on a separate lawsuit against the federal government Those at the rally said it was time for action “They owe us I want justice’’ said who drove Antoinette Harrell-Mill19 hours from New Orleans with her husband Dennis to attend “They built this country off the free labor of our er ancestors” Jaki Mungai of Philadelphia called the rally “a dream that’s starting to ' come true” “Every other group has been compensated for the wrongs done against them Africans in America — we are the only ones who haven’t” said Mungai who heard about the rally on the radio and decided to join in Southern beetle epidemic worst in memory ALBANY Ga(AP) — landowners to dump diseased cut about 1000 acres in three “The outbreak that started Dean Wilson has two decades trees on an already glutted in 2000 on a regional basis is years “In some cases we’re not of experience as a forest manpulpwood market Besides probably the worst we’ve ever - 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