ME THE PLAIN DEALER SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1998 ASSOCIATED PRESS Qudusam Sile, a former Eritrean guerrilla, has opened a T-shirt shop with 11 other ex-independence fighters in peacetime Eritrea. Eritrea is model for recycling former soldiers By ROBIN WRIGHT LOS ANGELES TIMES SUDAN Red Sea ASMARA, Eritrea Qudusam ERITREA was 15 when she fired an AK- YEMEN assault rifle for the first time. much older when she killed Asmara The tiny, ponytailed Eritrean was not Gulf of Aden the first of a dozen Ethiopian of independence, Sile in turn SOMALIA During Africa's longest DJIBOUTI bullets in the back, leg and "I was willing to do anything, to ETHIOPIA and even to die, to free she said with neither brav- Miles nor guilt. 250 Yet when the three-decade conflict against Africa's largest army rended in 1991, Sile was among thousands of guerrillas who had a but no future. "I should have been celebratding, but peace scared me more war," she said.
"My skills all about fighting." The war-ravaged economy in newest state, where the per capita annual income was offered few alternatives. Then 'an innovative scheme Sile help herself. By creating employment opStions for disabled troops, female vets, unskilled men and youths with little education, the project has in turn fostered the birth of a nation. Now 31 and a mother of two, sells homemade "I Love EriStrea" T-shirts and colorful baby with animal motifs at a she and 11 other female opened in 1994. Each home about $430 a year, the remaining revenue going back into the business.
As the program converts into workers, it also addresses a major global challenge of the With the end of the Cold War and several little hot oversized, big-budget armpies are being downsized or demobilized. And governments from to Moscow are to figure out what to do with the soldiers. Little Eritrea, about the size of Pennsylvania and with 3.6 million has proved to be a model especially compared with highly publicized efforts in Cambodia and Angola, where the United Nations spent millions to peace and sent thousands troops to keep it. Both efforts imploded. With the biggest troop cutback in history under way, the is global.
Over the past decade, military manpower worldwide has been slashed about 25 percent from a Cold War high of 30 million to 22 milOlion, Pentagon officials say. Since 1994, the U.S. Agency for Development has re-integrate combatants in Eritrea, Guatemala, Haiti, Liberia, Sierra Leone and the Philippines. The U.N. Development Program trains former fighters in projects worldwide.
And the World Bank has -conflict" projects in 11 African countries, with 10 others under consideration. Eritrea's success is all the more striking because the new government fended for itself for the most part and succeeded. "The Eritreans bring a lot of positive things to the nationbuilding experience, including a strong sense of self-reliance, said Gregory Craig, a senior U.S. State Department official. What's more, the Eritrean People's Liberation Front, which ultimately produced the government of President Issaias Afwerki, provided food, health care, uniforms and even cigarettes but no pay.
Necessity then spurred an imaginative alternative that, in turn, spawned dozens of new enterprises and thousands of jobs. The government continued the basic support of the war years. Combatants and their families including Cabinet ministers moved into former Ethiopian army barracks. The only new perk was $7 to $14 a month per combatant for expenses. But the state-owned Commercial Bank allowed former combatants to use the promise of payment instead of assets as collateral for loans.
With U.N. and other foreign help, the government offered training in everything from wood-" working to bookkeeping, construction to catering. A Belgian group taught Sile and her partners how to print on T- shirts. Fighters-turned-farmers were granted acres of land plus seeds, blankets and food rations until the first harvest, as well as access to tractors and land-clearing services. Other Eritreans struck out on their own to find jobs or financing.
The result has been an array of businesses, products and services needed by a new state. MONDAY IN THE PLAIN DEALER Of one mind Inside holistic health centers you are likely to see people teaching and learning the same things: yoga, massage, meditation and old healing practices. Health Fitness Conservative choices A 47-year-old man who inherited $64,000 is told he needs to choose safe investments because he doesn't have a cushion of security, in a Money Makeover. Personal Finance For home delivery, call 999-6000. Wednesday, We Give Your Tastebuds A Little Inspiration.
People Charlie Sheen Charlie Sheen stable after drug overdose Charlie Sheen was in stable condition Thursday at a hospital where he was taken following a drug overdose at home. A hospital spokeswoman said the "Major League" star is eating, talking and aware, but she did not know what kind of drugs the actor had taken. Sheen arrived at the hospital from his Malibu home about 5:30 a.m. Wednesday with paramedics and accompanied by his personal trainer. Macaulay Culkin Culkin's teen fiancee denies pregnancy rumor Macaulay Culkin and girlfriend Rachel Miner, both 17, are getting married, but not because she's pregnant.
New York Post columnist Cindy Adams reported that Miner looks heavier, and suggested she might be expecting. Miner's family issued a statement yesterday calling the suggestion "unfair." Graduate reaps benefit of Rivera's tell-all book Geraldo Rivera was panned for his autobiography, but it has made an important contribution to one woman's life. Brenda Natal received paid tuition to Long Island University in Brooklyn thanks to Rivera's Miravilla Foundation, which was funded with the $350,000 advance he got for "Exposing Myself." The book detailed his drug use and sexual conquests. Rivera was in the audience Thursday as Natal got her degree in nursing. The Plain Dealer Summary 41.
P-11 3. -744 INTERNATIONAL PROTESTERS SENT HOME Thousands of soldiers from Indonesia's powerful army abruptly ended a five-day student takeover of Parliament after dark yesterday, rounding up many of those whose protests helped bring down President Suharto.3. HISTORIC VOTE Hundreds of thousands of voters in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland went to the polls yesterday in a historic vote on the future. For Northern Ireland, the deal promises a restoration of local rule and a new Protestant-Catholic powersharing formula.4-A NATIONAL CONGRESS OK'S ROADS BILL Congress approved a $203 billion transportation bill yesterday that will provide Ohio with nearly $897 million a year for six years. Ohio's share marks a 40 percent increase over current spending on the state's many transportation needs.
1-A SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA Ignoring a veto threat, the Senate voted overwhelmingly yesterday to impose sanctions on Russia for exporting missile technology to Iran. Sponsors said they got tired of waiting for President Clinton to act. 5-A SECRET SERVICE TO TESTIFY A federal judge ruled yesterday that Secret Service agents may be compelled to testify about President Clinton's relationship with a former White House intern. 12-A system. 1-B WILD SKIES SHOW The Wild Skies show opening today at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo uses mostly birds STATE MENTALLY COMPETENT A federal appeals court says Wilford Lee Berry, convicted in the 1989 slaying of Cleveland baker Charles Mitroff is mentally competent to waive his appeals and seek death by lethal injection.
1-A SAVED BY SEAT BELTS Two Mentor High School students don't have to be convinced by the state's latest push to encourage motorists to use seat belts. Kristen Chappel and Jill Luteran have been believers since they survived an accident last year. 1-A FIBER OPTIC SYSTEM The Brunswick City Council is taking a step forward in creating a municipally owned fiberoptic system that could carry cable and utility services to area homes. Brunswick and eight other communities have formed the Ohio Telecommunications Network Council to study operating such a OHIO LOTTERY Last night's drawing BUCKEYE 5: Friday, May 22 PICK 3 3 3 7 PICK 4 6 9 6 5 3 6 17 22 31 SUPER LOTTO: Wednesday, May 20 The jackpot is Saturday, $4 May million. 23, 5 10 12 19 23 47 Dollar Monthly Giveaway Million information, see a lottery retailer JACKPOT: $4 million KICKER: 631269 or call (216) 787-4100 or 1-800-589-6446 Thu.
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1-B RULING ON REFUGEES It looks like the two men who stowed away on a cargo ship from South Africa and sought asylum here will be going back. A U.S. Immigration Court judge has denied their entry into the United States.3-B I erred when employees at its privately run prison in Youngstown turned away an inspection by a couple of state legislators. An editorial. 10-B 1 GOING TOO FAR A fight at a Cleveland elementary school should not have resulted in suspensions for a score of nonparticipants, Associate Editor Chris Sheridan writes.10 THE FRONT BURNER The mess in Indonesia and the departure of President Suharto.
10-B LOCKED OUT Corrections Corp. of America MAJOR BIT OF NUDGING Corporations often turn to Brahms and Mozart to help them reach out to customers and nudge business deals to success. A major bit of nudging by TRW Inc. is occurring during the Cleveland Orchestra's tour to Japan and China. 1-C SPORTS BID FOR BROWNS FRANCHISE Entertainer Bill Cosby is joining the Dolan brothers in their bid to buy the franchise for the Cleveland Browns.
1-D STARTING LINEUP Bill Livingston has a list of 22 things one for each Browns starter that he'd like to see happen when the NFL returns to Cleveland. 1-D NOT IN OVERDRIVE So far, joining Roger Penske's race team hasn't speeded up Andre Ribeiro's driving 1-D negotiations, treaties and pitched battles that sometimes FAMILY STEERING CLEAR OF ABUSE Sheila Paoli knows now that when she gets angry her face flushes and her armpits itch. Those are important cues, reminders that it may be time for her to take a timeout. There are millions of people like Paoli who struggle daily with the fear that they will abuse their 1-F SECOND CHILDREN With the arrival of a second child, the concept of sibling rivalry becomes concrete. There begins the elegant dance, the competition and collusion, the last a lifetime.
1-F 'OLIVE BRANCH' PROGRAM The Cleveland Diocese's "olive branch" program seeks to welcome back divorced, separated and remarried Catholics alienated from the church. 4-F LONGEST -SERVING PONTIFF Pope John Paul II, increasingly frail in body but unbending on dogma and determined to live to the year 2000, is set to become the longest-serving pontiff of the 20th century.4-F ENTERTAINMENT TOUGHEST CUSTOMER No amount of marketing, advertising or cheeseburger-kids meal promotions carries more weight than what the average 9- year-old tells his or her buddies about the movies. But that doesn't stop movie marketers from trying. 1-E CULTURAL TIES Cleveland may not be a household word in the capital of Japan, but it has been omnipresent here for the past few weeks. Japanese music lovers got a taste of Ohio's largest city by attending concerts Wednesday and Thursday at Tokyo's Suntory Hall by the Cleveland Orchestra and music director Christoph von Dohnanyi, who are in the midst of an Asian tour.
For art lovers, the path to Cleveland usually about 6,000 miles away is simple through June 21: The Suntory Museum of Art in downtown Tokyo is exhibiting 100 pieces 4 from the extensive, internationally renowned Asian collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 1-E YOUR HOME IN THE GARDEN John Brookes believes gardeners should take advantage of the terrain rather than building gardens in spite of it. "My way is an alternative way," said Brookes, a garden designer. from Denman's, England, who will lecture at the Cleveland Botanical Garden June 3. HOMES TOUR There are seven homes featured on next week's Cedar Point Chaussee Tour of Homes, presented by the Sandusky Firelands Chapter of the American Red Cross.
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