CLINTON APPEALS FOR PRAYERS FOR BEATEN CHICAGO BOY.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. President Clinton, asking the nation to join his prayers for a beaten Chicago boy, called on Americans this Easter weekend to reject racial hatred and remember that Christ died to redeem all people - black and white. ``In this season of renewal, we must renew our pledge to make America one America One is an over-the-air television network in the United States. The network serves over 170 LPTV, Class A, Full Power, Cable and Satellite affiliate stations. At least 20 of the stations carry America One's complete 168-hour weekly transmission. nation under God,'' the president said Saturday in a radio address that centered around the attack last week on 13-year-old Lenard Clark. Three white teen-agers are accused of beating the African-American boy into unconsciousness. Even as he denounced the crime as a ``savage, senseless assault driven by nothing but hate,'' Clinton looked ahead to both Easter and next month's Passover holiday in asking the nation to pray for Clark. ``The holidays of this season teach us that hope can spring forth from darkest of times,'' Clinton said. ``Those of us who are Christians celebrate a risen God who died a painful, very human death to redeem the souls of all humanity without regard to race or station.'' His activities still limited by recent knee surgery, Clinton planned a private, work-free weekend at the White House, capped by this morning's homecoming Homecoming Odyssey concerning Odysseus’s difficulties in getting home after war. [Gk. Myth.: Odyssey] You Can’t Go Home Again revisiting his home town, a writer is disillusioned by what he sees. [Am. Lit. of his wife and daughter, who have been traveling in Africa, and Easter dinner with visiting relatives, spokesman Mike McCurry said. In his radio broadcast, Clinton worried that African-Americans would see in Clark's alleged attackers the faces of all white Americans The term white American (often used interchangeably with "Caucasian American"[2] and within the United States simply "white"[3]) is an umbrella term that refers to people of European, Middle Eastern, and North African descent residing in the United States. . ``The acts of a few people must never become an excuse for blanket condemnation,'' he warned. In another nod to recent headlines, Clinton referred to the mass suicide Mass suicide occurs when a number of people kill themselves together and/or for the same reason. Examples Mass suicide sometimes occurs in religious or cultic settings. of cult members outside San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. and regretted that ``some Americans feel isolated from all of the rest of us in other ways . . . with truly tragic consequences.'' Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who was leading a congressional delegation across Asia, issued his own Easter greeting from Beijing. It doubled as a call to Chinese communists to do better on human rights and religious tolerance. ``We use this time to recognize freedom is based on rights that come from God,'' Gingrich said. ``In the spirit that is at the heart of Easter, America also reaches out a hand of encouragement to the Chinese government Ever since Republic of China founded in January 1st, 1912, China has had several regional and national governments. List
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