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Barnes Challenges Hickman, 10 I Gomez's 2 homers Lead O's, 1C ii ii 1 a TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1994 HOME DELIVERY: 25 (inmost) NEWSSTAND: 50 BALTIMORE, MARYLAND Showing the colors To Jericho's dismay, Arafat to live in Gaza West Bank town to be seat of rule -i 0 Xv, -S. ''If II i I I Martyr's family comes home to Gaza at last By Dan Fesperman Jerusalem Bureau of The Sun GAZA. Gaza Strip The last time Jihad al-Wazir left Gaza he was an infant wrapped in his mother's arms. That began a 31 -year odyssey across 10 countries and three continents, a race against war, upheaval and deportation. Along the way, Israeli commandos assassinated his father, whaat the time was Yasser Arafat's second in command.

And at some point in all the wandering, the meaning of "home" got lost. Last week Mr. al-Wazir and his mother returned to Gaza, borne on the same current of change that swept Mr. Arafat back here Friday. It was a revelation.

"I used to jokingly say, 'Home sweet home' everywhere I would go," he said. "But this time It really means something. Forget all of the dirt and the mess that's in Gaza, or the smell in the air. This is where I was bom. Now I see the flowers and the trees that my mother always used to talk about I really am home." Mr.

al-Wazir is a child of the diaspora, and his family's story is a set piece of the Palestinian experience. It is a tale of exile and intrigue, in which violence often seemed like the only path to salvation but usu- See FAMILY, 8A Rebels seize the capital of Rwanda France moves to stop Tutsi forces' advance From Wire Reports GIKONGORO, Rwanda Rebel forces besieging Rwanda's capital of Kigali pushed into the city's center and gained control of major government installations today, prompting French forces to switch their humanitarian mission to military intervention. After a three-month fight for Kigali, the Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front freed more than 8,000 Tutsis who had been living in terror of government-trained Hutu militias. A spokesman for the small United Nations peacekeeping mission in Rwanda said the rebels had overrun the Defense Ministry, the army headquarters and Radio Rwanda, which had incited the massacres of Tutsis by civilian militiamen with Its broadcasts of ethnic hate messages. They were Jubilant," spokesman Maj.

Jean-Guy Plante said of the Tutsi civilians freed from refuges in churches and a hotel. The fate of government troops who had been holding out In Kigali was not immediately known. Major Plante said. An estimated 200,000 Rwan-dans, mostly Tutsi civilians, have been killed since the death of the Hutu president in a mysterious plane crash in April convulsed the country in ethnic bloodletting. The Hutu-led army and its militias are blamed for most of the slaughters.

With the capita in its hands, the Rwandan Patriotic Front is now able to turn its forces toward the western area of the country where the self-proclaimed Rwandan government has taken refuge. The rebels control two-thirds of the country, mainly in the northeast and southeast, and are advancing on the remaining government-held areas. But it was unclear how much farther the rebels could push their offensive without engaging the French, who have swom to protect civilians in a safety zone in the west and southwest until a large U.N. mission can arrive. Inserting itself directly into Rwanda's civil war, France established a major base here, six miles from the advancing Tutsi-led rebel army, and manned it with Foreign Legionnaires See RWANDA.

9A 'V 4 -j- i bi- By Doug Struck and Dan Fesperman Jerusalem Bureau of The Sun GAZA, Gaza Strip Yasser Arafat will base his Palestinian government in tiny Jericho, but the tumult of the crowded Gaza Strip will be home. Mr. Arafat was set to formally swear In the Palestinian National Authority in Jericho today and then fly to Paris. But he will return to Gaza next weekend to take up residence, according to aide Nabil Shaath. "Gaza is the reality.

Jericho is the symbol," Mr. Shaath told Israel Radio yesterday. "People don't live in symbols, they live with the people. And the people are here." The pronouncement is a blow to the pride of Jericho, the West Bank town of 30,000 lying below sea level beside the Jordanian border. In the 1 1 months since the signing of the agreement to begin Palestinian autonomy In Jericho and the Gaza Strip, a chief source of recreation in languid Jericho has been speculating on what house will be Mr.

Arafat's. Instead, the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization yesterday inspected the old Governor's House In Gaza. The dowdy two-story building was used by the Egyptian military governor before Israel captured the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Six Day War, and some of the spacious grounds accommodated a prison used by Israelis to confine Palestinians. Mr. Arafat's house-hunting was on the fourth day of his first visit to Palestinian territories in 27 years.

The chairman stalked quickly around the house and left after about See ARAFAT, 8A program analyst for the Army a supporter of demands to add a "multiracial" box to the 2000 census and to all other government, school, employment and medical forms that ask questions about race or ethnicity- "When a child has to pick the race of one of their parents, they are in essence being forced to deny the other parent," said Susan Graham, director of Atlanta-based Project RACE (for Reclassify All Children Equally), which, with the Association of Multi Ethnic Americans (AMEA), is lobbying for a multiracial category. But the proposed category also raises questions, both for government agencies that collect and use racial and ethnic data and for those whose racial identity rests squarely on an existing category. Some are concerned that if large numbers of those who now check the "black" box instead checked See RACE, 9 A Some irked by forms seek a 'multiracial' category Hearings to weigh questions of ethnicity Cub Scouts Michael Rose (with Longfellow Elementary School in New Ph.D.s By Richard O'Mara Sun Staff Writer BENNINGTON, Vt. Getting started was easy for Elizabeth Coleman back in 1961 when, equipped with a brand new Ph.D. in English literature, she took a job at the State University of New York, at Stony Brook.

"Everything came wonderfully," she said, recalling her entrance into professional academic life. "I wanted to teach English and read philosophy. That's what I worried alwut. What to go into, literature or pliiloso- ANDRE LAMBtRl SONSUN STAH PHOTO I i 1 -w U.S. flag).

David Gers (with pack flag) and Nick Leffner, from Columbia, prepare for Fourth of July parade. (Article on Page IB) confront daunting odds in job search By Rogers Worthington Chicago Tribune TROY, Mich. Walter Lindauer recalls stopping cold at the question on the 1990 census form that asked him to check off the race of his daughter, Lisa, now 9. "There was no category to put Lisa in," Mr. Lindauer said.

"I didn't know what to put." The form had 16 boxes identifying race or ethnicity, including one for "white," one for "black" and one for "other." "I didn't feel very good about said Mr. Lindauer, who is white and is divorced from Lisa's mother, Maria, who is black. But neither did he like the idea that someday Lisa, when confronted with a similar choice, might feel compelled to choose the race of one parent over the other. The dilemma has made Mr. Lindauer a German-Russoftoma-nian-Jewish-Amerlcan computer 66 Js this iriaf expected when I got my degree? Not really.4 i 4 I iftawnrf; LrgnS KIM HAlhSIONSUN STAFF PH0I0 cently jolted aeademia by letting go about 20 percent of its faculty and abolishing tenure.

It is a radical action. Its purpose is to alleviate a $1 million deficit and increase lagging enrollment. Bennington, along with other private 8LT3S Stolen childhood A Carney woman spent 3V6 years in a concentration camp during the brutal World War II Japanese occupation of the oil-rtch Dutch East Indies. Page IB Life of a juggler A Harborplace regular. Mardene Rubio has been performing around the world for 1 1 years.

Page 2B NICOLE MINNICK A recent Ph.D. Homeless woman finds refuge and starts and public institutions, is being squeezed by a demographic dip that has produced a scarcity of new college students nationwide and, simultaneously, the withdrawal of much federal support for higher education in recent years. The cutback in federal spending has forced colleges and universities to use more of their own dollars for student aid. It has strained their operating budgets, prompted them to eliminate programs and made it more difficult to justify new hires. See COLLEGES, 9A Fast-break football The CFL is bringing a fast-paced version of football to Baltimore.

Today's preview section presents the outlook for Baltimore's team, a capsule look at its roster, an explanation of the differences between Canadian and American football and a team-by-team glance at the CFL. Page ID Brazil downs U.S. Brazil defeats the United States. 1-0, In the second round of World Cup competition, ending America's finest shoeing. Page 1C Ml iriMI IIIMMiMi 1 phy." That first job.

taken at a time when such wsiUons were plentiful, launc hed a successful career. Tmlay Dr. Coleman is president of Bennington College. 'Dial's the prestigious institution in rural Vermont that re to find herself Sitting in a boarding-house bedroom, she wears crisp denim shorts and a clean knit sliirl. She Hashes a warm smile that puts others at ease.

As cities across the country struggle with homelessness, perhaps no population has proved more difficult than that suffering from severe mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, manic depressive disorder and major depression. Poverty is just tlie beginning. Even if offered housing, many are too confused to pay rent, shop for food or prepare a meal. Many find the street a welcome subculture that ac epts them with few questions asked. On a given night in Baltimore, about 2.400 people are homeless, according to studies.

About a quarter suffer from severe mental illnesses but receive onlv erratic medical treatment. For 3W years, the ACT team has Intervened in the lives of 120 of the city's homeless mentally ill packaging housing, substance abuse counseling, shopping (rips and even showers with psychiatric care. The effort seems to be paving off. In a V. Sec HOMELESS, tf.A Bridge 6E Editorials 10A Business 13C Horoscope 7E Classified 9B Lottery 16B Comics 7E Movies 3E Deaths 8B Television 8E Her mental illness now being treated By Jonathan Bor Sun Staff Writer Think of the homeless mentally ill, and someone like Norma Jean Wilson may come to mind.

There she is, wearing everything she owns: three pairs of pants, two sweaters, three coats, sneakers without soles and two wool caps wrapped In scarves. Matted hair hangs to her ear-lobes. Hands Jitter as if electrified. Eyes dart from side to side, fixed on demons nobody else can see. Her speech Is fragmented, all phrases with no thread.

She panhandles outside restaurants, collecting coins for doughnuts and thrift-shop clothes. She sleeps by day and walks all night, moving constantly In a city full of risk. This was her life last October, when professionals at a storefront mentaWiealth clinic in Wtst Baltimore 5jrst laid eyes on her. Since 1 t.f fct lr ir ill I M1MMIJ Weather Partly cloudy, warm. High 90; low, 70.

Yesterday's high, 89; low, 71. 16B 083A5511 4fr Portions of The Sun are printed ach day on recyc'ed PaDer- The 'f' newspaper also is recyclable. 5 SECTIONS -ft Norma Jean Wilson was rescued from streets by Catholic Charities and professionals in a Baltimore storefront mental health clinic. then, team members at ACT As- brings focus to her thoughts. And sertive Community Treatment she speaks with a new vocabulary, have guided her to a breakthrough.

"Last night we watched television Ms. Wilson, 49, now sleeps in the and went to a jazz concert outside," same befl every night, sees a thera- she saA "Someday, I want to learn pist and takes medication that toswinff.