National headliners

Jet, Jan 7, 2002

The country's top counterterrorism expert, Gen. Francis X. Taylor, recently spent two days in Beijing establishing the special legal attache offices in China. He is attached to the State Dept ... Entertainer Mariah Carey made her first USO visit to the Balkans to entertain American troops ... Former Gary, IN, Urban Leaguer Dr.

Clifford Minton has donated $150,000 to his alma mater, Philander Smith College in Arkansas ... Through the spearheading of its editor, James N. Crutchfield, a Black, the Akron Beacon Journal newspaper raised $1.4 million to buy a fire truck for the New York City Fire Department.