
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, May 20, 1993                   TAG: 9305200248
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C2   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: RICHMOND                                LENGTH: Short

WILDER'S 2ND AFRICAN TRIP IS EXPENSE-PAID

Gov. Douglas Wilder will leave Saturday for his second trip to Africa during his term but this time taxpayers will not pick up any of his tab.

Wilder said in a news release he is taking "an all-expenses paid" trip to Libreville, Gabon, to deliver the keynote address for the Second African-African American Summit.

Leon H. Sullivan, a human rights activist who heads the summit, is paying the costs for Wilder and his daughter, Lynn, who will be his French interpreter, the release said.

Also among the 4,000 people expected to attend are U.S. Commerce Secretary Ron Brown; Jesse Jackson; former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young; Coretta Scott King, the widow of Martin Luther King; and Benjamin Chavis, new executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Health experts will convene sessions on AIDS and hunger; business leaders will discuss the lack of development and the continent's crushing debt to the West; and politicians will address Africa's deadly web of war and instability.

by CNB