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MPs discuss new youth magazine

Nationalist, which is under Police investigation.The Cabinet talked about the anti-UBP magazine at yesterday's weekly meeting.MPs were handed a copy by Youth Minister the Hon. Pamela Gordon.

Nationalist, which is under Police investigation.

The Cabinet talked about the anti-UBP magazine at yesterday's weekly meeting.

MPs were handed a copy by Youth Minister the Hon. Pamela Gordon.

Afterwards, Acting Premier the Hon. Irving Pearman revealed it was the first time he had seen it.

"A statement on behalf of Government will be made,'' he announced.

Meanwhile, it is thought the people behind the magazine -- made up of photocopied pages stapled together -- approached some Bermuda printers.

But printers refused to print the material, believing it inflammatory.

Yesterday an employee at Pembroke's Engravers Ltd said: "I believe an approach was made to us.'' The firm's general manager was unavailable for comment.

A spokesman for Hamilton's Island Press said he would be finding out whether his company was approached.

Behind the magazine is a group called the Nationalist Youth Alliance, although none of its members are identified.

The magazine attacks the "evil racist power structure'' in Bermuda.

One page also salutes people and organisations, including the Mau Mau, Black Panther Party, Azanian Peoples Liberation Army, and emperor Haile Selassie.

Several Bermudians are mentioned, including Dr. E.F. Gordon, Dr. Eva Hodgson, Mr. Walton Brown Jr., Mrs. Lois Browne Evans, and Mr. Walter Robinson.

"These individuals and organisations have valiantly demonstrated what could be,'' the magazine states.

Police are probing the magazine. "It is an ongoing investigation,'' spokesman Sgt. Roseanda Jones said yesterday.