r V" - J . . . . . ' -1 ..." . . " ' v .... V ".' :' ' 7 .'' . We University Library Newspaper Department , Durham, N.-C. 27706 ;U-3Q . .1 Tio Dcc.'r Prccc ; Our FrcccJcrn Dccncfc Words of VJlzCzv A flftot dtol of totenf It lost hi lh world for wont of a Rttto courage. ' dhjr lnift PRIQ:23CfcU, VOLUME 55 - NUMBER 20 "READ BY OVER 30,000 DURHAMITES" DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA - SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1977 TELEPHONE (919) 683-6587 HlttHIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIinillllflinHHnilHttfMtfllllfllfltllMHltfmtltMMlHIHI9ltttlllli Hlllf tMiiwatiimMiHiuiuwiaill IH WliUaWUWHtU UHUUIIIIHUHUIINUUHIUIIIIHUUIUII UHO AilO TO'nEAL; OPPbSITIOn FOaCES? Durham City government's reluctance to come up with an effective and meaningful ; affirmative action ? plan can mean but one thing some powerful political forces are determined that Durham make fto preten sions of trying to right wrongs long in existence here. It appears that a deaf ear has been turned toward the petitioning of numerous citizens groups including the Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People, Carolina Action, the Durham Ministerial Alliance, the Durham Chapter of the NAACP, the National Council of Senior Citizens and the AFL-CIO as well as that of some members of the City Council. Opponents o f affirmative action contend that affirmative action leads to . "reverse discrimination" against the majority . This position is just a lot of "hog wash". Let's be realistic! ' , t All matters dealing with hiring OUGHT to be of a "color-blind" nature, but simply outlawing discrimina tion is NOT enough. Why? Blacks - historically being the recipients of racism - start off with a disadvantage. The only way in which victims of racism can be pro tected, until they catch up to the years of lead-time the majority has had, is through the use of affirmative action. The time has not come when blacks seeking em ployment in Durham can be rightly accused of causing "reverse discrimination" because the time1 has not come in Durham that racism nO longer exists Opponents of affirmative action know hat dis crimination exists in the hiring practices of e public sector of city government. They know that discrimina tion is wrong, immoral, unethical, dishonest and ille gal. Hide-bound racists will not change their stripes and miracously begin obeying a law because a law in on the books. In our editorial of June 26, 1 976 entitled "Durham Joking On Minority Hiring", we exposed a trick used s by the city in counting white female employees $6 make a 49.3 minority representation look good. We j said then - and now eleven monthsJaterr ' . j; Durham needsto hireorrie knowledgeablie blacU in upper arnlnistrative de stop playing games such as i evidenced in the report and get on with the business of living up to at least the real intent of some of those bittersweet merit position statements written in the new Personnel Handbook which the report cites as 'further affirmation of the City's intention to apply equal employment considera tions for all people " Maybe it is time that the true opponents to affir mative action in Durham be known. food Stamp Mofmonrs, tligitiility Levels Increase for f.losf Households WASHINGTON - Food stamp allotments and in come eligibility levels, reflecting an August to February rise in food costs for low - income families will increase for most households on July 1, the U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture (USDA) announced recently. . In the continental states and District of Columbia, monthly food stamp allot ments for all household sizes, except one-person households will increase by at least two dollars. The monthly stamp Onnillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll OTAF By William Minter . Staff Writer, Africa News Service The strike is over. The first since 1939, it broke a pattern of almost forty years of relattvely amicable labor relations, and ended in a victory for Ligget & Myers' hard line. The company refused to accept union proposals for an uncapped cost-of-living adjustment, al ready common in the industry, and waged an all-out campaign to break the strike. . : Long-term employees, many loyal to the company, wondered resentfully at the company s stance. They knew that Liggett' cigarette sales were m trouble, and that the Liggett Group was extending its diversification program to yet more non-tobacco products Would management really carry out its implied threat to close down the Durham plant, the location of the bulk of Liggett's tobacco operations? Why was it out of step with the rest of the industry? ' , , . Not many would have caught the wisp of a c ue m a Durham Mbrning Herald (April 10). profile of Liggett President Raymond Mulligan; referring to his mid March lightning business trip . to South Africa ; to check on developments in fthe broadly diversified Liggett familyV. Nor did the Herald, mention that JWs year's contract negotiations were the first since the Liggett Group came under the financial control of South African multimillionaire Anton Rupert and his Rembrandt Group of companies. Rupert told Business 3 allotment for a family of four will rise from $166 to $170.Food stamp allotments are based on USDA's Thrifty Food Plan, which computes the cost of a nutritionally adequate diet for low income households. i Since income eligibility levels are tied to the size of food stamp allotments, these levels also will increase in most cases, The net income limit for a family of four will increase from $553 to $567 per month. - However, income stan- dards for one ana iwo per- IIIMIIIIIIIIIUIIIinnfflllimUHimilllM 5 11 , BURGAW r Allen R. Hall, who recanted his 1972 Wilmington 10 trial testi- mony at the hearing here last week, repeatedly telephoned (collect) New Hanover County prosecutor, James T. , (Jay) Stroud and admitted he had lied in an effort to free the defendants. , State's attorneys played a tape recording of one of the conversations a man identifi ed as Hall had with Stroud in which he (Hall) said "I'll go back to court. Ill take it back." Hall suggested, in ramb ling, barely audible taped conversation that his recanta tion was inspired by support ers of the Rev. Ben Chavis, Jr., who is serving a 34 year sentence in prison for his alleged role in the racial vio lence which included the burning of Mike's Grocery in Wilmington. I Ty;- i . i t- I'HW 1 , A v 1 ? ": v-' 11 - Ml fill ' ,iSv II spfdr I L bankers MEET WITH CARTER - President Jimmy Carter happily greets officials of the National Bankers Association, the trade group for minority bankers, at a recent White House meeting to dfseuss new initiatives in support of the Minority Bank Deposit program. Shown with the President are (from left): Aid en J. McDonald, Jr.i Lynn Salvage; James C. PurnelljPresident Carter; Robert E. James; Charles Swallow, president, American Indian-National Bank, Washington, D. C. Also attending the meeting wtrt Dr. Carl Carroll; Samuel L. Foggie; James S. Banks; George Brokemond; Sharnia (Tab) Buford and Anthony L. Maxwell, Executive Director of NBA. son households will not change. These income stan dards ($245 and $322 per month, respectively) will re main at USDA's poverty guidelines. Food stamp regu lations require USDA to use either allotment-based calcu lations or the poverty guide lines, whichever are higher, in setting income eligibility level department officials explain ed. The Food Stamp Act of 1964, requires USDA to adjust ' stamp allotments twice a year to retieci iooa pnee changes, iiimmmimi m THE Week in 1974, talking of Mulligan; who had no tobacco industry experience before 1973, "We comple ment each other. I know the cigarette business, and he follows my advice." Rupert's take-over in late 1974 blocked an attempt by Western Pacific Industries for an interest in the troubled Liggett company, by purchasing Western Pacific's 415,300 shares for $17 million. With other shares acquired previously, the Rupert holding com pany, Rothmans of Londori, Inc., then held 8.5 of the stock, a controlling interest according to Business Week. At the end of 1976, the industry's Tobacco Reporter, in its chart of 'interconnecting Interests of Major Tobacco Manufacturers", still showed Liggett as subsidiary to Rothmans, with the same 8.5 in terest. . . , , At the time of the take-over, Liggett s percentage of the domestic cigarette market was continuing its long-term decline, totally only 4.7 that year, as com pared to next-ranked LoriUard at 8.2, American Brands at 15.7 and industry leader R. J. Reynolds at 31.4. Liggett's strategy since 1965 had clearly been to concentrate on non-tobacco products. By 1974 its revenues from Allen Products (Alpo-Dog Food), Paddington Corporation (J & B Scotch) and other recently acquired non-tobacco operations made up over half of the total revenues. ; ' " If its decline in tobacco was to be reversed, it was clear that drastic steps would have to be taken. Hall Admits Lying To Free Defense Committee spokesman Damu Smith immediately denied the alle gations that . pressure had been put on Hall and charged - that Stroud had attempted to manipulate Hall in the tele phone conversations. During one of the calls, which Stroud had reportedly led Hall to believe were not being taped, Stroud asked,' "Was your testimony at the j trial and in the interviews I ; had with you true?" Hall re-' lied. "Yes, it was." Stroud asked, "Was any part of it false?" Hall answered. "No." Loud murmurs rose in the Pender County court room from spectators when Stroud commented on oneof the tapes that the Wilmington ; 10 are "too dangerous to be released from prison." , When Hall called Stroud from the Onslow County pri son unit in Jacksonville. lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll SUPPORT building; FOR AFRICAN LIBERATION DAY The African Liberation Support Committee is plann ing for the sixth annual Afri can Liberation Day celebra tion in Washington, D. C. on May 27th and 28th. Mobili zation ; activities are now underway in order to broaden. . support for African Libera tion struggles and encourage attendance at the annual ALD events. Busloads of North Carolinians will be leaving Greensboro and Durham on May 28th to attend the program being prepared by the national office of ALSC in Washington, D. C. i?""?.?. "1?!?. , Continued On Page 3 Stroud told Hall he was not s taping1 the 45-minute call to ;' his Wrightsville Beach motel last Thursday. But when Hall telephone Stroud acain Satur day. at his home in Gastonia. s Stroud admitted, inward the : end'ojf the conversation, that he had been recording Hall's remktks. "Oh, no!" could be ilearly heard on Hall's end of the line. 1 Contrary to protest from defense attorney James Fer guson, against the admission of the tapes. Judge George M. Fountain ordered tran scripts of the recording be prepared. Monday was the first time . thai Stroud had been on the stand to explain his side of how the Wilmington 10 prosecution was . put to gether. He told the court thai therfwere no deals and no improper coaching sessions . with witnesses. t , I tVV 1 hK. '-i I Mi SCLC's Pooplo's Festival Sot For Juno In Atlanta The Metro Atlanta Chap ter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) under the leader ship of Rev. Hosea L. Wil liams, is holding its first annual "People's Achieve ment Festival" June 3 6 in Atlanta. The theme of the Festi val is "Eliminate Poverty Through Mind Power." The Festival is designed to be as large as Black Expo in Chi- ii i .,.,,', , , .......NMiMiimiiMimiMiiituiiiiiiuiillllillllllllM caeo, but wui nave a mucn mimm.... AM QYHo ' Liggett's Durham plant was out-of-date, a multi-story installation inherently inefficient as compared with new plants on one level with overhead conveyorssuch as in Philip Morris' new plant in Richmond. Not even new faster machines or new brands and marketing techniques could compensate for this competitive disadvantage. The Rothmans' connection could have brought in the capital and the expertise for Liggett to launch a counter-attack on its competitors in the domestic cigarette market. On a world scale, Rupert's tobacco empire was already the fifth largest tobacco manu facturer. Rupert is the most successful of South Africa's Afrikaans-speaking businessmen, and joins diamond and gold magnate Harry Oppenheimer in having' extended his financial empire far beyond the borders of that white-minority-ruled nation. In 1954 Rupert gained control of Rothmans of Pall Mall, an established British firm, and in a complicated merger in 1972 brought together Rothmans with his other European interests in the multinational Rothmans International. But evidently Anton Rupert's plans did not in clude major new capital investment in Liggett's tobacco operations. Indeed, the Rupert financial em pire itself was on the verge of more, extensive diversi fication. Rupert already controls Canadian Breweries, with its Curling's Black Label beer, and Liggett's liquor operations may have interested him as much as In one of the call. Stroud asked Hall. "You told me false story after another, didn't you?" "Right", said Hafl. In the last telephone call Stroud asked Hall, "Is there anything personally 1 can do for your "Yes." Hall said in a trembling voice. He asked Stroud to visit his sick mother.. The notes (in Stroud's handwriting) which Hal) and Jerome Mitchell said last week were provided them by Stroud, detailing what they were to say. were actually a copy of notes the prosecutor had made summarizing testi mony at the end of the five week trial in 1972. Stroud testified. "Mitchell never saw this" before he testified, Stroud said. In one of the telephone conversations; Stroud asked Hall. "You and I never had a HrXV v r, more year-round positive effect on the problems that are destroying our cities. The four-day Festival, which is being held at a num ber of Atlanta locations, will feature activities for the entire family. The main event of the Festival is the Poor Man Rich Man Banquet on June 3. Rev. Ike is the honored guest and will deliver the main address from the topic "Be What You Want To deal, isn't that right?" Hall answered "Right". The three recanting witnesses Hall. Mitchell and Eric Junious had testified last week that Stroud had offered attractive inducements to each of them. Stroud testified that there was never "a promise or im plication of a promise" that the prosecution witnesses would get gifts or lighter pri son "sentences in return for their cooperation in the case. Stroud said the Christ mas present of a minibike to Junious was "an instinctive, spontaneous" gift weeks after the trial had concluded. Stroud explained his view point in varied other points which had been raised last week by the witnesses: Holms Opposos Trado iJifh Cnhn lln;il All Americans Aro Frood WASHINGTON - Sena tor Jesse Helms of North Carolina released a letter from the Department of State confirming that Cuban dicta tor Fidel Castro is still hold' ing twenty-seven U. S. citi zens in prison, eight of whom are - officially designated as political prisoners. Helms also pointed out that the State Department letter cites the figure of 10,000 to 15JD00 Cubans j under detention as political w prisoners. Two thousand of w mese m m; maximum-ie- , fn" state, Department spokesman, Assistant Secre tary of State Douglas J. Bennet, Jr., also said in the . letter that, "Cuba has con sistently refused to permit inspection of its jails by the OAS Human Rights Commis sion or other international bodies." v-.c r- The political prisoners who are U. S. citizens were identified as: Frank Emmick of Ohio; Everett D. Jackson of Illinois; Lawrence Lunt of REV. HOSEA WILLIAMS , : it r JL-J I its tobacco. In 1973, an international meeting of Food and Allied Workers' Associations singled out the RupertRembrandt group's diversification as a parti cular threat to tobacco workers. a In 1976, Dr. Anton Rupert reported to stockhold ers that the Rembrandt Group was not only the fourth largest cigarette manufacturer in the world, but also among the ten largest brewery groups and one of the ten largest distillers. Large sums were being spent on development projects, he said, especially in the Uquor industry. And in conjunction with American business man Karl Ludwig (NationaT Bulk Carriers), Rembrandt had also acquired a 25 interest in Federale Mynbou, one of South Africa's largest mining companies. What are Rupert's plans for the Durham plant, a small part of his world-wide empire? He keeps a low profile, and few Durham residents are even aware that the decisions vital to the future of their community may be taken in far-away Cape Town. Yet Business Week noted after the take-over that afl major deci sions at L & M are now cleared with Rupert?, The company's victory against the union in holding cost-of-living adjustments down will not provide the, capi tal for major expansion, nor is it likeiy that enersttia marketing alone will turn around Liggett's decline. If a full-scale effort to keep Liggett in tobacco, is net forthcoming from the Rupert Group, the consequ ences in several years for Liggett's workers In Durham and for the whole community may be serious indeed. WW He said that there was no alcohol it the beach cottage where Hal) and Mitchell were held during the original triaL He said the detective Hall had said supplied him with marV juana, was not working the security detail at that time; Hall's girlfriend. Ms. Deborah Simpson, was trans ported from AsheviHe be cause Hall had become totally distracted thinking about her before he was scheduled to testify; The favored prisoner status granted Hall a couple of week following his testi mony was to make him (Hall) eligible for protective custody at the Western Correction Center for youthful offen . ders. Massachusetts; Claudio Rodri quex Morales of Puerto Rico; John Tur of Florida; Rafael Del Pino of Cuba; Antonio Garcia Dews of Cuba; and Carmen Ruiz of Cuba. ' Assailing a proposal approved in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Tuesday to initiate sales to Cuba, Helms said, "this is the worst possible time to make such overtures. Noting that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee proposal included the sale of wmedfcines to Cuba Helms, jaid: BchiiopdV end medl cffietre strategic items of conflict. The fact that Castro has 3,000 wounded troops in Angola right now in need of medicine speaks for itself." v Pointing out that theere Pointing but that there are more Soviet reconnais sance bombers based in Cuba right now than at the time of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Helms said that Soviet forces should be withdrawn before the U. S. resumes normal relations with Cuba. He noted that only three weeks ago Soviet bombers based in Cuba hanassed the U. S. carrier Saratoga only 60 miles from the North Carolina coastline, in violation of U. S. - Soviet agreements. F-4 Phantom jets from Seymour Johnson Air Force Base chased the Soviet Bombers away. In addition, Helms called for the release of U. S. and Cuban political prisoners, free access by the international news media to Cuba, with drawal pf Cuban troops in Africa, and the right - of free . emigration by any - one now in Cuba without restrictions or indirect repression.

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