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1 I' J; If Ob CANCEfr CONTROL MONTH ,4 ; 4 TTr-i ' V(USPS Q3lJ80) Words of Vfsdoz An object in possession seldom retain the same charm that it had in pursuit ' Pliny the Younger VOLUME B7-NUMBER 15 20 PAGES DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA-1 SATURDAY, APRIL 14. 1979 TELEPHONE (919) 682-2913 PRICE: 20 CENTS. Black flavors Resolution Calls For rn r - n nn r i r-in n m - M, ' -. wjm m ' -I 'm kvuil 2S4 I II - v wees Elderly, Minorities And Poor Stand to Benefit JV J The National Conference of Black Mayors, Inc., which represents more than 160 black mayors through out the United States, has luea a resolution callin for govement-funde construction of proposed group Transportation Cen ters in major urban cities. The Centers, notes the re solution, would enhance "inner city revitalization arid American moiblity," particularly as regards the transportation service needs of minorities, the elderly and the poor. Signed by Gary, Indiana Mayor Richard G. Hatcher, President of NCBM, and Prairie View, Texas Mayor Eristus Sams, Secre tary, the resolution explains that the proposed Transpor tation Centers "would be terminals for mass transit buses and , intercity bus companies' operations, such as passenger services, package express service, tours, and charters, includ ing headquarters for a city transit information bureau, regional airport shuttle service, suburban commuter service, sightseeing and taxicabs." "Minorities, the elderly and the poor comprise the majority of persons who annualy travel by bus," the resoultion points out. These travelers, it says, "frequent inner city bus terminals that are plaqued by crime, congestion and di lapidation " The concept of the urban Continued on page 20 ni I U n Li There is a green hill far away. Without a city wall, Where the dear Lord was crucified, Who died to save us all. Cecil Frances Alexander hroughout our earthly history, The Easter message, you'll agree. Has given to humanity A lesson in humility, And joy evolved from tragedy. Upon that day of infamy When Christ, for all the world to see, Was crucified on Calvary, And then, with magnanimity, For their forgiveness made his plea;. Thus Jesus died to set us free From sin and all iniquity. So let His resurrection be Our proof of immortality, And go to hear your Church decree This lesson for eternity. Gloria Nowak Spaulding Sponsors Tenant Protoctive Legislation State Representative Kenneth B. Spaulding of Durham, has sponsored legislation in the North Carolina House of Representative which will given tenants a defense against unfair and retaliatory eviction by a landlord. The Bill will protect those who makes a good faith com plaint about indecent, unsafe and unsanitary housing con ditions. Spaudling said the tenant should not be evicted by a landlord just because the t tenant complained about unsafe and unsanitary conditons of the leased property. Com plaints about unsafe, unhealthy and defects of leased pre mises should not be discouraged by threats or actions of eviction. 1 Preliminary Injunction Strikes Down Medicaid Rule gHHHHHHHHHHHHHlH Students to Lobby For Black Colleges RALEIGH, N.C. - John Foard and Lila Carter along with hundreds of other ' , North- ! Parnlinisn. , ., vivaui uiuc -caster 'Since a U.S. Federal Court Judge said last week that at least for the time being they do not have to pay out a large portion of their limited monthly incomes to cover the costs of keeping their spouses in nursing homes. In his preliminary in junction, Judge James B. McMillan stated that the state's "deeming" regula tion requiring a spouse of a person in a nursing home to relinquish income to qualify the patient for Medicaid, most probably violates the federal Medi caid statute and the 111 a j. a -1 ub pivibcas uause or the constitution. The injunction came in response to a class action lawsuit filed 1st fall by attorneys with Legal Services of Southern Piedmont (Charlotte) and Wake-Harnett-Johnston Legal Services fRaleiehl nn behair -of ;vtwftL6wplefc she had left after paying SI 67 from her and her husband's , combined income to Lhelp defer his ci.-pii(iwft,v.CQ4piem.come io,neip aeier rus '-i wwm tersville, .and Eddie and plaintiffs said they re- I I M Rl ! U.S. Grdun Reveals tersville. .and Edrfi Lila Carter of Clavton. To qualify for Medicaid benefits under existing North Carolina regulations, the non-institutionalized spouse was forced to con tribute all but $162 of his or her monthly income to wards payment of. the institutionalized spouse's medical costs. "We were very pleased with Judge McMillan's pre liminary ruling," said Lark Hayes of Charlotte who was one of the attorneys in the case. "In addition to being violative of the fed Under eral statute and unconsti tutional, we feel the state's regulation imposes a very real hardship on families of nursing home patients. Mrs. Lila Carter testified in court that she could not live on the $162 a month plaintins said they re fused to divorce or se parate from their spouse and thereby free them sleves of any legal obli gation for thier spouse's medical costs. 'I'll eat grits and drink only water if I have to," said Mrs. Carter. "But I won't leave my husband of 44 years." In the preliminary in junction which was signed on March 27, Judge McMillan ordered state Medicaid officials to stop enforcing the regulations. the injunction, Mrs. Carter will be allowed to keep the $241 a month she receives, though the $565 a month her hus band receives in Social Security and retirement benefits will continue to VI Id Id Mich. U. Scientist Calls Idi Am in A Cruel But Clover Ruler Idi not He was - ANN - ARBOR - Amin is a "very cruel but clever ruler" who "surrounds himself in creasingly with terrified flat terers and no longer with adequate advisors, " a University of Michigan political scientist declares "Hopefully he will last. We don't know has an enormous instinct for survival," observes Prof. Ali A. Mazuri. He interviewed for an article in the winter issue of LSA Magazine the Alumni Pub lication of the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. One of Africa's lead ing scholars and political commentators, Mazrui left Uganda not long after Amin rose to power and since 1973 has been a U-M faculty member. He also is director of the U-M Center for Afro-American and Afri can Studies. "I had become extra con spicuous in Uganda over the years because of the love hate "relationship between me and the previous presid ent, Milton Obote," Mazuri explains. "We Jiad engaged in public and private de bates. When Amin over-, threw Obote, he concluded that I was sympathetic to the new regime because critical of the had been old one. That inference was useful for a short time, Mazuri says, but "it soon became evident that Amin was not a man of very stable loyal ties. Sooner or later, he sa crificed his friends or turned against them." Mazrui escapted an uncomfortable offer to be special political advisor to Amin by accepting an invi tation for a lecture tour in England. "The government position would have been difficult to reconcile with may role as. a public lecturer and writer," he says, "and necessitated a longish period of silence." The American image of the Ugandan ruler is not en tirely accurate, Mazrui be lieves. 'The Dicture that, he Continued on page 2 A nine-member investi gating team jsUHneanVorn the Philippines recently with first-hand reports of a fast-spreading revolutionary ferment currently stirring thr rural areas of the archipelago. One member, Lyn Neuman,will visit North Carolina for a conference "Update: Philippines" to be' held on April 14th, 7:30 pjn. at the Friends Meeting House in Chapel Hill. The U.S.-based team also came back with reprots of hunger, homelessness and destitution existing aong the refugees created by the government's mili tary campaigns, "economic development programs" and "beautification drives." Composed of five women and four men, the investi gating team entered the Philippines unannounced. Sent by the Anti-Martial Law Coalition (AMLC), the team looked directly into the conditions of people driven form their homes and lands by the policies and practices of the martial law government. The trip was spurrred by the AMLC's initial research findings that up to four million Filipinos are already living the lives of refugees. With the help of private donors at AMLC's supporters from U.S. church groups, the team was sent to "help expose a refugee In Philippines an crisis that has been well niaoen by the regime AMLC announcement said said. Lyn Neuman is a Methodist minister who spent two years in Manila, Philippines, and Celine Avila is a member of the Intenational Association of Filipino Patriots. The team stayed in the Philippines one month with IN THIS ISSUE The Sears Suit PAGE 4 NCCU Resigns PAGE 9 You and The Law PAGE 3 1 a few members staying on Continued on page 10 RALEIGH - Student body presidents of the state's five black state sup ported schools are scheduled to lobby en masse at the state legislature April 12 and demon strate at the UNC Board of Governors meeting April 18, says Mike Howell, stu dent government president at North Carolina Central University (NCCU). Howell said he requested and received promises of assistance from the South ern. , Christian 1 Leadership Conference (SCLC) "and many other activist civil rights and political organi zations. The campus student leadership became concern ed when it became apparent that the continuance of the predominantly black schools was being threaten ed. The state legislature has severly under funded the black colleges historically, but now there is some talk among legislators of phase black ) J s . 0 escalating steps to out some of the campuses. The U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare' Secretary Joseph C ali fan o recently rejected a court ordered desgregation plan which included enhanc ing the predominatly black colleges. The question of enhancement precipitated the impasse, primarily over the amount of money the legislative and UNC officials would . commit , to. , uofirade tiie hWfc mHoo -a- M f I.I. WM01. ' Southern Christian Leadership (SCLC) Na tional Program Director Golden Frinks said his or ganization has commited its resources to rally and lobby with the students. Early in the week, Howell and Frinks said meeting with SGA presi dents were in progress. Students upset by news of faculty cut-backs and possible end of the school's nursing program confronted Chancellor Albert N. Whiting on March 30. Whiting told the students that possible cut-backs were the result of loss of enrollment and lack of state fundino hv the legislature Questioned by students as to actiqn they could he replied that could lobby at the legislature, and particularly could contact the Durham County delegation. the what take, they state NCCU AWARDS DAY NOTABLES George T. Thome (left) vice-chancellor for financial affairs, who received the University Relations Achieve ment Award and J. Rupert Picott (center), executive director of the Associa tion for the Study of Afro American Life and History, the Awards Day Speaker, pause, pause with NCCU Chancellor Albert N. Whiting during the proceedings. JOIN THE NAACP TODAY! Prossoro Proiijfpfs Reversal .In Admiciistvioca Trade Port I WASHINGTON. DC. Responding to intense pres sures from small and minority trade associations, the Carter Administration has reversed its trade pact policy and restored the business preference clause affecting small and minority firms. Dr. Berkeley G. Burrell, President of the National Business League welcomed the Administration's reveral in policy, but indicated that there still exists a critical need for close consultation between government of ficials and the minority pri vate sector on the actual provisions of the trade agreement. Earlier this week, Burrell voiced un equivocal opposition to the reported trade pact in testi mony betore the House Small Business Committee's Subcommittee on General Oversight and Minority Enterprise. At that time, he called the agreement "bad policy and bad bus iness as well". Joining in the strong opposition to the trade pact were representatives of the Council fo Small and Independent Business Associations, COSIBA, in cluding the National Small Business Association, , the National Federation of In dependent Business and the Small Business Association of New England, all pre dominantly white business groups. COSIBA is a coali tion of four national and four regional trade ciations formed promote the interest of small NBL, the only minority , organization in COSIBA, joined in the founding this coalition three ago. The fact that of the eight COSIBA mem bers testified in opposition to the trade pact under scores the threat to entire small business munity posed by agreement. Responding the Administration's reversal today, Burrell said: "The Administration's action today is sensible and wise. Yet, the contro versy which developed could have been avoided had the trade groups been asso-to common business. of years four the com-this to brought into the consul tation process before this ill-conceived position was made public. While we are pleased that the President changed his position, it is very clear that this reversal, in policy was the result of massive and unified pressure, exerted by small and minority trade asso ciations,, who joined forces with Congressional repre sentatives, notably Subcom mittee Chairman LaFalce and Minority Enterprise Task Force Chairman Ren n r- rarren Mitchell, prevent an agreement would have devastated minority private and inflicted untold on the entire small business community. to that the sector harm "It is critically important now that we intensify our efforts to determine the exact provisions of the re negotiated ' procurement code. It is still too early to gauge the real impact of the revised agreement on the minority private sector, primarily because we were never advised of the specific provisions in the original agreement. Ambassador Ro bert Strauss, chief Trade Negotiator, was quoted today as saying that the issue still was 'a terribly dif ficult one in the minority community. Just how difficult remains to be seen; but we are determined to find out. "Ambassador Strauss has previously agreed to with theminoritv groups to discuss the trade pact. Today's announcement by the Administration underscores the critical need for on going, systematic consulta tion with the trade asso ciations, and makes the up coming meeting Ambassador even important." Burrell fell short of declaring today's annunce ment a complete victory for me mmonty private sector ine nbl chief said futher information needed before the small, and particularly the minority business communi ty, could determine the meet trade with more that was benefits of the new agree ment. Since the minority private sector didn't know what was in the original agreement, it can make no assumptions about the bene fits of the revised pact, according to Burrell. Opposition to the proposed relaxation in the preference clause was attacked, in part, because reductions in procurement contracts for minority firms would severely restrict their capacity to generate em ployment opportunties in their communities. The National Business .was founded in 1900 by Dr. Booker T. Washington. It is dedicated to the build Continued on page 1 1 .ijii-.,MaJit,j,1,,i.JMrf.i
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