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Hi THE CAROLINA TIMES SAT., MARCH 8, 1MO Civil Rights Update MOST SEGREGATED: The U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare's Office for Civil Rights ' has issued a list of the 100 most segregated school systems in the nation. The first ten in order of ranking are: LeFlore County, Miss.; Southeast Delco, Pa.; Cleveland, Ohio; St. Louis, Mo.; South Park, Texas; Birmingham, Ala.; East Baton Rouge, La.; New Castle County, Del.; Calcasieu, La., and Will County, III. JEWISH HOME: HEW has completed its investiga tion of the Jewish Home for the Aged in Reseda, Calif. They found that the institution does not discriminate against non-Jews or deny such persons the use of the facilities, services or residence. Based on three on-site inspections, HEW filed a report saying that the home was in compliance with its community service obligation under the Public Health Services Act. AMTRAK DISCOUNT: A 25 per cent discount to the elderly handicapped was started last month by Amtrak on all trips that sell for $40 or more one-way. The largest transporation discount in the industry will not be offered, however, to attendants traveling with han dicapped persons. ALIENS DEFENDED: The Justice Department is defending the counting of illegal aliens as part of the total U.S. population during the 1980 census. They urge that a suit brought by five congressmen Sen. Walter Huddleston (D-Ky), and Reps. Clair Burgener (R-Calif.), Paul Findley (R-IH.), Edward Der winski (R-Ill) and Henry Hyde (R-Ill.) and a coalition of environmental and population groups be dismissed. The suit asks for a preliminary injunction against the census unless illegals can be identified for the purpose of exclusion from the count. CULT SLAVERY: The pastor and three other members of the Church of God and True Holiness in Durham, N.C. and Florence, S.C., were recently in dicted on ten counts by a Federal grand jury for holding nine youths in involuntary servitude by forcing them to work and preventing their escape by beatings. Four of the youths were even forced to marry against their will. The three men and one woman indicted could each receive ten years in jail and fines amounting to $15,000. BATTERED WIVES: The House has approved and sent to the Senate a $65 million three-year program to "provide shelter and other services to battered wives, children and other victims of domestic violence. Rep. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) who is one of its sponsors, said that an estimated 1 .8 million women are beaten every year and one-eighth of all murders in the nation are committed by spouses. If approved, the bill would authorize $15 million the first year, $20 million the second and $35 million the third. SPEECH RIGHT: Regardless of political outlook, groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and American Nazi Party should be allowed to exercise the right of free speech, says the Missouri Commission on Human Rights. This conclusion contained in the Commission's 1980 message, was joined by a call to the U.S. Justice Depart ment to monitor the activities of such groups and pre vent violence. FEDERAL JUDGES: President Carter has named two former civil rights lawyers to become the first blacks on the Federal bench in Alabama. If approved bythe Senate, U.W. Clemons, a former, state senator, and Fred D. Gray, who had a major role1 in the Montgomery bus boycott, will have that distinc- tion. Gray, 39, was the late Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s attorney. Clemons, 36, was also a member of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the first black Alabama Senator since Reconstruction. BUSING ATTACKED: Three U.S. Supreme Court Justices have stated that recent school busing "in all too many cities" is causing white flight, resegregating schools and hurting the quality of education. Justices Lewis Powell, Jr., Potter Stewart and William Rehnquist expressed their views in a sixteen page dissent while condemning a busing plan imposed by a lower court in Dallas. They wrote, "The pursuit of racial balance at any cost is without constitutional or social justification. Out of zeal to remedy one evil, courts may encourage or set the stage for other evils." FIRING UPHELD: The U.S. Supreme Court has refus ed to hear the appeal of a Chicago elementary school teacher who was fired in 1977 when she refused to teach the pledge of allegiance and patriotic songs to he; pupils. Ms. Joethelia Palmer told school officials that, as a Jehovah's Witness, her religious beliefs prohibited th worship of man-made images because such activities were a form a idolatry banned by the Bible. They fired her and she sued the city school board. A federal trial judge" dismissed the case, so she appeal ed to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals whicl upheld the firing. She then appealed to the higher court LABOR REFORM: A seven-year suit against th Labor Department ended last month when the Depart ment agreed with a coalition of farm workers and civi rights activists to issue new rules protecting the rights o immigrant and seasonal farm workers and improvini services to them. The agreement will affect more than five million per sons and lead to the establishment of. a National Farn Labor Coordinated Enforcement Committee headed bj a Labor undersecretary. JOB RULES: New rules that will bolster equal employ ment protection for women, minorities, members ot religious and ethnic groups, handicapped persons anc veterans employed by Federal contractors have beer proposed by the Labor Department. Affecting about 300,000 firms, with contracts total ing about $81 billion a year and forty million workers, assistant labor secretary Donald Elisburg said the changes are part of a larger effort to improve the department's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs' enforcement activities. AGE BIAS: Judge Charles Richey, of the District of Columbia's U.S. District Court, has ruled that Federal government employees over sixty who retire on disabili ty, but are later rehired, must be given the same benefits as younger employees. He said that the policy of limiting these individuals to temporary positions or jobs where they could be forced out violates the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. ACCLTTIN3 THE GRANT - Muttae CUiiis. - iyjulwuiuuu btstk instion ijcated in AUania. Csctiw. recently awarded a $2,000 grant from Nabisco, Inc.. th national baker of cookies and crackers. Making the check presenta tion on behalf of Nabisco are: (from left) Jack Wiggin, Director of Community Relations and Hugh Harris, Manager of the Atlanta Bakery. Accepting the grant on behalf of Morehouse is Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr., pastor emeritus of Ebenezer Baptist Church. Also shown is Raymond A. McAllister of B& C Associates, located in High Point. Africa News Continued from Page 13 country. It contained a front-page biography of Mugabe aimed at smear ing the leader politically and personally. After journalists expos ed the ruse, a bomb blew up the Moto office and printing press in the Midlands town of Gwelo. Two people were killed, and the blast caused three quarters of a million dollars worth of damage. In addition, a rash of newspaper advertisements condemning ZANU as violently anti-Christian was countered by Mugabe with a public congratula tion of the churches, who, he said, "suffered im mensely because of us. . . .but stuck by their prin ciples. Lord Soames has refus ed to discuss his planned criteria for directing the formation of the in dependence government, citing in his defense the similar prerogative of a constitutional monarch. The governor concluded' his election-eve television and radio broadcasts to the nation with a remark, "A great democrat once said, Trust the people.'" In Zimbabwe, it's clear that once they have voted, the people will have to trust Lord Soames. Bokassa Cohorts On Trial AN Prosecution began February 18 in Bangui of 34 people accused of com plicity in atrocities com mitted during the rule of former Central African V 7 MEETTDDATSAIOiy RESERVE, A pot-bellied stove can be an efficient source of heat if it's properly installed lye .& Emperor Jean Bedel Bokassa. All the defen dants are soldiers, police or prison guards charged with murder and the il legal disposal of bodies. Two people have already been found guilty and , sentenced to death. Details of the incident last April in which more than 150 school children !are said to have died at Ngaragba Prison were disclosed by the prison's former security chief in testimony last Wednes day. In addition, his testimony unearthed other gory murders carried out under the former emperor's orders. In one incident, a general was. beaten to death with ham mers, and his genitals were then brought to Bokassa as demanded. Crowds packing the 2500-seat courtroom often responded to testimony with hissing and booing, which defense lawyers complained was influenc ing the court. The trials have also been broadcast -live, and normal activities grind to a halt as people gather around radios and televisions during trial ses-. sion. At times the Renaissance painter Raphael had 50 assis tant painters and craftsmen working from his designs. Some oak trees are 1,000 years old I m f . 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