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-,,70/91 DOOQO’ ^'^CHUIL S.?E NO 27599-3930 USPS 091-380 VOLUME 71 . number 23 OI^AM, NORTH CAROLINA-SATURDAY. JUNE 12, 1993 TELEPHONE (919) 682-2913 PRICE;30 CENTO Clayton: Disturbing Facts on Mexico Trade Page 9 1[ Jordan and Barkley Offer Ideal TV Match Page 12 [ FSU Gets Pennanent License for FM Radio Station Page 13 BCC Director Accuses University of Witch Hunt chapel hill (AP) — Days after saying the Black Cultural Center to continue without her, the center’s direcimBaid an investi- will not force [jVoif at the University of North Carolina at Chapel iff out. >1 ^iu never step down,” Margo Crawford said. "... I will not cut a deal (ith the university." The administration is probing allegati •ial imprbprieties at the center. Crawford said the purpose f 10 remove her as director. She said the investigation could I lobuild a free.standing Black Cultural Center at UNC-CH. Last month Crawford received notice from Dean of Stude [lonald Boulton that he had shut down the office’s fiscal operations Biding an investigation into the center’s finances. Tenter staff members can’t make long-distance telephone calls, send (ares, make purchases, mail packages, hire part-time workers or fulfill drnmiunents to independent contractors. Crawford said she was angered by reports that she had trouble for years jealing with money — professionally and personally. In December 1991, the university’s internal audit department found several problems with the handling of the center’s finances. Most of the problems were linked to sloppy record-keeping and poor security in the offices. But auditors also said Crawford had more than $600 in personal tele- |ihone calls and more than $200 in Federal Express charges, which went ineimbursed. The only attempted payment, the auditors said, was a check for $186.04 Itat was returned by the bank for lack of funds. In addition, Crawford sras said to be keeping a piece of artwork belonging to the center at her tone. The auditors made ^ecific suggestions for changes in the financia luanagement of the BCC. i According to Edward Capel, director of the internal audit department host of those changes had been made by the time his auditors came back last February to follow up. No criminal activity was identified, he said. ■This is more a financial noncompliance issue than a criminal issue," Capel said. "Our university is very complex, and you have folks who My not necessarily be financial managers in positions where financial iMnagemcnt is part of their job." Clarence Brown Indicted On Four New Counts A former Durlj^ City Council member and Nqift Caro lina Central University professor I has been indicted on four new counts of fraud, bringing to 16 the number of charges against him. Clarence Brown was charged Monday with two counts of passing forged xllecks and two eounts of obtainl||^money by false pretenses, according to court documents. In March, Brown was indicted on 12 fraud counts. He was accused of bilking $6,000 out of the city and N.C. Central. He has plead^ in nocent to those charges. Durham County District Attorney Ron Stephens said he will not seek to change Brown’s $5,000 un secured bond, the same amount Brown received under the 12 pre vious charges. Brown’s arraign ment on the four counts will be June 21. The indiptments accuse Brown of issuing two forged checks totaling $1,723 from an N.C. Central ac count for two students, who were not charged. Brown also was ac cused of converting the checks to his own use. Neither , Brown nor his attorney could be reached immediately for comment Tuesday. Brown was fired last yetf firom his $50,000-a-year teaching posi tion at N.C. Central but is appeal ing the dismissal. Senate Tentatively Approves Lottery BUI Mariah Carey was named UMI ‘Songwriter of the Year.’ See story on Page 2 Insights. NAACP Wants Guinier For Its Staff, Won’t Aid Clinton Search By $onya Ross [WASHINGTON (AP) — Tht offered to create a job min its executive ranks for Lani miif, but it declined to give litsidelit Clinton the names of idler people he could nominate as B chief civil rights enforcer. “VAACP Executive Director Ben- lin Chavis said Tuesday he Its to hire Guinier, a University Pennsylvania law professor, for isition with duties similar to ! of head of the Justice Depart- it’s civil rights-division. ie offer came after Guinier was . iped as Clinton’s nominee for plant attorney general in charge icivil rights. TTie president, ting to Senate pressure, said he Igrecd with her views tin special ing rights for minorities. 1 want Lani Guinier to come to p for the NAACP. I.want her to ' t chief advocate for civil rights," Ivis said. "The nation’s oldest largest civil rights organization irepared to give her what the ate would not give^er." Chavis not detail the position he’d lefor Guinier, but he said it •Id "give her... a key position to ncate civil rights in this country i litigator." The position, he would be within the National piation for the Advancement Wlored People, rather than the fACP ^gal Defense and Educa- E lhl Fund, a separate entity, ter liiorked for the fund for ■ years as head of chief voting Ws litigator. Je NAACP and other civil TO groups refused on Tuesday to Pniend any names to the ad- Bsttatipn to replace Guinier. P say they’re still angry that, l?!jteop^ Guinier. ' poii’t intend to submit any p until I talk to Lani about P she|g going to be doing," said. "It’s not just a matter ® sending up new names. It’s a ** of fir^ taking care of our sister who’s been injured by this." There are $i^ns black Americans are increasingly unhappy with Clinton. "The random sampling from people in the beauty shops and the barber shops and on the comer is, there is deep discontenL^ said Mary Frances Berry, a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. "The president’s support, overall, is still very low. Even people who don’t understand the issues feel he treated Lani Guinier unfairly." Jesse Jackson, head of the National Rainbow Coalition, said in an inter view he has not been to any White-. House meetings about Guinier, and has not recommended potential nominees for the federal civil rights post. "We have a number of people who we know are qualified. But if a law article that Lani Guinier wrote is offensive to (Clinton), the ques tion is where is he and who is he?" Jackson said. A few names have surfaced as potential Guinier successors. The most prominent are Berry, Wade Henderson, the NAACP’s chief lobbyist and Washington djrector; ■ffld NAACP Legal Defense Fund lead Elaine Jones. But all say they don’t want to join he Clinton administration. "If.he clearly intends to move to the right. I’d be the last person he’d be interested in having. And I’d be the last person interested," Berry said. ‘Special Provisions’ In Budget Deserve Closer Look By Definis Patterson RALEIGH (AP) — When House and Senate negotiators get together this week to work on the budget, the differejices they will discuss in clude 200 disagreements on "spe cial provisions." Those provisions normally are instractions to state agencies on how to spend the mbney they receive. An agency that gets $1 million for a program, for instance, might be insUucted in a special provision to see thaK$100,000 is directed to a specific project in that program. But sometimes, special provisions go a lot farther than that. A special provision in the budget several y^ ago repealed the ex emption that allowed bingo games for charity to operate while other forms of gambling were banned. That provision, written in legalese, was not discovered by the pubiic or most iegislators until several weeks after the General As sembly had left town. Those kinds of provisions, which bear no tiirect rdationship to the budget, worry Ran Coble, the exec utive director of the N.C. Center for Public Policy Research. The center — an independent nonpartisan group financed by indi viduals, corporations and founda tions — began keeping track of spe cial provisions years ago. "The things we have objected to are things that change existing law that do not pertain to the budget, things that establish new programs, things that establish boards and commissions and things that create new studies," Coble said. "Our position is that all those should be debated separately, but aren’t because they’re in the b udgeL" he said. "It’s not that these are bad ideas, but they should be discussed separately." Budget bills usiually take hours to explain on the House and Senate floors. But they rarely get any serious questioning because altering an item here or cutting something there will throw the budget out of balance. And a legislator who tampers withi another lawmaker’s pet pro ject idould find his own pet projects undeiT attack. A pirovision that makes it into the final budget bill is virtually home ftee. Legiislators disciplined them selves not to include far-ranging special provisions in the late 1980s tmd early 1990s, Coble said. But the House and Senate budget f ilans now being negotiated indicate tliat trend might.be r^ersiiig. "Their high point was 1985, when they had 108 of what rcall bad spe cial provisions," Coble said. "We had done reports on this in ’86 and ’87, sort of following each session. At that time, former Lt. Gov. Bob Jordan made it an issue in the Senate, and really the House had no choice but to follow his lead. By 1990, there were only 29," Coble said. "That was a short ses sion, but still comparable." Coble said he had not yet done a count on provisions that might qualify in the House and Senate bills. But a quick review showed dozens of examples of provisions that would fit the cen ter’s definition. Those included Gov. Jim Hunt’s early childhood initiative, a moratorium on community college satellite campuses, an oyster- management program, a moratorium on hazmdous-waste in cinerators, transfers of programs from one department to another, a By Dennis Patterson RALEIGH (AP) — A lottery referendum was tentatively ap proved by the state Senate Tuesday after senators cut the commission merchants would get for operating the games. "This thing’s kind of a toachy is sue anyway," said Senate Minority Leader Bob Shaw, R-Guilford, be fore the 28-22 vote approving the measure. ”... How are you going to explain to people that you voted to give the merchants 40 percent more than surrounding states for selling the tickets, when that money could have gone to education." Senators, on a 25-24 vote, rejected an amend ment by Shaw that would have cut the commission from 8 percent to 6 percent. Instead, they changed the commission to 7 percent. Most lot tery states give merchants 5 percent or 6 percent commissions. The Senate also rejected by one vote an amendment by Sen. Foun tain Odom, D-Mecklenburg, that would have banned the use of lot tery money to pay for advertising on television, radio or newspapers. "I know it will mean less money, but I believe it will serve.a better purpose,” said Odom. He said he was uncomfortable with the state buying ads to encourage people to play the lottery. But Sen. George Daniel, D- Caswell, the sponsor of the lottery training program for principals, several new boards or commis sions, and studies on everything from the Coastal Area Management Act to legislative budget practices. "In my opinion, the Senate bill is worse than the House’s in terms of special provisions," Coble said. Mosely- Braun Slips In Polls CHICAGO (AP) - The popularity of U.S. Sen. Carol Moselcy-Braun among Illinois voters has fallen slightly since her election in No vember, while the number of voters who disapproye of her has in creased, a new poll said. The Chicago Tribune reported that Moseley-Braun received fiavor- able ratings from just 42 percent of respondents in its latest survey. Just before the election, 46 percent ap proved of her. Both polls had margins of emn’ of three percentage points, meaning that chance could have accounted for the popularity decline, or even have masked a two-point popularity bill said Missouri had uied holding a lottery without advertising and it fmicd. "It won’t be a question of having less money. It will be a question of having no money," he said. Under the bill, voters would be asked in November to approve a state lottery. With profits going into an endowment fund. Interest from the fund, but not the fund itself, would be u^ to bu'y^gh technol ogy for pubdic schools, community colleges and universities. "Funds raised by the lottery could help us prepare our students for the 21sl century," Daniel said. "... My feeling is the citizens of this state should have the opportunity to say whether a lottery is to be m not to he.” Sen. Dennis Winner, D- Buncombe, said the endowment fund would give the state a way to pay for technology that could lift its public schools from near the bot tom in national rankings.' i "These tools, which ate very ex pensive, will give us an opportunity to lead the nation if we ean.fund it while others are not," Winner said. Sen. Clark Plexico, D-Henderson, offered an amendment that would have allowed public schools to de cide whether to use their share for ■ technology or for textbooks, per sonnel or other supplies. Daniel ask^ Plexico if he would agree to vote for the lottery bill if his amendment passed. . . : "My feeling is that-flte^ train seems to be on the track. It’s just a- question of when it leaves the sta tion," Plexico said. "When it leaves, I want it to be the best bill possible." "But will you be on board?” Daniel asked. ■ 'iNo, the lottery is wrong," Plexico said. "It’s bad public policy, regardless." The amend ment failed 36-14. Sen. Herbert Hyde, D-Buncombe, quoted from the Bible book of Amos in arguing against the lottery, saying it would promote the wrong attitude about success. "You are sending the wrong mes sage," he said. "We snould be tell ing people they ought to wo* lof a living, be thrifty and save their money, not laying about taking drugs, walking iq> and down the streets robbing people and these convenience stores that will sill liese tickets. "This is a no-good bill. I’m not going to justify my vote by saying tliat the people back home want me to vote for it If people ^n’t like how I vote, they can send me home." The bill came up fora gnal vote Wednes(]ay in the Senate, which has passed it three times be fore. It then goes to the House, where lottery bills traditionally have stalled.
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