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agreement simply recognizes
ongoing company programs,
such as our management training
program, will be continued and
'should achieve' certain normal
results for black employees, as
well as all other employees."
In short, McKinley said the
company will continue to do the
same things it has done in the
past.
Fred Rasheed, national director
of NAACP economic
development and the signer of the
statement of Drincinl^c roniH
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be reached for comment. Carolyn
Coleman, the NAACP's North
Carolina field director, referred
all questions about the statement
of principles to Rasheed.
Pat Hairston, president of the
local NAACP chapter, said last
Friday that he had not received a
copy of the statement of principles
and at this point was "in
the dark."
During a dramatic "Cage the
Lion" rally in Charlotte on Sept.
8, NAACP Executive Director
Benjamin Hooks told an excited
audience that the two arour>s had
reached an agreement ending the
nine-week-old boycott. The
NAACP voted at its national
Sykes case: <
And, what about the original
charge of taking indecent liberties
with a minor, for which Hunt
already was in jail when he was
arrested for the Sykes killing?
Was a minor actually involved or
was the woman really a prostitute
whom Hunt and a friend had
posted bond for earlier ? after
she had been charged as an adult
for prostitution?
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lvicinucrs 01 mc DiacK com-munity
also wonder if Hunt will
^receive a fair trial or if the police
department has acted swiftly in
response to the unusual media attention
the killing has received.
\^)>ile-tfi^y admit that the killing
was both tragic and brutal ? and
that Hunt, who has had brushes
with the law before, is hardly a
pillar of the community - they
wonder if he might become the
scapegoat for a police department
that has at times been
criticized for not solving
murders.
Doesn't Fit Initial Description
Police arrested Hunt on Friday,
Sept. 14, and charged him
with killing Sykes "with
premeditation and deliberation
and malice aforethought." Initially,
however, the police said
they were looking for two black
men, that Sykes had not been
stalked by her murderers and that
the killers had not plotted to kill
her.
Hunt, who wears his hair in
braids, doesn't resemble any of
the men in three composite drawings
released by the police immediately
after rtie^rmirder. And
his closest friend and companion,
Sammy Lee Mitchell, has said
repeatedly that he and Hunt were
together at the time of the murder
and that Hunt could not possibly
have murdered Sykes.
Although witnesses in the area
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convention in Kansas City on July
5 to boycott all Food Lion>
stores in communities with active
NAACP chapters. It called for
the boycott after two-year-old
negotiations failed to produce a
- Fair Share agreement.
Hooks told the cheering audience
that Food Lion decided to
meet the association's demands
only hours before the rally.
But McKinley said the two
groups met in Atlanta on Sept. 6,
two days before the national
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came to an agreement.
"In five or six hours we went
back to the statement of principles,"
McKinley said, describing
the Atlanta meeting. "We
signed the statement of principles
on Saturday morning, but we
reached the agreement on Sept. 6,
before the mass demonstration."
The only concrete number involved
in the statement of principles
is Food Lion's agreement
to increase the number of blacks
in the company's management
program from 79 to 158 by 1987.
The NAACP originally had askOrl
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The only item in the statement
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said two black men wearing darkclothes
were seen on Aug. 10 with
a woman identified as Sykes,
Mitchell said he and Hunt did not
wear dark-colored clothing that
day. And, although the police initially
were looking for two men,
only one arrest has been made.
Much of the state's case
against Hunt will rest on
laboratory analyses of hair and
skin samples taken from Hunt
and Sykes' body. Those tests,
said Ralph Keaton, laboratory
supervisor for the State Bureau
of Investigation in Raleigh, cannot
be used alone to prove guilt
or innocence. The results will
have to be used along with
eyewitness testimony and other
physical evidence, he said.
Other questions are being raised
about a separate charge
against Hunt that alleges he took
indecent liberties with a minor.
Hunt was jailed on the indecent
liberties charge early last week.
At that time, Acting Police Chief
Joseph Masten said, the evidence
in the Sykes case began to point
to Hunt. The murder charge was
filed last Friday.
Sykes, 25, was killed early on
the morning of Aug. 10 and was
found that afternoon on a grassy
slope along West End Boulevard,
behind Crystal Towers, a housing
complex for senior citizens.
The suspects described then
were two 20- to 25-year-old black
men wearing dark clothing. The
suspects were 6 feet to 6 feet 3 inches
tall with medium builds.
Police: Hunt's The Right
One
JHowthat Hunt has been arrested,
Masten said, he's sure
local police have the right man in
custody. But they have not
dismissed the possibility that a second
person may be involved.
"... We never discount the
theory that two, three or more
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of principles that satisfies one of
the NAACP's original demands
is the creation of a consumer advisory
council. That group, composed
of customer representatives
from the Food Lion
market area, will "advise the
company as to ways and means
of continuing high-quality service
ana proauction," McKinley said.
"It won't monitor the compliance
with the statement of.
principles," he added.
The NAACP had requested in
its Fair Share proposal that Food
Lion increase the amount of
business it does with black suppliers,
insurance companies,
banks and contractors and increase
its advertising with black
media outlets.
In the statement of principles,
however, Food Lion said only
that it will work to make im
provements in those areas.
Concerning minority purchasing,
the statement of principles
said, "The company will continue
to make every reasonable
effort to provide full and equal
opportunities to minority-owned
or -operated firms to do business
.... We will entertain bids from
any source, including minorityA
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suspects-might be involved in a
crime," Masten said. "But the
evidence in this instance will only
support charging one person with
the crime."
Masten said the police in^
vestigation leaves him with few
doubts about Hunt's arrest.
A search warrant issued to Det.
J.I. Daulton indicates Hunt's arrest
resulted from a positive idenS
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related suppliers, with a goal to ,
increase minority suppliers to the A
company."
As for black media, the statement
said, "... (we) recognize the
importance of advertising in
minority-owned media .... (We)
will make every reasonable effort
to increase the dollar amount of
advertisinc in hlarlr ?nH
minority-owned media."
The statement also said that
the company will utilize the
predominantly-black National
Bankers Association and the National
Insurance Association to
"identify appropriate areas
where it might expand its relationship."
Another commitment the
NAACP addressed in its Fair
Share agreement was for the
company to increase the amount
of contributions it makes to black
schools and minority-owned nonprofit
organizations.
The company said it will continue,
as it has in thg past, to examine
those requests made from
organizations and schools within
the Food Lion market area.
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tification by one of the witnesses."This
person is not a paid informant
and has not, to the best
of my knowledge, ever given false
information to any officer,"
- wrote Daulton on the search warrant.
"He is a long-time member
of this community, is gainfully
employed and has no criminal
record.
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