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Helms' press aide apo
GREENSBORO -- Sen. Jesse Helms' black campaign
press secretary apologized last week for using
a slur in reference to some supporters of
Democratic senatorial challenger James Hunt.
Gov. Hunt had charged that Helms was the
leader of a national right-wing network. When a
reporter from the Greensboro News and Record
asked Helms' press secretary, Claude Allen, to
comment on the remark, Allen said that if Huntwas
going to attack Helms' followers as right-wing,
"we could go back and do the same thing with the
queers." Several advocates of homosexual rights
have contributed to Hunt's campaign.
Allen, who turned 24 last week, telephoned the
Hooks assails Senate f
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The NAACP has called the
U.S. Senate "irresponsible and totally insensitive to
affirmative action and civil rights" following the
Senate's refusal to approve the proposed Civil
Rights Act of 1984.
The NAACP's executive director, Benjamin L.
Hooks, said he found the Senate action "unconscionable."
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"This act was the most important civil rights
measure before the Congress," Hooks said in an
NAACP press release. "This Senate action is
undeniably craven. The Civil Rights Act of 1984 did
not break new ground and would not have made
new law. However, the rights of blacks, other
avCivil
liberties endange:
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Reagan administration
officials and Congressmen from both parties say
the sweeping anti-crime legislation which the Dresi
dent signed into law last Friday is the most far,
reaching overhaul of federal criminal law in history.
The legislation, for. the first time, authorizes
preventive detention, by which judges can jail
allegedly dangerous defendants before trial. The
law abolishes parole, completely overhauls the
federal bail and sentencing systems,curbs the infsehre"
assetS'Of
organized crime and drug rings and increases
penalties for drug dealers, repeat offenders and
others.
Critics attacked key provisions of the legislation
as threats to civil liberties, but were overwhelmed
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Q: How many new black voters were registered for
this year's presidential election?
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A: Kathie Cooper, the county elections supervisor,
said accurate data will not be available until the
week before the November election, when the state
Board of Elections certifies registration totals.
However, unofficial totals as of Oct. 5 indicate
there are 139,722 registered voters in Forsyth Coun
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logizes for slur
newspaper shortly after the interview and apologized
for the remark. He later told reporters, "I could
probably have chosen a better word, but I can't say
1 regret saying it."
Helms, in Charlotte for a speech before the N.C.
Association of Realtors, declined to say whether he^
regretted Allen's language. "1 don't think I'd have
used that word," Helms said, "but I'm not going to
criticize Claude because he's a fine young man."
Will Marshall, a Hunt campaign spokesman, said
the comment revealed the true nature of Helms'
campaign. "It is a campaign that resorts to namecalling,
smears and epithets instead of debating the
real issues," he said.
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cannot be tabled and those who would deny equal
rights and equal opportunities will not be forgotten.
We have a voice and we have a vote."
The proposed legislation would have overturned
a narrow interpretation of the Civil Rights Act of
1964, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Age
Discrimination Act of 1984. It would have reaffirmed
20 years of practice consistent with the intent of
the civil rights laws, the press release stated.
Hooks said the NAACP would distribute individual
"report cards" on each member of Congress
highlighting the votes on the Civil Rights Act
of 1984 and providing an analysis of the 1984 election
platforms.
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by bipartisan votes in both the House and Senate.
The crime package cleared Congress last week attached
to a catch-all spending bill.
The critics also fear it will trample defendants'
rights and result in more overcrowded prisons.
"It is fraudulent to claim that these measures
which undermine fundamental constitutional liberties
will reduce violent crime or make this a caf**r
society," said Ira Glasser, executive director of the
American Civil Liberties Union.
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stateTaws under which 95 percent of all crimes are
prosecuted. The House Judiciary Committee had
bottled up the Senate-passed crime package for
months because of civil liberties concerns, but Congress
passed it as part of a $470 billion catchall
federal spending bill.
cs registered ?
ty. Of that total, 108,115 are white, and 31,458 are
black. Officials have not categorized how many are
newly registered voters.
Cooper said the county received 12,000 registration
cards on Oct. 8, the last day of registration for
the presidential election. The county still is receiving
voter registration cards, she said, which were
stamped before the deadline date.
Q: Whatever happened to the Otesha Dance and
Music Ensemble?
C.K.
A: Amatullah Saleem said the group is alive and
well. Saleem said the group conducts modern dance
classes on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday from
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Teen pregnancies p<
By Dr. M.L. CLARK
Wake Forest University _
Teen parenthood brings with it a number of
social, economic and educational problems that
may alter teen life.
Many teens fall victim to the unplanned pregnan>
cy while others will cope and overcome these problems.
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The Guttmacher Institute reported that teen-age
pregnancy decreases educational opportunities and
limits creer possibilities. Their data indicate that
the majority of teen-age mothers do not finish high
school and teen-age parents have even a lesser
likelihood of completing college.
Teen-age pregnancy, however, should not be seen
as the greatest cause of the high school dropout.
Almost one-fourth of black adolescent girls are not
I enrolled in high school by their senior year. Thus,
r many have left because of a dislike for school,
desire for a job or Dlans for marriage and not
because of pregnancy. Furstenberg found that the
best predictor of school completion for low-income
black adolescent mothers was their educational ambition
(which included how much they liked school,
their career plans, the plans of their friends, their
self-assessment of their school abilities), in addition
to the amount of support they received from
parents and the availability of day care.
Girls who are educationally ambitious are less
likely to have premarital sex and more likely to use
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)se social problems- birth
control if they do. It is possible that building
strong educational ambitions for black teens can
help reduce early pregnancies and also promote a
return to school for teens who do give birth.
Although early pregnancy does make it difficult to
finish high school, those who do finish are girls who
achieve well in school, have adequate child care and
have an opportunity to continue their education.
The statistics indicate that teen-age parents are
more likely to separate or divorce than couples who
marry in their 20sf Forty-four percent of teen
spouses are either separated or divorced 15 years
after marriage, when this rate is only 14 percent for
the nonteen population. This information should be
interpreted with care. /
Marriage is not necessarily the best solution for
the unmarried teen-^ager. These mothers are more
likely to finish schooling if they remain unmarried
and live with relatives. Black families have traditionally
given the type of support needed for teen
mothers to return to school. In addition, mothers
vounaer than 16 are less likely to possess the maturi
ty needed to raise a child. Thus, staying within a
cooperative family network is better than being
separated from the family by marriage.
Teen mothers react to their unplanned
motherhood in a number of different ways. Some
hastily marry the father of the child. Others usekfifferent
coping strategies and put off marriage to
continue their education.
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