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set for a spiritual and religious
leader," the letter said.
The deacons fired Clark and
offered him his regular four-week
salary of $1,100. The deacons
asked Clark to turn over his keys
and said they would seek an injunction
against him if he returned
to the church.
Clark was charged and convicted
of drunken driving in
1969, in 1973 and again in March
1984. Three months later, Clark
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Larry Little said of the appointments.
'These Democrats have gotten
our votes time and time again,
but when it comes to being appointed
to a position like this, the
party ignores us.M
Little indicated that the
Democrats' reasoning behind the
two appointments was contradictory.
One the one hand, he said,
Masten was appointed police
chief in large part because he had
seniority within the department,
including seniority over Maj.
Oliver D. Redd, a black officer
considered in the running for the
post.
But on the other hand, Little
said, black sheriff's candidate
Capt. Eldridge D. Alston had 23
years seniority with the sheriff's
department ? six years more than
Oldham.
If politics is a process of giving
something with something else
expected in return, Little said,
then blacks have been?shortchanged
by the Democratic
leaders ~ especially in light of the
overwhelming support black
voters gave Democratic candidates
in this month's general
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13 black labor leaders and
thousands of others by the South
African security forces, what further
evidence do the American
people need that . "constructive
engagement" benefits no one, except
the white minority regime
there and some of its allies in the
American business commtnuty?
An American public ignorant
and heedless of the staggering
problems afflicting its own black
population can hardly be expected
to care about the plight of
those unfortunates thousands of
miles away from our shores.
What we can expect is a response
similar to that given to a helpless
Jewish population under the Nazi
regime ? malign indifference.
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was again charged with drunken
driving in Guilford County. In
addition to his last drunken driving
charge, he was charged with
simple possession of marijuana
and failure to comply with
restrictive driving requirements
(he had limited driving
privileges). The case originally
was to be heard on Aug. 16, but
has been rescheduled several
times since then. Clark's latest
court date was Monday, Nov. 26,
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election.
Democratic County Commissioner
James Ziglar won his seat
this month thanks to strong black
support, Little said, but Ziglar
didn't support Alston for sheriff.
And he cited strong black support
at the polls for Democratic
Commissioner Mabel Holton,
who was appointed to the board,
but lost her attempt to retain her
seat in a special election this
month. Holton also didn't support
Alston.
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were of Mrs. Holton this year,"
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percent of our vote and look
what she did. It's sad."
Harry James Jr., a black state
alcohol enforcement officer, was
one of three men from outside
the sheriff's department who appealed
to the commissioners for
the sheriff's job on Monday
night.
"It was wrong the way they did
it," James said of the commis?sioners1?appointment.
"They
should have given the voters time
to have some input into this.
They could have put a decision
off until Wednesday night or
Thursday night. It was done too
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ing sit-ins at the South African
Embassy in Washington to protest
the illegal detention of the
South African labor leaders.
The demonstrators - Walter
Fauntroy, the District of Columbia's
Delegate to Congress; Mary
Frances Berry, a member of the
U.S. Civil Rights Commission;
Randall Robinson, director of
the Transafrica lobbyist group;
the Rev. Joseph Lowery, chairman
of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference; and U.S.
Rep. Charles Hayes - didn't have
to spend time in jail.
But they chose to in an attempt
to focus renewed attention upon
the atrocities now underway by
the apartheid regime - and our
own government's smug acquiescence
of it.
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Clark said in August that he
doesn't deny any of the charges,
but that point is moot since he
has received the church's
forgiveness. Clark is asking that
the deacons abide by the congregation's
wishes.
4'We have already voted to
keep Rev. Clark," said church
member Susie Duncan, who also
is a member of the church's
deaconess board. "You are supposed
to be able to forgive. If you
don't like what's going on, then
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quickly."
James said the sheriff's department
has a number of racial problems.
Among them, he said,
were a lack of blacks in the
department's criminal division
and no black supervisors in the
uniform division, only a black
captain over the supervisors.
"We need to implement some
kind of strong affirmative actio%
program and issue some promotional
guidelines," James said.
He added that he is considering
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Shortly before Clark filed th
suit, the deacons changed th
locks on the church doors to pre
hibit Clark from holding service
inside the church. Even thoug!
the doors have been locked, Dun
can said that she and many othe
members, along with Clark, hav
continued to hold services at th
site, sometimes in the churcl
parking lot. Duncan, said sh
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hasn't decided yet whether he wi
run as a Democrat.
Lancaster's resignation ha
been anticipated, but it's timin
allowed the present Democratic
controlled board of commii
sioners to appoint a successc
before a Republican majorit
assumes control in December.
Lancaster, 63, had been sheril
for 14, years. He underwei
surgery Oct. 26 and spent six da:
in the hospital. He submitted h
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locked.
"You don't lock up something
ie that you don't own," said Dune
can. "The church is the con>
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people after God's own heart
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he did something wrong, it was a
sin. And if they (deacons) get so
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on advice from their attorney,
they had no comment.
Clark could not be reached for
comment. He listed his address
on the court papers as Miller _
Street, but despite repeated at-^
tempts, the Chronicle was unable
to contact him there.
The deacons have a month to
file an answer to Clark's charges.
Williard did not say when he
would file an answer, but said he
would stay within the law and
that the answer would clarify the
deacons' position.
tion by supporting Alson for the
post.
Returning from a closed-door
session, Woodruff nominated
Alston for the job, but her motion
failed for lack of a second.
Commissioner Neal Bedinger
then nominated Oldham, who
won on a 4-1 vote. Woodruff
then changed her vote so that
Oldham's selection would be
unanimous.
But she also urged Alston to
campaign for the post in 1986.
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