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Page A2 The Chronicle, Thursday, January 17, 198 V . *- . I NEWS DIGEST ? National, state and t Apartheid demonstrate v irn ? ? ? *"* i>j?w yukk -- so many people want to be arrested outside the South African Consulate here j that the New York support committee of Tran- < sAfrica now has a waiting list. < More than 140 persons have been arrestee since p Nov. 21 for blocking the entrance to the building in h protest of the Reagan administration's refusal to t use economic and diplomatic leverage to change t South Africa's apartheid system of racial segregation. s Demonstrators are taken police headquarters and t are issued summonses. The Village Voice reports that a criminal court judge recently congratulated a district attorney for dismissing charges against the first 43 persons arrested, calling apartheid "an 1 abomination." The next group which was charged ? with disorderly conduct was to appear appear in ? court yesterdav.' Supreme Court upholds WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 f decision last week, ruled that states may use affir mative action plans giving specific employment c preferences to minorities, a practice described as t "reverse discrimination" against whites. i The case at issue involved 15 white New York j ..U~ - -i -i ? (.jiisuii guaiua wiivj idiu uicir cnances 10 DC promoted to captain were hurt illegally when state of- \ ficials added points to promotion test scores of i blacks and Hispanics. c New York was not under federal court order to i implement the affirmative action plan, but did so in j 1982 when there were no minority officers holding i the permanent rank of captain in any of the state's \ prisons. <* 1 The Supreme Court ruled in 1979 that racial af- i Black former ambassad NEW YORK - Dr. Jerome H. Holland, an t educator, civil rights activist and former United 1 States ambassador to Sweden died of cancer Sunday at the age of 69. \ Holland was president of Hampton Institute in 1 Hampton, Va., between 1960 and 1970, and headed 1 another predominantly black institution, Delaware State College, for seven years prior to that. President Richard Nixon named him AmKltcO/4rtr tA J ? ' uu.)jouui iu jwcucu hi January 1 y/u, a post ne re- j tained for two years. He became the first black to t serve on l^e^board of the New York Stock Excjjaxi^e upon his return in 1972. He also was chair- j man of-Che American Red Cross and a member of > Coors increases minorit GOLDEN, Colo. - The Adolph Coors Co. says 1 it had deposited a total of $4.6 million in 31 t minority-owned banks throughout its marketing territory as of late December. 1 The company agreed to make greater use of minority banks last year when sales declined after j William K. Coors, the company's chairman and chief executive officer, reportedly made racist ^ The Rocky Mountain News quoted Coors as telling 110 businessmen at a seminar sponsored by > Denver's Minority Business Center that "One of \ the best things slave traders did is to drag your c ancestors over here in chains/' and that in Africa, r It is not that the dedication among the blacks is v r if [5 I Scribe worth "Diligent" I Hobbies: Listening to music, wot- I I citing and playing sports and design- I ing pottery Favorite Book: "Wakien" by Henry I David Thoreau 1I Favorite Movie: "First III I I iffM Person admires most: My father, I I Samuel McFadden Sr. career uoat: "To become great in g 'mSFpMf:'^dt5tre m m jj (if you are single, at least 18 years old, doing H something positive in^the community; these criteria, piemse send your name tfvut daytime telephone number to: Som&ne You I ShouM Meet, Winston-Salem Chronicle; ^.O. Box 2151, H .nston-Salem, <? focal news briefs compiled by Greg Brown rs on waiting list v Harriet Michel, chairman of the New York sup>ort committee, says she hopes the protests will :reate "a blizzard of bills in the state assembly and Tity Council that range from the divestiture of coronations to some type of sanctions." A bill to prohibit the city from accepting bids from corporations hat have operations in South Africa will be reproduced in the City Council soon. Michel says she thinks the term "waiting list" ounds frivolous, but that there are enough paricipants to keep the demonstrations alive for a coniderable length of time. TU J ?' ' muac uesirmg arrest have contacted Michel at he New York Urban League to schedule a time to appear ai the consulate at 425 Park Avenue. Legal lid attorneys are making themselves available to epresent the demonstrators. ; affirmative action irmative action plans are permissible when private imployers which are not under court order act to ;liminate "conspicuous racial imbalance in tradiionally segregated job categories." Last week narked the first time the court applied the rule to government employers. Technically, the court did not specifically decide vhether the 1979 decision should apply to governnent employers, but let stand a federal appeals :ourt ruling which left the affirmative action plan ntact in New York. Chief Justice Warren Burger ind justices William Rehnquist and Byron White to n?#? th#? onarHc* ~ ? .W ewiu wu VUJV IU U^VIUC ltd applicability to government employers, but at least four of the court's nine members must vote to review such cases. or to Sweden dies \ he boards of directors for the National Urban -eague and the United Negro College Fund. Holand graduated with honors from Cornell Jniversity in 1939, where he was twice named to \11-America football teams as an end. He received a Tiaster's degree in sociology from Cornell in 1941 ind a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in 1950. He was elected to the National Football Hall of Fame in 1965. Most recently, he was a presidential counselor md trustee emeritus at Cornell, which named its inernational living center in his honor. He also was the author of articles about the social md economic conditions of American blacks and vrote a book, 4'Black Opportunity." y bank deposits ess. In fact, it's greater. But thev lack the intellec :ual capacity to succeed." Coors, the nation's fifth largest brewery, currenty is marketed in 37 states and the District of Coljmbia. It plans to increase that number to 44 states n early 1985 with the addition of Illinois and the Mew England states. The company said it has deposits in 20 black >anksr six Hispanic banks, two women's banks, wo Asian ISSlnTfs and oneTCmerlcan fndJan^ffanT. "Our company has long felt a commitment to the 'arious communities with which Coors does >usiness," said Peter H. Coors, division president >f the brewery, "and we're gratified that our ninority banking program provides a procedure in vhich to demonstrate our continued good faith." > Crime Prevention New tenant robs The following "Crime Box Score" is designed to ItMn ur\n a Kr?ir :4--^ -- ;vu ?wi vooi ui ci iiiuiiaiv acuvny in your neighborhood during the past week and to help protect your family and property from crime. Armed robbery 1700 block, Center Street A man rented a room in his house to another man he had met earlier in the day. Later the same day, the man who rented the room pulled a knife on the landlord and threatened to kill him if he did not give up his money. The landlord had no money but did have food stamps. The robber took the food stamps and left. Police responding to the call saw a man fitting the description of the robber. They stopped him and he was later identified as the man who threatened the landlord. The robber was later Armed robbery-rape 400 block, North Patterson Avenue Three women and three men were having a party in a motel room when two armed men entered. The intruders tied up the men and robbed them. Then they raped the three women, tied them up and robbed them. The two gunmen are described as a black male about 5 feet 9 inches tall weighing 160 pounds and a black male about 6feet tall weighing 225 pounds. < Strong armed robbery 7~ . ^%Ai\ I I ^ - - - ? zuu diock, Nortn Liberty Street A woman filling out a deposit slip to pay for her electric bill reached into her pocket for the money when a man grabbed her from behind took her money and two rings. The man was described as a black male. 2600 Colburn Drive A man gave another man he didn't know a ride to several locations. 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IAKE X $ his landlord I around if he would take him to one more place. Arriving at the final place, the driver and the rider walked into an apartment where the rider had agreed to pay him, where the driver was robbed by the rider and another atacker. The robbers were described as a black male about 170 pounds and a black male weighing about 165 pounds and standing 5 feet 9 inches tall. Storebreaking 100 block, Walkertown Avenue A business was broken into and 10 video games were taken, as were a pool table, cash register, six bar stools and a wooden table. 1000 block, Cherry Street Police responded to a break-in in progress. When thev arrived a witn^cc fnlH - j t m ?? iv/iu iiivilA i 111 W J U3 I left the business and were running north from the chase. Two of the three were charged with storebreaking. The other faces charges in juvenile court. 1400 block, Douglas Sifeet A church was broken into and food was taken from the freezer. ? 3300 block, Patterson Avenue A business was broken into and someone tried to pry open the safe. Nothing was reported taken, j 800 East 14th Street A business was broken into and its office was ransacked. A portable TV, a calculator and telephone were taken. 1900 block, Jackson Avenue A church was broken into and an amplifier, two microphones and a reel-to-reel tape recorder were stolen. Housebreaking 900 block, East 23rd Street A black and white television was taken. 1600 block, Lincoln Avenue An assortment of frozen foods was taken. SUBSCRIBE I to the I ?ton-Salem Chronicle } TOD A Y I 722-8624 X . i I' i/.^. ' - ' - - - 1 " L \ Andre Joyner 15 CAMARO STK # 11$i / ^ ?? ? ? ' 59995 I >r tilt PAYMENT UNTIL MAHCM / IMS AT NO AOOlTlONAL / FINANCE CMAKOE / I ^ '85 CHEVY S-10 /I 4 Cyi>nO?' Stock ?13?0 / ? 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