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Ofe * I ; w, <A Reoort cites EMT racism By The Associated Press , BOSTON -- A speciai commission has issued a report charging racism by Boston's emergency - medical technicians and describing a case of a white man with minor injuries taken to the hospital before a black man shof in the head, who later died. The city-appointed Bostoj^ ; Human Rights Commission's report also identifies instances in which the city'? Emergency Medical Services Department allegedly dealt with minority employees unfairly, The Boston Globe reported Saturday. - The commission noted -one "notorious instance of inconsistent discipline" involving an unidentified EMS manager* who was reinstated to his former5 position after punishment for an alleged instance of racism involving patients. "In June 1985, he was involved in an accident where a Boston policeman (Caucasian) with minor injuries was given priority in treatment and transportation (Was denied) to a man (black) with a shot to his head, who was left behind and died." The manager was suspended without pay and recommended: for demotion, but following appeals he, was reinstated to his former position, the report said. Of the 133 emergency medical technicians employed by tfie city agency, 10 are minorities, the report said. Only one of them was hired between January 1984 and March 1980, the commission added. "It is just tragic that this has happened to a service that has provided a vital service for the city and has provided it well," said city Health and Hospitals CornPlease see page A2 * Gang wars Police here say By CHERYL WILLIAMS Chronicle Staff Writer . If \ir\ 11 thirtL' nf nonnf <-?c II JWU ill 111 r\ v^l 50115.5 giuup of young people who are closely knit, have a leadership hierarchy, display, extreme loyalty fo each other and specialize in crime,' then Winston-Salem does not have any, say police department officials. What the city does have, they say, are~loo$?ty knit group* of young people who "hang together." 44We don't have peo'ple walkr ing around in Hell's Angels outfits," mid W.C. Crump, a dctecMurder cha By The Associated Press ; Related stories on A12. NEW YORK -- Murder arid t other charges against three white youtffs chargcd with chasing a black man to his deaths were dismissed by a judge ^Monday when two other blacks who had been attacked refused to testify. ; However., Criminal Court Judge Ernest Bianchi sent the n" ? >, \ " ' r 'JT ?# - . ... *. Q ??Rev.Grov< ^ ? - - lights | to holp OK instor. U.S.P.S. No. 067910 m Uflf | Local telethon hostess Sallie H director at UNCF member schc Greensboro, makes her pitch fr National total: S By The Associated Press - LOS ANGELES -- Dozens of % celebrities helped ra ise almost $10.2 million in cash a<nd pledges for 43 predominantly black colleges through Saturday night's "Lou Rawls- Parade of Stars" telethon. The amount was expected to increase by about $1 million once late donations' were tallied Sun day, said telethon director Melvin Shaw. He said the seventh ,annual variety show raised $10,1:53,047 Saturday night. Among the 50 celebrities who appeared during the six-hour V ' we 're lucky no t tive in the Criminal Investigations Division of the Winston Salem police department. "We just don't have it. We're luckv we don't/' Manv cities -do. including , Southern cities such as. Atlanta and Jackson, Miss., which tradi- , tionally haven't been considered breeding grounds for gangs. In his dealings with young people here. Crump said, he has not noticed any organized groups. "It's mostly teens who don't F'tfave artv~tffrr?ftt>n, and they're going out breaking the law," he said. "What we have, we don't con- \ * rges against y case to a grand jury, which could restore the charges. He set bail ^ tor Jon I.ester, 11, at $25,(X)()and ? tor Scott Kern. 17. and Jason Landonc, 16. at SI5.(XX). I.undone and Kern posted hail i and were freed later Monday, said' corrections spokesman i .lames \Vhith>rd. ' i Meanwhile, police reported an i apparent rciMliatorv attack in which 10 to 12 black men ac costed and heat a fiiih'-skitnuvl r i * * , * r~ <? , % ' * * ' ^ * ^ ?s wants i-Sak The Twin City's Awa Winston-Salem, N.C. ^ I v ( JM ||53fcN ? & ? ~M 55J BK ^ifl nur> ^1 iayes, public relations Winsfc >ol Bennett College in volunt om the Hyatt Hotel in lines ( ii 0.2 million phone-in drive were George Burns, Bob Hope, Charlton Heston, Aretha Franklin and Bill Cosby. _ - 4VQur future in many ways depends on what happens with the youth of today," Rawls said _ Saturday* *4lf we can't get them on the right road today, we're going to look for trouble up the^ road. 4 Thirty -five 10 40 percent of * / our black politicians of today come from these black schools." The telethon was carried in 56 cities, Shaw said, with some cities adding their own presentations. 4 to have them in sider gangs here," Crump said. "They don't wear color insignias. The kids are real mobile, going in and out of tlie groups." ?Hesakl that he also hasn't noticed any strong ethnic ties among the groups, such as those .'hat exist in-larger urban cities. Winston-Salem does have a couple of groups of youifg people \s ho seem to "gang" together, said $gtL Jerry Ci. Matthews, supervisor oT the Juvenile Investigations Section of the police department. Birt Matthews said that he doesn't like to use the wore' "gang" in describing the croups here. * % outh^droppt > M i spa n ic ?n n v\ a I k i ng i n . Brooklv n. Hctore rhc ^judge's rtritne. ttpolice dcicct r\e had tcstititfd lhat I ester admit led to jx.>licc tllai he (old friends thai niehi "let's go kill" blacks tlies had spotted, hut !hat I estet later told police he reallv didn Tmean to sa\ kill. "I meant tosav let's tight tliein," he said > IJic "jml.'je also dismissed nanslauyhtcr and assault charges * * * 9 % 1 V* .% - E.W. Llbl observes M i ws My ylll Vi rtf- Winning Weekly Thursday, January 1,198 rtBBBB? I ' <r I I J F^t^I MfSdl ^1 '" !$$ IK_~r. ? - ?H 3n-Salem during Saturday's teleU eer operators trom the Triad mat - l - * -~ pnoio uy james Parker). WNRW, Channel 45, in Winstoneci the Triad telethon (photo by ^ Winston-Salem "If I had 10 friends and v\e hung together, are we a gang? y he asked. "I really hesitate to call them a 'gang/ " he continued^?That's? not what we got here. We have just a group of guys who like to pal around together." Matthews said he is hesitant to _name any of the groups that he has dealt with in the city. 4'They have names," he said. "Hut if you start giving credence to them, sometimes young people feel thc> have to live up to that reputation," ' Matthews said that there hasn't Please seepage A2 ;d; grand jar against the three, leaving , onlv tccklc^ endangerment charges. I he judge's tcaction drew screams ol protest from three da/en blacks in the courtroom, [he iudgc ordered them removed . The ihroe youths h >d been' charged in the death ol Michael ( iritliih, 2.1, \\ ho died late ihe nivihI ol Dec. 1^ or in the carh ?' mornin\ron Dec. 20 when he tried to tlee attackers chasing hini and 0. 6 Jt ? -\ J 1 cay The Tm ; Kwanza Turning PAOE B7. \ ' v V : ' *?j> & . 4roflic 0 7 50 cents . ______ v-/r SEsHj COVER ST Chronicle Staff Writer I Related editoria ?' X-?<-V-?*U*<hA4U?... * mM The local United I a late but welcome C passed its Triad fund & '^km in three years last Sa The Winston-Sale was part of (he sevi Star^" telethon that private, historically b The and team of McCoo, Ed M^Mahc m. ? i i ne nationally tele ^ and featured periodic ion. Behind her, ti^s 1 the telephone ,n'lhe Triad, wnr local fund-raising eft' Stations in Durham telethon cut-ins. ^ / Marilyn Baldwin, Bl telethon effort, said Triad cash and pledg Br Tuesday, with more ^ come. * "This is the first y 1^ Ms. Baldwin said. 44 ^ " %This gives us the pusl '87 completely organ campaign." Last year, the 3-ye? | ot 'ts $78*000 goal b: I According to figur m in Winston-Salem, t eludes Concord and S passing its goal* of $21 ^ j compassing Fayettevi jP. its goal, passing it SI 08,040. ' _ ? Salem felevis- Please lamoe Dorb/xr\ lauico ( ai r\ci /. ~b Channeling her energy: t w A 7 (photo by James ir Parker). 'V could restori two conipanin-ns-unci ran into the the path ot a car. chat The~-,aUacks in the- white 5 neighborhood of Howard Beach rC(^1 in Queens have been described by mcn * ' m Mayor I dward I. Koch as the cit>\ worst racial incident since he sv^a became mayor in 1^77. youl I aw vers tor two \ur\i\ors of .. the attach. C cdric Sandilord and ^ limotfn Cii lines, had insisted that their clients would not testily' a"at ihe lie.ii me unless the dri\ct ol 0 t . ^ ^ # ? \ ' <4, r' * * ** 4 ?> f 28 Pages This Week. ORY ; telethon ses goal ses $78,722 <\MS V , ? . . 9 I on A4. . 3 ______ pmwn.iuvurtQKj u..nv--a? ? Negro College Fund received Christmas present when ifr^Or-raising goal for the first time turday night. rrPbased fund-raising effort enth "Lou Rawls Parade of annually raises money for 43 lack colleges and universities. tion was co-hosted by Rawls emcees tnat included Marilyrv in and Jayne Kennedy. vised event spanned six hours cut-ins to local television staW, Channel 45, broadcast the ort from the Hyatt Hotel. i and Charlotte also broadcast who coordinated the Triad that the unofficial total in ;es had reached $78,772 as of dollars and pledges still to ear we've exceeded the goal,'* > We feel really good about it. i we need to go ahead and get lized and make it a year-long ir,-old Triad telethon fell short 1 more than $30,000. es from the area UNCF office he Charlotte area, which inialisbury, raised $208,247, sur30,000: The Durham area, enlle and Raleigh, also exceeded s $100,000 target to raise see page A2 RTS B5 LASSIFIED B15> < DITORIALS ORUM " M BITUARtES 17 EOPLE . JMfr- ~ ELIGION ?7 I!? PORTSWEEK ?1 IUOTABLE: "L Dwlght ooden is typical of lack Americans: buying hat they want and beggig for what they need." PAGE A5. e them _ car that hit Griffith was ged. ianchi denied a prosecution icm for a one-day postpone; it.-* * The people are bound by t they can produce, what they d produce and what they ft produce," Hiaiichi said, s tot' the murder charges. >c11 i \aid, "1 can't see that at see page A2 .y<i < j
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