__ * --- YOUR BEST """"“"I r - ADVERTISING MEDIA fYfcYYYfc AW V *Y^ Y ^ ^ _ BLACK NEWSPAPERS sssn^sr THE PHJfil TTP PAQT • CALL 37i u a people who will stay oppressed ” he said. But Chavis reserved his sharpest criticism for "the system", which he said "allows a few rich families to rip off the wealth of the working class, and makes it cheaper to die than to go to the hospital.” Chavis received inter national attention among civil rights activists when he and 9 others were con victed of burning a grocery in Wilmington during a period of racial turmoil in 1971. The Wilmington It) case became a major cam paign of the movement when it was learned that key witnesses recanfed their testimony in the case All are now out of prison on parole. with a toucn oitvony, Councilman Ron Leeper gave the city’s official wel come to Chavis by present ing him with the key to the city A dozen years ago Chavis was the pariah ot many city fathers when he organized student sit ins. anti-draft demonstrations, and a strike of sanitation workers 'll it hadn't been for Ben, I wouldn't be in posi tion to give him this key today, " said Leeper. re ' calling Chavis' wor.k__.in_ organizing the Black Poli tical Organization in 1968 "Ben has opened many doors for many people in Charlotte I hope this key will be used to open many more doors," said I^eeper In introducing Chavte, Dr. Bertha Maxwell, chair of the UNCC Department of African and Afro-Ameri can Studies reminded the audience that it was Chavis who led the fight for a Black Student Union and black studies program at the University in the late 1960 s. Speaking for People United for Justice, Rev James Barnett announced the organization's plans for a new campaign to free John McCombs, Jr McCombs is serving 65 years in maximum secur ity in Central Prison for killing a plainclothes police officer who broke into his college apartment in 1976 McCombs claimed self defense, saying the police men had a pistol pointed at see OLD Page 4 Presidrn i Depending hi War HKsteria b> \lfreda I MadiMjn Special To The Post President Carter has re fused all requests tor a debate, his press confer encesare highl\ infrequent and Re isn't going, person ally. to the various states carrying his campaign message to the people According to columnists Evans and Novak, the Pre sident is making from 20 to 40 telephone calls, daily, to individual homes to secure ' their votes Some of the Carter people are using warnings that if Kennedy is challenged, blood might flow The columnists fur ther state some of the Carter commercials begin, “whenever Senator Ken nedy pai.d.i ‘.iis •. '.s' vr i! the American future, his re cord catches up with him " The President seems to be sitting in the White House depending on the laurels of his war hysteria to usher him into another four years of Presidency. The American people want answers from their Chief Executive Since he says the Soviets' presence in Afghanistan is the great est threat to world peace since World War 11. why doesn't he respond to Senator Kennedy's quest ion. Is it graver than the Berlin Blockade in the Korean War, the Soviet march into Hungary and Czechoslovakia, the Berlin Wall. The Cuban Missle Crisis or Vietnam-’ In fact why did Mr Carter, know - me for almost two years that the Russians 3oiT5 mated Afghanistan, just re-, cently decide to take a stand? When the President's commercials attack Sen ator Kennedy's opposition to higher defense- spending, “Mr Carter seems to have forgotten his campaign promise to cut defense ap propriations, and when he says that 71 percent of the Senator s tax proposals have not passed, why tsn ! he fair enough to the American people !o miv "and that my own com plete tax program has been buried by the congress’’ ' Why doesn't he tell the American people that they need to get into a race car to keep up with his ever ehanging. llounderiPil foreign policy’’ He said in his State of the Union mes sage that any outside force attempt to gpf control of the Persian Gulf region, would he repelled by rnilit ary action if necessary. Six days later he said that at this time and in the future that we will not be able militarily to defend the region alone Mr. Carter talked of modest aid to Pakistan of around $400 million Yet, Mr Brzezin ski, the Security Council Advisor was sent to Pak istan a few days later with the message that the $400 million was just a beginning. Perhaps Mr Carter is in hiding because his past record and present pro posals are hard to explain