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NEWS/ The Charlotte Post
Thursday, May 15, 1997
Apology just isn’t enough
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In the study, the Public
Health Service withheld treat
ment from 399 black men
between 1932 and 1972 to
study how syphilis spread and
how it killed.
The men, recruited at area
churches on the promise of
free medical care, were not
told they had the disease and
for years were denied peni-
cilUn, the standard treatment
since 1947. Another 201 men
who did not have syphilis
served as the study’s control
group.
. White House spokesman
Barry Toiv said Tuesday the
president has been consider
ing a proposal “to provide sup
port for such an institution at
Tuskegee,” but has yet to say
if that includes funding.
Eight of the men are still liv
ing and their ages range from
ANC engaged in
domestic terrorism
87 to 109. Their apologies will
be issued during a ceremony
in the Rose Garden. Four of
the survivors plan to attend
the ceremony in Washington.
“The president should come
to Tuskegee to make the apol
ogy,” said Fred Gray, attorney
for the survivors and their
famihes. “It would mean more
if it were done in Alabama, in
person, where the injury
occurred, where the people
live.”
The Tuskegee study still has
ramifications among African
Americans. Blacks are less
likely to donate organs for
transplant, although African
Americans are among the
groups most in need of match
es. A 1995 study done by
UNC-Chapel Hill professor
Dr. Sandra Quinn showed
that up to 70 percent of
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that sometimes brutal actions
were warranted.
“With the increasingly indis
criminate attacks on neigh
boring states and the vicious
ness of attacks on South
; African civilians by the securi
ty forces, it was decided by
special operations command
to attack military personnel,”
the ANC said.
Most of the incidents were
divulged in previous ANC
reports to the commission,
which is led by retired arch
bishop and Nobel laureate
Desmond Tutu.
In all, the ANC report
detailed 550 armed actions
carried out by its armed Spear
of the Nation wing, and anoth
er 100 incidents that may or
may not have been committed
•by its operatives.
- It tried to put the attacks
■into a political context, saying
■civilians were never targeted
ibut that the ANC gradually
accepted that such casualties
were unavoidable.
“We have not attempted to
argue that because our strug
gle was just, this fact justified
... unacceptable methods of
struggle,” Mbeki said.
Officials said because of the
ANC's loose, secret structure
at the time, field operatives
often were not in direct com
munication with their com
manders and were susceptible
to committing abuses in the
heat of battle. 'These included
“necklacings” - when attack
ers would put a gasoline-
soaked tire around someone's
neck, and set it afire.
The ANC said the circum
stances in which such attacks
occurred had to be considered:
rampant state repression and
TV program seeks
Mecklenburg issues
By Herbert L. White
THE CHARLOTTE POST
Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s
direction for the futiu-e will be
the focus of a live television
program Monday.
“We, the People,” which airs
at 9 p.m. on WTVI (channel
42), is sponsored by the
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Urban
League and features ordinary
citizens in discussions about
the county’s most pressing
issues.
“We, the people of Charlotte-
Mecklenburg, must all have a
voice in the future of our city,”
said Madine Fails, president
and CEO of the Urban
League. “This program is
going to show us some of the
ways we can begin to work
together toward a future in
which we can be the urban
model for America.”
“Conversation is what this
city needs, not confrontation,”
said WTVI general manager
Hal Bouton. “We are delighted
to be working with the Urban
League to help all our citizens
grow in appreciation for what
each of us adds to the commu-
African Americans suspect the
virus that causes AIDS was
created to kill blacks. In
Quinn’s study, between 25
and 35 percent of black
churchgoers in five U.S. cities
believed the human immunod
eficiency virus was created to
eradicate black people. An
equal percentage of respon
dents asked were not sure.
Distrust of public health and
medical research - spurred in
part by the Tuskegee study -
has hampered efforts to
reduce the spread of AIDS in
black communities.
In response to numerous
requests, the 'White House has
arranged for a special live
telecast of the apology to be
shown on Tuskegee’s campus.
Herbert L. White of The
Charlotte Post contributed to
this report.
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government use of hundreds
of informers.
Mbeki, Modise and
Transport Minister Mac
Maharaj were among current
and former Cabinet ministers
who applied for amnesty for
apartheid crimes on last
Saturday’s deadline. However,
Monday's hearings were not
directly connected to those
applications.
The ANC has said it does
not believe an application is
required from Mandela, who
was in orison for most of the
period the Truth Commission
is covering.
The report was the ANC's
second voluntary submission
to the Truth Commission on
crimes and human-rights
abuses which occurred before
1994's all-race elections.
It included a secret list of
“confessed enemy agents” for
apartheid. The ANC previous
ly had wanted the list to be
made public, but changed its
mind.
“We would not like to con
tribute to a culture which
punishes people for the rest of
their lives,” Maharaj said.
“There are people who worked
for the enemy who were reha
bilitated and have come back
to this country and are living
normal lives.”
The ANC said it executed 22
ANC members for various
offenses, including mutinies,
rape, murder and betrayal. It
named seven activists it had
killed for betrayal.
There was also a plot to
assassinate rival Inkatha
Freedom Party leader
Mangosuthu Buthelezi, but
the ANC refused to approve it,
Mbeki said.
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In addition to the citizens’
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