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Grand Strand braces for bikers
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police will be doing a similar
noise crackdown, but bikers
shouldn’t worry too much if
they have the proper equip
ment on their motorcycles,
Myrtle Beach spokesman
Mark Kruea said.
“Having a functioning, fac
tory-installed muffler is pret
ty foolproof,” he said.
The city also has outlawed
other special events planned
for May, which means a long
standing feature, the Orange
County Choppers, won’t be
coming to this year’s rally.
The city has restricted ven
dors and outdoor activities to
the city’s Convention Center
and Broadway at the Beach.
Gene Lummus, president of
the Carolina Harley-
Davidson Dealers
Association, said he agrees
the event needs to be regulat
ed and he has tried to work
with county officials to reduce
the length of vendor permits
from 10 days.
“Nobody seems to want to
listen to this idea,” he said. “I
know that will help control
the rally if they control the
vendor permits, even if they
cut them to five days, it will
help the traffic.”
Outside the city, however,
almost 400 vendors have got
ten permits for the rally.
Despite all the changes and
restrictions, the number of
people booking hotel rooms is
up, said Gary Loftus, director
of Coastal Carolina
University’s Center for
Economic and Community
Development.
For the final weekend of the
rally, occupancy is 6 percent
ahead of last year at this
time.
Loftus projected the Grand
Strand hotels could surpass
last year’s occupancy of 90
percent for that weekend.
“The Harley-Davidson
event has grown from year to
year for the last five or six
years,” city spokesman Kruea
said. 'Tknow there are rum
blings in the biker communi
ty about how welcome they
are, and that is understand
able, but I don’t think that’s
going to dissuade anyone
from coming.”
Duke rebuffs Black Panthers’ protest plans
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expression. They were able to
conduct their protest,” he”
said. “What they wanted to
do was to conduct a march on
private property and during
final exams. I don’t have the
freedom to conduct a march
in your living room if you
don’t want it.”
Attorney Malik Zulu
Shabazz, national chairman
of the Panther Party and a
graduate of Howard
University Law School, said
“This is yet another example
of how blacks still have to go
through the back door.”
The woman in the case
alleges that she went to the
fraternity house, which is
owned by members of the
lacrosse team, to perform a
$400 strip show, but was later
pushed into a bathroom by
three men who raped, choked
and beat her.
Duke’s Reade Seligmann
and Collin Finnerty were
indicted last month.
The Black Panthers laid
out 10 demands, which
include convictions of the
indicted and expulsion of
anyone else involved.
As an attorney, Shabazz is
well aware that people are
innocent imtU proven guilty,
but said ‘We have conducted
our own investigation, and
we have found them guilty.”
The Dr. Huey P. Newton
Foimdation was foimded in
1993 in Oakland, Cahf., by
David Hilliard and
Fredericka Newton. The
foundation has objected to
the NBPP using its name
because members view the
new party as more of a hate
group against white people
instead of a group protesting
the white government or
establishment.
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Rice: Minority in Oval Office
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Ifexas attending an annual Washington conference of Latino
and Latin-American students asked the secretary whether she
thought it possible that "a Latino or Latina person or an
African-American person or a person from any other minority”
might become president.
“Yes,” she said, prompting first the knowing laughter, then
applause.
“I think it will happen, and I think it wiU happen in. my life
time” _ more laughter - “but it won’t be me.”
She said she bases her opinion on a course she used to teach
as a professor at Stanford University: “The Politics of Elites.”
The title means, she said, that candidates advance to the pres
idency by serving in some other capacities, such as a state gov
ernor or a senator.
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