2The Daily Tar Heel Tuesday, February 18, 1986
By KATHY NANNEY
Staff Writer
While some black leaders say the N.C. Democratic
Party is not serving its black members' interests, other
party leaders, black and white, have varying opinions
on the existence of discontent.
I don't know that I would describe it as a general
discontent' said Richard Whitted, second" vice
chairman of the Democratic party. "I think there are
some blacks who have expressed some concerns.'
Most blacks are more concerned about issues such
as job availability than with the party itself, Whitted
said.
"I think if you would talk to people at the grass
roots level, black concerns are on pocketbook issues,
with education concerns second," he said.
The Rev. E.B. Turner, pastor iof the First Baptist
Church in Lumberton and a member of the UNC Board
of Governors, said he believed there was discontent
among black Democrats.
The . . . party has called upon the blacks to support
(it) but when blacks run for office and seek to introduce
some changes, they are shot down," he said.
4 Everett Ward, director of political operations for
the N.C. Democratic Party, said he has not seen
discontent among black Democrats. '
"There are concerns black Democrats have that all
Democrats have, regarding the future politically, (such
as) economic issues, nuclear issues," he said.
Turner said there, were many instances when white
Democrats voted for a Republican candidate over a
black Democratic candidate in North Carolina.
I know there is a problem . . . concerning the white
election of black candidates," Whitted said. Blacks tend
to support white party candidates more than white
Democrats support black candidates, particularly in
the eastern part of the state, he said.
Ward said the Democratic Party needed to
encourage loyalty.' :'.r:- --y-'-1-
"If you look at some election returns in areas where
we (Democrats) outnumber Republicans two-to-one
or three-to-one., v . there is some degree of people not
sticking with the party," he said.
The Democratic Party has been criticized by the
Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow Coalition for
its second nrimarv wctw ffa. leading candidate fails
to gain 50 percent of the vote, a runoff is held to
determine the Democratic nominee.
Some black leaders have said their candidates may
win the first primary, but often lose in the runoff,
as white votes collect behind the other candidate.
Whitted said he. had mixed feelings about the second
primary. There are times it has worked against black
candidates, but it has at times been useful in
guaranteeing that a candidate is nominated with a
substantial vote behind him, he said.
Possibilities exist for blacks to separate into their
own party, Turner said. He said he did not know if
the move would be advantageous.
"Another party would clearly weaken the Demo
cratic party as it is now existing and throw victories
into Republican hands," he said.
Ward said he believed the Democratic Party was
trying to "address the concerns of all Democrats,"
rather than addressing the concerns of isolated party
segments.
"Black Democrats are very important to the
Democratic Party just like all Democrats are important
to the party," Ward said.
Gmmm-MMdmmm handicapped
By VICKI DAUGHTRY
Staff Writer
The Gramm-Rudman bill could have
a devastating effect on the lives of the
handicapped, according to Terry
Brown, assistant director of the Gov
ernor's Advocacy Council for Persons
with Disabilities.
The act is designed to balance the
federal budget by putting a ceiling on
the deficit every year until 1991.
Gramm-Rudman was recently declared
unconstitutional by a panel of three
federal court judges but this decision
is being appealed to the Supreme Court.
The bill would make cuts in various
areas of federal spending to balance the
budeet. Funding for the education and
l .? r l i I
employment training 01 ine nanui
capped is expected to be cut.
"A lot of children will not be receiving
the services they need," said E. Lowell
Harris, director of the Division for
Exceptional Children in the state
Department of Public Instruction.
Harris said his division was expecting
a 4.3 percent to 4.6 percent cut in
funding for the fiscal year 1986, and
a possible 30 percent cut the following
year.
James Barden, coordinator of federal
programs for the Division for Excep
tional Children, said he expected about
12,000 handicapped children would
dropped from school rolls unless the
state could replace the federal funds that
would be lost.
Barden said the act would cut special
programs to deaf, blind, and severely
handicapped children. Early childhood
programs and recruitment projects
would also be cut, he said.
Barden noted that state and federal
laws require North Carolina to provide
appropriate education for handicapped
children, but it is unclear how the state
will be able to provide this service if
federal funding is not replaced.
The state could lose about $9 million
of the $71.8 million it had expected to
receive in federal funds for education
for the handicapped in fiscal years 1986
and 1987, according to a Washington
based study group called Federal Funds
Information for States.
The state vocational rehabilitation
division also expects a reduction in its
ability to train persons with disabiities.
Bob H. Philbeck, the deputy director
for the division, said it could lose at
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least $1.4 million in 1986 if Gramm
Rudman goes into effect. He said he
expected even harsher cuts in 1987.
Of the 3.8 million people between
ages 16 and 64 in North Carolina, about
371,200 (9.7 percent of the working-age
people) reported they were disabled, the
1980 Census shows.
"Gramm-Rudman could be very
costly later on because many people
won't get help at a crucial time," said
Mac Brownlee, research and policy
analyst for the Governor's Advocacy
Council. "There's a chance that they will
become even more dependent on federal
programs which could cause further
deficit problems."
Syrian-supported guerillas
capture two Israeli soldiers
From Associated Press reports
BEIRUT, Lebanon Guerrillas
captured two Israeli soldiers in
Israel's security zone in southern
Lebanon Monday, and Israeli troops
swept north out of the zone in search
of the men, security forces reported.
The sources, speaking on the
condition of anonymity, said guer
rillas of the Syrian-supported
National Resistance Front umbrella
group ambushed the Israeli border
inside the security zone at 1 p.m.
The state-run Beirut radio quoted
unidentified United Nations sources
as saying four Israeli soldiers were
killed and four more captured by
guerrillas.
But officials of the U.N. Interim
Force in Lebanon said by telephone
that only two Israeli soldiers were
captured.
Union targets companies
BAL HARBOUR, Fla. About
a nationwide strike Monday against
the nation's four largest can manu
facturers after rejecting management
offers of $400 year-end bonuses in
place of an increase in hourly wages.
The union began officially pulling
its members out of about 75 plants
across the country at 3 a.m.
Minutes earlier, local union pres
idents voted 57-38 to turn down an
industry pattern-setting contract by
the National Can Corp., the third
largest of the four companies with
about 2,000 Steelworkers on its
payroll.
The three other companies also
struck by the union are Continental
Inc., with 6,000 Steelworkers on its
payroll; American Can Co., with
4,500 union members; and Crown
Cork & Seal Co., with about 600
USW members. ,
Tylenol discontinues capsules
due to cyanide poisoning deaths
Fof ho record
In a Feb. 12 article: "63 of 5
graduates employed full-time," The
Daily Tar Heel reported that 9.5 percent
of the survey's respondents were unem
ployed. The article should have read
that only 7.9 percent of the respondents
who were seeking employment had not
found jobs, and another 1.5 percent
were not employed, seeking employ
ment, or enrolled in school. The The
Daily Tar Heel regrets the error.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP)
Johnson & Johnson announced Mon
day that it will no longer sell any capsule
products directly to the public because
it cannot control tampering blamed for
the cyanide-poisoning deaths of one
woman this month and seven people
in 1982.
The announcement was made at a
news conference by company chairman
Jim Burke.
He urged users of Tylenol capsules
to instead switch to coated oval-shaped
tablets known as "caplets," and said that
Johnson & Johnson would replace free
any capsules now in the hands of
consumers or stores.
The ban was suggested Sunday by
Andrew P. O'Rourke, elected executive
of Westchester County, the New York
suburban area where Diane Elsroth, 23,
died last week after swallowing Extra
Strength Tylenol capsules tainted with
deadly cyanide. Investigation also
turned up a second bottle containing
tainted Tylenol in the same town.
O'Rourke suggested the federal
government control production and
sale of all drugs in capsules, but the
Federal Food and Drug Administration
spokesman William Grigg said the
government is not accepting such a ban.
"YouVe had this happen twice now,"
O'Rourke said, referring to poisoning
in Westchester County and the deaths
in Chicago in 1982. "I think it's time
that the government came up with some
type of a plan to prevent it from
happening in the future."
Meanwhile, 14 states and at least one
foreign country have also banned the
sale of Tylenol capsules.
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