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VOLUME 57-NUMBER 13
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DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA- SATURDAY. MARCH 31. 1979
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P.J.E. To Host Southeast
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Partners-in-Ecumenism
(P.I.E.) is a project of the
National Council of Church
es. It will host its first
Southeast Regional Con
ference March 29-30, 1979
at St. Joseph A.M.E. Church
in Durham, North Carolina.
Speakers at this conference
include Congressman
Louis Stokes (D-Ohio),
Mayor Maynard Jackson,
Atlanta, Georgia, Rev. Dr.
William Holmes Borders,
pastor Wheat Street Baptist
Church, Atlanta and
H.M. Michaux, Jr., U.S.
Attorney, Durham, North
Carolina. Dr. Martin
Luther King Sr., is also
tentatively scheduled to
speak.
P.I.E. is a national
I.IUWUUW.
Ben Chavis to Spoqfi g!
Duke for ling Service
Wilmington Ten
defended Rev. Benjamin
Chavis, Jr. will be the
speaker at the Duke Univer
sity main Chapel Wednes
day April 4 at a Dr. Martin
Luther King . Memorial
Service. The worship service
is being sponsored by the
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity
to its black citizens will
be part of his sermon.
In bther matters re
lated to the Wilmington
Ten case, U.S. Magistrate
Logan Howell recommend
ed that Federal Judge
Franklin T. Dupree not
order anew trail for the
Ul
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Demand U.S.
Sever Ties
With S.Africa
United in their demands
that the U.S. sever its ties
to the racist minority
regimes in southern
Africa, student and com
munity activists throughout
the country will participate
in a week of coordinated
anii-aparthied actions,
April 4-11.
: In the first of a series of
activities throughout the
spring, students on the
campuses in the northeast,
the southeast, the midwest,
the northwest and Californ
ia, . will demonstrate for
divestiture of university
assets from firms doing
business in southern
Africa. Last spring similar
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In addition, PIE seeks
to develop a partnership
with the white church that
will enable the religious
institutions of America to
organization . of grass root , be strong and postive for
black churchmen and lay ces in helping America to
order anew trial for the
and the Duke Black Campus wUmington Ten. Howell's action; favolv tnousands
Ministry. - announcement took three Qf students at schools
Imprisoned since 1975 years. such as Harvard. Princeton.
Dupree is expected to Columbia and several Uni
hear the matter next versity of California cam-
Monaay
persons who are mobilizing
the black church to form
strong inter-denominatipnal
partnerships. TRe object of
these partnerships is to
develop and articulate
strategies that will revitalize
the church-based movement
that seeks social, economic
and political redress for the
unique plight of blacks in
America. f ,
become a better place for
all her people.
In June 1980, PIE will
host its first national
convention in Washington,
D.C. Here the delegates will
develop positions on all
major issues affecting
blacks. These will be pre
sented to the 1980 conven
tions of both national
and political parties. .
on generally believed
"trumped up charges", only
recently has Rev. Chavis
been allowed to speak in
public, Chavis is a student
at Duke University's
Divinity School and an
associate minister at
Russell, Memorial Church.
The Black Mass Choir of
Duke will provide music
for the affair which will
be the first instance that a
black prisoner has preached
in the Chapel.
Chavis' address, he says,
will be "The Dream Contin
ued". He says injustices
of underfunding black
colleges, and many other
abuses of North Carolina
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In related efforts com
munity groups and students
in New York, Boston,
Chicago, Minnesota, Oregon
and San Francisco will call
for banks to discontinue
making loans to South
Africa. These activities are
part of a growing
national campaign
HEW
SEEKING NAMIBIA'S INDEPENDENCE - U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
Andrew Young (L) and Nigeria's Amb. Leslie O. Harriman, this month's Security Council
president, leave the U.S. Mission following talks aimed at rescuing a floundering U.N. plan
for free elections and independence in Namibia.
sponsored and cordinated
by the Committee to
Oppose Bank Loans to
South Africa (COBLSA).
In the northeast,
activities are organized at
over thirty universities and
banks in Amherst, Boston,
New Jersey, New York
and Philadelphia.
Five colleges in the
Amherest area will hold
educational activities,
culminating in a march and
UPI
rally in Amherst on
April 7 at which Senator
Paul Tsongas (D-Mass) will
speak.
Harvard, Brandeis, Tufts,
Boston University have all
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Rejects
UNC Plan
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Funds To Be Cut Off Case By Case
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WASHINGTON - The
new trade agreement re
portedly approved by the
Carter Administration is
not only a retreat from the
President's stated commit
ment to minority enter
domestic, small and minor
ity business enterprises. In
consideration of greater
international trade op
portunities, the Administra
tion reportedly has
agreed to over-turn this
prise development, it is provision to allow foreign
an effort to the entire companies to compete for
small business community, the lucrative federal pro
curement expenditures. In
his testimony, Burrell re
jected the notion that
this agreement would pro
mote greater competition
in the business community.
He added:
"This agreement will
not increase competition in
the business community. It
will virtually sanction mono
polistic practices by big
business. No cosmetic
dressing can hide that fact.
Nothing in recent years can
rival -this trade pact in in
equality, injustice and dan
cer to the viability of the
small and minority business
community. Small Bus
iness already has to
compete with the likes
for Fortune 500 corpora
tions who have a-distinct
competitive advantage. With
this trade pact, we must
now tackle foreign cor-
That was the view express
ed Tuesday by National
Business League President
Dr. Berkley G. Burrell in
testimony before the
House Small Business
Committee's Subcommittee
on General Oversity
on General Oversight and
Minority Enterprise. In
his storngest words yet,
since terms of the Admini
stration's trade agreement
were reported, Burrell
blasted the agreement as
being, "not simply bad
ru-klirv Knt had business
as well". WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Corporation is
' "No matter how one Thomas' Ehrlich, president asking $337.5 million
looks at ' this agreement, of the Legal Services for fiscal year 1980 This
once cannot help but have Corporation, went before a . amount would enable the
h. o umnnrarv Cnat Annrnnriatinns Sub- Corporation to complete its
oHvontaoP for hia business committee last week to ask minimum access funding
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that congress provide me
funds that will assure that
all the nation's poor have
at least some acceSs
to the legal system.
Seeks Funds to Provide Legal
Assistance For Poor
is being sought at the ex
pense of the small and
minority business comm
unity", he said. At issue
is the recently reported
multi-lateral trade agreement
which would virtually elim
inate preferential considera
tion for small and minority
business firms in the award
of nearly $90 billion in
. federal procurement con-.
tracts.
Current procurement re
gulations, which have been
supported by four pre
vious American presidents,
require certain agencies to
set-aside portions of their
procurement business for
The Legal Services Cor
poration is a private, non
profit organization created
by Congress in 1974 to
provide financial support
for legal assistance to the
poor in civil matters It
funds some 335 legal ser
vices programs ; operating
out of approximately 900
offices in all 50 states,
the District of Columbia,
Puerto Rico, the Virgin
Islands, and Micronesia.
plan. Under this plan,
all areas of the country
would have legal services
programs that are staffed
at the equivalent of two
attorneys per 10,000 poor
people.
When the Corporation
began operation in 1975,
only six per cent of the
country's poor had access
to this level of service. By
the end of 1979, approxi
mately 90 per cent of the
country will have reached
this level. Ehrlich told the
Subcommittee on State
Justice, Commerce, and the
Judiciary that the $67.5
million increase over the
porations which are business community con
virtually exempt from the tinues to provide, the major
plethora of federal regula- ity of all non-farm employ
tions and interventionists ment in the country. Its
activities of the federal ability to create jobs
government that often through contracting oppor
strangle the smaller con- tunities will be severely
cern. limited by this pact.
"As a result, the oppor- Moreover, the capacity
tunity for international of the minority private
trade is clearly more feasi- sector to produce much
bile for large corporations needed employment among
than for small and minority black youth in its commun-
business firms. There may ity will be similarly restrict-
be some short-term bene- ed." And government's
fits to corporate America responsibility to promote a
in this trade pact. But the free, competitive economy
deleterious effect on the will once again be for-
American economy is certain feited. We cannot allow this
agreement to stand."
Burrell emphasized that
this is not simply a minority
enterprise issue, but one
which strikes at the very
heart of small business de
velopment in this country.
He urged the Administra
tion to reconsider its report
ed position in this matter,
and failing that, called on
the Congress to disapprove
the trade pact.
The U.S. Congress has
long recognized the
enormous competitive
advantage enjoyed by big
business in the American
economy. It has specific
ally sanctioned the set-aside
provisions for small business
in federal procurement. Just
last year, the Congress
sought to strengthen the
access of minority firms to
federal procurement
through passage of the
Omnibus Minority Enter
prise Act of 1978 (Public
Law 95-507). The report
ed trade agreement
would virtually destroy
many of the provisions of
that Act.
f:- Healm7Educatiorir -and
Welfare Secretary Joseph
Ciiifano announced Wed
nesday ' his Department's
decision to reject the Uni
versity of North Carolina's
court ordered desegregatior
plan. A day Iter Coleen
O'Connor HEW public
affairs director said HEW
could decide to cut
off funds to the UNC
system on a case by case
basis. Reaction to the
funds cut-off was expect
ed by state officials, who
had already retained a
Washington law firm to
represent the state.
Meanwhile reaction of
some of the state's black
leaders has been varied,
but solidly against inferior
funding of black campuses,
the core of the issue.
UNC officials and the
state legislature could
have avbided the eutofff
HEW officials said, if black
schools were funded
$121 million dollars, to
repair and remodel build
ings and develop new course
offerings. HEW had pre
viously submitted plans to
integrate white and black
campuses, which has been
opposed by many of the
state's black leaders.
Former State Senator
Clarence Lightner, Chair
man of the N.C. Black De
mocratic Caucus responded
to claims by several state
officials that there's not
enough money to meet the
HEW request to add
more money to the coffers
of the black campuses.
"If we can find enough
money to build veterinary
schools and new legislative
buildings, and put doctoral
programs on campuses that
:A alrtif a- Half itiMtit and
generally spend money where
they want to. spend it,
then we can find enough
money to upgrade these
five campuses" Lightner
said. "I just think that
the priorities should be
reset."
The Southern Christian '
Leadership Conference
Field Secretary Gooden
Frinks announced this
week a suit to be
filed later in the week
against Governor James
Hunt the state legislature
and the UNC Board of
Governors in the U.S.
District Court in Raleigh.
"We are going to file
suit to make them appro
priate that money and I
believe that this will halt
the move by the UNC
system, the governor and
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Claims "Carter Deceives Snail
Business Community"
current year's appropriation
of $270 million will enable
the Corporation to reach its
goal.
Ehrlich stressed that
much of the corporations
expansion of services has
been to rural areas. When
the Corporation took over
the federally funded pro
gram, almost all services
were delivered in urban
areas. Most areas in the
West, Midwest, and
South had no services at
all.
He also noted the Co
opration's effort to help
local legal services programs
obtain additional funding
from other sources and to
enlist the services of pri
vate attorneys in providing
free legal services for the
poor.
to be long-range. The small
WASHINGTON, D.C.- are subsidized bv their
The National Association of respective governments and
China Ambassador to UN To Speak at N.C. Central
China's ambassador to
the United Nations will
present a keynote speech
aT conference on the rela
tions of the three great
powers at 9 ajn., Thursday,
April 5, at North Carolina
Central University.
Lai Ya-Li, ambassa
dor at the permanent
mission of the People's Re
public of China to the
United Nations, will speak
at the conference's
inaugural session at the
Farrison-Newton Communi
, cations Building, according
to Dr. G.W. Choudhury,
director of NCCU's Center
for International Studies.
The conference is
entitled "The Great Powers
Relations: Washington Moscow-Peking"
and is the fifth
annual conference on
international relations spon
sored by the Center for
International Studied Studies at George Washing-
Other speakers for the ton University Dr Thomas
conference will include Ro- Robinson of the National
bert Barnett of the Asia War College Dr. Dimitri
Society, Dr. Sin-Ming Chiu J. Simes of the Center
of Temple University, Dr. f?r Strategic and Interna-
Victor Fediay of the Instl- tlonal Studies at George-
tute of American Relations, i?wn U"' d Dr:
Dr. Vladimir Petrov of Ross TerrU1 of Harvar(l
the Institute of Sino-Soviet University.
Minority Certified Public
Accounting Firms' Exe
cutive Director, Lydia A.
Hill, expressed dismay at
the latest ploy of the
Carter ' Administration!
supporting an international
agreement which has the
direct effect of dismantling
every regulation promoting
minority business develop
ment. This action directly
conflicts with Carter's
policy of only a year ago
requesting that Federal
agencies triple their procure
ment activities with minor
ity small business entrepren
eurs. Now, under the aus
pices of the International
Government Procurement
Code negotiated by the
Multilaterial Trade Negotia
tions (MTN) in Geneva, the
US. is accepting a concept
"to discourage discrimina
tion against foreign
suppliers when government
purchase articles for their
own use". To enact such
an agreement requires
waiver of the Small Busi
ness Set-Aside program. Is
not then the UJS.'d&ciimin
ating against its own sup
pliers when it asks UJS.
firms to compete in markets
where foreign suppliers
from Japan, Sweden, etc.
whose prices are always
lower than UJS.-produced
goods?
The MTN Agreement,
transmitted to Congress in
early January, must be
voted up or down by Con
gress. Once the MTN body
finalizes the document, no
item in the procurement
code is negotiableor change
able. Items which the MTN
are still negotiating in-,
elude: excepted Federal
purchases (not to include
services), doDar value of
procurement threshhold,
and agencies to be includ
ed under the agreement.
The Senate Government At
fairs and House Ways and
Continued on page 18
Sims Found Innocent
of Resisting Arrest
BY PAT BRYANT
Bobby Sims, was ac
quitted of charges this
week that he resisted an
arrest by Durham Public
Safety Officers on Febru
ary 1. Judge Mitlon Reed
also found Sims guilty of
not having a North Carolina
driver's license, although
Sims who claimed
his permanent residence is
Augusta, Georgia,
had a valid Georgia license
at the time.
Sims' case has been
supported by several
Durham organizations
which cited his arrest and
assault by police an an
example of police' ha
rassment and brutality
to blacks. As a result of
Sims' trial and several
others recently, the
county's - courts have
been accused of pro
tecting police srong
doings. Public Safety Officer
(PSO) Dewayne Jordan
testified that he had
waited near Sims home
to question him about
suspicions of another law
enforcment officer
Dectective AX. Pirham,
that Sims may have
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