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DUKE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY NEV.SPAPER EPARTE.T DURHAM (USPS 091-380) Words of -iTbdoa The world is moving so fast nowadays tkat a nan who says it can't be dost is generally interrnpted by someone doinf it. VOLUME 57 - NUMBER 18 22 PAGES DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA - SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1979 TELEPHONE (919) 682-2913. PRICE: 20 CENTS Jesse Jackson To Deliver ItfCCU Commencement Address ; i ' ! i i ,; Operation PUSH Founder Here For Finals May 20 Durhamite Selected For Second Star If ' II REV. JACKSON The Rev. Jesse . L. Jackson, a civil rights leader who has turned much of his attention to education, will be North Carolina Central's com mencement speaker on Sunday, May 20. Jackson will speak at commencement exercises at 9:30 a.m. at O'Kelly Field on the NCCU cam-. ty of life for the under privileged and minority groups. Operation P.U.S.H. was founded in 1971. Since 1977 much of its energy arid that of its founder has been invested in the program called "PUSH For Excellence in Education," also referred to as the EXCELL pro gram. Jackson has spent much of his time since 1977 speaking before high school audiences and other audiences interested in education. With young students in the audience, he speaks of their right to an education and their responsibility for achiev ing an education, leading the audience in a chant which includes the words, "I Am Somebody." Those words have come to be as much of a trademark of Jackson's movement as the song, "We Shall Over come," was for Dr.JCing. . k i Jackson will be lone of ,. two recipients of honorary v t ! v x -r h X f I . V ' i-uimiiwiwu,.' ' m,mff mm 1 :Z-J i Building For Equal Opportunity Dr. Jerome Bartow, Director of Employee Relations .& ITT Americas (2nd left), and Harold Anderson, Manager Public Affairs, ITT Corp. (left), present an ITT check in the amount of $5,000 to officials of the National Urban League's Black Ex ecutive Exchange Program, Renee DuJean and Napoleon B. Johnson, II, as part of ITT's continuing support of the League's activities. HARVEY D. WILLIAMS has been selected by Department of the army for promotion of the rank of Major General. He is married to the former Miss Mary E. Glenn of Rougemont and he is the son of Mrs. Addie H. Williams, 1603 Fayet teville Street, Durham and the late Matthew Dean Williams. General and Mrs. Williams have four children; H. Dean Williams, a recent graduate of West Virginia State College, Mark Erickson Williams who is completing his sophomore year at North Carolina Central University, Karen Denise Williams who is completing her freshman year at the University of Maryland in Munich, Ger many, and Joyce Lynne Williams, a graduating senior from Augsburgh Germany High School and a recipient of a four year college scholarship. General Williams is a graduate of Hillside High School, West Virginia State College, and receiv Continued on page 22 ' ' ' ' J- 9" iV-WA Yx -- imii in f - ., A MAJOR GEN. WILLIAMS lFdpQ(BQ(o1 f Jackson, ? nice ; runitcd ?rlJ-T--4 the young deputies of the late Dr. Martin Luther : King, Jr. When Dr. King founded in 1967 the organization he called Operation Breadbasket, to concentrate on economic equity, Jackson was ap pointed as National Direc tor. The Chicago minister founded, at age thirty, his own national organiza tion, Operation P.U.S.H. (People United to Save Humanity). The organiza tion's goals were to perpetuate Dr. King's non-violent civil rights ac tivity with a focus on economic rights and the improvement of the quali- Carolihi'rrA&T State University and Chicago Theological Seminary will receive the honorary Doc tor of Humanities degree. The other honorary degree recipient will be Dr. Ernest M. Manasse of Durham, professor, emeritus of philosophy at NCCU. Dr. Manasse came to NCCU in 1939 as a refugee from Nazi Ger many and remained at NCCU until he reached retirement age. He is a renowned authority on studies of the writings of Plato. Dr. Manasse will receive the honorary Doctor of Laws Degree. Incido This IJcotib Edition Coalition For PdlitlcdlJIMuscId" Punishmont Without Cditio President's Budget Let's Youth Down $40 MILLION FOR BLACK COLLEGES NOT ENOUGH SAY EDUCATORS AND LEGISLATORS WASHINGTON, D.C. trated on retoring funds Hundreds of delegates and opposing further cuts from across the country to food stamps, CETA. took their campaign to public, service jobs. CatAtol Hftt tast week to a counter - cyclmcal ; hvl I08f) which iHrfeaken housing and health pro grams which have already been slashed below fiscal 1979 levels. Further cuts will have serious impact on the unemployed and low income citizens around the country. Delegates sought sup port for a "Human Needs" amendment to in clude additional funds for child nutrition, discre tionary health, aid to the handicapped and standard public works if there is a 6'i per cent rate of unemployment. Delegates human needs programs. After intensive, day-long lobbying, delegates from religious, labor, civil rights, civic, social welfare and women's organization agreed to continue the fight to restore funds to federal programs for millions of Americans. A series of briefing and strategy sessions coor dinated by the leadership conference on civil rights preceded the lobbying ef fort. Delegates cor also sought a commitment from . - senators and representatives to oppose any - substitute . amend-' would also reduce human needs services. The lobbying effort will continue as the senate and the house work toward the May 15 deadline for their 1980 budget proposals. The Leadership - Con ference on Civil Rights is a coalition of 146 national advance civil rights for all Americans through enact ment and enforcement of federal legislation. It maintains offices at 2027 Massachusetts Avenue, NW. By Pat Bryant RALEIGH While Governor James Hunt and some legislative leaders LWV Calls For Moratorium On Nuclear Power Facilities The League of Women Voters of North Carolina passed a resolution at its sixteenth biennial Conven . tion here calling for a moratorium on the con- struction and licensing of new or partly constructed nuclear power facilities in North Carolina to allow time for determination of safe disposal methods, a review of plant safety and a life cycle costs. "The adoption of this resolution reaffirms the national energy policy to achieve conservation of energy to the- maximum extent possible and to pursue more vigorously . renewable energy resources for supplying an increased portion of oun energy requirements", said newly elected Presi dent, Mrs. Marion Nichol of Durham. Mrs. Ellen Ironside, Chapel Hill, was elected First Vice President; Ms. Diane Brown, Second Vice President, also of Chapel Hill, Mrs. Augusta Kletzin, Jamestown, Secretary, and Mrs. Nan cy Walters, Durham, Treasurer. Durham League delegatges were Mmes. Sharon Barr, Gail " Bradley, Julia Clark, Phyllis Noell, Helen Pratt, and Nancy Walters. Also attending from Durham as State League represen tatives were Mrs. Ruth Mary Meyer, outgoing President, Mrs. Marion Nichol, and Mrs. Judith Peterson. The Convention delegates also reaffirmed the League of Women Votgers long-standing support for the ratifica tion of the Equal Rights Amendment and to con tinue to work for passage of this amendment by the North Carolina General Assembly. Hunt Sighs Fair Housing Agreement By Pat Bryant RALEIGH Governor James Hunt signed an agreement last week with officials of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to seal North Carolina's participation in a program to encourage compliance with federal anti discrimination in housing " North Carolina became the first state to become officially involved in the "New Horizons" pro gram with several top Hunt administrators pre sent for the signing ceremony. In announcing his ap-, pointments to a task force charged with developing programs to support fair housing, Hunt said he wanted to make fair hous- -ing available to all citizens of North Carolina. "Our state has chosen to affirmatively and voluntarily undertake to sign this New Horizons agreement and thus become the first state in the Union to say to the world we believe in fair housing," Hunt said. The task force will be comprised of the housing committee of the North Carolina Human Rela tions Council which will work out strategies with the N.C. Department of Natural Resources and Community Development to implement compliance with the 1968 Fair Hous ing Law. Present for the ceremony were NRCD Secretary Howard Lee, Weldon Latham, general deputy assistant secretary for fair housing and equal opportunity of the U.S. Continued On Page 11 propose -to spend $40 million in physical im provements at the state's five predominantly black campuses, a sampling of educational leadership in dicates that thai amount will do little to change longstanding trends of neglect v imposed by the state funding apparatus. State leaders had negotiated with HEW to, spend $40 million on the black universities over a period of four years as part of a settlement of the UNC-HEW-NAACP Legal Defense Fund dispute. North Carolina is under the pressure of a federal court order which mandates that HEW cut off federal education funds unless an acceptable desgregation plan is of fered by UNC and ap proved by HEW. Negotia tions fell through last week, but state leaders still push the $40 million for the black campuses. A sampling of leader ship among the five cam puses indicates that the $40 million, unless it is heavily reinforced with state appropriations every year would do little to change the growing disparity between black and white state campuses. "It (the $40 million spread over four years) is really not a drop in the bucket," said North Carolina Central Universi , ty Alumni Director Bill Evans. "The $40 million is not enough, particularly the way it would be spread over a period of time." Of the $40 million pro posed by UNC officials, North Carolina Central would receive $7.05 million for ' building a criminal justice building, renovation of 25 buildings, and purchase of new equipment. North Carolina Central University Chancellor Albert N. Whiting, referr ing to Central's share of the $40million, said, "it does not address our. needs." Whiting and other black chancellors said they found out about the $40 million proposal from the newspapers and could not critically evaluate the impact of the anticipated spending. Fayetteville State University would receive $4.6 million of the propos ed $40 million, that is if the legislature approves. FSU Chancellor Dr. Charles .Lyons remarked, "$4.6 million will address some needs, but I don't think anybody has any il lusions that it would ad dress all of the needs." Continued on page 9 Howard Prof Narrowly Missed Falling to Amin Forces KAMPALA, Uganda (NNPA) Lawrence A. Still, associate professor of journalism at Howard University in Washington, D.C. who is on a Fulbright fellowship in Kenya, narrowly missed being turned over to a remnant of Amin's army last week as he headed in to his country on he Nairobi-Kampala Ex press. Four European newsmen were not so lucky and are reported to have been killed. Uniformed police and special intelligence agents at nearby Jinja, Amin's last headquarters in the country, declined to turn Still over to Amin 'forces and, instead, sent him back to Malabe on the border. "We don't want Amin's men to get you, or we'll never see you again," special agent John Wangera told Still. "We are not putting you out of the country, but we advise you to proceed to Kam pala in a few days when the situation may be dif ferent." Still arrived here Monday. At Malabe, Still observ ed a sure sign of Amin's defeat. The Uganda cur rency dropped to a tenth of its value, Money changers were offeirng 1 ,000 Uganda shillings for a 100 Kenya shilling note. One big question in Nairobi was why former Uganda President Milton Obote, who was over thrown by Amin in 1971, is not included in the new Uganda government, although he started the In vasion against Idi. The new provisional government of Uganda is headed by Yusufu Lule, former vice chancellor of Makere University here in Kampala. And at least five members of the govern ment arc former faculty members of Makere. Dr. Sullivan In Heated Squabble With Black Church Leaders Over Apartheid By Angle Dickerson Alice Weisman and Ethel Payne NEW YORK (NNPA) Over 300 black religious leaders and lay representatives from 100 cities around the country, meeting here last week in a three-day Summit Con ference, differed vehemently with Dr. Leon Sullivan and his plan for improving conditions for blacks in South Africa. His position was re jected by speaker after speaker, including Jesse Jackson. Kellv Miller Smith of Nashville, Johnstone Makatini, per manent representative of the African National Con ference; Ambassador Draman , Quattara, Organization of African Unity representative to the United Nations. Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, secretary-general of Inter national Freedom Mobilization; Canon Burgess Carr, secretary general of All-Africa Con ference of Churches; Am bassador Paul Lusaka of Zambia; and Dr. Joseph E. Lowery, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Dr. Sullivan argued that the blacks in South Africa would be considerably worse off if . U.S. businesses in South Africa pulled out. he said his plan calls for fair employment practices and improved working and living condi tions for blacks. And he said further that if the American firms do not begin to improve working conditions there, he, too would demand a pull out. But the church leaders insisted that the situation X in South Africa had already gone beyond the endurance of blacks, with no possibility of com promise by the white supremancist regime. Some said the Sullivan plan was doing more harm than good. Jesse Jackson called for a stepped up boycott of the sale of South African Krugerrand gotd coins as t form of protest; and Rev. Walker suggested that Children's Day each year become our Rally Day against apartheid.