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n ** C.VAVJ^’- ^iVf -C\-^ Ui'-''!230 ^-SC C6 VAl'-'^ (^THETkUTH~U»wi5E5|[ lUSPS 091-380) LOME 68 - NUMBER 39 C >ffxi DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA —SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1990 TELEPHONE (919) 682-2913 PRICE:30 CENTS Helms Declines To Discuss Meredith Letter ALEIGH (AP) - Civir rights ,ter James H. Meredith rwed [iccome "ihe most impormni ck Leader in America and the fl(j in a letter he wrote to pcssmen before joining Sen. ^Helms’ staff. |,'cnecd to know each other.... I ,io take control of all NAACP iches.... I to take steps to itiai persons with AIDS, Hard [ Drug Addicts, persons with jrable ‘Syphilis’ and Lunatics removed from the Black imunitics and placed in jilions." he wrote in the same [of January 1988. year later, he wrote directly to rs, asking "to establish a Ling relationship" with the Carolina Republican, lygoal is to become the base of future leadership of the Black f," the letter said. "In order to fliplish this mission I will have lake powerful allies." A month , Meredith asked Helms for a writing; "How' can this benefit ' Ii will put your Liberal ersaries on '.he defensive rding their charges of Racism bigotry ... " Meredith joined ns’ Senate staff as a legislative iiant on Sept. 5, 1989, at a imment salary of 530,000 to 000, ice then, Meredith - who ed renown in 1962 as the first \ to attend the University of sissippi - has stirred irovcrsy with statements iling mainstream black leaders. I Monday, the Washington jpaper Roll Call published an le about the letters Meredith :e before and after joining is’ staff. Meredith had given tilers to the newspaper, and \'ews and Observer of Raleigh wed them. : Icaers show that Meredith lily lobbied the senator for a beginning with a December 1 letter saying, "I consider you ;lhe strongest force in America 1} opposing the Liberal Ida." On Aug. 8, 1989 - a lb before Meredith joined the le payroll - he reassured the lor that criticism from fellow bwouldn’i bother him. am the one now holding the he wrote to Helms. "I can over 80 percent of all Black liives to jail from information iiQg in my own intelligence ralus." In his Ja’^uary 1988 ;r to Helms and other nakers, Meredith wrote of Apolitical and business leaders, ig: "My intelligence sources me that more than 60 percent involved in the Drug problem over 80 percent are tied to ileal corruptions." In July, ral black leaders demanded Meredith be fired because he e a similar accusation - on ns’ Senate stationery against 1,000 delegates to the NAACP mai convention. an interview Monday, Helms nded Meredith and declined to uss details of the letters, m not going to discuss my relationship with Dr. Meredith with you or anybody else," the senator said. "That’s none of your business. I know you’re trying to make something of it. But Dr. Meredith is a good man. He’s motivated by Christian principles." Asked about Meredith’s call for putting AIDS and syphilis victims in institutions. Helms said: "I have no comment about that. I never saw the letter. If you’re going to ask me questions about things that he’s written in the past, forget it.” As for the aide’s comments on black leaders, Hclm5 said. "I know that Dr. Meredith haj been greatly concerned about the lack of action by ihc civil rights leaders relating to working wiih the black community to upgrade their morality, reinstate the strength of the family and that sort of thing." Meredith, 58, declined to be interviewed Monday. "I’ll talk with you after the election," he said, referring to Helms’ Nov. 6 battle against Democrat Harvey Gantt, who is black. In a Sept. 17 memo to fellow Senate sud'fcrs, Meredith outlined his objectives. "The main area of interest is domestic policy, especially regarding the Black Race from the colonial period to the present," he said. "Much of what is today considered history regarding slavery is in fact originally abolitionist propaganda." He asked staffers to help him obtain information on 35 topics, including, "All major legislation on Slaves, Negroes, Coloreds and Blacks since colonial limes," "National and Stale laws and policy on Addictive Drugs since colonial times," "All available official documents on American involvement in Slave Trade," and "FBI, CIA reports, documents, etc., on the Black Race and National Security." Black Caucus Still ‘Mad’ At Bush Budget And ‘Bad’ Government ife. MISS NCCU Miss NCCU Crowned Terri Y. Rowland, daughter of John and Nancy Rowland of Durham, was crowned Miss North Carolina Central University for 1990-91 Sunday,, October?, in NCCU’s B. N. Duke Auditorium. ‘ A reception followed in the Alfonso Elder Student Union. Miss Rowland, a native of Durham, is a senior with a dual major in English / Media Journalism and Political Science. She plans to attend graduate school, and her goals include becoming a television anchor- woman. The new Miss NCCU has been a member of the NCCU Student Govem- meni Association, the Eagleson Hall and Annie Day Shepard Hall House Councils, the NAACP, C, A. S. T., the Alfonso Elder Student Union Program Board, and the Pan Hellenic Council. She has participated in NCCU dramatic arts productions vritten for the Campus Echo newspaper, served as statistician for the men's basketball team, and served as secretary at Baynes Hall. She is a member of the Alpha Lambda chapter of Delta Sigma Theta sorority. It’s Frog Flipping, Ferris Wheel-Riding Time Again RALEIGH (AP) - Workers have begun selling the stage for this year’s state fair and while food and rides are part of the props, the stars once again will be animals. Thousands of rabbits, goats, horses, sheep, cows and racing ducks will vie for space with balloo.i-loting youngsters Friday as the North Carolina Stale Fair opens for a 10-day run. The fair will feature a petting zoo this year. But the largest number of animals will be in livestock displays and the buildings housing rabbits and poultry, not to mention the horses. Lillian Young, who keeps track of animal displays at the fair, couldn’t tally all the critters. But she said nearly 600 rabbits and more than 3,000 turkeys, geese, ■ hens, roosters, bantams and ducks were on display last year. And then there’s Fiip-A-Frog, a game in which wet, rubbery frogs are catapulted into revolving lily pads. "Oh yes, Flip-a-Frog will be back. And the racing pigs will be back by popular demand - and racing ducks. That was hilarious," Sam Rand, the State Fair manager, sa’d Monday. Rand’s office directs everything from a country store display to permits for French fry booths. He’s also keeping an eye on the forecast, praying for fair weather, you might say, to bring in a hoped- for 600,000-plus visitors. Rand said 2,475 horses will be brought in for shows and competition at the Hunt Horse Arena, and there will also be dairy cattle, beef steers, sheep and goats raised by 4-Hers that will be judged in livestock shows. "This year we’ve got sponsors so that every kid is going to get something, even if he finishes in 15th place," Rand said. Corporate sponsors have put $22,000 into a fund for the By Larry A. Still Capitol News Service WASHINGTON. D.C.-CNS- fwenty of the 24 Democratic members of the Congressional Black Caucus continued to express their anger at the failure of President George Bush’s administration to address employment, education, health and security issues for predominantly African American communities by joining their colleagues and many Republican colleagues in rejecting a critically short-sighted Budget Summit proposal. With only 40 percent of Bush’s own party voting with about 40 percent of mostly conservative Democrats in supporting increasing excise taxes for more defense and military funds while ‘brazenly’ calling for cuts in Medicare and other social welfare benefits. Rep. Ron Dellums (D-CA), CBC chairman, eloquently led the congressional rebellion among both parties in the original 254-179 vote to "block the deal" after several months of "negotiations" ended in a White House summit As the President vetoed the action and threatened to "shut down the government", Dellums declared "budget summitry...has reduced the (government) process to a small cadre of (elected) members who have further eroded collective Congressional responsibility....Millions of Americans are now being held hostage by their own government..." Dellums not only asserted a leadership role in defeating the President’s recommendation to DURHAM TEACHERS " marched down Main Street Friday afternoon in a demonstration to emphasize the need for higher pay. (Photo by Mayfield) accept the original budget proposal last Friday (October 5), but the next day he urged the tense House of iRcprcscnlalivcs to hurry and Idclivcr the necessary two-thirds ! )lc to override the veto in the final inuu^s of a four hour debate, "so, :an get to my first bom’s wedding 1 time..." Sympathetic colleagues tempted to comply, but they lost irrowly, 232-168, when many embers abstained as Rep. Kweisi fume (D-MD) presided in the esing moments of the historic, Icviscd session. Immedkiiely following the first vote to defeat the objectionable compromise, CBC Executive Director Amelia Parker issued the following statement on behalf of the organization: "The Congressional Black Caucus today attacked the Budget Summit Agreement as an ‘unmitigated disaster’ and assailed the process that will bring to the Congress a package to devastate programs for the elderly, minorities and the poor. Angered by elements of the proposal which benefit the wealthy while placing regressive taxes on middle and low income Americans, ’the Caucus raised vehement objections to ‘concerted’ efforts to circumvent the legislative process...Caucus members leveled a scathing attack on those who have abdicated their duties to the people of this nation by making a mockery of the national fiscal policy while savaging already decimated federal programs..." In demanding the government take action to resolve the nation’s jtreatest economic crisis in almost (^• • liu'f On '' livestock competition. This year, 31 agricultural commodity groups have promoted their wares in a "Counuy Store" set up in the Kerr Scott Building. A barber’s chair, shocshinc stand, "feed store" complete with bags of seed com and beans are set up inside, along with cooler-counters for dairy and meal products. Dick Tippett was hanging wreaths from Rasland Farms in Godwin, bnt said his wares would be for display only. Catalogs will give shoppers addre.'^'Ses for ordering the North Carolina products. James Strates Shows workers were unpacking and setting up the Merry Go Round and erecting the skeletons of roller coasters and Ferris Wheels. The aroma of Italian sausage and fried onions was on the breeze, but the tinny sounds of rock-and-roll music were drowned out by the noises of construction. Sanford Urges Congress To Avoid Mistakes Of Budget Summit WASHINGTOL' DC — On Fri ; « Oct. 5, Senator Terry SanfO' urged that Congress adojjt a budget wi, n honest defieu figures and rejee deceitful practices liic budget summit. i^rccmcni would have allowed tt continue. "The problem with the budget summit agreement was that it turned its back, and would i. 'vc turned the nauon’s back, on the national debt," Sanford .said. "In five years it would have reduced deficits by S500 billion but still left over $1 trillion in deficits to add to the national debt. "The President predicted Armageddon if we did not pass the budget summit agreement. But I believe the summit agreement was a ticket to Armage-ddon. It would have put us on a fast track to a S5 trillion debt. "When the President proposed a budget summit in May, I said that the most imporuini thing we needed to pul on the table was, in one word, honesty. By lit)ncsty I mean honesty about the debt. 1 mean honestly reporting the annua! deficit 'O that Washington’s aiicniion will be properly focused on this nation’s most grave problem: the mounting national debt. The budget that While House and Congressional leaders agreed to in the sumniii makes worse, not better, ihc nation’s urgent debt problem." Sanford advocates using deficit figures that more fully reflect how much the nation rrows, which is what raises the debt. "Whatever additional money the government borrows during the year — that’s the deficit," Sanford said. His proposal is pending in Congress but was not part of the summit agreement between the White House and Congressional leaders. The rest of Senator Sanford’s statement follows: "Last fall the Senate voted to raise the debt limit beyond $3 trillion for the first lime. In two more years, even if we accepted the summit agreement, we would have to raise it to $4 trillion. Two years after that, we’II need S4.5 trillion, or worse. I do not believe the nation can survive that much debt. "Our national debt is like a credit card bill that has grown larger than a consumer can bear. What does the consumer do? He or she makes a minimum payment. President Bush and the budget summilcers presented Congress with a 5-ycar plan that would have paid only the minimum payment on the national debt. "Anyone who has a credit card knows the minimum payment is only a stopgap measure. It quiets die lenders, momentarily. Interest fees on the old charges continue to mount. You have to slop charging new purchases to make any headway against the balance you owe. I know people who have tom up their credit cards because their deficit spending got out of hand. "The essential problem with the budget agreement is that it was satisfied with a minimum payment — $500 billion over 5 years — without any regard to how big the deficit grows. The budget summilcers said, in effect, ‘Don’t worry about the debt Don’t worry about how big the deficit becomes. Don’t worry about how high the debt piles.’ "But I cannot be a parly to a budget that perpetuates dishonest and deceitful numbers that will hide, at a minimum, more than $1 trillion in debt buildup." "I cannot be a party to such deceit I have been campaigning for three years to bring honesty to the federal budget process, '^e cornerstone of my proposal is full and open disclosure of the federal deficit each and every year. Only by facing the debt, I believe, will we muster the resolve to get it under control. "The American people are demanding that we come clean about the deficit and the debt"
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