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T o / n / o 1 n r '1 U U U U U /\ Vv i_-1 i W X L fjORTH CAROLINA COLLECTION ^jiLCCN LIBRARY UNC-Cll rB 39313 rl-lARCL MILL NC Z7599-;393t h$ Can [^HETteUTHlJwfMSED?U (USPS 091-380) President Bush Says He Will Veto 1990 Civil Rights Bill WASHINGTON (AP) - The (fhite House said Friday that President Bush still plans to veto a liajor job-discrimination bill (espitc last-minute changes jesigned by proponents to (vercome administration (pjections. Presidential press secretary llarlin Fitzwatcr said changes iJopted by House-Senate conferees Jd not eliminate features in the ;ivil rights bill that administration ontends would encourage jiployers to adopt hiring and romotion quotas to avoid lawsuits. We still believe this is a quota II," Fitzwatcr told reporters. "We continue to believe a veto is warranted on that basis." The legislation would undo six Supreme Court decisions that civil rights lawyers claim make it harder for plaintiffs to prove employment cliscriminaiion. The While House statement and a letter by Attorney General Dick Thornburgh to Congress that summarized the president’s objections to the bill prompted accusations from a leading civil rights group that the administraiion was negotiating in bad faith. The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights charged in a statement that White House chief of staff WASHINGTON - President Bush is likely to veto the 1990 Civil ils Bill once it reaches his desk. With enough Senate votes to in a veto, Bush contends the bill ensures hiring decisions will be It with race being the major factor. (UPI Photo) John Sununu and presidential counsel C. Boyden Gray "insisted on provisions that would gut the bill and actually weaken civil rights laws." The group released a copy of a Sept. 21 proposal made by Sununu and Gray that it said woulc allow businesses to hire on the basis of "legitimate community oi customer relationship efforts." ‘Customer relations’ was the code word used by airlines to restrici flight attendant jobs to young. Single women," the civil rights coalition said. The administration’s proposal could allow law firms, banks and other employers to bar blacks or Jews or Catholics from certain jobs because customers prefer not to deal with them." Arthur Fletcher, a leading black Republican whom Bush appointed to chair the Civil Rights Commission, expressed dismay that the White House was listening so closely to business interests. "The business community, which seems to have the upper hand on this one this time, really doesn’t want to be held accountable for thek efforts with respect to hiring, training, development and promotion" of minorities, Fletehcr said. A leading Republican member of the House, Hamilton Fish of New York, also expressed regret over the White House statement. Fish said he and other Republican lawmakers who have worked on the bill have tried without success to meet personally with Bush to urge his support. There is still the outside chance" that Bush will sign the measure, Fish said. "1 don’t think the president is focused on this. How could he be with the budget, diplomacy and half a dozen other major issues?" Bush has coiiiinually said he wants to sign a civil rights bill but not one that would prompt hiring and promotion quotas. Thornburgh said the changes adopted Tliursday by House-Senate conferees "recognize that the bill contains serious deficiencies." But (Continued On Page 5) Trial Of White Supremacist Begins, Says Death Of Black Necessary UDI/CDC Receives $1.1 Million For Development NAACP Wants Probe Of Sting Tactics In South Carolina (KTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) - NAACP is demanding a il investigation of the FBI’s fion sting at the Statehouse leiermme whether black ikers were unfairly singled (attack and harassment. NAACP wants a complete igation into allegations of a standing FBI policy of "g and investigating black ^officials without probable said William F. Gibson, [(esident and board chairman National Association for the rement of Colored People, while, Sunday night about »ple attended a rally in * in support of four black os who were among nine te indicted as a result of the Use sting. *£v. S.C. Cureton said those '8 I' e rally were there to ' our brothers who were “P in the sting operation. « Civil War, the Ku Klux « formed to frighten blacks aiding public office. And 1990, we have the sting ® trying to get blacks out of 'I positions." Gibson, ! at a news conference Jid in conjunction with the "AACP’s 49th annual “1 here, released copies of " letter he sent to the U.S. idiciary Committee asking "estigation. aal grand jury indicted the ts on charges they sold h for cash. The sting, Operation Lost Trust," *yist working undercover *1 who offered lawmakers hchange for their support '®otual betting bill. The four black lawmakers, all of them Democratic representatives, are: Larry Blanding of Sumter’ Ennis Fant of Greenville, B.J. Gordon of Kingstree and Luther Taylor of Columbia. All have pleaded innocent and are awaiting trial. Taylor’s began Monday; the pthers are scheduled to be tried in November. Three other members of tht Legislative Black Caucus have been named by U.S. Attorney Ban Daniel as ''conspirators" in a chairman, refers to an alleged nationwide FBI conspiracy called "Fruhemenschen," set up to persecute black officials. Fruhemenschen is a German word for ' primitive man." "The NAACP does not condone or (Continued On Page 5) George Quick, chairman of the board of UDI Community Development Corporation announceu that the organization had received 1.1 million dollars in development funds. The funds would be used to support a two million dollar development project within UDI Indu.sirial Piirk as a part of its Phase V Development Plan and create over 300 temporary and full time Jobs within two years. The sources of the funds are the Department oi Commerce, Economic Development Administration 5685,000 and the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Community Sendees through ils discretionary program, $500,000. According to F.d Stewart, executive director of UDI/CDC, die funds represent the culmination of 18 months of planning. He said Phase V, which is next to the final pliase, involves an access road to nine acres of land locked property within the UDI Industrial Park and the site preparation and construction of two manufacturing facilities each consisting of 15,500 square feet. Phase V will be done in two parts. The street and first building should be complete during the second quarter of 1991. A potential tenant has been identified and is expected to emp'oy approximately 100 people when in full operation. TOI/CDC, a community based minority organization broke ground for UDI Industrial Park in 1977. Juanita Kreps, U. S. Secretary of Commerce at that time was the featured speaker. The industrial park consisted of 41 acres at that time and had only one tenant confirmed. The industrial park celebrated it 10th anniversary, April 1987, with Governor Martin paying special recognition to the organization :.s UDI officially cut the ribbon on a newly constructed budding to H..i occupied by the parks tenth company, W. W. Grainger, Inc. of Skokie, fit. Stewart said "The UDI Industrial Park now consists of 91 acres and has 14 companies operating in the park or committed to do so". Acknowledging the support of the Durham Chan bci of Commerce for the success of the park, he continued by saying, "it is now one of the most, il lu.t the most, developed induslr al site in North Cmolina because i.' the amenities". It is also the results of the minority community, working against certain adversities, developing an ,.''onomic source within Durham’s designated impact area to create a forceful economic (Continued On Page 8) PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A while supremacist being sued for SIO million over the slaying of a black man testified he wasn’t counseling murder when he advised racist skinheads to "kick ass.” White Aryan Resistance founder Tom Metzger also said Tuetiday that a witness who testified earlier that he was sent to Portland by Metzger to incite violence againsi minorities may have really been working for Portland police. Metzger, 52, of Fallbrook, Calif., and his son, John Metzger, 22, are defendants in a lawsuit brought by relatives of Mulugeta Scraw, 27, an Ethiopian beaten to death in 1988. The lawsuit contends Metzger indirectly caused the slaying by sending followers to Portland with a message of violence and hate for skinheads, young white racists recognizable by their shaved heads. Three skinheads, Kenneth Mieske, Kyle Brewster and Steven Strasser, have pleaded guilty to murdering Seraw. David Mazzella, former vice president of Metzger’s Aryan Youth Movement, testified earlier that the Metzgers sent him to Portland to organize local skinheads and promote violence against minorities. I didn’t call for imminent violence," Metzger testified. "I tcii the entire white working class of this nation figuratively and literally that they are going to have to kick ass just like our founding fathers did, I make no apologies for that." Metzger said he never meant for skinheads to hurt anybody except in self-defense. He also denied sending agents to Portland to start u-oublc. "I don’t have the authority, power or money to send anybody any place," he said. Metzger also acknowledged during cross-c.xamination by attorney Morris Decs that he accepted a ci 'lies t call from Mieske shortly after his arrest for Seraw’s murder. But he sai.-. he merely asked vlicske if he andr-rstood his rights .md if he had ’..lined an attorney. Dees also [.laycd telephone messages .Metzger rocor.J.s for the public, in one message .Mct/gcr said Mieske "may hasc done a -ivic duty by killing Scraw. in another, he ‘aid Ethiopians should get out of the United States. As Election Nears Political Sniping Heats Up to get money for their the scheme votes. Neither Democratic Reps. James Faber of Eastover and Frank McBride of Columbia nor Circuit Judge Tee Ferguson, a Spartanburg Democrat who left the House this year for the bench, have been charged in the case. Also, Rep. Kenneth Bailey, D- Eutawville, who is black, has been questioned by federal agents but has not been charged or named as a conspirator. Of the 170 members of Legislature, 20 are black. "We feel there’s a need concern when only 21 black Americans are or were members of the General Assembly when this sting was originated. However, 38 percent of those 21 were targeted for action by tlie sting. While at the same time, only 4 percent of the white members of that General Assembly were targeted," he said. ’’W^ the sting a conspiracy or coincidence," asked Nelson Rivers III, executive director of the state NAACP. "We want an in-depth investigation into this." Gibson’s letter, sent to U.S. Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del, the committee 4^ for ■jf’ GANTT RALEIGH (AP) - A proposal earlier this year to sell Umstead State Park to raise money for the state park system is a legitimate campaign issue in local and state races. Wake County Democrats said Monday. • Republican state Senate candidates last week cfiticized a letter from three incumbent Democrats that said Republicans had suggested selling the park to benefit their "wealthy Republican friends." They demanded that Democrats apologize for the letter. "The idea to sell Umstead Park to developers or anyone is bad public policy," Henry W. Jones Jr., Wake County Democratic chairman, said Monday. "It is shortsighted. It is shameful. And it does call for an apology - from the people who have been promoting the idea." IVake County Democrats approved I resolution rejecting the sale of Umstead Park and another idea loated by Republicans to transfer he park to the city of Raleigh, rhich would use part of the land to .evelop a golf course, petting zoo Md other recreational facilities. The idea of selling Umstead Park, hich was raised by an official in e state Department of ivironment. Health and^Natural ivesources, touched off a firestorm of criticism. Republican Gov. Jim Martin rejected the idea several days after it was raised. Elsewhere in poF'.ics, Dcmocra'ic U.S. Senate candidate Harvey Gantt campaigned i'- Durham and Cbajicl Hill, where aboui 2,C/'0 students came 'o hear him speak. Ganit brougnt a message ih.it seemed to please the students: Use cuts in defense spending, at least ir part, to boost education and clean up the environment, "It’s time for us to start spending less money on B-2 bombeis and more money on the education of our children," he said. "It’s time for us to care, to care about the people between 0 and 5 years of ap ' rather than spend $668,000 on a fax machine at the Department .N’ Defense." Gantt’s trip to the UNC- CH campus ended a day of campaigning that included a trip to N.C. Central University in Durham and a speech to a combined meeting of the Durham Rotary and Kiwanis clubs. The speech to the crowd of businessmen carried much the same theme as did his remarks to students. Gantt spelled out his post- Cold War priorities and touched on restructuring health care. Republican Sen. Jesse Helms was in Washington and had no public appearances scheduled in the state. On the Senate floor, HeJms (Continued On Page 5)
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