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Minister Loufs Farrakhan said
that Ronald Reagan is plannir
with Libya and Col. Muammar
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Americans not "to lift up arms
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By L.A.A. WILLIAMS
Qhronicle Staff Writer
The four Mark
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city-county school board generally
agree on what it will take to
shatter a tradition that has seen
only one black board member in
15 years: strong candidates who
can generate across-the-board
support.
Beaufort O. Bailey, the lone
black on the eight-member board
NAACP's lead
reports surplus
But critic challengt
By BETHANY KANDEL
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK - Benjamin Hook:
tor of the NAACP, said last Satui
rights group is stronger than ever
oil company boycott, but a critic s
don was in disarray and demanded
tion.
Hooks said at the NAACP anr
the group had a $2 million budget
made *'historic gains" in civil rigl
But Michael Meyers disrupted
challenged the organization's pot
group is not controlled by black Ai
ported by white-run corporations.
Meyers called for Hooks to resig
by many of the 300 members atten
"He (Hooks) has proven h
lackluster leader; he has not gi
leadership to the organization, wh
in terms of membership and
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at present, is also the only black
to win a seat since the city and
county school systems merged in
1971.
Bailey and fellow black candidates
Evelyn A. Terry, William
- R. "Bill" Tatum and Naomi W.
Jones are among 14 Democrats
who will contend in the May 6
primary for five slots on the
board.
Among those seats will be a
new ninth slot created last June
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Club that he will substitute mot
Bf banning Amer- Frank L. Frye t
ness with Libya, committee for s
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by the state's General Assembly.
The other four seats will be contested
in 1988. Board members
serve four-year terms.
"Of the 250,(XX) people in Forsyth
County, only 25 to 30 percent
are black,'* says Bailey, who
eieutsu 10 me uoara m iv/4,
then lost in 1978 and 1980 before
reclaiming a seat in 1982 by
leading the ticket with more than
28,000 votes.
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arpe's proposal was read by M
an. She did not attend the foug
icause of a death in her fami- ed a
"Mr
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ted the Joel resolution with try,'
>d. Northington and Frye that
nst it.
Hunt motion
By L.A.A. WILLIAMS
Chronicle Staff Writer
Attorneys for Darryl Eugene
Hunt filed motions Wednesday
morning in the North Carolina
Supreme Court asking the-court
to overturn Hunt's murder conviction.
Motions for appropriate relief
and summary reversal, made by
Hunt defense lawyer Adam Stein
in Raleigh, were filed in lieu of
Hunt's request for an appeal of
the guilty verdict.
Hunt, a 20-year-old black
man, was convicted last summer
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By ROBIN BARI
Chronicle Staff Writ
One of the h
business world re
the corporate lad<
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sonnel developme
Inc. was promote
fairs last week. T
wider range of re
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oments earlier, Mrs. Wood had
;ht back tears and her voice trembls
she ended her speech by saying,
s. Newell, I support proudly your
lution."
rhe war in Vietnam almost tore
t the heart and soul of our coun*
she said in her speech. "Yet, in
war, a citizen of Winston-Salem
Please see page A3
s are filed
of the August 1984 rape and
murder of Winston-Salem Sentinel
copy editor Deborah B.
Sykes, and is now serving a life
sentence. Mrs. Sykes was white.
The motion for appropriate
relief asks the court to reverse
Hunt's conviction and to dismiss
his indictment for murder. If
sranted. th#? mot inn u/nnlH fw
Hunt from jail, and from further
prosecution for the murder. As
an alternative, the attorneys ask
for a new trial on either of the
motions.
Please see page A12
rung for him
orporate ladder
' Bass promoted
KSDALE
ter
righest ranking blacks in the
cently climbed another rung on
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ss, former vice president of per;nt
at R.J. Reynolds Industries
d to vice president of public afhe
new position will give Bass a
sponsibilities and supervision.
rition will be much broader in i
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n environment around the world
loyees work, make our products
ids ? that is the h?t nnscihl# en- I
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position, Bass ensured that the
eral contract and equal employits,
coordinated its minority
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