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A Songbird
Songstress Maria Howell returned to Winston-Sale
her alma mater, Winston-Salem State University,
group whom she performs with at Jonathan's Jazz
film debut singing in the choir scene in "The Color I
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Black voter registration is on tl
SHREVEPORT, La., (AP) - Reagan administration
policies and Jesse Jackson s iy?4 presidential
campaign have played a a role in stimulating black
voter regaistration, a local NAACP official says.
"I think a lot of it has to do with Reagan's policies
against the poor and blacks," local NAACP President
Larry English says.
"Jesse Jackson's running definitely teas an impact on
blacks voting. Blacks are more sophisticated now," he
said.
Black voter registration in Caddo Parish has
increased during the past year while white registration
has declined, voter registration figures show.
Registrar A.W. "Buck" Fulco saysTaddo voting rollstotal
116,934,' a slight decrease in registration
compared with 117,054 registered during the same
period in 198$.
Percentage of minorities hire
BOSTON (AP) -- The city of Boston says the
percentage of minorities hired rose during the second
quarter of this year and more got higher paying jobs.
The Mayor's Office of Affirmative Action said 41.7
percent of employees hired during the quarter which
ended June 30 were members of minorities, compared
with 40.1 percent of those hired during the- first quarter.
The office said the newly hired workers brought to
Jemison: Children shouldn'
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Dr. Mae Jemison, the first
black woman chosen to become an astronaut, says that
although she is considered a role model, children need
to establish their own goals rather than mimic media
heroes.
"We need people who will take responsibility and do
_ the best they can, instead of looking up 40 rolemodels,"
Jemison said Sunday at a reception sponsored
by several community groups. " If I am a role model, I
hope it will be for those who want to do something
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- A New Hampshire man
who placed a want ad last month offering $1,000 to
anyone who finds him a suitable wife said Sunday he's
gottert more than 150 replies, gone on 10 dates and
hopes to have selected a mate by the end of the year.
"My social life is very active," Jim McClarin, a 41year-old
remodeling contractor from Meredith, said in a
telephone interview.
McClarin had advertised for a wife before, but found
his requests weren't specific enough. So four weeks age
he placed a 219-word ad in the Boston Sunday Herald
and offered the reward.
Among the qualities McClarin sought were
intelligence, literacy, creativity and inquisitiveness; a
desire to affect the world in some significant and
creative way; concern and caring for people; nnd a
desire to marry and have at least one child with him.
And bold, dark eyebrows. ?
"Even though my own eyebrows are not bold and
dark, 1 tend to go for that in women," McClarin said. "1
don't know why."
The. Herald gave McClarin some free advertising,
writing five stories about him in the week after his ad
ran.
"The first response to the ad contained a number oi
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m last Thursday' to perform a free outdoor concert a
Accompanying her was the Seventh Street Band, i
Cellar in Charlotte. Miss Howell is well-noted for he
?urple.H (photo by Mike Cunningham)
he rise as election approaches
Since July of last year, however, black registration ir
Caddo has climbed from 34,212 to 34,471, Fulco said.
During that same period, white registration declined
from 82,371 to 81,950, he said.
Fulco said voter decline in Caddo may be caused b>
several factors. He said purging and canvassing ol
voting rolls is one factor.
"Voting rolls are always fluctuating. People die or they
move," he said.
Because this is an election year, Fulco said he expect*
registration to increase as the Oct. 24 primary elections
near.
"We expect about 5,000 to 6,000 people to registei
before the Sept. 23 deadline," he said. "We have made
voter registration accessible. Because the sites arc open
until 7 p.m, many wuiking people have the opportunity
to register.
id on the increase in Boston
minorities employed full time by the city.
During the first quarter of this year, 56 percent o!
newly hired city workers for jobs paying less thar
$16,000 a year were blacks, Hispanics and Asians. .
But the percentage dropped to 47.8 percent during the
April-June quarter, while the number of newly hirec
minorities making between SI6,000 and 524,999 ros<
from 29 percent to 40.7 percent, the office said.
t just mimic media heroes
something different."
Jemison, 30, is one of 15 new astronaut candidate4
who will begin NASA training Aug. 17. The 13-man
two-woman group is the first new unit since the Januar>
1986 Challenger disaster that killed seven aboard.
She said she had no specific heroes as a child, focusing
?instead -on -hex uwn .studies and career-goals. She
received a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering
from Stanford University and a medical decree frorr
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Cornell University.
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women very much along the lines of what I wa
looking for, and I still haven't met them all or evei
talked to them all on the phone," he said.
"Some very well-educated women, some of whon
1 hold important positions, and I seem to be goinj
through a flurry of former beauty queens right now."
i After the Herald and wire service stories, McClarii
found his picture on the front page of the supermarke
tabloid Weekly World News, among the headlines abou
t the magician who accidentally sawed a woman in hal
and the farmer whose pickup truck was stolen by ,
I giant UFO.
> That picture and the story inside brought response
from around the country, although he describes those a
more entertaining than interesting.
"I've gotten some letters from 76-year-ol<
1 grandmothers saying, 'Forget those younger women 1
give me a chance'," McClarin said.
Many don't seem interested in the reward, or sa<
they'd give it to charity, he said.
[ "It was an attention-getter, I guess, but in terms o
people finding me a wife for $1,000, that hasn"
motivated very many of them."
McClarin strongly advocates advertising for th
1 lovelorn. He figures his ad should save him time an
money in his quest for a wife.
He said it's also helped his attitude.
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State of emergent
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) -- The governr
plagued by a costly 4-year-old civil war, on Sati
declared a nationwide state of emergency and si
was necessary because of a rapidly deterior,
economic situation.
A government statement broadcast over the of
OmUuriiian radio Saturday night said the move
taken by the elected government of Prime Mir
Sadek el-Mahdi and was endorsed by the state's
man sovereign council.
Sudan has been living under a state of emerg
since Gen. Gaafar Nimeiri was overthrown in ,
1985, but the statement didn't explain how the
emergency would differ. Government officials wer
immediately available for comment because of the
hour.
The northeast African country is struggling witf
percent inflation, severe commodity shortages, si
and the civil war.
' Rebels who control much of the largely Christiai
animist south are fighting a government and i
supported by the predominantly Moslem north.
. Foreign observers estimate that the rebels nui
about 30,000.
^ The government, which has a foreign debt of a
$12 billion, spends an estimated $390,000 a da
fight the rebellion.
The statement said the emergency intends to re;
dealing in foreign currency, control marketplace
I civil disorder and combat the hoarding of commoc
a and a flourishing black market.
X It-also seeks to combat smuggling, which it said i
the rise, halt interruptions of public services -
several anti-apartl
By LAURINDA KEYS
Associated Press Writer
{ JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Police detain
least 10 anti-apartheid leaders during the night in i
I crackdown on dissent, lawyers said Monday.
Azhar Cachalia, treasurer of the United Demo
f Front, the country's main anti-apartheid coalition
r taken from his h6me at 4 a.m. by two plaincli
policemen, said Ismail Ayob, head of Cachalia'i
r firm.
Johannesburg law firms reported at least nine le
of United Democratic Front affiliates were taker
. custody early Monday morning, and they said
leaders may have been detained elsewhere ii
country. Cachalia is of Indian descent, while the
detainees included Indians, whites and at least one, h
i Ayob said police informed him that three of his c
, detained dnring the night were being helc
questioning. .
Under a national state of emergency declared J ur
1986, police have the power to detain people wi
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cy declared in Sudan I
rient, obvious reference to the labor unrest -- reduce crime,
jrday rid the nation of unlicensed arms and defend against
aid it "enemies of democracy and the country," the
ating statement said.
The rebels are reportedly gaining strength, partly
ficial through increasing support from the Marxist
was government of bordering Ethiopia. H
lister The insurgents do not advocate secession but claim to
five- want a united Sudan with a secular government that
does not discriminate against southerners.
;ency Nimeiri ruled with an iron fist for 16 years until two
April weeks of street violence protesting conditions similar
new to the current ones led to his ouster.
e not Press reports said last week that 22 of his followers
i late were arrested for anti-govemment activities.
Members of El-Mahdi's government say Nimeiri
\ 100 borrowed heavily from foreign countries and that most
tikcs <ji me loaiieu muiiey was uususcu anu iiiiMiiaiiagcu.
It costs Sudan $800 million a year just to service its
1 and foreign debt.
jrmy There are periodic shortages of commodities, most
recendy matches, soap and motor oil. Other items are
mber available only on the black market at three to four
. times the official price.
tbout The civil war has forced hundreds of thousands of
ly to people to flee their homes and settle in squatter camps
around Khartoum and other major cities. The
strict government blames southerners and foreign refugees,
and estimated to number between 1 to 2 million people, for
lities an increase in crime.
is on Sudan has more than 18.5 million people and is about ?
- an 1 one-third the size of the continental United States.
ieid leaders arrested
charge indefinitely.
Cachalia was one of only a handful of front
ied al executive members still able to operate in the open.
Before he was detained, Cachalia had prepared a
i new
press statement criticizing the detention last
Wednesday of two other front officials and said that
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almost all senior coalition leaders were beine held.
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The United Democratic Front is a coalition of 600
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civic, youth, education, church and civil rights groups
and claims to have the largest membership of any
,ers anti-apartheid coalition in the country.
1 int0 By law and custom, apartheid establishes a racially
mo^e segregated society in which South Africa's 25.6
1 e million blacks have no vote in national affairs. The 5
,er million whites control the economy and maintain _
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?separate residential districtsr^ehools and health ?^
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, _ services.
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Unlike the outlawed African National Congress
V guerrilla group, the front espouses a non-violent end
lthout to apartheid.
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