Wi ' ' V t Vol. XIV, NO. 8 jm 11 IBia Wt. I ifL~f 'T*T:v < H fa |?~ ' ! ,^^HH|||^^HhMK ft' H TTW ' U am UNCF sets 5 By CHERYL WILLIAMS Chronicle Staff Writer Last year was a good year for the organizers in the Triad hope that this yw Last year when the televised tclei Winston-Salem, Greensboro and High F its $78,000 goal by $722. It was the effort's three-year history that the goal \ Marilyn Baldwin, assistant area d UNCF, said that last year's fund-raising t K/i Trinrl UIV II IUU . And this year, with a Triad goal of 4 Chisholm:. By BERNIE WILSON i Associated Press Writer ? t PULLMAN, Wash. -- Former r Congrcsswoman Shirley Chisholm says there's talk that Elizabeth Dole J will be brought out "at the xcrn hour" and put on the ticket with 1 Vice President George Bush in an 1 effort to attract the vote of moderate Democratic women. 5 Mrs. Dole, the wife of GOP presi- ; dential contender Sen. Robert 1 Dole, R-Kan., recently resigned as 5 secretary of transportation. ( Mrs. Chisholm, speaking at WashBork's rejecti< Rainhnu/ Pnal By JOHN FLESHER I Associated Press Writer RALEIGH ? The National Rain- t bow Coalition kicked on its nation- f al convention Friday, and its leaders said the apparent failure of Robert \ Bork's nomination to the U.S. i Supreme Court demonstrated the organization s growing cTout. 1 Ron Daniels, executive director of ; the Washington-based organization * founded by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, f said the coalition helped register 2 j million new voters who were instrumental in electing 10 new > _. , . * hstoi U.S.P.S. No. 067910 |fll . " .;. j&s&m i >'"*':* -warn - , ,< I ' -; 'sx.&gm ~H~ 1M? ' i '$m , <* ' yi^^E i ^ 'i -^s v flfl f*P' . * Jm |jS^^ ' M|i IPPF^ ^TUM 4*9+ m 579,000 Trii f i United Negro College Fund, and tr will be even betlcr. thon went off the air, the Triad -*oint -- had succeeded in surpassing first time in the local fund-Vaising lad been exceeded. Icvclopmcnt director of the state's brought in a total of $97,242 from $79,(XX), organizers arc gearing up o Jackson hi ngion State University last week, idded that the Democratic presidenial candidate might be "someone lot out there now." She added that the Rev. Jesse (ackson should have "a fantastic :hancc" and predicted he would he imong the top two vote-getters in he Super Tuesday primaries. On another topic, Mrs. Chisholm <aid the 1980s spawned college students in the * mc-too syndrome," ess attuned to social causes than students in the previous two J - -M _ jccaacs. "I have no problem with thai, but in shows ition's clout Democratic senators in 19K6. "Without the 10 new senators ... hen the question of Bork would lave been academic," Daniels said. The question is impact ... and the Rainbow Coalition has an ou islandng record in that regard." The Senate has yet to vote on 3orVs nomination, but an Associued Press tally showed 53 senators, \ majority, on record aeainst con w / ' "O" * irmation. Bork vowed Friday not o withdraw his nomination. Jackson isschedulcdio announce Please see page A3 4 * * ? == Wrw , bocK^w- <-3 ?s ' v/.iJ M& 4Ht %*? .^mL -. Hrn&tLi* ::'*r>*<:- i * ?SE raw ao t W\i SmBHHPpLH ? lTsaj The Twin City's / Winston-Salem, N.C. ... <^r i; J ad fund-rai for some heavy fund-raising. "The volunteers have heen w again rally behind the cause and said. The eighth annual "Lou Ra UNCF is scheduled for Dec. 26 2 odic cut-ins to local stations. "We're hoping to far exceed 1 A. Grace, one of the co-chairn received an award last year for r our goal." Gracc said that he hopes tl Please as 'fantast care and compassion for other pc< pie doesn't exist as it did in the '6< and '70s." She delivered her speech, C01 trovcrsy versus Challenge in Edi cation: Will Higher Education F< All Ever Come?" at the ninth anni al President's Convocation. She said educators must not t afraid to lake a critical look at edi cation. "We must break from traditic when that tradition doesn't add i the present or to the future," sa Mrs. Chisholm, D-N.Y. * Lik everything else, there seems to be V lem C [ward-Winning Weekly Thursday, October 15, M N-" > m ? , ' H9 i. 1 ! I H I .1 ising goal orking real hard, and wc hope people will I help us exceed the goal," lMs. Baldwin wis Parade of Stars" tdethon* 10 benefit md will be televised nationally with periihc goal this year," said attorney Michael icn of the Triad UNCF telethon. "We caching the highest percentage ahead of \c community will continue to support coo nano AQ www rw ic chance'_ [>- scarcity of 1 caderstii p~i n di v i d u a 1 s~ )s who think they can cffcct changc." Addressing about 7(X) faculty, stun dents and guests, she noted that the j- civil rights movement started when >r one woman refused to give up her J- scat on a bus. >c t he actions ol one or two can J- and do bring about change," she said. "In 1920, (writer) H.G. Wells >n warned, 'Human history has to become more and more a race id between education and catastrophe.' c His words are more true tcxlay." a Please see page A13 Judge keeps By The Associated Press ATLANTA -- A Fulton County | judge has refused to order Atlanta [Public Safety Commissioner n vr * iu jcic<l\c topics Ol I an internal affairs report on the police bureau's handling of drug allegations against former state \ Sen. Julian Bond. i In an order filed Thursday in t Superior Court, Judge Isaac Jen| rctte said he could not comply with requests by two television stations to forcc disclosure of the report. The requests were part of a larger ?"WWI Ill W.I Ml III mm II recruiting La bearilpilt :<^dM &I&I w A/ | hrom _ A for du cents COVER STORY Jacksoi persons Candidate scorns By MIKE GLOVER Associated Press Writer * * J WINTERSET, Iowa ? Democratic presidential hopeful Jesse Jacksor on Sunday dismissed ^professiona guessers" who doubt the viability of his campaign and rejected spccu lation that his personal life is abou to come under attack. "I sense victory," he insisted. On Jackson's second day as a for mal candidate, the Des Moine; Sunday Register reported that hi; campaign was being dogged **bj reports that newspapers are about tc break stories portraying him as i womanizer." In an interview with The Associ ated Press, Jackson dismissec those rumors. "You stay your course and no dignify that which is irrelevant 01 not essential," Jackson said. "Ii you confront it and dignify it, yoi give it meaning. Experience wil leach you thai people do not judg you on the home run you hit on day or the error you make theothc day, they judge you by your cumi ?lative score. "For the most part, people judg politicians about like they judg themselves _ as human beings." When Jackson opened his cam paign Saturday in Raleigh, som< key supporters said they were con ccrncd that damaging personal rev clations were about to be published There's been intense scrutiny o the personal lives of presidentia candidates since former Sen. Gar) Hart of Colorado and Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware were forcec from the race by embarrassing per sonal and campaign disclosures. Jackson said he would be caujm ^1 Shirley Chisholm: Jackson has ? drug report 01 lawsuit now on appeal to the Georgia Supreme Court. Jcnrcttc said because the case is on appeal, no further action car take place at the trial court level until the higher court rules. 'We are disappointed with the judge's decision," said Steve Smith, news director at WXIA-1^ Wc feel that tnc jildgc_dtd no consider carefully enough our argu mcnt about why the report shoulc be made public." Bill Wells, assignment editor a WSB-TV, said his station will con tinuc to scckCoalition," he said. "I ? idy Vikings win icle , 30 Pages This Week i rejects il rumors professional guessers tious in dealing with rumors ./< because public figures have to be very sensitive td and disciplined , ; about remaining focused in thc1 face of distraction." ? I Though Jackson insisted the / rumors wouldn't affect his campaign, he conceded they have i caused personal pain on a tour on which he is accompanied by wife and some of his children. Jackson, an ordained minister, s delivered a sermon Sunday at a 5 small Lutheran church in this cen/ tral Iowa community, using his ) ??? i "... Public figures have to be very sensitive to and disciplined about 1 remaining focused in t the face of distraction.'r -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson . r __ * message to insist that financially pressed fanners and urban factory workers all have a place in his "'Rainbow Coalition." ?r "We're all members of the same family," he said. "Shall we not have the^ood Judgment to see the oneness pf the human family? N\fc're all displaced when the plant gate closes and the farm is foreclosed." More than 1,000 people gathered in rural Greenfield to cheer him Saturday night and the church in Wintcrsct, John Wayne's birthplace, I was jammed. f Asked about skepticism about his x campaign, Jackson said in the I interview, "In 1984, your colleagues said we'd get 100 delegates, maybe. We got 465. Your colPlease see page A3 r . t i good chance on Super Tuesday. n Bond secret is simply phenomenal, and some people have difficulty undcrstandi ing it. ... We are here to stay, to i grow, to develop. We intend to be I around to help change the course of this country." j More than a dozen members of j the coalition's board of directors stood behind Daniels at a news i confcrcncc. T cy identified themselves as labor union leaders, envi1 ronmentalists, students, farmers and peace activists. After opent ing ceremonies Friday afternoon, the convention held sessions on . j i accommission. /

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