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I Washington remembered: The accepted emperor *' PAGE A4 WiL James Baldw By The Associated Press ST. PAUL DE VENCE, France -- James Baldwin, whose first novel -fin Toll it On The Mountain" established him as a major American writer and whose later works explored racism in the United States, has died at age 63. Baldwin died Monday night at his home in southern France of stomach cancer, said Chantal Lapicque, a spokeswoman for Baldwin's French publisher, Editions Stock. He had undergone an operation last spring and his health had declined steadily since then, Ms. Lapicque said. Surrounded by members of his family, including his brother David, Baldwin had not lost hope and was planning to finish a book on the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. * Despite his illness, he told friends he wanted to write a last play. Baldwin lived in France for about 40 vears. Four vears aan whpn Ha J ? J ?? ? T>"> 1V ? WVI T VU OJI honorary doctorate from the University of Nice, he said he considered France a "refuge far from the American madness." A friend, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said a funeral woyld be held in New York on Friday. Baldwin _ author of "Notes of a Native Son," "The Fire^ext Time," and "No Chicaao lez By WILLIAM C. HIDLAY ing to Associated Press Writer Chicagi Sawye CHICAGO - Democratic prcs- Wfednes idential candidate Jesse Jackson's Jacks involvement in a power struggle planner over the selection of a successor after V to Harold Washington has Wfednes angered some Chicago political closeta leaders, who accused him of try- door m r BES3H? Merdis McCorter: A scholar supreme PAGE A6 is ton-* 7 - JC>; ^ Kgv] fl ^ 1 ^C3(S i^^HI; "? ^P^ylS^y v #H r"*" ?H ^Hk ? 4w Hr 1 B k ^MPt' ?s^jpj| *s^ i chattina in dead at 63 Name in the Street" _ was called one of the I "few indispensable American writers," by American critic Benjamin Demott Baldwin was remembered today as "one I of the giants/* who wrote daringly and pasI - * - < _ ^ ' * *?' 1 ' sionaieiy or racial discrimination in the early days of the civil rights movement. Jesse Jackson, a presidential candidate and civil rights leader who knew Baldwin, called him "a great source of inspiration for that generation ... a prolific and sensitive writer" Jackson, interviewed in Chicago, said Baldwin's "voice was not watered down by political considerations, and I suppose he expressed rage and anger with discipline. He was a great advocate of personal and racial freedom.... vHe was one of the giants ... he will go down with the greats." A slight, small man who had a sharp sense of humor Tam/?c RalHiuin tuoo ?k? ?/>? ? W- ..w., ?Mi(iva wuiunui fTM IJIV 9UII U1 <X pastor born in Harlem in New York City on Aug. 2,1924. His first novel, "Go Tell It On The Mountain," published in 1953, recalled his days as a teen-age preacher in a store-front church. ""Mountain' is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else," Please see page A12 iders anger be a kingmaker. (The a successor t< 0 aldermen named Eugene black mayor frc r the new mayor early CitjL Councils day morning). Jon, who cut short a long- But Jackson's 1 trip to the Persian Gulf for one candi< Washington's death last Hm Evans, Wa (day of a heart attack, was tive floor lea d since Friday in closed- prompted sonu eetings aimed at selecting members to pic % >alem CI he Twin City's Award-Winning Weeklv ^ _ Salem, N.C. Thursday, December 3,1987 M H ^E^.^JRMb^-* ft 'J^K ' - *^11? % '? 1 ^ ?~T - ? f. ' ; '-;;;;? V ^^Hr a^BL'-J^k -:^^H : T^^m . ** *? . -<4gM M-.it^p >{ jv ^v, ?^R, -. <? ^0 jm J| I ^BSre-^.: ,:*3 '''&?&}'**y - B^L, EHR^xJr ? Hi *&T5 , J ^-'li^H F Giving Thanks Three-year-old Jason Waters, a student at WSSU's Early Childhood Center, says a prayer during the center's Thanksgiving dinner held last week (photo by John Slade). 'ed bv Jackson o the city's first Alderman Eugene Sawyer, politi>m the 50-member cal consultant Don Rose said Monday. Evans and Sawyer both are black. perceived support late _ Alderman ~He should pray for us and he ishington's legisla- should give us advice and counder _ may have sel, but he shouldn't tell us who \ wavering council should be the mayor," said 5dge their votes to Alderman William . 1? ents Workin demicaliy The Ha IGEA11 * > - ** \ hronu 50 cents COVER STORY / Elijah lost board res By ANGELA WRIGHT ii Chronicle Managing Editor b On Monday the preliminary injunction that Thomas J. Elijah, Jr. sought to have imposed on six members of the Winston-Salem Urban League's board of directors was denied ^ Superior Cou^?s Judge C. Preston Cornelius. The ? judge dissolved a restraining order which had been imposed on seven members of the league's board of " directors and Elijah, it's suspended ' president. In so doing, the judge 7" ruled that the legitimate board of directors for the league was elected a on Oct. 7 and has the power to conduct the business of the league. The composition of the board was a main point of contention in the controversy which " began several months ago after six board members were removed ? from service by Elijah and former board chairman Harvey L. Kennedy. The six defendants " argued, in part, that they were removed from the board after .... _ . A inquiring into financial matters. Elijah and Kennedy maintained " the defendants were procedurally rotated off the board because their terms had expired. They further maintained that in the case of a couple of the defendants, they voluntarily resigned after missing more than three consecutive meetTeen girl assai slurs scrawle By The Associated Press WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y. - A 15-y road with racial slurs scrawled over her posing as a policeman kidnapped her nssouii. But police say there is conflicting evu sexually assaulted and claimed the family The girl, a high school junior, was fou in a road behind an apartment building Department said. She was wrapped in a plastic garbage Sheriff Frederick W. Scoralick. The bl including "KKK," scrawled on her torse coal, he said. The girl had a low body temperature Hospital in Poughkeepsie, but she reco^ Thompson said. She suffered no wound her, he said. When asked who was responsible, pc the girl grabbed his badge, then scribbled The girl refused to talk to police or repo a man who identified himself as a pol abducted her Tuesday. She was brought tc at least six white men, they said. Thompson said the family has refused The FBI also has been called into the ease "We've exDlored everv av(*niv rwcciv . ?- y ?? ^VvKllt absolutely zero cooperation from these 1 stand play on this thing but seek no resc Please see pa 's interve supporter of Sawyer. "Jesse Jackson coming in and determining for Chicago is something people in my ward don't appreciate and it i' something people in other wards don't appreciate either/' said Alderwoman Kathy Osterman, an independent white P)tv t g with inds of Time . , PAGE A2 He 32 Pages This Wetk 5s;Oct. 7 iffirmed igs. They stated that the league's ylaws required the removal of oard members who miss more lan three consecutive meetings. ] Throughout the hearing the laintiffs cited the league's bylawsnd constitution to explain why the ix board members - Joseph Dickon, Harvey Allen, James Branch, Marshall Bass, Sterling SpainhouT, nd Renita Thompkins ? were' amoved from the board and barred rom the league premises. But lornelius found that the league ad "in the oast not onerated in full ccordance with its bylaws." He noted specifically: the ^ague's failure to hold its annual, leeting in June, as required by the, ylaws; the failure of the npminatig committee to designate terms )r board members or rotate memcrs, as required by the bylaws; the lilure to enforce the absenteeism, revision; the fact that a nominallg committee was chosen by ennedy, contrary to the bylaws; le fact that Kennedy served as an x-officio member of the nominatig committee, contrary to the. ylaws; the fact that many board lembers were allowed to serve lore than three consecutive terms, ontrary to the bylaws. . W. Andrew Copenhaver, itorney for the defendants, argued Please see page A3 jlted: racial / sd on body' ear-old girl was found lying in a body, and her family says a man for a four-day ordeal of sexual Jence about whether the girl was t is thwarting their investigation, nd last Saturday afternoon lying the Dutchess County Sheriffs bag and covered lyith feces, said lack teen-ager had racial slurs, i in what looked like black charwhen she arrived at St Francis fcred, sheriffs Detective Ll JJ. s from the epithets scrawled on nice Officer Tommy Young said, " white cop" on a piece of paper. iters Sunday, but her family said liceman and displayed a badge > a wooded area and molested by to let detectives talk to the girl. J he said. | tie in this thing, and still we get I people who are making a grand- I button in the matter," Thompson 1 ge A12 i ntion Jackson's intervention in stormy Chicago politics could backfire, as it did terF. Mondale. Mondale supported Richard M. Daley, son of the late mayor, in a three-way mayoral primary that included Washington. In the Illinois presidential i>ee page A12 *
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