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By The Associated Press
, RALEIGH -- Most North Carolina Democrats are
either women or blacks, but white men traditionally
have controlled the party. Some people say it's time for
a change.
"Many black Democrats across the state are very
restless," said G.K. Butterfield, a Wilson lawyer and
candidate for a Superior Court judgeship. ''That is not
rhetoric on my part That is the reality."
Party leaders such as Lt. Gov. Bob Jordan and state
Democratic Chairman Jim Van Hecke have voiced ~
concern about the lack of blacks and women at the lop
and have said they hoped blacks would be electto to
high offices soon.
"I think the Democratic Party would be wise to
nominate a black person or a woman on the ticket in
November for one of those statewide offices," said
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Bui although women represent a majority of registered
Democrats and blacks represent about 25 percent
Of the Democratic vote, Democrats might be on the
verge of nominating an all-white, all-male Democratic
state ticket again in 1988.
Haitians blame
JJLS^for turmoil
By KIM I. MILLS
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WASHINGTON - Haitian-American leaders and a
f New York congressman whose district includes the
Country's largest Haitian community say they failed
to convince Stale Department officials to support the
removal of the military junta in that Caribbean island
nation.
"They could not give us any assurancessaid
Janine Anes, head of the Haitian Action Lobby. "We
found that their position is to stand by and wait"
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moment," said Rep. Major Owens, a Brooklyn, N.Y.,
Democrat, who appeared at a news conference Thursday
with the Haitian-American leaders to call for the
resignation of the provisional junta led by Lt. Col.
Henri Namphy.
fhe junta cannot be trusted to maintain uidei,?
Owens said, asking the United States to provide
whatever assistance is needed to permit the Electoral
^XJouncil to provide its own security.
The council was disbanded after violence snuffed
out elections Sunday in the Haitian capital of Port-auPrince.
Soldiers and thugs killed 34 would-be voters
and wounded 75. Council members have gone into
hiding.
Owens said he was concerned that the State Department
would support the military junta's order that it
__ and representatives of other civic organizations form
a new Electoral Council to oversee national elections.
"I'm afraid that the State Department has given
some indications that they might negotiate that,"
Owens said.
He charged that the Namphy junta has "psyched out
the State Department. They have outwitted them, '
deceived them" into believing that thev are well
inientioned.
The Haitian-American leaders blamed the blood
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Attempts are being made by scheduled prior to
the Winston-Salem Urban League ? ,aw^VSU1,1
board of directors to bring the n pann
Thomas J. Elijah, Jr. controversy to to at
a close. The board's personnel c^ms about acuor
committee met in a closed-door ^nt. However,
session with the former league ^ naf|!^
president on Monday. Sources said p!aint m
efforts were made on both sides to committee, n a
settle the long-lived dispute Slivered at the p
between Elijah and several mem- mccun*'
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That possibility prompted a group of black party
activists from across the state to meet recently at N.C.
Central University in Durham to discuss ways to get a
black on the state ticket
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groups as the state chapter of the National Organization
for Women and the N.C. Women's Political Caucus
plan to meet in Raleigh to discuss ways to get
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"We are concerned about elective offices and
appointive offices," said'Robin R. Davis of Raleigh,
president of N.C. NOW.
"Women are just underrepresented everywhere,"
Davis said. "The issues that have the biggest impact
on women get ignored or get pushed to the back burner
if there are not women there."
Although it is a long-standing question, the issue has
surfaced recently because three statewide offices will
be vacated in 1988 _ lieutenant governor, superintendent
of public instruction and secretary of state. The
Democratic front-runners for all three positions are
white men.
Democratic leaders say they are reluctant to play
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outcome, they say there is no guarantee they would be
successful.
Black Democrats say that though the Democratic
leadership is required by party rules to remain neutral
in primaries, leaders can play a behind-the-scencs role
in helping nudge candidates in or out of races.
Butterfield said Democratic Party leaders were able
to apply subtle pressure to persuade Rep. Billy
Watkins, D-Granville, and Stale Auditor Ed Renfrew
not to run against Jordan in the Democratic primary
for governor.
"The party can act on behalf of a black Democratic
candidate the same way they told Billy Watkins and
Ed Renftow to get off Bob Jordan's case," Butterfield
said. "In religious circles, it would be called a prayer
meeting. .
The party is shrewd enough to persuade people not to
run when the stakes are high," he said. ?? 4
"If the Hydes and the Bennetts decided to get behind
a black candidate for statewide office, that would be a
Jackson: Don't
By KEN HERMAN Dukakis brought
AttodiMd Press Writer ^ for the Dcmocn
nomination to the
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son said he is perplexed at the (Jrew wann fespor
loser image that seems to have been Jackson said th
planted on him in his bid for the ries about his s,
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"There is a slant or a slander, a losCf
media slander, that I've learned to -jf ^ w ^
wear on my back. It keeps my mus- my da(Jd wefe
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signal that the democratic Party is ready to see this
problem resolved," Butterfield said. He was referring
to Democratic Party leaders Wallace N. Hyde and Bert
L. Bennett.
Pressure to get a black statewide candidate has been
growing since 1985,^vhen Virginia Democrats
engaged in some slate-making and elected a white
man as governor, a black man as lieutenant governor^
and a while woman as attorney general.
But Virginia Democrats could put together a slate
more easily because they nominate tlieii candidates in
a convention, ratner tnan by voters in a primary.
In fact, Virginia Lc Gov. Douglas Wilder is the only
non-judicial black candidate elected statewide in the
South in this century, according to the Joint Center for
Political Studies in Washington.
Black candidates still have a very difficult time
attracting white votes," said Linda F. Williams, a
senior political analyst with the center. Not enough
blacks have actually run for statewide office, perceiving
the difficulty in winning."
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No-cash policy
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Although a new no-cash payment policy at the
W city's housing units has drawn the iie of some of the
City's aldermen, tenants and community leaders, housing
authority director David L. Thompkins remains
convinced that the policy is the best security method
available.
Thompkins said the new policy, which requires
that rent payments be made by check, cashier's check
or money order, was designed to prevent robbery and
injury to the staff at managers' offices. But some disgruntled
tenants say the no-cash policy is placing a
burden on the units' older and handicapped tenants.
"Low-income people now have to get their
checks and go way out somewhere to get a money
order and then bring it back," said Walter McClcm?mon,
a tenant at Sunrise Towers since 1972. "Plus
they still have to pay for the money order. Some people
can't get out and get around like I can. Now lowincome
people have to pay extra to pay their rent.
That could be a little extra money they could have for
other things rather than spending it on money orders."
Thompkins, however, said that the new Dolicv
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will place few, if any, additional burdens on ihc tenants
and that the criticism from some community
leaders is unwarranted.
"What a lot of people don't understand is that all
of our residents are independent and able to help
themselves/ said Thompkins during a telephone
interview from his office. "We house the poor and the
poor know how to take care of themselves."
But it is the effect that the new policy will have
on lower-income tenants that is concerning many in
the community. Southeast Ward Alderman Larry W.
W>mble said the no-cash payment policy was unnecessarily
and unfairly burdening the units' lowerincome
and poor tenants.
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i Saturday forum Dukakis said. of
650. All three % In the future we want, govcrnjs
ment will be active where it should
at even news sto- be and absent where it should be.
rong showing in Wr want government to enforce
time label him a ^ against criminals and pollution
and discrimination and
wdalism llt unless monopolies. We want it to invest in
king and I was economic future. But we don't
lever be head of w*nl it regulating our private lives
democracy every- and dictating our personal choictood.
One person, cs," Dukakis said.
I can win if I get Gore said the economic slump in
e said. Tfexas and other energy-producing
he wants to bring states must be looked on as more
?f the nation. than a regional problem.
I will not settle for "Just look right here in Texas at
some regions and w^at has happened in the field of
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