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NEWS DIGEST I Compiled From A P Wire : 4 l . i ' . * \ ? . task force presents discrimination report I DURHAM -- A task force studying racial discrimination at Duke University has recommended an official observance of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday and centralized affirmative action efforts at the school. I The panel's preliminary report, which was made to Duke President H. Keith H. Brodie, also suggests improved training for mid-level supervisors. The report found that disputes involving charges of discrimination at Duke are likely to be handled inappropriately by such supervisors in departments. ; The report also calls for the Duke trustees to establish a code of cihics. ^ ; The 12-member task force was appointed by Brodie in December, after a series of protests by a coalition of black leaders beginning in spring 1988. The leaders met with Brodie and two top trustees to air ttieir grievances a year ago. . * Charles Putman, vice provost for research and development and chairman of. the task force, said the group had not auempted to specify instances of discrimination at Duke, but had decided instead to suggest structural and organizational changes to detect where discrimination did exist and to prevent it in the future. . "We made the decision that we were not going to be a grand jury," he Ttidr? ? ? ? ? ? ?7? ? - ? ? ? ? ? The task force also found that there is a public perception that discrimination exists at Duke and that the perception often is created by Puke employees who feel there is.no effective means of addressing their concerns. Clergy addresses racism and sexism FAYETTEV1LLE - Though United Methodists view racism and sexism as a sin and have enacted policies against them, many North Carolina churches still are hesitant to accept a minority minister, some say. . But at the North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church^ on Friday, clergy and lay people serving as delegates from churches in the 56 easternmost counties voted overwhelmingly to accept a resolution calling for an "open itinerancy" system in appointments of ministers to churches. -7^ The only criticism of the proposed resolution voiced during the business session was that the 1995 deadline allows too much time for such a system to be implemented. Some delegates think the policy should have been in effect for years. I 44 arrested at anti-apartheid rally ? WASHINGTON - Forty-four people were arrested outside the White House on Saturday as 2,000 people demonstrated against apartheid in South Africa, U.S. Park Police said. ! Police said all 44 were charged with demonstrating without a permit, a misdemeanor carrying a $50 fine if convicted. I- v ! The demonstrators marched from the Washington Monument oo the White House, where they knelt in front of the gates and hung plabards bearing the names of people who have been detained by police in South Africa. 1 The event was intended to commemorate the 13th anniversary of the June 1976 Soweto uprising, when more than 575 black South Africans were killed during what was to have been a nonviolent march. x ^ ? ... ? Prominent black rejected by country club ? GARY, Ind. - A prominent black businessman has been rejected for membership by a Lake County country club, and .the Indiana Civil ^Rights Commission is looking into the matter, the commission director said Friday. The application of Mamon Powers Jr., the president of Powers and 5 on Construction Co., for membership at Woodmar Country Club in Hammond was rejected by the club's board of directors, Powers [confirmed. ; Powers, 38, of Gary declined comment except to say he would apply again if invited by the board. A country club employee who answered the phone said club president Richard Leonard was not there and, in any case, was not accepting calls. Karen Freeman, director of the state Civil Rights Commission, said no complaint has been filed in the matter. The commission has the legal authority, however, to conduct an investigation despite the absence of a complaint and can file a "director's complaint" if warranted, she said. ; "We are in the process of doing that right now," said Ms. Freeman ?from her Indianapolis office. "We have to get more information." ; Ms. Freeman said Woodmar might have Hispanic or Asian members, but that "to my knowledge" the country club rolls include no black members. Attorneys argue appeal for Carmen Butler ATLANTA ? Testimony about an informant's tip unfairly prejudiced a jury in the 1986 cocaine possession trial of Carmen Lopez Butler, one-time girlfriend of former state Sen. Julian Bond, her attorney argued before the Georgia Court of Appeals. Ms. Butler, who is seeking a new trial, was convicted of cocaine possession with intent to distribute in DeKalb County in August 1987. She was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Ms. Butler's attorney, Tony Axam, said Monday a narcotics detective should not have been allowed to testify that he had been told by the informant to look for a woman with a Hispanic name during his investigation. That information was hearsay, Axam argued. He said the detective's testimony helped lead the jury to conclude that more than 200 grams of cocaine found in Ms. Butler's rented DeKalb County home during a raid belonged to her and not to one of the other 10 people who were in the house at the time. The Winston-Salem Chronicle is published every Thursday by the Win ston-Salem Chronicle Publishing Co. Inc., 617 N. Liberty St. Mailing address: Post Office Box 3154, Winston-Salem, N.C. 27102. Phone: 722-8624. FAX: (919) 723-9173. Second-class postage paid at Winston-Salem, N.C. 27102. The Winston-Salem Chronicle is a charter member of the Newsfinder service of the Associated Press and a member of the Audit Bureau of Circula tions, the National Newspaper Publishers Association, the North Carolina Press Association and the North Carolina Black Publishers Association. Subscription: $18.52 per year, payable in advance (North Carolina sales tax included). Please add $5.00 for out-of-town delivery. PUBUCATION USPS NO. 067910. New whip: Liberal, black consensus seeker By JIM LUTHER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON -- People who say the Democrats focus on the interests I of liberals, blacks and Northeastern ers can point to the election Wednes day of Rep. William H. Gray III of Pennsylvania as House whip. He is all three. But Gray, 47, also is a consensus builder. When he chaired the House Budget Committee he worked close Ty with Republicans and conservative Democrats to develop a spending plan that attacked the worrisome deficit and, as he put it, guaranteed "long-term economic growth and compassion." When Gray was preparing to move into the Budget job, his predecessor, conservative Rep. Jim Jones, D Okla., praised his intelligence, tem perament and ability, "to say no to an awful lot of special interests." At the same time, Rep. Bill Fren zel, R-Minn., who regularly battled Gray on budget issues, praised him as "a first-rate guy" and said "every body will be able to work with him." The Budget Committee chairman ship gave Gray national visibility and made him easily the most power ful black member of Congress. After his term as chairman, which was marked by great success in rounding up Democratic votes for the spending Associated Press Laser Photo Rep. William Gray, D-Pa., gives the keynote address at the Wis consin Democratic convention." plans he developed, Gray moved up the leadership ladder to chair the caucus of all House Democrats. Gray's elevation to party whip, the No. 3 leadership job, was made pos sible by the resignation of Rep. Tony Coelho of California. At a closed caucus, Gray defeated Rep. David E. Bonior of Michigan and Rep. Beryl Anthony of Arkansas. In winning election Wednesday, Gray had to overcome fears of some members that he himself might be tainted by reports of an FBI investi gation of whether he had a no-work, no-show employee on his payroll. Gray steadfastly denied anything improper, and the Justice Department said Monday that he was not a target of the probe. Gray, who was bom in Baton Rouge, La., has represented Pennsyl vania's 2nd District, a Philadelphia area that "Politics in America" describes as black, poor and Demo cratic, since Jan. 3, 1979. Like his father and grandfather before him, he is chief minister of Bright Hope Bap tist Church. Gray is married and has three children. He has had no trouble winning re election every two years, although his reputation as a consensus seeker prompted a 1982 Democratic prima ry challenge from a militant state senator, who accused Gray of selling 4 out. A third-party challenger in 1986 ? leveled similar charges in 1986 but Gray won with 98.6 percent of the vote. Gray is the No. 2 Democrat on the House Appropriations subcommittee on transportation, a prime assign ment for one who is always looking for increased funding for mass tran sit. An earlier assignment to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, when he was a freshman congressman, opened the way for Gray to win approval for an African development program. He uses his Appropriations position to foster increased aid for Africa. Beyond his work on the Budget Committee, his biggest victory came in 1986 when the House overrode then-President Reagan's veto and approved legislation imposing sanc tions against South Africa because of that nation's racial policies. The final bill was a compromise between Gray's position and a tougher version written by Rep. Ron Dellums, D Calif. Gray is not always predictable. In 1984, he faced no serious re-eiection ~chattenge and spent his time cam paigning for colleagues. One benefi ciary: Rep. Lindy Boggs, D-La., who was on the verge of losing her seat to a black challen^fer. Supreme Court creating barriers for minorities, Chambers says RALEIGH (AP) -- Former President Ronald Reagan packed the nation's high court with conservative justices who are unsympathetic to affirmative-action and set-aside programs, the head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education al Fund Inc. says. "We have depended extensively on litigation to advance the cause of black people, and we've had some success," Julius Chambers said. "But you know Mr. Reagan came through and has left a court of the same view as Mr. Reagan. "How effective that litigation effort is going to be in the future is question able," said Chambers, a native of Mount Gilead and a graduate of the Universi ty of North Carolina at Chapel Hill law school. Chambers addressed about 300 people at a conference of the N.C. Legislative Black Caucus at the Raleigh Marriott Hotel on Saturday. "Despite the law, despite the history, despite the plight of a people, five peo ple decide that (they're) tired of giving some benefits, some rights to a group of black people," he said. Chambers cited several recent reversals that the civil rights movement has \ - suffered: - In a case that originally involved Duke Power Co., the Supreme Court, by a 5-4 vote, this month made it more difficult for minorities to use statistics to win claims of racial discrimination while making it easier for employers to rebut = such arguments. Chambers said that as a result of the rulings workers would have to pay between $500,000 and $1 million to litigate certain job discrimina tion suits. _ - In a case involving the Birmingham, Ala., fire department, the court this month ruled 5-4 that white firefighters could challenge a court-approved affir mative action plan. - The high court ruled by a 6-3 vote last January that the Constitution forbids cities and states from adopting "set-aside" programs without hard evidence that their actions contributed to or caused discrimination. The case involved a set aside program for construction contracts in Richmond, Va. 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