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Thursday, July 19, 1990
- Winston-Salem Chronicle
50 cents . "The Twin City's Award-Winning Weekly" - VOL. XVI
Federal probe of-Sumler, others continues
Fed probe: Leaders
question rules' use
"I have no reason to "They've been investigating 'I'm carrying on my life as I
even involve myself me ... for almost four years always have. I'm con
in this." and still have nothing." cerned but not worried.'
? Vivian Burke -- Rodney Sunnier -- Larry W. Womble
"If they have Indict
ments, let them come
? Lee Faye Mack
Local political consultant and community activist
Rodney Sumler and Greensboro City Councilman Earl
Jones have both raised the question of whether the
FB1/1RS investigation is being conducted according to
the specifications described in General Rules of Crim
inal Procedure, specifically Rule 6(e): Recording and
Disclosure of Grand iiiry Proceedings.
Pleas' 9 see page A 1 1
By PATRICIA SMITH-DEERING
Special to the Chronide
Burke no longer
being investigated
By PATRICIA SMfTH-DEERINQ
Special to the Chronicle
"Operation Mushroom Cloud," code name for
the ongoing federal investigation of suspected polit
ical malfeasance amongsomeof Winston-Salem's
black elected officials has apparently ended further
attempts to seek indictments against Vivian Burke,
alderman for the Northeast Ward, sources involved
in the investigation say.
Please see page A8
Property owners
claim Legal Aid
is hurting poor
By TRACY L. PROSSER
Chronicle Staff Writer
Some of Winston-Salem's property owners say the
Legal Aid Socie^and the city's^ Housing Authority
have crcatad such a mess in {feaiing with public hous
ing tenants that U may be doing the city and its poorer
residents a lot of harm.
The Housing Authority oversees Section 3 hous
ing, which helpslow income families pay for accom
modations based on what the family can afford to pay.
I^gal Aifl is an organization designed to provide legal
help to those who can't afford to pay a lawyer out of
their own pockets.
The costly legal entanglements into which proper
ty owners can get ensnared by the involvement of
' Legal Aid, they say, discourages them from dealing
Please see page A8
Helms' aide draws fire from
Afro-American leadership
)y RUDY ANDERSON bringing charges that they have proof to support
/hronicle Managing Editor c^arges against them."
The claims so enraged Kelly Alexander
Accusations by Sen. Jesse Helms special jr ^ executive director of the North Carolina
issistant, James Meredith, against the leader- naACP that he sent a letter to Sen. Helms
ship of the National Association for the caiiing for Meredith's dismissal from the sen
Advancement of Colored People has incurred ator*s staff.
the wrath of that leadership across the nation strains belief almost to the breaking
and particularly in North Carolina. lo that Meredith, on his own -
In a news release issued Saturday, July authority, could issue a press release that was
more 60 V*- not at a minimum approved by your Chief of
cent of the 3,000 delegates nr the NAACP staffs Alexander writes? "Senator Helms, we
National Convention, in Los Angeles, -were have not seen eye to eye on major issues of
into the drug culture and that at least 80 per- public policy facing our nation. However, I
cent had been or are involved in either, crimi- have credited you with running a Senate
nal or immoral activity or both. office that would not issue patented falser?
"I have a background profile on more than hoods."
half of the delegates ( to the convention), ""ffie~~ Helms has denied that he ordered the
cleasc charged. The only way way they can reiease to go out even though he feels that
stay out of jail is to apply enough political pres- ^
sure to keep government prosecutors from Please see page A9
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Sen. Helms claims he never authorized James Meredith's news
release but says he finds merit in some of what his aide had to say.
WSSU establishes drug policy for its athletes
By TRACY L PROSSER
Chronicle Staff Writer
Winston-Salem State University athletes will be
subject to random drug testing beginning this fall.
The executive committee of the WSSU board of
trustees voted unanimously to accept a drug education,
screening and counseling program for intercollegiate
athletics which was proposed by the Student Affairs
committee of the board of trustees.
" A prototype policy was developed by a committee
called together by the general administration of the
University of North Carolina system. HThe (WSSU)
policy is identical in all materials and respects to the
model policy," said Robert A. Emken, chairman qf the
board. r
The policy requires athletes to enter into an agree
ment to participate in unannounced random drug test
ing to be performed by an outsidtf^aboratory. A certain
percentage of each team will be selected through a
blind drawing of names from the roster at various times
during the academic year to be tested for drugs.
Athletes will also be tested before each sport sea
son begins. The cost of the tests will be bom by the
university.
Administration of drug tests by a third party would
be cheaper than creating a drug testing laboratory at the
school, said Haywood L. Wilson Jr., vice-chancellor for
student affairs. By using the bidding process to deter
mine the laboratory that will perform the tests, Wilson
hopes costs will be kept to a minimum.
The drug policy has a component for drug educa
tion and counseling as well. Campus based resources
such as lectures, videos* and student media will be uti
lized as well as external resources such as Step One,
the Council on Drug Abuse, and Reynolds Health Cen
ter.
Clarence E. "Bighouse" Gaines, WSSU's head bas
ketball coach, said that Division II athletes have always
signed a form subjecting them to random drug tests at
the tournament level. He doesn't think this new policy
will have a big effect, other than the cost, on the WSSU
athletic department, he said.
The board of trustees of the University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill did not approve the model policy
formulated by the UNOboard of governors because of
concerns about violating constitutional rights and the
possibility of litigation, Emken said.
The board of governors did not accept the decision
of the Chapel Hill board of trustees to continue with the
university's voluntary drug testiitg policy.
Emken said the decision made by the WSSU board
of trustees was not motivated by the board of gover
nors' decision not to accept Chapel Hill's non-adoption
Please see page A9
Convicted In Assault Case
Woman claims she was victim
By TRACY L. PROSSER
Chronicle Staff Wnter
.1 ,
Two conflicting accounts of an arrest of a
local A fro- American woman were heard Friday,
July 13, in District Court She was charged with
four offenses and was convicted of two but is
appealing the case.
Patrice Lockhart was at her boyfriend's
apartment around 1:30 a.m. on July 3. They
were having a fight, she said, and he asked her to
leave. When she got to her car, she realized she
had left her keys and her bag in the apartment, so
she went back to get them. Her boyfriend didn't
let her in and called the police.
Lockhart said she explained the situation to
policc officer Patrick S. Lane, who told her to get
her keys and bag from the apartment and leave.
She got in her car, she said, and saw Lane go
around the car. She said she thought he was
going ba^k upstairs to her boyfriend's apartment,
so she backed out of the parking place to leave.
She said she didn't see him behind her car when
she backed up.
Apparently, Lane had gone to the back of the
car to get Lockhart's license plate number and
she hit him when she pulled out of the parking
space. She said he put his hands on the side of
the car, looked at her, paused, and looked away.
As Lockhart was waiting at a red traffic sig
nal several blocks down the road, a police car
pulled in front of her, she said. Lane approached
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Photo by L B Speas Jr.
Patrice Lockhart says her crimes, biting and spit
ting on an officer, were provoked.
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