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Black preferred term
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WASHINGTON, D C. (AP) _ Despite
increasing use of the term African-American,
most black Americans still prefer to be called
black, according to a newly released survey.
Hie Joint Center for Political and Economic
Studies, a black-oriented study group, said it
conducted thc survcv among a sample of ?39
black people.
It found 72 percent said they preferred
black, 15 percent African- American, 3 percent
Afro-American and 2 percent Negro, with die
rest giving no opinion or other responses.
Preparing for attack _
DHARHRAN,
SAUDI ARA
BIA (AP)_ A
Saudi Arabian
child in army
fatigues and his
brother carr;
filters their
father picked
up at an Aram
co distribution
point. The
Government
owned company Aramco is freely distributing
about 80,000 gas masks to emplyees in
Dharhan in an effort to step up security. (AP
LaserPhoto)
Nation's poor sacrificed
ATLANTA (AP) _ The nation's poor will be
among the biggest casualties of the war with
Iraq as it drains resources from domestic
social programs, the head of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference said Friday.
SCLC president Joseph E! Lowery, who last
week led 3,000 marchers in Atlanta in a cele
bration of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday,
called for a cease fire in the Persian Gulf so
; that economic sanctions and negotiations
. cc&ild be given another chance. .
; People- cfossr
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TALLADEGA, Afa.(AP) ^Opposing sides
in a disagreement over selection of a new
school superintendent remained divided large
ly along racial lines, but they expressed unity
on one issue _ supporting the American men
[ and women in the Persian Gulf. r
A crowd of about 300 was divided Thursday
night, with a' group of blacks on hand to
protest the city school system's failure to
includ^acting Superintendent T.Y. Lawrence,
who is black, among the finalists for the per
manent post ; -
Going to Church
1 ; $:C The first thing
James Brown says hell do if he gets out on
Hfp&te is take his wife to church and finish a
new album he says will "shake the worl<tw
'The "Godfather of Sour has a parole hear
ing scheduled for Feb. 27. But he's not specu
||Mhg on his chances. -
"Whatever th^ good Lord has in store, that's
what It will be," Brown said in a telephone
interview last week with The Associated
Press.
time for assault.
U.S. repels Iraqi ground attack
, 12 Marines become first
casualties in Gulf land war *
DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia (AP) _ U.S. Marines fired
anti-lank weapons and called in air strikes to repel a
three -pronged attack by tank-led Iraqi forces Wednesday.
Twelve Marines were killed and heavy Iraqi casualties
were reported, U.S. military officials said.
The Marines were the first American ground forces to
die in battle in the 2-week-old war with Iraq. The clash,
which started Tuesday night, was the heaviest ground
fighting so far in the Persian Gulf War.
As the grodnd fighting broke out, air-sea clashes were
-reported in the gulf, and "bomb-laden allied warpJanes ?
thundered ott runways in Saudi Arabia to strike targets
deep in Iraq.
A Pentagon source characterized the Iraqi ground
action as a "probing attack" aimed at assessing allied
strength and weaknesses _ not meant to seize and hold
ground.
Reports from Marines on the ground spoke of hand-to
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Photo by L B Speas
At home, people turn out In large numbers to show their support for our troops In the Gulf.
Feds to probe UNC school
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) _ The federal The letter, signed by Jesse L. High,iegion
government is investigating the University of al civil rights director, says the office
plorth Carohna'atCbapel Hill for possible planned to investigate specific charges
civil rights violations involving the hiring, ' against UNC-CH, the News and Observer
promotion and alleged harassment of black reported. They include allegations that the
employees. school:
The Department of Education's Office for ?Failed to hire and promote females in the
Civil Rights began a probe into the universi- UNC-CH police department and denied pro
ty's treatment pf employees on Jan. 4, motions to female employees in the Phvsi
according to a letter the department sent to cians Associates program.
Keith M. Edwards, a UNC-CH police officer, ? Did not hire "blacks as instructors in the
earlier this week.
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Several options proposed
School board to get 10 plans
' By RUDY ANDERSON
Chronicle Managing Editor
The committee set up by the Winston
Salem/Forsyth County school board to come
up with some proposals to ensure African
American representation on the board has list
ed at least 10 different options.
All of those proposals will be presented to
the school board at its meeting Monday night
by the committee's chair Annette Wilson.
Wilson explained that the committee was
never charged with the responsibility of com
ing up with "the plan". She said that there were
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as many proposals as there were people with
different ideas on the subject.
The committee was united in its rejection
of non-partisan elections as a method of ensur
ing African-American participation on the
board. But the committee will also forward to
the full board- several non-partisan election
plans as well as modified district plans. But
the committee's political scientists pointed out
that some of the district plans offered could
not ensure African-American participation.
One of the options could guarantee at least
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National office to run
local Urban League
By RUDY ANDERSON "
Chroniclu Managing Editor
.Officials of I h c National
Urban League will servo as I he
policy- making body for the
local I than League and will *?
monitor 1.1-s day-to-day ?
opera! inns, Ihat was the out
come of a meeting held last week
h\ the remaining members of the
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L'rban League board and Mildred
Love, vice president of affiliate
services in the national office.
The local board, which at
one time had 1() members', has
eroded in the wake of rotations
off the boaid. resignations, and
those refusing to accept another
term.
In a statement released last-*
week. Love indicated that the
national office will maintain its
monitoring role until the board
of directors is reconstituted.
Love said the national office
will appoint and convene a tran
sition committee of seven to nine
people in the community to
recruit candidates for the new
board. Once that committee has
been established, national league
officials are asking that the com
mittee complete its tasks within
thirty days.
After that time the national
' office will then install the new
board. The national office will be
working in conjunction with the
local United Way to help the
league reconstitute the board and
meet the requirements to main
tain its funding.
Sharon G. Hamilton, acting
president of the United Way of
Forsyth County, said getting that
hoard reconstituted is an
extremely important issue in the
local Urban League maintaining
funding. .
"At this point our concern is
the fact that because the local
Urban League docs not have a
legal board at this time, there is
no organization to deal with,"
she said. "We have been contact
ed by the National Urban League
and have provided them with
some names of people who
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WSSU Board stands behind nursing program
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Dr. Sylvia Flack
By RUDY ANDERSON rm
Chronicle Managing Editor
The Board of Trustees at Winston-Salem Slate l niversit\
has given the school's nursing program a vote of confidence b\
recommending that the program be maintained as a tour \ear pro
gram.
Changes in the program were proposed b\ thcT nivcrsitv ot
North Carolina General Administration to scale down ihe current
genenc (four- year) program to a twa=yeai program to piovide
degrees for those students who were already registered nurses. *
The proposed changes were among several recommenda
tions made of nursing programs throughout 'the I'^C swem.
Once the proposed changes were made, alumni of the nursing
program, the school's national alumni association, tauilis mem
bers and people in the commumn began a campaign to let the
university's trustee board know they wanted the gcvnc program
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. Hoaid chair kolvrt Km ken wrote m .1 v.i' ?vv't release*! 'ate
last week that the I N(.' s> stem r.ad * s- ? ?? ? <ar.
dards lor the system's nursing programs to ir.v/e msiriu
lion and-e?ua.otteciiveness l'hose standards are n the categories
-ol the pass rates lor the stale licensing examinations me pro
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Sandra Randleman