Corporations cautious
about SA investment
By ROB WELLS
AP Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) ? When
Nelson Mandela meets this week
with corporate leaders to discuss
foreign investment, he's likely to
find an attentive but cautious audi
ence.
That view emerges from a ran
dom survey of major corporations
that cut ties to South Africa amid
protests over the country's white
minority govemmenL
; For years, the African National
Congress and Mandela urged the
international business community
k> quit trade with South Africa as a
means to pressure the country's
white rulers to relinquish power to
the black majority. Mandela spent
more than 25 years in prison for
opposing apartheid.
The African National Congress
president has credited economic
sanctions for the limited progress in
South Africa. South African Presi
dent F.W. de Klerk has freed politi
cal prisoners, eliminated key segre
gationist policies and agreed to
talks on a power-sharing agreement
with black leaders.
Mandela, scheduled to address
. the United Nations General Assem
bly today, has planned meetings
with executives at major corpora
Lions and foundations to encourage
foreign investment once a black
majority government comes to
power.
An ANC spokesman said a key
message from the meetings is the
group is "not hostile to foreign
investment/
"Once the question of an inter
im government has been solved,
then the ANC would like assistance
in resolving the economic problems
because we need job creation and
investment,* Lindiee Mabusa, the
ANC's chief representative in
Washington, said through a
spokesman. "We have too much
unemployment."
The Ford Foundation is spon
soring a luncheon on Wednesday
with Mandela and representatives
of some two dozen corporations
and foundations in New York. On
Friday, H J. Heinz Co. invited Man
dela to address 2,500 executives at
the University of Pittsburgh.
Some corporate leaders found
a bit of irony in Mandela's sched
uled meetings with some of the cor
porate power brokers the African
National Congress pressured to
leave the country.
But Mandela's visit is general
ly viewed by businessmen as a nat
ural evolution of South Africa's
return to the fold.
"They recognize the country
needs to get back into the main
stream/ said Andrew Myers,
spokesman for American Tele
phone A Telegraph Co.
The telecommunications giant,
which does not do business with
South Africa, would hesitate
investing in the country until some
27 states and about 100 local gov
ernments in the U.S. repeal laws
restricting business and investment
in companies with economic ties to
South Africa, he said.
"That is a question that would
have to be resolved before we
could return to South Africa," said
. Myers.
In July, the Bush Administra
tion repealed a 1986 federal sanc
tions law which banned trade with
South Africa until the government
freed political prisoners and dis
mantled other laws that led to the
political and economic isolation of
the nation's blacks.
One East Coast banker, who
spoke on condition of anonymity,
said Mandela may find a lukewarm
response to his plea to delay invest
ment until a new black government
gains power.
"If we're being told that invest
ment is important but we can't do it
yet because of political reasons,
then it's sort of going to be a turn
off," the banker said. "And we will
look elsewhere until we're truly
welcome."
Ted Smyth, vice president for
corporate affairs at H.J. Heinz,
agreed that American corporations
are being lured by countries in the
Pacific Rim and Eastern Europe.
"South Africa is one on a long
list of places where capital can go,"
he said
Bui Heinz, one of the few U.S.
companies with a large investment
in neighboring Zimbabwe, sees
Southern Africa as a potential mar
ket of 50 million people, said
Smyth.
Given the pace of change in
South Africa, Smyth said, a new
multiracial government could rise
to power by the time a corporation
finally decides on its best invest
ment opportunity.
"Timing itself may not be an
issue," said Smyth,
Elsewhere, the investment out
look was more uncertain. General
Motors Corp., Xerox Corp., and
Mobil Corp. carefully stated they
have no current plans to invest in
South Africa. But they recognize
change is afoot.
"We never thought the Soviet
Union would be inviting private
investment into Russia, either," said
Xerox spokesman Thomas Abbott.
Student reporter complains to DA of death threats
Chronicle Wire Report
i'
NEW YORK (AP) ? A stu
dent reporter filed a complaint with
the district attorney's office, alleg
ing his life was threatened by a
City College professor who has
come under fire for his remarks
:about whites and Jews.
J. Eliot Morgan, 27, a Harvard
^University student who writes for
.the Harvard Crimson, told authori
ties Friday he was threatened by
Professor Leonard Jeffries, head of
;the college's black studies depart
ImenL
He said Jeffries threatened to
icill him if he used comments Jef
*
...
fries allegedly made about two
black scholars during an interview
last month at City College.
Jeffries denied the allegations
in a television interview last month,
calling them "scurrilous."
Morgan, who is black and Jew
ish, said the professor also attacked
the Crimson as being controlled by
Jews.
Morgan said he called Manhat
tan District Attorney Robert Mor
genthau's office about two weeks
ago after discussing the confronta
tion with Alan Dershowitz, a Har
vard law professor.
"He told me I should take the
threat seriously and I should pub
lish my article," Morgan said. The;
article appeared in the Nov. 7?
Crimson. . *
Morgan, a senior with a major
in anthropology, said he waited
until now to file the complaint
because of midterm exams and,
because he was not sure whether he
would be in the New York area
again. He is from Chicago.
Colleen Roche, spokeswoman
for the district attorney, said her
office would look into Morgan's
complaint and then decide what to
do.
Jeffries, a controversial figure
at City College, came under attack
this fall for remarks he made at a
? r&g.&trs
black cultural festival last summer.
He said in a speech that Rus
sian Jews and the Italian Mafia had
conspired to belittle blacks in
movies and that some Jews helped
finance the African slave trade.
'After his remarks were publi
cized numerous public officials
called for his dismissal, and at one
point his department chairmanship
appeared to be in jeopardy.
But last months university
trustees voted to let him remain as
department chairman, but for one
year instead of the usual three. The
unusual probationary period was
meant to appease those angered by
his remarks.
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his pockets. Hell, give him some
body to look down on, and he'll
empty his pockets for you."
From the black perspective, the
"middle-class-anger" theory for
? Duke's support rings false.
After all, we have been sub
jected to four centuries of slavery,
oppression, discrimination, and
-inequality; our middle class has
been subjected to tokenism and
glass ceilings.
Our resentments encompass
-not merely vague feelings of no
^longer being preferred over races,
-but widespread discrimination and
<the daily pinpricks of racially
inspired slights and slurs.
So if the privileged white mid
dle class is so burdened that it is
driven to support an admirer of
Hitler, to what extremes should the
disadvantaged black middle class
be driven?
No, we should not allow the
threat of Duke's brand of racism
and fascism to be domesticated by
blaming it all on "middle class
anger." While there is anger about
class-based policies favoring the
rich and the greedy over the work
ing class and the poor, that anger
does not necessarily translate into
racism.
Thus, in Pennsylvania Senator
Harris Wofford, a long-time sup
porter of civil rights, b?tt-former
Attorney General DidrHiornburgh,
who was a leading Opponent of the
civil rights bill.
Even after a decade of back
ward national policies, there's still a
mainstream consensus in favor of
civil rights and social fairness. Our
political leaders should stop playing
to the right-wing fringe.
The Duke phenomenon is a
wake-up call to reassert our funda
mental beliefs and principles and to
reject appeals to the dark, vicious
side of our history.
Hatian refugees
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Cuba with little question. In these
instances, however, the U.S. saw
-some propaganda value in accept
ing people who were fleeing the
"communist menace/ Apparently
. there are no propaganda points to
be scored from accepting black
refugees fleeing oppression from an
"non-communist" country like
- Haiti.
In the wake of the overthrow of
' the "democratically elected" gov
j ernment of President Bertrand Aris
tide, a rein of terror was unleashed
- against his supporters. Hundreds of
;-Haitians "yearning to breath free"
; have taken to the sea in hopes of
I being welcomed in the U.S. Instead
; of being welcomed, however, these
' Haitian refugees are being detained
? off shore on U.S. Coast Guard ships
I in a state of political limbo. The
1U.S. appears to be planning to
>return to the Haitian refugees to
?their homeland if and when Presi
; dent Aristide is returned to power.
Unfortunately this latest episode
conforms to a pattern which has
. developed as it relates to Haitian
; refugees.
;? For decades Haiti has been
rruled by some of the most ruthless
s and repressive regimes in this hemi
sphere. Rhetoric about democracy
' and human rights notwithstanding,
' the U.S. until recently, tacitly sup
sported Haitian dictators like "Papa
uiiu ?uuj iff
I the past few years U.S. criticism of
r
human rights violations in Haiti
have intensified as has the pressure
to move towards democracy. But
U.S. immigration policy has
remained unchanged. Over the
years Haitians fleeing political
repression have consistently been
confronted by the same sign ?
NOT WELCOME IN THE UNIT
ED STATES.
Untold scores of Haitians have
no doubt have perished at sea in '
futile efforts to gain entry into the
U.S. A few years ago African
Americans and other people of con
science expressed their outrage
when the bodies of a number
Haitian refugees washed up onto a
beach near Miami. Despite these
protests, there has been no signifi
cant relaxation of immigration quo
tas for Haitians and there has been
no greater willingness to accept
Haitians fleeing chronic political
terror in that country. The "huddled
masses" of Haiti remain unwel
come.
In the meantime, it is ironic to
note that the U.S. is set to admit
some 400,000 new immigrants to
the U.S. over the next few years
based on some special revisions in
immigration policy. The new policy
gives priority to welcoming immi
grants who have either "wealth or
skills." I think that it is fair to
assume that most of the people
aamiuwci to u?c U.S. under these
special provisions will be white.
The Haitian refugees being retained
off the coast of Florida have neither
wealth or skills and they are also
the "wrong complexion to get the
protection.**
The current Haitian refugee
problem is just the most recent
example of the use of a double stan
dard in U.S. policy. That racist dou
ble standard must be changed.
There must be a uniform immigra
tion policy which must be applied
to all immigrants and refugees flee
ing political persecution irrespec
tive of race, color or country of ori
gin. It's time for the U.S. to stop
banning black people from Ameri
ca!
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struck at the nerve of their very
existence and caused them to com
mit the single greatest inhumane act
in all of human history - yet we
cannot do what they feel they were
forced to do. Somehow our parents
are expecting us to know belter
because they didn't
For them, that Sunday morning
was a day that truly "lived in
infamy.** For baby boomers, our
challenge is to sec to it that that day
never happens again. Perhaps then
our parents wi4l allow us to join
them instead of making us stand
outside looking in.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING f
REZONINO OF PROPERTY
CITY OF WINSTON-SALEM
The Board of Alderman will consider requests to amend the City of
Winston-Salem Zoning Ordinance by rezoning property as shown below:
DATE: December 9. 1991 TIME: 73Q P.m.
PLACE: Board of Aldermen Chamber. Cltv Hall
1. Petition of City of Winston-Salem for property owned by Tommy
G. & Cheryl F. Campbell, Thomas & Dale S. Gralski, John
Mitchell & Gloria Jennings Lowery, Gregory S. & Marcela Miller,
J. H. Johnson Construction Co., Inc., William R. & Mary H.
Adams, John H. & Margaret Gardner III, Deby D. & David H.
Freeman, and JWR Building Company (owners of property in
the Brownstone subdivision); property located in the
Brownstone subdivision on the west side of Shattalon Drive
south of Kaismore Court: from County R-6 to City R-6. W-1741.
2. Petition of Joseph W. and Helen L. Medgecock; property located
on the east side of Horry Street approximately 636 feet south of
? Doris Street: from R-5 to R-7. W-1742.
3. Petition of Graham Enterprises and N. C. Baptist Hospital
Endowment, Inc.; property located at the southwest corner of
Old Hollow Road/NC 66 and Windv Hill Drive: from R-5 to R-6-S
(Nursing Home). W-1744.
4. Petition of Gar! E. and Catherine C. Hinshaw; property located
on the southwest side of Country Club Road approximately 300
feet west of Jonestown Road: from R-5 to R-1 -S (Offices;
Medical, Dental or Related Offices; and Dwellings: Single
Family). W-1746.
5. Petition of William A. and Teresa Taylor and James F. Inman;
property located on the southwest side of Junia Avenue
approximately 50 feet east of Lomond Street: from R-4 to I-2-S '
. (Parking Area). W-1747
6. Petition of Grace Bible Church and Piedmont Princess
Development Co., Inc.; property located at the southeast corner
of Queen Street and Melrose Street: from R-4 to R-2-S
(Dwellings: Multi-Family). W-1745
7. Petition of Dr. Thomas A. Dickson for property owned by
Shugart Enterprises, Inc.; property located on the northeast
side of Revnolda Road/NC 67 northwest of Fern Cliff Drive: from
R-4 to R-1-S (Offices; and Medical, Dental or related Offices).
W-1739.
8. Petition of Mrs. Bella S. Phillips, Heirs, c/o W. F. Phillips;
property located on the pouth side of Country Club Road
approximately 72 feet ewt of Silas Creek Parkway from R-5
to R-1 -S (Medical, Dental or Related Offices; and Offices).
W-1740.
Prior to the hearing, interested persons may obtain any additional
information which is in the possession of the City/County Planning Board
in that office at City HalTon weekdays, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Interested citizens will be given an opportunity to be heard.
THIS MEETING WILL BE BROADCAST LIVE ON CITY TV-33.
Marie Matthews, Secretary
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