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75 cents ' The Twin City's Award-Winning Weekly" VOL. XVIII, No. 49
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MENDHAM TOWNSHIP. N.
stars Whitney Houston and BoMiyl
their way down the aisle after exl
ding vows daring a private coma
Jersey community of Mendham 1
Saturday. It is the first marriage
who is 28. and Brown, who* 23.
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called for the 149th Fightar Squ!
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Governor Wilder's order calls ttri
replacement of these emblems on aQ<
and uniforms of the unit
The Virginia Air National Gi
planned to put die symbol on all new
Colin Powell';
FORTLEAVENV
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men in the United Sftil
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National News i
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Minister to
AKRON, Ohio
A black minister
his time between !
and a Washington
agency nas oeen appointed ft
top adviser to the Republican
Party and President Bush's
re-election campaign.
Thaddeos Garrett lt9 43*
nas accepted a post as senior
adviser to the Republican National
Garrett, who wu an adviaer to
campaign in 1988, say* he will be i
drawing minority voters lo tfie GOP.
SHREVEPORT, La. (AT) ? A
indictment accuses the head ot the iatgesi
religious denomination in
$! million to squelch
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The Rev. TJ. JemlsOB Of
ident of the 8-millioo member
Convention U.S.A., was indkaed for
federal grand jury on Hmmkgr. M
The indictment said tenant
testified as a
Woman dies in police custody
McKeilar handcuffed,
gagged and arrested
By SHERIDAN HILL ..
Chronicle Managing Editor
Sheila Epps McKeilar, a 33-year-old black female, died July
20 in Baptist Hospital after being held two days in the Forsyth
-County Jail.
According to a release prepared by the Winston-Salem
Police Department, she was arrested July 18 when officers were
dispatched to 2911 Apt C, New Walker iown Road and found her
"struggling with an elderly, partially blind man in the doorway to
his home." His apartment was across the hall. Police say she
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SMIa Ann McKallar
Neighbors' accounts,
police report differ
By TRAVIS MITCHELL
The relationship between the black community and law
enforcement agencies has been strained during the past few
mdnths, and now another life is lost, another family is suffering
and no one has any answers.
Police said that in order to take Sheila Epps McKellar into
custody they had to handcuff and gag her. Officials said that dur
ing a periodic check of the jail cells, they found that she had
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ANC strike
will proceed
as planned
? Mandella demands
inquiry on prisoner deaths
By OREO MYRE
Associated Press Writer
JOHANNESBURG, So. Africa (AP) ?
In a sharp attack on police, Nelson Mandela
today demanded an inquiry into the deaths of
prisoners and said government security
forces may try to disrupt ANC demonstra
tions next week.
Mandela, addressing a news conference,
said the African National Congress would
press ahead with its national protest cam
paign, which seeks the resignation of Presi
dent F.W. de Klerk's government
Many recent ANC protests have been
poorly attended and the group has virtually
no hope of bringing down the white govern
ment But the strikes and demonstrations are
a barometer of the continuing hostility
between the government and the ANC, the
leading black movement.
The latest controversy erupted over the
weekend, when Dr. Jonathan Gluckman, one
of the country's top pathologists, said police
routinely killed prisoners.
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Try my cooking 1
Selena Ingram proudly displays a trash batch of chocolata chip
bars sha mada for the Kid's Cooking Contest, at the Main Library.
Author says
students
sterilized
? Claims operations per
formed at Bowman Qray
By SHERIDAN HILL
Chronide Managing Editor
Anton Chahkin, co-author of the newly
released George Bush: The Unauthorized
Biography , (Executive Intelligence Review)
says he has documented a 1940 sterilization
project here and has called upon lawmakers
to investigate the surgical sterilization of
N.C. students.
"Pupils throughout the Winston-Salem
school district were given so-called 'intelli
gence tests,'" said Chaitkin. "Those who
scored below a certain arbitrary level were
cut open and sterilized."
Chaitkin's book claims that a steriliza
tion project "was invited in and hosted by the
Gray family, Boyden Grey's father Gordon,
and great-aunt Alice, and run through the
Bowman Gray Medical School." Gordon
Gray founded the Bowman Gray Medical
School. Clayland Boyden Gray has been
chief legal counsel to George Bush since the
1980 election.
According to the book, Winston-Salem
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Angelou play to benefit Nat'l Black Festival
A And Still I Rise musical
world premiere in September
By BETH GLENN
Special to the Chronicle
Dr. Maya Angelou and Larry Leon Hamlin
announced last Thursday that Angelou's world pre
miere musical And Still I Rise will open September 3
as a fundraiser for next year's Black Theatre Festival.
Hamlin, who directs the festival* introduced the effort
with "an abundance of joy" about the support of
acclaimed author and Wake Forest professor Angelou.
The opening night gala will begin with a dinner at
5:30 in the Stouffer Hotel, followed by the musical at
8:30 in the Arts Council Theater. Tickets for the entire
evening sell for $125, and only 300 lucky patrons can
reserve these tickets by contacting the N.C. Black
Repertory Theatre office at 723-7907. An additional
241 tickets for $50 and $75 are available to those who
wish to view the performance^ but prefer to eat else
where. The production will run from September 3-17
before it goes on the road.
Angelou is the author and director of the musical,
which will star Clifton Davis of Amen , Janet DuBois of
aiK* 11 Kicturta (L-R) are Larry Laon Hamlin, N.C. Black Repertory Theatre artistic director; Dr. Maya
others rom e nad. Angelou describes the produc- Angelou, author/professor; and Ban Ruffln, RJR corporate affairs director. They announced the
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