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African Exposure
Photo by Jason Reed/ Reuters
President Bush waves alongside his Senegalese counterpart, Abdoulaye Wade, at an arrival
ceremony Tuesday for President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush at the Presidential Palace in
Dakar. Bush is in the middle of his first trip to Africa as president. He began a five-nation tour
of Africa Tuesday, aiming to prove his commitment to tackling the continent's raging problems,
which include AIDS and the threat of terrorism.
Speaker says U.S. presence in
Iraq was years in the making
Professor scrutinizes
hundreds documents
connected to White
House heavyweights
BY T. KEVIN WALKER
mi: CHRONICLE
A college professor who
specializes in globalization
issues told about 70 local folks
Monday that the Bush adminis
tration has not-so-secret plans to
use military muscle to secure the
United States' position as the
world's only super power.
Gregory Reck, the chair of
the anthropology department at
Appalachian State University,
was the featured speaker at a
forum held by local anti-war
group Community for Peace at
Central Library.
Most of Reek's remarks
were based on research he con
ducted on the tons of documents
located on the Web site for the
Project for a New American
Century (PNAC)
; www.newamerican.century.org
). a neo-conversative group
founded in 1997 with the sup
port of men such as current Vice
President Dick Cheney. Donald
Rumsfeld (the current secretary
jf defense), and Richard Perle
a member of the Defense Poli
cy Board and former chair of the
?
board). Reck asserted that
among the thousands of pages of
reports on the site is irrefutable
evidence that the recent war
against Iraq was years in the
making and had little, if any
thing, to do with weapons of
mass destruction (WMD).
"The intelligence was not
overstated. They were lies,"
Reck said about the Bush
administration's claim that Iraq
was securing the materials need
ed to build WMD. The White
House admitted this week that
Bush's claim during his January
State of Union Speech that Iraq
was trying to purchase uranium
from Niger was erroneous.
Reek cited several PNAC
documents, including a letter
sent to President Bill Clinton
and congressional leaders in
1998. in which PNAC members
called for "the removal of Sad
dam Hussein's regime from
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Photo by Kevin Walker
Professor Gregory Reck claims that democracy is quickly eroding for the United States.
N AACP hopes
to reach teens
by hitting street
Photo by Kevin Walker
NAACP President Stephen Hairston chats with a resident.
BY T. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
The matching bright yel
low NAACP T-shirts they
wore made Stephen Hairston
and his great-uncle Patrick
Hairston stand out as they
walked along a stretch of First
Street in East Winston.
As they passed rows of
well-maintained houses and
some children riding on bicy
cles and playing in front
yards, the men approached
residents in their yards or on
their front porches. They also
stopped to chat with young
men standing on street corners
and those they passed as they
walked.
Stephen Hairston. presi
dent of the Winston-Salem
chapter of the NAACP. plans
to hit several neighborhoods
in East Winston in the months
to come as part of the chap
ter's new Community Patrol
program.
"We are not going to
stop. We are going to
be here, there and
everywhere."
- Patrick Hainton,
former NAACP president
The main goal of the pro
gram is .to talk face-to-face
with young people who may
be engaging in activities that
are not only shattering the
images of their neighborhoods
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County's small
wallet means
poor pay more
Downtown Health Plaza says next month
indigent patients will lose some services
BY COURTNEY GAILLARD
rHE CHRONICLE
Patients of the Downtown
Health Plaza can expect to pay
more for services offered at the
tacuity
thanks to
tQ d g e t
cuts sus
tain e d
from
Forsyth
County.
The
Down
town
HeaJth
Plaza
Marshall
will no longer offer a sliding fee
scale for dental and vision servic
es offered at the Cleveland
Avenue
facility.
As of
Aug. jl,
the slid
ing fee
scale also
will be
eliminat
ed from
the phar
macy,
the
Downtown Health Plaza, an affil
iate of Wake Forest University
Baptist Medical Center, provides
comprehensive primary and pre
ventive health care services to
low-income and poor individuals
Clements
in Forsyth County.
In 1998. the county agreed to
allocate $4.1 million to Baptist
Hospital for indigent care to be
spent over five years, which
ended in December of last year.
Michael Clements, director of the
Downtown Health Plaaa. said
there was discussion about the
possibility of some continued
funding, even after the five-year
agreement expired due to the
increase in patient visits over the
years. Last year the Downtown
Health Plaza saw 48.000 doctor
vistts, 'iutd-?ikl?Mmstrators are
expecting that number To reach
53.1XX) this year.
However, the county com
missioners recently denied the
health plaza's request for an addi
tional $2.7 million - the equiva
lent of what was allocated the last
year of the contract. Now
Clements said he is wondering
exactly what kind of message the i
county commissioners are trying ?
to send to citizens who rely on
these services to meet their health
care needs.
"This community has always
supported people who have limit
ed resources, and to suddenly
decide that we are no longer
going to do that was really kind
of shocking." Clements said. "I
wonder if some of our commis
sioners fail to realize the needs of
our community: that there are
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