LOTTE POST
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_THE CHARLOTTE POST - Thursday. April 23, 1987__ - Price: 5(K
Ethel Quest
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Stroud Foundation
Teaches Children
To "Be Somebody"
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"Mama I Want To Sing"
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Bill Johnson Award
Recognizes
Scholar-Athletes
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_Bond Denies Coca
me Usage
Julian Bond
Reprinted From
Winston-Salem Chronicle
Atlanta - Civil rights veteran
Julian Bond has angrily blasted
news reports about allegations by
his estranged wife that he uses co
caine, saying that he does not use
drugs and has not committed any
crimes.
"What is at issue here is a family
affair of concern only to those
who are intimately involved,"
Bond said Tuesday in a statement
issued to reporters. He criticized
"those professional scavengers
and gossip mongers who have
made life hell for innocent people
whose only crime is that their last
name is Bond."
Bond, a former state senator
from Atlanta, left abruptly after
reading the statement and refused
to answer any questions.
He appeared later, however, on
a radio talk show to discuss the
matter in more detail. He said he
agreed to be interviewed because
his responses would not be edited.
"I've never used cocaine. Never
at all," Bond said. But he said he
would not take a drug test.
He said he did not know the de
tails of the charges made to police
by Alice Bond and had not dis
cussed the matter with any law
enforcement authorities.
U.S. Attorney Robert Barr said
Monday that federal agents were
investigating the allegations
raised by Mrs. Bond, who later re
canted them in a newspaper inter
view.
The Atlanta Constitution report
ed in Tuesday's editions that an
unidentified source in Barr's office
said a federal grand jury would
begin hearing testimony in the
case April 16.
Bond, 47, a writer and a lecturer
on the civil rights movement, re
tired from the Georgia Legislature
in 1986, after serving for 20 years,
to run for Congress, but lost to his
long-time civil rights colleague,
John Lewis.
In his statement, Bond said that
he and his wife, married 25 years,
have been separated for almost six
months. It is from our hurt and
pain at this separation that this af
fair arose," he said.
"Mrs. Bond has retracted the al
legations and charges she issued
in anger, and I am satisfied with
her withdrawal," he said. "As far
as we are concerned, the matter is
closed."
Cocaine possession is a federal
offense, but Barr cautioned that he
was not "characterizing this as a
mere possession case." He de
clined to elaborate.
Mrs. Bond walked into the city
police narcotics unit March 19 and
told police her husband was abus
ing cocaine, according to a confi
dential police memorandum ob
tained by WSB-TV, The Atlanta
Journal and The Atlanta Constitu
tion. She also named other promi
nent Atlantans, whose names
were not disclosed, as users or
suppliers of the drug.
Mrs. Bond also swore out a
warrant for simple battery against
a woman she described as her
husband's cocaine supplier, saying
the woman had hit her with a shoe
during a dispute late month.
After the news reports ap
peared over the weekend, Mrs.
Bond telephoned the Atlanta
newspapers and recanted the alle
gations involving drug abuse by
her husband.
Ben Chavis Charges "Envir
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onmental Racism”
Mk. _ T
rector of the Commissi oh for Ra- •
dal Justice of the 1.7-million mem
ber United Church of Christ, de
clared that their just-released na
tional report showed that racism
may be a factor in the location of
hazardous waste sites throughout
the United States. The report,
"Toxic Wastes And Race In The
United States: A National Report
on the Racial and Socio-Economic
Characteristics of Communities
With Hazardous Waste Sites,” was
released at a press conference held
Wednesday, April 15, at the Na
tional Press Club in Washington,
D.C.
The report revealed that three
out of every five African Ameri
cans and Hispanic Americans live
in communities with uncontrolled
(abandoned) toxic waste sites and
that the average number of racial
and ethnic persons who live in
communities with commercial
hazardous waste fadlities was five
times greater than in communities
without such facilities. In addition,
in 10 major metropolitan areas
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more than 90% of the African
?jf American population lived ip are
as with- wicontrblled-taxk-.We6te1
»»tea. In fact, the largest toxic
waste facility in the nation, which
receives wastes from over 46
states and several foreign coun
tries, is located in Emelle, Alaba
ma, whose population is 85% Afri
can American.
At the press conference Dr.
Chavis-called the situation "an in
sidious form of institutionalized
racism- It is, in effect, environmen
tal racism." He added, "Given the
disproportionate effect of these
wastes on racial and ethnic com- •
munities, this has become not only
an environmental issue, but a ra
cial justice issue as well.” Dr. Cha
vis also charged the Reagan Ad
ministration and its Environmen
tal Protection Agency (EPA) with
"malignant neglect” and said this
was "totally consistent with the
Reagan Administration's general
non-enforcement policy, particu
larly in the area of civil rights."
The Commission has called on
President Reagan to take immedi
ate corrective action in line with
the report's recommendations.
■•CQNTWtMlO 1*. av.'l
Charging "environmental racism," the Rev,
D*% Benjamin F« Chavis Jr. (at podium), execu
tive director of the Commission for Racial Jus
tice of the 1.7 million member United Church
of Christ, stated their just-released national re
port revealed that racism may be a factor in
the location of hazardous waste sites through
out the U.S. With him at the National Press
Club press conference in Washington, DC, are
Charles Lee (seated at Dr. Chavis’ left), other
members of the Commission and consultants
to the project.
Africa Peace Tour C
omes To
Charlotte May 1
The Africa Peace Tour will
be in Charlotte Friday, May 1,
7i«0 p.m. at Greenville Center,
1330 Spring Street.
Special To The Fast
In Africa, wars are under way
which are virtually unreported in
the U.S. but which are killing thou
sands and devastating the lives of
millions through injury, hunger
and dislocation.
One region of intensifying con
flict is southern Africa. There,
South Africa's military campaign
to control its neighbors is being
most severely felt in Angola and
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in Angola, have created nearly
500,000 dieplaced people and cut
food production to less than 50
percent of needs. In Mozambique,
terrorism and destruction of food
supplies and rail lines by South Af
rica's Mozambican "rebel" allies
have placed up to four million - al
most one-third of the population -
in jeopardy of severe malnutrition
and starvation. Starvation has
been reported in some regions.
Inside South Africa, the press
blackout conceals the increase in
government torture, killings and
other forms of repression, such as
detention. Since June, 1986, 24,000
people have been detained, and al
most 9,000 of these have been
youth and children 18 years or
younger; it is not known how
•many of these people continue to
be held. South Africa has periodi- •
cally mode strikes against Leso
tho, Botswana, Zimbabwe and
Zambia, and this is expected to
continue if not to intensify.
War is constant in Ethiopia, Su
dan and Chad, all still recovering
from famine, and in Western Sa
hara. In addition, militarization is
spreading in nations not currantly
at war, and, as in nations where
there is fighting, this is creating
crippling debt and drawing re- V
sources away from agriculture,
health care and education.
Warfare is likely to continue in
Africa, which already fiae the
world's largest refugee popula
tion, five million.
Just as there has been little in
formation provided to the U.S.
public on wars in Africa, there is
little awareness among the public
that the U.S. is deeply involved
militarily in Africa's major war
zones and in Africa's militarization
process. Furthermore, there is no
analysis on how this military in
volvement affects the well-being
of the U.S. public.
These are critical issues in the
southern United States, for, as
Kenny Johnson and Marilyn
Scurlock point out in "Southern
Changes"": Although it experi
enced extraordinary job growth
during the pat 10 years, the South
east remains the least favorable
region of the nation when consid
ered from the perspective of
working people and their families.
More than in any other region,
workers in the 12 states of the
southeast fail to enjoy the fruits of
their labors."
There is evidence that he plight
of a number of workers in the
South is worsening. Stuart Rosen*
fpld writes in "Southern Expo
sure": "On the one hand, many of
the 8outh's cities are prospering,
attracting new capital, new resi
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Rev. Leon Sullivan
Sullivan To
Speak At JCSU
Rpv- Leon Sullivan, a dynamic
spokesman for Black Capitalism,"
is scheduled to speak on the cam
pus of Johnson C. Smith, April 29,
at 8 p.m.
Rev. Sullivan is the first black
man ever to be elected to the
Board of Directors of General Mo
tors, the largest industrial corpora
tion in the world. He is also on the
boards of several major banks and
corporations.
Sullivan is a moderate of,the
1960s. He is credited for tirfe slo
gan "Build, brother, build." f
•In 1964, Sullivan founJ led the ,
Opportunities industriafra'fcion
Centers (OIC), an international
self-help manpower training
movement for the disadviXtaged
Sullivan's most significant con
tribution to the struggle for racial
equality has been his creation of
the Sullivan Principles," a set of
six standards, for U.S. companies
operating in South Africa, aimed
at achieving equal opportunity for
black workers in South Africa. He
is hoping that the principles will be
a significant factor in the fight
against apartheid.
McMillan
Ignores Chance
To Cut Deficit
Washington - Rep. Alex
McMillan, R-NC, ignored four
chances to cut the federal budget
deficit when he refused to support
any of the budget alternatives pre
sented to the U.S. House of Repre
sentatives.
The fiscal 1988 budget ap
proved by a 230-192 vote will cut
the $22 billion deficit by $38.2 bil
lion. Congressional budget plan
ners estimate the average Ameri
can family pays about $2,600 each
year just to cover interest pay
ments on the $200 billion debt.
McMillan did not support the
budget presented by House Dem
ocrats. He also refused to back the
spending requests of President
Reagan and his Republican House
colleague William Dannemeyer,
R*pw McMillan
RCA.
"It's a shame
Alex McMillan
refused to par
ticipate in the
legislative pro- ,
cess," said Con- J
gressman Be- J
ryl Anthony i
Jr., D-AR. <
chairman of jH
the Democrntiofa
Congressional wl
Campaign Committee. "Instead flfjr
producing their own spendit£<.,
plan. Rep. McMillan and many of
hie Republican colleague* sinvply
threw up their hands.
The budget passed by the
Hooee will begin to reduce the d*&
idt that has doubled since 19fft£
The increase in the national bXj*
gat deficit during the Reagan ApT'
ministration equals the total debt >
See McMillan on page «A / ■