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VOLUME 21 NO. 51
THE VOICE OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY
THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 5, 1996
75 CENTS
SERVING CABARRUS, ROWAN AND YORK COUNTIES
He’d rather fight than switch
Farrakhan plans to sue U.S. for access to Libya’s $1 billion
By Khaled Kazziha
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TRIPOLI, Libya - The gen
erosity of Libya’s Col. Moanunar
Gadhafi aside, Louis Farrakhan
has decided that time before a
judge makes more sense than
time behind bars.
The Nation of Islam leader
turned down the $250,000 prize
accompanying a Gadhafi
Human Rights Award - accept
ing it could have landed him in
jail for violating U.S. anti-ter
rorism sanctions. But he vowed
last week to pursue “the mother
Sam Mills III
faces assault
charges
By John Minter
THE CHARLOTTE POST
The son of Carolina Panther
linebacker Sam Mills faces a
misdemeanor assault charge fol
lowing a sexual encounter with
a 15-year-old female student at
Charlotte Latin high school in
May.
Samuel
Davis Mills
III, 18, also an
athlete, came
to the Law
Enforcement
Center on
Aug. 22 where
he was servbd
with a war
rant charging
him with mis-
demeanor
assault and battery, which car
ries a maximum two-year jail
term.
According to Charlotte-
Mecklenburg Police investigator
S.D. Conner, Mills apparently
had sex with a fellow student
after regular school hours in the
gymnasium area of the south
east Charlotte private school.
The girl alleged Mills forced
her to have sex and filed a rape
complaint with police.
Conner said Mills contends
the sexual encounter was con
sensual and that a physical
examination after the complaint
was filed did not indicate con
clusively that a rape occurred.
After an investigation by
Conner, who works in the sex
crimes unit, evidence in the case
was turned over to the
Mecklenburg County district
attorney. After reviewing the
evidence, the district attorney’s
office declined to file rape
charges against Mills.
The girl’s mother then contact
ed a magistrate who signed the
assault warrant.
Conner said Mills and the girl
have apparently known each
other alx)ut a year.
of aU court battles” to be able to
claim the money from Libya.
If convicted of violating the
sanctions - or of conspiring to
do so - Farrakhan would have
faced prison and fines.
He earlier promised to cross
the United States to rally sup
port if the government did not
allow him to accept the prize.
Now, he says he will appeal a
U.S. Treasmy Department deci
sion to deny his request for an
exemption to the sanctions.
“I will accept the honor of this
prize but I will ask you to hold
the money until a decision is
made in a court of law,”
Farrakhan told an enthusiastic
crowd at the award ceremony.
Several thousand people
attended the ceremony in
Tripoli, clapping and chanting
as a smiling Farrakhan was
handed the award. Farrakhan,
wearing one of his signature
bow ties - this one red and yel
low - was given a green sash
which he wore across his dark
suit and a bouquet of flowers.
“Instead of America stopping
this prize,” he told the crowd,
“America should have matched
that promise.”
Farrakhan insisted the prize
had “no attachment whatsoever
to the govenunent of Libya” and
was merely named after
Gadhafi, whom the United
States considers a sponsor of
terrorism.
But Farrakhan repeatedly has
referred to the Libyan leader as
a brother and denounced
Washington’s animosity toward
him.
Libya set up the human rights
prize in 1989. It was first
awarded to South African
President Nelson Mandela.
Other winners include
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan says he will sue to get $1 bil
lion Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi pledged.
American Indians and the chil
dren of the Palestinian uprising
against the Israeli occupation.
Mills III
Taking bite out of drug trade
PHOTO/SUE ANN JOHNSON
Community events like this Labor Day cookout, coupled with neighborhood patrols, is part of the Crusade’s efforts to
remove drugs from Charlotte’s streets.
Crusade steps up tactics in communities’ fight
By John Minter
THE CHARLOTTE POST
“Please be informed that
your vehicle was seen in a
known drug area....While we
are aware that all persons
entering such areas are not
looking for drugs we do know
that many are. We write to
inform you that your Ucense
plate number along with all
others in such areas are
turned over to the Charlotte
Police Department.”
That’s how Rev. James
Barnett and The Crusade
against violence and illegal
drugs has contacted people
they believe are buying drugs
in some of Charlotte’s poorest
communities.
And Barnett says many of
those buyers are whites, from
southeast Charlotte and from
surrounding counties.
In a new more aggressive
tactic launched this week.
The Crusade is following up
the post card notifications
with vigils in front of the
homes of people believed to be
buying drugs.
“We are trying to wake up
the white community,”
Barnett said in an interview
Tuesday. “They don’t realize
whites are buying drugs.
Eighty percent of the (drug)
business that comes into the
Wingate community is
white.”
To prove his point, Barnett
has taken pictures of whites
stopping and exchanging
money with the young people
on one corner on Mayfair
Avenue in Wingate, which is
between West and Wilkinson
boulevards, off Old Steele
Creek Road.
One picture shows a white
woman getting out of a taxi
and walking between two
See CRUSADE on page 3A
Bull run
PHOTO/HERBERT L. WHITE
Johnson C. Smith running back Demetrius Campbeli carries
the bali against Benedict in the Golden Bulls’ 36-0 win last
week. Smith plays Virginia State in Charlotte Saturday. A pre
view is on page 9B.
Rwanda bloodshed spurs inquiry
By Sarah Martone
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KIGALI, Rwanda - The
United Nations has asked
Rwanda to investigate a report
that the army killed at least 111
civilians in a three-day opera
tion last month.
The United Nations said
another 52 people were missing
and 300 arrested in western
Ruhengeri prefecture during the
Aug. 6-8 search operation,
apparently launched to identify
soldiers of the defeated Hutu
army.
The report was released
Monday by the U.N. Human
Rights Field Operation in
Rwanda.
It said some of those killed
were alleged to have been mem
bers of the former Hutu-led
Rwandese Armed Forces or
other infiltrators who often
attacked civilians and survivors
of the 1994 state-sponsored
genocide in Rwanda.
But many killed were repuri-
edly unarmed civilians, the U.N.
said.
At least 500,000 people, most
of them Tutsis or moderate
Hutus, were massacred in
Rwanda during the orchestrat
ed killing spree by Hutu sol
diers, mobs and militiamen in
the spring of 1994.
The killings stopped when
Tutsi rebels came to power in
July and drove the Hutu-led
government and the army into
exile. An estimated 1.3 million
people, including retreating sol
diers, sought refuge in neighbor
ing countries.
Farrakhan also was to receive
a $1 billion donation from
See FARRAKHAN on 2A
Gay has
some
critics
Candidate didn’t
deliver services,
clients say
By John Minter
THE CHARLOTTE POST
Ninth District Congressional
candidate Eugene Gay is being
criticized by two couples who
say he taken as much as $1,500
from each of them but not
returned promised services.
Gay qualified as a write-in
candidate in the 9th District
race last month. He secured the
required 250 signatures from
registered voters to enter the
race against incumbent Sue
Myrick.
Gay says he has an accounting
degree from Phillips College in
Columbia, S.C., and is a region
al training director for Excel
Telecommunications. He moved
to Charlotte two years ago, he
said.
But the couples allege that
Gay promised in December to
help them set up non-profit day
care centers and get grants to
run them.
“We gave him $1,500 cash,”
said Trula Freeman, who runs a
day care in the Shannon Park
community in northeast
Charlotte. “He has not done
what he said he was going to do.
We don’t have anything to show
for our money.”
“He said he would set up a 24-
hour day care center. That he
would find a building and help
us get grants and be our advi
sor. We have got nothing of
what he promised.”
Kim Woolfolk said she has a
similar problem. She too gave
Gay $1,500 last fall. He was
supposed to help her and her
See GAY on page 3A
During the August search
operation, about 10,000 men in
the western prefecture were
rounded up and forced to stay
on a hilltop for two days without
food or water while the Tutsi-
dominated Rwandan Patriotic
Front army screened the group
for suspected infiltrators, the
report said.
In some cases, those who
resisted were immediately
killed, the report said.
“RPA soldiers found male resi
dents hiding in or refusing to
leave their houses, took them
outside, and killed them on the
spot,” the report said. “Some of
the victims were bludgeoned to
death with blows to the head
from hoes.”
U.N. officials were denied
See RWANDA on page 2A
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