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4 Monday, August 29,1994 Northwest Airlines’ Mystery Fares Promotion Attracts Many Adventurous Travelers BYRYAN THORNBURG ASSISTANT STATE AND NATIONAL EDITOR INDIANAPOLIS For more than a thousand adventurous souls at the India napolis International Airport last Wednes day, the adage, “It’s who you’re with, not where you are," was the thought of the day. Northwest Airlines offered 300 round trip tickets for one-day excursions from Indianapolis to 15 domestic cities on Sat urday for $59 each or $99 for a pair. The kicker is, the travelers wouldn’t know where they were going until they arrived at the airport Saturday morning. Dennis Rosenborough, director of pub lic affairs for the Indianapolis Airport, said the eclectic group of travelers had included a man shopping for a 50th wedding anni versary gift for his wife as well as a mother who planned on giving her son a plane ride for his 12th birthday. “It was like a carnival atmosphere around here,” Rosenborough said. Ticket hopefuls came from as far away as Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio more than 100 miles from Indianapolis —and began showingup at3 a.m. for Northwest’s promotion. Tickets went on sale at 11 a.m. and were sold out in one hour and 45 minutes. “If you’ve ever waited in line for a concert ticket, then you know what it was like,” Rosenborough said. “Everyone was hoping they would get a ticket.” HOSPITAL FROM PAGE 1 “ She has had attorneys working for three years. There have been many people say ing they wanted to take the case, but they keep putting it off and won’t say why. “After all this mess with attorneys, I went through all the records, got power of attorney and decided to file,” he said. Cox said he did not know why lawyers had been slow to work on this case. “No attorneys have even talked about the mishandling of the body,”he said. “All they keep saying is that we don’t have a case for a wrongful death suit. Our time’s run out on that anyway.” The statute of limitations is two years for wrongful death and three years for mishandling of body parts. No hospital representatives could be w DRAFT A Chapel Hill Favorite ~ ■ ■ MONDAYS & TUESDAYS io% Student and Senior Citizen discount Eastgate Shopping Center • 942-5844 • Sun.-Thurs. 11-10 • Fri. - Sat. n-n M\ Dr. Beth Goldstein Mil DERMATOLOGY • Skin Cancer •Warts •Acne •Moles • Leg Veins • Superficial Chemical Peels at HI 04 S. Estes Drive, Suite 101 Call now for an appointment SELLING JESUS Did Jesus Focus on Success or the TRUTH? 188 Please join us for a weekly bible study Tuesdays , 7:15 pm Union , FPG Lounge Grace Reformed Fellowship 929-3355 Those lucky enough to get tickets boarded their planes early Saturday morn ing and flew to one of three Northwest hubs in Minneapolis, Detroit or Memphis. From there, their journeys continued on to their final destination, and they re turned to Indianapolis by 11 p.m. The thousand people who weren’t lucky enough to get tickets still received a $35 coupon to be used on any Northwest flight, said John Austin, spokesman for North west. Cities that the mystery flights serviced were New Orleans; Buffalo, N.Y.; Phila delphia; Tampa, Fla.; San Antonio; Or lando, Fla.; St. Louis; Kansas City, Mo.; Milwaukee; Minneapolis; Washington, D.C.; Boston; Rapid City, S.D.; and New York City. According to Austin, the idea was con cocted by one of Northwest’s advertising staff and was similar to the promotional one-day fare the airline had last year to Memphis for Elvis Presley’s birthday. “One of the things we like to do is find a promotion with a business idea to it,” Austin said. “With this, we could show case our hubs.” The promotion caused no security prob lems and most of the people in line, even those who had not gotten tickets, were adventurous and good-natured, Rosenborough said. “We had to do some makeshift ropings, but other than that, everything went smoothly.” reached for comment. Cox said he was suspicious about his brother’s death and the events surrounding it and wrote in his statement that he sus pected foul play before, during and after surgery. “I don’t think it (Bruce Cox’s death) was accidental,” Cox said. “I can’t say it wasn’t, but I have my suspicions.” Cox said he had a good case but was not sure if he would get $lO million. He said, however, that winning was not his main concern. “I have at least a hundred things I want to ask them ( the hospital and Sessions). I don’t know if I’ll be able to ask everything, but I want to make it a matter of public record. “I didn’t have any ideas as far as money was concerned,” Cox continued. “They said put something down, so I put $lO million. But how can you put a price on your brother’s life?” STATE & NATIONAL Farrakhan Discusses Black Condition BY JENNY HEINZEN STATE AND NATIONAL EDITOR DURHAM Asking the question, “Are black organizations really our own?” Louis Farrakhan addressed a capacity crowd in Durham for an hour and a half despite a sweltering room and a temporary power outage. Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Is lam, known for his black empowerment and separatist agendas, addressed more thans,ooopeople in the un-air-conditioned gymnasium on the campus of N.C. Cen tral University. Attendees were greeted at the door by a flood of designer-suit-clad bodyguards, metal detectors and women dressed in white robes. Every pocket and bag was searched before entry. The entire arena was in mo tion, with people clambering for seats and using homemade fans to try to compensate for the heat. The official welcome was offered by Minister Ray Muhammad from Muhammad’s Mosque #34 in Durham, which arranged for Farrakhan’s appear ance, followed by remarks by Abdul Arif Muhammad, the mid-Atlantic Regional Minister. Next, the Minister Jamil Muhammad of Baltimore began accepting monetary donations from the audience, beginning with SIOO or greater contributions. He moved onto SSO donations, then went on to the “Green Wave,” where vir tually every memberofthe audience waved money over their heads until the white robed women came to collect it. Muhammad then introduced Farrakhan to a boisterous standing ovation. Farrakhan began with his appraisal of the black man’s role in American society. “America is not apparently ready for a free-thinking, free-acting black man or woman. America, and those in power, like us most when we are most responsive and responsible to them than we are to the needs and hopes of our own people,” he said. “Those in power are very afraid to see us move in a free direction. “Those in power will do everything they can to thwart the direction of those who want to forge an independent course. It is necessary for us to rethink our direction and rethink how we can truly make black organizations our own,” he said. Farrakhan said the few black leaders in the country were not truly free to speak the truth about the black condition. “If the leaders are not free, they cer tainly cannot lead you to liberation,” he said. “No leader, with the exception of myself, is truly free to lead you. 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Franklin St. 968-0470 STATE FARM INSURANCE State Farm Insurance Companies Home Offices Bloomington, Illinois {^/' ~ | f i^y of what you are saying, that is freedom. “I come to you as a free black man who does not have to worry about what any body says," he said. “It’s not because I’m better; it’s because I’m freer.” Farrakhan said the black education sys tem in America should serve to help instill the desire for freedom in its students but that it had failed. “Black colleges are controlled from the outside," he said. “They build a curricu lum to make you fit in a system that is diametrically opposed to you... These col leges have become hotbeds of dissatisfac tion. Somehow, a disease has gotten into the college system; there is a virus in the computer.” He said he blamed white people for having oppressed the blacks and having acted as hypocrites. “White folks who claim that God is love and Jesus paid a price for our redemption, these same folk held us in slavery,” Farrakhan said. “And when they made us Christians, they would not let us worship with them. “God is love, but that love never ex tended to black folk,” he said. “I notice that even when we integrated the school—never have we integrated the church. You're still the passed-over black church. There may still be one or two whites singing in the choir, beating the tambourines offbeat,” he said. "I’m not really trying to be funny, be cause if it weren’t so tragic, it would be funny,” Farrakhan said. “The tragedy is, we are 20th-century slaves moving into the 21 St cefltury still not free; The idea of thie Caucasians is ‘how we can keep a lid on it; because if they get free, they might change the country and go on to change the worid. ’” At this moment, the lights all went out. It was a tense moment during which there were a few screams, and the bodyguard force swarmed around Farrakhan to pro tect against a possible assassination at tempt. But the lights returned momen tarily and Farrakhan continued. Tnn “A HIGH-VOLTAGE CHARGE I L [\l I OF SUSPENSE, ACTION AND HUMOR!” 1 , , FiwThi Bcreure An.pt Qi THE FIRM „t> THE PEUCAN BRIEF ZRfl MORltll 2 • 4130 •7 • 9;30 > |PGI3| 966 4564 BIG NEWS! with this ad, New or Returning* jgpL (. \ Plasma Donors Receive 1 ♦those who have not donated in the past 30 days HH 'W SERA-TEC BIOLOGICALS lOO'/g E. FRfINKIII ST. 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So when you integrate people, you’re going to integrate them to make the society whole. ” He said the black community was fall ing apart. “The black community has dete riorated so much that that we are the chief destroyers of ourselves,” Farrakhan said. “We aye the number one rapers, robbers and.killers of ourselves.” ‘ /'He described black athletes and musi cians as puppets who were controlled by white managers and thus unable to be termed heroes for their people. “Heroes are those who plot the course of nature, who change reality into some thing good for our people,” he said. Farrakhan described the managers of black athletes as “bloodsuckers.” “You can call that anti-Semitism if you want, but I call that truth,” he said. “All Slip Saiitj (Ear 3brl black athletes are pieces of meat, bought and sold but not free. Driving fancy Mercedeses in your black neighborhoods —that don’t make you free. The worst part about it is that you love being the slave you are.” He reiterated several times that every member of the almost completely black audience was still a slave. “You’re nothing but a slave, and you like it,” he said. “I’ll be damned. rp.Dm going to point it put all over the country. ’l’m going to lift 1 my voice like a trumpet. I’m going to expose everything." Throughout his speech, Farrakhan re ferred to the ousting of Ben Chavis, former director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, calling the organization a welfare group. He said that Chavis had been the only person in the NAACP who had been able to point out this fact and to make efforts to heal the black community, but said that because of his blunt honesty, Chavis had been fired. Fareakhan suggested, as a solution to the black crisis, that all 30 million blacks in the country should contribute $lO per month to a savings fund that would be used to buy out white organizations, including wheat farms and grocery stores. “Now look, one ofthe first thingsyou’ve got to do to free yourself is take your mouth out of the kitchen of the enemy,” he said. “Everythinghas been poisoned. We’ve got to go back to the earth and start over.” He finally challenged the audience to unify to overcome the many problems that faced them. “It’s on you,” Farrakhan said. “So, my dear brothers and sisters, 1 thank you so much for your kind attention. 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