6The Daily Tar HeelThursday, March 7, 1991
Polish-American Club
By Laura-Leigh Gardner
Staff Writer
The local Polish-American Club
provides programs for people looking
for an opportunity to celebrate their
Polish heritage and tradition with other
people of Polish descent.
The club, formed in Raleigh while
Poland was under martial law, offers a
variety of social, religious and educa
tional programs to preserve what is
meaningful about Polish culture, said
Irene Briggaman, the club's program
chairwoman.
"We're a busy group," she said. "We
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The club sponsors spring and fall
dinner-dances, picnics in July and Au
gust, and Christmas and Pre-Lenten
parties, she said.
"Ostaki (the pre-Lenten party) is a
Mardi Gras-type thing," Briggaman
said. "It's the revelry before the somber
Lenten period."
The club's spring dance is scheduled
for May 4. The club recently formed a
polka band that will perform at the
dance, even though club members who
have recently emigrated from Poland
do not know how to polka, Briggaman
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"The polka is a more American
dance," she said.
The club is in the process of forming
an eight-couple Polish dance troupe that
will perform more traditional and folk
dances, such as the Polannaise. A former
member of a Polish dance troupe who
now lives in Chapel Hill will head the
troupe, Briggaman said. She said she
hoped the troupe would be together by
the time the International Festival was
held in Raleigh during the first week of
October.
The Catholic Church was instru
mental in holding Poland together
throughout history, Briggaman said.
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Because of Poland's strong religious
background, the Polish-American club
offers several religious programs to its
members.
The club invited a Polish-speaking
priest to hold a Christmas Eve mass last
year. The priest also blessed homes of
members by placing two crosses and
the initials of the Three Wise Men above
the doors of the homes, she said.
The same priest will be back at Easter
to hold mass and conduct Swienconka,
the blessing of baskets filled with linens
and food for Easter, she said.
Members of the club were particularly
excited about the possibility of a Polish
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art exhibit at the N.C. Museum of Art in
the spring of 1992, Briggaman said.
'The exhibit will include particular
pieces of art that have never before left
Poland," she said.
The club will probably work with the
museum to train Polish-speaking
members as guides for any of the
exhibit's visitors who may not be able
to understand English, Briggaman said.
The Polish-American Club is also a
service organization, she said. Last year,
the club made donations to two Triangle
area charities. The club also sent money
to help with repairs to the Church of the
Black Madonna in Poland, which was
damaged in a fire last year.
The club sponsors two or three aca
demic scholarships a year, Briggaman
Jim Bakker
pending resentencing
The Associated Press
CHARLOTTE A federal judge
denied bond Wednesday for former
televangelist Jim Bakker, saying the
PTL founder might flee while awaiting
resentencing on fraud and conspiracy
charges.
In the eight-page order, U.S. District
Judge Graham Mullen said he found
prosecutors' arguments that Bakker
posed a danger to the community
'unpersuasive." But he said Bakker's
attorneys did not prove that the PTL
founder did not pose a flight risk.
Mullen referred to the testimony of
Daniel Foster, chief of psychology
services at the Federal Medical Center
at the Rochester, Minn., prison where
Bakker has been held for the past 16
months.
Foster testified at a bond hearing
Friday, along with four other character
witnesses, that he did not believe Bakker
would flee.
"While Dr. Foster no doubt is sincere,
and even on sound professional grounds
in giving his opinion that the defendant
is not a flight risk, this still falls short of
meeting the defendant' s heavy burden,"
Mullen wrote.
"The speculative nature of any psy
chological evaluation, combined with
Mr. Bakker's previously demonstrated
susceptibility to aberrant behavior in
stressful situations, prevents this court
from concluding that the defendant is
clearly and convincingly not a flight
risk on the basis of the evidence pre
sented."
John Chreno, prison spokesman, said
officials there have been notified of the
judge's decision, but Bakker had not
yet been told.
The burden was on Bakker and his
attorneys, who requested the bond
hearing, to prove he should be released.
The reference to "aberrant behavior
in stressful situations" refers toBakker's
Senate bill would link foreign
aid with sales
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON Three Demo
cratic senators presented a bill
Wednesday that would tie U.S. foreign
aid more closely to sales of American
goods in countries receiving assistance.
"Germany, France, Japan and others
use foreign aid to help increase sales in
key markets," said Sen. Lloyd Bentsen,
D-Texas, chairman of the Senate Fi
nance Committee. "We remain stuck in
place with outdated policies that cost
American companies over $5 billion a
year in lost sales.
"That kind of unilateral economic
disarmament must stop," Bentsen said.
Sen. David Boren, D-Okla., chairman
of the Senate Intelligence Committee,
said that of the $1.8 billion the United
States gave last year to Poland and
Hungary, only about $250 million was
tied to the purchase of American prod
ucts. By comparison, almost 99 percent of
aid from Japan and 96 percent of aid
from Germany was in the form of credits
designed to sell their goods.
Boren said the Bush administration
supports a proposal in the bill that would
set up a $1 billion fund in the Agency
for International Development to fi
nance capital projects using American
products in the Third World. Of the $1
billion, $350 million would be in the
BSM
said. "I just wish I had had the opportu
nity to know he was running against me
for president because obviously it was
an organized event."
Sabrina Evans, outgoing president,
said there was nothing unethical about
the election.
"The candidate (Epps) received a 5 1
percent majority vote and accepted the
position," Evans said. "The decision
was made by Amie Epps and the elec
tions board, which is not the ruling
body. In this election the ruling body
was the general body, and the general
body made their decision."
The new vice president has not been
officially declared, she said.
"The current candidate (Stormie
Forte) did not receive 5 1 percent of the
votes," she said. "Arnie Epps received a
majority but declined the office. The
elections board will be meeting after
Spring Break to discuss the alterna
tives." Evans said she did not know whether
a re-election would be held after the
break to fill the position.
Forte could not be reached for comment.
said. The scholarships usually go to a
member' s child who is in high school or
in the early years of college.
Members meet on the first Wednes
day of every month at St. Raphael's
Church on Falls of the Neuse Road in
Raleigh. At April's meeting, Madeline
Levine, a professor in the University's
Slavic Languages department, will
speak on the three Nobel Laureate
winners from Poland. One of the win
ners has written a trilogy about Poland,
and the book will be offered for a dis
count rate at the meeting, Briggaman
said.
The club now has about 1 50 members .
Briggaman said. Anyone can join, al
though most members have some Pol
ish background.
denied bail
breakdown on Aug. 3 1 , 1989, while he
was on trial.
Bakker was convicted on a 24-count
indictment, which charged that he
oversold lodging guarantees, called
"lifetime partnerships," at his Heritage
USA religious retreat. Prosecutors said
Bakker diverted $3.7 million in minis
try funds to finance his extravagant
lifestyle while at the same time know
ing the now-bankrupt ministry was in
precarious financial condition.
Last month, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court
of Appeals in Richmond, Va., upheld
his convictions on fraud and conspiracy
but threw out his 45 -year sentence and
ordered a resentencing by Mullen. .
Mullen has said he would hold that
resentencing hearing April 25. Mullen
had the authority to release Bakker on
bond while awaited that hearing.
Mullen also mentioned the other four
character witnesses, all of whom testi
fied that Bakker wasn't a flight risk,
"These witnesses, alone, do not
present sufficient evidence ... This court
does not find an opinion from such a
witness that the defendant would follow
a court order to be ' clear and convincing
evidence' that he would not flee,"
Mullen wrote.
He said none of the four was objec
tive, calling them "unpersuasive because
of the family and professional interest
the testifying parties have in obtaining
Bakker's release." Those witnesses in
cluded Bakker's daughter, Tammy Sue
Chapman.
Bakker's attorneys, Alan Dershowitz
and Harold Bender, were not immedi
ately available for comment on the
judge's ruling. Bender was not in his
Charlotte law office, and Dershowitz' s
office at Harvard law school said he was
on business in New York.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jerry Miller
also was not available. His office said
he was in Richmond, Va.
of U.S. exports
form of grants.
Bentsen said large capital projects
would lead to further use of American
goods. The bill would require that 10
percent to 35 percent of all aid to indi
vidual countries be used for such projects
over the next five years.
Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., chairman
of the subcommittee on International
Trade, was the third senator presenting
the bill.
Boren said the proposed changes
would increase support for foreign aid
among American voters.
Other provisions of the bill would: :
Q Reduce cash aid that can be spent
on goods from countries competing with
the United States to a maximum of 50
percent for the year beginning Oct. 1,
1992, dropping to 10 percent over five
years. Last year, 60 percent of U.S.
economic aid was in cash, Boren said:
B Increase by 15 percent a year for
the next five years the money given to
the U.S. government's Export-Import
Bank to subsidize exports of U.S. inr
dustrial goods '.
H Increase to $400 million a year for
two years beginning Oct. 1, 1992, the
"war chest" available for subsidies to
foreign sales to meet competition from
other exporting countries. For the cur
rent year, Congress made $150 million
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Miea Alexander was elected secre
tary of the BSM without opposition.
Alexander, a sophomore from
Smithfield, said she was pleased with
the outcome of the election.
"What I really want to do is encour
age more African Americans to join the
BSM and help BSM meetings run
smoothly," she said.
Christa Ray, a sophomore from
Roswell, Ga., was elected treasurer also
without opposition.
"I want to post biweekly reports of
what money is spent by the BSM and
educate the central committee on money
transactions," she said. "I will work
diligently on a budget that is sufficient
for the BSM and its sub-groups."
Dillard Massey, a sophomore from
Concord, won the post of parliamentar
ian in a write-in campaign.
"I'll try to do the best job I can," he
said. "Prior to (Tuesday's) forum on
(racial segregation in) housing, I had
planned to work on that issue. B ut seeing
that so much was done, I might not need
to do anything. I'll certainly find
something else worthy to do."
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