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r Anyone can develop glaucoma. ■ serious eye disease caused by toe much pressure Within the eye. Blacks are four to eight times more likely to develop glaucoma than whiten. Glaucoma is the leading cause of blindness in Macks, particularly affecting .hose who are middle-aged. Glaucoma usually doesn’t have any symptoms In the early stages. That is why half of the more than two million Americans who have glaucoma don't know they have it. Glaucoma often re mains undetected until some sight has been loot. Unfortunate ly, vision lost to glaucoma can never be restored, but treatment can halt the progress of the disease. BUCK CLOUT CAMPAIGN The American Health and Beauty Aids Institute, a trade association representing the leading black-owned manufac turers of hair care and cosmetic products, has launched an ag gressive advertising campaign to capture a large share of the 92.6 billion ethnic health and beauty aids market. Themed, “Black Clout... Check It Out!’’, the multi media advertising campaign em phasises the economic power of UaCk consumers when they pur chase products stamped with the AHBAI “Proud Lady " logo. "As the leading force in the ethnic hair care industry. AHBAI represents the economic strength and unity of 20 ethnic manufac turers,” said Gary Gardener, chairman. AHBAI and president. 8oft Sheen Products Co. “Our advertising campaign strives to Inform and educate the consumer of ethnic products as well as to promote the viability of the overall category,” he added. POVERTY AFFECTS JANCER RISKS MIAMI. Fla.—Blacks have a , higher incidence of cancer than , whites because of treatment delays and a high-fat diet, while Hispanic* reduce th"ir risk by eating yellow rice and other high- ! liber foods, health officials said tu Mtami recently. • “The barriers to reducing mor- : 'toNty are not scientific, but socio economic," said Dr. Vincent Do Vita, director of the National Cancer Institute, charged with leadfeg the battle on research, education and treatment. CONGRESSIONAL FELLOWS PROGRAM The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation is currently seeking applicants for its 1988 Congressional Fellows Program. "This is an excellent opportunity for men and women considering careers in politics or public policy to gain full-time, hands-on professional experience in a con gressional office,” says founda tion president Rep. Julian Dixon <D-CaHf.). The fellows program, designed to Increase minority in put Into the legislative process, was Instituted in 1183, after the Congressional Black Caucus determined that there were very few black professionals In policy making positions on Capitol Hill. These seeking applications or in formation should contact the CBCF'a Fellows Coordinator by calling (Ml) 543-8787 or tar writ ing to Follows, ISM Pennsylvania Avenue, 8.E., Washington, D C. 30083, PROTECTING FOOD In the wake of state and federal failure to protect area feed and water from poetklde contamina tion, citizens' groups from across the state will held a press con ference on Friday, Feb. IS, to an nounce the formation of the North { Carolina Foeticide Network. The < network will call on the North Carolina delegation to support stronger state and federal pesticide reform. This announcement will come two days after the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee Is scheduled to debate and vote on a . bin ce-eponserod by den, Jesse Helms that would pre-empt North Carolina's ability to set pesticide • standards stricter than federal law. States have often found it necessary to set thetr own stan dards stricter than federal ones. If Helms' bill passes, states would be limited by often weaker federal standards. i i WEATHER The weather forecast for the Tar Heel State calls for a chance ef showers today with highs in the Ids and lews In the Ms. Fair Fri day with highs M to 55 and lows 13 te». i mi i North nan* Una Stat* %b4ttUwlibi*Jv Branch T 1P9 E. Jones St, wWv NC .S7ttl P South The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, whose appeal to black voters will make him a major force in the South, again demonstrated an ability to win white votes. Late returns from the New Hampshire primary showed him run ning fourth, winning nearly one in 10 votes in a state with few blacks, a showing similar to the one he mustered in Iowa. Many political pundits feel that Jackson will carry a sizeable amount of delegates into the Democratic Con vention and will have sizeable imact on the convention. As of Feb. 16, the delegate count for the Democrats showed Jackson with the fifth highest arfiount of deleagates. Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dtlkakis had 44.5 delegates, Missouri Rdp. Richard Gephardt had 39, Sen. Pful Simon of Illinois had 33. Ten nessee Sen. Albert Gore, Jr., had 10.55 and Rev. Jackson had 9.8. Behind Jackson were former Arizona G6v. Bruce E. Babbitt and former Colorado Sen. Gary Hart with 0. There were 274.4 delegates uncom mitted. In the 1988 campaign of Rev. Jackson, he is talking about a wide r|mge of issues. One of the issues he is addressing is foreign policy. Rev. Jackson says, ‘‘We need a new foreign policy based not on a Cold War view of the world shaped by World War II but on recognizing that in the last 40 years economic and political realities have substantially changed. “Americans face a new world to day. The nuclear arms race has pro duced more than 50,000 warheads that can destroy the world at the touch of a button. Our World War II allies are now our economic com petitors, yet we still spend more than $150 billion a year to defend Europe against a threat that even the military considers remote. The Third World with its own strengths and needs has been born of the old col onies of *ne First World. Multina tional banks and corporations have forged a new global order that has replaced unionized labor at home with slave labor abroad. On top of it all, our economy is in hock to the rest of the world tor at least $500 billion and our debt is rapidly increasing." Kcv. Jackson added, “We need a foreign policy that promotes security based on a new set of principles. We must take the lead in freeing the children of the world from the threat of nuclear war. “We must reassess the ‘threat’ in Europe and the Pacific and seek mutual reductions in Western and Eastern forces. We must export the best of our tradition and culture to the Third World—democracy, human rights, universal education and economic development—not arms, covert wars, and a burden of' debt that impoverishes those countries. Finally, we must take precious resources away from the Pentagon and use them to rebuild our economy, 'See JESSE JACKSON. V. 2) The Carolinian RALEIGH, N.C., THURSDAY-SUNDAY FEBRUARY 18, 1988 N.C.’s Semi-Weekly DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST VOL. 47, NO. 24 SINGLE COPY OK IN RALEGH ELSEWHERE 300 Nigerian Seeks To Stay Here U.S. Attorney General Edwit Meese. Ill has ordered a five-daj delay in the deportation of a Nigeriar woman, giving U.S. Sen. Terry Sarf ford time to introduce legislation of her behalf, a Sanford spokesmar stated Tuesday. Meanwhile, also on Tuesday., lawyers for the woman. Durham resi dent Cecilia C. Ogugua. petitioned al federal court in Greensboro for a 60-day delay of deportation. Also, Gov. James G. Martin and the city councils of Durham and Raleigh took steps supporting Ms. Ogugua’s fight to postpone deportation. Sanford's office is preparing, a “private bill” that, in effect, would keep Ms. Ogugua from being .ord’s press secretary. TKoSjtsro^ Lawton, III, said recently. Ms. Ogugua. whose three children are U.S. citizens, had been ordered to report Thursday to immigration authorities in Atlanta for deportation. Ms. Ogugua, who is divorced, pleaded guilty in 1985 to receiving $2,683 in welfare benefits for which she was not eligible. The charges were filed because she worked weekends as a nursing assistant without reporting the extra income to Durham social services. She served 21 months in prison. The INS then began deportation pro ceedings against her on the grounds that she had overstayed a student visa with which she entered the coun try in 1976. A U.S. immigration judge issued an order of deportation Jan. 21. An attorney for the Atlanta district office of the INS said Ms. Ogugua could have told her story to that im migration judge but failed to appear at the hearing. INS lawyer J. Dan Pelletier said Ms. Ogugua had personal notice of (SeeRKI’IUKVE.P.S) . ■ 1 ll''- Jl 1 1 W"' Hi ..11,1 *111 lUIIIIHIJI.Il BLACK EDUCATION—Them art mare Meek coHeyts ink universities In Notlft Carolina than anywhere else in the country. INs fact may suyrisc many residents of the state. Another suprise may be the impact that the institutions have on the lives of students and non-students alike. Public Television, Friday, at 9 p.m., looks at the role of Black Vffi . hose participating in tills discussion include: Or. HacktCy, Vice president for student services art sped programs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel HW and chancellor elect of Fayetteville State University, (right) Sen. William Martin of the North Carolina Genera' Assembly, (Middle) and w. Joyce L. Perry, superintendent o Halifax County Public School, (left! American Blacks Remain Today Divided In Christian Religion uv JOHN THOMPSON MOORE. JR. S|Mt lul Tn rtir «■ AHOI.IM v\ An ViinhsK There are many, many black youths in Raleigh today that are in quiring, “Why are blacks divided in their religion?" The answer may be found in black history and works by Dr. Charles H. Wesley and others. These scholars implicitly emphasized that prior to the American Civil War (1861-65), only a few blacks were per mitted to worship God as freely in the United States and most of them, then, lived in the Northern slates like Penn svlvania and New hoik. President Robinson Leads African Trip Mini Auguaune s college rresi dent Dr. Preiell R. Robinson recent!; completed • 15-day trip to th< southern tier of Africa, Includini South Africa. Robinson was chosen to lead fou historically black college and unlver f sity presidents on the tour along will a former ambassador. The trip wai ' sponsored by the Agency for Interna tional Development, an agency of th< U.8. State Department. ' . The Agency for Internationa Development works with developing countries In an effort to assist in im proving health services, educatloi and agriculture. The trip included Zimbabwe ( Botswana and Pretoria in thecountr; of South Africa. Robinson said hli group met with university officials the president of One of the countries the minister of agriculture and th< minister of education. The intent o the trip was to determine how the 10 historically black colleges am universities in the United States cai assist those countries in all of tho* areas. The project will be operate* 'through the National Association o Equal Opportunity in Higher Educa tion, a Washington-based organiza tion made up of representatives of al 106 HBCUs. RhMiwon ‘Mt! , - p >i t**rn lust weei , nut mere is a great need for traininj in engineering, water management food production and other area which the institutions do so well. , (See l)U. KOBINSOV »» 2> ) r DR. R. ROBINSON Even in these Northern states, there were divisions among such leaders as Bishop Richard Allen of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Bishop James Varick, Charles Anderson, Christopher Rush of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church and Rev. Thomas Paul of the Baptist Church, etc. Blacks were at that time dissatisfied with the segrgation policies of the Northern white churches and wanted to separate themselves from their “mother churches." But, in the South where 90 percent if I he blacks lived, where three million out of four million blacks worked on the tobacco, rice or cotton plantations, the story was different The answer as to blacks assembling together for the purpose of worshipp ing (Jod was an emphatic "No!" The main reasons lor denying blacks that right were: (1) the Nat Turner Insurrection in the state of Appreciation Feature Hue No Winners There were no winners in last week's Appreciation Money Feature, sponsored by The CAROLINIAN and participating buslneses. The names are hidden on the Appreciation Page. After coming into The CAROLINIAN office at 518 E. Martin St. and properly identifying themselves, winners are awarded $10 checks. The Appreciation Money Feature can be found on the front page of The (See APPRECIATION, P. 2) This Week's Appreciation Money SPOTLIGHT CAPITAL VACUUM CLEANER COMPANY Virginia' (1830 and the Denmark /esey insurrection in South Carolina in 1822. White planters, then, felt that if blacks would assemble together they would use the church as a means to plan an escape from their planta tions or start another insurrection like Turner or Vesey. There was no black press in the South then. The other reason was that some whites felt that blacks were "in ferior creatures on earth” and "chat tel property” without a soul. To Christianize them would mean that they would be "equal before God" with them or to be their black brothers. (See CHKioi IANS. P. 2) America Urged To Repent BY DR. ALBERT JABS Contributing Writer The Shaw University community leard a 20th century prophetic message during its Religious Em phasis Week. The prophetic message came in th words of Dr. Jerry A. Moore, pastor of the Nineteenth street Baptist Church, Washington, D.C. Paraphrasing the prophets Jeremiah, Isaiah, and Daniel, the gifted speaker stated that America must repent. He exhorted the students to have the courage to ask the country to repent of its corporate deception and TV imagery which > AMERICA, P. 2) Judges' Bench CHILD SEX ABUSE A Willow Springs man has been ar rested and charged with first-degree rape and other counts in connection with the sekuaf abuse of two young girls. Jarvis Junior Capps, 52, of 8416 Settlers Hill Road, was charged with two counts of first-degree rape, three counts of taking indecent liberties with a child, and one count of commit ting a first-degree sexual offense, ac cording to warrants filed in the Wake Magistrate’s Office. The incidents allegedly occurred between July 1986 and January of this year according to the warrants. SLAVING PROBE STALLED5 Detectives investigating the death of a Lenoir County woman say they think they know who killed her but cannot arrest the suspect because they are unable to pinpoint the exact cause and time of her death. Capt. Lester P. Gosnell, a Lenoir County sheriff's detective, said the investiga tion into the slaying of Dorothy Mae Burney. 28, of Kinston, had stalled after five weeks of intense work. Gosnell would not say how in vestigators determined the suspect or what the motive for Ms. Burney's death might be. Two hunters found [See JUDGES’ BENCH, P. 2) PRESERVING BLACK INSTITUTIONS-One of tin national thrusts of Sigma Thota Sorority, Inc., Is to insure ths survival of historicity Mack cal •Ml univonitlos which have lor many years educated the vast majority ol l college graduates throughout thit country. The DELTA Carmel «^...^s ■■■ilnlaoito mbommm aJIaJu. >1 _« _ . — _ Hnouricvei panicipanis expmrva pnjgrim onennyi si ntsiBncflVy MKk CONsms and universities (hiring the “Black College Fak* held at Emma Conn "ImBiiiiijj School.
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