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AUGUST 11,1988 VOL. 47, NO. 72
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NEWS BRIEFS
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OFFICIAL CHANGE
The Raleigh-Durham Airport
Authority he* added “Interna
tional” to the name of the airport
aa part of the feetlvltlei
celebrating the International ser
vice to Europe. International air
aervlce will create new
challengea for RDU aa the Air
port Authority culminate* an
eight-year, $250 million expan
alon program.
NEW DIRECTOR
AJ. Howard Clement, III ha*
been named director of advertis
ing and public relations for North
Carolina Mutual Life Inaurance
C*. Clement will be responsible
far developing and coordinating
aa advertising and public rela
ttans program for the home office
and the 3* district offices.
PROMOTION CEREMONY
The City of Raleigh will hold a
promotion ceremony for police
officers at I p.m. Friday in the Ci
ty Connell Chambers In the
Municipal Building. Twenty
wren police officers will be pro
meted to ranks ranging from
detective to captain.
(Sw* NEWS BRIEFS, P. 2)
Clippers Star
Faces Charges
A Los Angeles Clippers basket
ball player was charged with one
misdemeanor count of battery for
aBagedly beating his wife recent
ly.
Marys* Johnson, 32, was ar
rssfpd last week on suspicion of
banting his 31-year-old wife,
Jocelyn, who suffered Injuries
that Included visible bruises and
'a cut Up.
The former UCLA star and
NHhvaukee Bucks player was
ralaaaad from Jail after posting
IMN ball. He I* expected to be
arraigned Aug. 17 In West Los
Angeles Municipal Court.
Police' took the basketball
player into custody at the
couple’s Bel Air home after his
wife told officers he had beaten
bar, said Mike Qualls, spokesman
for the city attorney’s office.
The injuries resulted from her
"being struck with the open
hand," Qualls said.
If convicted, Johnson faces a
maximum term of one year In
county Jail and a a $0,000 fine,
Qaalis said.
Housing, Doctors Needed
AIDS Virus Hits Blacks Hardest
BY R.P. CORNWALL CHUNN
Staff Writer '
With reports of medical waste be
ing washed ashore along the North
Carolina coast, a question has arisen
whether the area beaches and other
waterways are safe from AIDS.
“HIV is not transmitted that way,”
said Judy O’Dowd of the North
Carolina AIDS Control Program.
“It LAlOS] is not transmitted
through water. It takes more virus
than you could dilute out. It is
transmitted through body fluids
(vaginal and semen) and blood,"
O’Dowd said in the interview.
She stated that AIDS is not a pro
blem either in swimming pools or
other public water facilities such as
oublic hot tube because these are
chlorinated. “This virus is very sen
sitive to chlorine. If the chlorine
didn’t kill it, the dilution factor
would.”
O’Dowd said the AIDS virus exists
at body temperature. When it hits the
air and the oxygen, or is diluted with
seawater, all theee factors kill the
virus, she said.
“Mosquitos do not transmit it,” she
uld, even though the insect* do
transmit blood. She stated, however,
that AIDS can be transmitted from a
mother to an unborn child before or at
birth through the blood.
Nancy Pekarek, of the N.C. Depart
ment of Human Resources’ Public Af
fairs Of fie, said of the concern about
AIDS transmission from medical
waste along the state’s coast. “I’m
sure it has been considered. Yes, I’m
sure they’re considering all
possibilities.”
Pekarek said when interviewed
that the U.S. Navy and Dr. Ronald
Levine were in the area of the
medical waste findings in an effort to
evaluate the developments.
“Thev have looked at the situation,
(See AIDS, P. 2)
Leaders Warn Youths
Slaying Provokes Blacks
Violent
Reaction
Rejected
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP)-Civil
rights leaden are warning blacks
against reacting violently to the fatal
shooting of a black teenager by a
young white man.
Darren T. Martin, 17, was killed
outside a Shreveport restaurant,
police said, when one person in a
group of young whites fired a
shotgun.
No arrests have been made.
“Our young people are restless and
out there but we urge them not to
resort to violence. Give the police a
chance to do their job,” said tbs Rev.
A.L. Jackson, pastor of Tabernacle
Baptist Church.
The Rev. M.L. Johnson, pastor at
the West Chapel Church, said further
racial incidents would only sore to
hinder authorities from their in
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teenager,” Johnson said. "But please
do not be motivated by hatred. We
are praying that people will not look
at this racially. Let the police bring
Jiese people to justice.”
Jackson heads the Coalition of Con
cerned Citizens and Johnson is the
leader of Concerned Christians. They
held a news conference Friday regar
ding a planned march in Hemphill,
Texas, to protest the death of a black
jail inmate.
Prosecutors claim that Loyal
Garner, Jr., 34, a truck driver from
Florien, La., died of head Injuries be
received Christmas night while being
held on a drunk driving charge in the
Sabine County Jail.
On July 15, a Sabine County grand
jury acquitted three white officers of
charges they violated Garner’s civil
rights by refusing medical attention.
All three officers still face first
degree murder charges in the case.
Students Join In Project, Talk
With Dukakis About Party Issues
f our Saint Augustine’s College stu
dent leaders were invited to join other
area college and university students
this past weekend to talk with and ask
the Democratic presidential can
didate questions.
Michael Dukakis visited Raleigh
for about 3% hours on his swing
through the South following the
Democratic Convention two weeks
ago. Democratic Party officials in
vited St. Augustine’s College student
leaders to join other student leader
ship from area high schools, colleges
and universities, along with students
participating in the state’s Special
Teacher Education Training Project.
Saint Augustine’s students were
Jeanna Hunter, Portsmouth, Va.,
Miss Saint Augustine’s Uuiege;
Monique Legette, Philadelphia, Pa.,
vice president of the Student Govern
ment Association; and Cheryl Jones,
Middlesex, vice president of the Col
lege Democratic Chib.
“I was pleasantly surprised,” said
Hunter. “I was impressed by his com
petence and commitment to educa
tion.”
“I really didn’t need to ask Gov.
Dukakis any questions, because he
answered aU of my questions that I
had planned to ask, and they were
answered to my satisfaction,” Ms.
Legette told reporters. “He address
ed the concerns we had about the
future of education in America,
especially as they relate to those of us
Demands Reparations
Farrakhan Calls For Black Agenda
BY ABDUL WALI MUHAMMAD
Special To The CAROLINIAN
Louis Farrakhan called on black
leadership to “unite on a black agen
da,” to be presented to a candidate or
party before receiving blade support,
In a speech delivered at Atlanta’s
Wheat Street Baptist Church during
the Democratic National Convention.
Speaking to more than 4,000 people
crammed into the church located
down the street from the Martin
Luther King, Jr. Center, Farrakhan
noted, “We are here as watchmen...
to report to the masses of black peo
ple to ensure that no machinations of
the Democratic Party will be used to
deceive our people any longer.
“I am here to present a black agen
da around which can form a unified
front ot all black leaders and
organizations that will allow us to ad
dress the critical needs of our
people.”
The components of the black agen
da, Farrakhan said, are “full and
complete freedom, equal Justice and
equality.” He noted that his presenta
tion was an outline for black leaders
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Among the issues the Muslim
minister raised were reparations for
30 million blacks in America descend
ed from blacks kidnapped from
Africa, and federal intervention into
injustices Macks suffer in the courts.
“We demand reparations,” Far
rakhan said. "You give ua, the
deecendants of slaves, what you owe
us and the wages you kept back by
fraud."
Noting thr.t the hopes of black poo
ple were raised by the "magnificent
campaign" of Rev. Jesse Jackson,
Farrakhan examined the
“calculated” snub of Jackson by
Massachusetts Gov. Michael
Dukakis. Jackson found out through a
reporter that presidential nominee
Dukakis had selected Texas Sen.
Lloyd Bentsen as a running mate,
even though Dukakis notified all the
other farmer presidential contenders
of his selection.
“What happened is no mistake,”
said Farrakhan. “It wasn’t an over
sight. It was calculated.”
He explained that the Republicans
won 40 of 90 states in the last
presidential race with little black
support Conversely, the Democrats
lost 40 states with massive Mack sup
port.
“What does that mean? The
Republicans do not need black votea
to win the White House. It also means
that the Democrato need more than
black votes to win. We have been ef
fectively disenfranchised,” Far
(See FARRaKHAN. P. S)
who attend historically black colleges
and universities like St.
Augustine’s."
Cheryl Jones, a communications
major, told reporters she went to the
event to see what Dukakis had to say.
“I came away, however, with a
firm commitment to Mr. Dukakis. He
is a strong candidate, with a commit
ment not only to education, but to the
other major concerns facing America
today, including housing for the
homeless, jobs, hunger in America,
and world peace in America. He is
committed to returning integrity to
our federal government and the
elimination of drug abuse. I am ready
to work for him and the rest of the
Democratic ticket.”
The students participated in a
briefing session at the N.C. State
Democratic Headquarters prior to
the meeting with Dukakis and the
rest of the statewide Democratic
ticket. Before hearing from Dukakis
the students had an opportunity to
listen to Democratic gubernatorial
candidate Robert Jordan, Sen. Terry
Sanford, Fourth District Rep. David
Price and others in a workshop on
economic issues.
St. Augustine’s President Dr.
Presell R. Robinson said he was ex
tremely pleased to see that St.
Augustine's students had an oppor
tunity to participate in the process.
“Such Involvement is an important
part of their educational process
regardless of their party choice. It is
important for these young people to
know what the candidates are saying
in both parties, so they can make in
telligent choices in November. That’s
what education is all about, to learn
how to use their freedom of choice,”
Robinson added.
Japanese Hit
For Various
Bias Incidents
BY CHESTER A. HIGGINS, SR.
NNPA News Editor
The Japanese have revived that
basic symbol of black slavery and
white Southern racism, Black Sambo.
It has, thus, supplied a bitter
reminder to blacks and other decent
Americans that the struggle against
entrenched racism and bigotry must
be continued on a global scale
because these know no national boun
daries.
Just when we thought we could
pause and draw a quiet, restful
breath after having to deal with
Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro
Nakasone’s blatant racist observa
tion that blacks are responsible for
pulling down the intelligence level in
the United States, a statement he pro
fusely apologized for; just when we
figured the Japanese had learned
something from the international
stink they kicked up for reviving and
proliferating anti-Semitic literature,
we now come up against the latest
display of the Japanese gross insen
sitivity at best, or blatant racism at
its worst.
This latest gambig comes in the
form of a “hot-selling” line of
Japanese toys and beacbwear, accor
ding to the Washington Post, featur
ing Sambo with grotesquely distorted
fat Ups and Illiterate racial dialect.
These appear in mannequins in store
windows and Japanese marketers de
fend their use by declaring, "Nobody
in Japan regards this as racist,” and,
indeed, that it aU should be seen as
“humorous” and “friendly” and that
Japanese consumers “enjoy it with
goodwill The Japanese are an in
sular people, and overly fed on their
postwar success in becoming a
(See BLACK SAMBO. P. 2)
Judges'
Bench
TEENAGER SHOT
Roderick Waldren, 18, of 1321
Branch St., was listed in fair condi
tion earlier this week at Wake
Medical Center after being admitted
for a gunshot wound to the abdomen.
Waldren was shot after an argu
ment during a basketball game at a
housing complex in South Raleigh.
A warrant was issued for the arrest
of Teddy Fitzgerald Vincent, 19, of
801 Dorothea Drive for assault with a
deadly weapon.
Witnesses said the two had been
fighting during a basketball game at
Halifax Court when the assailant pull-,
ed a handgun from a jacket lying
nearby.
DRUG POSSESSION
Robin Maria Brown, 32, of 605 Nunn
St., Chapel Hill was arrested after
police searched the home she was
leasing and found what they describ
ed as drug paraphernalia that is used
with different types of cocaine. She
was charged with possession of drug
equipment and maintaining a dwell
ing for the use and sale of drugs.
She was held in Orange County Jail
under a 110,000 secured bond or a
(See JUDGES’ BENCH. P. 2)
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