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RALEIGH, N.C., THURSDAY-SUNDAY VOL. 47, NO. 80 SEPTEMBER 8,1988 J\.C.’s Semi-Weekly DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST SINGLE COPY Of? IN RALEIGH £OQ ELSEWHERE 300 Skirting Disaster Police Brutality Cases Cited THE TO REGISTER—This Is election ysar with emphasis m velar legMntlen as wal as registering for ether Impratant pregrams. Staff members at Shaw Divinity School saan In the layer al the chapel are tram left, seated Ms. Janet Nanis, administration assistant to the dean ef academic affairs. Dr. Larkin Rossiter and M*. Brenda HoMm (at typewriter), admlnlitratlen Militant te Or. Gregory Headen, president. Theology classes have been offered since January. Headen says they are “struggling financially, but looking good In ether ways.” (Photo by TaNb SaMr CaHoway) u. 9. noose Hearings lo rocus un Historically Black Institations WASHINGTON, D.C.-Creation of a national commission on blacks in higher education and development of a clearinghouse on effective public schools will be among legislative pro posals apd federal programs to strengthen historically black colleges and universities targeted for a U.S. House of .Representatives Subcom mittee hearing Sept. 12 in Durham, N.C. Hie hearing—set for 10 a.m.-l:3C p.m. in the Health Sciences Building Auditorium at North Carolina Central NEWS BRIEFS NAACP COMMITTEE The Raleigh-Apex Branch of the NAACP will hold a meeting Sept. 11 at 4 p.m. at Martin Street Baptist Church, 1001 E. Martin St. The executive committee will meet at 3 p.m. Portia Brandon is the president and Gertrude Pope, secretary. CABINET POST Correction Secretary Aaron J. Johnson may not return to his current Job if Republican Gov. James G. Martin wins a second tans, but to a cabinet position. Johnson has been the target of criticism from the Legislature, but Martin said he could be In another position or the same posi tion after this year. JAPANESE SLURS The National Newspaper Publishers Aaaociatlon la still awaiting positive response from the Japanese prime minister, Noboru Nakeshlta, to President Patricia O’Flynn Thomas’ letter eipresslng deep concern over in creasing expressions of blatant Japanese prejudice toward black Americans. MAGAZINES DEBUT Wall Street may not raise an eyobrow at the news, but sup porters are abnss with en thusiasm after announcements recently that two highly visible black organisations will launch national magailnas in September. The entrepreneurial paths of the National Association for g««l Opportunity In Higher Education and the National Coun cil of Negro Women, Inc. wlU crass when the organisations distribute first editions of their publications, ♦’Blaek Excellence” and “Sisters.” respectively, to a combined readership of 4**,00*. BURUNDI MASSACRE DRAWS ATTENTION la one of the bloodiest ethnic waves of killing In Central Africa 73«e NEWS BRIEFS, P. 2) University—will also focus on student financial aid, public-private sector partnerships, and the need to upgrade campus libraries and other facilities used for teaching and research. The hearing, “In the National In terest: Historically Black Colleges and Universities,” will be conducted by the U.S. House Postsecondarj Education Subcommittee, chaired bj Rep. Pat Williams (D-Mont.). Expected to testify at the hearing are Charles A. Walker, chancellor University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff; Carl Marbury, president, Alabama A&M University; Robert Albright president, Johnson C. Smith Univer sity; Edward B. Fort, chancellor North Carolina A&T State Universi ty; Elias Blake, Jr., director of the Division of Higher Educational Policy Research, Howard Universi ty; Clinton Bristow, dean, Chicago State University; James Gittard, a North Carolina Central University student, Harirson B. Wilson, presi dent, Norfolk State University; Gloria R. Scott, president, Bennett College; Herman Branson, director, Pre-College Science and Mathematics Research Program, Howard University; and Paul Ostergard, president, General Elec tric Foundation. The field hearing comes in the aftermath of a series of reports (See U.S. HOUSE, P.2) Visit To Lawmaker Questioned BY CHESTER A. HIGGINS, SR. NNPA News Kditor WASHINGTON, D.C.-A Cap.tol Hill meeting of four prominent black New York newspaper publishers, and Tawana Brawley, her mother Glen da, and their representatives with Rep. John Conyers, Jr., over alleged worsening conditions between New York police and prosecutors and black and Hispanic citizens, ended in clusively nearly skirting disaster, NNPA has learned. Ms. Brawley is reportedly willing to testify about her ordeal before Con yers’ committee, something she has refused to do for the New York pro secutor or grand jury. The Brawleys were kept waiting outside Conyers’ office while it was determined whether they should be a part of the meeting. Conyers reportedly was upset that they came without notice. Ultimately, they were permitted to enter and their representatives par ticipated, NNPA was informed. The publishers, Andrew Cooper, of the City Sun; Wilbert Tatum, of the New York Amsterdam News; Tom Watkins of the Brooklyn Daily Challenge and Walter Smith of Big Red, also of Brooklyn, were schedul ed to meet with Conyers, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommitee on Criminal Justice. Conyers’ office expressed concern after the publishers were admitted to conference and lawyers Alvin Mad dox, C. Vernon Mason, and the Rev. A1 Sharpton and the Brawleys along with an entourage of “more than 30 people, including news cameras” showed up at the office door. Accor ding to Ron Stroman, a Conyers aide, the publishers’ meeting was arrang ed with the Brawley representatives acting as “liaison.” The purpose of the meeting was to urge Conyers, who held hearings into New York police brutality in 1983, to (See POLICE, P. 2) NAACP Moves To Block Segregated Claeeroome.Page 13 Michael Jackeon To Quit Live Stage Performances....Page 18 BBttlS E. LtUll l NGIt Lightner Protests, Resigns King Post Over Campaign Flap Gov. Jim Martin, who has criti cized Lt. Gov. Bob Jordan for refus ing to chair the state commission on the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday, also passed up a chance to lead the group, one of its former members said. Bruce E. Lightner said he asked Martin to be chairman of the commis sion during a meeting in the gover nor’s state Capitol office in April 1987. Coretta Scott King, wife of the slain civil rights leader, was among several people at the meeting, Lightner said. Lightner, one of 10 representatives appointed by Martin, has resigned from the Governor’s North Carolina Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Commission in protest over what he considers disrespectful and negative campaign use of Dr. King’s name. Lightner was appointed to the King Commission after a long, hard battle to enact Dr. King’s birthday as an of ficial state holiday. Lightner led lob bying efforts and was instrumental in obtaining broad support from legislators of both political parties. Gov. Martin bitterly opposed the holi day creation. Lightner’s resignation came over Martin’s portrayal of Lt. Gov. Jordan as “having something against Dr. King” and suggesting that the gover nor was supportive. The commercials are airing only on black radio stations across the state. Lightner stated, “I’m not here to defend Bob Jordan or attack Jim Martin. Simply put. I’m disgusted with the governor’s efforts to cause confusion and distrust in the black community. I am officially resigning from the North Carolina Martin Grassroots Campaign Christians Appeal To Reduce Hunger f! • BY CURETON L. JOHNSON Special To The CAROLINIAN . WASHINGTON, DC.-In November thousands of U.S. Chris tians will appeal to either George Bush or Michael Dukakis to urge the new president to rally the nation against hunger at home and around the world. Concerned people from churches, campus ministries and social, civic and other organizations will write let ters to the new president as part of a grassroots campaign: “An Appeal to the President-Elect: We Can Reduce Hunger!” Bread for the World, a Christian citizens’ antihunger move ment, is mobilizing the nationwide appeal. “This is a unique chance for Chris tians to speak out for U.S. public policies that help hungry people,” said the Rev. Arthur Simon, presi dent of Bread for the World. “We have an opportunity that may not come again in almost a decade.” After the Nov. 8 election, the new president will fill key federal posi tions, and set budgets and policies that will set the direction for the coun try for the last decade of the century. During the transition period, from Election Day to Inauguration Day (Jan. 19,1989), the hunger letters will demonstrate grassroots support for strong national leadership against world hunger. During the 1980s, hunger has been a national and global problem. The UN World Food Council estimates that Election Year 1988: Jackson Devises Voter Registration Strategy ATLANTA, Ga. <AP)-Jesse Jackson says he will stress voter registration, turnout and Democrat Michael Dukakis as he travels around the country in the two months before the presidential election. “I will campaign for voter registra tion and voter turnout in every state that I can get to,” Jackson said last Thursday, denying reports some Dukakis aides had suggested he stay out of states where the former civil rights leader has a high negative rating. “In some instances we’ll speak directly for, as a surrogate for, the ticket,” Jackson said, while elsewhere he win be representing the party or his own Rainbow Coalition. Jackson, in Atlanta for a meeting tc plan voter registration strategy, tolt reporters he would “focus... hard" oi family farmers, unions and student! because, “I would hate to wake up ot the morning df Nov. 0 [the day aftei the election] and think that we lost bj the lack of my work.” Jackson and other Democratic of fictals downplayed reports of contlnu ing tension between the two camps attributing any to the normal process involved in campaigns. But, Jackson said, "There’s no lingering tension." Jackson said the transition "in some states has gone very well; in some states it is incomplete... [but] in the next few days, the remaining areas of incompleteness” will be erased. “There are always problems dur ing a campaign... but I haven't seen any evidence that a great divisiveness exists,” said Jackson ad viser Bert Lance, the former federal budget director. The meeting, attended by about 70 party workers and officials from around the Southeast, was called by Jackson's Rainbow Coalition to discuss voter registration. Jackson described the gathering as “a very positive meeting, a very hopeful meeting.” Those attending the meeting in cluded Jackson workers and strategists, mainly from the1 Southeast; Larry Harrington, Dukakis' Southern political director; . (See ELECTION YEAR, P. 2) 512 million people in developing coun tries were hungry in 1985. And UNICEF reports that more than 40,000 children die each day from hunger-related causes. In the United States, 20 million people lack enough food for at least two days each month, according to a group of Harvard physicians. The letters to the president-elect should be personally written and should be as specific as possible. Let ters may include some of the follow ing requests: • Reduce child hunger in the United States. Ensure that nutrition, health and education programs reach vulnerable children. • Provide Jobs with adequate pay. Develop new initiatives to provide employment with adequate pay for all who can work in the United States. • Work for peace. Reduce the U.S. role in global conflicts by reducing arms spending and military aid, which often cause conflict, hunger and famine. • Relieve Third World debt. MINT AkuSi-iatlto limT Jr. watfca m Mn aaaiataat aacratary fa Nartb CaraHaa Oapartmant a CarracUaa, oaatdtoaMag drup abtisi Bakar haa aarvad uadar thrai Reduce the massive debt burden on economically poor countries, where the effects fall disproportionately on the poorest people. “The solution to hunger walks on two legs,” said Rev. Simon. “One leg is private voluntary assistance—always essential. The other leg is public policy. We must use both legs if we hope to suc ceed in reducing world hunger. These policy decisions can either lock peo ple into hunger or help them work their way out.” After the election, mail letters to either: President-Elect Michael Dukakis, Attn.: Chris Edley, 105 Chauncey St., Boston, Mass. 02111; or President-Elect George Bush, Attn.: Bill Quinby, 733 15th St., N.W., Suit 800, Washington, D.C. 20005. r Luther King Holiday Commission and only hope that Gov. Martin and Lt. Gov. Jordan will take the high road and discuss issues which are impor tant to all the people of North Carolina.” At a news conference last week, Martin said he never had been asked to chair the commission. “I will tell you that the first time anybody asked me to serve as chair man was right now, when you did.” Controversy arose earlier when Martin’s re-election campaign began airing commercials on black-oriented radio stations. The ads feature a fic titious conversation at a black barber shop in which one person says Jordan refused to be chairman of the King (See BRUCE LIGHTNER. P. 2) Judges' Bench EDDIE HATCHER SOUGHT The U.S. Marshal’s Office in Raleigh said no progress had been made toward finding Eddie Hatcher, who along with co-defendant Timothy Bryan Jacobs is accused of taking up to 20 hostages at the Robesonian newspaper in Lumberton Feb. l. "Pinllf MAIIf thaea’c inci nn mninw break in the case, but we’re diligently pursuing Mr. Hatcher’s whereabouts,” said U.S. Marshall William I. Berryhill, Jr. “It’s almost like the guy has disappeared off the face of the earth. “We’re just getting down to the nit ty gritty type of police work,” Ber ryhill said. “You have to wait for a break: Either a brush with the law gets him identified as a fugitive from the law or someone recognizes him.” Meanwhile, Hatcher’s chief trial counsel, William M. Kunstler, criticized the government’s handling of the case as “an absolutely vicious vendetta” motivated by the federal government’s covert battle against Indians. CRIMINAL CHARGES A man driving a stolen pickup truck led police in Raleigh on a high-speed chase until he overturned on Stoneybrook Drive earlier this week. Police charged Anthony Sanders, 21, of 911 E. Edenton St., with break ing and entering and larcegy, hit and run and several other charges in cluding speeding, running four red lights, and concealing three “throw ing stars” in his belt pouch. The 1974 red Chevrolet pickup truck (See JUDGES BENCH, P 2) *.... - Eagles Soar Over Aggies As Rivals; Harvey Sets Record BY AL HARGROVE It started off with a lot of “Bragging Rights’’ up for grabs between two old rivals, the Aggies and thelCagles, The game wasn’t what everyone expected, especially the Aggie fans, with North Carolina Central University beginning the season on the right track, soaring over North Carolina ART University with a 15-2 victory. The weekend showdown pitted tne NUJU Eagles (CIAA) against N.C. A&T Aggies (MEAC) that served as a holiday bonus for many students and alumni who mixed it up with Labor Day parties, cookouts, family reunions and the annual Washington High School extravaganza that attracks hundreds. _ __ __ _ . Earl “Air” Harvey offered an erratic perfarauuiee, but still good enough to usher the Eagles to victory and for him to set a record. Harvey completed 12 of 32 passes for 17* yards, one touchdown and he was intercepted once. By Harvey’s standards, it wasn’t a good game coach Henry Lattimore said. “Harvey had an average to mediocre game. He had the opportunity to bust the game open.” Harvey managed to get a touchdown on the scoreboard in the fourth quarter .pihen he hooked up with freshman tight end Anthony Cooley for a 33-yard game breaker. Until that point in the game the Eagles had seen numerous scoring chances slip through their fingers. The ineffectiveness of the running and passing game had hampered some scoring opportunities for NCCU. “We did what we had to do to win the ballgame,” Lattimore said. “We think the defense did a tremendous lob. (See EAGLES SOAR, P. 2)
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