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REV. JES8E JACKSON I c fs'77m,ir >B» sr£P'f *0A/S nrARy The Democrat To Beat 276 7 7 New Rules, Role ■77T.'TTTi»/ J '."'JF,*1*' *>•*<&** w* __ JJackson WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP)-In th< ashes of a loat Democratic presiden tlal campaign, Jeaae Jackson head! toward the next one strengthened b> new rules and a new role. Next time, Jackson will begin at the Democrat to beat—which is whal somebody almost certainly will do. The odds weigh heavily against the nomination of a black man in 1902, in a party that at times shrank from the word “liberal’' during the campaign Just ended. Jackson said he doesn’t fear that a liberal can’t be elected. “Reaching out, making room, that’s liberalism. So the liberal tradition is a proud tradition,’ he said. “I will not forsake it.’’ There surely will be ample com netitlon, with Democratic names like Botha Aims To Beguile To Save Racist Africa BY DANIEL MAROLEN An Analyib Oh, what a surprise and shock to learn of the visit of South Africa’s P.W. Bothato Mobutu Sese Seko, the president of the African state of Zaire! Last weekend, Botha took time Ito visit Mobutu in his posh palace in iGbadolite City, Zaire. I All black people and justice-loving nations around the ‘ world were jamazed by Mobutu’s hosting of the (Champion of Apartheid. Blacks and Afrikaners to whom Botha belongs are sworn foes. Through their system of apartheid, Botha and his Afrikaner rulers have antagonized all black people. Apartheid is a system which discriminates against blacks and refuses them the right to share power and citizenship with their country’s Afrikaner people. Everybody is asking, “How could. Mobutu, a ruler of an independent African state, host a foe of all black people on earth?” The whole world wonders why a well-known African ruler could flirt with the Champion of AnarthaM Botha is every black per I "_ " _ _ sot’s “Public Enemy No. 1." But it has really happened. Botha went to Zaire, and was hospitably hosted, dined and wined by Mobutu Sese Seko in the heart of Africa. The event is one of the marvels of this cen tury. What prompted Botha to traverse hundreds of miles at great cost in money and time to visit a member of a race which be and his fellow Afrikaners hate with all their soul, discriminate against and oppress? Surely, there must be a sinister reason for that visit. That sinister reason cannot bp too far' to seek. Botha and his racist regime are in jit ters. World pressure against apar theid.is currently at its height. Botha knows this. Sooner or later world op : position to apartheid will demolish the evil system of racial segregation in South Africa. But Botha is aware of the Interna tional community's determination to abolish apartheid. He knows that in ternational intervention In South Africa is inevitable. Hence, Botha (see BOTHA. P.2) 1 Uoughboy Rejects With Franchisers Burger King Ploys BY CHESTER A. HIGGINS. SR. NNPA New. Ettar I PiUsbury Corp.’s Pop ’o’ Froth Doughboy Joint black Burger King franchisers in finding the comfort level at Burger King a bit un comfortable, to tay the least. At a result of the Doughboy’s angst, Pills bury, a Minneapolis bated Arm, announced that It would dump Burger King, a lackluster food chain that has been a drain on its earnings. Some cynical Wail Street observers say Pillsbury’s last-minute move was Just a bid to convince Its shareholders that a takeover of fer by Grand Metropolitan PLCs of 15.23 billion was not good enough, was simply a ploy to force PLC to sweeten the offer. Nevertheless, insiders believe that PiUsbury's move Is to improve Its bottom line and urge shareholders to reject the offer. PiUsbury said the offer was inadequate and that It would continue to explore ways to enhance shareholder value. Burger King, the second-largest U.S. fast-food operation, has been losing ground in recent years to No. l-ranked McDonald’s ‘ Corp., which is dwarfing all other competitors in the “hamburger war.” “Burger King must now fend for Itself In what has become a fiercely competitive food market,” one analyst said. Financial analysts also said that Burger King, which accounts for about a third of PUIsbury sales and slightly more than two-thirds of its profits, has increasingly been a drain on PiUsbury resources. On Oct. 10, present and two former black Burger King franchisees in the District of Columbia, BalUmore, Philadelphia ami Fairfax and Fredericksburg, Va„ hit Burger King officials with a 1500 million discrimination suit. The class-action suit, filed In U.S. Districts Court in Washington, D.C., contends the Mack owners were charged up to twice as much as whites to purchase the franchises and were tricked Into accepting Inferior sites for their restaurants. The suit, filed by the Minority Business Enterprise Legal Defense and Education Fund of Washington, on behalf of Mack franchisees, also charged that Burger King forced some blacks out of business by acting "maliciously, deliberately and anti-competitively in the past eight years.” In one instance in ISM, the suit alleges, a Mack purchased a Burger King in Media, Pa., for 1500,#00 but later discovered "the purchase price of the store for a white franchise would have been I2M.0M.” less than half. Burger King defended Its minority Improve ment program agreement signed voluntarily in ISM wtth Operation PUSH. Burger King said the number of black-owned franchises has In creased from 77 of its 3,230 total five years ago to 1M of 5,055 la ISM. Bradley, Cuomo, Nunn, uore ana Gephardt and more on the early list of possible entries for 1992. Even as Gov. Michael Dukakis conceded his loss to President-elect Bush, his sup porters were chanting “Ninety-two, Ninety-two.” Whatever the field, the standing Jackson won in 1968 and the rules con cessions ne gained irom uusaius hi the Democratic National Convention will make him more formidable next time. For a while, Republicans tried to bill him as a virtual third partner in the Dukakis-Bentsen ticket. He was a major, nationally televised per former at the Atlanta convention. Jackson is aware of the perils as wen as its advantages of his enhanc ed political situation. He’s been talk ing with friends and advisers about the way to deal with both. The first step already has been taken. It was a late campaign sprint in behalf of Dukakis. With it, Jackson guarded against any finger-pointing suggesting that he’d done less than The Carolinian RALEIGH, N.C., MONDAY NOVEMBER 21.1988 NCf8 Semi-Weekly 25# ELSEWHERE 30< DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF JElSUS CHRIST VOL. 47, NO. 1011 1 . . I - I I —I , I. —. NC Fights AIDS Research Continues For Cure Long before AIDS became a na tional crisis, researchers in North Carolina were unwittingly pursuing paths that would lead the state into the public health spotlight. Burroughs Wellcome & Co. in Research Triangle Park was in the midst of 30 years of work on antiviral agents—work many other phar maceutical companies had abandon ed. Research Triangle Institute was honing skills in epidemiology that would prove invaluable in studying acquired immune deficiency syn drome. Family Health International was at the forefront in studying other sexually transmitted diseases and contraception in developing coun tries. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill had an edge as the home of the nation’s largest hemophiliac centers. Victims of the blood-dotting disease were found to carry two viruses—HTLV-I and HTLV-II, and one patient was found to have HIV, which turned out to be the AIDS virus. Researchers from UNC and Duke collaborated with Robert Gallo at the National Cancer Institute in one of the 1964 Science magazine ar ticles that described the discovery. Now, seven years after the first AIDS case was diagnosed in the United States, North Carolina is among the top 10 states in drawing AIDS-related research funding, said Dr. John James, director of the Divi sion of Research Grants at the Na tional Institute of Health. Researchers at Duke and UNC are now working on a vaccine that weill keep the AIDS virus from binding to cells that promote the body’s immune response. UNC scientists are also developing new drugs to treat pneumonia caused by Pneumocystis carinii—the primary cause of death (see RESEARCH. P.2) kccprw track—Ms. Pimm Banks and Ms. Misty Banks ara keeping track as cemnmnltytoisinasspaapto serving tka pMMcthnagkcciirtosy and tine toads as part at tka new spirit at afriean Americans whs ara trying ta make a p In the campatHivs Nstoass at toad sarvleas In tka araa. (Pinto by Wftert Sanders) Economic Study Shows Rising Black Poverty ATLANTA, Ga. (AF)-THe media image of Atlanta as an economic boomtown with skyrocketing buildings and salaries is not reflected in the statistics of a new study on ris ing black poverty. “You’ve got a declining middle class black population in the city,’’ said Georgia State University economics professor David Sjoquist. “The growing concentration of ur ban poverty is something one expects to find in economically depressed areas, not in the center of a booming area like Atlanta.” He said middle-class blacks have moved outside the city limits while lower-income blacks have moved in. Sjoquist studied 1970 and 1900 Cen sus figures, as well as later statistics from other sources for "The Economic Status of Black Army Vrders Worker To Leave Post After Slur DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah (AP)—Officials of the Army’s Dugway Proving Ground have ordered a civilian employee to move off the western Utah installation because his children allegedly made racial slurs against the children of a black worker. Dugway spokeswoman Kathy Whitaker said the employee has been THE COMMUNITY CDklig Dili Mi given 30 days to move, and nine oiner workers will receive letters warning them that “one more [racial] inci dent and they’ll be asked to leave.’’ Whitaker declined to identify any of the employees, citing privacy law re quirements. Whitaker said the employee who is being ordered off base has seven days to file a response detailing any mitigating circumstances. “He’s still an employee. He no longer has the privilege of living on post,” she explained. The man wasn’t fired because “as far as we know he has conducted himself in a non-discriminatory way on the job," she said. “Right now what we have is some kids that are alleged to have said nasty things to one another.” Whitaker said the base com mander, Col. Jan Van Prooyen, will not tolerate racial discrimination at Dugway and issued a letter to that ef fect last Friday to everyone living on the post. The black employee, who has com plained about the treatment of his children, Is safety inspector Larry Parker. His wife, Linda Parker, said the family has suffered racial harass ment in school and la the community since moving to Dugway in August 1M7. officials luring most of that time. “We lust personally feel iseeANMY.P. J).. much Atlantans, a paper mat is pan oi tne Atlanta Urban League’s ongoing study on “The State of Black Atlanta.” He found that 34.6 percent of Atlan ta’s blacks were poor in I960, up from 29 percent in 1970. Black families within Atlanta’s city limits had an 88.4 percent increase in income dur ing the decade, compared to 147.5 percent for suburban blacks. The average annual incomes for I960 were about 813,700 for blacks in the city and nearly $18,000 among suburban blacks. White income in the city gained about 130 percent, to an annual average of $33,600, while suburban whites gained about 50 percent, to $26,700. Atlanta’s big construction projects and other economic growth have created many Jobs, but “it certainly does appear that there is a portion of the population that’s being left behind, and most of those people are located in the inner city,” Sjoquist said. Meanwhile, Job prospects at the lower end of the wage scale have dim med. (See ECONOMIC, P. 2) his best for the Democratic ticket. He said he’d put in more miles, registered more voters than anyone else in support of Dukakis. By elec tion night hit voice was hoarse and fading from the campaign strain as he said It was much too early to talk about 1092 noli tics. “I have not yet made that decision, not given It serious consideration,” he said. That at least Is his public posture.. Jackson also said the new political season began on Wednesday, Nov. 9, pointing to city elections in 1969, off year elections in 1990, the Census and (dee NEW RULES, P.2) Angolans Visit U. S. To Show Horrors Of War BY GWEN MCKINNEY NNPA Newi Service A delegation of eight Angolans— most of them children without limbs, on crutches or in wheelchairs—ar rived in the United States for a mission that will include special medical treatment and people-to people contacts across the country aimed at exposing the impact of the U.S.-8upported war against their country. The show of horrors tour also includes Raleigh and other cities in North Carolina. Earlier this year 11-year-old Bernardo and her three brothers were leaving for school. Their house was surrounded by members of the South African-backed UNITA rebel group. A volley of shots were fired by the Insurgents. When it was all over, the girl’s three brothers lay dead and Bernardo, suffering a bullet wound in the back, was left paralyzed from the» waist down. Last April, 15-year-old Faraado and three friends were playing in an open field. One of them stepped on a. landmine. It exploded. All A Feraado's friends were killed. Feraado survived, but his right leg had to be amputated and he bears the deep physical scars of that tragedy. Bade in 1961, Iria Gremtas and her husband were traveling by car when a bomb from a fighter Jet landed on their vehicle. Her husband was killed. Geremias, 46, was left with one foot. Members of this delegation, like many children in Angola, have been orphaned and abandoned. The toil of the war has also given Angola the world’s highest population of amputees. These are the victims of the war in Angola being waged by UNITA (the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola), a rebel organisation backed by South Africa and described by President Reagan as “freedom fighters.” Invited here by the Commission for' Racial Justice of the United Church of Christ, the delegation’s first stop was at the United Hospital Medical Center of Newark where the amputees received medical consultation. The city of Newark earlier this year adopted the town Biana as a sister city. Rev. Benjamin F. Chavis, CRJ executive director, said the delegation’s visit was arranged following a tour by himself ami other black religious leaders. Chavis called the delegation the “primary victims of the policy pursued by the Reagan administration,” which has provided' CIA covert funding to UNITA. “These people provide living proof,” said Chavis, “of who the real victims are, and who is really fighting for freedom in Angola.” The delegation was scheduled to visit Boston, New Haven, New York, Philadelphia, Alabama, Chicago, and Detroit. They are also planning to meet in Washington with members and staff of the Congressional Black Caucus.
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