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Black College Heads Tour Israel To Ease Tensions Between Blacks, Jews Here BY SALLY GREENBERG AND ALAN KATZ Special To The CAROLINIAN Editor’s Note: Sally Greenberg, eastern area civil rights director i lor the Anti-Defamation League's Civil Rights Division, and Alan Kats of (he New Orleans Times Picayune, accompanied the mission to Israel about which they write. Following is the conclusion of their article, the first part of which was printed last week. Another day, the group met with black American artist Paul Col lins, who lives in Israel and discussed his experiences with the visitors. Among other topics, he offered these thoughts: “Don’t ever let anyone compare Israel with South Africa. I’ve been to South Africa,” he said, echoing Alpher’s statement that its laws are “blatantly racist.” He continued, “Israel is a democracy. The laws may not always work perfectly but everyone is at least guaranteed equal rights.” “Don’t ever let anyone compare Israel to South Africa. I’ve been to South Africa... Israel is a democracy. The laws may not always work perfectly but everyone is at least guaranteed equal rights...” —Paul Collins, African-American Artist Living In Israel Questioned about the Middle East crisis, Collins prefaced his remarks by saying, “I'm not taking sides but..." One of the college presidents immediately responded, “Why are you afraid to take sides? I take sides. I’m pro-Jewish and I'm not afraid to say it.” The meeting ended on a clearly positive note. A jeep took eight of the group up a steep hill to visit the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Forest where more than 12,000 trees have been^ planted in memory of the slain civil rights leader. At the top were several workers, some speaking Hebrew, others Arabic. One after another of our group knelt to plant new trees in the ground. This forest, with its countless already grown trees, serves as a liv ing memorial to the black American whose activism was coupled with teachings of non-violence. Another special moment connecting blacks and Jews took place at the Mevasseret Zion Immigrant Absorption Center, a stopping place for many immigrants to Israel. Here they live for a time to learn the new language and customs in preparation for their lives as Israeli citizens. (See BLACKS, JEWS, P. 2)__ Buy America Campaign Cites Racial Incidents a unwu uu»*aci;uuu ui niajur na tkmal public policy, civic, business, trade, religious and civil rights organizations, together with America’s largest associations of Mack elected officials, have issued a nationwide call for black consumer selective buying for the 1988 holiday SMSAn we can on black Americans, and people of conscience throughout this nation, to encourage the purchase of American-made products during the 1988 holiday season. We make this ap peal as a result of the failure of Japanese corporate and governmen (See BUY AMERICA, P. 2) 3E&SEDH Quick-Witted Bill Gray Runs On ,J Record Winning Demo House __ BY CHESTER A. HIGGINS, SR. NNPA News Kdllor WASHINGTON, D.C.-Rep. William H. Gray’s overwhelming election to the highly visible and powerful position of chairman of the House Democratic Caucus was done by secret ballot. But TransAfrica Executive Direc tor Randall Robinson made no secret of his displeasure over Rep. Steny H. Hoyer’s refusal to openly support Gray in the Pennsylvania Democrat’s successful campaign to become the first black to gain a ma jor House leadership post. Hoyer, a white Democrat whose Maryland (Prince Georges County) district is nearly SO percent black, that it would have been unseemly for him to have publicly announced for Gray when he. Hoyer, ran unopposed Gray is the most powerful and visible black elected official in the country. Quick-: witted, humorous but toughly incisive, Gray is a natural leader. should have come out publicly in sup port of Gray even though Hoyer pro tested he voted for Gray by secret ballot, Robinson said. Hoyer declared for the slot of vice chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, and might have had to work with either Rep. Mary Rose Okar (Ohio) or Rap. The Carolinian RALEIGH, N.C., MONDAY DECEMBER 19,1988 NC s Semi-Weekly DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST SINGLE COPY AC IN RALEIGH LDt ELSEWHERE 30c VOL. 48. NO. 5 “Face Those Charges” Jacobs Wants Freedom Gov. Martin Pushes For Extradition Lawyers say there’s a danger in ex tradition of fugitive Timothy Jacobs. Meanwhile, N.C. Gov. Jim Martin said that he would push for the Indian activist’s extradition. In an attempt to explain the situa tion to the governor, Barry Nakell and Allen Gregory of the Christie In stitute South delivered a seven-page letter to the governor’s office stating that Jacobs fled after being indicted on Dec. 6 because he feared for his life. The letter accused the State Bureau of Investigation and local law enforcement officers of intimidating county residents. Gov. Martin was petitioned Wednesday by supporters of Hatcher and Jacobs not to seek extradition. For the governor to ignore what is ob viously an escalation of intimidation and harassment of the community, fbr him to ignore-that would really place him in collusion with the very forces who are doing it now, Gregory said. “It is more evident that what is go ing on now is not ust a local problem involving the harassment of the com munity [Indian, black and poor white]. State Bureau of Investigation is running around people’s homes and interrogating them—allegedly using Gestapo tactics." Jacobs was captured in New York earlier this week after he eluded police and smashed his four-wheel drive vehicle into a parked school bus. On Thursday Jacobs was ordered to be held on $50,000 bond, but that was reduced to $25,000 when leaders of the-Onondaga Indians agreed to provide the judge with writ (See EXTRADITION, P. 2) FUEL FOR EMERGENCY—Laid ’•» up, mava 'am MrtI Thafa a> mm Mata MM to get firewood ar coal tn* Wake Opportunities far took ham heatta§. Jut It able to cany It tof Ikt titan two man wke simply backet up took pick-up track to ?Z££2&f&S?mmmja'T NAACP Wins Challenge Of At-Large Voting Law Dennis Schatzman, executive director of the State Conference of Branches of the NAACP, announced last week that cases involving the NAACP and its affiliate, the Rich mond County Branch, and six black citizens. Dr. Fred D. McQueen, Woodrow Davis, Richard Doctor, J.W. Green, John . Little and. H.w. Robinson, against the Richmond County Board of Education and the Board of County Commissioners have been settled by the signing of a con sent judgment by UA^istrict Judge Richard Erwin on D«T 9. “Peaceful Partners _ • • Blacks Served In European Crisis BY JOHN THOMPSON MOOKU, JR. Cmtrtbatlng Writer Forty-seven years ago, thousands of black North Carolinians remember seeing millions of young men drafted into military forces and later killed or maimed for life on foreign soil. Many of our senior citizens of today can readily recall listening to their radios then, how Adolph Hitler of Germany and his panzer divisions (tanks, in fantrymen, etc.) had conquered moat of Europe and later tried to conquer all of Russia. What a day! What a time! Corp. John Thompson Moore, Jr. and Master Sgt. Oscar Hawkins of Raleigh along with hundreds of other servicemen from other cities, hamlets, and states were assigned to military units under the Middle Eastern Command for the sole pur pose of aiding Marshal Joseph Stalin of Russia in defeating the Germans who were pouring those panzer divi sions into his territory. Moreover, no second front existed UnlM tilts i kMwn at Hw “Mq Kmn cmHWwc9 h Nw 114* to map wt stratify to span ap t mmt tart then, and Prance had capitulated to the Germans and Great Britain was about to fall. Therefore, in short, Marshal Joseph Stalin of Russia, Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain called a conference in Tehran, Iran, with President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States (Ok “Big Three” conference) in November IMS for the purpose of mapping out a strategy to open up a second front which would be mainly composed of American and Allied troops whose missions were to divert some of the German armies from the Russian front and to liberate the peoples of Western Europe from Nazi rule. This was done seven months later on the D-Day invasion (June 1944) of Prance under the command of Gen. Dwight David Eisenhower and other Allied commanders. What a price that the Allies had to pay in order to carry out those missions! World War II was indeed a “hot war” and the outcome in Europe was when the German generals capitulated to the Allied forces on V-E Day (May 7, 1945). Afterward, all of Europe was divided up among the Allied armies-the Russians, British, French and the United States—who policed and occupied the former Nssi-occupied territories even until today. Hats off to some of our Raleigh black women who had served in this war along with their counterparts in other cities ami states. Some of the Mack women who served in the WACS, WAFS, WAVES, SPARS and the “Pari-Marines” were Ms. Christine Shipp Stewart, Ms. Mary AMtsu and women from other cities (See EUROPEAN, P.l) Presently both boards are compos* ed of five members, four of whom must live in a district but all are elected at-large with staggered terms and runoff election requirements. The election is non-partisan for the Board of Education and partisan for the Board of County Commissioners. The new method of election will enlarge the boards to seven members, without residency or runoff election requirements The terms will be staggered four-year terms with four and three members elected for four years on alternate two years. In the past, two blacks at different times have been elected to the board of education and one black was elected to the Board of County Com missioners under a different election plan. The suits filed in January 1987 by Attorney Romallus 0. Murphy, Greensboro attorney and associate general counsel, state NAACP; and General Counsel Angus Thompson ol Lumberton challenged the at-large, district residency, staggered-term (See NAACP, P. 2) Mike Synar (Okie.) both of them white and in a three-way with Gray for the chairmanship. Robinson, however, instated that Hqyar’s vote should have been “a vote we could lave counted on early. If he did vote for Gray, he did so grudgingly and offered no public sup port for Bid's candidacy.” He also • charged that Hoyer declined to sup port Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) in his unsuccessful bid to become Hous^ Democratic whip two years ago and that Hoyer waited until the (See BQJ, GRAY, P. 3) Republican Aide Urges Blacks To Test Bush’s Offer BY CHESTER A. HIGGINS, SR. NNPA Newt Uttar WASHINGTON, D.C.-Constance B. Newman, one of the top officials of President-elect George Bush’s transi tion team, issued a plm last week for qualified blacks interested in secur ' tag jobs in the Bush administration to send in their resumes. She challenged Macks to put Bush’s offer to “reach out to ail people” to a test and “see to it that top-flight blacks are con sidered for top-level Jobe.’’ Ms. Newman, attending a Media Networking Forum breakfast at the National Press Building, a seminar of black journalists, said there is no black organization comparable to the ultra-conservative white Heritage Foundation, providing the transition team with resumes of job-seekers. She emphasized that Heritage was “one of a variety of sources that will be used” in accepting resumes of potential job-holders in the Bush ad ministration. Louis Cordia, of the Heritage, a think-tank that had considerable leverage in the Reagan administra tion, said, “A group of volunteers has been working day and night” pro (Sea BUSH OFFER. P. 3) Back-A-Child Campaign Ends In Ceremony BY E.H. HINTON Stair Wrttar The concluding ceremonies for the 1888-89 Back-A-Child Campaign were held at the Garner Road Family YMCA on Dec. 13. Kenneth WUkina, chairman of the seventh Back-A-Child Campaign, said, “It was the support of buHnesses, community and media that made the campaign a success.” He also pointed out that though all donations have not been counted, he is confident that the goal of HO,000 will be surpassed and the group will again be able to provide more than 850 needy children with the vital, structured services the Y offers to community youth. Wilkins made a special note of thanks to all the supporters and member of the campaiito, especially American Airlines, in conjunction with WAUG-AM 750, for providing an incentive award of round-trip airline tickets to any state on the East Coast, from Maine to Florida. Wilkins added that since all donations have not as yet been counted, the winner of the tickets has not been decided. Board member Weston B. Butler indicated that he was pleased with the outcome and rally of supporters and that the current committee should look forward to being called upon again in the future. Chief Executive Officer Norman E. Day of the Gamer Rand Y said, “This they have hadso'fhr. The firsTyear was JiecUc an^dfrcctton uncertain, (Sea BACK-A-CHILD, P. 3) ■ NCSU Ag Extension Bernadette oregory Watte, an extension specialist, has received a George Hyatt Scholarship Area the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service. >V Watts, who has been an exten sion specialist overseeing educa tional programs and staff development ter extension workers threughont the state since ISM. was presented the scholarship at North Carolina Slate University during an awards banquet recently. She'll use the $SM scholarship to spend some time at the Exten sion Development Assessment Center in Ohio this spring. “Ohio Is a leader in utilising the assessor/assessee process In helping extension administrators identify and evaluate the super visory and managerial capabilities of its workers.'' Watts said. The aqnfiMMHHH cess begins with observations el a person’s strengths, weaknesses and potentials. Batad at tkii la formation, predictions can ip T • •upervlior or MM|ir. 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