RALEIGH, N.C.,
THURSDAY-SUNDAY
DECEMBER 29 1«RR
VOL. 48, NO. 8
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IN RALEIGH
ELSEWHERE 300
MAN STABBED
A Raleigh man (tabbed In the
cheat with a butcher knife on
Chrlstmaa Eve waa In critical
condition at Wake Medical
Center at preaa time.
Edwin Laurence Cannady, 39, of
319 Bart 8t., waa arguing with?
another man at M3 E. Branch St.
when he waa (tabbed. A few
houra later, police arreated
Samuel Van WllUamc, 34, of 313
Smlthfletd St., and charged him
with aaaault with a deadly
weapon with Intent to kill Inflic
ting aerioua Injury.
INAUGURAL BANDS
The marching banda from
Broughton High School and
Rocky Mount Senior High will
parade through Waahtngton next
month as part of the inaugural
celebration for President-elect
George Bush and Vice President
elect Dan Quayle. Participants
were chosen from more than 300
applicants who sent the selection
committee performance tapes
and a list of past ac
complishments.
NEW VICE PRESIDENT
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Dr.
Rickard B. Scott has assumed the
position of vice president for in
stitutional advancement at
Meharry Medical College effec
tive Nov. 21. Scott will be respon
sible for the college's overall
development effort, public rela
tions and alumni affairs.
INAUGURAL BALL
The Inaugural Ball honoring
Gov. and Mrs. James G. Martin
‘ will be held Jan. 7, 1989 In the
Civic Center of Raleigh. Hie
event will be sponsored by the
Junior League of Raleigh, Inc.
The co-chairmen of the ball are
Ma. Adria W. Stone and Ms.
Laurence B. Maddison, Jr.
Throughout its history, the
Junior League of Raleigh has
pioneered efforts in areas of
family support, health services,
public eduation, and cultural
arts. The organization's aim is to
train its members for effective
participation in the community
through programs of education
and volunteer service.
COSBY DONATES $800K
NASHVILLE. Tenn.—Dr.
Rawid Satcher, president of
m '1-mmHTy Medical College, an
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REV. JESSE JACKSON
Suspect Escapes
African-American Leaders Embark
Upon Serious Cultural Offensive
BY DR. RAMDNA H. EDELIN
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Led by the Rev. Jeue Louis
Jackson, members of the African
American leadership have this week
embarked upon what can become a
serious cultural offensive. The first
step in this process was taken on
Monday in Chicago, when Rev.
Jackson announced the bipartisan,
broadly-based group’s decision to
consistently refer to itself as
"African-American.”
From this first step can come a full
scale cultural offensive. If we decide
to do it, we can create the momen
tum, hope, solidarity and high
positive expectations that we knew in
the Movement years. W? can create
markets, work and Jobs in our com
munities. We can create unity around
and realize tne niu potential oi
African people around the world.
Despite our circumstances today,
we are neither impotent nor Ignorant.
No matter, who sit% in the seats of political
Power, the problem in our neighborhoods and
cities of poverty, poor education and drug
infestation, business development and
freedom are ours to solve.
values ana goats, and give ourselves'
and our children a sense of purpose
and common destiny. We can create a
powerful, unified African diaspora
We are powerful ana wise. it « u»
African-American who ha» defined
and enforced democracy ae It l«
codified in American law. If not for
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Kentucky Fried Chicken, a fast
food outlet, located at 1314 New Bern
Ave., was robbed Saturday morning
about 8 A.M. by a man carrying a
weapon described as a small
handgun. The gunman apparently
entered the store through the rear
door, after threatening an employee
and taking an undetermined amount
of cash, the gunman locked the
worker in the cooler and fled on foot.
In other events: Former University
of North Carolina star tailback
Derrick Fenner is back in the
headlines again. Fenner was shot
outside of a Washington, D C.
nightclub around 4 A.M. Sunday,
morning. The Club, The RSVP, is
located in the Southwest section of D.
C. The shooting took place in the
parking lot and allegedly started
when several men got in an argument
inside the club, from there they took
the dispute outside, where a shot was
fired.
As a result of the shot being fired
Fenner was struck in the side. He was*
treated at a local hospital and^
released. In the not so distant past,
Fenner has had several brushes with!
the law, but all charges from his pasl
problems have been dropped. Fenner
is-currently on probation, as a result
of a '87 incident in which he was
stopped at a traffic light and found to
be carrying 25 glass vials with traces
(See EMPLOYEE,*-*)
Angola-Cuba Pact Seen
As Historic Agreement
BY SHIRLEY REED-BLASH -
NXP \ News Service
The preliminary signing of what is
being touted as a “historic” agree
ment in the Congolese capital of Braz
zaville recently promises to end
foreign intervention in southern
Africa, paving the way for Cuban
troop withdrawal from Angola and
the establishment of an independent
government, under its own constitu
tion in Namibia.
The formal signing of the tripartite
agreement—which is actually two
treaties—came in New York Dec. 22
at the United Nations. The timetable
for Cuban troop withdrawal will
reportedly be detailed in the Cuban
Angolan treaty.
The Peoples Republic of Angola,
Republic of Cuba, and Republic of
South Africa signed the “Brazzaville
Protocol” on Dec. 14 at the palace of
President Denis Sassou-Nguesso,
culminating eight months of intensive
U.S.-mediated negotiations and eight
years of persistent efforts by one of
America’s most embattled State
Department officials.
The protocol—which binds all of the
participants to everything agreed
upon during the negotiations—paves
the way for the gradual withdrawal of
Cuban troops from Angola and pro
vides for the transition to Namibian
(See PACT, P, 2)
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SEwE!«LTER-H«rt In Raleigh and inmost el North
Carolina and the nation, tho number ol homoloat people has
outpaced efforts to provide shelter. Approxbnirtely 250
people in this city are without shelter, sleephn In ears.
abandoned buildings and undtrbridges.lt is clear wa must di
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The Homeless In N. C.: For Some,
AMfflKr Of Life Or Death
efforts to nrovide shelter. The best
Special To The CAROLINIAN
(Editor’s Note: The author is
executive director of the Urban
Ministry Center in Raleigh. Burke,
43, helped write a report on the
homeless in Wake County. >
Raleigh on Christmas morning,
1983.
The temperature was three
degrees, record-breaking cold for a
city that prides itself on its moderate
climate. At my office in the Urban
Ministry Center building, we had
opened early to serve homeless men
and women a hot breakfast and to
offer them a place to come in out of
the bitter cold, the Mission and the
Salvation Army would serve their
traditional holiday dinners later in
the day.
Suddenly, Tommy, a young man
who had been on the streets for the
past several months, burst through
the front door and excitedly
announced that he thought he had
passed a dead body on the railroad
tracks nearby.
I put on my coat and walked back
the few blocks to the tracks with him.
He pointed out the bundled figure. As
I got closer 1 recognized the form of a
man's body grotesquely frozen.
As we hurried back to call the
police, I cried at the horror of the
sight of a man frozen to death and in
frustration at the system that allowed
it to happen.
The Urban Ministry Center had
been working fruitlessly for more
than a year to open a shelter for
homeless men in Raleigh. We came
face to face with hostility on the part
of many property owners and some
city officials. So many seemed afraid
that the City’s, image would be
tarnished by homeless people
flocking to Raleigh from all over the
country once the word was out that
we had a new shelter,
The Image that would often come to
my mihd when I would hear this
argument was that of the old “Burma
Shave" commercials—the extensive
network of American highways
. littered with signs leading the way to
the grand opening of the Ark Shelter
in Raleigh, North Carolina. At least it
gave me something to laugh about.
The death that Christmas morning
of Eddie Lee, however, and the
homeless man, Freddie White, on the
following New Year’s Day, changed
my attitudes. Almost overnight, a
building became available and zoning
regulations were defined that allowed
the Urban Ministry Center to open an
emergency shelter for 25 men by the
following June.
Today 200 men, women and
children can find emergency shelter
in Raleigh. Other localities in the
state have responded as well. The
city and county of Durham
contributed $500,000 for construction
of the 100-bed homeless shelter.
Charlotte has allocated $1 million for
a homeless shelter.
But, here as u most of North
Carolina and the nation, the number
of homeless people has outpaced:
estimate is that approximately 250
people in this city are without decent
shetter, sleeping in cars and
abandoned buildings, and under
bridges. It is clear we must greatly
expand our efforts to cope with this
problem.
This Christmas season gifts for the
homeless poured in from local
congregations, office groups, youth
groups, individuals and families. The
various shelters have become focal
points of community giving during
the holiday season.
It ip a special tgne. Volunteers
from the Jewish community switch
their regular night of volunteering at
the Ark Shelter to cover Christmas
Eve so Christian volunteers can be
(See HOMELESS, P.2)
and segregation, democracy In
America would mean what it means
in Europe still today: rigid caste and
class limits, real power only (or the
royal blood lines and the wealthy, and
the accepted inferiority of the com
mon man and woman. Because
African-Americans have never ac
cepted this definition of democracy,
all Americans pledge allegiance to
“liberty and justice for all.’’ Just as
this noble past was in our hands, our
(See LEADERS, P. '*>
Sullivan Seeks
Health Care For
Poor In America „
ATLANTA (AP)-Dr. Louis W.
Sullivan, named last week to head the
Department of Health and Human
Services, leads one of three
predominantly black medical
schools in the nation and is a longtime
advocate of improved health care for
disadvantaged Americans.
In selecting Sullivan, President
elect Bush fulfilled his pledge to
name a black to his Cabinet. But the
mdch-anticipated nomination was
assured only after Sullivan quelled a
laft-minute outcry from anti-abortion
fwces.
Their objections were triggered by
an Atlanta newspaper interview in
which Sullivan said he supports a
woman’s right to seek an abortion,
though he opposes federal assistance
for it.
.On Monday, Sullivan wrote a letter
to The Atlanta Journal and The
Atlanta Constitution saying he is
“oppopeed to abortion except in cases
of rape, incest and where the life of
the mother is threatened”—a
statement mirroring Bush’s views
and one which he repeated at the
President-elect’s side in Washington
recently.
(SoeDR. SULLIVAN, P.2)
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BURGLARY AND POLICE CHASE
A Christmas night burglary of a
Garner store located at 103 W. Main
St. around 7 p.m. ended in a car chase
in Raleigh.
Bondell Cook, 26, of 3107
Woodpecker Court, was charged with
auto theft, assault with a deadly
weapon and breaking and entering.
Cook was being held in the Wake
County Jail under $7,200 bond.
The incident started when two men
broke into a grocery store and stole a
.30 caliber pistol and $500 worth of
food items from the store’s owner,
Charles Seagrove.
. After leaving the store, the two sub
jects led Garner police on a chase up
Garner Road toward Raleigh. Near
Biltmore Hills, the car skidded off the
road, rolled and clipped a telephone
pole. The vehicle was destroyed.
Garner police say the Oldsmobile
(See JUDGES BENCH, P. 2)
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economic Development womsnop
Looks At Women And The Future
BY AL.I4E PEEBLES
Contributing Writer
Using the theme “Economic
Development and the Black Woman:
Designing for the Future,” Delta
Sigma Theta Sorority held a
workshop recently at St. Augustine’s
College. Ms. Drusilla Dunn, oxhair
of the Economic Development
committees, was in charge. The
invocation was given by M* Janice
Toms Hill, co-chair of the committee.
The keynote address was given by
Ms. Valerie L. Lee, program officer
of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation
of Winston-Salem.
Ms. Lee complimented the sorority
for sponsoring such an activity which
would allow women to Improve the
quality of life for themselves and
others. She gave some factual data on
the Black family in North Carolina
and pointed out the various ways that
persona could help improve
conditions. She pointed out the
importance of women knowing how to
use all of the available resources.
Concurrent workshops began at
10: M A.M. Workshop I was titled
“Obtaining Financing for Business.”
' The panelist was Ms. Patricia Jonas,
technical assistant, Farmers Home
Administration. The moderator was
(See ECONOMIC. PS)