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Admlnstration official* Mid
thl* week that they thought that
Libya had moved chemical*
aeeded for the production of
potion ga* away from storage
•Ites near a major chemical
plant. An official nld the Libyan*
had cleaned up the plant In Rab
’ta, 40 mile* south of Tripoli,
which the Reagan administration
assert* is being built for chemical
weapons production.
RACIAL UNREST
China’s racial unrest spread to
Beijing this week with a march
by Chinese students to protest
what they said were assaults hy
African students on Chinese
women. Protesters carried ban
ners with such slogans as
’’Hooligans Go Home,” “Protect
Women’s Rights," and “We
Demand a Safe Campus." The
demonstration began Dec. 24,
IMS with an interracial brawl in
the eastern city of Nanjing.
EMERGENCY APPEAL
The City of Raleigh has formal
ly appealed the Federal
Emergency Management Agen
cy’s denial of public assistance to
the City of Raleigh. The city has
documented its tornado recovery
coots through Dec. 26. 1988 at ap
proximately (914,000. The total
cost of the tornado to the city will
be approximately $1.5 million.
LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM
The North Carolina Association
of Educators will ask legislators
daring the 1989 General
Assembly to make major expen
ditures to attract, and to keep, ex
cellent professionals in the
classrooms, to give classroom
teachers a greater voice in cur
riculum and administrative deci
sions, and to pilot ah experimen
tal preschool program.
NEW APPOINTMENT
Secretary of Transportation
Janies E. Harrington announced
the appointment of S. Thomas
Rhodes of Wilmington as deputy
secretary of transportation.
Rhodes, 44, who formerly served
as secretary of the Department of
Natural Resources and Com*
munity Development, joined the
department Tuesday. He
replaces William W. Cobey, Jr.,
who has assumed Rhodes' former
post at NRCD.
ETHANOL PLANT
A North Carolina firm plana to
build1 an ethanol plant near
Falaon aa part of a 1200 million
complex that will be the largoat
induatria! development ever built
In Duplin County, the county'*
i director of economic develop*
ment, W.W. Brtnaon, Jr., said.
Ethanol, Ltd,'a propoaed opera*
tlon will feature e co-generation
plant, a facility that generate*
and aella electricity and ateam.
(See NEWS BRIEFS, P. 8)
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INAACP Urges New Crimes Code
BY DENNI8 SCHATZMAN
Special Tq Hie CAHOI.INIAN
An Antlynh
Incidents of racial and ethnic in
timidation and hasing are on the rise
in North Carolina. We in the NAACP
feel that the escalation of these acts
of harassment warrants strong
language in the criminal code making
racial and ethnic intimidation a
misdemeanor offense with minimum
and maximum fines and jail
sentences.
Four highly charged incidents in
1988 dramatize the need for such
specific offenses in the criminal code.
eln February 1988, a Lenoir black
civil rights leader and the local presi
dent of the NAACP found a note stuck
to a Jesse Jackson campaign poster
saying, “Watch out, the Klan is wat
ching you.”
• In April, three men wearing
white Ku Klux Klan-like hoods chased
four black youths on their way to
school in Winston-Salem.
“•From February through July, the
state office and the Greensboro
Branch office of the NAACP received
hundreds of racist and vulgar
telephone calls, mostly between 9
a.m. and l p.m. each day On some
days, there were as many as 25 calls,
sometimes less than one minute
apart. When the phone company was
contacted, they traced the calls to a
service station in Pleasant Grove.
‘ The Greeroboro Police investigated
the situation and charged a parti
time service station attendant and a
fender, was sentenced to perform 100
hours of public service work.
eOn Easter day, two black
Racial and ethnic intimidation are acts so
counterproductive to maintaining a peaceful
society that they warrant special notation in
the criminal code.
white Baptist minister with harass
ment by communication. He later
pleaded guilty and, as a first-time of
students and their dates were parked
outside Garrett Hall at East Carolina
University! They were having car
trouble and the men were under the
hood when several white male
•Manta, led by a freshman from
Wflson, began to yell racial slurs at
them.
According to witnesses, the white
students were drinking alcoholic
beverages and calling the black
students “monkeys” and “niggers,”
“bitches,” telling them to “go back to
Africa,” and finally inviting them to
come up to the room and fight.
The black male students did,
witnesses say, and went to the room
and fought the white students. Two
white students were sent to the
hospital.
Later, a student hidicial board
(See NAAir, P. 2)
Women Attacked
Assailants Elude Local Police
Police See
Difference
In Attacks
From CAROLINIAN Staff Reports
Over the past few weeks there has
been a rash of rapes in the area.
Earlier this week, an N.C. State
University student was raped in her
apartment off Avent Ferry Road. The
young woman told police officials
that she was sleeping when the at
tacker entered her apartment and
she awoke to find the man on top of
her. The incident took place between
2 and 2:30 a.m. The assailant entered
the second-floor apartment through a
sliding glass door. The victim was
taken to Rex Hospital following the
incident.
Almost three weeks ago, a woman
was raped in her home on East Mar
tin Street when she returned from a
local market. She went outside to feed
her dog and when she went back in
side, she was grabbed from behind
and overpowered. In that incident,
the attacker used a sharp object
against the victim’s neck. The
suspect was described as a black
male 5’U” and about 26 years old.
The woman said she did not know the
attacker, but had seen him before.
A week later, another woman was
raped in her apartment on Tall
Timber Drive near Crabtree Valley
Mall. This time, the attacker scaled
the building from the outside terraces
to break into the third-floor apart
ment. The woman was not home at
the time of the break-in.
Upon arriving home, the woman
noticed that her belongings were out
of order and was about to leave when
she was grabbed, forced to disrobe
and blindfolded. The attacker then
took the woman to the bedroom and
raped her. In this incident, again, the
man entered the apartment through a
sliding glass door.
In all three cases, the rapist
somehow managed to slip into the
victims' residences unnoticed. The
only weapon reported was in the Mar
tin Street attack. So far, authorities
(See RAPES, K 2)
TAKING OATH—Newly elected Superier Court Judge
George Greene was sworn in Tuesday, as Iris wife Risky
Greens looked eo, by N. C. Supreme Court Justice, J. C.
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BY CHESTER A. HIGGINS. SR.
NNPA N*w» Editor
WASHINGTON, DC.-Colin
Luther Powell recounts this anecdote
with a relish: “I had been in the job
for one week: two blades—two Afro
Americans, I think that’s what we’re
calling ourselves now—were in the
Roosevelt Room [in the White House]
with a chain of newspapers that had
their various editors and publishers
asking questions. One of the blacks
said, ‘Gen. Powell, you’re black and
no black has ever held this position.
Come on, now, don’t you think that
people are going to go around you or
essentially not take you serious when
the heavy blitzing starts because
you’re black?’
“Well, you know what I wanted to
say but couldn’t. I was on my best
behavior so I couldn’t get down with
jnm.
“‘No,’ I said. ‘I don’t believe that
for a couple of reasons. One, it is not
the way the president is and it’s not
the way my associates in the White
House are. I don’t expect them to
treat me that way and they haven’t so
far. And secondly, if the president
and Sen. Baker [who was the chief of
staff at the time] and others didn’t
think I was able to handle it and stop
people from doing that, then they pro
bably made a mistake in giving me
the job. And I don’t think they intend
ed to make that mistake.”’
“That wasn’t a bad answer at the
time,” he chuckled. “A few weeks
later I saw the guy again in a spot
where I could talk to him in a manner
in which he could understand. I ask
vSSoe GEN. POWELL, P. 2)
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Major Problem* Continue To Face
Multiracial Groupe Around Glob*
BY JOHN THOMPSON MOORE, JR.
Special To The CAROLINIAN
All Analysis
There are many Afro-American
youth of today who are still confused
over the misunderstanding that each
of the three other racial groups have
of them.
First, religiously speaking, our
youths must understand that God had
created four dominant races of
mankind and the physical an
thropologists had classified them and
their origins as Europeans (Cauca
sians or white), Asians (Mongoloid or
yellow), Indians (or red) and
Africans (Negroids or blacks).
Secondly, that for centuries until
the ISth century that each of these
dominant races resided mainly in
their respective continents. Can't one
see that there was no racial animosi
ty among these men and women when
they were isolated from eacn outer:
Sociologically speaking, prejudice
and discrimination, which are
nothing hut attitudes derived from
inter-mingling of the races on such
factors as competition for jobs, mar
riages, social status, etc. Our youths
must consider those factors in order
to solve these problems. Do you
agree?
Historically speaking, it was in the
15th century (1400-1500) that the
Caucasians began to colonize and ex
plore the world and began to Import
the Africans into the New World to be
slaves. What a day! The slave
masters, then, considered
themselves to be superior to the
slaves. Then, in the 10th century,
American businessmen . had
thousands of Asians imported Into
America for the sole purpose of
building the railroads. Also, they
later had moat oi tne American In
dians confined into reservations as
many of them are living today. Can't
one see why these problems still exist
today?
Labor unions lobbied to have the
U.S. Congress pass the Chinese Ex
clusion Act in the 19th century to pro
hibit any further Asians from coming
to America because they were con
sidered to be cheap workers and com
peting with the white workers on the
West Coast, but it was not until World
War II that this act was repealed and
now Asians canbecome citizens and
also American Indians who,
theoretically, have all the privileges
of the other races in America.
In short, the Asian or yellow race
and the other non-white races are
definitely trying to achieve a higher
soclo-economic-politicsl status in the
United States or the world at the ex
pense of ridiculing the blacks. Do you
agree? Can’t our black youths see
that?
Again, historically speaking, dur
ing the 18th century, according to the
late Prof. Carter Woodson, a distin
guished black historian, black
runaway slaves from Georgia fled'
their white masters and escaped to
Florida to live with the Indians or red
men. What a timet These blacks
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New Buses Expand CAT
System Fleet; More On Way
rrMiw < AltUUNIAN Muff KrpurlH
Ten new bueee rolled Into the city's Capital Area Transit C<. for
Immediate distribution to the city's bus routes recently. The pur*
chase of the buses was made possible by several grants which helped
the city defray their |I.S million total cost. Under the terms of the
grant, 80 percent of the cost was paid by the U.S. Department of
Transportation's Urban Mass Transportation Administration, 10
percent was funded by the North Carolina Department of
Transporatatlon, and the remaining 10 percent was covered by the
City of Raleigh.
The 10 new buses will be Immediately pressed Into service with
some of them replacing older buses of CAT’s fleet and a few augmen
ting the fleet’s number. The buses have specifications similar to
those already being used by the public, such as seating capacity, bus
length, gas mileage, etc. However, each of the new buses is
wheelchair equipped for the handicapped. Despite that feature, the
capacity is 43, roughly four more than other buses already In use.
According to city and CAT officials, 14 more new buses are ex
pected soon with the money for them having already been approved.
These 14 new buses have been paid for, according to these officials,
under the same arrangements as the first IS, are from the same
manufacturer, Transportation Manufacturing Corp. of New Mexico,
and will be additions to Raleigh's fleet of approximately 58 buses.
TMC began building this model after General Motors ceased Its
bus operations. After this. TMC moved its plant to New Mexico and
picked up GM's orders and contracts. The transmission of the new
TMC buses is engineered to guarantee a smoother, more comfor
table ride for passengers as weU as drivers. Gas mileage Is rated at
or about the same as other buses In the city fleet.
At least some of the new buses wore In service before the dedica
tion. They feature electronic destination signs on the front and side of
the vehicle, Instead of the "piano roll" type long ramillar to bus
patrons. The seats are also easier to sit in and more comfortable.
Judges'
Bench
ASSAULT CHARGES
A Raleigh woman, Juanita M. Gar
da, is being held on 00,000 bond in
connection with the stabbing of a
Raleigh man and breaking and enter
ing his apartment. Brooks Neal
Young of D-28 Washington Terrace
said he was attacked by the woman in
his apartment and suffered stab
wounds. Young wss taken to Wake
Medical Center where he was listed In
fair condition Tuesday night. Police
have charged the 31-year-old Garcia,
of flOO-G Candor Lane, with assault
with a deadly weapon with intent to
kill, Inflicting serious injury. Garcia
was also charged with burglary.
SNACK BAR ROBBED
The Federal Building, located at
310 New Bern Avenue in Raleigh, was
robbed by a man claiming to have a
gun Tuesday. The man entered the
building and told the clerk at the
snack bar that he had a gun. The rob
ber then took money from the
register and fled on foot. The man left
the scene with an undetermined
amount of cash. The incident took
place around 2:43 p.m. When police
arrived the clerk told them she did
not see a gun.
BY CHESTER A. HIGGINS. SR.
NNPANwnHIMr
WASHINGTON. D.C.-Morehouse
College Medical School campus was
unusually quiet. News of the nomina
tion of Its president, Louis W.
Sullivan, SB, to be secretary of the
sprawling Department of Health and
Human Services came as most of the
school’s 144 students and many of Its
100 faculty members were leaving or
had left for Christmas vacation.
But Dr. Clinton E. Warner, 04-year
old chairman of the school’s
32-member board, was still on cam
pus and told NNPA, “We are very
happy for him—very supportive.
There is no doubt Dr. Sullivan will be
confirmed and do a splendid job. Of
course this is a loss to us as an institu
tion. hut it if i gain for the country.
(See APPOINTEE, P. 2)
LARCENY OF AUTO
Henry Lawrence Smith, 39, of 416
Colleton Road, Raleigh, allegedly led
police on a chase Tuesday before be
ing charged with stealing a 1986
Chevrolet van belonging to the state
that was being loaded at 116 W. Eden
ten St. around l p.m. Tuesday.
Following the theft, a police officer
noticed the van weaving and tried to
pull it over, but the driver wouldn’t
stop. The chase continued down two
one-way streets the wrong way.
Eventually, the suspect crashed the
(See JUDGES'BENCH, P a>