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Gov. Jim Martin unveiled last wee!
proposals to reform pay schedules fo
North Carolina teachers and stati
employees by Restoring performance
based pay, implementing the Oaree
Ladder for teachers and corrtctini
longstanding inequities in pa]
schedules for both groups.
Presenting the pay reforms foi
teachers to the State Board of Educa
tion Wednesday, Martin outlinee
reforms of the teachers’ paj
schedule—frozen since 1862—and of
fered fundine Drooosals to take the
i Career Ladder program statewide.
' Initial steps for implementing the
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“If North Carotins
’ fund public education,
ignorance. We do not
Martin’s] proposal goe
President Karen Garr.
Career Ladder, which the governor
calls "Better Pay for Better
Teachers,” will begin in 1989-90 with
hiring and training of ev^juators anc
of additional career development
does not adequately
we will pay dearly for
believe that his [Gov.
s far enough...” NCAE
staff.
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accountability
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support the
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For a "kinder/gentler” America the gap between the poor aad af
(loent moat be bridged along with eliminating racism and bigotry
which defeat economic Justice.
According to statistics of the Board of Social Ministry of the
iMfeei-an Church-Missouri Synod, 125 billion (1MM4) in disposable
income was transferred from poor and middle-income families to
families in the richest 20 percent of the population.
These policies should change. If the Bush administration really
i what he says about a “kinder/gentler” America, then the gap
i families needs to be bridged.
If the poorest 20 percent of the population barely receives four
percent of the nation’s income, if children are far more likely to be
poor than are adults (13.4 million children in the United 8tates), aad
if the average American family is one or two paychecks away from
homelessness, then some people need to have a second cup of
straight coffee and really wake up and revise our national/state
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One does not have to be an Old Testament Amos to reaUie that
some economic restructuring is necessary; it is simply economic in
justice. ' - *
While the Triangle area ta blessed with a low unemployment
level, according to the same Lutheran report, female-headed
households and African-American and Hispanic families are hur
ting. - -hi:-"
Sears Offers
Banks Revolving
Sears, Roebuck and Co. has ac
tivated a $30 million syndicated
the United States, according to Alvin
J. Boutte, chairman and chief ex
ecutive officer of Independence
Bank. Participating banks in the
credit facility are owned by blacks,
women, Hlspanic-Americans, Asian
Americans and American Indians, he
said. -
“This demonstrates the ability of a
minority banking institution to
develop and service a credit facility
for a major corporation,” Boutte
stated. “It also stimulates growth for
minority hanks and the minority
communities that they serve.”
Noting that 24 states are
represented in the syndicate, Sears
vice president and corporate
treasurer Edward J. Condon, Jr.,
said, “This facility represents part of
a nationwide commitment by Sears in
Sullivan Targets $1.5 Billion To
Fight AIDS, Aim At Finding Cure
BY CHESTER A. HIGGINS, SR.
NNPA News Kdlter
WASHINGTON, DC.-The Depart
ment pf Health and Human Services
has a targeted budget of $1.5 billion
this year to fight the dread disease
Alps. This is a substantial increase
I Wafct-Snutsty Brandi NAACP
B CsMM recently M a Stalwart Manner In the field
Community Service, Reiglen and Humanitarian Service. Mrs,
Mack school Beard represanuiivt, first Mack county cwnnth
tamale. Mrs. Mary i, Perry president it the Branch prases.,
PN»* tram the branch. Mrs. SefieM was site presented the
teat Pine tram the 6ev. James Martin by fir. Lae Memeeet the
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ding a cure for the seemingly in
curable malady, ^r. Louis Sullivan,
the newly confirmed HHS secretary,
revealed.
He also said, “There is a range of
more than 200” programmatic issues
the giant HHS would be addressing.
Said he, “If this is going to be a
kinder, gentler nation, HHS will be 80
percent" responsible for bringing it
about. He also promised that Social
Security will not be touched, a
welcome signal to the nation’s elder
ly, the retired, and the infirm.
Dr. Sullivan’s con
firmation sailed
through the full
Senate hearing, with
only Sen. Jesse
Helms (R-N.C.)
voting against the ar
ticulate, poised, intel
ligent physician.
abortion views, were enchanted by
the articulate, poised, intelligent
physician.
As head of the sprawling depart
ment, the largest in federal govern
ment, that, oversees medical
research, Social Security, medical
aid for the poor and elderly and social
welfare problems, Dr. Sullivan will
receive about $89,000 a year in salary,
a definite reduction from the reported
$141,000 a year he received as
Morehouse College of Medicine presi
dent.
His department is larger in terms
of budget than the Defense Depart
ment, receiving 37 percent of the en
tire federal budget to the Defense
Department's 26 percent. HHS
budget for the current 1089 year is
$478.9 billion; its proposed (1990)
budget is $523 billion, a 22.8 percent
increase over last year’s budget,
Chuck Kline, an HHS spokesman, told
NNPA.
However, the HHS projected outlay
(what it will actually spend as oppos
ed to what it is authorised to spend) is
less—$401.6 billion for 1989 and $424.4
billion for 1990, NNPA has learned. It
is still an eye-popping amount of
money covering a department that
bas 118,000 employees, five operating
divisions, from public health ser
vices—which includes the Food and
Drug Administration, the National
Institutes of Health, and the Centers
lor Disease Control, with a combined
1130.9 million budget, the Social
Security Administration with a 1990
>udget of $259.7 in, the largest in
HHS; and the Health Care Financing
Administration, that administers the
tuge Medicare and Medicaid pro
(rams.
On the same day Dr. Sullivan was
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Jan. 31. Those amendments, propos
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message to the Legislature on Jan.
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George Bush delivered the keynote
address to the United Negro College
Fund’s 45th anniversary dinner last
week at the Sheraton Centre Hotel,
the White House has announced.
The gala, chaired by Michael H.
Jordan, president and chief executive
officer of PepsiCo Worldwide Foods,
Inc , honored composer Paul Simon.
U.S. Rep. August^ Hawkins of
California, and Exxon Corp Chair
man Lawrence O. Rawl. The Greater
New York Inter-Alumni Council,
Negro College Fund’s 42 I
black private colleges and univer
sities, co-sponsored the event.
President Bush’s personal commit
ment to the United Negro College
Fund began in 1948, just four years
after the organization was founded.
At that time, he helped launch a
UNCF campaign on the Yale Univer
sity campus. Out of that effort grew a
long and warm relationship with
UNCF and with its first executive
r
of-living increases for the past seven
years without opportunities for
performance-based pay.
"If we are going to have quality
education in North Carolina, we are
going to need quality teachers,” Mar
tin said. “These pay reforms offer a '
pathway to excellence in the teaching
profession.” ’ ' -
“The keys to this tax proposal are
accountability and performance
based pay for both teachers and state
employees.” Martin said. “My sup
(See TEACHERS, P. 2) '**
AFRICA
Through South Africa’s shrewd
machinations, the African National ,, >
" Congress’ armed struggle is stalled, y*.: ;:
and apartheid marches on from :.%i
strength to strength, winning
diplomatic and military victory after
victory.
Recently, South Africa signed an
accord with Cuba, Angola and
Namibia to bring about peace in
southwestern Africa and in
dependence of Namibia in according
with the United Nations’ Resolution
435 of 1978. But ANC, which is also a
combatant in the southwestern
African war, was excluded from the.-;'
American-sponsored tripartite agree
ment.
Now South Africa wants ANC to
leave Angola as Cuba and South
Africa are doing according to the
agreement. But the ANC was not a
party to the agreement about the
withdrawal of foreign troops from the
southwest African theater of war.
ANC had no status in the peace con
ference that led to the agreement.
In 1960, after the Sharpeville
Massacre of peaceful black “anti
pass” demonstrators, South Africa
banned the ANC, Pan African Con
gress, and all other black political
organizations in the country. That
banning order left the black masses
•chafing under the evil scourge of
apartheid, without leadership from
their premier liberation movement,
ANC. Since then, the apartheid
regime has been following ANC like a
dog following a rabbit. ,
During the past five yeras the Boer
regime has dealt ANC several major
blows in an attempt to prevent the
At)C from pushing forward with its
“«nned struggle” toward ridding
South Africa of apartheid.
First, Botha’s apartheid regime
bombed ANC out of Maseru,
Lesotho’s capital, killing and woun
ding several ANC men and Lesotho
nationals. This happened more than
once, and ANC was forced out of
Lesotho into Swaziland. Lesotho is an
independent and sovereign state, but
South Africa flouted international law
and norms and crossed Lesotho’s
border, allegedly in “pursuit of guer
rillas.” International law has often
been flouted by South Africa. This
continues to this day, with impunity.
Before and since then, South
African police have continued to raid
Lesotho, hounding ANC to Swaziland
and other black-ruled southern
(See lNSIDiJ AFRICA, P. 2)
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From t VMOUMA.V Huff Report*
The Subcommittee on Natural
Resources, Agriculture Research and
Environment held a hearing on tor*
nado forecasting and severe storm
warning at Lynn Road Elementary
School recently. •
With much of the damage from the
storm on Nov. 26,1988 still visible on
many of the RaleiCh streets in those
areas hardest-hit by the storm, the
subcommittee, which featured U.S.
representatives David Price and Tim
Valentine heard from local officials,
TV meteorologists, federal officials
and professional meteorologists, v
The purpose of the meeting was to
release the Natural Disaster Survey
Report on the tornadoes, to tinders
tand why it took so long for the
Raleigh Forecast Office to receive
the equipment neceskary to predict
such a storm, to look at the extent of
destruction and loss of lives and
assess the performance of the Na
tional Weather Service in forecasting
and warning. Because some feared
the state-of-the-art equipment needed
to accurately forecast the storm
won’t be available to this area until
December 1892, the meeting also
hoped to come up with a consensus