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THURSDAY, DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST
MARCH 16,1989
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Willie Jordan-Longmire
Partnership Big Hit
Page IS
Dexter King Demands Share
Of The American Dream
Page 14
I
LIBRARY FUNDS
The Shaw University Student
Library Committee recently rais
ed funds which were used to pur
chase reference books for the
library. The committee, organiz
ed by Carolyn Y. Peterson, media
librarian, and Dr. Benjamin
Williams, library director, was
formed to help promote the
library and to serve as a fund
raiser.
ASSAULT RIFLE BAN
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The
Bush administration banned im
ports of semiautomatic assault
rifles indefinitely Tuesday, pen
ding a review of whether the
military-style weapons are being
used for sport purposes.
The step, announced by
William J. Bennett, the new
director of national drug policy,
is effective immediately and was
taken after officials learned that
requests this year from im
porters tomring in the weapons
already had nearly tripled those
for all of 1988.
AIDS STRAINS
RESISTANT TO ACT
Burroughs Wellcome Co. said
on Tuesday it had discovered
strains of the AIDs virus that are
resistant to AZT, the company’s
anti-AIDS drug.
Experts are not recommending
any changes in the use of the
compound, which is the only drug
approved in the United States to
treat the deadly AIDS virus.
AZT, or azidothymidine, is
manufactured under the trade
name Retrovir by Burroughs
Wellcome, which has head
quarters in Research Triangle
SCHOOLS COULD BAN
SPANKING
Up to 16 North Carolina school
systems could ban spanking as
part of a two-year experiment
that supporters hope will lead to
an end to corporal punishment
statewide.
Rep. Marie W. Colton,
D-Buncombe, filed the proposal
Tuesday, saying an outright ban
would b eimpossible to get
through the General Assembly.
But she said she hopes lessons
learned in the experiment would
generate support for alternative
measures.
(See NEWS BRIEFS, P. 2)
Sheriff Baker Speaks
NAACP Sets Local. Natl Issues
From CAROLINIAN Mall Krporto
The NAACP has two significant
events on the agenda from the na
tional and local levels that address
legislative mobilization and salute 80
years of service.
The Raleigh-Apex Branch of the
NAACP will hold its annual Freedom
Fund Banquet with Wake County
Sheriff John Baker, Jr. addressing
the theme, “1909—Needed Then;
1989—Needed Now.”
Former Raleigh-Apex Chapter
president Portia Brandon recently at
tended on the regional level a two-day
legislative conference in Washington,
D.C. that briefed members of Con
gress and legislative advocates on the
NAACP’s legislative agenda.
Ms. Brandon attended the con
ference as a lobbyist to Fourth
District Congressman David Price to
address issues including affirmative
action, AIDS legislation, the budget,
capital punishment, catastrophic
health care, child care, civil rights
litigation, hate crimes' statistics,
judicial nominations, low-income and
affordable housing, minimum wage,
parental leave, racial justice act, tax
ation and voter registration.
Bach year the Washington Bureau
of the NAACP holds a legislative con
ference to provide an opportunity for
voters to lobby congresspersons and
strengthen the association’s network
to maximize quick response on the
issues of grave concern to the
African-American community.
The NAACP prepares a civil rights
report card on each of the 535
members of Congress which shows
how legislators voted on key selected
issues important to the African
American community.
The Washington Bureau is the
legislative arm of the NAACP,
translating the association^ policies
and resolutions into a legislative pro
gram. The bureau monitors Con
gress, the president and government
agencies and seeks to protect the
rights of African-Americans in all
government decisions. Working with
(See NAACP, P. 2)
Symbol Of Power l
Protest Ousts Atwater
QualityOf
Education
Questioned
BY CHESTER A. HIGGINS. SR.
MNF.-V Nrws Editor
WASHINGTON, D.C.-The
presence of Chairman of the
Republican National Committee Lee
Atwater on the school's board of
directors appeared to be the only
reason that Howard Univeristy
students aroused from their long
state of torpor and seized the ad
ministration building.
An administration building is a
universal symbol of power and con
trol and this revolt by hundreds of
Howard University students was
about symbols.
But it was also about real and con
crete things: establishment of
African-American graduate program
arfdpiromotfonbfan Afro-centric cur
riculum; establishing a university
wide program taht would allow
students to receive academic credit
for community service; straighten
ing out the snarjed mess in the finan
cial aid office so that applications can 1
be processed by deadline, and in the 1
meantime, eliminating hostile treat- .
ment of students by that office; strik- ]
ing out the proposed IS percent tuition 1
increase; guaranteeing improvement
in the general maintenance of
Howard University housing and in
creasing campus security by hiring
more officers and raising their
wages.
Of the «even listed demands, “im
mediatt removal of Harvey Lee At
water from the Board of Trustees...
because his interests are not consis
tent with the mission of Howard,”
(See PROTEST, P. 2)
COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD-Are* gospel music
personality Bro. James Thomas (second from left) was
citsd for his service to the local community by Smith
Temple Freewill Baptist Church Sunday at their 36th
anniversary celebration. Pictured with the popular WLLE
personalit^are, from Louvenia
Ms. Linda Shears, Ms. Emma Jeffrios, and Smith
Templrt pastor, Rev. Theodore McAllister. Ms. Jeffries,
who made the presentation, also ptedMM corsages to
Ms. Mack and Ms. Shears, who assist Thomas In
gathoilng and gaffing information out over the radio and In
The CAROLINIAN. (Sjjfl photo by&l Jerny, Jr.)
•Caw
Blacks, Aim At Survival Of Family
From CAKOI.1NIAN Staff Hr ports
A statewide conference on
“Developing an African-American
Agenda for North Carolina” has been
planned after several working ses
sions. The conference will focus on
“Keeping the Dream Alive” with
workshops ranging from the African
American family, political empower
ment and educating the black child.
The first working session was held
Caucuses Attest To Growing In
Clout, Power Decentralization
(AP) Another sign of power disper
sal in the General Assembly
especially in the House of Represen
tatives, is the way caucuses are grow
ing in numbers as well as clout.
Simply put, caucuses are associa
tions of legislators who have
something in common: party affilia
tion, race, gender or interest in a par
ucuiar suojeci or constituency.
Unlike committees, caucuses are
not official bodies and therefore
aren’t required to meet in the open,
although some do. But the word br
ings to mind the stereotypical gather
ing in a smoke-filled room, where in
formality and bluntness replace the
forced civility of floor debate.
1
umciany, mere nave always Deen
Democratic and Republican
caucuses. But for many years they
seldom made news. When Liston
Ramsey was undisputed king of the
House of Representatives and power
ful lieutenant governors such as Jim
my Green reigned over the Senate, a
tight leadership circle often decided
the Democratic position on major
issues and put out the word to the
rank and file. Meanwhile, there were
too few Republicans for their
caucuses to mean much.
The shakeup in the House, swelling
GOP ranks, and Republican Jim
Gardner’s election as lieutenant
governor have changed all that.
Suddenly, Democrats and
Republicans seem to be caucusing all
the time. And by most accounts the
meetings are more than window
dressing. They are genuine quests for
consensus and, sometimes, no-holds
barred family quarrels.
Majority Leader Dennis Wicker,
D-Lee, presides over the House
Democratic Caucus. He says the
group’s meetings have been par
ticularly useful as the majority tries
to mend fences trampled in the
speakership fight.
“It’s been good therapy to put all
the feelings on the table and
deliberate.” Wicker said. “It’s had a
positive effect on the healing
process.” Controversy erupted last
week when the House Democratic
Caucus voted to endorse a slate of
candidates for the University of
North Carolina Board of Governors.
About a dozen Democrats protested
that the board election was not a par
tisan matter, but were overruled.
Wicker said the caucus will not
establish party positions on every
issue. But on matters that involve the
(See CAUCUS, P. 2t
at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Stu- (
dent Union Building on the campus of
Saint Augustine’s College. This was c
also a luncheon meeting and Dr. t
Preiell R. Robinson, president of the 2
college, was the host. c
The Rev. H. Hartford Brookins, 1
presiding bishop of the Second t
Episcopal District of the AME j
Church, during a luncheon hosted by <
William J. Kennedy, III, at North
Carolina Mutual Life Insuranc Co. in s
Durham, challenged leaders to work t
on a common agenda for African- 1
Americans in North Carolina. 1
Leaders will meet at the statewide I
conference to share, study research ]
and discuss the agenda for implemen
tation. I
William W. Easley, Jr., pastor, St. I
Joseph’s AME Church in Durham, 1
will be chairman of the conference, 1
with W.B. Lewis, pastor. First
Cosmopolitan Baptist Church, as co- 1
chairman.
The conference will be held March
3l-April 1 at North Carolina Central
University and St. Joseph's AME
hurch in Durham.
“Keeping the Dream Alive,” the
onference theme, is an agenda on
le occasion of the observance of the
1st anniversary of the assassination
f Dr, Martin Luther King, Jr.
loreover, the conference will focus
n “The Gathering of the African
imerican Family in North
:arolina.”
The chairpersons, in a statement,
aid, “Martin Luther King, Jr. ar
iculated and embodied for us the
imerican dream. His life and
nessage set in bold relief the vision,
tope, aspiration and quest of all peo
>le in these United States.
“The dream is a society unshackled
ly racial prejudice. The vision is
motherhood. The hope is peace. The
ispiration is equal opportunity. The
juest is empowerment.
“The dream is real, but unrealized;
>ur challenge is to keep the dreamy
•live; our responsibility is to help (
uake the unrealized real.” ,
Workshops will include “Political
(See AGENDA. P. 2)
SHERIFF JOHN H. BAKER, JR.
Relief Agency
Warns of Crisis
In The Sudan
BOSTON, Mass. (AP)-Starvation
1 the Sudan, Africa’s largest Colin
7, is so severe that it may dwarf the
lisery of the Ethiopian famine of
964, relief officials said last week.
One million people have died since
963 of a famine created by a bitter
ivil war in which hoth sides have
revented food from reaching starv
fig people inside war zones, said John
lammock, executive director of the
ixfam America.
The conflict has claimed more lives
han the Armenian earthquake but so
ar has attracted little world atten
ion, Hammock said.
The problem is not a shortage of
ood. Rains have produced a good
larvest this year. But the rebel Sudan
People’s Liberation Army, or SPLA,
las shot at civilian and military
flights, claiming the army was using
relief planes to transport its supplies.
And the rebels have accused the
government of withholding food from
the south as a form of genocide.
“Hie problem is you can’t just say,
‘Send food and a starving child will
Bat,”’ Hammock said. "It’s a very
(See SUDAN STARVING, P. 2)
Bench
LAWYER SAYS JUDGE HAD HIM
HANDCUFFED
District Court Judge Stafford G.
lullock, who is under disciplinary
eview for a 1986 confrontation with a
tolice officer, has made the news
igain for ordering Richard N. Gusler
tandcuffed to a chair for not answer
ng a question.
The incident occurred when Gusler.
he attorney for Thomas Coble, the
uspect charged with the Valentine’s
)ay break-in of a dollar bill change
nachine at a Raleigh car wash, ask
id to be removed as Coble’s lawyer.
Gusler felt that a yes or no answer
vould violate the canon of ethics
egarding client-attorney confiden
iality. 7
GUNMAN NEGOTIATES BEER
BUY
Some people just can’t take “no”
or an answer. Especialy when they
ire packing a pistol and want beer.
Shortly before 2 a.m. Monday, a
(See JUDGES’ BENCH, P. 2)