r,ttLCi'Jn IN•«/ L / D I !
“l iveable” Wage Demand
Groups Mobilize For Wage Hike
representatives lrom unions, com
munity organizations and youth
' groups are demandihg Congress
raise minimum wage and stop social
service cuts. Outrage blossomed over
the recent congressional pay hike
proposal while low-wage workers
continue to fill homeless shelters.
Organizations have outlined a plan
to mobilize thousands of people and
bring them to Washington to press for
a "livable" minimum wage and the
campaign is also pledged to stop
President George Bush's plan to im
plement a "training" sub-minimum
wage.
Secretary of l^abor Elizabeth Dole
before the Senate Labor and
Resources Committee says, “A sim
ple, meaningful training wage is
essential. It’s the only really effective
wav to offset the job loss. The price of
learning on the job is often initially a
lower wage.” Ms. Dole says the
skills gap is the real problem."
Organizers for the Emergency
C ampaign for a Higher Minimum
Wage, in a statement from New York,
said, ‘The low minimum wage drags
down the wages of all workers. This is
true for workers making $4 an hour or
*12 an hour. The employers use it as
an excuse to keep wages down, with i
government help. While companies
have been raking in profits, they have
gone on a campaign to lower all
workers’ wages. Raising the
minimum wage can reverse the at
tack."
The $3.35-ari-hour minimum wage
was set by Congress eight years ago.
According to government inflation
rates (which do not include housing
and many other costs), this is the
equivalent of 12.10 an hour in real
purchasing power. While Congress
was haggling over a projected salary
increase of up to $135,000 a year,
millions of workers and their families
across the country vtfere struggling
(See MINIMUM WAG*, P. 2)
DR. ROBERT BRIDGES
—
Firm Assists
In Search For
Superintendent
The Wake County Board of
Education voted last Wednesday
ta contract with a national con
sulting firm to assist the board in
conducting a nationwide search
for a new superintendent of the
Wake County Public School
System.
Ira W. Krinsky and Associates,
an executive search and manage
ment consulting firm, will lead
the system’s search efforts. The
firm specialises In assisting
education and nonprofit
organizations, and its president
has conducted search
assignments for more than 200
school systems across the coun
try, including the Los Angeles
Unified School District (enroll
ment 700,000), the Houston In
dependent School District
(enrollment 196,000). the Mon
tgomery County (Md.) Public
Schools (enrollment 100,000), and
the Broward County (Fla.)
Public Schools (enrollment
126,000).
“We are looking for a superin
tendent for the 1990s,’’ Board
Chairman Henry C. Knight said.
“Wake County as a community
has put in place all the com
ponents necessary to move our
school system to the leading edge
of excellence. The board is set
ting In motion a nationwide
search for the bestpossible can
didate to lead our system.
“After spending considerable
time evaluating this firm and
others experienced in leadership
searches, the board is confident
of Ira Krinsky’s ability to guide
our search process and to help us
seek the top-quality individual we
need to continue our school
system’s pursuit of excellence,”
Knight said. “Dr. Krinsky comes
to us with outstanding credentials
and experience in similar sear
ches and with the high recom
mendations of boards of educa
tion with which he has worked."
The search function has been
assigned to the Personnel Com
(See SUPERINTENDENT, P. 2)
HE UAROLINIAN
RALEIGH, N.C,
VOL. 48. NO. 31
Monday;
MARCH 20,1989
N.C.'8 Semi-Weekly
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IN RALEIGH dLDQ
Last Seen At Diner
25-Year-0ld Killed
race ui
Victim
Battered
CAROLINIAN Staff Report»
The young woman’s body was nude
from the waist down and her face was
battered beyond recognition. Police
would not release the victim’s name
but said she was killed sometime
Friday night or early Saturday
morning.
The victim, a young black 25-year
old woman was last seen in the Do
Drop In Diner at 2007 Poole Road
before her body was discovered by a
woman leaving a convenience store
around 8:30 a.m. Saturday.
Ursula B. Richardson allegedly
spotted the body, ran home, told her
husband and then called the police.
Many people in the area cordoned off
by the police yellow ribbon said they
knew the name of the victim and that
she lived in the 400 block of Parnell
Street. Police said identification was
a problem because of facial damage.
The body was found southeast of
McKenny & Sons Wrecker Service at
323 Kennedy St., near a footpath that '
runs to Lord Anson Drive.. Some who I
saw the grotesque, lifeless body lying J
in the sun, voiced Concern about the
manner in which the police allowed it
to lay in the open, uncovered for such
a long length of time.
One black police officer on Lord
Anson Dr., although probably ip the
line of duty, was often rude to
residents who had gathered along the p
street. e<
Other than the facial wounds, A
police would not say what caused the A
woman’s death, whether she was shot
or stabbed, but said an autopsy would w
reveal if she had been sexually u
assaulted. U
The woman’s shoes and other ft
clothing was found near her body and E
also the weapon police think was used ti
to kill her. B
(See VICTIM, P.2) si
White House Launches £
Campaign On Literacy »
BY CHESTER A. HIGGINS, SR.
VS'PA .Vews Editor
WASHINGTON, D.C.-One of
George Bush’s solemn campaign pro
mises was that he would become “the
education president." But it is his
wife, Barbara Bush, who seems to be
striking the first blow for education,
and she is doing so down where the
rubber meets the road—for family
literacy. Through her newly founded
f
Barbara Bush Foundation for Family
Literacy, Ms. Bush, who will serve as
its honorary chairperson, is targeting
the family as “key to establishing
literacy as a universal value in the
nation.”
Most expert educators, including
Yale University’s eminent child
psychiatrist, Dr. James Comer, have
been saying for years that involving
(See LITERACY, P. 2)
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To Address
Problems In Edueatlon
Some of America’s top brass will
irticipate in a conference on higher
iucation and the future of the U. S.
rmy’s ROTC program at Saint
ugustine’s College here.
At least seven U. S. Army generals
ill be among some 100 college and
liversity presidents, their represen
tives and the National Association
r Equal Opportunity in Higher
ducation (NAFED) officials par
::ipating in the 1989 Historically
lack College and Univer
ty/Reserve Officers Training
orp’s (ROTC) lhal Saint
ugustine's College will host Harch
-23.
The top army brass includes Gen.
axwell R. Thurmond, commanding
meral, U. S. Army Training and
octrine Command, For! Monroe,
a.: Major Gen. Edwin Wagner,
irst Commanding General. U. S. Ar
y, ROTC Cade! Command, Fort
onroe, Va.; Major Gen. James F.
amlet, deputy inspector general,
eadquarlers Depart men! of the Ar
y, Washington, D.C.; Brigadier
en. Wallace C. Arnold, commanding
;neral. First region, U.S. Army
DTC Cadet Command; Brigadiere
on. James A Musselman. comman
,
ding general, 2nd Reserve Officer r'
Training Corps, Fort Knox, Ky.; f<
Brigadier Gen. Floyd Walters, com- 0
manding general. Third ROTC
Region. s<
Also participating will be Lieute- *>
nant Gen. Andrew P. Chambers, ft
former commanding general, 3rd n
U.S. Army and Deputy commanding
general, Forces Command, Fort to
McPhearson, Ga. m
Gen. Wagner, Dr. Samuel L. e*
Mvers. president of NAFEO and Dr. «
(See GENERALS. P. 2) vi
maac Leaders in
U. S. Overlooking
Famine in Sudan
U %/ MAUkf ill ■■■■ ■
Special To Thr (AROIJNIAN
An Ana lynis
Walter G. Bollinger, the top U.S.
aid official for Africa, estimates that
more than l.S million mostly black
residents of the southern Sudan face
possible starvation after the spring
rainy season begins. At least a
quarter of a million people in that
region have already starved to death
since 1983.
Yet many black leaders and com
mentators here at home have had lit
tle or nothing to say about this dread
ful situation. To understand why, we
must look at the political context in
which the starvation is occurring.
The causes of the past and possible
future famines in the Sudan are
drought and flood conditions ag
gravated by a civil war. The war pits
the Islamic Arabs of the north against
the predominantly black Christians
and animists of the south. For about
15 years there has been intermittent
varfare-between northern Arabs and
southern blacks, with the latest round
>eginning in May 1963. Since that
ime, war and famine have driven
some two million civilians from their
lomes in the south.
Even more unfortunate have been
he tens of thousands of black
ivilians who have been massacred
iy Arab tribes.
The war, which is being fought in
he south, represents an effort by a
nainly black resistance movement
ailed the Sudan People’s Liberation
srmy to end the traditional Arab
tuslim domination of the country. In
articular, the SPLA ^resisting an
ttempt by the government to impose
slamic law upon the entire country.
'he rebels control most of the south
utside the major cities and towns.
The famine has been aggravated by
oth the Sudanese army and the
PLA, each of which has blocked the
hipment of food to areas dominated
y the other side. But the Army, and
le government for which it is
ghting, must bear most of the ,
;sponsibility. The Army refuses to
ed even the starving civilians in its j
vn areas of control. J
The military flies food into •
mthern towns, but almost exclusive
for itself and for Arab merchants <
om the north—virtually none *
aches starving civilians.
Similarly, the government has sent ,
the south almost none of the
iliions of dollars in foreign
(lergency aid that has been receiv- , *
Many religious leaders and pro- j
ncial government officials in the C
using the war as an opportunity to
depopulate the south—that is, to com
mit genocide.
An agreement had been reached
between the rebels and the govern
ment which included the suspension
of Islamic law in the south. But
because of opposition from Islamic
Arab funriamentaligta. the sovern
(See FAMINE, P. 2)
INSIDE
_AFRICA_
BY DANIEL MAROLEN
NNPA \ew« Service
WHAT WILL GEORGE BUSH’S
SOUTH AFRICAN POLICY BE?
The April l deadline date for the
beginning of the implementation of
the United Nations’ Resolution 435 of
1978 for the independence of Namibia
|s drawing near. But many well
informed diplomats and experts on
international affairs fear that South
Africa may again hatch another
strategem to block the independence
of Namibia as she has done on
previous occasions.
“South Africa,” a diplomat said to
me, ‘‘cannot be trusted. The
Afrikaner rulers of the country have
no credibility.” Furthermore, it is
doubtful whether the new George
Bush administration in the United
States will introduce a strong
southern African policy, bold enough
to force South Africa to honor the
tripartite agreement for giving
Namibia its long-awaited in
dependence, and bringing about
peace in southwest Africa.
Whether the new Bush administra
tion will continue to support Jonas
Savimbi’s UNITA guerrillas against
Angola remains a moot question.
All these problems can be used by
►outh Africa to dishonor the Dec. 22,
988 tripartite agreement sponsored
iy the United States. But the main
urdle to peace in southwest Africa—
ndeed, all of southern Africa—is
ifrikaner nationalism. The Boers of
outh Africa rule the country as if it
'ere entirely theirs alone. They force
tie African population of South
Jrica to run daily through a gauntlet
f hate, fear and rage. In 1976, their
rim-faced police mowed down
eaceful demonstrating school
tjildren merely for asking for better
(See INSIDE AFRICA, P. 2)
New White House Aide Is A Young
Black Minister, An Overachiever
KY CHESTER A. IIIGGINS. SK.
NNI‘.\ New* Kililot
WASHINGTON, D.C.-African
Americans may want to take another
reading of Vice President Dan
^uayle, after they are introduced to
Joseph Philip Watkins, a 35-year-old
\frican-American, who is associate
Jirector of White House Public
Liaison.
Watkins, a tall, handsome, neatly
»roomed man with degrees from the
University of Pennsylvania (history )
ind Princeton, the latter a master's
>f theology, is an ordained Baptist
ninister and a former chaplain at
Palladega College. He plans to study
or a Ph.D. in theology, probably at
toward University under the school s
listinguished dean, Lawrence N.
lones. He is associate minister of the
Ml. Carmel Baptist Church of
>hiladelphia. Pa.
Where does Vice President Quayle
inter the picture? It seems that
Juayle, despite some widely held
enervations regarding his intellect,
iad sense enough to bring Rev.
Vatkins aboard where Watkins
•perated successfully as assistant In
r for Quayle’s
1961-84. Indeed,,
Vatkins, who
han his stated
rooklyn elementary school prin
pal, is a New Yorker, but his
other, an administrator at HUD, is
om Antigua in the Caribbean. His
irents, first of their generation to at
nd college, groomed their children
be overachievers—each not orilv
having graduated from college, but
acquired post-graduate degrees as
well. Watkins, who loves his parents,
said they taught the children “com
petitiveness.”
Rev. Watkins met his wife-to-be
(See NEW AIDE,>■ 2)
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