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VOL. 48, NO. 32
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DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST
MARCH 23, 1989
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Suspicions Run Rampant
Brutal Slaying Shocks Residents
rnm CAROLINIAN Starr Reports
Questions and suspicions are runn
rampant following the brutal
Of a 25-year-old African
woman in Southeast
\ are questioning those who
fc victim in search of clues to
solve the case.
However, there’s something about
this case residents can’t seem to pin
point and the atmosphere is still
with questions and suspi
The nude body of Ms. Karen
DD/CCC
CRY ANNEXATIONS
The City Council plans to annex
several subdivisions and shopp
ing centers on Raleigh's out
skirts, adding 1,265 acres and
2,25* taxpayers to the rolls , this
year. The annexation will be the
subject of a public hearing Aprils
and involve six locations in North
Raleigh and four elsewhere.
MEDICAID FOR POOR
A House subcommittee approv
ed three bills designed to channel
■ore Medicaid money to the
poor, especially poor children.
Ibt Mil would expand Medicaid
for children under age
; it to more than 70,006
children in the first two
i at a cost of $6.6 million; ex
pand prenatal coverage to an ad
IMsaat 6,700 pregnant women
and 10,110 children and increase
have fap
qualify for Medicaid.
K1AN CAMPAIGN FUNDS
Campaign contributions from
of Northwest residents
former Ku Klux Klan
_' David Duke win a seat in
the Louisiana legislature, finan
cial reports indicate. The reports
list 31 contributions from
Washington state, 20 from
Oregon, and eight apiece from
Idaho and Montana. Total con
tributions were less than $1,500.
REVERSING ROLES
Historically, the Republican
Party has prided itself on oppos
ing higher taxes. But suddenly,
the political landscape has been
(See NEWS BRIEFS, P. 2)
Winston, of 441 Parnell St., was
discovered early March 18 southeast
of McKenny and Sons Wrecker Ser
vice at 323 Kennedy St., near a foot
path that runs to Lord Anson Drive.
The victim had been severely
beaten and disrobed except for a
decorative belt found around her
waist. Ms. Ursula B. Richardson
discovered the body at approximate
ly 8:30 a.m. March 18 when she was
walking the pathway from a local
convenience store on Poole Road.
“My children are frightened now,
and I’m frightened too,” she said.
following news reports that no one
had been arrested or charged in the
slaying. “I keep the door locked at all
the neighborhood for some years, was
last seen at the Do Drop In Diner
located at 2007 Poole Road. That was
Police continue to question those who kne,w
the victfcp in search of clues to solve the case
as residents question and try to understand
that there is a killer or killers perhaps hiding
in the area.
tim.es now because the murderer is
stili at large.”
Ms. Winston, who had been living in
on Friday night. Ms. Mae Eckerson,
owner of the diner, says she
remembers the night and Ms.
Winston quite well, ‘it seems to have
been the usual crowd that night.
There was one guy who acted as if he
was high or something. I had to calm
him down several times. Karen was
here around 10 or 10:30 p.m. and left
before the last call was given, I’m
certain of that,” she said.
Other than facial wounds, police
would not say what caused the death,
whether she had been shot or stabb
ed, but said an autopsy would reveal
if she had been sexually assaulted.
(See SLAYING, P. 2)
Violent Crimes Reported
Crime Rate Rising In
Sentences
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For Crimes
Inadequate
An increase in illegal drug use
along with inadequate prison
sentences are behind a crime rate
that continues to creep upward, At
torney General Lacy Thornburg said
Tuesday.
Thornburg released the
preliminary crime report lor 1988,
which shows North Carolina crime
trends projecting an overall six per
cent statewide increase.
According to the repqrt, violent
crime, which includes murder, rape.
year. Property crime, which includes
burglary, larceny and motor vehicle
theft, increased six percent.
"The moat telling increase is in rob
beries,’’ Thornburg said, “because
robbery is the violent crime which is
most often directly related to drugs.
“Cocaine, especially the highly ad- ■
dictive crack cocaine, is cheap and J
more widely available,” Thornburg4
said. “Many robberies and assaults 1
can be attributed both to those com- J
mitted by crack users under the in
fluence of the drug, and to drug users
who commit robberies to finance
their addictions.”
The preliminary crime report
shows robbery up 17 percent.
“Another factor contributing to the
crime rate increase relates directly
. to limited prison capacity,” Thorn
burg said. “With North Carolina’s
prisons filled to capacity, a criminal
(See CRIME HATE, P. 2)
HALIFAX COURT CELEBRATION—The
Authority of tho City of RaMgh hold It* third annual Arbor
Day celebration at HaWax Court and among tlw attendees
wan coundbnombers Mary W. Noon, far left; Ralyh
9lacks, Ht»panic8, Gaya ntgnest
Group For AIDS Rise In N. C.
The figures are out on AIDS and ac
cording to the Centers for Disease
Control in North Carolina, 721 cases
have been reported. Though the state
ranks 10th in population and 21st in
ASPS cases nationwide, the incidence
of AIDS in North Carolina continues
to increase.
An estimated 15,000 to 20,000 North
Carolinians may be infected with the
HIV virus that causes AIDS. On both
the national and state levels,
minorities appear more likely to be
disproportionately represented
among those with AIDS, especially
African-Americans and Hispanics.
Current U.S. statistics indicate that
blacks account for 12 percent of the
total population and 26 percent of all
AIDS cases. Figures also show that
Hispanics account for seven percent
of the total population and IS percent
and American Indians show one per
cent each diagnosed with AIDS.
In January, 319 African
Americans, or 45 percent of the 708
adult cases reported with AIDS were
black. A profound need has
materialized to target education pro
grams to raise the awareness level of t]
everyone of this life-threatening *
disease.
The data for adult black males with n
FBI Denies Lack Of Involvement
In Vicious, Murderous Drug War
BY CHESTER A. HIGGINS, SR.
. NNPA Newt Editor
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Director of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation
William Sessions admitted his
orpMrfsation has no task force work
ing the district’s streets, even though
this is the nation’s capital and the
drug-related murder rate is
fteaisHng to the point that some pro
minent citizens are seriously con
sidering requesting that the National
Guard be called in.
Sessions declared, however, the
FBI is in the process of formulating a
policy in the District of Columbia that
will put this desperately needed task
force in the city streets similar to
others his organization has operating
in six other U.S. cities that are
fighting the deeply entrenched drug
traffic. These cities are New York,
Miami, Chicago, Houston, Los
Angeles and San Diego.
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This policy is aimed at “the major
drug trafficking organizations" in
those cities, he said—the drug traf
fickers from Mexico, South America,
Sicily. The district does not have a
major drug organization operating
within its confines. He shrugged off
references to a “Jamaica Connec
tion.” Sessions was responding to an
NNPA query at a lengthy news con
ference at the FBI headquarters on
why the FBI seems to have no visible
enforcement policy toward the
murderous drug wars raging in the
nation’s capital.
“There is no major drug trafficking
nrganization in the district," he said.
‘There is a lot of crack" on the
streets. But what about the crack
ieaths that are running so high now
hat more young people are being kill
id in D.C. than in Beirut, Lebanon?
Don’t these spring from drug traffick
ng? he was asked. “Yes," he
tcknowledged, “and we are not ig
toring this. We are not far away from
ormulating a plan for thecity.” He
ns is ted that there is now "a strong
:limate of cooperation between’’ the
TOI and district police. Some
ibservers believe that if those
nurdered were white, the FBI would
>e doing more than making pious pro
louncements about “cooperation”
vith district police.
He denied that FBI suspicions of
ocal police action are keeping the
rBI from setting up a drug task force
sere. Some observers believe the FBI
s still concerned about the alleged
isit of Mayor Marion Barry to a
tamada Inn during which a drug
nut against the man, Charles Lewis,
larry was visiting was mysteriously
(See FBI, P. a>
Forty-five percent of African-American p
men diagnosed with AIDS in North Carolina j
are reported as gay/bisexual and alsbWport J
intravenous drug use. The majority engaged ci
in homosexual practices. *
of all cases related to AIDS.
Blacks make up approximately 22
percent of the 6.3 million people in
North Carolina. Yet, a shocking 45
percent of all North Carolinians with
AIDS have been African-Americans.
This clearly shows that the black
population in North Carolina is being
severely affected by AIDS. Hispanics
c
AIDS indicate that the majority of y
these men engaged in homosexual ^
practices. Forty-five percent of the
African-American men diagnosed ^
with AIDS in North Carolina are
reported to be gay or bisexual. ^
Another nine percent are gay or H
bisexual and report intravenous drug b
(See BLACKS. P. 2)
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DR. JAMES CHEEK
Howard Trustees
Concerned About
Administrators
WASHINGTON, DC.
AP)—Trustees of Howard Universi
y have expressed concern that the in
ititution’s administration might be
ncapable of resolving pressing pro
ems and agreed to closely monitor
op administrators, it was reported
list week.
Board members also told ad
ninistrators that they hold them
esponsible for student demonstra
ions at the predominantly black
iniversity that subsided only after
he intervention of Mayor Marion
larry, Jr. and civil rights leader
esse Jackson, the Washington Post
aid.
John E. Jacob, chairman of the
toard of trustees, told reporters that
n a board meeting with President
lames Cheek and others, “We ex
>ressed our expectation that the a$
ninistration will manage this institu
ion as efficiently and effectively )*
wssible and correct the inadequacy
hat exist. The board wants to make
iure we don’t get a recurrence [of the
lemonstrations] in the future.”
The Post quoted one unidentified
rustee as saying, “There is a deep
oncem on the part of the trustees
tat our recent troubles are a result
■ the fact that there is no one at the
(See DR. CHEEK, P. 2)
CHARGED WITH EMBEZZLING
TAX MONEY
A Johnston County painting con
actor hap been charged with
mbezzling almost $12,000 in state
ixes by failing to turn over the
loney to the government after
ithholding it from employees'
lychecks.
Larry Gene Bagwell, 42, of 828
>hnston Union* Road, Clayton, was
rrested at a work site in northern
ihnston County on Thursday on four
targes of embezzlement and three
tunts of aiding and abetting
nbezzlement, said Dewey N. I
tnders, supervisor of the special in
stigations unit of the state Depart
ed of Revenue. »
Bagwell was indicted on the counts
onday by a Wake County grand
iry, which charged him with
nbezzling $11,840.02, Sanders said,
e was released Thursday on $5,000
tnd.
(See JUDGES’ BENCH, P. 2)
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