NNPA New* Service
South Africa is a country which
controls a group of people through
hate, brutality, force and oppression.
The suffering of nonwhites who are
subjected to the strong hand of apar
theid is commonplace. That was very
apparent at a recent rally.
Supporters of the anti-apartheid
movement had gathered to attend a
memorial service, appropriately held
In front of the South African embassy,
for two young black youths, killed by
a South African patrol as they at
tempted to cross the border to
freedom in neighboring Botswana
(countless black South Africans are
shot and killed while fleeing the coun
try across the border; most of the
bodies are never recovered, accor
ding to speakers).
Thokazile, 6, and Mandla, 8, were
the children of Phillip and Virginia
Dlamini, a black South African cou
ple living in Washington. Phillip’s
aunt, Anna Ramosime, was also kill
ed in the escape attempt.
Phillip and Virginia were luckier
than their children. They had travel
ed over the same route over a year
ago to freedom. Before their suc
cessful escape, the Dlaminis were not
spared from the South African
government’s brutality. For helping
to organize peaceful anti-apartheid
demonstrations and working to im
prove the education of blacks, Phillip,
41, spent six months in a Johan
nesburg jail. While incarcerated,
police poured melting rubber down
his back, sliced off his ear with a
razor, and whipped him mercilesly.
Virginia, now 26, was jailed and sub
ject^ to repeated blows to her head
and face. The Dlaminis made their
way to a refugee camp in Botswana
then to the United States,' where
they’ve been granted political
asylum.
John Dear, 29, who works at the
McKenna Center for the poor at St.
Aloysius Catholic Church here, said
Phillip came to the center on
Thanksgiving Eve last year and ask
ed for his help. Dear, who is studying
for the priesthood, was able to find
housing for the Dlaminis at a
Catholic-run shelter in Northwest
Washington, obtained medical and
dental care (Virginia, whose teeth
were knocked out, was recently fitted
with dentures) and legal assistance
for the couple. They have applied for
and are expected to obtain perma
nent residency status.
The Dlaminis’ excitement about a
reunion with their two children,
reported in a recent newspaper arti
cle, were dashed when word arrived
of the tragedy. According to several
anti-apartheid activists interviewed
by NNPA, the news came three
weeks after the children and Phillip’s
aunt were killed. There are uncon
firmed reports that a 14-year-old boy,
who was shot with the others,
managed to reach a refugee camp in
Botswana.
As the group of demonstrators
(See INSIDE AFRICA, P. 2)
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A community-wide effort to raise
funds to erect a life-size bronze statue
of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is gain
ing momentum day by day, accor
ding to the leaders of the Raleigh
Wake MLK Celebration Committee,
Inc.
Extensive plans were announced on
March 11 seeking small contributions
from community residents. The plan
ning committee developed the King
Statue 10-10 Plan. This plan asks
residents to commit a modest amount
of $10 per month for 10 months, April
through January 1990. The King
statue is slated to be unveiled on Jan.
15,1990, King’s official holiday.
Since the announcement of the 10-10
Plan, 114 area citizens have mailed in
their first contribution for April, giv
ing the first month’s fund drive
$1,740. According to the overall
master plan of the drive, there should
be a minimum of 125 people par
ticipating in the plan by the end of
April with the ultimate goal of 500
participating per month by July.
Dr. Clifton E. Buckrham, im
mediate past president of the Raleigh
Interdenominational Ministerial
Alliance, stated, “This is something
we think the total church community,
large and small, black and white, can
support. It is not self-serving to
anyone or any group, it is a total com
munity effort. This project tends to
monumentalize in a very concrete
way King’s dream and legacy. I am
very proud to be associated with this
committee and what it’s doing."
After a nationwide search for an ar
tist to develop the King statue, the
planning committee recently approv
ed and commissioned Ms. Abbe God
win of Colfax. Ms. Godwin is a
sculptor of international acclaim who
is recognized in artistic circles as a
creator of “profoundly moving and
emotional work.” She is considered
among the top sculptors in realistic
work and shows unusual artistic
maturity. She has done independent
study in England, Belgium, Holland,
Austria, Nigeria, Italy, France,
Spain, the Virgin Islands and Puerto
(See DR. KING. P. 2)
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DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING. JR.
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The Carolinian
RALEIGH, N.C.
VOL. 48, NO. 35
MONDAY
APRIL 3. 1989 X
N.C. 's Semi-Weekly
DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRISn
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IN RALEIGH
ELSEWHERE 300
Eliminate Shortages
Nursing Issue Studied
Attracting
Personnel
To The Area
The Legislative Study Commission
on Nursing has issued a report which
proposes a multifaceted approach to
eliminating the nursing shortage in
North Carolina. The major emphasis
of the recommendations is to attract
more persons to the nursing profes
sion.
Rep. Martin Nesbitt, co-chair of the
study commission, said that last spr
ing the General Assembly was made
aware of the critical nature of the
nursing shortage at North Carolina
Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. An
ad hoc committee on nursing was
formed which studied the problem
statewide and determined that part of
the shortage was caused by noncom
petitive nursing salaries in state in
stitutions. In June 1988, the General
Assembly appropriated $3.5 million
to increase nurse salaries in these in
stitutions. Another bill also establish
ed the Legislative Study Commission
on Nursing.
The 14-member commission is co
chaired by Sen. Marvin yfapl and
Rep. Martin Nesbitt. Membereof the
General Assembly serving on the
commission are senators Wanda
Hunt, William Martin and Kenneth
Royall and representatives Ed
Bowen, Jack Hunt, and Barney
Woodard. In addition there are six
public members including four
nurses and two administrators
representing hospital and long-term
care administration.
(See NURSING, P. 2)
Chairman Asks Entire
CR Commission To Quit
BY CHESTER A. HIGGINS. SR.
NNPA Newt Editor
WASHINGTON, D.C.-In one of the
most bizarre activities of an
organization that has had more than
its share in recent years of loony, off
the-wall events and personalities, the
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights was
asked by its chairman, William
Barclay Allen, to resign en masse
from this “badly fractured” commis
sion that has been “rendered impo
tent.”
Allen’s startling invitation came
after he had replied to 38 questions
in a 83-page document concerning his
arrest at gunpoint on the White Moun
tain, Ariz. Indian Reservation after
allegations that he kidnapped a
14-year-old Apache girl in a
celebrated adoption case, and
queried her “as to where she wished
to live.” The case was brought to
Commissioner Allen’s attention last
year, and he journeyed to the reser
vation with an NBC-TV camera crew
and a commission consultant, Barry
Goodfield, a psychologist, it was
reported.
The case involves Lalita Altaha, 14,
who had been adopted as an infant by
a white couple, Nadine and Normand
Desrochers. She had been returned,
however, under court order last year
to live with her natural mother, Thur
za Altaha. Allen learned that the little
girl had lived with her adoptive
parents off the reservation nearly all
her life, and he wanted to know
whether she had been given a chance
to say where she preferred to live.
In a Keystone Cops-’n’-robbers
caper, Allen, Goodfield and some
AWARD PRESENTED—Thi Quarter Rack Award was presented by T uto
Norman E. Day te YMCA membership chairman, Jehn P. Greene. The award
presented on behalf of the Garner Road YMCA beard of directors was for Greene’s
dedicated and committed service as chairman.
Child Abuse Problems
Growtafl Across U.S.
Child abuse is a serious and grow
ing national problem. More than two
million suspected cases of abuse and
neglect are reported each year.
Several thousand children die as a
result of abuse and neglect annually. ■
Hundreds of thousands of cases are
unreported.
In North Carolina 35,000 suspected
child abuse and neglect cases were
reported last year.
“The first step in preventing child
abuse is education, so we make an ex
tra effort to inform the community
during Child Abuse Prevention Month
in April,” says Vera Khayrallah,
director of the Exchange Club Child
Abuse Prevention Center.
“Citizens can help prevent child
abuse by knowing the warning signs
and how to report a suspected case of
abuse or neglect—it’s up to each of us
to help stop child abuse,” said Ms.
Khayrallah. i
“Through cases such as the highly i
publicized Lisa Steinberg death, we ;
have seen the result of people looking
the other way when it comes to child
abuse. We must each do our part to
ensure that this does not happen in
our community. Individuals are not
held criminally liable for reporting a
suspected child abuse case if the
report is made in good faith—mean
ing without malice," she said.
The Exchange Club Center is one of
a network of 49 Exchange Club
Centers in 26 states and one in Puerto
Rico coordinated by the National Ex
change Club Foundation for the
Prevention of Child Abuse. This year
marks the 10th anniversary of the Na
tional Exchange Club Foundation.
In operation since May 1988, the
local center uses professionally train
ed and supervised volunteer parent
aides to work with families where
abuse has occurred as well as
families considered “at risk.” The
volunteers visit the families at home
to demonstrate proper parenting
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‘White Or Black, I Bring
’Em Back!’ Is His Promise
Special To The CAROLINIAN
Probably the moat famous group of bounty hunter* in the Ignited
States right now is the Special Bureau of Investigation. This unit is
run by Odell Jones, J. Maxx and Larry Sharp. They work out of
Cleveland, Ohio in the Cuyahoga County area, and their car is quite
distinctive in that the license plate says “BOUNTY.”
Odell loves the action and excitement of bounty hunting, and he
said that the ultimate thing to hunt is people. He’s not looking to kill
people, but he likes to stalk them and he likes to catch them and he
likes to make money off them, because the people he specialises in
hunting and catching are felons who have skipped bail and he works
with bail bondsmen.
The “SBI” works under an old law that allows a ball bondsman to
have his agent enter a house without knocking any time of the day or
night and drag out the suspect. It’s based on the philosophy that the
bail bondsman actually owns your body by virtue of putting up the
money for your bail, he is your custodian, and he has to guarantee
your appearance in court. If you don’t show in court, he’s out a lot of
bucks. And if he’s out money, there’s going to be a problem.
There have been some states like Oregon which have virtually
knocked out the ball bondsman svstem and the governor of Oregon
Odell Jones loves the action and excite
ment of bounty hunting, and he said the
ultimate thing to hunt is people. He’s not look
ing to kill people, but he likes to stalk them
and he likes to catch them and he likes to
make money off them.
• •
has been quoted as saying that’s probably been a big mistake
because thy don’t have enough police to be involved in chasing down
people who have skipped ball. If you can get out of a 92,000 bond and
you just make it, the chances of you being caught are relatively slim
unless you run into people like Odell Jones or you get caught for some
other criminal activity and your fingerprints are run.
“Why should these people who are dangerous to the community
be allowed to run around loose and perpetrate more and more
crimes? Most of these people are career criminals who are not going
to be rehabilitated, and the fact that they're out on bail is a unique
aspect of the American justice system, which some may agree with
and some may not. I personally think that it’s not a perfect system,
but it’s by far the best in the world," Jones said.
Jones has all kinds of tricks to catch people. He has a near
photographic mind: He can look at wanted posters, and then nail
people. The people he works with are good. Jones, being black, has
an advantage in that he can go into many areas where white bounty
hunters would have a difficult time. "Let’s face it, with the prison
population being 30 to 40 percent black nationally, there are a higher
percentage of blacks who skip bail than whites,” Jones said. He has
no objections to going after white “skips,” and in Jones’ words,
“White or black, I’m bringing them back.”
(See BOUNTY HUNTER, P. 2)
Educator Puts Faith in Bush As
President And A Friend Of UNCF
GREENSBORO (AP)-After
spfMng at Yale University in 1948,
William J. Trent, Jr. was approached
by a tall, thin student who introduced
himself as George Bush.
Treat, then the executive director
of the United Negro College Fund in
Now York, was spreading the word
about the needs of the country’s
mivate black colleges.
The student standing before him
seemed genuinely interested.
“He told me he knew about the fund
became his father [then a U.S.
senator] had been chairman of the
fund in Connecticut,” Trent recalls.
The conversation was the beginn
ing of a friendship. Trent and Bush
visited in each other’s homes. In 1987,
when Trent received an honorary
doctorate from Livingstone College in
Salisbury, Bush sent a personal note
of congratulations.
The relationship hasn’t slowed just
became Bush has become president
of the United States.
Right after Bush’s election last fall,
the United Negro College Fund in
vited him to address its annual
meeting March 9 in New York. When
the fund received no reply, its leaders
turned to Trent, long retired to
Greensboro.
Trent jotted off a note to Bush.
Trent doubts the note had anything
to do with it, but one thing is certain:
On March 9, Bush delivered the
keynote address at the fund’s dinner.
Trent and his wife, Viola, were seated
nearby.
' A few days before the Bush speech,
a White House staff member called to
invite the Trents to the White House
and to fly with the president on Air
Force One to New York for the
speech.
The Trents had lunch at the White
House, toured the big bouse and pos
ed for photos with the president in the
(See EDUCATOR. P. 2)
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Special To The CAROLINIAN
An Analysis
Convicted last year of a lengthy list
>f forgeries, Deborah W. prepared to
;erve out Her punishment outside a
)rison cell instead of in one.
Her sentence—a “Community Pen
ilties” plan involving financial
*estitution, community service, and
dose supervision—was a wise one.
[)eborah, a 35-year-old mother, is a
ion-violent offender. So, clearly, no
me would benefit by locking up
Deborah and throwing away the key.
Taxpayers wouldn’t benefit, since
putting Deborah behind bars would
:ost a steep $12,000 per year. The vic
tims wouldn’t benefit. And neither
would Deborah herself—because
prison could delay but not defuse her
old patterns.
The reason is that Deborah was
shoplifting and writing bad checks
purely to support a drug habit. For
Deborah, prison would be unlikely to
end that habit, and out on the street
again—sun urug-uepeiiuem—sne
could be expected to return again to
her former crimes.
What Community Penalties offers
Deborah is a new life and ways to
change the old one. Through man
datory attendance at Alcoholics
Anonymous meetings and counseling
at a mental health center, Deborah
today is drug-free and starting col
lege. Lest anyone doubt that she is be
ing “punished,” she is still under dai
ly Intensive Probation. And she is
performing unpaid community ser
vice and paying the victims financial
restitution.
For taxpayers, a Community
Penalties plan costs one-sixth the
price of prison.
Currently, Community Penalties
programs—and happy endings like
Deborah’s—are under way in 13
judicial districts. Judges are ex
pected to approve some 468 such
plans for non-violent offenders like
Deborah this fiscal year.. And in
Raleigh legislators have recently ap
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munity penalties programs, plus
funds for added probation officers,
electronic house arrest and other
prison alternatives.
I hope constituents will join me in
congratulating our lawmakers for
this important step. They have made
a major commitment to community
based sanctions. Prison construction,
however, continues to be the primary
solution to our corrections ills. In
response to a lawsuit that challenged
prison conditions in 49 state prisons,
legislators have voted $48 million for
new prison construction.
They have agreed to a settlement
requiring the state to stop stacking
prisoners three bunks high and to pro
vide SO squre feet per inmate rather
than face costly federal takeover of
our system.
That $48 million expenditure is just
a start. “Over an eight-year period
we will spend $600 million,” predicted
Senate Democratic leader Henson
(See LOCKING UP, P. 2)
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