EVERETT WARD
Everett Ward Says
For Party Members
Doors Remain Open
Uirn Speaker jMtphjr L. Mivntk mat with Male Democratic
Chahnnaa E. Lawreace Davie U and complained a boat how he wai
treated at the Jeffeneo-Jackeon Day event.
Mavretk waa apeet becaaee he thought hie wile would not have a
eeat at the head table with him daring dinner. Mavretlc, an
Edgecombe Coanty Democrat, said he never received a letter
assorlng a place at the head table.
Mavretle requested a meeting with Davis and his top staff,
ladadlag Everett B. Ward, the party’s acting executive director and
Charles peels, chairman of the Jeffersoo-Jacksoa Day. Mavretk Is
the third ranking official la the state and the confrontation that has
bean saggeeted did not arise from not having a seat at the head table,
according to Ward.
Ward said the Democratk Party seat to the Speaker’s office a
letter dated April 7 iavttiag Mavretk and Ms wife to be at the head
table. “Uatartanately the speaker’s staff never communicated to
Mm that this letter kad been received. Once Ms staff made contact
with ear office, they were told before 1 p.m. on the Saturday of the
r that be was at the head table and that a letter had been sent to
"It Is dear that It needs to be understood that the original intent of
the Jefferson Jachsea Day committee, chaired by Mr. Charles Poole
was to have Mr. Mavretk and Ms wife at the head table,’’ Ward said.
“We had a vary successful Jefferson-Jacksen weekend. We had a
very successful dinner that evening. It has been and will continue to
be ear poBey to keep the doors lor democratk officials open,” Ward
Legion's Post Elects
First Woman Officer
BY JCWWT.MOOBR JR.
The Charles T. Norwood Post of the
American Legion ended its fiscal
{year meeting on May 21 at its bead
quarters on 416 E. Cabarrus St. For
ttaajbrst time in the history of this
post, the membership voted
laaaimmiilj for Comrade Margaret
Snafflng of 5512 Burnee Place of
{Weigh to be vice commander for
1MM0.
Comrade Snelling is a veteran of
World War II, and the wife of Com
rade Herman Snelling of this post and
a counselor at the North Carolina
Employment Office. This post was
chartered in 1921 by Lt. Lawrence Ox
jkgr, formerly of Washington, D.C.
The oldest living member today is
put poet commander Charles G. Irv
ing, Sr. of 615 East St., who is a World
War I veteran.
The other new officer elected was
Comrade Leonard Williams as the
poet chaplain., Rev. Williams is
paste* of the Union Baptist Church in
Raleigh. Dm following officers were
re elected for another term: Julius R.
•Haywood, commando-; Robert Up
perman, second vice commander;
Alfonso Williams, adjutant; Louis
Dunbar, finance officer; and Calvin
P. Sapps, sergeant-at-arms. Com
rade John Thompson Moore, Jr., is
the assistant to the adjutant and
public relations officer.
“For God and Country” is.the
-slogan of this largest veteran,
organization in America. Its current
'membership is more than 2.6 million,
which includes members of all races,
classes and sexes. It was founded in
Paris, France in 1916.
The post also elected delegates to
the 1989 state Legion convention
which will be held at the North
Raleigh Hilton Inn in June. The
delegates are Commander Haywood
|and Adjutant Williams and the alter
nates are Vice Commander Snelling
and this writer.
Other businesson the agenda in
cluded a discussion on plans for the
third annual banquet, to be held this
year. Commander Haywood urged all
(See LEGION POST, P. 8)
Policies And Funding
Quayle Says
Education Gives Hope
Supporting private, historically
black collages ranked high on the list
of priorities for Vico President Dan
Quayls, Son. Edward M. Kennedy
(D-Maas.), and Rep. Augustus “Guo”
Hawkins (D-Callf.) recently.
Aft«r delivering the commence*
mont address and accepting an
honorary doctorate from Fiak
University, the vice preaident was an
honored guest at a special congres
sional luncheon, saluting black
higher education on the occasion of
the United Negro College Fund’s 10th
•“*' ‘‘Lou Rawls Parade of
Vice President Quayle shared his
views with guests at a luncheon
hosted by Sen. Kennedy and Rep.
Hawkins and attended by television
hosts Lou Rawls, Marilyn McCoo,
Clint Holmes and Nancy Wilson;
UNCF President Christopher F.
Edley^n^Vayma^toito^ice
president, corporate affair*,
Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.
Quayle said that “A child without
an education is a child without hope.”
He asserted that the Bush ad
ministration would live to its com
mitment to expand educational op
portunities through poUdes and fun
ding—not rhetoric.
n»e presidents of UNCP’s 43
member colleges, leaders of black
organisations, Congressional Black
on tjiw and
ana me House
Committee on Education ,wi* Labor,1
wore among seme 300 luncheon at
tendees. Dr. Ted Sanders,
undersecretary for the Department
of Education; Dr. Ruth Hall, interim,
director of the Black College In-*
itiatlve and Lou Rawls, Nancy
Wilson, Marilyn McCoo, Billy Davis,
Jr. and CUnt
Known by its motto, “A Mind is a
Terrible Thing to Waste,’* the UNCF
for the black
I winron of the
on Labor
Human Resources, and Rep.
of the House
for
(See UNCP SUPPORT, P.3)
Senate Leaders Supporting
Goals; Jackson Hits Crime
BY LARRY A. STILL
NNPAMotSwvIw
WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Senate
Majority Leader George Mitchell
(D-Mass.) joined many of the
nation’s African-American political
leaders in paying tribute to Bethune
DuBois honorees Marian Wright
Edelman, president of the Children’s
Defense Fund, and Denocratic Na
tional Committee Chairman Ronald
H. Brown here in the Capitol.
“If a guy can run for the national
chairman and lose and get to be
Senate leader, imagine what can hap
pen to a guy who wins [in .his first
■
campaign],” Mitchell declared in
predicting diet Brown’s election as
the first African-American head of a
major political party would be the
first of many political achievements.
The senator referred to Ms early ef
forts to become BNC chairman when
be was supported by die party’s black
caucus headed by C. Delores tucker
and former Gary Mayor Richard Hat
cher.
Mitchell also praised Edelman on
her efforts for congressional passage
of an effective child care bill as he
pledged the party’s support in the
Senate to "the goals and objectives of
African-American*.” Dorothy
Height, president of the National
Association of Negro Women, found
ed by Mary McLeod Bethune,
presented the coveted award to
Edelman and Rep. Major Owens
(D-N.Y.) made the presentation to
Brown, “a possible future president.”
The awards were also named for Dr.
W.E.B. DuBois, noted scholar and an
early member of the NAACP.
Other key participants included
representatives Floyd Flake
(D-N.Y.) and Donald Payne
(See LEADERS, P. 2)
The Carolinian
RALEIGH. N.C.
VOL. 48. NO. 51
TUESDAY.
MAY 30.1989
N.C.'s Semi-Weekly
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Police Drug Deals
Drug Ring Exposed
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Attorneys
Say No To
Joint Trial
Attorneys for Adam Abdul-Hakeem
(formerly Larry Davis) won a
critical victory in a pre-trioal hearing
in Manhattan last week.
Before a packed courtroom of sup
porters, including independent
mayoral candidate Dr. Lenora
Fulani, presiding Judge Richard
Lowe ruled that the defendant would
be tried separately instead of
alongside Harold McKelVey, another
Bronx youth charged in the murder of
a suspected drug dealer.
In addition, the Judge admitted at
torneys Harry Kresky and Alvaader
Frazier as co-counsel for the defense,
and agreed that Abdul-Hakeem
should receive immediate and in
dependent medical attention. .
It was-Abdut-Hakeem’s attorney's
contention that a Joint trial would
have resulted in conflicting defenses.
They charged that McKelvey, caught
in the police drug-ring exposed by
Abdul-Hakeem, would be forced to
make a deal with the prosecution that
would have brought false testimony
against their client.
Kresky was admitted to the case as
New York counsel. Ms. Frazier,
director of the International People’s
Law Institution, had been awaiting
Judge Lowe’s decision since April 30
when lead counsel Michael Warren
applied for her inclusion as co
counsel at Abdul-Hakeem’s request.
This legal mechanism allows a judge
to admit an attorney requested by a
defendant into a case whether the at
torney is licensed to practice law in a
given state or not. Bis. Frazier is
licensed in California.
Ms. Frazier said that before the end
of the week counsel would make a for
mal request to the Department of
Corrections to have their client ex
amined by outside physician Dr.
(See DRUG DEALER. P. 3)
Issue Needs Dialogue
Itl
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AaAaalytfa
As a professor at Shaw University
for a number of years, I have taught
.. Palestinian students. Their stories
have been heard; the issues have
been studied; the news reports have
been analysed. I have also shared a
home with an Israeli military officer;
his story has also been beard ; his con
cern about security has been duly
noted. It is important—but so is
justice/mercy.
This summer, three students of
Palestinian origins have enrolled in 5
social science class. With the recent
statement of Secretary of State
James Baker, the personal stories of
my students, and general reading of
the Middle East conflict, it seems
clear that human rights abuses
against the Palestinians bteawee of
the Israelis’ i«u«u.»g of foe
occupied territories (1M7) must be
resolved.
A leading church group (ELCA
Church Council) Ms documented
then slmscs as detention without
trial, dosing of schools, denial of ac
cess to health care, deportations, and
the use of live ammunition and
plastic bullets in response to non-life
threatening situations (The
Lutheran, May 34,1983). Further, the
student goes on, “Sinful comphdty of
Lutherans/Chrisitans in the past in
the face of a trod ties previously com
mitted against the Jewish people can
not lead us into silence now.”
My Jewish friend and my Palesti
nian friend both need to cooperate.
When Abraham died, Isaac and
Ishmael, as forebears of my Mends,
worked together in a solemn project
of Abraham’s burial. If they worked
together as kinfolk then, they can do
it again. The Middle East and the
world are waiting for that kindly con
figuration of brothers/sisters to
work.
The issues of a people, a land, war,
peace, and blessing are tied into that
vision. The Jewish and Palestinians
both want peace—like the people in
America—my Mend, the Jewish of
ficer and Palestinians; like
Americans, they want democracy,
Justice, and freedom. With this drive
for reconciliation and with its Geoeeis
precedent of cooperation at
Abraham’s burial, peace prospects
can be enhanced.
Finally, to further the cause of fair
justice, it is imperative that tbs
Public Broadcasting System air
(See ISRAELI, P. 2)
BY DANIEL MABOLEN*-1
NNPA New* Service
“Discretion,” says an old English
adage, “is the better part of valor.”
How true, indeed, is this old proverb.
And the leaders of the Southwest
Africa People’s Organization and
other African liberation movements
all agree with this saying, whoael
wisdom has always led mankind toj
great victories against extreme odds.
Early on, during the fury of World!
War n, Great Britain, at the height of
its greatness, withdrew its invasion
army of France back to England dur-:
ing the darkness of a memorable!
night in history. But, with courage,
Great Britain regrouped and return-:
ed to Europe with military backing;
from the United States and other,
allies to annihilate Hitler’s forces and!
win World War II. j
Recently, SWAPO found itself in a
similar predicament as Great Britain
on that dark night during World War
II. SWAPO freedom fighters rushed
home from exile, but were met byj
South African troops at the border of
their country, which has suffered U-;
legal occupation by the apartheid
regime for many years. Hie South
African forces massacred these peo
ple returning home for national!
felicitations over their impending
liberation. All tokl, 963 Namibians,
who were happily crossing the
border, were massacred. At the same
time, a United Nations liberation unit
was heeding for Namibia to imple
ment the Security Council's Resolu
tion 4S9 of 1978, which called for that
country’s independence. Like Greet
Britain on that historic night, SWAPO
and its friends have agreed to
withdraw from their own country,
returning to exile in Angola. It is;
valorous to use the word “discretion”!
when people are warring against;
racist South Africa who only believe
in violence and aenocide.
Now in [dace in Namibia, UNTAG!
is moving forward to implement!
Namibia’s independence on April l.i
(See INSIDE AFRICA, P. 2)
$150 Million
Earmarked For
School Projects
As the temperatures climbs to the
100* mark sod the humidity does the
seme, seme of our state’s school
children are in for a little
relief—thanks to the General
Assembly.
Monies from a fund created in lM7j
to renovate or replace the state’s sg-j
ing school facilities have been used to|
air-condition part or all of U school*
all around North Carolina. Thor
children affected will join a growing
number of North Carolina school
students who can no longer claim the
boat as a distraction from reading,
writing and ’rithmetic.
But ali^conditioning schoolrooms i»
Just on*' use for Public School
Building Capital Fund monies.
Thirty-eight other school shave
(See PROJECTS, P. l)
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