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VOL. 48. NO. 54
JUNE 8,1989
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MMNC A6EN0A—Southeast RaMgh Community Dovolopment Corpratfee's
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The Southeast Raleigh Community Development Corp. recently
attracted more than 300 concerned citizen* to the Shaw University
campaa to participate in a community development forum.
The purpose of the organisation is to ensure that residents of
Baathaaxt Raleigh are active participants in the economic develop
ment and growth of their own community. The board's charge was to
legalise the organisation, raise money to stabilise it and to determine
hew the community's goals will be achieved.
“Other communities around the country similar to ours with a lot
less than we have are successfully Implementing exciting projects
that are meeting real needs. The one thing they have going for them
is that the community is unified. That’s what we are working toward
here and I see it happening more and more every day," said'Patricia
Funderburk, acting director.
On June 3, the corporation’s first annual meeting was held on the
campus of St. Augustine’s College in Raleigh. The focus was op
creating a plan of action for future development of Southeast Raleigh
and on determining how residents will participate in Implementing
(See ECONOMIC, P 2)
Links Celebrating Anniversary
Ow one hundred guests joined the
Rateigh Chapter of Links, Inc. at the
Capital City Chib in celebration of
(Mr Fortieth Anniversary. Sister
Uakstrom Oreenvile, S.C., Durham,
< Triangle Park, Piedmont, Lake
and Washington, D. C.
were an hand to honor the
^Chapter as one of the 14
original chapters of the National
organization.
Link Lucille Webb, chairman of the
Anniversary Committee welcomed
Link Barbara Moore, Southern Area
Director, who joined Raleigh Chapter
President Hettie Robinson in
bringing greetings to this group
assembled.
Link Webb made, .special
acknowledgment of four qf the
’Counsel Questions
Of Impeachment Inquiry
P¥ CHESTER A. H1UUINH, w.
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WASHINGTON* D.C.-A* the July
10 derive for the beginning of pr*
ceedfn'p by the U S-Senate Impeach
ment Trial Committee againat Judge
Alcee L. Hastings hears, both sides
are apparently gearing up for a
tough, no-holds-barred fight.
What is certain, judging from an in
terview NNPA had with Judge
Hastings’ counsel, Terence J. Ander
son, a University of Miaini Law
School professor in Florida, is that
Hastings, Florida’s first black
federal judge, has no intention of go
ing quietly into the night.
And it's now almost certain that if
he is impeached, black America will
have a bitterly sour taste in its mouth
once more over the quality and
fairness of justice in America where
African-Americans are concerned.
Consider this:
He is the first federal judge in
America'8 200-year judicial history to
have impeachment inquiries into
charges which a jury of his peers had
rejected (most of these charges have
simply been repackaged by a
vengeful group of white judges from
the nth Circuit who appear bait from
the outset on ousting Judge Hastings
from the bench). He is the first in
history to have the House conduct
hearings in an inquiry more than five
years after the charges had been
made ana me evidence aisciosea.
And the House had not conducted an
inquiry into the conduct of any judge,
other than a convicted one, formore
than SO years until Hastings.
For nearly nine years, Judge
Hastings has been battling for Us
judicial life, and there is no end in
sight. And what are the charges
against him? Conspiracy to extort
(See HASTINGS, P. 2)
Investigation Urged
S&L’s Loan Pattern Challenged
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Advocates
Krom CAROLINIAN Staff Keporta
Community organizations taav
asked the federal government to den
an application by Raleigh-based R
Financial Corp. to purchase Fin
Federal Savings and Loan Associa
tion of North Carolina (Sanford) an
Builders Federal; Savings and Loa
Association (Rocky Mount).
These organizations said RS Finaii
cial Corp,, through its subsidiary
Raleigh federal Savings Bank, ha
failed to invest ip low- aiid moderate
income and minority neighborhood
in Raleigh.
The challenge was filed May 30 am
is the first of'its kind inRaleigh am
the third challenge ever filed toiNOrt:
Carolina.
There are no
minorities on the
bank’s board of direc
tors nor on the local
hoards thatadvise the
bahkdncemmunity
needs outside Ral
eigh.
The challenge announced this weel
was filed by the Raleigh Comnuinit:
Reinvestment Committee, and focus
ed on Raleigh Federal’s lendini
record. '
RCRC is affiliated with a non-profi
group made up of African-Americai
pastors, business owners and ad
vocates for low-income and affor
dable housing.
Sterling Goodwin, chairperson o:
the RCRC, said, “Access to loans cat
make or break a neighborhood. Honp
loans combat housing deterioratior
(See ADVOCATES, P. 2)
original 14 charter members wh
were honored during the celebration.
The luncheon keynote speaker, Di
Helen Edmonds, noted historian an
Past National President, electrifie
the audience speaking on the theme
“Enhancing the Legacy—FulfUlin:
the Dream.” She challenged a
service organisations to continue i
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FBI Investigation Off Bill Gray
Seen As Tactic To Derail Career
BY JOE DAVIDSON
NNPA News Service
An Analyei*
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Something,
maybe everything, about the FBI in
vestigation of Bill Gray stinks.
It certainly seems sinister when
agents question the Philadelphia con
; gressman one day and then CBS inac
curately breaks the story the next.
| And it certainly seems more than
’ coincidental that the story breaks
just as Gray is poised to become ma
jority whip in the House of Represen
1 tatives.
The sole intent of whoever leaked
the story—and suspicion among
Gray’s allies centers on the U.S. at
torney in Philadelphia—may have
| been to derail Gray’s political ascent.
For even If no charges are ever prov
ed or even specified, simply brushing
a politician with the brush of corrup
their quest to advocate for causes
that improve the quality of life for all.
the Raleigh Chapter is one of 224
Chapters of the National
organisations founded in 1946 in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The
mission of the organization is carried
out through its four program facets:
Services to yhouth, National Trends
and Services, International Trends
and Services and the Arts.
Headquartered in Washington, O. C.,
the national organization has
contributed more than one million
dollars to the United Negro College
Fund. Other philanthropic efforts
have been channeled to Sickle Cell
Anemia, Research efforts at both
Howard and Meharry Medical
Schools, the Urban League, the
construction of the Ralph Bunch
Memorial, and scholarships to
numerous deserving students. The
current philanthropic thrust is
focused on contributions to the Legal
llhdoftheNAACP.
members present
Ernestine Hamlin,
Harris, Willie O. Kay and
“-\leigh Links
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tion can be politically fatal.
Gray understands that and has
taken early and aggressive offensive
action. He’s meeting with colleagues
to assure them of his integrity and to
hold their support. Shortly after the
CBS broadcast, he strongly denounc
ed it at a news conference. The next
day he wrote to Attorney General
Richard Thornburgh and demanded
the appointment of an independent
counsel to investigate the leaks.
who worked for Faun troy later was
on the Budget Committee payroll,
which Gray formerly chaired, accor
ding to Gray supporters. In the
course of checking out the Savage
situation, the agents followed the trail
of the lawyer to Gray.
All of this may have been
reasonable enough had it not been for
the very suspicious leaks coming at
the time of the Democratic leader
ship contest. With the top two
Gray’s friends believe the congressman
got caught up in an FBI probe involving two
other House members, Walter Fauntroy of
Washington, D.C., and Gus Savage, of
Chicago. The Justice Department won’t
discuss the specifics of the case.
Thornburgh refused and instead in
itiated a department investigation of
itself. The Justice Department won’t
discuss the specifics of the case.
Gray’s friends believe the con
gressman got caught up in an FBI
probe involving two other House
members, Waiter Fauntroy, of
Washington, D.C., and Gus Savage, of
Chicago. The Feds have had an ongo
ing investigation into allegations that
Fauntroy improperly had Savage’s
son on Fauntroy’s D.C. payroll while
the son worked in Chicago. A lawver
Democrats in the House resigning
their leadership posts, Gray is well
positioned to continue what has been
a rapid climb up the political ladder.
That rise has been stalled, but not
necessarily killed, by news of the FBI
investigation. No charges of any
substance against Gray have been
revealed. And while some of his col
leagues may wait to see if anything
serious develops, and that wait could
be costly to Gray, the general feeling
(See GRAY PROBE, P. 2)
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