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Project Phoenix Attacks Drugs
‘Housing Crisis Seen As Time Bomb'
Leaders
Joining
In Fight
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Some leaders and politicians are
joining the ranks of support for affor
dable housing and are calling for an
end to the crisis in the country before
a "time bomb” goes off in early 1990.
In a special report on Hispanics and
blacks, “The Crisis in Housing for the
Poor," by Edward B. Lazere and
Paul A. Leonard with the Center on
Budget and Policy Priorities in
Washington, D.C., it was claimed that
more than three of every four poor
Hispanic and black households in the
United States are unable to find affor
dable housing.
In 1985, there were 1.4 million poor
Hispanic households and 3.4 million
poor black households in the United
States (the poverty line in 1985 was
$8,573 for a family of three).
A substantial number of these poor
households devoted extremely large
(See HOUSING, P. 2)
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INSIDE
AFRICA
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ONAMUTAYL, Namibia—Father
Immanuel Shaalulange remembers
the scene like it was yesterday. A
fierce battle between the South
African Defense Force and guerrillas
of the South West Africa People’s
Organization had ended with SADF
retreating in defeat.
Lees than two hours of eerie silence
would grip this rural village. And
then armored vehicles would be
everywhere, ploughing over fields,
■hooting wildly, moving down
anything in the way. The SADF rein
forcements, known as Koevoet, had
arrived.
Shaalulange recalls that three
South African casspirs moved like
large beasts, grinding their massive
wheels over fences, through crops,
crashing into homesteads.
Inside one small thatched home
was a young pregnant woman, clut
ching her three-year-old daughter
Saline. Huddled beside them was
another older woman who had
escaped the gunfire. The wheels of
the casspir didn’t stop grinding until
they bad slammed into the home,
mercilessly crushing all the frighten
ed victims inside.
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Religious Terrorism
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tolerance and bigotry are increasing
on college campuses and gaining
momentum in business and
neighborhoods, according to human
rights organizations.
Worse, officials warn that if the at
mosphere doesn’t change and people
don’t resolve their differences, tur
moil could spill out into the nation’s
streets—perhaps worse than it did 25
years ago.
Locally, a noose was discovered in
the Lakewood backyard of Dr. Martin
Glassman, at the time leading a peti
tion to upgrade zoning for bouses of
worship in the township.
Lakewood Mayor Jerry Greenberg
told Glassman he was upset:
“There’s hate in this town,” he said.
In a separate incident, police made
an arrest after a series of incidents in
which swastikas were painted on
garage doors in Holiday City at
Berkeley.
In New Jersey, statistics about
religious or racial bigotry were rare
ly available in the past.
But former state Attorney General
Cary Edwards implemented a new
reporting system; Municipal police,
on a monthly basis, report all racial
or religious terrorism to the New
Jersey State Police Information
Crime Report.
According to the Anti-Defamation
League of B’nai B’rith’s 1988 year
end statistics for New Jersey, there
were 67 anti-Semitic-related van
dalism cases, an increase of nearly
one-third over 1987.
Ethnoviolence—or “hate
crimes’’—is any suspected or con
firmed offense or unlawful act which
happens to a person or property on
More School Systems Participate
In Preschool Screening In State
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the year literally in the dark.
The kindergarten students, busy
groups of five- to six-year-olds, do not
come with records or past histories in
hand. Only time, the teacher’s
Intuitiveness and past experience
help in finding each student’s
strengths and weaknesses. There are
methods, however, for kindergarten
teachers to learn more about their
students' strong points before the
school year is fully underway.
Nineteen of the 134 school systems
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preschool screening programs,
designed to help kindergarten
teachers pinpoint students’ strengths
and weaknesses early. For the past
three years, a different set of 19
school systems piloted the preschool
screening program with funding from
the General Assembly. Under the
state’s Basic Education Program, ap
proved by the legislature in 1985, all
school systems are required to pro
vide preschool screening programs
by 1992-93.
kindergarten teachers information
about each new student's
developmental level and the students’
strengths and weaknesses. School
systems choose from a variety of
standard screening tests, but most
tests include skipping, throwing, jum
ping and catching, which
demonstrate motor skills. Cognitive
skills are measured by asking
children to perform tasks such as
looking at a card illustrating blocks in
formation. The children are then ask
ed to reconstruct the shape with ac
tual blocks. The children also may be
asked to repeat lists of numbers, fill
in “missing” parts of pictures of
faces, give their full name and ad
dress or perform other activities.
Charlotte Barnes, a consultant on
early childhood education at the
Department of Public Instruction,
stresses that parents of kindergarten
students should remember the
screening is not a test. The screening
is a device that helps kindergarten
teachers design programs to reach
each student in their class, she adds.
Children are not graded. In fact,
there is no such thing as a “perfect"
score, and many activities in the
screening have no “correct” or “in
correct” answers.
“The parents’ attitude makes a dif
ference in how children perform,”
she says. “If parents talk about the
screening as something fun, children
generally see it as fun. This may be
the first experience a child has with
school, so parents and teachers want
it to be a positive one.”
To help make it positive, Barnes
suggests that parents should not tutor
their children to try and “improve”
their screening performance. This
could only make the children ner
vous.
“At the most, a parent might ask
the child his address and full name to
familiarize him with saying it aloud,"
she says. “Tutoring a child to do oar
(See PRESCHOOL, P. 2)
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the basis of race, color, creed,
ethnicity or religion.
“Statistically, [ethnoviolence] has
intensified. Even name calling is on
the upsurge,” said Df. Robert Freda,
of the National Conference of Chris
tians and Jews. “It seems to be more
prevalent on college campuses.”
New Jersey is one of 42 states with
hate crime laws. Federal laws fine a
person up to $250,000 and/or 10 years
in prison if convicted of causing
$10,000 in damage to a religious in
stitution or cemetery, or causing
anyone serious bodily harm while
that person is trying to exercise
religious freedom.
Meanwhile, recent Supreme Court
decisions have unraveled laws that
went into effect during the height of
the civil rights movement, said Anita
Lockerman, president of the
Lakewood NAACP.
In a recent court decision involving
a Virginia corporation and a worker,
a minority hiring program known as
“set-aside” was said to be unconstitu
tional, she said.
Another court decision now places
the burden of proving discrimination
on the person who claims the
discrimination, instead of asking the
corporation or business to prove that
they were not discriminatory.
“Soon a person will be able to file
(See R\( 1AI TURMOILF 2)
Model
Meals
BY MARY CORPREW
Contributing Writer
What is a volunteer? One definition
describes a volunteer as “one who
gives of himself or herself freely and
unselfishly in an effort to be of ser
vice for the betterment of the com
munity.”
George Coburn and Ms. Dorothy
Sanders are two special individuals
■vho are indeed model volunteers,
rhey both display a love for helping
people. They have given of their time
ind energy happily as volunteers for
i non-profit organization-Meals on
Wheels of Wake County. Meals on
Wheels delivers hot meals Monday
;hrough Friday to the disabled and
he frail homebound elderly.
Coburn is a native of North
Carolina and has lived here in
italeigh’s Rochester Heights for
nany years. He has taught school
ind has served in an administrative
opacity for the North Carolina
school system upon returning in 1983.
t was during the early stages of his
-etirement that he noticed that he had
i lot of extra time on his hands that
irompted him to get involved with
deals on Wheels. Currently, he
lerves as chairman of the board for
“Floating
Patrol” In
Communities
An interagency approach for a
comprehensive attack on the sale of
drugs and on conditions which are
conducive to drug usage has been
launched by government groups.
Mayor Avery C. Upchurch and Lt.
Gov. Jim Gardner announced the new
antidrug pilot program called “Pro
ject Phoenix” with the N.C. Drug
Cabinet, Raleigh Police Department,
Raleigh Parks and Recreation
Department, Raleigh Housing
Authority, Drug Action of Wake
County, citizen and neighborhood
groups, and the Raleigh Human
Resources Department.
City and state officials met with
residents of public housing com
munities across the city at Chavis
Heights Community Center.
Chavis Heights residents have ex
pressed alarm at the growing in
cidence of drug-related activity in
their neighborhood. Mayor Upchurch
said Project Phoenix will be im
plemented in all 16 public housing
communities in Raleigh.
The purpose of the program is to
reduce drug sales and use in the
public housing communities. The pro
ject will include an anonymous drug
(See PROJECT PHOENIX, P. 2)
Cocaine Seen
As Cause For
More Robberies
Attorney General Lacy H. Thorn
burg last week released crime
statistics for 1968 in North Carolina
and said, “The most significant in
crease was in robbery, a most vicious
type of theft involving taking
anything of value from a person by
force or threat of force.”
Thornburg attributed the 18 per
cent jump in robberies to the “grow
ing traffic in cocaine, especially
crack cocaine. Drug users often
resort to robbery to finance their ad
diction.”
Drug arrests for sale and posses
sion increased 19 percent for persons
under 18 and 29 percent for those 18
and over. In 1988, sales of cocaine in
creased by almost 73 percent and law
enforcement agencies in North
Carolina made 23,643 arrests for all
drug offenses.
Violent crimes as a whole were up
six percent in 1988 over 1987 and pro
perty crimes were up just over 6 Vi
percent.
(See ROBBERIES, P. 2)
the volunteer program as well as be
ing an active volunteer delivering
meals.
Coburn remraks that helping peo
ple less fortunate than himself has
many rewarding aspects. He
especially enjoys s»ino »>>• of
some of the elderly
M8. DOROTHY GEORGE
SANDERS COBURN
delivers meals brighten up when he
appears with their hot meals. He
knows that they are homebound, and
seeing a cheerful face means a lot
Coburn encourages others to became
volunteers in any community m.
gram they fed could be of service
(See VOLUNTEERS, P 8)