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VOL. 48, NO. 71
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N. C. Minority Business Hails Hardaway
BY DANIEL MAROLEN
An Analysis
Aa minister of the Native Affairs
Department, and before he became
South Africa’s prime minister, Hen
(drik F. Verwoerd Ordered all white
civil servants in his department
never to shake hands with Africans.
He considered shaking hands with
Africans as signifying equality. But,
Verwoerd lived to shake hands with
Africans before his assassination in
his parliament in 1966. And, in more
recent days, President P.W. Botha
relegated Africans to the status of
non-people, non-citizens and non
participants in the running of their
country, South Africa. And he only
dealt with their leader, the 27-year
imprisoned Nelson Mandela, as a jail
ed prisoner. Botha, like Verwoerd,
accorded Africans the status of in
feriority. Botha’s infamous ethnic
oriented “tri-cameral parliament”
took away all citizenship rights from
the Africans.
Last week’s invitation by President
Botha to Nelson Mandela, leader of
the African National Congress, to an
agendaless meeting was a most
mind-boggling event. No one ever
dreamed that an event like that would
occur. But, like Verwoerd, the ar
chitect of institutionalized apartheid,
Botha, the architect of South Africa’s
political monstrosity, apartheid
tricameral parliament, surprised all
of mankind by dragging aging
Mandela from his custody to have tea
with him in the presidential palace of
(See INSIDE AFRICA. P. 2)
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Gridiron
Star Gets
Probation
CHENEY, Wash. (AP)-Running
back Percy Moorman, kicked off the
Oregon State football team after he
was convicted of telephone harass
ment, apparently won’t be eligible to
play football at Eastern Washington
this fall.
Moorman had been projected as the
starting tailback for Oregon State.
After he was kicked off the team he
contacted Eastern Washington about
transferring there, and Coach Dick
Zomes said last Wednesday he’d be
interested in having Moorman play
for the Eagles of the Big Sky Con
ference if he’s eligible this fall.
NCAA regulations, however, re
quire transfer students to sit out a
year before they can play for another
NCAA school.
Rick Evrard, director of
Legislative Services at NCAA head
quarters in Mission, Kan., said Moor
man is subject to the one-year
residence requirement for transfer
unless he qualifies for a waiver.
“In his case, he doesn’t seem to
qualify for a waiver and I don’t think
he’ll be able to play this year,”
Evrard said.
Hal Cowan, sports information
director at Oregon State, said he
doubted Moorman could play at
Eastern Washington this fall.
“The way I understand it, our
associate director Jack Davis told
Moorman he would help him transfer
to an NAIA school," Cowan said.
“Whatever is going on regarding
(See MORMON, P.2)
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Louisiana St's 1st Black
Qrad Now Poet Laureate
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP)-Pinky
Gordon Lane, the first black woman
to earn a doctorate at Louisiana State
University, is now Louisiana’s first
black poet laureate.
Her three volumes of published
verse are “Wind Thoughts,” “I Never
Scream” and “The Mystic Female,”
which was nominated for a Pulitzer in
1879. She is widely published in
magazines periodicals iwoimHwg
Southern Review, Ms., Black Scholar
and Black Literature Forum.
’The poet laureste represents the
highest achievement, past and pre
sent, in poetry in our state,” Gov.
Buddy Roomer said during a
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ceremony last Wednesday in his of
fice. “Our poet laureate has a well
earned reputation established on the
national and state levels.”
Roemer said Lane’s selection cap
ped Louisiana’s first systematic
search limited to poets of recognized
stature. In the past, lawmakers could
use the post as a political plum, he
said.
Lane, a native of Philadelphia,
came to Baton Rouge in I9M when
her husband, Ulysses, accepted a
position in Southern University’s
education department. She joined the
(See POET, P.2)
BLACK PASTOR INSTALLED-St. Joseph's Catholic
Church witnessed the instaHoMon of the second African
American pastor in the Poartree Lane church’s history
Saturday. The Reverend Jevan J. Saxon is seen here
reciting the Rites of Installation during Saturday mass.
Raleigh native, Rev. Thomas P. Hadden, was St. Joseph’s
first black pastor. (See Thursday Edition For Story.)
Martin Street Baptimt To Hoet
L000 Lott Carey Conventioneers
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host approximately 4,000 Lott Carey
foreign mission conventioners from
Aug. 28-Sept. 1. All convention
business and general sessions will be
held at the Civic Center, and the
Radisson will serve as the host hotel.
Nine other hotels throughout Raleigh
will be the temporary home of the
guests.
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founded more than 90 years ago in
Sierra Leone, West Africa by a
former Virginia slave. Humanitar
ianism—the ability to respond to
human needs anywhere in the
world—is one of the major objectives
of this Christian organization. Cur
rently, more than 136 missionaries
serve in Guyana, India, Kenya,
D. C. Police Chief Goes
To Republican Party
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Retiring
District of Columbia Police Chief
Maurice T. Turner, Jr., a lifelong
member of the Democratic Party,
last week announced his decision to
become a member of the GOP.
Turner cited President Bush’s per
sonal commitment to a “kinder,
gentler” nation and a new day in civil
rights, and specifically lauded the
president’s tough stance against
crime and drugs and the party’s com
mitment to policies which encourage
minority entrepreneurship.
“Under Democratic leadership, the
problems faced by urban America
have continued to worsen,” said
Turner. “The Republican Party is a
progressive party with new ideas and
is now the best able to bring
America’s cities back to life. It’s time
for a change, and it’s a change in
which I want to participate.”
Turner, whose tenure as chief of
police was highlighted by the suc
cessful implementation of the Repeat
Offenders Program which targets
career criminals and organized
crime, joins more than 120 state and
local elected officials from across the
country who have switched to the
Republican Party in recent months.
Republican National Committee
Chairman Lee Atwater hailed
Turner’s decision, and parised the
chief for his “political courage” and
his long-standing commitment to law*
and-order and civil rights.
“Maurice Turner's decision to
switch to the Republican Party shows
that we are the party best equipped to
meet the challenges facing America’s
cities,” said Atwater. “His commit
ment to his ideals should serve as an
inspiration to others ready to join our
cause.”
Turner, a lifelong D.C. resident and
third-generation Washingtonian, join
ed the Distirct police force as a foot
patrolman when black officers were
not allowed to ride in patrol cars. He
has long been recognized as one of the
city government’s most devoted pro
ponents of civil rights. During the
civil unrest of the late 1960s, he serv
(See SWITCHES, P. 2)
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station is headed by a native of the
respective country. Some stations
have a leprosarium, a health facility
designed and equipped to serve those
afflicted with leprosy.
The major organizational com
ponents and their respective
presidents are: Women’s Auxiliary,
Ms. Virginia Turner; Layman’s
League, John Cooley; and Youth
Organization, Ms. Kimberly Watson.
Dr. Wendell Sommerville is ex
ecutive secretary of the national
organization, and Dr. John Foster
serves as president. The national of
fice is located in Washington, D.C.
Financial support is provided by
patrons—individuals, church con
gregations and local conferences and
conventions. In recent years, patrons
have given more than $1.25 million in
support of this organization’s goals.
Dr. Sommerville expects mis
sionaries to do something TO people,
(See 4,000, p. 2)
Legislator
Gets Advocate
Of Yr. Award
Rep. Thomas Hardaway
(D-Halifax) was named the North
Carolina Association of Minority
Businesses, Inc.’s “Advocate of the
Year” for his work during the 1989
session of the General Assembly at its
eighth annual banquet held recently
in Durham. Virginia’s Lt. Gov. L.
Douglas Wilder, currently a can
didate for governor, was the keynote
speaker at the banquet whose theme
was “Inclusion in the 1990s.”
Rep. Hardaway was recognized for
his efforts to sponsor and work for
passage of legislation to promote
economic development in the minori
ty business community. In accepting
the award, Rep. Hardaway stated,
“Today, you honor me more than you
know, for I have dedicated a large
part of my time to working for
minority economic development in
North Carolina. As chairman of the
House Subcommittee on Highway
Finance, my subcommittee sup
ported a provision to establish a 10
percent goal for minority business
participation in the $8.6 billion
highway program.”
Hardaway added, “This provision
is tantamount to the State of North
Carolina issuing a check made
payable to the North Carolina minori
ty business community in the amount
of almost $900 million. Our challenge
now is to develop the capacity within
the minority business community
that will enable us to cash the check.”
Rep. Hardaway went on to say that
he accepted the award “on behalf of
the countless numbers of individuals
who have preceded me and without
whose efforts I could not have ad
vanced the interests of the minority
business community.”
" . ..
BALTIMORE, Md. (AP)-Former
heavyweight boxer Reginald Gross,
who once faced heavyweight cham
pion Mike Tyson, is now facing three
life sentences for the contract killings
of three men.
“You fell from a most promising
career as a boxer,” U.S. District
Judge Paul V. Niemeyer said while
imposing the maximum sentence last
Thursday. “Unfortunately, you
elected a life in which you were
subsequently to pursue some of the
most brutal crimes."
Two of the life terms are con
secutive, which means that Gross will
not be eligible for parole for at least
(See STUNNED. P.2)