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i K Alt i,.an inL- <- i o RALEIGH. N. C. VOL. 48, NO. 73 TUESDAY AUGUST 15. 1989 DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST SINGLE COPY t% C IN RALEIGH bJQ ELSEWHERE 300 Combattinq Discrimination Pres. Bush Backs Words With "Action” c , , .. . ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Enrly Indications Are Congressman Leland Did Not Survive Crash After Three Day Suspense Plane Found BY JENNIFER DIXON Auoclatcd Pren Writer EDITOR’S NOTE: In the late*t developments in the search for Rep. Mickey Leland and his party, the plane carrying the party has been located. However, at press time neither Rep. Leland, nor . any members of his delegation had been found. WAShitNtiTUN i Ar*)—with their hands linked and their hearts heavy, dozens of people gathered in inky darkness at the Capitol today to pray Rep. Mickey Leland is found alive in the forbidding reaches of eastern Africa. The faint signal was picked up hy a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration orbiter from an area about 130 miles south-southeast of Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, said embassy spokesman James Haley. Haley said the region is well outside the previous search path followed in the hunt for Leland. The Texas congressman and 13 other people disappeared during a flight on Monday. Becaue of darkness and very rough country around the signal location, Haley said he expected it to be at least several hours before anyone reached the site. In Washington, Jackson sat on the marble steps of the Capitol before the hushed and somber candlelight vigil began and said he was “hoping and hurting.” "Tonight we speak with a sense of hope, for it is midnight here,” said the Rev. Jesse Jackson. “Beyond midnight here is daylight. And we've been taught that weeping may endure for a night, but hold on and hold out. Joy cometh in the morning. ’ ’ Leland, the chairman of the House Select Committee on Hunder, was enroute from Addis Ababa to a refugee camp near the Sudanese border when his plane disappeared Monday morning. Taking off in bad weather, the plane never arrived at its destination 480 miles away, and the pilot’s last radio contact was 15 minutes out of the Ethiopian capital. “We have not had any sign of the plane. There is not the had news of (SeeLEIiAND P 21 AGAINST RACIST VIOLENCE-Christina Davis-McCoy, at microphone, was one of many North Carolinians Against Racist and Religious Violence on hand at the Municipal Building to express concern over the death of Ming Hai Loo, an Asian-american living In Raleigh. Along with Ms. Da vis-McCoy are, from left, H. B. Pickett, Rev. David Foy, Jim Lewis and Willie Pilkington. Loo, a Chinese, was killed by two white men in North Raleigh in what police said was a racist motivated incident. (Photo by Talib Sabir-Calloway) MEETING COUNTY COMMISSIONERS-CommissiQners Minister Barred From Hold’g Meet From CAROMNIAN Staff Rrpom The deacon board of one of Raleigh's most prominent churches and some church members after asking the pastor to develop and put Into place a comprehensive set of policies and guidelines asked the court to bar the minister from holding a congregational meeting last Sunday. A temporary restraining order was issued last week at the request of the Martin Street Baptist Church Board of Deacons which had earlier asked for the resignation of Dr. David C. Forbes. ri Judge Joyce' A. Hamilton issued the restraining order barring a congregational meeting scheduled by the pastor following Sunday services. The deacon board has 35 regular members and two emeritus members and approximately 1,200 members. After vntinp .lulv 23 to oust Dr. (See CHURCH, P.2) Tax Amnesty Legislation To Increase Enforcement North Carolina will implement a tax amnesty program beginning Sept. 1 and ending Dec. 1, according to Helen Powers, secretaryjjf the Department of Revenue. The Depart ment of Revenue expects to raise $20 million in uncollected and delinquent taxes during the 90-day tax amnesty period. North Carolina's lax amnesty pro gram comes as a result of the Fair Share Tax Act of 1989. "This legisla tion gives the Department of Revenue tougher penalties and significantly increased enforcement capabilities that will protect the honest taxpayers and put the burden of responsibility on the dishonest," Powers said. The tax amnesty program will allow the Department of Revenue to increase the tax base by adding to the state's tax rolls those people who have avoided paying taxes and have gone undetected and to collect back taxes that might otherwise not be paid. “The experience of :12 other stales indicates that tax amnesty worn! ’UfeSPIf* two condition; are met Amnesty must be offered as a one tinrte-only opportunity, and the conse quences for non-compliance must b< far greater after amnesty,” Powers said. "The message must be com municated loud and clear that Nortf Carolina is a state that will rtol tolerate willful evasion of tax laws.” Tax amnesty applies to those tax payers who have underpaid, failed tc file returns, and failed to pay taxes. The legislation covers individual in cone, corporate income, arid in tangibles tax; gift tax; withholding sales and use, motor fuels and inspec tion tax; license tax; franchise tax: and inheritance tax. During the 90-Jay amnesty, tax payers may file tax returns and pa) the tax plus interest, without civi penalty or fear of criminal prosecu tion. "Tax evasion is not a victimless (See TAX AMNESTY, P.2) NUL Prcxy Seeks Greater Administration Cooperation BY LARRY A, STILL NNPA News Service WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA)—The 79th Annual National. Urban League conference of 16,000 mostly middle-income civil rights supporters, August 6-9. ended with Jacob, NUL president and chief executive officer. In several tough talking sessions the head of “the country’s most prestigious racial forum” proposed a National Workforce Development plan “to provide jobs for anyone who “My administration is committed to reaching out to minorities, to Striking down barriers to free and open access. We will not tolerate discrimination, bigotry or bias of any kind period...” President George Bush top race-relations experts seeking greater cooperation with President George Bush’s administration after “the Iron Curtain of Reaganism has been lifted,” according to John E. m m ■■m■ nmmmmsmmmmm wants to work” in the next century, released another NUL report documenting historic inequality (See LEADERS, P.2) ■ ..:. .: 'I From CAROLINIAN Staff Reports ' An AlMlyds the number of women In North Carolina’s Workforce grows daily >«d will continue to grow as the state grows and yet this major force today struggles against the problems of inequitable wages and sex based discrimination. It would be incorrect to understand pay equity as only a woman’s issue. It is a race issue, a family issue and a woman’s issue...” Dr. Donald Tomaskovic-Devey _ Nearly half of the state’s workers are women and over half working mothers have children age six. These women earn only cents lor every dollar white men earn. Sandy Babb and Jane Pinsky with the NC Equity said f‘that’s just six cents better than in 1939. As a result, while women head 25 percent of all households in the state. (See SEGREGATION, P. 2) •S3 MSt NATIONAL BLACK USA-AprU WHson, Mist I his bscoms • cslsbrtty spoksspsrson tor Coca-Cola •ppoarancos on boholt of the hotting company, mm Influential Afrlcan-Amorlcan organisations. Tho 20-yaar-oM University of Virgin!, coot wH appear on behalf of Coca-Cola USA at malar eenferartces, Includlni PUSH Ixpa, NAACP, National Urban League and tho national championships o th«U.S. Youth Samos. suit Writer Sages tell us to “turn the other cheek, an eye (or an eye, and thou shall not kill, but we have also learned that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. These statements have helped form the foundation of what our lives and laws evolve around. However, such excerpts are contradictory in themselves. How can one life be equated with that of another? If we have told ourselves that it is wrong to kill even lawfully, therefore, two wrongs do not make a right or change one wrong into something more satisfactory for its victims, those against capital punishment argue. Dr. Carol McBrine, North Carolina State Death Penalty Coordinator along with Ken Hennis, Prison and Jail Project Rep., in an interview with The CAROLINIAN said they are both members of Amnesty International, USA. In conjunction with other volunteers and members of Amnesty they work for the immediate and unconditional release of prisoners all over the world. They said these are prisoners who have been imprisoned unjustly for non violently expressing their beliefs, ethnic origin, religion or language. Dr. Brine pointed out that "they are looking for a fair and prompt trial of | poetical prisoners and to totally , abolish the torture, treatment and \ death of any prisoner. | She also indicated that they are i currently in, the middle of a . worldwide campaign to get the death penalty abolished. Forty percent of the countries in the world today have ■bnlished capitol punishment and the still executes prisoners and Russia and China are also included in that number,” she said. Hennis has a dual role in the same organization and is involved with the Raleigh chapter which was formed in 1961, and is primarily responsible for Amnesty. Amnesty International was started in 1961 in London where it is still headquartered today. Their real growth of Amnesty has been steady and in 1977 they won the Nobel Peace Prize. Also, 1977 was the same year in passed the death penalty. Hennis points out that “no one can be brought back to life without the intervention of the Almighty. Life in prison allows the possibility of somethins positive, beyond mere (See DEATH PENALTY, P. 2) MEETING COUNTY COMMISSIONERS-Commisslonen from across tha stats mot at the Raleigh Civic Cantor am saw demonstrations •( various exhibits. At tlw N r Division of S rvlcas for tho MM booth Ola Bannatt, right, shows JacquiNno Court of OraavMa County dovlcos that holp iho bird In ovaryday Ufa. (Photo by Tallb Sabir aIIaiuauI •lalHOWif;
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