RALEIGH, N.C.
VOL. 48. NO. 87
TUESDAY
OCTOBER 3,1989
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Wake Opportunities Receive Buildina Funds
MRS. D. ALLEN FREEMAN
Wake County Opportuniies Inc. has
received a federal loan to build
housing for the low-income elderly in
Holly Springs, Fourth District
Congressman David Price announced
today.
The U. S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development made the
$824,700 loan to Wake County
Opportunities. The loan will finance
the construction of 17 apartments
designed for the low-income elderly
and handicapped, Price said. Wake
County Opportunities is a non-profit
agency that provides a variety of
social services for Wake County’s
needy, including Head Start
programs, housing and fuel
assistance and programs for the
homeless and under direction of Mrs.
Dorothy Allen Freeman.
“This is the kind of project that I’c
like to see duplicated across Nortl
Carolina,” said Price, who sent £
1®9*T of endorsement to HUE
afnwfls, urging them to support the
projetf.. “We need more local
conWnunity-based groups working tc
provide affordable housing for low
income families. It’s critical that
Congress, state and local
governments work together with the
private and non-profit sectors
provide housing opportunities for
everyone.”
Dorothy Freeman, the head of
Wake County Opportunities, said she
was pleased to receive the loan. “This
is a milestone in the 25-year year
history of Wake County
Opportunities, and a milestone for
low-income people,” she said.
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I Construction is slated to begin on tnt
i project in the next 18 months.
Another project, Wake County Job
Training Office, will receive $153,184
from the U. S. Department of Labor
to operate an employment and
training program to aid the homeless
Secretary of Labor Elizabeth Dole
announced.
Utilizing an individualized case
management approach, the project
emphasizes homeless families.
Employment and training activities
directed at homeless persons 14
years and older include job search,
job development and counseling. The
project operates from a store front
facility in the area of the highest
concentration of the homeless and is
open in the evening and on weekends.
Nationally, the Labor Department
awarded twenty-one public and
private groups a total of $6,809,000 for
employment and training projects for
the homeless.
“These projects will demonstrate
new ways to help the homeless by
linking job training with other
services such as housing,
transportation and child care,” Dole
said. “They are intended to take
innovative approaches to assist the
homeless find and keep good jobs. ”
Authorized .by the Stewart B.
McKinney Homeless Assistance Act,
the one-year grants will go to a
variety of public agencies and private
nonprofit organizations. The Labor
Department’s Employment and
Training Administration (ETA) will
oversee the projects to develop
(See HOMELESS. F 2)
REP. DAVID PRICE
INSIDE
AFRICA
L— BY DANIEL MAROLEN_
NNPA Newt Service
As the world expected, Soutl
Africa’s acting president, F.W. d<
Klerk was elected by vote to a five
year term as the president of th<
minority-ruled Republic of Soutl
Africa. The entire world watches d<
Klerk with great concern as he begin:
his term as head of state, in a raciallj
polarized nation in turmoil. D<
Klerk’s promises of reforms to enc
his adopted country’s woes glow witl
promise and hope for a better futur<
South Africa.
He promises to do away with th<
“domination of one racial group 01
other racial groups.’’ But Ms aver
sion to “majority rule” is a contradic
tion that betrays his intendec
reforms.
How can he achieve racial har
many if he rejects majority rule? It is
only through the introduction of ma
jority rule that apartheid can end and
the democratization of South Africa
can be established. Any other solution
of the country’s racial problem will
only amount to the reintroduction ol
apartheid in newer and more sinister
and subtle forms, which could only
result in future inter-race political
problems wMch South Africa is cry
ing to move away from.
What President de Klerk must now
do is to give a salutory signal to his
own Afrikaner group that no group
will again dominate other groups. He
must make it crystal clear to the
Afrikaners that South Africa is a
land, not of the Afrikaners alone, but
a land of all who live in it. He must
emphasize it to all South Africans
that every individual citizen must be
accorded equal freedom, dignity and
opportunity before the law, irrespec
tive of ethnic or other differences.
Unless President de Klerk follows
these suggestions, he will only go the
unsuccessful way of his predecessors,
and bring back South Africa to the
disaster that she is now veering away
from. President de Klerk must avoid
the dangerous deceptions that were
used by state leaders like Gen. Hert
zog, Dr. Malan, Dr. Verwoerd, John
Vorster and President P.W. Botha
and others, which landed South
Africa in the predicament in which
she finds herself toriav. These men’s
(See INSIDE AFRICA, P. 1)
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onocK incarceration
Prison Boot Camp LauntSi
i
Convicted
Youthful
Offenders
State Correction Secretary Aaron
J. Johnson announced recently that
the Department of Correction will
formally launch its boot camp pro
gram for youthful offenders on Mon
day, Oct. 2.
IMPACT, the Intensive Motiva
tional Program for Alternative Cor
rection Treatment, is modeled after
successful “shock incarceration”
programs currently in use in a
number of states. The major dif
ference between it and similar pro
grams is that IMPACT is a parole
program designed to help ease the
chronic problem of prison over
crowding.
In addition to diverting approx
imately 360 convicted offenders from
prison each year, the 90-day program
is designed to instill discipline and
self-confidence in its participants.
“For the trainees who voluntarily
participate in the program, it will
probably be the toughest 90 days of
their lives,” Secretary Johnson said
during a news conference at the IM
PACT unit near Hoffman. “But if this
training helps to redirect the lives of
those participants, then all would
agree that it was time well spent.”
IMPACT grew out of Gov. Martin’s
Jan. 18 special' message to the
General Assembly. In that message,
the governor asked the lawmakers to
provide emergency funding for
prison construction and for the ex
pansion of this state’s community
based alternatives. In passing the
emergency package on March 6, the
General Assembly appropriated
$104,474 for IMPACT in fiscal year
1988-89, $507,972 for fiscal year 1989-90
and $611,819 during fiscal year
1990-91.
According to Deputy Secretary
William A. Crews, Jr., IMPACT is
modeled after the traditional military
boot camp. The program is for non
assaultive convicted offenders, bet
(See PRISON, P.2)
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THE JOEL FAMILY—Lawrence Joers ton Tramoino, veterans Memorial Coliseum In Winston-Salem. (Photo by
daughter Deborah and widow Dorothy onfoy a moment Mike Cunningham, ANSS)
togatlmr during dadlcatlon services far the Lawrence Joel
Coliseum Named To Honor Veterar s
And Vietnam Hero, Lawrence Joei
BY M.J. ROBBINS
Special To The CAROLINIAN
A dream was realized last Monday
evening as the doors of Winston
Salem’s new Lawrence Joel Veterans
Memorial Coliseum were opened for
a dedication ceremony.
More than 60 of Joel’s family
members gathered at the $26.6
million facility to pay tribute to its
namesake and the hundreds of
veterans of Forsyth County. They
were joined by a group of several
thousand people that incluided city
officials. Sen. Jesse A. Helms, Gov.
James G. Martin and Rep. Stephen L.
Neal.
The ceremony and fanfare surroun
ding the opening of the coliseum
represented much more than most
traditional dedication programs,
especially to the county’s Afro
American population. The opening of
the coliseum, which ran through the
interested parties over the naming ol
the structure. The facility, although
in its infancy, also has weathered the
The Lawrence Joel Veterns Memorial
Coliseum will accommodate 14,700 people at
basketball games; approximately 12,000
seats are available for family shows and
15,000 for concerts in the round. First round
games in the 1993 NCAA Eastern Regional
basketball tournament already have been
booked for the coliseum.
weekend, represented the end of a
battle between veterans, Afro
Americans, the city fathers and other
turbulence of extensive cost overruns
and two failed bond referendums,
(See VIETNAM, P.21
ft.
Ghetto Shooting
Galleries Help
Transmit AIDS
BOSTON, Mass. (AP)—The use of
ghetto shooting galleries to share
needles may help explain why AIDS
infections are more common among
black and Hispanic drug addicts than
among white users, a study con
cludes.
The study, conducted in a
methadone treatment program in
New York City, found that use of
shooting galleries was the single most
important difference between those
who got infected and those who did
not.
Blacks and Hispanics were more
likely than whites to go to shooting
galleries, places where drug abusers
buy or rent needles to inject drugs.
(See GALLERIES, P.2)
Release Of
Mandela Said
Not Enough
MEMPHIS, TENN. (AP)—
Nelson Mandela’s release
from a South African prison
would mean little if that
country’s system for keeping
blacks second-class citizens is
allowed to stand, his daughter
says.
“In many ways, he’ll still be a
prisoner under that system,’ said
Maki Mandela, who paid a visit
last Wednesday to Memphis State
University.
Mandela, 70, has been jailed
since 1962 and is serving a life
sentence on conspiracy and
sabotage charges.
He has become a symbol of
black South Africa’s struggle to
abolish apartheid, and human
rights activists around the world
have called for his release.
Ms. Mandela, who was eight
years old when her father first
went to prison, said she was
allowed a private visit with him
last month.
“For the first time, we could
visit more than 45 minutes
without the police being there,”
she said. “It was just a nice,
father-daughtger exchange.”
tfcriuvun a wunesaes I onurea
Burundi Persecutes Group
On Feb. 16, the president of the
Republic of Burundi, Pierre Buyoya,
held a meeting with the governors of
the nation’s provinces. In the wake of
that meeting, widespread religious
persecution broke out against
Jehovah’s Witnesses. Men, women
and even children soon became the
victims of illegal arrests, beatings,
torture and starvation.
Religious leaders are denouncing
thane atrocities as shameful.
Burundi is a remote African nation
located Just south of the equator,
though this mountainous land enjoys
a cool, pleasant climate. Few persons
around the globe were aware of
Burundi’s existence until August
IMS, when it captured world
headlines. At that time a bloody
dispute erupted between its two ma
Jortethnic groups, the Tutsi and The
Nevertheless, there are many good
things te be said about this land. Its
people are industrious and hardwork
ing. An article in the New York Times
Magasinr further observes that “In
various ways obvious to a visitor,
Burundi, poor as it is, works. Maurice
Gervais, the representative of the
World Bank,'calls it a ‘very high
However, when Jehovah’s
Witnesses began their public
evangeliiingjWMk ip Burundi in 1963,
they made no attempt to interfere
freedom of religion is taken for granted in
many Western lands. However, religious
persecution taking place IT Burundi
illustrates how fragile that freedom can be.
Indeed, as long as the basic human rights of
any group of people are trampled on, no one’s
rights are secure.
performing country.
Over the deeadee, the Catholic
Church evolved into a powerful
economic and political entity, reports
the Times. In the nation’s colonial
days, the church was allowed to vir
tually rule the country, as it played
the main role in providing health care
and education.” Little wonder, then,
that the government may have felt
threatened by organized religion.
with the affaire of state. Mather, they
confined their work to preaching.
Since the bihle says that true Chris
tians are to be ‘‘no part of the world,”
Jehovah’s Witnesses stayed political
ly neutral, a stand taken by Witnesses
the world over.
The Witnesses refrained from join
ing political parties and shouting
political party slogans. Governments
have often misunderstood this
neutral stand as a lack of patriotism
or even reflecting subversion. They
refrain from saluting or in any way
showing reverence for national sym
bols such aa flap, yet do not treat
such symbols with disrespect.
Following the meeting of President
Buyoya with the governors of the pro
vinces on Feb. 16, it was announced
on the radio that one of the big pro
blems that Burundi had to face up to
was the expansion of Jehovah’s
Witnesses. Later, the governors of in
terior provinces initiated a wave of
persecution. Although the details are
sketchy, the following reports give
some idea of what is taking place
there.
Province Gitega: Gov. Yves
Minani ordered that the polic and the
population be. mobilised to arrest all
Jehovah’s Witnesses. Subsequently,
agents of the security police broke in
to the home of Ntibatamabi Edmond,
a special pioneer evangeiiser, and ar
rested him. While in confinement, he
was deprived of food. Many Hines he
(See BURUNDI, P. 2)