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/ Vote On Oct. 10th, Polls Open At 6:30 a.m. Close 7:30 p.m. RALEIGH, N.C. VOL. 48, NO. 89 TUESDAY OCTOBER 10,1989 N.C.'s Semi-Weekly DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST OIIMVJLL. UWI l IN RALEIGH ELSEWHERE 300 City Agenda For 1990s To Be Decided In Election A whole new agenda looms for the 1900s in both terms of economics and the quality of life which, will require new standards for development, comprehensive planning and scrutinizing major projects for quality growth in the future. Along with addressing the problems of the homeless, transportation, quklity water and a rising number of big-city problems, Raleigh City Council members will lead the city into the 2lst century and your vote will determine whether it is BY DANIEL MAROLEN NNPA New. Service Speculation about newly installed President F.W. de Klerk’s potential or instituting change in South Africa has ended. President de Klerk has already made it crystal clear that he isn't fit to lead the country to democracy. An Afrikaner of the mold, de Klerk is a replica of his fire eating predecessors, Danie Malan, J.B.M. Hertzog, Hendrik Verwoerd and John Forster, among others, who have led South Africa to the brink of disaster that it finds itself in today. Lam than two weeks after his in auguration as president, de Klerk has revealed himself as an unflinching apartheid bigot and extremist. His latest cabinet reshuffle has inten sified, consolidaed and perpetuated apartheid to an alarming degree, which will take generations to reverse, unless it is immediately ehattmged and halted. __ De Klerk’s recent moves show that be Is no less a champion of apartheid than P.W. Botha, whom he succeeds. In his recent cabinet reshuffle, de Klerk has retained Botha's leading cabinet stalwarts, Roelof “Pik” Botha (foreign minister), Magnus Malan (defense minister), Berend du ?lessis (finance minister), H.J. Coetsee (justice minister), and Adriaan Vlok (law and order minister) in their former portfolios. Other Botha appointees to the cabinet like Stoffel V.D. Merwe and Gerritt Viljoen were shuffled to new port folios. So, Botha’s cabinet remains almost intact, with the exception of new ap pointees like Ms. E. Venter (a woman!), minister of health and population, and two English-speaking appointees, George Bartlett, minister of transport; and Kent Burr, minister (See INSIDE AFRICA, P. 2) done with intelligence, care and Raleigh. Three-time incumbent vision. _Avery Upchurch is challenged by Your vote on Oct. 10 will determine the agenda for the 1990s. We need a council that will lead the city into the 21st century with intelligence, care and vision. Your vote will determine your future from the 19 mayor and council candidates seeking to represent you. At the top of the list, the mayor’s council member Charles Meeker, race is the most important election in Both have strengths and weaknesses and the voters have an opportunity to elect a council that represents a cross-section of the city. Some are neighborhood and environment defenders, others focus on social problems and better jobs. The mayor should speak to both. Five candidates are running for two council at-large seats. Steve “Snoopy” Webb, the owner of Snoopy’s hot dog stands; Joe “Uncle Sam” Overby, Anne Franklin, the only incumbent; Frank Turner and Joan Baron. Turner is a longtime Raleigh resident and a power in African-American political circles with friends in Raleigh’s major political circles. He recently changed his registration to Republican. Baron is former head of the city’s Cable Commission and now a member of the Board of Adjustment and favors city involvement in creating small, spinoff-type businesses. First-term incumbent Geoff Elting, representing North Raleigh who has played a major part in stemming the tide of shopping centers in District A, faces two opponents. Julian Ford and Accepting A Bribe Hastings Faces Impeachment Attack Against Leaders Never in the 200 years of the U.S. Constitution and our American judicial system has a federal judge been acquitted and then subjected to an impeachment process, said the African-American Legal Defense Fund, a non-profit organization which has been established to assist in defending Judge Alcee Hastings, a federal judge in South Florida, against impeachment charges. Azora Irby, a spokesman, said, in October 1961, Alcee Hastings was ac cused of accepting a bribe. In April 1963, Judge Hastings was acquitted by a jury of his peers. Despite the fact that Hastings had been foand innocent, the Judicial Committee -issued Depart stating.. that Hastings had perjured himself at the original criminal trial. In February, based on the findings of the Judicial Conference, the House Judiciary Committee forwarded a report saying there was sufficient evidence to bring a bill of impeach ment against Judge Hastings to the House Committee on Government Operations. In March, the Hastings Impeach ment Committee was formed, con sisting of the following senators: Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), Bob Kerry (D-Neb.), Warren Rudman (R-N.H.), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.), Christopher Bond (R-Mo.), David Pryor (D-Ark.), Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), Slade Gordon (R-Wash.), Richard Bryan (D-Nev.), Dave Durenberger (R-Minn.) and Conrad Burns (R-Mont.). AALDF views Judge Hastings’ im (See JUDGE HASTINGS, P. 2) ■■■■■■■HHi :HBP DRUG PREVENTION—East MMbrook Junior High School and Carnage Middle School wM tana as pilot schools in tlw Introduction of tho ‘Two Got Getter Things To Do” program in Wake County sponsored by tho Raleigh wmmmn> mmmmm Professional Firefighters Association. Pictured (L to r.) East MWrook Principal Dr. Patricia Gole; Shanta Hannah; Enginoor Mike Davis; Aron Wiliams; Engineer Chester Sampson; East MMbrook Counselor Bueiah Roach. Firefighters Introduce Anti-Drug Project in Wake County Schools A drug prevention program will be piloted in two Raleigh area schools this fall. East Millbrook Junior High School and Carnage Middle School will serve as the pilot schools in the introduction of the “I’ve Got Better Things To Do" program in Wake County by the Raleigh Professional Firefighters Association. The “Better Things” program is an alternative, actively based approach to riruD anri alcnhnl ahuae pdiirntinn for elementary and middle school aged children. c “Better Things” was adopted in 1 New Orleans in 1987 under the direc- < tion of the New Orleans Fire Fighters f Local 632. In January, the executive t board of the 175,000-member Interna- < tional Firefighters Association « unanimously endorsed “Better t Things” as a national program. Raleigh will be only the fourth city in < the nation to nilot such a nrooram \ While there are many root causes >f this growing problem, the “Better rhings” program will focus mainly in combatting low self-esteem and frustration of expression. It is hoped that this will create a more positive context for learning and ultimately reduce the dropout rate among the targeted “at risk” group. Students will meet the firefighters and counselors in group sessions each week throughout the school year. Group sessions have been designed to meet the students’ needs in the areas of self-concept, self-awareness, self actualization and self-mastery. Seventy-five students have current ly enrolled in the program at the two pilot schools. Expansion of the pro gram into other schools Is planned for next year. The firefighters participating In the program have been professionally trained through the Drug Education Center in Charlotte as well as through workshops and conventions. After the “Better Things” program was established in New Orleans, 72 (See DRUG PROGRAM, P. 2) Louis Alexander. Ford is a vice president with North Hills, one of the Triangle’s biggest developers and property managers. Mary Watson Nooe, first term incumbent is facing a strong challenge from Ethel Miller, a newcomer in one of the new North Raleigh percincts. District B used to be composed of east Raleigh. However, recent redistricting has moved two inner-city precincts out and two North Raleigh precincts in. (See ELECTIONS, P. 2) Black Caucus Picks Upchurch, Ralph Campbell The Wake County Black Leader ship Caucus has endorsed Avery Up church in the race for Raleigh mayor. David L. Barnwell, president of the 123-member caucus, said the group was impressed when Upchurch pick ed Ralph Campbell, Jr., the council’s only black member, to chair the coun cil’s Law and Finance Committee in 1985. “Upchurch took the initiative and appointed Ralph Campbell as chair man, which took a lot of courage,” Barnwell said. He also said Upchurch’s challenger, Charles C. Meeker, ap peared at the group’s meeting last week in an effort to persuade the caucus to endorse him. “We just felt very uncomfortable about this sudden concern about what’s going on in Southeast Raleigh,” he said. The group also endorsed Anne S. Franklin and Frank L. Turner in the at-large race; E. Julian Ford for District A (North Raleigh), Mary Watson Nooe for District B (East Raleigh), Campbell for District C (Southeast Raleigh), and Douglas M. Fulford, Jr. for District D (Southwest Raleigh). -The group made no endorsement for District E (West Raleigh). The caucus’ choices were the same as those made by the Raleigh-Wake Citizens Association, a black political group. Barnwell, however, said that the groups were “adversaries,” and that it was merely a coincidence that their endorsements were the same. Democrats Plan To Recapture The White House BY LARRY A. STILL NNPA New* Service WASHINGTON, D.C.-In the first full meeting of the Democratic Na tional Committee since he was elected chairman, attorney Ron Brown outlined ambitious plans “to dominate the 1990 elections, the 1991 (congressional) redistricting cam paigns and ultimately take back the White House in 1992" despite Republican Party efforts to win new voters among blacks and white South erners. As the first African-American to head a major U.S. political party, Brown proudly announced that the DNC had not only broken a fundrais ing record by receiving more than IS million In campaign contributions (See DEMOCRATS. P. 2) Shades Of Bensonhurst Racism Engulfs Building Trade BY CHESTER A. HIGGINS, SR. NNPA New* Editor INTERNATIONAL FALLS, Minn. —The malevolent spirit of Bern unburst and Howard Beach, N.Y., as well as Pretoria, South Africa, stalks the chilly, thinly populated streets of this northernmost (of the lower 48) U.S. town of about 6,800 on the Cana dian border. Racism raised its ugly head after Boise Cascade. Inc., a paper mill, hired a non-union general contractor, BE&K of Birmingham, Ala. , to con- 1 struct a half-billion-dollar expansion < of its plant, and the firm brought in a 1 number of African-Americans among its integrated force to work on the i project. This is reputedly the coldest spot in the United States and now may be one i of the hottest, racially. The head waters of the mighty Mississippi River rise about ISO miles north of the rwin Cities in a tiny lake not much ngger than a puddle. And now rising lemands for racial equality in the niilding trades are disturbing the itate’s tolerant and comfortable view >f itself. For this state is the land of the late Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mon lale. Indeed, it is a state of “pro gressive” politics where, according ;o Curt Johnson, of the 37-year-old vatchdog group, the Citizens League, is quoted in the Twin Cities Tribune, ‘most Minnesotans are too polite” to to work with non-union members. Six people were injured and 32 people were arrested, according to authorities. Boise estimated damages at $1.3 million. Democratic Gov. Rudy Perpich, a descendant of east European stock, reportedly said the strife stemmed from Boise Cascade’s reneging on a promise to hire a St. Louis, Mo. union contractor who would employ out-of work Minnesota unionists. On strength of this promise, the state handed Boise Cascade a $16 million “They yelled, ‘Nigger, go home,’ busted the windshield of my truck and slashed the tires. They threatened to burn down the building we live in. I have never seen anything like it. I’m going to send a report to the NAACP...” Leon Goodman Construction Supervisor permit anything like overt prejudice 1 to surface. But surface it has. Incensed union supporters numbering between 400-600, some from out of state and reportedly organized by Minnesota’s building trade union leadership who vociferously denied it, set trailers on fire, overturned nad burned tem porary encampment tents and equip ment. Union members inside the giant plant pulled wildcat strikes, refusing ax write-off, the governor says. The paper mill is the single most mportant industry in the town. The [ovemor sees no racial conflicts. On Sept. 20, he ducked out of a side loor at the St. Paul Holiday Inn lun :heon honoring a black businessman, lesse Overton, of Skytech Co., to ivoid being interviewed by this cor espondent concerning the festering iituation on the northern border of (See RACISM, P. 2)
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