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_ DEPARt^, tORAL- I BLOUN1 .eight n RALEIGH. N. C. VOL. 48, NO. 95 TUESDAY OCTOBER 31,1989 N.C/s Semi-Weekly DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST SINGLE COPY rtf IN RALEIGH ELSEWHERE 300 wmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmammmmmmmmmmmmmmmrn Police Agency Shows Corrupt Enforcement Drug Trafficking And Other Crimes BY ALEXANDER R. JONES 8p«cl«l To nu CAROLINIAN As the drugs continue to pour Into America and destroy out youth, a dark picture is emorglag on the involvement of one police agency in this deadly flow. I’m speaking of INTERPOL, tho In ternational Criminal Police Organisation. INTERPOL is best known as a romantic agency that geta men tioned regularly in James Bond movies and “Kojak” reruns. But the real INTERPOL Is hardly romantic. It is a private police group based in France, with a membership of more than 140 countries. Each country has Its own INTERPOL headquarters, generally staffed by law enforce ment officials from that country. It is through such national head quarters that corrupt INTER POL officials have access to sen sitive Information on drug traf ficking from law enforcement of ficials around the world. This police organi zation can funnel sen sitive police data on drug interdiction to drug traffickers around the world. IN TERPOL is controlled by no country and is immune from legal suits. There is great reason to be con cerned ftfeapt such afioeas, far revelation after revelation pointa to extensive involvement of IN TERPOL and INTERPOL of ficials in the drug trafficking which is killing our youth and destroying the fabric of our socie ty In 1187 INTERPOL formally bestowed upon the infamous Gen. Manuel Noriega, Panama’s self proclaimed dictator, its prestigious Bronse Medal, IN TERPOL’S highest honor, for Noriega’s effectiveness against international drug trafficking. At (See INTERPOL, P.2) Threat To Progreee Abortion Is Not A Civil Right BY UKKU KEATH D*w J«m A CMtfuy An Aaaljrria The battle around the abortion Imuo hat raged for year* with the understanding that the major com batants Involved are either white liberals, white evangelical Pro testants or white Catholics. Mean while, black America—which Is af fected more profoundly by abortion than is any other group In society—has experienced Its own sharp internal division. While moat black leaden have favored abortion rights, opinion surveys have found mainstream blacks to be among those most strongly opposed to abor tion on demand i Where does black America really stand on the issue? Statistics from the Department of Health and Human Services suggest that black women are more than twice as likely to abort their children as white women. For every three blade babies born, two are aborted. Forty-three percent of As these women struggle with their profound moral choices, many national black leaders have ceased to look at abortion as a moral problem with moral consequences, and have come to see it instead as an opportunity for forglning political alliances. African Americans must no longer keep silent on this Issue. Project Phoenix Jobs Help Fight Drug War Satellite Training Facility Praa CAROLINIAN Malt lUparta A newly created project designed to combat drugs in public housing has teamed with an employment pro gram as'one of the many approaches to community problems. The Job Service Satellite Office will help inner-city neighborhood’s residents obtain training, find work and receive Job counseling. The pro gram is in conjunction with Project Pheonix, which was initially designed to solve the plague of drugs and crime in downtown bousing communities. The Employment Security Com mission Chairman Betsy Y. Justus, Joined by Lt. Gov. Jim Gardner and Sataffite Office that is supported by Lt. Gov. Gardner’s Drug Cabinet. “Opening the office is a real step forward in North Carolina’s efforts to combat drugs,” said Lt. Gov. Gard ner. “It is my firm belief that this Job service office will serve as a concrete example of our state’s commitment to providing a better life for its citizens,” he added. The sole benefit of this type of pro gram is to directly reach those in dividuals who may otherwise not be able to get out and actively seek (See PROJECT PHOENIX, P. 3) ity Councilman Ralph wcently cut the ribbon to open “the Job'service uTTSJBSSBS .(niMfeyTtflSafrCtfway) . 'V * • • -t* - . • ■ ^ Program Searches For New Wasm To Help Rural Poor With Housing A group of legislators recently described a first-time effort by Fan nie Mae (Federal National Mortgage Association) that participants hope will focus new attention on affordable housing needs of rural Americans. Senators Terry Sanford (D-N.C.), Richard Shelby (D-Ala.) and Rep. Ike Alan Frazier la Answer Man For Retirees And A Teen Role Model BY RHETA LOGAN Special To Tfce CAROLINIAN If you are a retired person, you may wonder who makes sure you receive your pension check each month. In many cases it is someone like Alan Frazier. Frazier works in the Employee Benefit Services Department at First Wachovia Tryst Services in Winston Salem. The department provides ad ministrative, investment and technical services to corporations of fering pension funds, retirement plans and other employee benefit pro grams. First Wachovia holds the funds for these plans and, as the trustee, makes monthly payments to thousands of retirees. Frasier works closely with eight Fortune 900 corporations whose pen sion funds are administered by the bank. As account manager, he oversees the daily administration of more than (700 million in trust asaets and communicates with officials of these companies, including chief financial officers and directors of human resources. In addition to managing accounta, he double checks the accuracy of payments go ing to the companies' retirees. Retirees often call on Frasier if they have questions about a benefit payment. Last year, a retired couple paining through Winston-Salem drop ped by the Employment Benefit Ser vices Department to have their ad dress changed becauae they wore moving to a new city. “It was a unique experience because 1 was able to meet theae retirees in person," Frasier said. “Usually I Just know them as voices at the other end of the telephone line." Working on his grandfather’s form as a boy in James villa, in eastern North Carolina, may have taught Frasier the skill of helping others. Frasier, who was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., went to live on the farm at age 1 “My parents dn*Hfd to send me, the youngest of three children, to live with my maternal grandparents,” he said. “I believe my family would I have benefited from that decision.” Frasier helped on the term any way he could. “I cut the grass, took care of the animals, plowed the tobacco fields and did whatever was asked of me." He kept in touch with Us parents, brother and sister in New York as he ■rew up, mostly through sw visits and phone calls. “My a worked for AT&T and she got calls, Frasier saiu. one sou seeps the family unified through her fie want calls." ■ ■ . , . i (See ALAN FRAZIER, P. I) f Skelton (D-Mo.) Joined Fannie Mae Chairman and Chief Executive Of ficer David Maxwell and Rural Hous ing Services represntative Eva devastating.” Non-metropolitan areas have i higher rate of poverty and unemploy ment than metropolitan areas am The private and public sectors, using low income housing tax credit authorized by Con gress in 1986, can cooperate to develop affor dable rental housing in all areas of the coun try. The tax credit authority is set to expire at the end of the year unless Congress takes acd tion to extend it. Clayton to detail a $1.1 million Fannie Mae commitment that waa combined with FHA-inaured loan financing to build low- and moderate-income bowing in Alabama, New York and North Carolina. ‘‘This program ie a start in a search for new way* to help the rural poor," Maxwell (aid at a Joint Capitol Hill prow breakfast. “Their plight has been obscured by the wrack and ruin of urban poverty. But it is no less more bousing that is substandard, ac cording to Maxwell. “Most of us are aware that thli country is currently facing a housinj crisis. We see the number o: homeless sleeping in the streets am lining up at shelters has multiplied,’ said Shelby. “These are, for the mos part, urban problems. What wi sometimes fail to see is that the bous ing problems in rural areas are Jus (See HOUSING, P.D • ' 4 all abortions in tbe U.S. are perform' ed on black women. From figures supplied by tbe federal government and the Alan Guttmacber Institute, Richard D. Glasow of National Right to Life has estimated that some 400,000 black pregnancies are aborted each year. At the same time, accor ding to a 1900 poll taken by the na tional Opinion Research Center, <1 percent of tbe blades sais abortion should be illegal under all cir (8ee ABORTION, PS) BY DANIEL MAROLEN NNPA News Service On Oct. 10, South African President F. W. de Klerk published his intention to release eight major African political prisoners, excluding Nelson Mandela, ANC’s leader. On that day the news found its way into the lounges and corridors of the United Nations. All around the UN, delegates hailed President de Klerk for the release of the long-held political prisoners. I moved in quickly to sense the f delegates’ mood and views, but I was shocked to meet an air of optimism that de Klerk had done a meritorious thing. I quickly interviewed as many delegates as I could, and found tbe reaction the same. Finally, I came across Prof. Dr. Hilary Lee, an Asian-American doc tor of science, and the permanent representative of Pax Romans to the United Nations. I immediately liked Ms response to my feelers. He displayed an open mind and sup pressed emotion. He shared my viewpoint that de Klerk’s move was a deceptive public relations gimmick intended to beguile - mankind into believing that change was taking (See INSIDE AFRICA, P. 2) Rep. David Price | Home Equity Law - To Take Effect WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Home Equity Loan Consumer Protection Act, sponsored by Fourth District Rep. David Price, will take effect Nov. 7. The law, passed by Congress last fall, requires lenders to disclose the full terms of home equity loans before borrowers incur any obligations. It . also prohibits misleading advertising of home equity loans. “This new law gives the consumer 1 a fair shake in the increasingly 1 popular home equity loan market,’’ ' Price said. “Consumers can now sop 1 around for the best terms confident in the knowledge that they’re getting all : the information thqy need to make a. 1 wise decision.” Consumers now have ■ a more accurate picture of costs t associated with the loan, and they no (See HOME EQUITY, P. 2) Gardner Saym Ateu> Drug Tax Bill To Be Powerful Weapon fat State *Between You And Me” BY LT. GOV. JIM GARDNER Another cklld has iosta father. Another wife haslost her husband. 1 A seearitygaard and a newspaper reporter were the latest victims In I the drag'rslated vislaacs that coatlaaes to tear Colombia apart. f Every day we hear Hare and tare ahoet the growing violence la thla drag war. Receatly. President Bath hi a national televised addreaa aaaeoaeed ear eoaatry’s battle plan la the feag war. The following day. I araa invited to meet with the president la Washington to hear a ■era hi depth explanation of oar aatleaal drag eeatref strategy. As chairman of the North GareUaa Drag Cabinet, I want to share with yea my theaghta ea the president's plan and what we mast do here la I heMaive that President Bash's plan is a good start. This is aa Im portant paint that the president stressed to ne while in Washington saying that this le the fhrot step la a very long war. One of the key pre vMaos of the president's plan, and one that I agree with Trhslohssrtillj h n frT-*-1-- **■•* **■-1 •*—f-***— j aser Is the one who feels the whale drag scene. It Is a matter of supp ly and daaumd ecenemke. U we can cat down ea the demand of drags then we cat dewa on the profit of the drag dealers. Thetis the another one reason that people sell drags, to make money, lets of money. That Is why I pnshod far aa Important drag tax bill that are paaeed la this session of the General Assembly. This bill was in i... ns-flBamanr nl flmannlinrn Id In wninw dna kn a UVHMI Wj Mis OW BMW M UlwflllHH lr» M IB gllllg W DO I pOWOr* fnl new weapon la oar war on drags hare In North Carolina. Here Is how the new law wiB work. (flanDRUG CABINET, P. S)
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