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109 c- ■' 6n . , r~ T i-»V* l-l'-’ R ALE lljri DECEMBER 5.1969 ^ N.C.’s Semi-Weekly V) DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST SINGLE COPY Off IN RALEIGH £O0 ELSEWHERE 300 roiincauymonvatea tactics RWCA Saus Funds ProDerlv Disbursed BY TRACEY HALL 8un Writer Raleigh’s most influential Africai American political organize tio recently fell prey to tongue-lashin accusations alleging the organizatio violated election laws by filing an ii accurate report, and that it did nc pay campaign workers for their el forts. The Raleigh-Wake Citizen Association is being questioned by th State Bureau of Investigation fo allegedly giving the Board of Elec tions false information relating to th< political action committee’s i98f campaign expenses, not paying cam paign workers and inaccurate record keeping. „ Defending the organization against these allegations is EWCA president j Ed Worth and immediate past chair man of the political action commit tee, Bruce E. Lightner, who contend , that some people who participated in ,, past campaigns were confused about ' which election they were or were not compensated for. , Lightner said in an interview with The CAROLINIAN that the RWCA board discussed "a meeting with the Board of Elections submitting an soon. The RWCA has a good reputati for strong leadership, community i These allegations, to many in the African American community and in Southeast Raleigh especially, are at best petty and cheap shots at black leadership and are politically motivated. amenciea report stating wno was paid or who were volunteers, and that this report would be given to investigators volvement and endorsing politic candidates who have the best inters for the area at large and Africa Americans in particular. )n These allegations to many in the n' African-American community and in - Southeast Raleigh especially, are at best petty and a cheap shot at some leaders. One political officeholder said this sort of thing was going on across the country where individuals and groups are attempting to discredit black leaders and organiza _ tions that support them, al A local publication stated last week st that on Sept. 22, the RWCA gave the 1- Board of Elections an inaccurate report of its political action commit tee’s 1988 campaign expenses. The report listed 40 people who were sup posed to have received a total of $1,580 for working the polls and help ing get out the vote on Election Day 1988. The inaccurate report was filed after state election officials met with RWCA leaders and required the organization to give a detailed ac counting of how a $2,000 check written to an RWCA member for (See RWCA, P. 2) INSIDE AFRICA BY DANIEL MAROLEN NNPA New* Service PRESIDENT DE KLERK’S COMEDY OF DECEPTIONS South African President F.W. de Klerk’s policies do not depict a man determined to end apartheid. Rather, they display and betray a president bent on perpetuating the much abhorred racial scourge of apartheid, while continuing to make believe that he was bringing about change. De Klerk looks more to be determined to keep his fellow Afrikaner group domi nant in state power over all other racial groups, and to appease them and quell them down with so-called “concessions” and “reforms” which are nothing but deceptions meant to buy time for the Afrikaners to remain longer in power. De Klerk’s announcement last week of permitting Africans to swim on beaches previously set aside for “whites only” and other facilities is one of his deceptive tactics to main tain Afrikaner monopoly of power in Sooth Africa for as long as possible. This should not be permitted to delay the' democratization of the racist state, which is long overdue. Although last week’s convincing victory of SWAPO in the Namibian elections makes that organization the most deserving one to rule the newly liberated state, President de Klerk's government backs its own brain child—the Democratic Turnhalle Aliance—which it now uses to obstruct SWAPO, the country’s liberators. The Democratic Tur nhalle Alliance was well walloped by SWAPO in the recent elections, but South Africa is determined to use TDA as a thorn in SWAPO’s side and Namibia’s own national aspirations. (See INSlDa AFRICA, P. 2) A_1-f W_ • Social, Economic Justice NAACP Celebrates Union Solidarity BY LARRY A. 8TILL Capitol New* Service WASHINGTON, D.C.-The contin uing solidarity of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People with all the workers’ unions of the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations was reaffirmed last week in a cheerful, back-slapping, emotional ceremony at the AFL-CIO's historic biennial conven aw. tion in Washington when the unions honored Poland’s Solidarity leader, Lech Walesa, and NAACP Executive Director Benjamin L. Hooks. Walesa addressed the labor organization's opening convention session after the union sponsored the Polish hero’s visit to the United States and Hooks, a Baptist minister and former criminal court judge, spoke at the convention’s closing plenary session as the members cheered repeatedly The NAACP leader was presented the first honorary membership in the Newspaper Guild by Charles Dale, TNG president, and introduced to the official assembly by Lane Kirkland, AFL-CIO president. In presenting Hooks with the coveted Guild card because “He’s been a producer of his own weekly television series” and another TV program, Dale said, “And if this isn’t enough, we re quite prepareu to stretch a point” because “it is a tribute to Dr. Hooks that he wants to be blood and bone of the labor move ment.” Earlier, Dale declared, “Brothers and sisters, I don’t have to tell this au dience what Benjamin Hooks has done to merit the admiration and af fection of the civil rights movement, the labor movement, and of every American who is colorblind when it comes to judging a person’s worth.” Kirkland hailed Hooks as “one of the nation’s premier activists in the cause of civil and human rights. For most of this century, his organization has been in the vanguard of a move ment which brought this nation a long way toward the goals of social and economic justice for all and full racial equality a* every level of our society.” “We have not reached these goals,” he continued, “and the most recent Supreme Court decisions on civil rights have given us a cold, hard lesson that nothing is permanent and that the clock can be turned back if we don’t fight *o ke^p what we’ve got. Through our solidarity with the civil rights movement and particular ly through our participation in the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the AFL-CIO is working to correct those court decisions in the legislative arena." Hooks also presented an NAACP plaque to Kirkland in memory of solidarity and “the historic alliance for freedom and justice by such (tabor and NAACP I leaders as George Meany, Walter Reuther, Sidney Hillman. I.W. Abel, A. Philip Randolph. Walter White, Roy Wilkins, and Clarence, Mitchell. Jr.” Hooks also paid tribute to current • See \/\.M t*. I* a i Motivated By Bigotry Hate Crimes, Violence On Rise otrong Laws Needed For Protection Stronger laws to protect minorities against hate-group attacks may be implemented with the outcome resulting in long-term imprisonment to offenders, according to Klanwatch, a Montgomery, Ala.-based group developed to monitor hate violence in America. The 10-year-old organization reported recently that anti-Semitic incidents rose to a five-year high in 1918. Not only are these crimes Teenagers make up the age group inflicting most violent crimes against minor ities and these crimes are becoming more frequent and vicious. becoming more frequent, but they 1 are also becoming much more ™ violent. m Pat Clark, Klanwatch director, * says, “Very few states have enacted the kind of comprehensive legislation needed to combat this rise in hate < violence." Four states have no ap- i plicable laws, and less than half pro- ; vide for criminal action against in- t timidation and harassment motivated by bigotry. i Only IS states require police to keep ; track of hate crimes. Yet, only five in- < elude mandatory police training in (See HATE GROUPS. P. 2) TRIBUTE it) PR. SANSOM—The Gamer Read YMCA Board «t Director!, friend* and famRy^f the late Dr. J. J. Sansom recall his contributions to the community. Dr. Sansom was a former president of Mechanics and Farmers mm Bank. Pictured are (I. to r.) Rev. j. z. Alexander, Mrs. Alexander, Mrs. Vivian Sans. Mrs. Martha Wheeler, Mrs. ANce Soloman, Mrs. Sa ff 'Kate Sansom, and Ms. Julia Taylor. legislature To Meet In Special lesslon On Hazardous Waste Bill The 170 members of the 1989 Jeneral Assembly have been called nto special session by Gov. Martin to ipprove an interstate agreement for he management of hazardous waste. The 1989 law authorizing the gover lor to negotiate such an interstate igreement also required that the Jeneral Assembly ratify it. The extra session will begin at noon 'hursday, Dec. 7, and continue until the legislators are finished with their deliberations. Past special sessions have lasted anywhere from one to six legislative days. Committee meetings are scheduled to begin Wednesday, Dec. 6. The state's constitution empowers the General Assembly to meet in regular session every two years. A special or extra session is separate and distinct from regular sessions. Legislative officers remain the same but either house may adopt new rules. Bill numbers begin at 1 (i.e., HBt, SB1), and legislators deal only with bills introduced during the special session. Any bill left pending from the regular session which ad journed in August would have to be introduced again to be considered during the special session. Next Thursday’s session is the 12th such special session to be held in the I past jO years. The last one convened | in 1986. A special session may be call- | ed by proclamation of the governor j “on extraordinary occasions, by and i with” the advice of the Council of \ State. < In addition, special sessions may also be convened by the Speaker of < the House and the President of the 1 Senate upon receipt of written re- t quests from three-fifths of all the t members of the Senate and of the 1 House. Of the 12 extra sessions called over r the past 50 years, 11 were called by c the governor and one by the members s (See LEGISLATURE. P. 2) r hfwT*anlein8 First Bl°«£TnZ:‘ the u„jvers% >, "ding student* which *r^'U*i*' »»d eqj! «»*>£?» «>■«.».,« -re ...h»r: «£‘&‘ sSHSe? h ■Xta*-i^JHa55?'S5£ & dalion with (tl , 5 million grunt t ***• school nr*. W* rasssfi^sssas ^^SF^sssssSt -— ^^veerm,.2) *"*' Majority Say No To Making Drugs Legal Profit Sky High For Traffickers And Black Market The Bush administration’s war on irugs has renewed the debate from some quarters about the advisability >f legalizing drugs. The Bush administration recently rejected the idea of legalizing drugs n the United States, after public opi lion polls showed a huge majority of Vmericans to be opposed to the idea. Among some of the people who re jected the idea were those who are ronsidered to be the administration’s Wrongest allies. Leading conser vatives as well as veterans of the war >n drugs feel that legalizing drugs vould be adding fuel to an already >ut-of-control fire. In one recent poll conducted by the National Opinion Research Center in Vpril, 1,537 adults were asked whether they thought marijuana should be legalized. By a margin of 5 to 1, they said no. As bad a problem as crack has become, however, said Arnold S. rrebach, a professor of criminal justice at American University who is president of the Drug Policy Founda lon, “Keeping any drug within the lontrol of an absolute criminal pro* libition makes the situation worse.” Advocates of legalization are ini ted by two predictions: that drugs (See DRUGS, P. 2) Gorbachev: An Image Breaker And Missionary BY DR. ALBERT JABS An Analysis President Mikhail S. Gorbachev is he first leader from Russia to ever ;o to Rome and speak to the Pope; hen he will go to Malta. About 2,000 ears ago Paul, the apostle, went to 4alta, threw a snake in the fire, and rent on to the imperial city of that lay, Rome, where he eventually died. Gorbachev probably read the hapter that Paul wrote to the tomans because the Russian leader alks and acts as if he discerns rela ionships between church and state; e seems to be right on this. Gorbachev has gone on record as ecognizing the value of the in ividual conscience. Furthermore, he eems to recognize the role of moral (See IMAGE MAKER, P. 3)
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