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N.C. ACQUISITIONS DEPT. 109 E. JONES ST. RALEIGH NC 27611 RALETGH. N. C VOL. 49. NO. 17 TUESDAY JANUARY 23.1990 a SINGLE COPY AP IN RALEIGH £.00 ELSEWHERE 300 JOHN JACOBS Cold War Winds Down BY LARRY A. STILL NNPA News Service WASHINGTON, D.C.-The United States must spend at least $50 billion of the projected $300 billion “peace dividend” from the "winding down of the Cold War” to develop an urban Marshall plan and investment bank that “invests in our own people and our own cities,” John Jacob, presi dent of the National Urban League, declared here last week. In the 1990s, most of the new en trants in the U.S. workforce will be women and minorities and America will become a second-place power unless it undertakes policies to en sure “our neglected minority popula tion gets education, housing, health care and job skills they need to help the nation compete successfully in a global economy,” Jacob told a pack ed National Press Club media con ference in delivering the NUL’s 15th annual State of Black America . report. Hie proposed funds could come from defense cuts, he said. i Declaring that “We spent $2 trillion in the past 10 years on defense because we were locked into a war time mentality that now has no basis in feet,” Jacob added, “We must re mind America that long ago in 1963, the National Urban League called for a domestic Marshall plan (similar to the multibillion-dollar U.S. plan for rebuilding Europe after World War II). Had that been implemented, we would not have the devastation in our inner cities today. Despair would have long ago been replaced by hope and opportunity.” The 1969s ended with a revolution explosion that swept through eastern Europe, as millions of oppressed peo ple asserted the passion for freedom reflected in the American civil rights movement, the NUL report states. “Given that the state of African Americans did not measurably im prove in the 1980s (as documented in the report), the National Urban League calls on the nation to com plete our unfinished revolution,” Jacob declared. (SaaDEFENSE CUTS, P. 2) Struggling Businesses Get Help On Service Techniques BY W. MASON, JR. Staff Writer More African-Americans are mov ing into the workforce as en trepenuers instead of employees, br inging with them expertise in the areas of business construction, en gineering, financial consulting and more Many have walked away from clos ed doors at white-owned firms and found that the key to financial in dependence is to own their own business. To meet the increased con sciousness among African Americans, a group of black profes sionals in Raleigh have come together to offer counseling and plan ning to get many black businesses off the ground and provide support to old black businesses who may be struggl ing under outdated management and service techniques. “We’re here to serve black businesses in Raleigh,” said Ned Harris, vice president of the Benn ington Corp., a management con suiting firm that opened two minority business development centers, Fri day, one in Raleigh and the other in Durham. “We’re here to match the minority businesses on one hand with the ser vices and contracts available on the other hand,” he said. The center in Raleigh, which open ed at 817 New Bern Aveue, will assist for-profit black businesses in trade areas including retail, construction, wholesale, manufacturing and ser voee BUSINESS, P. 2) s^as astrologer wo’re going to Many Drug Operations [Mayor Barry Snared In Drug War I Eradication Programs In N.C. Cited The arrest last week of Washington Mayor Marion S. Barry, Jr. is an ex ample of the nation’s crackdown in its war against drugs. Barry went into seclusion amid a growing belief that his political career is shattered. He turned over most of the duties to the city manager after appearing before a federal magistrate on a misdemeanor charge of using crack cocaine. Barry’s arrest, however, was made in one of many chug operations going on across the country, including North Carolina. The two marijuana eradication pro grams conducted by divisions of the N. Cj Department ofCrime-Gonteel and Pubhc Safety seised a total of more than $66.3 million in marijuana during 1989, a 126 percent increase over total department seizures the previous year. A total of 40,800 plants representing a street value of $66,357,600 were con fiscated and destroyed in operations conducted by the North Carolina Highway patrol and the North Carolina National Guard, coor dinated by local sheriffs’ depart ments. “This demonstrates North Carolina’s commitment to fight il legal drugs in this state,” said Joseph W. Dean, secretary of Crime Control and Public Safety. “Marijuana is the state’s largest cash crop, an illegal crop, and one that we must continue to concentrate on if the war against drugs is to be won.” Secretary Dean added, “The cooperation and coordination of local sheriffs’ departments played a key role in the success of the 1969 opera tions. Without a coordinated effort, we could not have been as effective.” (SeeDRUG WAR, P. 2) to flgfrt In tf» 1 “Eyts Or Prtrt over PM, Fab. 12 at f p.m. BY DR. ALBERT JABS As Analyst! When Pauline Banks and Dr. Bruce Winston combine forces to feed 100 homeless people at a breakfast each Sunday for about a year, then we see campus and community ethics at their best. If coaches Ford at Clem son and ValVano at NCSU think that coaches should not be teachers of ethics—personal and com munity-then we have misplaced priorities, or worse, deficient ethics. When Louis W. Sullivan, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, hits the cigarette Urug Action, Special"Summit” Plan mFUN-Raiser,” New Tactics CAROLINIAN Staff Reports Drug Action of Wake County and a special drug summit have plans to [ Mp put together a strong fight against illegal drugs and raise funds for education and prevention pro Drug Action of Wake County, Inc. has decided to combine its 20th birth day party with a fund-raiser to raise ■ 180,000 for its education and preven tion programs for children. Prior to the birthday party in June, Lieutenant Governor Jim Gardner will head a special “drug summit.’’ Gardner is the chairman of the North Carolina Drug Cabinet. “As Chairman of the North Carolina Drug Cabinet, it is my responsibility to help put together the best plan possible to fight illegal drugs in North Carolina,” states Lt. Governor Jim Gardner. “In doing so, I believe it is important that we open, up a line of communication with neighboring states and those states that share Interstate 96, which many believe is used as a pipeline in the transportation of illegal drugs. “Hie Lieutenant Governors Drug Summit,” will be an invaluable way for the states to exchange ideas and recommendations and to coordinate our efforts in our war on drugs,” says Gardner. Delaware, Florida, Georgia Maryland, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia will be participating in this conference. Enclosed you will find a copy of the agenda for the “Lieutenant Governors Drug Sum mit.” The summit will be held on Jan. 25 and 96 at the Browns tone Hotel in Raleigh. Ronald D. Swaim, program ser vices director for Drug Action* of Wake County said on Feb. 14 there will be a formal opening of the Awareness Center, a downtown counseling facility, kmcted at 617 New Bern Ave. “The center owes a lot to Mayor Avery Upchurch, city manager Dempsy Benton, Ralph Campbell and the Raleigh City Council,” said Swaim.” They are the ones who push ed Project Phoenix.” Swaim also said Drug Action of Raleigh has decided to combine its (See DRUGACTION, P. 2) corporations for creating cancer cultures, he is rejuvenating ethical thinking concerning corporate policies and profits. This Morehouse graduate is thus in the tradition of ethics that came from Henry Morehouse, Ben Mayes, and Martin Luther King. Right on! Society needs concrete ethical arts the principalities and powers in socie ty can corrupt, bankrupt, and blind. Ethical theory must be fastened to concrete ethical actions as revealed in the aforementioned activities. Ethical responsibility is more than glasnost, it is not an ideological Salem witch hunt or religious litmus test; it is not loading the gun of Instead of reading about abortion, we need to be acting ethically; instead of reading about sexual abuse and misuse, we need to be thinking about ethical responsibility involv ing love and respect. Instead of trying to learn more, although that is important, let us try to care more. like that of Winston, Banks, and Sullivan to compete and overcome the negative, corrupting system of ethics that may emanate from ethics of the Boston mayor or D.C. mayor. Let the chips fall where they may. Archbishop Tutu and Dr. King, although human, are and were ethical renewers. These are the models, the examples, if you will, for all of us. It is biblical, and it is true, religious persecution lute tne current Azerbaijani-Armenian holocaust in Russia; it is simply translating an ethical witness to responsible com munity actions. We need this renewal constantly; it is beyond the law and targets into matter of the heart and justice. Instead of reading about abortion, we need to be acting ethically; in (See ETHICS, P. 8) Players, Fans Fight At Game, Not As Rivals BY W. MASON, JR. Staff Writer Despite last week’s fight between rival basketball teams at N.C. Cen tral and North Carolina A&T Univer sities, local black college officials say tensions are not growing between black colleges. “1 don’t see any negative patterns developing between black institu tions,” said Patrick Elliot, director of public relations at Shaw University. “I’ve seen bigger brawls between N.C. State and Carolina. We’re not aware of any problems.” Concern about the relationship bet ween rival black colleges erupted last week in Greensboro when a 15-minute fight between players and spectators from both teams sent about seven people to the hospital and forced of ficials to stop the game. Before the fight ended, about 300 fans were on the court. Witnesses said fights broke out throughout the 7JQ0f§gt gymnasium and that an tH^Uffied member of the A&T pep mno7d,from *•basket dcjj coun on i sireicner. Police said the fight began in the se cond half of the game when N.C. Cen tral forward Derrick Leak was foul (See RIVALS, r. 3; BY GWEN MCKINNEY AND DONOVAN MARKS NNPA News Service After Namibia’s independence elections which last fall handed SWAPO a resounding victory, many well-wishers sent cards and con gratulatory notes to the organization’s New York office. Jack P. Derringer sent a message, not to applaud the emergence of Africa’s 52nd state, but to place a bid to dump seven million tons of “Class One Sludge” on Namibian soil. In a hastily written letter, Derr inger also offered Namibia billions of pounds of general garbage, plastic waste, toxic waste, infectious waste and nuclear waste to help, as he put, answer the government’s need for hard currency. During an interview with NNPA Derringer said he is director of Raremin, a company which he claims is exploring disposal of U.S. in dustrial waste in Namibia and other African countries. The environmental group Greenpeace describes Derringer and (See INSIDE AFRICA. P.2) Mi Delores Wider. The teens else i Basemere end Ernest Dovls, betti senlers et Hljli Ached, D lemeceedef Queen eed boner red student.
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