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VOL. 49, NO. 45
TUESDAY
MAY 1,1990
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Meeting Planned
Project PI nix Under Fire By Residents
BY W. MASON, JR.
_ . . Staff Writer
The Friends Committee, along with
residents of the city’s public housing
population, are planning to meet
Wednesday May a at 7:90 p.m. to
discuss the effectiveness of Project
Phoenix, the city’s anti-drug effort in
nubile housing.
The meeting will be held at the
Copeland Community Center in
Chavis Heights and is expected to
concentrate on what some residents
are calling an ineffective program
that is hurting residents more than
helping them, said a group
spokesman.
Residents have complained that
although the city la providing more
protection and getting some of the
drug dealen out of public housing, ci
ty police are also harrauing innocent
people, stopping residents on the
street for no reason and In tome cases
charging people without reason.
The city’s drug effort, however, la
also taking It’s toll In other areas of
the city.
Raleigh police announced the
results of a six-month investigation
Into city drug trade In North Raleigh
and on some of the city’s college cam
puses.
As a result of the investigation, M
people were charged on 366 felony
and 18 misdemeanor counts. Some df
the 24 students charged, half In fact,
lived on some of the city’s college
campuses.
The charges were a result of what
police have called operation
Snowball, a state-funded undercover
drug operation that started in July
1968 that targeted various parts of the
city’s drug culture.
A Wake County grand Jury handed
down the indictments April 19.
Police confiscated 138 grams of
cocaie, 460 grams of marijuana, 557
units of LSD and 10 vehicles as they
began making arrests Friday.
Officers posed as college students
and frequented nightclubs, such as T.
K. Tripps on Falls of the Neuse Road,
Cheers, The Longbranch and the Of
ficer Tavern, where they made
undercover drag buys, police said.
Police said they spent $8,038 in buy
ing the drugs an uncovered drugs that
carried a street value of about
$19,525.
The city’s drug effort, however, is a
small part of a statewide effort to
control drug operations in the state.
Margaret Person Currin, United
States Attorney for the Eastern
District of North Carolina, announced
the seizure of an eleven acre estate
located on the Northeast Cape Fear
River, Pender County, pursuant to
the “Thomas Jackson Hawes’’ Drug
Task Force (OCDETF) investigation
and the federal asset forfeiture laws.
The estate, which encompasses ap
proximately eleven acres of river
front property, includes an estimated
four thousand square foot private
residence, boat docking facilities,
and equestrian stables, all of which
were seised pursuant to a federal
order issued by Federal District
Court Judge James Fox.
That order, as well as the related
Complaint for Forfeiture “In Rem”
filed by the United States Attorney,
and the Warrant authorizing the
seizure by the United States Marshals
Service, had been previously placed
under seal prior to the seizure. The
Complaint, Warrant, and Order have
(See DRUG BUST, F. z>
“Save The
Children”
Day Nears
SNOW HILL—Vialon of
Deliverance, Inc., a social justice and
evangelistic outreach ministry, has
called a May Day march “to save the
children.”
The ministry, in a statement of
demands submitted to The CAROLI
NIAN and published in its April 26
issue, said, “The Greene County
Public School System is guilty of the
malpractice of the education
process.”
The Rev. Mark C. Olds, founder of
the ministry, said the May Day
march will impart the message, “No
change this summer, no school this
fall.”
“We are registering our list of
demands to correct injustices and
project solutions,” the release said.
„ “Today , we say to Dr. J. Ivy Smith,
chartman; Jasper Barfield, Jr., vice
chairman; and all members of the
Greene County Board of Educe Hoc
wmUtw issues can no longer be ig
nored... we come to serve notice that
the dispensation has expired for the
utilisation of the public education
system as an indoctrination center.”
The release pointed specifically tc
the negative image of Macks pro
jected in the curriculum and tex
tbooks used throughout the school
system.
“These textbooks fail to portray tin
accurate history of the African
American people. Our history does
not commence with the slave arrival
in Jamestown, Va., in 1619,” Rev
Olds said.
“People of African descent have <
rich and proud heritage. The legac]
(See MAY DAY MARCH, P. 2)
POLICEMAN SHOOTS MAN IN BACK
Blacks
Protest
Killing
HOUSTON, Texas (AP)-The Har
ris County civil rights prosecutor
assigned to present evidence to a
grand jury has defended the actions
of a former police officer who was not
indicted in the shooting death of a
Mack security guard.
Don Smyth, who heads the Harris
County District Attorney’s civil
rights division, told die Houston Poet
that tamer Officer Scott Tschirhart
was justified in shooting Byron
Gillum in the beck.
“Tschirhart had already killed the
times—four in the back—after he
stopped the security guard for an
alleged traffic violation near the
University at Houston on Nov. 15.
Witnesses told investigators die of
ficer shot Gillum, 94, several times as
he fled the car.
Tschirhart, who is white, said he
believed Gillum was reaching for a
gun on the front seat of the car.
Former Police Chief Lee Brown
fired Tschirhart in January. Gillum
was the third black civilian
Tschirhart had killed during his
seven years on the force. Tschirhart
i has appealed his firing to an indepen
' dent arbitrator.
(See POLICE SHOOTING, P. 2)
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lehtr CeOowty)
New Book Find Home In Mollie
Lee’s Black History Collection
BY. W. MASON, JR.
By SUn Writer
Before a group of supporters and
community leaders, Congressman
David Price, Fourth District
Representative, presented a new
book to the Richard B. Harrison
Library that will strengthen the Mack
community’s knowlege of its political
history.
Price presented the book, ‘‘Blacks
in Congress 1870-1988,” to the library.
The book was authored by the Office
of The Historian, U.S. House of
Representatives and dedicated to the
memory of former Congressman
Mickey Leland. The book contains
biographical sketches of black
members of Congress who served
during the time span of 1870-1969.
The book is to be added to the
Mollie Huston Lee Collection housed
Inside Africa
Dr. King Center Aiming To Aid ANC
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP)-Coret
ta Scott King, the widow of slain U.S.
civil rights leader Martin Luther
King, Jr., said Friday she is explor
ing ways her organisation might help
the African National Congress and
others fight racial injustice in South
Africa.
Ms. King, winding up a four-day
visit that coincided with in
dependence anniversary celebrations
in Zimbabwe, said she met with ANC
leader Nelson Mandela, who also at
tended the celebration in Harare.
She declined to disclose the out
come of the talks, but said the Martin
Luttrtir King. Jr. Center for Non
violent Social Change in Atlanta had
■ought ways to mate “a positive and
mnytruetiyg contribution” to the
oitminmHnn of South Africa’s apar
theid racial system and the revital
isation of the economies of neighbor
ing black-governed state*.
Iln center, of which Bis. King is
president, has tried to draw attention
to the importance of southern Africa,
to lobby in the United States for a
“Marshall Plan" to aid the region
and to find out how best to raise funds
for organisations including
Mandela’s guerrilla-backed ANC, she
“The King Center strongly believes
that the stabilization, economic
revitalization and human develop
ment ot the resources within the
southern African environment is
critical to world peace and interna
tional cooperation in the immediate
future,” she said.
Ms. King commended racial har
mony between the more than nine
million blacks and 90,000 whites in
Zimbabwe, the former British colony
of Rhodesia that gained in
dependence 10 years ago after a
seven-year guerrilla war in which
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about 40,000 mostly black lives were
lost.
“Zimbabwe has shown all the
world, and especially South Africa,
that majority rule... does not
mean oppression and exploitation of
whites,'' she said.
She denied that her organization's
commitment to nonviolent protest
was at variance with its backing for
the ANC, whose guerrilla wing
mounted bombings and sabotage at
tacks in South Africa.
“It is understandable how people
resort to violence when they have no
other recourse. Martin Luther King
understood that,” she said.
But she noted that the ANC had
agreed to hold preliminary talks with
the South African government in May
and said her organization welcomed
the dialogue.
“We say non-violence is not passive
but very strong. Non-violence is the
way of bringing more lasting peace,”
Ms. King said.
Among other African presidents
she conferred with in Harare were
Quett Masire of Botswana, Joaquim
Chissano of Mozambique and Ken
neth Kaunda of Zambia, current
chairman of the seven-nation African
Frontline bloc neighboring South
Africa.
In related events: the staunchly
conservative Sun reported recently
that ANC Deputy President Nelson
Mandela flew into a stoim when
black American leader Jesse Jackson
^iint him the new Jesus Christ.
Clergymen and members of Parlia
ment were outraged at the insult, the
paper said.
Jackson, who flew to London to
meet Mandela again and attend a pop
concert, said the ANC leader had won
the respect of the world “in the same
way Jesus got It, through suffering
(See INSIDE AFRICA. P S>
at the Kichard js. Harnson WDrary.
The collection consists of approx
imate] books on black history
that h„ jeen donated by various
people. Many of the books are out of
print.
The collection is named after Lee,
who was the head librarian at the
library for 37 years. In December
1989, due to extreme cold weather,
water pipe bursts, damaging several
hundred books in the collection. The
damaged books were sent away to be
freeze dried. Some have been return
ed, others were in doubt of being
restored.
“The Libraries have become an im
portant part of our literacy training
effort,” Price told a group of about 40
well-wishers who attended a brief
presentation Friday. “African
Americans have made many signifi
cant contributions to congress,” he
said.
Although the collection is one of the
best collections of black literature, it
was Mollie Lee who made the collec
tion a treasure.
(See LIBRARY, P. 2)
National March
Seeks Abolition
Of Death Penalty
The National Pilgrimage for Aboli
tion of the Death Penaity will begin
the morning of May 5 outside
Florida’s death row at the state
prison near Starke, Fla. From May
5-19, marchers from more than 30
states will make the 400-mile
pilgrimage from Florida’s death row
to inner-city Atlanta, Ga. The
pilgrimage will symbolically reverse
the route many people have
traveled—from impoverishment, il
literacy, racism, and unemployment
to a life of crime and ultimately death
row.
“The message the United States
sends to the rest of the world through
the use of capital punishment is that
we are a people unable to solve our
social problems without the use of
violence,” says John G. Healey, ex
tionalUSA. “FOr'Acourttry Viewed as
a world leader in the protection of
human rights, this is a disastrous
message.”
Participants will reach
out to communities
along the route,
holding educational
forums about the death
penalty, a punishment
which they say has
been abandoned by all
our NATO allies,
except Turkey, which
hasn’t executed
anyone since 1984.
The pilgrimage, sponsored in par
by the Southern Christian Leadershij
Conference, the American Friend
Service Committee, the Inter
religious Task Force on Crimina
Justice, the National Coalition t<
Abolish the Death Penalty, ant
Amnesty International USA, aims t,
discuss and dispel many of whai i
calls the misconceptions abnm
capital punishment.
Participants will reach out to com
munities along the route, holding
educational forums about the dcatt
penalty, a punishment which they sa>
has been abandoned by all our NATC
(See DEATH PENALTY, P. 2)
"Bring Out Your
Beat” Program Adda
New, Unaung Winnera
The Bring Out Your Best pro
gram, which matches local
businesses to area students to en
courage academics and scholar
ship, ushered more winners Into
its ranks at a recent program.
In his usual affable manner,
j.D. Lewis, corporate director of
minority affairs of the Capitol
Broadcasting Co., Inc., emceed
the eighth annual “Bring Out
Your Best Awards” ceremony at
Shaw University recently.
After greetings brought to
those at the banquet awards by
representatives of the City Coun
cil, the City of Raleigh and the
Ralelgh-Wake Citisens Associa
tion, award winners were an
nounced by Ms. Harriet B.
Webster and Vlctoi Coffey.
This year’s scholarship reci
pients from Shaw University
were Ms. Bessie J. Bukhay,
Charles W. Glenn. Ms. Shelley N.
Horton and Scott L. Mitchell.
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