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High Stakes Texas Dice Dame Raided
Three Masked Men Make Off With Loot
FORT worth, Texas
AP)—Three masked men who shot
tour people to death in a police-style
raid on a high-stakes dice game left
thousands of dollars behind—and still
managed to scoop up “quite a lot of
money,” police said.
The men wore masks and
camouflage clothing when they broke
into the game at the Glass Key Cafe,
shouting “Task force!” early last
Monday.
Three people were wounded in the
attack, one critically.
Capt. Randy Ely said the robbers
fled without taking some cash on the
gaming table, and investigators
found other money in the pockets of
some of the victims.
“This all happened rather
quickly,” he said. “We’re still certain
they got away with quite a lot of
money.”
Police gave no estimate of the
amount taken but said as much as
$400,000 was involved in the dice
game.
Investigators last week searched a
stolen car believed to have been
driven by the men. The car was found
by police about five miles from the
dice game.
Police Chief Thomas Windham said
as many as 15 people were inside.
Some scrambled into a back room
and others ran outside to escape the
gunfire.
“it annears to have been a robbery
of a gambling game," Windham said.
"We have information tt)t it was an
extremely high-dollar gambling
game with tens of thousands of
dollars involved.”
On Oct. 2, several men hid inside
NC’s Tight Labor
Market Benefits
Blacks & Women
North Carolina’s tight labor'
markets last year benefited women
more than men, and blacks more
than whites as jobless rates for
blacks and women declined.
Still, figures showed that men had
the lowest jobless rate of any
nearly one percentage point, accor
ding to figures released last week by
the U.S. Department of Labor.
Labor experts attributed the
changes in the jobless rates to the in
creasing number of service-relaed
jobs in North Carolina. Last year, two
out of three jobs created were In the
Service and retail sectors.
Because women and blacks have
less job experience, they most often
All lower-paying service jobs, of
ficials said.
. Last year, North Carolina's jobless
rate was 3.5 percent, down from 3.5
percent in 1988. The statewide rate
was the thlrd-loweet in the United
States, behind Hawaii and Nebraska.
The U.S. rate was 8.3 percent.
The North Carolina rate for men
was 3.3 percent, 19 from 3.1 percent
But the rate for women fell to 3.8 per
cent, down from 4.3 percent in 1988.
Among blacks, the jobless rate for
men fell to six percent from 8.4 per
cent. The drop among black women
was even more dramatic—4.8 percent
demographic group in North
Carolina, although that rate rose
slightly.
The jobless rate for blacks was
more than twice the rate for whites,
But the jobless rate for blacks fell by
the cafe and opened fire during a
gambling game, Ely said. One man
was killed. No arrests have been
made and police said they could not
say for certain that the latest attack
is related.
“Essentially, you’ve got three
blacks wearing ski masks that raid a
dice game. That’s the similarity at
this pont,’’ Ely said. “At this point in
time, we just don’t have more to go on
than a generalized description.”
Police said the three men went in
side the cafe and a fourth man stayed
outside.
in me earner auacK, me men aia a
not identify themselves as police, Ely t
said.
The bar, in a poor neighborhood, is c
home to gambling, drug deals and c
violence, Windham said. Lt. Don f
Gerland, a vice officer, said gambl- 1
ing is widespread in the city, but the >
amount of money in last Monday’s
game was unusually high.
One of the victims had $60,000 in
cash in his pockets and wore a bullet
proof vest, police said. The man died
of a gunshot wound to the head.
Two people were killed inside;
nouier was ueaa on arrival ai a
ospital and a fourth died in surgery.
One man was listed in critical con
ition with a gunshot wound to the
best. Another man was reported in
sir condition, and cafe owner Huey
rou said he was nicked in the ear
rith a shotgun pellet.
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Voting Says Handshake
Comment Misunderstood
ATHENS, Ga. (AP)-Andrew
Young aaya hi* comment* about
«h*k<ng hand* on the campaign trail
have been misunderstood and given
racial overtones that were not
intended.
Young, who is seeking to become
Georgia’s first black governor, was
asked by a reporter from the
Philadelpla Inquirer about his
apparent reluctance to offer his hand
when campaigning in white
neighborhoods. Hi replied that he
observed certain social customs
when campaigning in south
Georgia's small towns.
“There’s a good reason,” Young
told the reporter. “When I was
growing up you could get killed for
that, literally. Maybe you don’t ever
outgrow some of those cautions.”
Young said following a candidates’
forum in Athens last week that his
comments, which were picked up by
other news organisations, were
misinterpreted.
“That lady didn’t understand,”
Young said of the Philadelphia
reporter. “I simply said that
politicians shouldn’t be discourteous.
I don’t interrupt people to shake their
hands at dinner. I don’t interrupt
them in elevators. It's Southern
politeness, much like many woman in
the South who still octane! their hands
first.
“She said I wasn’t aggressive
toward white women as other
Candida tee. What happened was I
wm running down die street in a
parade and quickly shaking some
hands. She was trying to make
something racial nut of it”
Ms. & A. Williams
Graduates From
NSU With Honors
Shereen Antoinette Williams of
Raleigh received her bachelor of
science degree In health services
management from Norfolk State
University on Saturday, May-13. Ms.
Williams completed her studies in
December 1969 and returned to
march with 600 other graduates at the
Norfolk Scope Convention Center.
The commencement address was
delivered by Gov. L. Douglas Wilder
of Virginia, the first blade governor
in the United States.
Shereen is the daughter of Melvin
D. and Bernice M. Williams of
Raleigh. She is a graduate of Gamer
Senior High School, Gamer.
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