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Sorority Gives Scholarships,
Awards Program For Debutantes
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complex Legal issues
White House Shifts On Civil Riahts Act
BY LARRY STILL
Capitol Newt Service
After the Bush administration
threatened to veto the 1990 Civil
Rights Act, the White House shifted
gears and announced that President
Bush “would like to sign a civil rights
bill” and had only “minimal” dif
ferences with the legislation.
President Bush’s hourlong meeting
with 14 black American leaders to
consider their views on the proposed
bill developed into a lively debate on
how to achieve affirmative action in
! NEWS BRIEFS
COSBY HELPS GANTT
BUI Cosby and his wife,
CaasUle, of Santa Monica, Calif.,
recently contributed $2,000 to the
Harvey Gantt for Senate Cam
paign. The former Charlotte
mayor faces Mike Easley in a
runoff election June 5. The
Democratic winner faces
Republican Sen. Jesse A. Helms.
Last year, comedian Bob Hope
gave $1,000 to Helms’ re-election
campaign.
MANDELA TO VISIT
WASHINGTON, D.C.—South
AMcan black leader Nelson
Mandela will spend 10 days in the
United States starting June 20.
Daring his stay he is scheduled to
meat with President George Bush
la Washington, and take part in a
New York City tickertape
parade. He will visit New York
June 21-22, Boston June 23,
Washington June 24-26, Miami
aad Detroit June 28 and Los
Aageles June 29.
CHANCELLOR ELECTED
FAYETTEVILLE—Dr. Lloyd
V. Hackley has been elected to a
three-year term on the board of
dkectors of the N.C. Child Ad
vocacy Institute headquartered
la Raleigh, effective July 1. The
NCCAI is the only statewide
organization which systematical
ly promotes the health and
physical well-being of children.
MARKETPLACE MALL
Capital Centre Development,
Ltd., announces that the
Marketplace Mali is expanding
and renovating its food court, the
City Club, by 2,MO square feet.
Tfee expansion will double the
available seating at tne
Marketplace in Morrisvllle.
NEW FACILITIES
Garner High School will
,, (See NEWS BRIEFS, P. 2)
Students Demand Change In Poltclee
Massive Call To Washington For Fair Chance To Life
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A national black caucus has issued
a massage it hopes will summon
thousands of students from across the
country to the steps of the White
House
The National Collegiate Black
Caucus, lac., is asking students to
stand up and demand a fair chance to
Ufa and join in a rally in Washington,
r».C. on June 17.
Derrick Johnson, president of the
Society of African-American Culture
at N.C. State University, said the stu
dent call to Washington came out of
the National Black Collegiate Caucus
meeting sealing redirection in cur
rent U.S. domestic and foreign
policies. 1
Johnson said SAAC la an organisa
tion established at NCSU to enhance
the environment on campus for
African-American students. Johnson
said under his leadership, "We’ve
looked at trying to get faculty at the
school to take racial awareness
workshops, we supported blacks who
ran for student offices and organized
a voter registration drive.
"We feel that a lot of racial tension
on campuses across the country is
due to insensitivity to racial issues by
students and many faculties,”
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Johnson said.
There are 2,411 African-American
students at NCSU from 1969 reports
and all these students are members
of SAAC. Johnson, a senior in mass
communications, is part of an up
swing in African-American activism
sweeping the country. As more
African-Americans learn about their
history and begin to question the
system that has oppressed them since
they were brought to this country,
coupled with the 1900s surge in racial
violence, more young people are fin
ding their calling in the struggle for
African-American empowerment.
This action is growing out of a ,
renewed sense of history and culture,
many civil rights leaders say.
In North Carolina, David Miller,
student hotly president at North
Carolina AAT State University, Brian
Nixon at NCSU and Andre Kenlaw at
NCSU organised the N.C. Collegiate
Caucus, of which the national caucus
is an expansion with the same con-,
stitution.
The caucus is asking for donations
and students who want to take the trip
to Washington to call 8SM7S8 and ask
for Derrick Johnson.
On June 16, there will be a support
movement at RFK Stadium as part of
the Budweiser Jazz Festival; a mass
student rally will be held at the
Washington Monument June 17;
awareness education seminars will .
be held at Howard University by
former student civil rights leaders,
civil rights organisations, homeless
organizations, etc., on June 18; on
June 10 there will be a Juneteenth (
(See STUDENTS RALLY, P. 2) (
employment without maintaining job
“quotas” for minorities as several
spokespersons presented different
views on the closed session to the
media later.
“We agreed that our lawyers [from
the NAACP, the Legal Defense Fund,
the Leadership Conference on Civil
Rights and other organizations] will
meet with Attorney General Richard
Thornburgh’s staff to iron out dif
ferences between the administration
recommendations and the Kennedy
Hawkins bill, so the president can
sign the legislation,” said Benjamin
Hooks, NAACP executive director.
Thornburgh had recommended
that Bush veto the bill if it is passed
by Congress because of the
president’s objection to quotas which
are barred by current laws according
to recent Supreme Court decisions.
“We had already arranged to meet
with the attorney general before this
meeting [at the White House] in
tervened,” Hooks later told Capitol
News Service. The sessions with
Thornburgh’s staff may be within the
next two weeks.
The 1990 bill proposed by Rep.
Augustus Hawkins (D-Calif.) and
Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) to
preclude rulings by the current
Supreme Court majority (appointed
by President Reagan) against affir
mative action procedures established
by previous court rulings to prevent
discrimination.
After the White House meeting, Ar
thur Fletcher, newly installed chair
man of the Civil Rights Commission
appointed by Bush, was the first er
son to leave the session to meet the
press. “This bill does not provide
quotas. It sets goals and target
dates,’’ he declared. John Jacob,
president of the National Urban
League and the Black Leadership
Council, called for Bush to “put into
action the words he has articulated
over the past year.”
But Robert Woodson, chairman of
the National Center for Neighborhood
Enterprises, pushed through the
press corps to say he agreed with
Thornburgh’s position on quotas. He
told the media, “Poor blacks are be
ing exploited by civil rights leaders to
protect their own jobs.” He was join
ed by Buster Soaries, assistant
minister of the Shiloh Baptist Church
in Trenton, N.J., who was invited to
the White House meeting. Joshua
Smith, founder and president of the
multimillion-dollar Maxima Corp.,
also expressed concern about quotas
“The consensus of the group was
stated by Hooks,” Eddie Williams,
the president of the Joint Center for
(See CIVIL RIGHTS, F. 2)
Operation Eagle Planned
“Drug Dogs” Ready For Hunting
searching
Vehicles,
Suspects
Eight Malinois and one beagle will
assist Operation Eagle in catching
drivers impaired by drugs. The
malinois (pronounced mal-en-wahz)
and beagle are “drug dogs” with a
sense of smell so keen they can detect
the odor of residue and even mari
juana seeds in a car’s ashtray.
Money confiscated
from drug dealers is
used to help in another
area of the war
against drugs, remov
ing drunks from the
road.
Operation Eagle, a special DWI en
forcement program of the Depart
ment of Crime Control and Public
Safety, will be conducted in Raleigh
June 1. The operation combines the
efforts of the North Carolina State
Highway Patrol, Alcohol Law En
forcement and local law enforcement
agencies.
Over the past two years the opera
tion has been successful resulting in
1,161 arrests for driving while im
paired. In 1968, six operations across
the state resulted in 1,215 arrests, in
cluding 237 DWIs. Last year Opera
tion Eagle was conducted nine times
with 4,566 total arrests of which 924
were for drunk driving.
Along with the drug dogs, this year
the North Carolina State Highway
Patrol will be using devices known as
Alco-Sensors to help determine if
motorists are driving under the legal
limit for alcohol. Alco-Sensors are
hand-held units used to detect blood
(See DRUG DOGS, P. 2)
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Tension is increasing across the
country between blacks, whites and
immigrants in a conflict rooted in the
American dream where others scale
the economic ladder to success leav
ing the impoverished black, especial
ly the African-American male,
frustrated and unable to get a toehold
on the lowest rung.
In New York, Washington, Miami,
Chicago and Los Angeles, blacks are
boycotting Arabs, Koreans and other
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immigrants say tney nave access to
credit through informal credit pools,
family, people in the community.
To compound this cultural conflict,
African-American writers point out
that even with all the present-day
troubles, poverty, drugs, homicide,
slavery and racism remain the most
Don’t dismiss the term “endangered
species” because it’s something we don’t
want to hear. Let’s look at it and do what we
can to address it.
—Patricia Timmons-Goodson
businesses in the black communities
while blacks are denied the financial
resources provided by banks to the
other ethnic groups. However, many
the black female has a sense of being
empowered to succeed without the
black male which is leaving an even
deeper emotional scar. New Age
important formative event in the
African-American character. The
African-American today is just a
“modern black boy.”
Fayetteville State University
Chancellor Dr. Lloyd V. Hackley
says, “Studies show that by the year
2000,70 percent of all black males will
be alcoholics, addicted to drugs, in
jail or dead.” Hackley will address
this in a black issues forum along
with four other leaders.
“When I look back 10 years and I
draw the lines from then until now, I
say statistics are not far off and
we’ve got to do something about it,”
Hackley said.
North Carolina Public Television
will probe part of this conflict in a
"Black Issues Forum” on June 5,
‘Can Black Males Be Successful?”
Hackley and others will look at the
black male life in an attempt to
(See BLACK MALES, P. 3)
Gantt Meeting
Easley In Town
Hall-TV Debate
Senate canaidate Michael F.
Easley said he was not giving up the
liberal vote and thought that he was
progressive enough so that all North
Carolinians can “feel comfortable
with me.”
Harvey B. Gantt, a former
Charlotte mayor, will meet Easley in
a June 5 runoff to determine who will
challenge Republican Sen. Jesse A.
Helms.
Gantt says it’s time to “retire Mr.
Helms.” Recently, Gantt received a
$2,000 contribution from comedian
and television entertainer Bill Cosby
and his wife Camille, for his cam
paign for Senate.
The North Carolina Democratic
Party will go to the polls again on
June 2 in a debate to see who will best
represent the concerns of North
Carolinians in Washington, prior to
the June S runoff election.
The debate will be televised on
WTVD-TV 11 at 7 p.m.
Moderated by WTVD-TV 11 News
anchors Larry Stogner and Miriam
Thomas, each candidate will take
questions from a specially selected
audience of key Democatic leaders
and citizens from throughout the
Channel 11 viewing area. Gantt and
Easley will also entertain questions
from the moderators as well as from
reporters representing the stations
across the state scheduled to broad
cast this debate. Those stations in
(See GANTT, P. 2)
Woman Elected
Poet Adjutant
For Legion Here
BY JOHN THOMPSON MOOKb, jk
Contributing Writer
On Sunday, May 27, the Charles T.
Norwood Post 157 of the American
Legion met at its headquarters, 416
E. Cabarrus St., at 5 p.m.
For the first time in its history, a
female member was elected
unanimously by its membership for
the position of post adjutant for
1990-91. Ms. Margaret Snelling, who
served in the Army Nurse Corps dur
ing World War II, was elected. Other
officers were Julius R. Haywood as
commander for the fifth time and
Louis Dunbar was elected finance of
ficer.
The newly elected officials for the
first time will be legionnaires Brodie
Patterson as second vice
commander, Robert Upper-man as
first vice-commander and Edward J.
Boone as sergeant-at-arms. Legion
naire Willie P. Leach was re-elected
for his second term as the post
chaplain. This writer will serve as the
assistant to the adjutant.
Theoldedst member and past post
commander still living in Raleigh is
Charles G. Irving, Sr., of 615 S. East
St., who is a World War I veteran and
(See LEGIONNAIRE, P. 2>