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JULY 3, 1990
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BY JESSICA LEE
Special (a Hie CAROLINIAN
Rick Williams, owner of
Milwaukee’s Famous Amos Cookie
Studio, persuaded nine of his friends
to spend $500 apiece to dine on a lun
nch of cold cuts.
A selling point: Qdtts right in front
of the guest of honor, President Bush.
Traditionally, many blacks have
favored the Democrats. But
Williams, 38, his friends and other
black, upwardly mobile professionals
are taking a new look at the
Republicans.
“There’s a nucleus of African
Americans in this town who have said
we are no longer going to let it be
taken for granted that all African
Americans are going to be
Democrats,” Williams says.
Williams’ comments—echoed by
black professionals at other Bush
stops—are seen by Republicans as a
reflection of Bush’s popularity.
“He’s clearly well received in the
black community,’’ says Mary
Matalin of the Republican National
committee. “I do think we’re (the
party) making great strides.”
Bush is trying to broaden that ap
peal. In Chicago, where Democrat]
have dominated politics, he made t
special pitch to minorities: “I an
here today to throw open the doors t<
the two-party system. I am invitinf
Chicago to return to the party of Lin
coln!”
Republican lawyer Todd Miles, 36,
says Bush’s appeal is working for two
reasons:
(See GEORGE BUSH, P. 2)
rubuc Hearing Requested
Judge Defends Conduct Charge
violating
Lawyers’
Ethics Code
A Wake County District Court
judge who testified before the
Judicial Standards Commission on an
improper conduct charge waived con
fidentiality and became the second
judge in the commission’s history to
request a public hearing.
Judge Stafford G. Bullock defended
himself against a charge of improper
conduct during a trial when he
ordered a lawyer, Richard N. “Gus”
Gusler, into custody. Because the
courtroom lacked a holding cell, the
bailiff handcuffed Gusler to a chair
for about 45 minutes.
Testifying before the commission,
Bullock said that if he had to do it
over he would issue formal contempt
proceedings against the lawyer. Dur
ing the proceedings in Wake District
Court, in March 1989, Bullock never
issued s contempt citation before
ordering the bailiff to take custody of
Gusler.
Bullock said Gusler provoked the
incident by asking to withdraw from
a case and repeatedly refusing to give
a reason and telling the judge “do
what you have to do."
Gusler said that giving a reason
would have meant disclosing con
fidential information about his client
and violating the lawyers’ ethic code.
Bullock said he had not asked for
deatsUs, but for a reason. He said he
needoa a reason to allow the attorney
to withdraw and after reaching an
impasse ordered Gusler into custody
and warned he wouuld take other
measures against him.
Bullock told Gusler that he would
not in the future grant continuances
for him, appoint him to represent in
digents or accept his recommenda
tions and would require his clients to
plead guilty or not guilty as charged.
The county’s chief District Court
judge, George F. Bason, later
ordered that none of Gualer’s cases
be taken before Judge Bullock. The
order remains in effect and the
Judicial Standards Commission con
tinues disciplinary proceedings
against the judge initiated by special
counsel, James J. Conun, who said
the judge’s actions amounted to con
duct prejudicial to the administration
of justice.
The proceeding became the first for
the commissioi in public in a decade
when Bullock requested a public
hcoring.
The commission members include
judges, lawyers and non-lawyers and
hop not announced its decision that
could recommend that the Supreme
Court censure or remove Bullock.
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WINSTON-SALEM—The Z. Smith
Reynolds Foundation recently an
nounced a major new initiative, the
Opportunities for Famililes Fund,
designed to help move poor families
from dependency to self-sufficiency.
Following a two-stage, year-tong
grants competition, the foundation
will select up to five counties for
grants up to $1 million each to imple
ment structural reforms and im
provements in their comprehensive
efforts to help poor and dependent
families.
All 100 counties in North Carolina
are eligible to apply for the grants,
and the grants competition is open on
ly to county governments in North
Carolina.
The Opportunities for Families
Fund represents one of the largest in
itiatives in the M-year history of the
foundation.
“The purpose of the Opportunties
for Families Fund is to encourage
counties to rededicate themselves to
fundamental reform and improve
ment in their efforts to help poor
families escape the dutches of pover
ty,” said Thomas W. Lambeth, ex
ecutive director of the Z. Smith
Reynolds Foundation.
Mary Mountcastle, a trustee of the
foundation and chair of the commit
tee that developed the OFF initiative,
said, “By establishing the OFF pro
gram, the foundation U offering coun
ty governments the chance to rethink
bow public and private aervicea are
delivered to their citizens, what gaps
in services exist, and bow better to
meet the range of needs that families
in poverty have.
“The demographic data are alarm
ing-illiteracy, infant mortality, teen
pregnancies, and welfare denenden
cy all run rampant,” Ms. Mountcas
tlesaid. “The human tragedy is in the
housing projects of every city, the
back roads of every farm communi
ty, and hollows of every mountain
hamlet. Poverty and dependency are
everywhere around us in North
Carolina. They extract a growing toll
on the lives of our citizens and on the
(See GRANTS, P.2)
Inside Africa
Mandela Thanks America For Support
BY LARRY A. STILL
Nelson Mendels “Is visiting the
United States through the generosity
of the American people,” Roger
Wilkins, national visit coordinator,
said in Washington at the
Metropolitan African Methodist
Episcopal Church before the world
popular African National Congress
deputy president arrived in New
Yorkto begin a 10-day, eight-city tour
of the country.
He is coming “to thank the
American people fir their crucial
support over the years (and) he to
asking for continuations of sanctions
until there to a new constitution and
one-person, one-vote in South
Africa,” said Lindiwe Mabuza, chief
U.S. representative of the ANC. “A
third goal to to raise financial sup
port... to pay for his visit, and for
humanitarian projects in South
Africa, many of which are currently
supported from ANC funds,” Mabuse
added. She estimated the cost of the
trip at 9400,000 to 1800,000.
In addition to raising funds for ex
nensoo. nreanliais honed to raise
mUUooa ofdollars toaid the ANC
liberation struggle and support
educational and charitable programs
for the victims of racist apartheid,
according to officials. Funds were
raised at public events costing |s to
m and at receptione and dinners
costing U00 to 91,800, Mabuse said. In
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a national executive committee
which consisted of Mabuza, Wilkins,
director Hon
iara Lucy,
the American
County and
Union, which
led major labor organizations in help
ing to sponsor the Mandela tour.
After arriving in New York to be
welcomed by Gov. Mario Cuomo and
Mayor David Dinkins with a ticker
tape parade, a City Hall reception
and Harlem meetings with African
American leaden, Mandela address
ed the United Nations, met with
President George Bush at the White
House, spoke at a Joint session of Con
gress and had breakfast with the Con
gressional Black Caucus in addition
to visiting Boston, Atlanta, Miami,
Detroit, Los Angeles and Oakland. He
was welcomed by local reception
committees headed by black mayors
in most of the cities.
The massive activities ranged from
ecumenical religious services, a
Yankee Stadium rally, meetings with
corporate presidents and gnti
apartheid activists to a visit to Dr.
Martin Luther King’s grave, receiv
ing honorary degrees from historical
ly black colleges and universities, in
cluding St. Augustine’s College in
Raleigh, and attending Hollywood
receptions and union visits.
However, Mabuza cautioned that
the schedule was “subject to change
and reduction as health, logistics and
security considerations are examined
in further detail.” A physician travels
with the 73-year-old Mandela, but he
is not ailing, Ms. Mabuza emphasiz
ed. ___
The national Mandela reception
committee comprised prominent
Americans from many fields such as
(See INSIDE AFRICA, P. 2)
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States Making Cuts
In Programs Needed
For Women, Infants
BY BENJAMIN F. CHAVIS. JR.
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To our dismay, many states are now following the lead of the
federal government in catting more programs that provide direct
assistance to poor women and children. A large percentage of these
women and children are from the African-American, Latino
American, Native American and other racial and ethnic com
munities. This emerging situation is another example of how our
society inflicts cruelty on “the least of these" in our midst.
The new targets of federal and state budget axes are women and
children who are already considered to be “high-risk" for malnutri
tion. The official name of the program to he cut drastically is the
Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infanta and
Children.
The Bush Administration concluded that cuts
in WIC were necessary because of increases
in food costs. Yet the Department of
Agriculture has food surpluses in some food
items.
“*-■ w or all ttfc poblfc welfare programs in the United States, the WIC
program has been evaluated to he one of the moot successful. The
program ha* provided millions of low-income familieo with voucher*
to buy bade food item* inch a* milk, cheese, infant formula, cereal,
egg* and orange juke.
The Reagan administration was not able to cut the WIC program
because of it* effectiveness in saving lives and helping to prevent
cases of infant mortality. According to recent reports, nearly half of
the states have responded by eliminating hundreds of thousands
from the WIC program. This nation has its priorities in the wrong
place. The WIC program currently serves one-third of ail babies
born in the nation and the cuts in this program will have fatal after
shocks on millions of persons.
The Bush administration concluded that cuts in WIC were
necessary because of increases In food coots. Yet the U.S. Depart
ment of Agriculture has food surpluses in some food items. Also, now
(See WIC DEFENSE, P. 2)