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RALEIGH. N.C.
VOL. 50, NO. 3
TUESDAY'
DECEMBER 4.1990
DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST
CIKl/^l r QQPY
IN HALEIGH
ELSEWHERE
Industry Inefficiency
-
Down Drain In Waste
North Carolinians may sooo face a
health crisis of cataclysmic propor
tions because politicians and the
Bush Administration are (Siting to do
something about the problem today
said the executive director of
Families USA and other health care
According to the findings in a study
released by N.C. Fair Share, pro
jected health expenditures in the year
2000 could be reduced by at least (8.4
billion by limiting waste and
eliminating insurance industry ineffi
ciency.
Unless our state and national
legislators act now, today's health
care crisis will turn into a disaster of
cataclysmic proportions by the year
MOO,” said Lynice Williams, N.C.
Fair Share’s Health Care Campaign
Coordinator. “We must not begin the
next century without having a health
care system in place to provide high
quality, comprehensive care to all
our dtixens,” she said.
The study calculates that by the
year MOO under the current system,
health care costs in the state will in
crease by a whopping 128 percent,
from $12.3 billion in 1990 to $32.2
billion. This amounts to $4,170 on a
per capita basis, up from $1,833 in
1990 and $773 in MOO. The changes
evaluated by the report would reduce
per capita expenditures in the year
2000 by $824.
“How many of our families will
face health crises they can’t afford
before the politicians wake up and do
something about these health costs?
Wake up, Wake up, President Bush,
before health costs become
America’* nightmare,” said Ron
Pollack, Executive Director of
Families USA.
North Carolina Fair Share revealed
that if its health care program is
adopted, not only would all citizens be
guaranteed health insurance
coverage, but the savings from cost
controls and elimination of insurance
industry inefficiency would reduce
the overall cost to the state by at least
20 percent.
The study shows that the savings
from elimiating private health in
surance
cost
for every citizen in the'state, in th<
year 2000, the saving from Jusi
(See HEALTH COSTS, P. 2)
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BY DR. ALBERT JABS
Aa Analysis
_Pyfc> Ualrwralty'a Eag
program t« the wound* of society.
Shaw University, back to its in
ception in 1805, has always had a
Golf crisis Has
As a result of this crisis,
(ttsertty. with Dr. Urabi
develop a book of readings
assistiag the student in conflict
resolution and
management—another in.
ly contributions to the public
debate on the Middle East fan
i an an orgeat need in eof
(See SHAW, P.2)
Campaign
Results
Questioned
The Judicial Standards Commis
sion, at the request of Chief Justice
•James G. Exum, Jr. of the State
Supreme Court, will study whether
changes should be made in North
Carolina’s Code of Judicial Conduct,
including the rule governing political
activity by candidates in judicial
The study will be made in the wake
of controversial judicial election
cauptifne waged, in the state in die
Nov. g elections.
Judge Gerald Arnold, chairman of
Justice Exum
tht rmrnnliiion. mtff,
asked the commission to study
whether changes should be made in
the state’s code, “particularly in light
of the recent revisions made by the
American Bar Association in its
recommended code.”
Judge Arnold said the commission,
which shares responsibility for enfor
cing the code with the Supreme
Court, welcomes the opportunity to
look into the matter because of its im
portance to the state.
The chief justice asked the commis
sion to hold “at least one duly
publicised public hearing in each of
our four judicial divisions” during the
study, at which political problems
(See JUDICIAL, P. 2)
Inside Africa
Police
Demonstrators
ihwi Nnw v
AMbough tht constitutional Mistype
tloM to drew up a new conetitutioo
tor a non-radal and democratic na
tion in South Africa are due early in
1981, the ANC, Civic Aaaodation of
the Southern Traaavaal and other
biach activiata are perturbed by the
continuance of the TOwnahip Councils
which are a strong structure of the
apartheid system that hold down the
blacks of the country In subjugation.
Currently, black activists are wag
tag.'* straggle against the
Township Councils which they want
to see disbanded before the start of
the Mad-white negotiations for a
But last Saturday, President de
Klerk’s police and military forces
clashed with black activists who were
demonstrating against the system of
black Town Councils around Johan
nesburg and other main urban
cantata. f.
In the skirmishes that followed, at
least one person died and 18 w ere
wounded, six severely, from police
gunshots. But the demonstrators
countered the police action by
throwing recks, bottles, lumps of con
crete and petrol bombs. Several
police van* were damaged, and one
policeman waa Injured.
The clash began when a Johan
nesburg magistrate rejected a march
by demonstrators after they had been
granted permission to march by the
Johannesburg City Council and Traf
fic Department.
The demonstrators demanded the
closure of the Township Councils and
the resignation of their members.
Nelson Mandela, who has recently
returned to South Africa after a most
successful fundraising and morale
boosting campaign in the Orient and
Australia, contends that peaceful
demonstrations are a part of the
democratic process and should not be
interfered with by the police and
military. Winnie, his wife, said angri
ly at a funeral in Atteridgeville.
Pretoria, that demonstrions were the
only way for the oppressed Africans
to express their grievances The
ssssyisaa?*
Already one-third of South Africa's
black Township Councils have been
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fetewhara. The thaw la dkacM by Michael J, and Anita
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tom. N.C. fen lata m fta mu Mr. Jaaas (Ml) it mm
h tka Mm af MaM (caatar) aai Want a Pairix af
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Juws states, “I worked hard with bricks Mi Mortar at t
I an happy It «WI roMhros and
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N.C. Educators Exposed To Hard
Sell Insurance Campaign Tactics
educators m several school
districts across the state are being
subjected to hard-sell by
insurance agents against their will
according to information obtained by
the North Carolina Association of
Educators. It is part of an effort to
provide employees withaplan of flex
ible compensation benefits under See
ttan 125 of the IRS Code, and under
legislation passed by the 1990 General
Assembly.
Hie State Board of Education has
adopted a schedule for implementing
the state legislation in the spring of
1»1. In the meantime, some local
school districts are moving ahead
with a local plan.
“Educators are being told by
agents that they are required by law
to attend a meeting, while others are
being told their superintendent man
dated their attendance," said NCAE
President Julia Krou. “We want to
make sure school employees know
their rights and are not intimidated
into listening to a hard-sell eunraign
against their will.”
When NCAE asked for specification
as to the legal basis of these man
datory meetings, a representative of
Great American Reserve Company
referred to tne noo-diwmmmatiw.
clause of the Internal Revenue Ser
vice. Every school employee is being
forced to attend a meeting, listen to
the hard sell campaign about dif
ferent types of insurance as well as
the fUriKjo enm|»«iaMtfain plan, ang
then sign a release stating the inten
tion of participating or not par
ticipating in the plan.
NCAE attorney Tom Stern stated,
dated meetings. "Th
suggests they make the
ticipating in a meeting
those who desire such
(See HARD SELL. P.2)
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mtm% at vtee-preaMent at the*fake Ceuaty Fatter Parent Ataaciattwt, Mata
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