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i* ' jL+i-i&M.'.'. . .. 4.. '. v.; OUNIAN I SINGLE COPY OC IN RALEIGH ELSEWHERE 300 i » PlayMakers To Present Moliere's **The Miser, ” Starting Feb. 2nd. See Page 20 Wake County Sets Plans With Homeless Children During Month. See Page 22 Jan. 15th Deadline Nears 'ip O ^ ■ p v£ Blacks, Workdrb Take Stand Vs. Gulf War President George Bush says that by Jan. IS Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein must leave Kuwait or face the conse quences—the possible destruction of Iraq. Hussein is racing to acquire nuclear weapons. Already he has built and threatened to use weapons of mass destruction, including an arsenal of biological and chemical weapons. Officials say it is evident that Iraq is making no move to withdraw its forces from Kuwait and the Defense Department has begun vaccinating troops in the Persian Gulf as a protec tion against germ warfare. As Jan. IS approaches, fewer alter natives exist to resolve the crisis. Some Americans do not agree with in itiating a violent clash because another nation has not agreed to the president’s timetable for uncondi tional surrender. Rev. Leon White of the United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice said African American Christian ministers and religious were pleading with Bush no) to go to war with Iraq, but to negotiate a peaceful settlement. There are others who are protesting, including Duke University studenti and faculty who recently staged s dramatic “die-in.” Approximately 700 students took part in the protest In dawntowt Durhan^to support a peaceful resolu tion to th» Persian Gulf crisis. Slna Dee. 7,1890, those students have Join ed with other area groups to organize a “City for Peace” on Jan. 14. Disgusted at the prospect of blue collar American families bearing the brunt of a rich man’s war, a multiracial organization of BOO cotton mill workers, farmers, truck drivers and domestics is launching a national workers’ vigil to protest the U.S. buildup in the Persian Gulf. m. .ibers of the Piedmont Peace Project are urging workers across the United States to observe a silent coffee break each day to pray for a diplomatic solution to the Gulf crisis. Commitment to Join the silent coffee break campaign, scheduled for Jan. 10-19, are already rolling in from North and South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, New York, Massachusetts, Washington, Penn sylvania, Virginia, Tennessee, Florida, Kentucky and Washington, D.C. “Our memorial wall is not like the Vietnam Memorial Wall,” aald Cor ine Cannon, the first black woman employed by the mill and board chair of PPP. “This wall is meant to pre vent war and to honor the living. In a working community like ours, nearly every family has someone in Saudi Arabia. It is the children of working families—black and white—who will die in this war. So we will pray the loudest to solve the crisis with (See PROTEST, P. 2) Shots Given Troops For Germ Warfare WASHINGTON, D.C.-Vaccination of U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf as protection against germ warfare by Iraq began last week, the Pen tagon said recently. The Defense Department also an nounced that an additional 10,000 American troops had arrived in the Gulf area, including elements of the famous “Big Red One" 1st Infantry Division from Fort Riley, Kan. The U.S. force in the region now stands at 33$,000. The Pentagon said 345.000 troops from allied nations are in the area. The Iraqis, meanwhile, have added 20.000 troops to their force in Kuwait and southern Iraq, Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams said, br inging their total to $30,000. Most of the extra forces have been deployed in southern Iraq, west of Kuwait, he said, extending the Iraqi line of defense against a U.S. flanking Williams said the Iraqis also have deployed 200 mdre armored person nel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles, for a total of 2,700, and an additional 300 artillery pieces, for a total of 3,000. He gave no comparable figures for U.S. forces. “It’s clear evidence that Iraq is making no move to withdraw its forces," he said. Williams would not divulge details of the vaccination program, including . how long it would take. But he said the first shots would be given “within the next day or so.” The Defense Department last month confirmed that it planned to vaccinate soldiers against unspecified germ warfare agents to offset a possible biological attack by Iraqi forces. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is known to be developing biological warfare agents, and Williams said the United States began laying the groundwork for a large-scale vac cination program “a day or so” after Iraq invaded Kuwait Aug. 2. It has taken five months to begin (See VACCINATIONS, P. 2) Kenya Med. Center Telia Breakthrough RESEARCHERS CLAIM AIDS CURE 98 Percent Patients Cured! A medical research institute in Africa has published a report claim ing a successful treatment with a newly developed drug for AIDS. The new drug was announced dur ing a press conference and reportedly developed by Dr. Davey Koech and Arthur Obel of the Kenya Medical Research Institute, in Nairobi, Kenya. According to a published report, “Kemron,” or "oral alpha interferon,” has successfully treated 101 AIDS patients, most of whom were near death, and of the total M were “free of all symptoms,” in cluding appetite loss, fatigue, fever, diarrhea and swolen lymph nodes, within a 041 week period. Additional ly, “There were only two recorded side effects: increased sexual libido and appetite.” Oral alpha-interferon is also inex pensive and “almost any person with AIDS will be able to finance his/her treatment,” the report said. In Japan, a three-million-unit vial of natural IFN-alpha, which produces 30,000 doses, costs only $200. The IFN Alpha used in the study of the 101 pa tients was manufactured in Japan by the Hayashibara Pharmaceutical Co. The very low dose of alpha-interferon (two units per kilogram of body weight) is delivered in a wafer which is dissolved in the mouth once daily. In addition to Kenya, clinical tests of the drug were successfully conducted in Texas and Japan, the report stated. The first patient was treated with Kemron for six weeks and then taken off the drug; after monitoring for nine months, the patient showed no need for further treatment. Dr. Obel also cited the case of a patient who came to the institute in March 1990 weighing only 49 pounds. Started on (See AIDS DRUG, P. 2) CLEAMN6 THE AREA—Met, Emorgtncy ptmnnal Md aqiripmout tend a hand hi cteaitag Mu ana during a minor auta mithap recently in Sootfcoeet RaMgh. Early morning commuter traffic encountered tlglit (Mays widte worfcmer ._. .. m ... rlmmmm'ti removed a pick-up track that had overturned a grader There ware no Injuries reported in the incident. (Photo by Apple Ona Hour Photographers) African-American Students Say Not Satisfied With Southern Schools GREENSBORO (AP)-lf J.J. McEachern bad It to do over again, be says he wouldn’t attend a predominantly white university. He’d probably pick Howard Univer sity, a historically black institution, instead of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. “There an a lot of changes that need to be made at UNCG that have taken such a ong time. It’s really frustrating,” said McEachern, presi dent of Hie School’s Neo-Black Socie ty. “A lot of black students an dissatisfied.” Among minority students in the South, that dissatisfaction is Father Martin Careter To Return To City For King Holiday Services One of the community’s leading ministers who has dedicated his life to the prophesy and teaching of Chris tian values returns to deliver a ser vice commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Rev. Martin J. Carter, former ly of the Office for Black Ministry and Evangelisation of the Raleigh Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church and author for many years of “Pen and Cross,” a weekly column in The CAROLINIAN, continues to share his knowledge and expertise in the historical and practical tradition of African-American religious values. Currently, Rev. Carter lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., and Is director of the Office of Black Ministry, 300 Vander bilt Avenue, Queen of All Saints Rec tory, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11205-3806. Following a King celebration in “Pan and Cross,” Rev. Carter made these observations which apply to no ble and spiritual Integrity and which serve as a prelude to the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday celebration on Jan. 31. King’s birthday is Jan. U. “We must come together as a com munity. Ws cannot afford to be com petitive with one another. We cannot affbrd to internalise values of class and economic differences. Wo cannot afford the violence of looking up or down at one another. Ws cannot af ford to let ego and pettiness got in our internalization of rugged in dividual or competition among us will desfeoyus We must take a dialogical poslbre with one another and work together to achieve our ends. If the African-American community of this city, this state, this nation comas together as a community, there Is no obstacle that we cannot overcome. We can achieve any goal. "We must take charge. Our children come from a tradition, which was smelting steel, writing books, and performing antiseptic surgery before' Europe became civilised. They are capable of inven tion, creativity, and the pursuit of ex cellence. We must give the direction. “We must take charge. Our children came from a tradition which gave the world monotheism, which gave Christianity its founder, the development of the doctrine of the Trinity, church polity, and religious feasts and ritual. There is no excuse for our children to be without faith or without a church home. “We must take charge. Our children come from a tradition which gave to the world some of the moot important Institutions of learning that ever existed. These Institutions prepared the pharaohe of Egypt, the emperors of Rome, and the philosophers of Greece. Wo must be present in significant numbers and in professional positions in the schools where our children are prepared academically. “We cannot expect others to do for us what we are more than capable of doing for ourseives. we must use up the ‘btoodsfol"^ banner’ eH* move up to the top of the mountain. We oan control our destiny and make a way for our chldren. We come Just as we are to fee fountain of grace.’’ In UK Father Carter was a foun (See REV. CARTER. P. 2) widespread. A report issued last week says black students on predominantly white campuses, and white students on predominantly black campuses, are more likely to feel under-served and under-appre ciated. In fact, about half of the students in both groups said they would not select the same college again. This is one of the key findings in the repot, “Racial Issues on Campus: How Students View Them.” It draws its conclusions from a survey of more than 5,000 students at 40 predominantly white and predominantly black colleges and universities in 14 states. In North Carolina, students at five huinrieally black institutions were surveyed by the Southern Regional Education Board. The survey suggests that colleges and universities need to com municate better with their minority students, board officials said l ne siuay saia minorities, especial ly black students on predominantly white campuses, expressed the feel ing that their colleges did not give them enough opportunity to express their concerns and relate their ex periences. “This finding is particularly telling at a time when colleges and univer sities *re experiencing a growing number of racial incidents,’’ said Ansley A. Abraham, the study ’s prin cipal author. “It’s very clear that students want an opportunity to tell the institutions how they feel about their experiences on campuses. Certainly, this would be the first step for any institution with a sincere interest in addressing racia conflict ” At UNCG, administrators need to listen more, McEachern said. “There are black students who want to see change on this campus See NOT SATISFIED. P 2) ecu MMK—JwMt Hardy. at tha city, County Buraau nf McMMcath shawa hraaatl|aMa| Mril ducting far flagarpriatc In m apparent breatda at a Hna raitaurant la Saatkaast RaMgh aailar this waak. Na impacts had apprebaadad la IDs earn. (Mata by Apple OaaHaurPhatographan) ill Local YMCA Community Cornerstone Fran CAROLINIAN Staff Report!, The YMCA movement, after begin ning in London, England on June 6, 1844 by George Williams and others, has served as a cornerstone for many communities responding to spiritual and social needs of young men The Garner Road Young Men’s Christian Association continues as a community anchor with its history reaching out of the Bloodworth Street YMCA which opened on June 16,1946, with Ernest Raiford, a young Howard University graduate, employed as its first director. In 1896 the building which now stands at 600 Bloodworth St. was built by the state for use as a deaf and blind school for Meeks. Several years after the school had been relocated In alternate fadlttka, the building was leased and utilized as a YMCA-USO Club program. In 1946 a board of managers of local citizens was developed and policies positioned for the foundation for the new association which was named Bloodworth Street Young Men’s Christian Association. Today the Raleigh Institute of Cosmetology, owned by Grady Perkins and George Spaulding, it located at the site and the YMCA facilities at 2235 Old Garner Road are under the executive direction of Norman E. Day. Because of Raleigh’s close proximi ty to Fort Bragg and Camp LeJeune, the USO Center provided a mecca for servicemen through the war years. After the war, in June 1946, many of Raieigh’s outstanding Mack leaders and citizens saw the need for a meeting place for its public groups and began working to acquire the pro perty on Bloodworth Street for Raleigh and Wake County. The original board was composed of the following men: C.A. Haywood, chairman; R.H. Toole, secretary (See YMCA, P 2) NEWS BRIEFS SCHOOLS GET GRADES | Wake and Dnrham County schools did better than average recently, but did not exceed ex pectations tor their schooi systems’ size and wealth. The report cards were developed as a measure of accountability under Senate Bill 2, a school-reform tow that grants some freedom from state regulation in return for im proved student performance. Wake schools scored within par for reading and science and just topped that range for social studies and math. HOLIDAY NOTICE The Postal Service will observe the schedule for a Not-Widely Observed Holiday on Monday, Jan. 21, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday. This was announced by Sectional Center Manager/Post master Floretta E. Reed ol Raleigh. Customers are en couraged to deposit regular mail ings on Monday, Jan. 21. All mall received wtH be processed and dispatched as a regular workday. Afternoon mail collection runs will operate on a normal schedule. First-class mail will be placed in post office boxes on holiday schedules. BE A FOSTER PARENT Children are eur future and > foster parenta believe you have to I invest la that Mure. Children In (See NEWS BRIEFS. P. 2)
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