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TUESDAY Throut Dr. Frederici Problems and “Through The S\ Page 6 ■; Storms Us A Story of * In New Book 4 T Attracting A Star Grammy Winner Whitney Houston Will Perform At Walnut Creek Amphitheatre On July 7. Page 11 This Week On May 8, 1970, former Gramblmg great Willis Reed scored the first two baskets in the seventh game of the NBA championship. He did not score again, but held Wilt (See THIS WEEK, P. 12) / t?b/ RALEIGH, N.C VOL. 50, NO. 47 TUESDAY MAY 7.1991 N.C.'s Semi-Weekly DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST SINGLE COPY/JC IN RALEIGH £D0 ELSEWHERE 300 old, New Approach Needed #Bush Places Rights Policy At Crossroads ■ acuva »VWM vt * *• » pvuv^ *0 HI H crossroads. For the first time in many years, there is a clear choice between two starkly different visions of civil rights: one would extend and strengthen the same race-based policies that have failed to help the most aisaavaiuageu Americans; me other would seek to give these disadvantaged Americans a greater degree of control over their own destinies. These two visions are reflected in proposals currently before Congress. The race-based approach is contained in a House bill (H R. 1) introduced by Rep. Jack Brooks, the Texas Democrat; a Senate version has not yet been introduced. The Brooks bill is a slightly modified version of the civil rights bill sponsored in the last session of Congress by Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, and then-Rep. Augustus Hawkins of California, both Democrats. The Kennedy-Hawkins bill passed both houses of Congress, and was vetoed by George Bush. The Senate sustained Bush’s veto by one irote, and no effort to override the /eto was made in the House of Representatives. The White House alternately >pposed and sought to accommodate ihe Kennedy approach last year, finally vetoing the legislation. By contrast, the administration this year has taken the initiative, introducing a “civil rights and individual opportunities” legislative package (See RIGHTS BILL, P.2) Get Rich Scheme Flops r Gullible Investor Deceived BY DANIEL A. YOUNG, SR. ConlribuUag Writer It all started, according to Mr. Doe (37), at the Watson’s Plea Market on Rock Quarry Road in 1990. He was approached by a Ms. S, and handed a flier with the offer of “Real Estate Opportunities, Lien Certificate and Foreclosure Properties. ’ ’ “I had heard a little bit about tax lien certificates so I went to the meeting,’’ says Mr. Doe, who wishes not to be identified at this time for legal reasons. “The meeting was held at the YWCA on Hillsborough Street, where the loan network held their initial meetings,” he said. “There were approximately 20 people at that meeting. One person, whom I had met before, was an instructor at Broughton High School, a lady named Ms. S. “I have become very familiar with the people in the network since I have What’s confusing and interesting to those people in the program is that when you have a concern, no one recognizes what you are talking about. The program keeps making leaps and changes. been there.’’ He continued, “At that point In time, they talked a little about the real estate program, but what they were offering was a lifetime Income. “To get the lifetime income, you had to acquire a certificate called a Property Acquisition Certificate. “The PAC certificate was a $10,000 certificate. If you invest $10,000, you get $$,800 for the rest of your life. If you invested $25,000 (which they did) in the PAC, you get a check for a... (See SWINDLED, P. S) Shaw Confers Degrees At Annual Convocation Events surrounding commencement 1991 et Shew University began with the joint University Choir and Band in concert on the portico of the Cheek Learning Resources Center on the campus last week. The annual honqrs awards presentations were held in the Spaulding Gymnasium with guest speaker Benjamin Ruffin, vice president for corporate relations at the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Awards sponsored by friends and donors of the university, academic (See COMMENCEMENT, P. 3) PRESENTING CITIZENS CONCERNS-During a recent Raleigh City Council meeting, Mrs. Margaret Rose Murray marie a presentation requesting a clear and concise response and resolution to the problems that triggered the Tony Farrell issue. Mrs. Murray also stated the need for a Citizens Advisory and Raview Beard to be established, and all persons having confrontations with the poHco department to meet with the City of Raleigh’s Human Relations Commission to document their cases. (Photo by James Giles, Sr.) Wachovia Bank, Holding Companies To Use Same Identity With New Name i ne memoer companmies oi r irsi Wachovia Corp. will begin using the same basic identity—Wachovia—in their names beginning May 20. Also on that day, a new logo will begin appearing on signs, advertising and printed materials of Wachovia’s subsidiaries. As announced last fall, Wachovia Bank and Trust Co., N.A. will change its name to Wachovia Bank of North Carolina, N.A., and its holding company, the Wachovia Corp., will become Wachovia Corp. of North Carolina. The First National Bank of Atlanta will become Wachovia Bank of Georgia, N.A., and First Atlanta Corp.’s new name will be Wachovia Corp. of Georgia. First Wachovia Corp., the parent company, will become Wachovia Corp. New names effective May 20 for other subsidiary companies include Wachovia Corporate Services, Inc., Wachovia Trust Services, Inc., Wachovia Mortgage Co. and Wachovia Student Financial Services, Inc. L.M. Baker, Jr., president and chief executive officer of Wachovia Bank and Trust Co., said, “The North Carolina and Georgia batiks will now be in name what they are in fact—two banks with a common bond providing their customers and states with the finest banking services and community leadership.” In Georgia, D. Raymond Riddle, First Atlanta president and chief pveeutive officer, said, “The time is right for the finest banking institution in the Southeast to do business with one identity. This name change, like others in the past, reflects our growth as a company—growth that is beneficial (SeeWACHOVIA, P.2) African-American Support High For New Handgun Bill Stricter Laws, Criminal Check BYRANDI PAYTON Special To The CAROLINIAN When the Department of Health and Human Services reported last month that one out of five deaths among teenagers and young adults in 1968 was gun-related, it sparked a wave of support among black leaders for stricter handgun laws. In this case it comes in the form oi the Bendy Bill, named aftei James Brady*who wa^Bbot by John Hinckley in 1981, which calls for a seven-day “cooling-off” period before the purchase of a handgun, to give police time to check if the buyer has a criminal record. “Almost all of the black leaders on Capitol Hill have come out in support of the Brady Bill,” said Hamil Harris, who covers Capitol Hill for the Washington Afro-American Newspaper. Because, he added, “they feel this is the first step toward eliminating handguns on the streets .” Meanwhile, the bill was endorsed by the House Judiciary Committee and will be voted on by the full House of Representatives on May 8, where a tough battle is expected, according to political observers. “With violent crimes at record levels and with African-American males now truly endangered, I can't see how anyone could oppose a measure that would help ease the pain,” said Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), senior member of the House judiciary Committee. Even one of the bishops of the 3.5 million-strong African Methodist Episcopal Church, H. Hartford Brookins, came out in strong support of the bill by coordinating effots with 18 AME bishops at a recent AME legislative conference in Atlanta, Ga., to call on their congregations and representatives to support the bill. In detailing a strategy for the churches representing Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and Washington, D.C., Bishop Brookins said, “What we propose to do is to become advocates of a Ml) that is now before the U.S. Senate which deals with background checks... and at least a seven-day wait before you can go out there and pick up a gun.” Continuing, he added, “We think this is not the whole solution, but it is a bit ahead of anything else we’ve got.” Dr. Louis Sullivan, U.S. secretary of Health and Human Services, has said in his 1990 report that young black males are 11 times more likely to die from a gunshot wound than their white counterparts. A major campaign is on around the country to heighten awareness among African-Americans and to press for their congressional representatives to vote for the Brady Bill, said Kevin Jefferson, National Minority Affairs Coordinator for Handgun Control, Inc,, based in Washington, DC. (See HANDGUNS. P.2) inside Africa Mandela Issues Regime Ultimatum nv nAMin madhi pm Mandela has threatened the South African racist regime with an ultimatum to withdraw the ANC from participating in the long-awaited black-white negotiations. He says that, unless de Klerk’s regime halts the violence of faction fights of blacks in the country by May 9, ANC’s participation in the white-black negotiations will be withdrawn. Little wonder Nelson Mandela, who issued this ultimatum, was hauled out of prison 14 months ago expressly to help- democratize South Africa, is enraged. Since his release, no progress has taken place toward that end. In fact, the situation has worsened, and black violence has spread to the industrial heartland of the country around Johannesburg. Since 1966, the violence has gone unchecked by the regime, and more than S,000 blacks have died and more have been wounded from it. All that time, the regime has vacillated from taking drastic action to end the faction fights which are now between hostel inmates. Black leaders are not implicated in these fights, but expect the regime to maintain law and order, which is its duty. Bu the regime does not act, for unknown reasons. Hence, Mandela’s anger and ultimatum. The violence is apartheid-oriented, and fakes place between rival inmates of the regime’s hostels, where they are separated into tribes by the laws of apartheid, the fight is known worldwide as black-on-black apartheid genocide. Everyone expected apartheid to cause these faction fights when Prime Minister Hendrick Verwoerd, Prime Minister Danie Malan and their henchmen first institutionalized apartheid. These faction fights are a logical sequel to the institutionalization of apartheid. They are not a creation of blacks killing other blacks. Now, Mandela is disillusioned, browbeaten and perplexed by to his promise to democratize South Africa, and to fail to maintain law and order to stop faction fighting. Instead, de Klerk leaves Mandela, Buthelezi, ANC, Inkatha, PAC and other blacks to struggle alone to end apartheid—in vain. De Klerk has betrayed Mandela, who is now rightly enraged by the regime's failure to maintain law and order, and to stop killings of blacks by the actions of apartheid. 1 IJU lUi , UIIU “friends” of South Africa and their media now turn to faulting the blacks for the violence, and looming civil war and anarchy in the country But Mandela's ultimatum is based on fact, and is causing the regime to realize that they are being watched. Black people want peace, freedom, and justice, not war. A message from (See INSIDE AFRICA, P.2) Enloe Graduate Selected Faculty Scholar At Duke Kimberly C. West of Raleigh, a Junior at uukt University, is one of two undergrates to receive the highest honor the university faculty bestows on students. Trinity Juniors Kimberly West and Jon Rosenberg were approved as recipients of the university’s Faculty Scholar Award at the Academic Council meeting In April. The Academic Council established the annual Faculty Scholar Award In the mld-l»7Ss to encourage university undergraduates to undertake scholarship and to continue R after graduation, said Ruth Day, a professor of psychology and chair of the FacuMy Scholar Award Committee. Applicants for the award m ust show evidence of Independent study In addition to a strong academic record. The various university academic departments and (See MS. WEST, P.2)
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