TUESDAY
NBA’S RICHEST PLAYERS
You may not recognize the name of NBA’s
richest player who is only better-than
average, but it is not “Air” Jordan.
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THIS WEEK
The 1860 United States
Census, the last one taken
before the Civil War,
counted 3,953,760 slaves.
Over 75 percent of the
South’s cotton was
produced on plantations of
(See THIS WEEK, P. U)
The 24th annual Hampton Jazz Festival will
blend jazz fusions, R&B and Gospel as well
as feature Frankie Beverly and Maze.
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The Carolinian
RALEIGH, N.C.
VOL. 50, NO. 49
TUESDAY
MAY 14,1991
N.C.'s Semi-Weekly
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Threatened Presidential Veto
(AP)—Congressional Democrats are
planning changes in their own civil
rights bill to revive its chances in the
face ot eroding support and another
threatened presidential veto.
House Democratic leaders are
considering at least three major
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it reaches the House floor later this
month, sources familiar with private
congressional discussions said.
The changes would amount to
major concessions, including the
acceptance of the monetary limits on
punitive damages that could be
a warucu m jou-Dias suits.
Other changes include language
designed to head off President Bush’s
argument that the bill would lead to
use of racial quotas in hiring, a
contention denied by sponsors but one
that has cut into the broad
congressional support for the bill.
A third amendment would be
intended to head off a new area of
Republican attack on the civil rights
bill, the adjustment of job-placement
test results that boost scores for
blacks and Hispanics. Republicans
want to ban the practice, now used by
some state employment agencies and
private employers, and Democrats
are trying to draft a middle-ground
amendment.
Some supporters fear that without
changes, the bill could pass with a
smaller majority than last year’s
version—perhaps 20 or 30 votes fewer
than the 273-154 vote.
Bush vetoed last year’s version,
and the Senate failed to override it by
a single vote.
House supporters were 12 votes
short of a veto-proof majority last
year, and rights groups have hoped to
(See RIGHTS BII.I.P 2)
iseison Manaeia
Rejects Offer
From de Klerk
BY DANIEL MAROLEN
The past weekend’s news flash
from South Africa that Nelson
Mandela has rejected President de
Klerk's invitation to discuss ways and
means of ending the current spate of
violence in African “townships”
shouldn’t surprise anyone. The global
mass media’s slanting of news from
South Africa is causing anxiety
everywhere. Sooner or later, this
slanting of news will bring about a
break in relations between European
and African South Africans. On
Sunday, April 30, news came through
from South Africa, loud and clear,
that ANC’s deputy president, Nelson
Mandela, rejected outright President
F.W. deKlerk’s invitation for the two
leaders to attempt together to solve
the enigmatic problem of “township
violence” that has caused the country
thousands of slain and wounded
blacks.
The news shouldn’t surprise
anyone. Recently, Mandela made a
fresh ultimatum to President de
Klerk that ANC would break away
from the envisaged negotiations if de
Klerk's regime failed to halt the
killings in the black ghettoes around
Johannesburg. Since 1986, this
genocide has raged furiously between
black factions. But de Klerk’s police
and militia have done nothing to stop
the carnage, evidently because only
black lives are victims of the
apartheid-oriented violence. It’s
preposterous and foolish to attribute
these clashes as “black-on-black” or
simply “tribal” faction fights,
because there are no rive! balck
groups in South Africa. The blacks
who kill and wound each other are
inmates of de Klerk’s own aparhteid
institutions—hostels, BantuBtans,
etc. The Zulu King Goodwin
Zwelithini knows of no war between
his subjects and those of any other
tribe. And Nelson Mandela and
Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi deny
that their respective
organizations— ANC and
Inkatha—are at war with any other
group in South Africa. The people
hacking one another to death are
inmates of de Klerk’s hostels and
Bantus tans over which Mandela and
other African leaders have no say.
Hence Mandela’s rejection of de
Klerk’s invitation.
De Klerk’s invitation to Mandela is
divisive. Mandela and Buthelezi are
both averse to the prevailing violence
(See INSIDE AFRICA, P. 2)
Ranks 30tn In Nation
N.C. Teacher Salary Losing Ground
iNorui uarouna leacners suu nave a
long way to go before they’ll be
making salaries comparable to those
of their colleagues across the
country. In the latest estimates of
school statistics, prepared by the
National Education Association,
NCAE’s parent organisation, the
average teacher salary in North
Carolina places the state 30th in the
uiiuun.
North Carolina’s average teachei
salary this year Is $29,082, an in
crease of $1,268 over 1989-90. North
Carolina moved up onliy one notch
from last year’s ranking of 3lst.
"The second-year phase-in of the
teacher’s salary schedule is
responsible for the gain in our
rankings," says NCAE President
Julia Kron, but being in 30th place
still leaves a lot of room for
improvement. The current national
average is $33,023 and we’re still a
long way from that amount.”
Kron hopes that the third year
phase-in of the salary schedule will
help North Carolina teacherfs get
closer to that national average. The
salary increase may be in Jeopardy
One of the ftneet educator* in the Wake County Public School
System says adieu after M years working with parents, students
and colleagues.
Ms. Norms Haywood, former school teacher and currently
principal at Emma Conn Gifted and Talented Magnet Elementary
School, said It has been a wonderful year and a wonderful
experience as an educator.
"It has been a wonderful year of Implementing Senate Bill No. 2
Improvement Plan which Is called the Family Plan," she said. The
Family Plan allows a group of children to stay with a teacher for
three years, from kindergarten through grade 2 and at the third
level with a new teacher.
"We are hoping that the continuity of Instruction with the same
teacher will Improve student Improvement," Ms. Haywood Said.
Emma Conn Is a gifted and talented magnet school with a draw
from North Raleigh who come to receive the magnet electives
(See MS. HAYWOOD, P.2)
MS. NORMA HAYWOOD
due to the state's severe budget
shortfall.
“We proposed the three-year
salary schedule to correct the
inequities in pay that came from a
six-year salary freeze for teachers,’’
adds Kron. “We also need to make
sure teacher pay is competitive with
private industry.”
“I hope this latest ranking will send
a message to lawmakers about how
badly our schools and education need
a competitive salary schedule,”
continued Kron. “We've got to get
North Carolina out of the bottom half
and into the top half of the salary
rankings.”
North Carolina lost ground on the
nation in terms of per-pupil
expenditures, going from a ranking of
26th a year ago to a ranking of 28th
this year.
“This ranking proves that recent
cuts in education funding have
affected direct services to children,”
according to Kron. “It is going to get
even worse if the General Assembly
enacts the latest round of cuts,
totaling more than $170 million.”
The national average rankings
have been compiled by the NEA from
information supplied by each state
education agency. The rankings are
published annually by NEA.
The top 10 states and their average
salaries for 1090-91 are Alaska,
(See TEACHERS. P.2)
Black Cops Crime Stop Key
Challenge
Deceptive
Officers
BY CHARLES E. BELLE
NNPANem Service
“Property is theft,” Pierre-Josept
Proudhon, 1809-1865, pronounced
some years ago. A person in business
or a homeowner would surely stand
up against an antagonist like M
Proudhon, but then these are onlj
words not like the war going or
everyday in the African-Americar
and other poor neighborhoods of oui
nation. No one ft sure- whatpropert]
means—a place, parcel, package, 01
person. In fact, most African
American communities arc
surrounded by criminal activity.
Clyde Venson, executive director,
Blacks in Law Enforcement, Inc.,
notes that “black males, who cannot
find employment or adequate jobs,
most often become involved in crime
for their survival. Sometimes
families participate in crimes
together. The most commonly
committed crimes in the community
are prostitution, petty larceny,
burglary, rape, robbery, and sale of
illegal drugs or bootleg whiskey.”
Whetner M. Proudhon was trying to
justify these crimes with his
statement is unclear. Nevertheless,
the great majority of the African
American and other members of the
poor communities abhor these crimes
and call for police protection.
The fact that the American system
has failed these African-American
(See BLACK COPS, P.2)
NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN—Homeowner Larry Lunsford and
Ids 4-yaar-ald daughter, Sherry, stand outside the heme in
Apex he purchased with a Neighborhood Revitalization
Porgram lean. Lunsfarri, a security guard at N.C. State
University In Raleigh, said: “Wachovia’s lean program
made buying this house easier than buying a used truck.
The house is an investment that win Increase In value as
time goes on, and one day I hope to pass it on to my
dauglwr.” (Photo by Mike Cunningham)
designated as National Tourism
Week. At this time legislators,
industry leaders and business owners
join local citizens to focus on the
the travel and tourism industry.
Travel and tourism is the nation's
third largest retail industry and the
second largest employer.
Forecasters tell us that as early as
the year 2000, the travel and tourism
industry will not only be the number
one industry in North Carolina, but
the number one industry nationwide.
The United States Travel Data
Center, which recently established a
new model for judging this impact,
will soon release figures for 1989 and
1990—but this Industry meant more
than $550 million and more than
18,500 jobs here in Wake County in
1988... and has grown significantly
since then. The travel and tourism
industry is the industry for Raleigh's
future prosperity.
"Dollars spent on travel and
investment in our community,” said
Karen Cook, director of
communications. “A tourist or
convention attendee brings new
money to local hotels, restaurants,
attractions and a variety of other
businesses. This money funds local
payrolls for travel industry
employees as well as people in
industries supplying goods and
services such as food-service
contractors, maintenance
organizations and retail shops.
Ultimately, these new dollars reach
everyone.”
Raleigh's visitors sleep in hotels,
eat in restaurants, shop in stores and
buy gas before going home. The
money they spend is circulated over
(See TOURISM, P. 2)
Ambassador
Speaks To
Graduates
St. Augustine'! College held Its
124th commencement during
May #-12. Ambassador Edward J.
Perkins, director general of the
Foreign Service and director of
personnel, U.S. Department of
State, Washington, D.C., was
the speaker.
Perkins’ career with the U.S.
government has spanned more
than 40 years. He has had both
domestic and overseas service
with the U.S. armed forces, the
U.S. Agency for International
Development and the
Department of State.
The calendar of events
included a dedication of Weston
(SeeCOMMENCEMENT P :’)