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RALEIGH, N.C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21,1991 VOL. 60, NO. 104 ' wm N.C.’s Semi-Weekly DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST SINGLE COPY ft|J IN RALEIGH £-VV ELSEWHERE 300 JL „ -—— . Raleigh Housing Authority Receives Drug Grant SeePage 17 ‘Magic’ Johnson Gallo’s AIDS Fraud Victim BY CHARLES L. ORTLEB Hi* New Yark Native The big “AIDS” news last week wu that basketball great Earvin “Magic” Johnson has tested positive for antibodies to “HIV.” The virus has been officially declared the “cause” of "AIDS” by an administration which is mired in scandal and fraud. Just about every newspaper in the country ran the story on the front page. But last week a much more important story broke on “AIDS," and virtually no newspapers In the country covered it. That story involves the man who has helped shape the government’s belief system about “AIDS.” That man, Dr. Robert C. Gallo of the National Cancer Inatitute, should be the subject of a criminal investigation, says John C. Dingell, the Michigan Congressman. The story ran on page 2 in the Chicago Tribune, and was penned by Pulitzer Prizewinner John Crewdson, the only investigative reporter in America who seems interested in exposing the fraud that has taken place at the very heart of “AIDS” research. You wouldn’t have known about this development If you only read the New York Tims and the Washington Post, two newspaper! whose silence has assisted the cover-up of fraud in the government’s “AIDS” research program. This goes to the very center of the government's credibility where "AIDS is concerned. And the media’s credibility as well. If tbe leading “AIDS” researcher is a liar and a crook, and he has been assisted by “scientists” at the highest level of our government, why should anybody believe anything the government is telling the public about the epidemic? And why should anybody trust newspapers that assist in the cover-up? On Wednesday, Nov. 6, Crewdson reported that, “Angered by what he views as waffling by the Bush Administration, U.S. Rep. John Dingell is pushing for a criminal investigation of the government’s leading AIDS researcher, Dr. Robert C. Gallo.” According to Crewdson, “A preliminary examination of Gallo’ i research by the National Institutes of Health has found that a landmark 1984 article in which Gallo reported isolating the AIDS virus contains falsified data.” Crewdson reports that Dingell’s staff has written a detailed 100-page report entitled “The Great AIDS Cover-Up.” The report outlines possible criminal violations, according to Crewdson, in three areas. Dingell wants to determine whether Gallo is guilty of fraud in connection with a government patent on “HIV,” the virus which he generally concedes he did not discover. According to Crewdson, Dingell also wants to determine whether “Gallo knowingly lied under oath when he described his AIDS research in a 1986 sworn declaration given to Justice Department lawyers." Crewdson also reports that Dingell wants to know "whether Gallo and others, including former senior NIH and HHS officials, knowingly provided false and misleading information about the circumstances of Gallo’s purported discovery of the AIDS virus and his creation of the blood test to the Justice Department.” While Gallo’s behavior has been under investigatin by the National Institutes of Health and by Congress, this is the first time that it has been suggested that “former senior NIH and HHS officials” should be investigated. (See MAGIC JOHNSON, P. 2) Broughton High’s New Mentor Faces Opposition BY DAVID SAWYER Staff Writer In a 8-1 vote this week, the Wake County School Board placed C. Diane Payne as the new principal of Broughton High School. The board’s only black member protested the fourth straight time a white principal was hired when no high Bcbool inside the beltline has a black principal Dr. Charles V. Holland, a local optometrist, casting his final vote as a board member, expressed frustration that the board passed up another opportunity to appoint a minority principal to serve as a role model. Within the past two and a half years, white principals were hired at Enloe and twice at Athens Drive High. ' “I kin in opposition, because as long as I have been sitting here, I’ve been looking for a black principal inside the Beltline,” Holland said. “Other than that, the school must go on. I want to see this person succeed, because if not, not only she will fail, but the students will fall.” Ms. Payne, whose appointment is effective now, succeeds Richard M. Jewell, the school’s respected principal who retired in October after (See PRINCIPAL. P.2) N HlErb wovKBrs mgms mnini mi (Remember Hamlet “Imperial Foods” Workert >-There will be a Worker* Right* Forum at 4t88 p.m., Saturday, November a, at the Richard B. Harrison Ubrary. located at ISM New Bern Avenue. Gueet epeaker will be victim/former Imperial Food* Worker*. There will be a elide •how and video presentation. Music will bo furnished by Fruit Of Labor Singing Ensemble. The event will sponsored by: The Hamlet Emergency Raaponae Ad Hoc Committee. For more Information call SS3-S3S8, or Margaret Rooe Murray at 834 18SS. A jlnnllmn BbbMbii #Inguana Adoption risnion snow The North Carolina Association of Friends of Black Children will host “Fall for KMs“, a fashion •how to benefit children waiting for adoptive families. Medals will bo adoptive parents and children, foster parents and children, and children waiting far a permanent adoptive home. The event Is set tor Saturday, Nov. S3. 1181. at t:88 p.m. la the Browastoae Hotel, located at 1T8T Hillsborough Street. Ilmlenimnlflmii Can me ■ own QgnB MiwoiKinp rorum o»i Raleigh Bnsiness and Professional Women’s Club wiU sponsor an informal networking foram on Monday, Dec. 8. 1881 from S:S8 p.m. to 7:38 p.m. at EdgeklH Farm Clubhonse off HI Home Road la Cary. The forum will allow participants to learn mere about BPW aad meet other area bnsiness women. It is open to all interested parties. Call Valerie James at 847-88W or (See NEWS BRIE* 6, P.» RPD Investigates Slaying ] ] I Few Clues Available To Police The Raleigh Police Department is investigating an execution-style slayings which occured near Wake Medical Center on Tuesday. The incident is said to be drug related. The bloody bodies of two unidentified men were found dumped in a wooded area. According to police records, investigators have few clues in the ^ttntngs; wnd-no arrestr have Veem made. Records show, the men, who are black, appeared to be in their 20s, were dragged from the intersection of Michael J. Smith Lane and Carl Sandburg Court and dumped, one on his back, and theother face down. The bodies were discovered around 7:30 p.m. when a woman who had taken her child to a nearby day-care center spotted a large pool of blood in the roadway. An officer who was among the first at the scene said the men were shot. But according to police chief Heineman, investigators have not determined the time and cause of death and are awaiting results from the medical examiner’s office. Investigators used an aerial fire truck device similar to a "cherry picker” to photograph the crime scene from above. A bloodhound sniffed along a bloody path stretching from the intersection to the woods. The slaying brings a total of 23 homicides for the year. In other related news: More than 92 million of 9M.1 million missing from collapsed Interstate Casualty Insurance Co. was diverted to owner William C. Shackelford or to businesses he or his family owned, at accountant testified. Prosecution witnesi A. Thomas Finnell, Jr. tola a federal jury that hundreds oi thousands of dollars went to race-cai drivers, that $15.3 million was used t< repay bank loans, and that othei sums went to a subdivisloi Shakelford was building.. BLACK EXCHANGE—Black Executive Exchange VlaMng Prafesur HMan 0. Smith, cerpante vica president, Tamar Canstruettan Ca., Cleveland, Ohio, a Salat Augustine's Mag* graduate, lecture* to Introduction to Buiinott da**a* In a “Clo** Up” on the topic, " Developing a Business Plan lor Entrepreneurship.” Group Proposes Strategies I o Oppose Fatal Police Shooting Of Unarmed Man m.. uukiuut aI Phauio' adHrMs PflTPnt dpfllh nf Ivan Imyrntn ” fha rinni ini an m>rt u. The Raleigh Wake Community Unity Forum haa proposed a list of strategies they would like residents and leaden to consider in opposing the recent fatal police shooting of an unarmed man. The group is also seeking suggesting and input from the community. The Raleigh Wake Community forum is an outgrowth of a group of people who met on Mother’s Day, 1991, at Davie Street Presbyterian Church to consider ways of addressing the many social and economic conditions impacting the community. The Rev. Benjamin Chavis, executive director of the Commission on Racial and Social Justice of the United Church of Christ gave the motivational address. • MW »nywy» »• —- --- pointed out the cohesiveness needed to come together as a people and stay together on issues effecting African Amerlicans. David Foy, secretary treasurer of the organization said “the proposed items to be considered as a way to express the community’s opposition to the city’s investigation and handling of the recent death of Ivan Lorenzo Ingram is the objective for which our community is being called together.1' In a bulletin circulated by the group, three proposals will be open for discussion Saturday at noon at Richard B. Harrison Public Library on New Bern Ave. “The facts are now clear around the shooting of Tony Ferrell and the Robbery Rampage Continues In City As Banks, Oun Shop Owners Victims rna CAROLINIAN MalTR^Mrtt Crime it on the riM and the Raleigh Police Deportment hu Its hands full In pursuit of gunmen whose targets were banks, ABC Stores, and guns tore burglaries that resulted in the theft of more than 90 assorted revolvers and semiautomatic pistols. On Tuesday, a gunman robbed a West Raleigh bank after walking in and producing a small-caliber handgun. According to police, he pointed the weapon at a teller and demanded money, left with an undisclosed amount of cash and was last seen walking away from First Citizens Bank in Mission Valley Shopping Center toward NCSU campus. He was carrying a small black vinyl book bag, leaving police to speculate he may be an N.C. State University student. Witnesses described the robber as ‘looking like a kid on bis way to claw.” Police Hid they ere looking for e black man about M-yeara-old, 5 foot-10, weighting 165 pounds. He had a short haircut, was wearing a long-sleeved turtle neck with gray and black horiiontal stripes. No customers were in the bank during the holdup which represents Raleigh’s 41st bank robbery of the year, including two attempted holdups last week. Raleigh police are asking for help to solve a series of gun store burglaries, resulting in the theft of more thao 20 revolvers and semiautomatic pistols. Between Oct. 12 and Nov. 4 there were five burglaries and one attempted burglary at four area gun stores: Gunworks on Creedmoor Road wa* burglarised on Oct. 12. Hill's Inc. on Capital Boulevard was burglarized on Oct. IS. and again on 3ct. 19. Thompson s Firearm* on Olympia Drive w*» burglarixed on Oct. 29. American Pawn-Da-Rosa was burglarised on Oct. 30. Thieve* came away emptyhanded In an ittempted burglary ai Ounworka on Nov. 4. The Capital Boulevard ABC Store was robbed at aproximately 6:30 p.m. Oct. 28. The Creedmore Road ABC Store was robbed at approximately 6:49 p.m. Oct. 30, and the Wycllfi Rd. ABC Store was robbed at approximately 7:39 p.m. on the aame day. Police believe that the three ABC Store robberie* were committed by the same person using what has been described as a small semiautomatic handgun. The robbery suspect is described as a white male in his middle to late 90s, five feet six inches to five feet eight inches tail, and 150 pounds Tin (See SHOP OWNERS. P. 2> bulletin states. “The City of Raleigh, Council members, mayor, police :hief intend not to hold a fair and inbias investigation of either (See FORUM. P.2) EARVIN ‘MAGIC’ JOHNSON students At historically Black Colleges Jp SAT Marks The live historically black campuses of the University of North Carolina system showed more improvement in Scholastic Aptitude Test scores for their entering freshmen between 1981 and 1991 than did other institutions in the system. The historically black schools continued to have lower average aggregate SAT scores than the other schools, but differences diminished by 100 points or more. Figures released November 8 in Chapel Hill by the University of North Carolina General Administration showed that the average combined SAT scores for freshman enrolling at the system’s 16 campuses have climbed by 65 points since 1981, from 886 to 951. The historically black schools posted increases ranging from 101 to 208. No other institution had an increase of as much as 100 points, although the University of North Carolina at Asheville came close with a 99-point improvement. By comparison, the national average for college-bound high school seniors increased from 890 to 896, and the North Carolina statewide average for college-bound seniors rose from 818 to 844. Fayetteville State's 208-point increase from 592 to 800 made it one of the two historically black campuses to achieve an 800 point average. North Carolina AAT State University brought its freshman average to 806, up 135 points. North Carolina Central University’s average SAT climbed from 625 to 758, and its out-of-state freshmen had an 804-point average. Elizabeth City State University saw its average score increase by 173 points, from 582 to 755. Winston (SeeSAT INCREASE, P 2) W©A/| Seeju. <»• __ Race-BaUi *® * ° Halt t BY LARRY A. STILL Capital Naw lervlct Waihlngton, D.C.-Ur. Jama* E. Cheek, retired Howard University president, who convinced Preeldent George Buah to ceaae federal government oppoeltion to Mlaalaaippl black collegea, called for a new National Organization of African Americana to eliminate race baiting in politics and education. In addition to planned moetlnga with officiate of both major political partlee and Preeldent Buah, Dr. Cheek aaid the NOAA "will seek to improve communication! and relations between black Republican and black Democrats” as a follow-up to the clash between these groups over the U.S. Senate confirmation of Judge Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court. Cheek said he did not think that Justice Thomas should recuse himself from the current Mississippi desegregation case which some experts consider as important as the original Brown vs. the Kansas City (KS) board of education in 1954. "1 would think that Justice Thomas would want to use his experience and expertise in this case”, Cheek told reporters. » , , As chairman of the Preeident’i Loard of Advisors to the White Hou«i I Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Dr. Cheek met with President Bush on the Avery vs. Mabus Mississippi case and urged him to change the U.S. position by having the Justice Department file a brief in support of increased funding to equalise historically black institutions. “If any college should be closed it ought to be the University of Mississippi” he declared before the capital media the day before the high court hearings began. No HBCU has refused to admit white students, Cheek declared. In calling a sudden press conference in Washington last week, the former university president also announced plans for convening another national conference in March, 1991, “to help develop a consensus around a common African American agenda that transcends partisan politics and philosophical and organizational differences”. * The new NOAA would not seek to be competitive with other national African American organizations such as the NAACP and the National Urban League as it moves to increase the input of African-American educators in the development and implementation of the nation’s new > (See JAMES CHEEK, P.2)
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