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EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA'S MINORITY VOICE - SINCE 1981

African American leaders of the

Reform Party urge blacks to
~Break allegiance to Democratic

A group of 24 Black leaders of
the Reform Party issued a state-
ment today, oemphatically ? urg-
ing the African American com-
munity and its leadership to

Jeave the Democratic Party, and
join them in working to oshape
the ultra-democratic and inde.
pendent Reform Party as a ve

hicle that can and w mmo
date Black intercsts. ? Initiated
by Ross Perot in the Fall of 1995.
the Reform Party will hold a two
part nominating convention in
Long Beach, California on Au
gust 11] and in Valley Forge.

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Pennsylvania on August 18, and
will be on the ballot in all 50
states in November.

Charging that the Black com-
munity has been used as a politi-
cal football by both major par-
ties, the Reform Party leaders
called on Black America to ore-
set the terms ofour participation
in politics and government ? by
building the Reform Party: oIn
our view, the birth of the Reform
Party- "-which we ourselves have
helped to shape-is the most sig-
nificant opportunity for African

Americans to share in the re-

casting of U.S. politics.

The statement took aim at
those Black leaders who oare
currently engaged in a public
campaign to restore faith in the
Democratic party by misleading
Black voters. ? Instead of protests
and conferences to formulate a
Black agenda odesigned to blow
off steam but put the Democrats
in office, ? the Reform leaders urge
a Black exodus from the Demo-
cratic Party: o...a serious strat-
egy to cost (President Clinton)
the election will do more than
any amount of public or private
consciousness raising.

A message from African American

leaders of the Reform Party

We, the undersigned, are Afri-
can Americans who believe fer
vently that the time bas come to
go beyond the two-party eridlock
that has polarized and paralyzed

ourcountry. We are proudly help
ing to build the independent Re
form Party ur mvolvement ts

based on the proposition that we
need anew kind: tpartythatcan
relate to those who are still de
an opportunity to achieve
the American dream. In short,
we have begun to shape the ul
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Mmterests This mi yeans uprooting
the current | two-party arrange

ment mired in long established
traditions of exclusion based «
race, gender, social position and
other identities. It also means

restructuring the political pro
cess to be fully democratic and
directly inclusive of all Ameri-
cans in policy making and gov-

rning
ration carriers and party
builders worked in California,
Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin,
North Carolina, South Carolina,
(Georgia, New Jersey, New Yark,
Connecticut, the District of Co-
lumbia, Virginia, Illinois and
\I Sma uscits and signed up
clase to 50,000 African Amerti-
SIN SIX short months. African
Ame ricans have moved into key
leadership positions in numer-
ous Kteform state organizations.
While we come from a variety of
ideological backgrounds
Democrats, Republicans, nation
lists, and long-time indepen-
dents " we share a common be-
he th. it the two party system
ind the Democratic Party, where
the vast majority of Black
America is registered and for
whom it currently votes, have
failed us. We also share a par-
ticular concern about how some
Black leaders are currently en-

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gaged in a public campaign to
restore faith in the Democratic
Party by misleading Black vot-
ers.

Some are formulating a Black
Agenda designed to oforce ? the
concerns of African Americans
into the presidential campaign
and to challenge the Democratic
Party and President Bill Clinton
However, we do not believe that
the mere formulation of an
agenda or protests outside party
conventions force anybody in
positions of political power to do
anything pos ~itive for Black
people. President Clinton and his
party rearrange political priori-
ties as a function of one factor
only " losing an election. For
those who choose to orient to-
ward changing President
Clinton Ts or the Democratic
Party Ts mind, a serious strategy
to cost him the election will do
more than any amount of public

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Hopefuls find payment for being
slave descendants doesn Tt exist

Johna Stephenson of Chicago
thought it sounded too good to be
true "a $5,000 payment because
she is the descendant of Ameri-
can slaves. But not wanting to
miss anything, she called the
Internal Revenue Service to
check it out.

So have thousands of other
black Americans across the coun-
try.

There is no tax rebate to com-
pensate people for their ances-
tors T enslavement, but that hasn't
stopped more than 20,000 people
from filing for it. Most claims
were filed in 1994, but inquiries
are picking up again.

oThe big story is there is no
story. People who claim it, it Ts a
wasted effort. They Tre not able to
get it, ? IRS spokesman Stephen
Mongelluzzo said. oIf people were
entitled to it, we would live to
give it. ?

Thousands around the coun-
try recently have asked for what
they believe is a rebate form and
between 500 and 600 people have
filed for the modern equivalent
of o40 acres and a mule T "
$43,209, said IRS spokesman
Steven Pyrek. He said about 10
came from Chicago and the same

Dallas and elsewhere.

People whose claims are de-
nied and file subsequent claims
could be subject to a $500 pen-
alty for filing frivolous returns.

Stephenson of Matteson, III.,
said a friend told her last week
that she could receive $5,000 to
$8,000. She said she didn Tt be-
lieve the rumor but called Cong.
Jesse Jackson Jr.'s office to check
it out ojust in case it was true. ?

Jackson Ts office told her no

number from Detroit, Cleveland,:

windfall was forthcoming, but
she called the IRS anyway. She
asked for Form 2439 and to!d the
TKS worker she believed it wou!d
help her receive a rebate. It actu-
ally is a form for shareholders.

oHe told me he'd send me the
form, but that if I did file a
claim...then I would be denied, ?
she said.

But back in 1994, at least four
people mistakenly were issued
slavery reparations, Pyrek said.
He said he did not know how
much they received or what was
done to recover the money.

The Illinois attorney general Ts
office said it had received no com-
plaints from people offering to
get reparations if clients pay
them a fee.

It wouldn Tt be unprecedented.

Ben Badio of Dallas faces up to
10 years in prison and a $250,000
fine for filing slavery reparations
claims for cliefts earlier this year
in Texas, said Assistant U.S.
Attorney David Finn. He said

Badio pleaded guilty in June and
is to be sentenced September 25.
Pyrek said the IRS received
about 20,000 slavery reparation
claims in 1994 "the year after
Essence magazine ran a com-
mentary that argued racial dis-
crimination functions as a hid-
oa tax. The commentary urged
eaders to fill out their Form
1040s as if they had paid $43,209
in oblack taxes ? and thereby col-
lect a delinquent tax rebate.
The 40-acres-and-a-mule con-
cept comes from a bill Congress
passed in 1866, requiring that
Confederate property be confis-
cated to provide former slaves
with 40 acres and a mule. Presi-
dent Andrew Johnson vetoed it.
Cong. John Conyers, D-Mich.,
now is sponsoring legislation to
study the impact of slavery on
blacks. He is recommending oap-
propriate action ? but not direct
compensation to slaves T descen-
dants.

Gov. Hunt kicks off fall
tv ad campaign on
positive note

Gov. Jim Hunt Ts campaign to-
day began airing its first TV ad
of the fall campaign, highlight-
ing the success of the Governor's
Work First welfare reform ef-
fort.

The ad, which is running on
TV stations across the state, fol-
lows through on the Governor Ts
commitment to run a positive,
issue-oriented campaign about

By HOWIE EVANS
AmNews Sports Editor

Because of one man ~ Nelson
Mandela - the oOlympic Mo-
ment ? belonged to an unknown
marathoner from South Africa.
If. not for Mandela, there
wouldn Tt have been a Josia
Thugwane.

When Thugwane came thun-
dering into Olympic Stadium
with the South Korean Lee Bong
Ju and Kenya Ts Eric Wainaina
hot on his heels, I thought not of
Thugwane, but of Mandela, who
spent 27 years of his life in a
South African prison.

All for the cause of freedom. It
was Mandela who led the
struggle for national unity in

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the apartheid country. And it
was Mandela who continues to
lead a nation that for 24 years
was stripped of its international
Olympic identity.

And because of this gallant
freedom fighter, South African
Penny Heyns, a white swimmer,
won a pair of gold medals. As
Thugwane ran the 26.2 mile
marathon course, becoming the
first-ever Black South African
to win an Olympic gold medal,
his victory is an expression and
symbol of the many Black South
Africans who sacrificed their
lives to gain freedom.

So Thugwane was not run-
ning alone. The spirit of every
man, woman and child who had

shed their blood in a nation that
steadfastly refused to change
ran every step of the way with
him.

They were with him when
the gun went off. And they con-
tinued to encourage him onward
as his pursuers ran in his foot-
steps. They were with him in
his darkest moments. Just six
months ago, a group of thugs
came close to killing him in a
carjack incident in, ofall places,
his hometown of Bethal, South
Africa.

And they were with him when
he gutted out the final mile in
the closest marathon race in
Olympic history. And by the time
he reached the victory stand,

Mandela's quest for racial unity leads to Olympic gold

one could feel the spirit of
Mandela as they played the an-
them oGod Bless Africa. ?

This was the oOlympic mo-
ment. ? Not a you-know-who gym-
nast. Not Carl Lewis. Not
Michael Johnson. Not David
Reid. And certainly not a group
of U.S. basketball players.

Thugwane is in the forefront
of a nation of runners, set to
challenge the dominance of the
Kenyans in distance running.
In this marathon, only one
Kenyan finished in the top 35,
third place finisher Eric
Wainaina.

Thugwane will finally get to
meet his president, and get a
small pot of gold, some $11,000.

In a country obsessed with run-
ning, the South African will be-
come a lightening rod for unity
in his country.

It will not all be perfect. We
know that from the continuing
struggles of African-Americans
in this nation. But it Ts a start "a
beginning.

And as Black South Africa
continues its struggle for equal-
ity, the Olympic story of
Thugwane will be told over and
over again. From the teeming
streets of Johannesburg to the
township of Soweto.

But always, the story will end
with Thugwane being greeted
by the man who made it possible
~ Mandela.

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new ideas that work for North
Carolinians.

As one of the nation Ts toughest
welfare reform efforts, Work
First was recently featured on
ABC Ts Nightline. The show used
Work First as an example of how.
North Carolina is ahead of the
national curve on welfare reform,
demanding work and personal
responsibility to help welfare
recipients get back on their feet.

Here Ts what Work First re-
quires:

¢ Welfare recipients must sign
personal responsibility contracts,
promising to take care of their
families and get off welfare. If
they don Tt honor the contract,
they lose benefits;

¢ Work First participants must
get ajob "paid or unpaid "or job
training within 12 weeks;

¢ AFDC benefits are limited to
two years;

¢ Teen parents must go to
school and live at home;

¢ Additional cash benefits are
not given to those who have chil-
dren after 10 months in the pro-
gram.

So far, more than 17,000 Work
First families are now getting
paychecks instead of AFDC wel-
fare checks; welfare rolls have
dropped 13%; the number of

Work First participants work- |

ing or in job training has doubled;
and taxpayers have saved $36
million.

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_'» This month the New York City
Council held public hearings on
the issue of term limits. More ac-

-curately, our elected representa-
~ tives were trying to figure out how
they can get away with undoing
the 1993 mandate from a majority
of New York voters to impose term
limits on the City Council and all
municipal offices.

Here T s the background. A
grassroots referendum placed on
the New York City ballot three
years ago gave voters the choice of
limiting members of the City Coun-
cil, the mayor and other city offi-
cials to two consecutive four-year
terms. Those City Council mem-

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bers in office at the time, and those
newly elected the year the referen-
dum was conducted, would have to
leave office no later than the year
2001. Consequently, the vast ma-
jority " if not the entirety of the
City Council " would be brand
new going into the year 2002.
Democrats and Republicans
alike joined forces in a series of
legal maneuvers to keep the refer-
endum off the ballot, but they
failed. The proposition made it onto
the ballot and passed resoundingly
" 60% to 40% "despite the fact
that every single elected official
(except one) campaigned against
it and every newspaper from the
corporate dailies to the Black week-

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lies published editorials denounc-
ing term limits. I campaigned ac-
tively for passage.

In the Black and Latino commu-
nity the vote was decisively in fa-
vor of limiting municipal terms of
office. According to research by U.
S. Term Limits, exit polls indi-
cated that 60% of African Ameri-
cans voted in favor of term limits,
continuing the overall national
trend in which 72.7% of Blacks
have voted for state and local lim-
its around the country.

The vote by Black New Yorkers
was a severe political rebuke to
the Black members of the City
Council, who obviously cherished
their own jobs more than the
community Ts right to hold elected
officials accountable. But far from
learning a lesson from that strong
message, the Council began to plot
a way to overturn the voters T deci-
sion and secure their control over

T the city well into the 21st century.

They bided their time until term
limits failed to pass in Congress.

, (What a surprise " Democrats

and Republicans refusing to vote
themselves out of a job!) Then,
with that political momentum on
their side, they struck. The Coun-
cil Speaker Peter Vallone, who is
white, and Brooklyn Council-
woman Mary Pinkett, whois Black,
spearheaded a campaign to con-

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vince the electorate that they
hadn Tt known what they were vot-
ing forin 1993 and that when term
limits forced the election "in 2001
" of an entirely new City Council,
chaos would reign and the city
would be ungovernable. They in-
sisted that the Council should ei-
ther overturn term limits alto-
gether or arrange for a ophase-in ?
program that would extend well
beyond 2002.

Councilwoman Pinkett chaired

a public hearing on this proposal.
As you might imagine, the parade
of Democrats and Republicans
endorsing their concerns was in-
terminable. I came to the hearing
to speak against it. Any effort to
subvert the voters T decision, I
warned, was a criminal violation
of democracy. And any attempt by
Black elected officials to ignore
the clear preference of the Black
community would not be forgot-
ten.

Naturally, Councilwoman,
Pinkett and others tried to pre-

vent me from speaking. I waited ,

over four hours to testify. But {
would have waited until hell froze
over to make the point.

Many people in our community
heard about the hearings and
called to express their support. My
thanks to all of you. We continue
our efforts to make our elected
officials accountable to us. Call me
at 1-800-288-3201 to get involved.

from the desk of Mrs. Beatrice Maye

BEATRICE MAYE
The characteristics

of a good leader
are:

1. communicates, allows input,
and is willing to listen.

2. is interested, appreciative,
complimentary, supportive, hu-
manistic, and considerate.

3. displays honesty, integrity,
and trustworthiness.

4. is objective, open-minded,
tolerant, rational, reasonable,
and fair.

5. delegates, trusts, subordi-
nates, and allows room to
achieve.

6. motivates, challenges, in-
spires, and is team-oriented.

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7. is knowledgeable, experi-
enced, competent, intelligent,
and has good judgment.

8. is available, approachable,
provides good feedback, and
trains coaches.

9. is constructive, enthusias-
tic, positive, friendly, and hu-
morous.

10. is decisive, courageous,
takes risks, and is willing to com-
mit.

o11. is goal-oriented, makes

| plans, clarifies expectations, and

follows through.

12. accepts responsibilities,
blame, admits errors, is re-
spected and respectful.

13. is a doer, participates, and
sets examples.

14. is open, candid, sincere,
and credible.

15. is tactful, humble, sensi-
tive, and understanding.

16. sets high standards, is dedi-
cated, hard-working, and reli-
able.

17.is consistent, and even-tem-
pered.

18. is organized and structured.
We are not left on our own to
accomplish the task, but we have

God Ts promise. Psalm 91:9-15,
Job 5:23 and Psalm 32:8.

Techniques of
Effective Leaders:

1. keeps focus on issues, rather
than personalities.

2. endeavors to be fair.

3. uses moderation - Exodus
18:9-24.

4. organizes and establishes
order- Isaiah 28:9-10.

5. doesn Tt take all the credit for
himself. Allows others and the
Lord to evaluate him.

6. uses the BIBLE as a source
book - Proverbs 3:6.

7. helps followers learn to oobey
and order ?.

8. is humble enough to ask for
help when he doesn Tt know what
to do.

The leaders work together to
win souls for Christ, to nurture
one another, to accomplish ob-
jectives of the church, and to
avoid conflict in the church.

Coping with
Difficult People

By: Dr. R. Robert Cueni, Pas
tor, Country Club Christian
Church, Kansas City, MO.

The task of coping with diffi-
cult people is a universal experi-
ence. Difficult people are not rare.
We know they are everywhere.

First, admit they exist. Ac-
knowledge their presence. They
hate change and live in constant
fear of what tomorrow might
bring. We tend to be irritated by
them, but really they are so fear-
ful, pity is a more appropriate
emotion.

Secondly, there is the
Nattering Negative Nit-Picker
who specializes in pointing out
the shortcomings, frailities and
negatives which are always
present. They never help the
plan, improve the idea or make a
positive suggestion.

Another category of a difficult
person is one I call the
Irreconcilables. They are the
folks who never forgive, always
carry a grudge, continually seek
ways to get revenge.

Or consider what I call the
Insatiable Self-centereds. These
are people who live absolutely
for themselves. They dominate
discussions with their favorite
topic, themselves.

To cope with difficult people,
admit they exist. Identify them.
remember that difficult people
can be handled with a sense of
humor. Be ready to smile at their
antics. Laughter is God Ts lubri-
cant for squeaky human rela-
tionships. A smile and a little
laughter is mandatory equip-
ment for dealing with trouble:
some people. Be careful. Getting
along with difficult people can be
dangerous. Deal with these per
sons with integrity and in aspirit
of love. Below the surface you
discover a very frightened inse-
cure person with very little self-
esteem. Reach out to difficult
persons in love. Be careful and
be loving, and by the power of the
living Christ who dwells in you,
a miracle might happen. You
might actually be the instrument
God chooses to chance them.

NKR

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Patrick Mills, who has
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sales,

announces ~the opening of

ALLSTAR MOTORS.
~Patrick would like to

thank all

of his past

customers and welcomes

_all to his new store.

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Colin Powell

On Tony Brown Ts
~Journal

oI can say what I want "say
what I mean. Idon Tt have to cow-
tow ? to anyone, Colin Powell
stressed as he begins a free-
wheeling interview with Tony

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or private consciousness raising.
Any strategy that rests on a opro-
test now, but vote Democratic in
November ? ;s doomed to failure.

The Democratic Party will not
conduct a dialogue on the Black
Agenda. They are afraid that the
Republicans will paint them as
captive to ospecial interests. ? The
Democrats want our votes while
increasingly relegating Black
America to the back burner, to
deflect the Republicans T charge.
Black Agenda conferences and
demonstrations designed to blow
off steam but put the Democrats
in office do nothing to alter that
dynamic.

Today, Black America, espe-
cially our families and our chil-
dren, are a political football
tossed about for the advantage
of Bill Clinton and Bob Dole. As
long as we remain a party to that
game (even while vocally pro-

testing it) there will be no

progress for Black America, ei-
ther politically or economically.

Our support for and involve-
ment in the building of the Re-
form Party is designed to help
Black America break out of that
trap and re-set the terms of our
participation in politics and gov-
ernment. In our opinion, there is
no question but that Black vot-
ers must move beyond our
present allegiance to the Demo-
cratic Party. We emphatically
urge all Black leaders, some of
whom are now talking about in-
dependent options and a third
party, to join us in the one that is
presently being built.

The charge has been leveled by
some that the Reform Party is
just another owhite institution ?
and is invalid as a political ve-
hicle for Black voters. At a mini-
mum, the same would have to be
said of both the Democratic and
Republican parties. Anyone es-
pousing the above criticism of
the Reform Party would have to
take steps immediately to create
an all-Black party in order to
have any credibility. As it turns
out, those who level the above
charge are most often Democrats,
run for office as Democrats, tell
Black people to vote for Demo-
crats and do not commit the en-
ergy or resources to creating a

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Brown on PBS, July 19-25.

Powell says on Tony Brown Ts
Journal that he wishes people
would believe him when he says
that he is not interested in a
political career. His military ca-
reer has conditioned him to say
what he means ""lives depend ?
on it.

The Republican Party and Bob
Doleoffer the country the best
political choices. But should Dole

Reform Party

serious all-Black party. Further,
there is no evidence to indicate
that Black America either wants
to or feels it can separate itself
from the American political or
economic mainstream. After all,
America is a owhite institution. ?
The far more difficult question is
how Black voters can assert our
interests in the American main-
stream. In our view, the birth of
the Reform Party " which we
ourselves have helped to shape
" is the most significant oppor-
tunity for African Americans to
share in the recasting of U.S.
politics. If America does not im-
prove " politically, economically,
morally " Black America will
not improve.

We, the undersigned, urge all
Black Americans to join with us
in the expansion of the Reform
Party, our hope for a brighter
future for all Americans.

Drake Beadle - State Secre-
tary, Reform Party of Illinois

Yvonne Braime - Reform Party
activist, New Jersey

David Cherry - Vice Chair, Re-
form Party of Illinois

Bob Davidson - Coordinator,
Connecticut Citizens to Estab-
lish a Reform Party

Henry Davis - Board Member,
Reform Party of Alabama

Richie Everette - Reform Party
activist, North Carolina

Jessie Fields Reform -
activist, New York

Carol Fisher Reform-Party
activist, Illinois

Lenora Fulani - Reform Party
activist, New York

Andrew Garnet - Reform Party
activist, Georgia

Roger Grimn Reform -
activist, Wisconsin

Wayne Grimn - Reform Party
activist, South Carolina

Bill Howard Reform Party
activist. District of Columbia

Jacqueline McBride Reform
Party activist, Connecticut

Tony Mitchell - Reform Party
activist, Alabama

Adolph Montgomery- Reform
Party activist, New York

Mamie Moore - State Central
Committee Member, Virginia
Reform Party (VIP)

James Rayford - Interim Chair,
Wake County Reform Party,
North Carolina

Annie Roberson - Reform Party
activist, Alabama

Nate Roberson - County Com-
missioner, Greene County, Ala-
bama; State Elector for the Re-
form Party of Alabama

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fail in his bid for the Presidency,
Powell says he will not carry othe
burden of guilt ? because he
turned down any consideration
as Dole Ts running mate. He also
refused to run for the GOP Ts

. presidential nomination. He sim-

ply lacks the opassion ? for poli-
tics, he explained.

His oinstincts ? are decidedly
Republican, he says, and critics
of an overwhelmingly White
party fail to recognize that it ois
broader and more inclusinve ?

100% American and 100% Black - No o

philosophically than the stereo-
type created by the oactive ele-
ments in the party ? suggest. In
fact, he says Blacks should make
pragmatic voting choices, rather
than selecting candidates on a
racial basis.

In response to Jesse Jackson Ts
suggestion in a New Yorker ar-
ticle that Powell has defiled him-
self by his association with the
ruling culture and Jackson Ts
Uncle Tom characterization of
the first Black with a serious

chance of becoming President of
the United States as a traitor to
his race, Powell said, oI just let
that wash over me. ?

oI rose to the top in the mili-
tary being a good American and
not forgetting my Black heri-
tage, ? said the former Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He
finds ono conflict ? in being both
100% American and 100% Black,
Powell added.

The General also explained
why he did not pursue the

Hussein and his vilaary aaa

in Iraq and defends Ronald
Reagan against the charge that ©

he is a racist. However, he be+

lieves othe Republican Party at

the time could have been more
sensitive ? toward Blacks.

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seen on your local public televi-
sion stations (PBS) and is the
nation Ts longest running and top-
ranked Black-affairs series.

Blacks are buying more books, but...

According to a report issued
by the Equal Opportunity Em-
ployment Commission, Blacks
are buying an increasing num-
ber of books by Black authors,
but there are few Blacks in pub-
lishing to reap the benefits.

The report also revealed that
Black readers are buying almost
160 million books a year by Black
authors, while only 3.4 percent
of the managers, editors and
professional in the book world
are Black.

Among the hot books this sea-
son are: Terry McMillan Ts new-
est book oHow Stella Got Her
Groove Back, ? freak jock Dennis
Rodman Ts book, oBad As I Wanna
Be ? and Christopher Darden Ts
book oIn Contempt. ? All are
riding high on the New York
Times Best Seller List.

Mystery novelist Walter
Mosley Ts book oDevil In a Blue
Dress ? was picked up by Holly-
wood and starred Denzel Wash-
ington as the intrepid Easy
Rawlins, private detective.

Mosley has since written sev-
eral more books with Easy
Rawlins as the main character.
The books to date are oA Red
Death, ? oBlack Betty, ? oWhite
Butterfly ? and the newest, Just
out oLittle Yellow Dog " an Easy
Rawlins Mystery. ? oBlack Betty ?

also made the New York Times
Best Seller List.

Edwards Singers

Mosley, who is with F. W.
Norton of New York, maintains
he is considering taking a future
project with Black Classic Press
in Baltimore, MD.

oThe publishing business is
in a cultural way the most pow-
erful institution in America, ?
said Mosley. oAnd because that Ts
dominated hy people who aren Tt
necessarily sensitive to the needs
and the language of many read-
ers, some Americans get left out.
Certain needs aren't met. Cer-
tain books aren Tt published. ? He
also observed that money was
being made off of Blacks but they
weren't being hired. oThat Ts
wrong, ? maintained Mosley.

Terry McMillan also ex-
pressed an interest in doing a
project with a reputable Black
publishing house.

The key word is reputable

The sentiments are praise-
worthy, but a word of caution.
The key word is reputable. Hav-
ing a book go bust because of a
dishonest or poorly managed
publishing house is the worst
thing that can happen toa writer.

You spend years on a project,
only to not get paid, or have the
book not properly pushed. This
affects your estate, salability,
your very future. With a good
book out you can get a better job,
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better publisher. Without that,
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A good publisher white or
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Movement 1960-1970 ? with the
Black publishing house of Gumbs
and Thomas. We spent almost
three years on the project. We
received no royalties, incomplete
flat fees for editing, no payment
for essays, no financial report in
over a year. Meanwhile the book
sold out, the stores couldn't keep
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- time).

Had we gone with any repu-
table publisher, or Scholastic
even, we'd have been better off.
We could have published our-
selves and been better off. At
least the printer would have been
paid and we'd have been able to
go back for a reprint.

Major Black companies

If major Black magazine pub-
lishing companies, who already
have atrack record onrunninga
business, paying their bills, etc.,
started up in the publishing of
books, it might be profitable for
the publishers; a percentage of
those 160 million books a year
bought by Blacks. And consider
the foreign market. Japan buys
more Black books than any other
foreign country. It would also be
profitable for the writer.

Plus Black magazines and
some newspapers also have dis-
tribution contacts already set up.
The fine points of book parties,
personal appearances, etc.,
would require a separate depart-
ment, meaning more employ-
ment beyond the 3.4 percent of
Blacks currently hired by the
book industry. And consider the
event of a movie deal! White
publishers would hardly feel the
pinch as Blacks are more con-
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cds dene af Conggnin bie josie and President Biil

Clinton has given signals (conflicting signals), that he will sign

a bill to reform welfare o ~as we now know it. ? Sadly, the moti-
vation appears to be for all the wrong reasons.

Although the President promised to reform welfare during
the 1992 campaign, he put that issue on the back burner after
his election, concentrating instead on his failed health care
reform initiative. Now, re-election appears to be at the root of
his willingness to do away with welfare.

Leaders of the Republican-dominated House of Represen-
tatives and Senate say out of one side of their mouths, that they
want to change welfare so it will better help the needy. At
best, they really want to cut the out-of-control budget which
annually bequeaths more money for odefense ? spending than

© the generals and admirals at the Pentagon ask for. At worst,
» they want to punish the poor. One Senate Republican even
- refused to vote for the measure to slashing benefits and tum-
', ing over program management to the un-reliable states,
~ because it was not stringent enough. No matter. .

The reform will probably win a surprising level of support

even in the Black community. Although there are far more

white recipients of welfare than African Americans on the

dole, Blacks are in disproportionately higher numbers among

the poor in this country and are widely perceived as the main
constituency for maintaining the trappings of the owelfare

tem. Blacks, however, are still thought of as welfare Ts main
clients.

Consider this: The day after the pivotal Senate vote on wel-
fare reform, I was walking out of a supermarket when a
disheveled-looking, inebriated Black woman asked another
Black man and then me for some money. Having just used the
store Ts high tech electronic payment system, I did not have a
dime in my pocket, and told her so. The other man simply
brushed her off. After the woman walked away, the other
man said to me: oIt Ts a shame, isn Tt it? ? I didn Tt answer. oIt Ts
just a shame, ? he continued, not waiting for an answer the sec-

By
ASKIA MUHAMMAD

ond time. oAll those jobs out there, but they just don Tt want
to work. ?

That is the perception driving, I believe, the Republican
enthusiasm for reforming/abolishing welfare. That motivation,

new legislation that requires welfare recipients to be ~almost
automatically purged from the rolls after two years, is a slap
in the face to a number of fundamental principles. It pre-
sumes that there are indeed jobs going begging which the
poor and uneducated " the rejected and despised in our
midst " can perform.

But what our society needs today is a tonic or an elixir,
something which will make our most underprivileged men and
women, anxious to become contributors to the general well
being of the nation, and to tum their children into anxious
learners, thirsting like dry sponges, for knowledge. This wel-
fare reform, just like cold shoulders turned toward beggars at
grocery stores, will not do the trick.

pn
oThe reform will probably
win a surprising level

of support even in the
Black community.

Although there are far

more white recipients of

Morehouse
honors

Moses

Morehouse College commemo-
rated the achievements of Olym-
pian and alumnus Edwin C. Moses, t
class of 78, with the unveiling of a
bronze marker on the B.T. Harvey
Stadium Plaza, Thursday, July 18.

The stadium, located at the cor-
ner of Westview Drive and Ashby
Street, houses of Edwin C. Moses
Track, which was dedicated in
1985. Guests for the events will
include LeRoy Walker, president .
of the United States Olympic Com-
mittee and Georgia Olympians.

An Ohio native, Moses earned a
spot on the 1976 Olympic team
while still astudent at Morehouse.
He went on to win gold medals in
Montreal (1976) and Los Angeles
(1984) and a bronze medal in Seoul
(1988). He also set four world
records and established a 10-year
streak of 122 consecutives wins-
one of the greatest feats in the
history of sports.

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state. ? Never mind that like affirmative action (whose major although wrapped in high-sounding political jargon when it .

success stories belong to white women and not Blacks), the _ is articulated on Capitol Hill, is not unlike the resentment of we Ifa re than African Purchase

principal beneficiaries of welfare are white service-providers, the panhandler at the grocery store, by the Black man who r 9 Refinance

counselors and bureaucrats who administer the unwieldy sys- _ talked to me: punish the dirty beggars! The provision in the Americans on the dole see Second Mortgages
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Unlike most plants, srnall
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He said the parasite was intro-
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14 burned churches receive $1.4 million in new grants

A modest emergency grant
from the Burned Churches Fund
will enable Central Grove Mis-
sionary Baptist Church in
Kossuth, MS, to meet an imme-
diate need " enough folding
chairs for everyone to sit during
serviced in the congregation Ts
temporary space.

The 80-member congregation
whose house of worship was de-
stroyed by arsonon June 17 also
will get up to $125,000 for recon-
struction from the Fund, estab-
lished by the National Council
of Churches and supported by a
broad ecumenical and interfaith
community. But in the mean-
time it has only eight lawn chars,
and only the elderly are able to
sit for worship in its temporary
structure, donated by
AmeriCare.

The emergency grant of
$1,445 for 75 folding chairs was
approved last night by the
Burned Churches Fund Ts blue-
ribbon Grants Committee,
which voted a total of $499,445
for five burned African-Ameri-
can churches. The committee is
co-chaired by the NCC Ts presi-
dent, United Methodist Bishop
Melvin Talbert of Sacramento,
CA, and the general secretary,
the Rev. Dr. Joan Brown
Campbell, and includes as mem-
bers two well-recognized civil

rights leaders, Ambassador
Andrew Young and Vernon Jor-
dan.

The new grants bring the to-
tal allocated so far to enable 14
burned churches to begin or
complete restoration to
$1,415,445. The first grants
($916,000 for nine churches)
were announced July 23. A third
round of grants is expected in
early September.

All amounts are specified
as oup to ? the designated
amount by the Grants Com-
mittee. Donated materials and
labor could reduce the amount
of cash needed, and actual cash
needs could be less than cur-
rently estimated. Any church
needing more than the desig-
nated amount will be encour-
aged to submit a further pro-
posal.

The Burned Churches Fund
is part of a broader NCC-led ef-
fort to investigate and stop hate-
motivated attacks on places of
worship and help with rebuild-
ing, bring the perpetrators to
justice and address the wider
issues of racism that underly
the attacks.

In addition to Central Grove
Missionary Baptist Church, an-
other Kossuth, MS, congrega-
tion " Mt. Pleasant Missionary
Baptist Church, destroyed by

arson the same night " will re-
ceive up to $60,000 to support
reconstruction.

Other grants were voted for:
* Salem Baptist Church,
Fruitland, TN " $180,000 to sup-
port reconstruction. The
church Ts entire structure was
destroyed in the Dec. 30, 1995
arson, and contents were lost.
Rebuilding is underway at the
original site.

* New Liberty Baptist Church,
Tyler, AL - $125,000 to sup-
port reconstruction. The
church Ts entire structure was
destroyed by arson on Febru-
ary 28, 1996, and contents were
lost. The church plans to re-
build on site.

» Matthews-Murkland Presby-
terian Church, Charlotte, NC
" $8,000 to restore church
records and undertake the ini-
tial plans for building con-
struction. The church lost its
historic (1903) secondary sanc-
tuary, church records, educa-
tional materials and furniture
to arson on June 6, 1996. Not
long before, the church had
voted to use the old sanctuary
as a program center.

Gifts may be sent to the
Burned Churches Fund " NCC,
475 Riverside Drive, New York,
NY 10115. For credit card gifts,
phone 1-800-762-0968.

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By: Dr. Lenora Fulani
Kudirat Abiola died on June 4
from a gunshot wound to the
head. She was 44 years old " a
woman, a wife, a mother, in the
prime of her life. She was dedi-
cated to winning the release from

prison of her husband " Chief

Moshood Abiola, who on June
12, 1993 became the duly elected
president of Nigeria " and to
having the mandate of Nigerian
people carried out so that Chief
Abiola should serve his country
as the president of Nigeria

THEW VOICE '- WEEK OF AUGUST 15-23, 1996

Por Kudirat Abiola

in her opposition to the regime of
General Sani Abacha, part of the
military junta which illegally an-
nulled the results of the June 12
election and, one year later, put
Chief Abiola in prison. Because
of her efforts she was arrested
and charged with sedition,
banned from being allowed to
visit her husband in prison, and
faced possible imprisonment her-
seil
Less than 10 days before her

nurder, the Nigerian magazine
Pell publish ed an interview with
Kudi Abiola, in which she

rat

spoke in detail about her
husband Ts' situation, the
government Ts manipulation of
attempts to negotiate bail terms
for his release, the intrigue
within the Abiola family over
the issue of legal representation,
and the threats that she herself
faced. At one point in the inter-

view the reporter asked how she °

responded to the suggestion that
she should soft-pedal her views
because she was embarrassing
the Abacha government. She
answered: oFor me to now shy
away from what I believe in ... is

impossible. I cannot. ? The re-
porter commented that it was
said of Kudirat Abiola that she
was matching force with force.
oHow do they want me to react? ?
she responded. oI am only being
truthful. I want them to do the
right thing so that the country
can be in the right place. With-
out doing the right thing ... there
will be no peace. ?

When I read this interview I
was struck by her tremendous
courage and her integrity. And
one phrase echoed in my mind
over and over again. oI am only

being truthful, ? she said. Ten
days later she was dead.
Truth-telling is a dangerous
business in this world. It is a
dangerous business in Nigeria.
It is a dangerous business in
many African countries where
dictators of one or another stripe
hide behind their Black faces and
African proverbs while they con-
trol, divide and oppress the Afri-
can masses. :
Truth-telling is a dangerous
business here in the United
States, too, where African Ameri-
cans undergo many kinds of

and Nigerian democracy

manipulation " often at the
hands of other Blacks.

Very often it is women of color
who are willing to tell the truth
about these kinds of manipula-
tions, about the sordid politick-
ing and business dealing that
goes on at the expense of our
people.

Why? For one thing, we havea
great love and caring for our
people, our children, and our com-
munity. At the same time, be-
cause we are women, we have
little motivation to protect the
political establishment; after all,

Kudirat Abiola was outspoken
we ourselves have been so sys-

tematically excluded from it,
whatever its color.

Thus we are the truth tellers.
Kudirat Abiola was no excep-
tion. It is a great tragedy anda
great loss for the people of Nige-
riathat her truth-telling resulted
in her death.

In the days that have followed
her assassination there have
been many rumors and much
speculation concerning who was
responsible. Various forces have
rushed to put their own ospin, ?
or interpretation on the murder.
All sorts of theories have been
advanced: one is that she was
gunned down by rogue elements
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she was shot by competing ele-
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yet another is that she died at
the hands of members of her fam-
ily seeking control over the de-
fense attorneys representing
Chief Abiola.

These theories all have a com-
mon thread " namely, that they
exonerate the Abacha regime of
any responsibility for her death.

I do not know who pulled the
trigger that put the bullet in
Kudirat Ts head. But I do know
this the Abacha regime was con-
ceived in violence; it has ruled by
violence; it has repressed the op-
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elevated violence to an accept-
able " indeed, preferred "
method of political decision mak-
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no way that such a regime can-
not be held responsible for the
violent death of Kudirat Abiola
on June 4 \

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welfare reform legislation. This desire to dramatically
change the system is driven by President Clinton Ts
promise to ochange the welfare system as we know it ? and
Republicans contempt for the less fortunate of our society.
The first two times this bill was passed, President Clinton
.used his veto powers because, in his opinion, the measure
would do great harm to over a million of the nation Ts children.
However, on the third time around, essentially the same bill
may get the President Ts signature. Even the most casual observ-
er of politics might wonder why a piece of legislation could
be so unacceptable a few months ago and now, except for some
revisions, is close to becoming law. The answer to that question
is directly linked to the upcoming elections and the desire of
Clinton to take another issue away from his Republican rivals.
Let Ts look at some of the provisions of the owelfare reform
package ? passed in the Senate and House. Each state would
receive a lump sum of money to run its own work and welfare
programs. Eligibility standards for supplemental security income
benefits would become much more stringent, which means

F: the third time in 18 months, Congress has a passed

Fuentes recently reported for duty

Marine Staff Sgt. Victor R.
Fuentes, whose wife, Stephanie, is
the daughter of Inell Bowden of
2816 Best St., Greenville, recently
reported for duty with Ist Marine

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Officer Carr is halfway through deployment

Let Them Eat Biscuits...

Aviation Logistics Squadron 36,
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Fuentes T new assignment is an
example of how Navy and Marine

could lose cash benefits. The head of the household that is
receiving welfare would be required to work within two years
or the family would lose benefits and states that reduce births
to unmarried women would be rewarded with additional cash
grants.

FROM CAPITOL HILL
. By GEORGE WILSON

According to figures from the Department of Health and
Human Services, these changes will push millions of children
over the edge of poverty. Some lawmakers aren Tt happy with the
welfare reform package, among them Donald Payne (D-N.J.),
who also chairs the Congressional Black Caucus. He sees the

Corps men and women are as-
signed to ships, squadrons and
shore commands around the
world. Whether servingin the Per-
sian Gulf near Iraq or in the

Adriatic Sea near Bosnia, people
like Fuentes are making a differ-
ence as they work toimprove their
knowledge and skill as part of the
most highly technical naval force

bill does a lot of damage, i paticoln o chiaion Tae
bill being signed that blames a child for the indiscretions of
the parents, ? he said, ge
Sen. Carol Mosely Braun (D-IIL.), ~the only African American T ?-*
to serve in the Senate, is in favor of able-bodied persons engag-..
ing in work if jobs and training are available. oIn the final analy-.,..
sis, you have got to be able to ask the question of what happens, rv
to the children? Are we providing a floor beneath which no..i#
child can fall in these United States, in terms of poverty? ? .:
Mosely Braun is one of only 24 senators who voted against ++
the bill because of its punitive effect on children. oThis bill ~~
gets rid of the floor on poverty that we had in this country, ~~ T
even though we are embarrassingly 23 in the industrialized, ?
world, in terms of child poverty. We are now about to make that ,,
even worse, ? the Black senator said. :
Payne and Mosely Braun are part of a small group who are
urging the President to veto the bill. However, don Tt count ON on:
it. The President appears to be running a campaign which takes .",
him in whatever direction the winds of opinion polls are blow-sawss |
ing or in the direction that the Republicans are pushing. As ansss
increasing number of individuals and families face real uncer-""""
tainties, the Congress and maybe the President, are saying, ? " *
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through a six-month overseas
deployment to the Persian Gulf
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Carr is one of 323 Sailors
aboard the ship who have trav-
eled more than 16,000 miles since
departing Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Carr has been operating in the
Persian Gulf helping conduct
maritime interceptions of mer-
chant ships suspected of violat-
ing the international embargo
against Iraq.

On oneroutine boarding, Carr Ts
ship discovered an Indian flagged
vessel transporting more than
200 tons of dates from Iraq. Ex-
porting dates from Iraq is pro-
hibited under the agreement.

Carr Ts ship is one of the newest
ships in the Navy, and with its
sophisticated radar and combat
system, it is coordinating air de-
fense assets while in the Persian
Gulf.

During the deployment, crew
members aboard Carr Ts ship have
been attending college courses
at sea, while others have partici-
pated in exchange programs with
foreign ships in the area.

Spending most of the deploy-
ment at sea, Carr and fellow Sail-
orsalso have visited Bahrain and
the United Arab Emirates. Carr
was at sea, in the Persian Gulf,
during New Year's, where the
crew continued to work through
the holiday, but didhave achance
to enjoy a special meal.

Carr Ts involvement in the de-
ployment is an example of how
U.S. men and women are serv-
ingin the Navy and Marine Corps
around the world in support of
US. interests. Whether project-
ing power ashore, delivering hu-
manitarian assistance, cargo or
troops from the sea, these highly
trained naval forces provide a
unique forward presence and cri-
sis-response option, which can
be withdrawn quickly when no
longer needed.

The 1978 graduate of Rose
High School joined the Navy in
March 1979.

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What is Viral Hepatitis?

= Hepatitis simply means inflam-
mation of the liver. The liver is one
ef the largest organs in the body
@nd sits in the right upper portion
$f the abdomen. There are many
feasons for inflammation of the
fiver including some commonly
sed medications (such as over-

ose of Tylenol), toxins (such as
alcohol T and infections. Of the in-
fections, viral hepatitis is the most
fommon and the one that may
Bave long term sequelae. I will
Briefly touch upon viral hepatitis
fn this article. Viruses that infect
he liver were named alphabeti-
ea!ly, roughly in the order of their
discovery and have gone from
Benatitis A and hepatitis G. Hepa-

_ fitis A, B and C infections are the

frost common worldwide.

* Hepatitis A is spread via oral-
~cal contact and approximately
0-50% of American population is

e@xposed and, therefore, immune

fo future infections by this virus.

Ingestion of raw oysters and clams

frdim polluted waters is known to

pave caused epidemics. Steaming
fhe clams and oysters may not kill
¢his virus. The symptoms are usu-

a

ally flu-like. This is an acute infec-
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sequelae. If you plan to travel
abroad, especially in the develop-
ing world, you should be tested for
prior exposure and if not exposed
then a protective vaccine has re-
cently become available in this
country.

If you have history of jaundice

(yellow eyes and skin), had blood
transfusion prior to 1989, had
sexual contact with someone with
viral hepatitis, or experimented
with intravenous drugs at any
point in your life you should bring
it to the attention of your doctor or
seek advice of a gastroenterolo-
gist.

HMOs add to nation Ts
crisis in health, medical

Care

By Ayisha Harvey

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elderly in health care is appar-
ently a big topic nowadays, espe-
cially considering the March 27
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cians serving Medicare and Med-
icaid patients under managed
health care plans.

Considering the managed care
industry's objections, the rules
were slated to take effect the first
day of the next year. The adminis-
tration said that the original date
for enactment was ounrealistic ?
due to unresolved issues.

Consumer advocates and inter-
est groups were upset by the post-
ponement of the regulations, their
argument being that the best in-
terests of poor and elderly patients
should immediately be dealt with.

This opinion was geared toward
some practices of HMOs which,
they argue, somehow place patient
and doctor on two different planes.

Managing a Medicaid or Medi-
care patient Ts care 1s usually done
so witha flat payment by an HMO.
If the patient requires additional
care, which includes referrals to
specialists, the physicians have to
pay for it or provide the services
themselves. Financial losses and
the need for health care are two
topics that come into conflict in
situations such as these.

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The rules would make sure in
these cases the doctor would be
protected by limiting the amount
of money he or she could lose. Phy-
sicians for a National Health Pro-
gram, an advocate group for the
proposed rules, and groups like
them want to make sure that phy-
sicians don't have to make a deci-
sion between money issues and
sufficient health care for their pa-
tients.

Other practices, such as cash
bonuses, are also under revisions
by the rules. The bonuses are usu-
ally given to doctors who control
spending. By limiting losses this

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Breaking the Cycle of

Poverty Politics

By: Dr. Lenora Fulani

Last week President Bill Clinton
agreed to sign into law a new wel-
fare bill. The bill is devastating. It
shreds the safety net guaranteed
by the federal government for 30
years. It passes along unexpected
and astronomical costs to states
like New York where the state
constitution requires an ongoing
commitment of government re-
sources to help the poor. It insists
that welfare recipients must find
jobs within two years, in an
economy where good-paying jobs
are difficult to find and low-wage
jobs are impossible to support a
family on.

The new program is heartless,
insidious and shameful. It reveals
what is fundamentally corrupt
about our government.

- Do all Americans agree that the

welfare system had to be over-
hauled? Absolutely. Do all Ameri-
cans agree that the country Ts anti-
poverty programs are too expen-
sive on the one side and ineffective
on the other? Taxpayers and wel-
fare recipients agree " the an-
swer is yes! Studies have shown
that upwards of seventy-five cents
on every dollar spent on welfare
has gone to administration and
bureaucracy and not to the needy.
Does the bill passed by Congress
and signed by the President en-
gage any of these issues? No. Was
there athoroughgoing and serious
study of how to address the wel-
fare system Ts profound problems
including attending tothe concerns
of the poor? Not at all.

Instead, there was a calculated
and politicized review of how to
restructure the system such that
members of Congress " the ma-
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the federal guarantee of cash as-
sistance for the poor; that they
limited lifetime welfare benefits
to five years, that a woman must

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cooperate in identifying the father
of her children or lose 25% of her
benefits; that future legal immi-
grants who have not become citi-
zens will be ineligible; that appli-
cants with a record of drug of-
fenses can be denied assistance. In
other words, the bill provides Re-
publicans and conservative Demo-
crats with a series of soundbites
that can be paraded in front of
voters deeply concerned about the
deficit and the bloated size of the
federal government in order to win
reelection.

Much has been made of the dis-
agreements and fights within the
White House about whether or not
President Clinton should sign the
bill into law. Vice President Al
Gore was reportedly pressuring
Clinton to sign the bill while Chief
of Staff Leon Panetta urged a veto.
Gore represents the Democratic
Leadership Council approach
which favors cutbacks for fiscal
gain and distancing from the poor
for political gain. Panetta has
closer ties to the old New Deal
coalition wing of the party which
is trying desperately to accommo-
date the needs of its constituen-
cies with the new austerity of the
DLC. Obviously, the DLC wing of
the party prevailed.

Where does that leave the party Ts
oliberal ? wing? Where does it leave
African Americans, Latinos, labor,
and the poor? In an inescapable
bind. President Clinton, a shrewd
and manipulative policymaker/
politician now turns to his liberal,
Black, labor, and poor constitu-
ents and says: You put me in this
position. You better get out there
and vote in big numbers for me and
the Democratic Party Congres-
stonal candidates. It ~s up to you to
give the Democratic Party control
of Congress. I saved Medicaid and
food stamps. But only by the skin of
my teeth. If you had taken care of
business tn 1994, we wouldn ~t be
in this position and I wouldn ~t
have to sign this bill.

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Pitt Partners for Health, the

i foe which will evaluate the

th needs in Pitt County, has
surveying county resi-

~ dents door-to-door.

The surveys, which will help
researchers learn what health
care issues are important to lo-
calresidents, should be complete
by the end of October.

Reporters who would like to
accompany surveyors shouldcon-
tact the Office of Medical Center
News and Information at 816-
2481.

Pitt Partners for Health has
ranked the health care needs in
Pitt County. They are: No. 1,
improving the health care deliv-
ery system; No. 2, curbing abuse
of alcohol, drugs and tobacco;
No. 3, improving nutrition; No.
4, improving mental health treat-
ment, No. 5, improving mater-
nal, infant and child health.

Surveyors will be employees of
Pitt County Memorial Hospital
and will use a survey developed
by a team from the East Caro-
lina University School of Medi-

cine.

Pitt Partners for Health is the
Greenville branch of the regional
REACH Project, a health im-
provement effort funded by a

Quality seeds key to farm oati,
meeting world food demand

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. "Top
quality seeds are key to farm
productivity and meeting world
food demand, North Carolina Ag-
riculture CommissionerJim Gra-
ham said here Monday.

oGood seeds have helped
American farmers be the most
productive and high-tech in the
world, ? he told attendees of the
N.C. Seedsmen Ts Association
annual meeting. Our growers
have quality seeds to raise crops
and to provide feed for their live-
stock and poultry, ? Graham said.
oVariety is also stressed because
farmers need a wide genetic seed
base to cover needs such as in-

NOTICE OF SERVICE BY PUBLICATION
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, PITT COUNTY

In the District Court
To: Derwin Binwicks Staton

TAKE NOTICE that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above-entitled
action. The nature of the relief being sought is a Divorce.

You are required to make defense to this pleading not later than September 20th 1996, and upon
your failure to do so, the party seeking service against you will apply to the Court for the relief

sought.
This the 2nd day of August, 1996.

Sarella Kilpatrick Staton, Plaintiff
A-27 Glendale Drive

Greenville, NC 27834
919-756-3869

Notice of Nondiscrimination

The Greenville Housing Authority
complies with all federal and state

Representatives of PCMH, the. participated in eudng the fi
ECU School of Medicine, Pitt gram. :

County Social Services, the

sect resistance and disease. A
good seed base has helped North
Carolina become the country Ts
third most agriculturally diverse
state. ?

Tapping international markets
is crucial to farming Ts continued
success, the commissioner said.
oForeign markets are the future,
and the future is now. Competi-
tion is fierce on these world mar-
kets, and farmers need an edge.

oResearch and technology are
leading the way. Our farmers
need the most up-to-date knowl-
edge, equipment and resources. ?

Biotechnology holds much
promise, Graham added. oCrops

are being made resistant to
weeds and certain chemicals.
21st century will see may
changes and advances on =
front. ?

The N.C. Department of Agek
culture tests seeds for germn
tion and purity. |Last year,
NCDA Ts Plant Industry Divi
received more than 17,500
samples. Samples were Cuban
ted for soybeans, peanuts, to-
bacco, vegetables, small graing,
and lawn and turf.

Seed testing is a free service
provided to resident farmers,
seed producers, and retail aiid
wholesale dealers. =

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housing laws. The Authority does not
knowingly discriminate with regard to
race color, creed, religion, national
Origin, handicap or familial status.

Wanda's Place
The Interracial Hairstyling Salon

Introducing Verna Ebron, experienced hairdresser, °

(919) 830-4009.

Compliance with 504 Program is
observed. TDD service is
available for the deaf

ey

EQUAL HOUSING

OPPORTUNITY

specialiszing in Press & Curls, Relaxers, Color & Curls. T
Ask for Vern for special discounts during the months of
August & September. Thank you for your business. .

Wanda Smith
Owner/Operator
(919) 758-1260

Cynthia Boyd
Operator

1203 W. 14th Street, Greenville

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