bo _ NAACP Annual Banque Your Membership Is Important To! NA See Feature Page I 0 Listen to 1340 AM woow * ono NWVERSITY Greenville WTOW1320 AM Wests) sbbeletdeel AROUN Tre ' M inority Yoice difference. I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the —Robert Frost EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA’S MINORITY VOICE-SINCE 1981 wi _ WEEK OF MARCH 31-APRIL 6, 1998 Local NAACP Still On The Rise By Kitty J. Pope The NAACP of Pitt County held its annual Fellowship Banquet on March 21 at the J.H. Rose High School. The banquet was a celebra- tion of the Emancipation Proclama- tion, with the theme, “NAACP: And Still I Rise.” The speaker for this occasion was Dr. James Johnson. Dr. Johnson is the Maynard Ad- ams Distinguished Professor of Business, Geography and Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also the direc- tor of the Urban Investment Strat- egies Center in the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enter- prise at UNC-CH. After music, a hearty welcome, and the reading of the Emancipa- ‘ , tion Proclamation, the banquet be- PITT COUNTY NAACP HOLDS ANNUAL BANQUET—Shown here are " -|.) Pitt County President Gaston Monk, Ann Huggins, Guest Speaker, James Johnson, Wall Morehead and another member all on hand for the annual banquet. (Staff Photo) U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters Denounces CIA Report WASHINGTON, D.C.—USS. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, last week denounced the Inspector General of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Frederick Hitz’s, un- classified report regarding allega- tions of CIA involvement in drug trafficking in South Central Los Angeles. “This document lacks credibility and its conclusions should be dis- missed,” said Rep. Waters. Testifying before the House Se- lect Committee on Intelligence, Rep. Waters added, “This docu- ment raises more questions than it answers. We've waited for over a year for a credible response to a very serious accusation about the CIA’s role in drug trafficking to fund the Contra war. Instead, we have received an unclassified docu- ment full of contradictions, ae OQ! | 0, KJVocrey ¥ National News': Wire cs 'O ,O YOUTH LEADERS TO CONVENE MILLION YOUTH MARCH-IN HARLEM Black youth from around the country will be the focus of attention at the Million Youth March (MYM) on Sept. 5 in Harlem, N.Y. Organizers say the entire black family is invited to hear from, support and guide black youth as they take center stage and assume their role as the next generation of leaders. The theme of the MYM is “Black Power into the Year 2000!” The event was called by Min. Khallid Abdul Muhammad and he has received the expressed support of Min. Louis Farrakhan, the convenor of the 1995 Million Man March. The weekend kicks off on Sept. 3 and 4 with the MYM Black Unity Hip Hop and Rap Summit. Malik Zulu Shabazz, the national youth director for the MYM, explained that the Summit is dedicated to ending the division between East Coast, West Coast and Southern rappers. “At the Summit,” he said, “they. will come together with black leadership to communicate and dialogue in an effort to promote unity and control the dollars in the industry.” Participants in the Summit will include: West Side Connection, Puff Daddy, Wu Tang, Rakim and Master P. The March will take place on Sept. 5 beginning at 7 a.m. on Malcolm X Boulevard. at Central Park (110th St. through to 145th St.). NNPA will continue to provide updates of MYM activities or you may receive additional information by calling Khallidah Muhammad, chief operations officer at 888-MYM-2804 or by visiting the website: www. millionyouthmarch.com. EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION ON DISPLAY AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS For the first time in 15 years, the Library of Congress is displaying Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation in the “American Trea- sures of the Library of Congress” exhibition through May. Previously, the document was briefly displayed to the public in 1983 and 1975, and for a longer period in 1962-1963, On Sept. 22, 1862, Lincoln gave his prelimi- nary Emancipation Proclamation as a direct order to the Army. In the final Emancipation Proclamation, Jan. 1, 1863, Lincoln named districts “wherein the people... are this day in rebellion” and ordered “that all persons held as slaves... [in those areas] are, and henceforward shall be, free.” The final version differs from the preliminary edition in the greater emphasis placed on the preservation of the Union as a motivating force for the Proclamation. The Jan, 1, 1863 Proclamation was lost in the Chicago fire of 1871. Surviving photographs of the document show it (See NATIONAL NEWS, P. 2) formation and unsupported conclu- sions.” Even several former CIA agents intimately involved in the Contra war characterized the investigation as “a bunch of ...bull” and “goling] through the motions,” she said. “This is very troubling.” The CIA’s investigation came in response to the “Dark Alliance” se- ries published by the San Jose Mercury News in August 1996. The story, written by reporter Gary Webb, raised allegations of the CIA’s role in drug trafficking in South Central Los Angeles to fund its Contra war activities. The CIA has refused to release the “classified” version ofits report. It re,eased the unclassified version on Jan. 29. Rep. Waters told members of the Intelligence Committee about trav- eling to Nicaragua, as well as throughout California, to person- ally interview a, number of indi- viduals me aja in the “Dark Al- liance” series, She spoke of the may letters and volumes of infor- mation sent to her from people across the country. “My deep concern about the alle- gations raised in the San Jose Mer- cury that my government could have, in any way, been involved in or had knowledge of, drug traffick- ing has caused me to spend my own time and resources to find out more about these allegations,” added Waters. Waters listed more than 70 names of people who, she said, should have been interviewed by the Office of the Inspector General and asked the members of the com- mittee to interview these individu- als as part of their investigation. She also asked the committee to obtain written responses confirm- ing or denying that certain indi- viduals were CIA assets or agents. “This committee has a responsi- bility to look into the nefarious ac- tivities surrounding the massive’ Contra-cocaine drug network and use its subpoena power to provide the American people with the truth that has been denied them for too long,” added Waters. (See REP. WATERS, P. 2) gan with everyone standing and singing the Negro National An- them, “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing.” Greetings from County Commis- sioner Jeff Savage and NAACP District 14 Director D.D. Garrett followed the anthem. Before the dinner, a musical se- lection was given by Laura Morris, a speech on diversity was read by 11-year-old Kristine Pope and spe- cial NAACP awards were pre- sented by Linda Howard. After a scrumptious dinner and dessert were enjoyed by those in attendance, NAACP President Gaston Monk, who presided over the ceremony, introduced the speaker. As a former student under his principalship, Monk remem- bered Dr. Johnson as well-behaved. “Perhaps my strictness paid off,” laughed Monk. ’ Dr. Johnson began his speech by acknowledging what an honor it was to respond to an invitation to speak for a great man like Mr. Monk. He referred to Monk as a mentor and said that he owed a lot of what he had become to his former principal. Dr. Johnson spoke on the impor- tance of education, organizations like the NAACP, and black broth- erhood. “Blacks must continue to stand together for change,” ex- plained Dr. Johnson, whose more than 100 scholarly research ar- ticles include the study of minority- owned business development and interethnic minority conflict in ad- vanced industrial societies. “Those who have obtained an education and financial status and have made it to [executive] suites must reach back and help those in the streets. It’s about the ‘suites’ helping the ‘streets,” exclaimed Dr. Johnson. After the uplifting speech, Ann Huggins recognized special guests, who included Attorney David and Mrs. Leach; City Councilwoman Mildred Council; County Commis- sioner Farney Moore; Sheriff Can- didate Mac Manning; and several others. More than 150 NAACP members and community citizens attended the banquet. MINORITY BUSINESS EXPO MISSION ACCOMPLISHED—Shown above is a skyview of Expo and vendors. Below: Taff’s Office Supply owner, Jay Taff, is seen with vendors Jeff Savage and Daniel Dawson. (Staff Phofos) Rev. Bernice A. King Shaw U. Finals Orator was awarded a master of divinity degree as well as a doctorate of law from Emory University. Ordained at Ebenezer Baptist Church, the same church where her forebears preached, she is currently the as- sistant pastor at an inner-city church in Atlanta, Ga., where she heads the church’s youth and vari- ous civic, religious, corporate, and political organizations across the country. King, 34, is also the author of Hard Questions, Heart Answers: Sermons and Speeches, which is her first literary work. Shaw University, founded in 1865, is the oldest historically black institution in the South. Since 1987, the university has been under the leadership of President Talbert O. Shaw. Reverend Bernice A. King is the speaker for Shaw University’s com- mencement ceremony, Saturday, May 9, in the Raleigh Civic and Convention Center at 11 a.m. Rev. King has is a nationally re- nowned orator. In 1980, at age 17, she spoke in her mother’s stead to the United Nations on Apartheid, thus realizing her oratorical gift. The youngest child of Ms. Coretta Scott King and the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Bernice King is remembered by most as the five- year-old in the Pulitzer photograph taken of her as she lay in her mother’s lap during her father’s fu- neral. King received her B.A. in psy- chology from Spelman College, and on the morning of her ordination, Way, HOMETOWN BOY RETURNS—UNC Chapel Hill professor James Johnson, who grew up in Pitt County ts shown with his father and mother and lovely wife and family mem Johnson was the guest speaker. (Jim Rouse Photo) ed eg Or No Danger From A new study by a major health organization suggests that there may be little or no danger from sec- ond-hand smoke. The study was one of the largest ever on environmental tobacco smoke—more commonly known as “second-hand smoke.” This study was conducted by one of the most well respected and well-recognized public policy health organizations in the world—the World Health Organization and its International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). The WHO-IARC research found no meaningful increase in lung cancer risk to non-smokers exposed to their spouse’s or co-workers’ smoke. Also, according to IARC, “There was no association between lung cancer risk and ETS exposure during childhood.” This was not good news for the anti-smoking community around the world which has built much of its anti-tobacco political agenda around the idea that even non- smokers are at risk from cigarette smoke. The world’s anti-smoking community immediately blasted re- ports on the WHO study. The smoking industry and the British press claim that WHO did little to report the results of the second largest study ever carried out on ETS. Specifically, the WHO agency found a non-significant overall relative risk of 1.16 for exposure to environmental tobacco smoke at home, 1.17 for exposure at work and 1.14 for those who both live and work with a smoker. These risk numbers were not statistically significant, meaning one cannot conclude from this study that there is any lung cancer risk associated with living or working with a smoker. IARC itself, as well as other leading bodies such as the U.S. Na- tional Cancer Institute, also advise that relative risks of less than 2.0 are small and difficult to interpret. The IARC study represents many years of research across sev- eral European countries. Whether this study is considered alone, or as the latest of more than 40 studies of this type over the last 17 years, the data do not show any meaning- ful increase in risk of lung cancer for a nonsmoker exposed to envi- ronmental tobacco smoke. In the wake of the study, the to- bacco industry renewed its charge that the overwhelming majority of statistical studies investigating whether tobacco smoke in the air might be associated with lung can- cer in non-smokers have reported no meaningful increase in risk. Community Christian Sets April Orientation Community Christian Academy will have a Kindergarten Orienta- tion on April 28 at 7 p.m. All pro- spective parents of 5-year-olds are invited to attend. For further information on en- rollment, contact 551-1055, Com- munity Christian Academy, James D. Corbett, Pastor, 2009 Hwy. 33 East, Greenville, NC 27834. The Minority \" fo) Corsa [alon pete energy services | Greenville Utilities Commission | gave pertinent information Tues- : days, March 17 and 24, to the Re- tjrement Living Class, Pitt County — Council on Aging. Beatrice Maye, : coordinator. Reverent Sympathy is extended to the families of Gladys McDowell, — William Dixon, Addie R. Gore and Mavis Harris. Also, Grant Bell, Jr. SPIRITUAL FOOD FOR THOUGHT Forget the slander that you hear before you repeat it. Forget each slight, each spite, each sneer, wherever you may — meet it. Remember every kindness done to you, whatever its measure. Remember praise by ethers won, and pass it on with pleasure. Remember every promise made and keep it to the letter. Remember those who lend you aid and be a grateful debtor. Remember all the happiness that comes your way in living. Forget each worry and distress, be hopeful and forgiving. _ Remember good, remember truth, remember heaven’s above you; And you will find thru age and youth that many hearts will love you. —Selected Matthew 15:18-19, “But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, mur- ders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.” Let us take seriously this matter of our heart. The mind is a terrible thing to waste. THE CHRISTIAN’S WAY OF SELF-RELIANCE “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” PROVERBIALLY SPEAKING... A JOB well done is its own re- ward. There is no way we can, lift people up unless we come down to their level to help them. Being intoxicated, or drunk, is not just a'single sin, but it is one that opens the door to many others. Know God—know hope, know peace; no God—no hope, no peace. Difficulties are obstacles only to the weak. We best keep God’s Word when we give it away—EVANGELIZE. SOME NO’S AT THE DINNER TABLE: 1. Don’t turn on the TV. Dinner f | { Beatrice C. Maye meals are for conversation, not TV viewing. 2. Don’t criticize or lecture. 3. No telephone calls or answer- ing the telephone. Turn on the an- swering machine or take the tele- phone off the hook. This is family time. 4.Get home from work on time for dinner. This lets all know your family is important. Note: There are some exceptions, we are aware of. SOME DO’s: 1. Teach to perform our service in the community. © 2. Let’s bring in a new word for dinner—each member. 3. Do invite friends or family guests occasionally. 4. Play games. 5. Bring something from an- tiques. 6. Bring in a song we used to sing. 7. Bring in a prayer. 8. Finding schedule for next day (at school), sign papers 9. Give some things up so you can have time together to share a meal. 10. Eat together as a family—AL- WAYS— New Year, FEaster, Mother's Day, Father's Day, July 4 (outing/cookout, picnic), Thanks- giving, Christmas. These are ritu- als or memories we should never forget. Note:. Never eat in a separate room, to get away from family, or to view a football, basketball or any other game. Is the game more im- portant than your family? 11.Do always tell the cook, mother or grandmother, how deli- cious the meal __ was; If you do it Dad, the kids will, too. Try it! Breaking bread has been a tradi- tion. Mealtime traditions are spe- cial. By all means, use that fine china, crystals, silver, for more than likely, the yard sales, the Sal- vation Army will get it, for most of The dreaming brain Sleep and dreaming are still movement (REM) phase of ACTIVE AREAS . Ouimbic system: Source of strong emotions, aggression and long-term memory Activity gives dreams emotional and sexual power ep, @ Extrastriate: Processes complex visual pattems, such as faces May explain dreams’ vivid imagery © Thalamus: Carries sensory signals to and from the cortex O anterior cingulate: Motivation, Curiosity, interest in surroundings @ Pons: Triggers REM sleep by stimulating brain into activity ee eee Tiel no | place for your hand-me-downs, and _ your kids will have less to fight | over. Money is their main interest - after you are dead. Believe me! GEMS OF THE DAY 1. Quitting Time To follow Christ we must resolve To quit our evil ways. To practice love and godliness To please God all our days. What we do may be more ray SX tant than what we don’t do. , 2.1 Samuel 16:7. The Lord to Samuel: “Men judge by outward appear- ance, but I look at a man’s thoughts and intentions. Da judge a man’s face or height. I do make decisions the way you do”. 3. Prejudice is essentially an outgrowth of ignorance. 4. Nobody ever learns anything when he’s talking. 5. What is hard to stop once you've started? Smoking, alcohol, gambling, biting nails and eating potato chips. 6. A short course in Human Rela- tions. The 6 most important words in it wrong. Please forgive me. The 5 most important words: You did a good job. The 4 most. important words: What is your opinion? The 3 most important words: Can I help? The 2 most important words: Thank you. The 1 most important word: You. The least important word: I. 7.The greatest enemy facing blacks today is not racism and dis- crimination, but jealousy and envy among ourselves. 8. The three C’s for Study and Work Habits: Curiousity, Creativ- ity and Consistency 9.A friend does not abuse his friendship. 10. A Pledge of Trust: Father, during this coming week there may be times when I shall not be able to sense Your presence or to be aware of Your nearness. When I am lonely and by myself, I trust You to be my companion. When I am tempted to sin, I trust You to keep me from it. When I am depressed and anxious, I trust You to lift my spirits. When I am crushed by responsibility and over- whelmed by the demands of people on my time, I trust You to give me poise and a sense of purpose. When I am rushed and running, I trust You to make me still inside. When I forget You, I trust that You will never forget me. When I forget oth- ers, I trust You to prompt me to think of them. When You take something of someone from me that I want to keep; When You re- move the props I lean on for com- fort... poorly understood. Most dreams take place during the rapid eye sleep, when some parts of the brain are aroused while others remain quiet. INACTIVE | (3 Prefrontal cortex: Crucial to intelligence, conscious thought Inactivity may be why dreams are bizarre, illogical €) Primary visual cortex: Crucial for vision when person is awake (} inferior parietal lobe: Processes experiences into memory Dreams may be hard to remember because this part of brain doesn't process them in normal way SOURCES: Walter Reed Sleep Laboratory | National Institute for Deainess and Other ela Disorness BRB 408", REIN ASS ‘Education Replacing Security As New Job Benefit (NU)—In the battle to attract and keep employees, what’s most important? The answer might sur- prise you, . Increasingly, employers are find- ‘ing that the availability of top- quality educational opportunities is their best weapon. “Education is replacing security as the new corporate benefit,” says Verne Harnish, founder of the in- ternationally recognized Young En- trepreneurs Organization. “And in- vestment in employee education is outdistancing the return compa- nies receive on almost any other in- vestment they make.” In short, Harnish says, employee education has become a strategic _ imperative as companies battle to - succeed in the new knowledge- ‘based economy Gensdar this A study by the Na- tional Center on the Educational Quality of the Workforce examined the relationship between education and productivity at more than 3,000 U.S. workplaces. The study found that a 10 percent increase in work force education level led to an 8.6 percent increase in total pro- ductivity. Contrast that with just a 3.4 percent improvement in pro- ductivity as a result of a 10 percent increase in investment for capital equipment. So how do emerging-growth firms compete when the Fortune 100 have their own internal “corpo- rate universities”? And how do they provide the same access to— and quality of—education when time and dollars are limited? What many companies need is a “virtual” corporate university. An Ashburn, Va.-based company, f IPG, has answered this need with a program called the Master of Business Dynamics (MBD). The first “class” of 15 emerging-growth firms are participating in the new program. Emerging-growth firms are those with 20 to 500 employees, $5 mil- lion to $100 million in sales and an annual growth rate of 20 percent or greater. There are 70,000 such firms in the United States. The goal of the MBD program: “To help these emerging-growth firms educate their employees to compete in the new economy and to compete for employees,” says Harnish, founding partner of IPG. Companies involved in the MBD program have access to a three- year series of educational “mod- ules” implemented on a quarterly basis. ti slr Ve "NATIONAL NEWS: Continued from page 1 | . elas in Lincoln’s own hand. The title and ending are in the hand of a Clerk, and printed insertions are from the Sept. 22, 1862, preliminary Emancipation. Proclamation. The official, or engrossed, version of the final Emancipation Proclamation is in the National Archives. In addition to the only surviving copy of the Proclamation in the hand of Lincoln, the exhibition includes: a letter from Lincoln to Albert. Hodges, editor of the Frankfort, Ky. Commonwealth, April 4, 1864, in which Lincoln explained his view of slavery and a first printing of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, Sept. 22, 1862. MICHIGAN STUDY FINDS RACISM ALIVE IN AMERICA Ae feubite Americans may harbor more racist attitudes than sur- 2 we Sated in the past, according to a study of 451 US. college ersity of Michigan professor. “Direct, overt expres- racism are are these days,” says Eduardo Bonilla Silva, assis- i shibovey of ateinjoey “When you compare the results of recent and ee ne l atti radi of ER “pe ved i racj tate tr ublig attitudes towards blacks and other minorities, it ites have improved dramatically. But when you ed ts to explain their attitudes about issues such as riveticihge’ and affirmative action, you find a hidden reservoir .” About 90 percent of those surveyed said they ap- Antermarriage, but only 30 percent of those who were ewed about this turned out to approve of the practice. “This cannot be attributed to selection bias, since the survey answers of those who were randomly selected for interviews mirrored the results of the total sample. If anything, the students who were interviewed appeared to have slightly more racially progressive outlooks than the larger group who were surveyed,” noted Bonilla Silva. LATE NIGERIAN MONK, TANSI, ON THE THRESHOLD OF SAINTHOOD OBA, Nigeria (PANA)—Nigeria’s late priest and monk, the Rev. the English language are: I was Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi, was beatified on Sunday, March 22, at an epic mass celebrated by visiting Roman Catholic Supreme Pontiff, Pope John Paul II. Beatification is the first stage in the process of attainment of sainthood, according to the Catholic doctrine. Hundreds of thousands of faithful, including local and visiting bishops, priests and the laity, participated in the mass at the Oba airstrip in eastern Nigeria, Tani’s hometown near the market city of Onitsha. “Acceding to the request of our brother Albert Obiefuna, Archbishop of Onitsha and president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, the many other brothers in the Espicopate, of many faithful, and of the Cistercian monastic family, and after consultation with the congregation for the causes of saints, by our apostolic authority, we declare that the venerable servant of God, Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi, shall hereafter be invoked as blessed,” the Pontiff said. Tansi was born in Aguleri in 19038, ordained a priest in Mgeria in 1937 before he traveled to England where he took the monastic vows as a monk at Mount Saint Bernard in Leicester. Tansi died in 1964 and was buried in England, but his remains were exhumed and buried in Onitsha in 1986. —Kmeka Ndika 125 Civic & Corporate Leaders Join To ‘Save Our State’ By Steve Neal An Analysis More than 125 civic and corpo- rate leaders—including a former governor, former U.S. senator, three former congressmen, state legislators, CEOs, doctors, educa- tors, scientists and clergy—have organized, as Save Our State, to work for economic development in North Carolina consistent with a high quality of life and health. Inspired to organize when one national news program after an- other, including “60 Minutes,” CNN, and “Dateline,” pictured North Carolina as a huge sewer, members of Save Our State were alarmed with the degradation of North Carolina’s natural resources. The organizers felt that land was rapidly becoming immersed in hog waste, and water so polluted that fish were killed by the millions. A deadly pfiesteria microbe was at- tacking fish and human life as well. At the same time, the hog indus- try, which was widely assumed to be the cause, was running a mas- sive statewide media blitz, essen- tially saying it had nothing to do with the problem. There appeared to be no credible, organized voice expressing citizen concern about this deteriorating situation. The purpose of Save Our State is to foster economic development consistent with a high quality of life and health. Its method, say organizers, is to learn about what appear to be threats to the quality of life we have enjoyed for generations and to share what is learned with public and elected officials. It is thought that because the membership of Save Our State is bipartisan, state- wide, from a wide variety of profes- sions, and comprised of many people with long histories of service to North Carolina, the opinion of the members of SOS would be re- spected and considered by policy makers. Hepatitis B Members of Save Our State re- cently met in Raleigh to hear from a panel of environmental experts and others, who said that two of the biggest problems are hog waste and municipal waste. Since a recent change in law re- quires municipalities to do a better job—and testimony said that they are moving in that direction—the group heard mostly about hog waste problems. The experts said there are now more than 13 million hogs pro- duced a year in North Carolina, up from 2.5 million just ten years ago. Most are packed together in pens, like sardines in a can, in factory- like facilities. Each hog, on aver- age, produces a volume of waste equal to that of three to four hu- mans. So, the experts said, 13 million hogs produce as much waste as 40 to 50 million people—more than the population of America’s 20 largest cities. This waste 1s pumped into open cesspools and from there sprayed on the land. The group says that the most se- rious problem is that the land can- not absorb the amount of waste dumped on it. The feces and urine soak through the land and into riv- 9 ers and streams. Coliform, other bacteria, and heavy metals poison surface and underground water. Nitrogen from the “waste” (both from runoff and from evaporation, as ammonia, from the cesspools ) causes excessive algae growth which robs rivers and streams of oxygen, starving and killing fish and other life-forms. It also causes a life cycle change in the pfiesteria algae, making it highly toxic to aquatic life and humans. Municipalities along rivers in eastern North Carolina also are not processing “waste” as well as they should; however, they claim to be improving and the law requires still more improvement. Nitrogen- rich runoff from agricultural fields also contributes significantly to pollution. 350 million people worldwide are infected with hepatitis B, a chronic blood-borne disease that kills more people han AIDS. 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Clayton, in conjunction with 40 other Members and Senator Charles Robb of Virginia, recently introduced legislation to rectify the 1996 Farm Bill that prohibits the U.S. Department of Agriculture from lending to producers who have received any form of debt for- giveness on a previous USDA loan. ducers who are otherwise eligible for USDA loans) farmers and ranchers who have a blemish on their credit reports and not to en- courage bad government loans. The term “debt forgiveness” is clarified in the amendment to exclude con- solidation, rescheduling, reamortization or deferral. “Small farmers and ranchers are struggling to survive in America. In fact, small farmers and ranchers are a dying breed. 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