BALTI ORE - Co at
dec:rea . for the replace
ment of at-Iarle-electio by
district elections, th iDcreas
. . the poISibilities of electing
minority office holder , h e
been with the •• of
D<wer, Delaware, aDd Spartan-
bur& South Carolina, •
· .. --cp Youth T 9
·D ypromot
on,
Iliit r cy
Oemocr tic and Republican
presidential c ndidate are
scheduled to be q . oeed by
le . 8lae journalist during
the ational Urban League
Pr . nti C didates Forum
Monday, April 25, 1988 from 7-
9 p.m. at Cramton Auditorium,
Ho ard Univer ity in
W 0 D.C.
The forum will be moder
by CBS-TV correspondent Lem
Tucker. Barbara Reynolds of
USA Today and George E.
Curry of the W . OD bureau
o the Chicago Tribune ill
q . the candidat .
The forum wiD be telecast
over the Ho rd Univer ity
BI ck College S tellite
Telecommunications Network
to ites cr t e country, ·th
a potential viewing audience of
fM million.
"Thr this fo the N
tional Urban Leape . be ble
to present the i ues facing
Bla America duriag the 1988
preSidential electio - said John
E. Jacob, President aDd Chief
Executi� Officer of the League.
to NAACP's DePart-
ment.
� In each . ee, the decree
has been approved' by the
federal court in hich the
NAACP initially filed suit to
overturn -�F electi on
the grounds that such electio
tended to ctiminiah the strength
of the B ck W)te.
The agreement reached by
the NAACP and DOYer caDs for
the city to abandon its system of
city-wide election to the- city
council and see te legislative .
approval to institute a sys
tem by which two members will
be elected from each of four
ne ly created distric::ta while a
ninth member will be elected
city-wide.
One of the districts. will be so
, drawn that it will include at
65% Black population,'
majority Black voting lIe
population, and equivalent
voter registration.
Presently, 28.5% of Dover's
residents are Black and they
comprise 26.4% of the city's
total number of votin age
citizeDa. .
In its suit against Spartan
burg, the NAACP d the U.S.
Department of J . ee in a sub
sequent similar ait had charged
l-_ ... A. , Sr.
NewsEdikw
(NNPA) - DesaibiDg their
ork environment 0 e of
-hostility, disharmony and
mistrust, - more than 100 B ck
employe of the Agriculture
Department' Foreign Agricul
tural Service (F AS) have filed a
di crimination _ co plaint
agau. lIS( the ncy and appealed
for a CODp" iD�-
rio
The protesters, headed by
Willie Broo a trade specialist,
said Blacks are denied career
dvaoceme�t IDd the best OYer
seas assignments and are UDder
repre eated in merit rds.
They also charge that muaage·
ment has subverted the FAS
civil rights and equal employ
ment opportunity grievaDce sys-
. The Complaint ed
with the USDA perSODDeI of
fice, ith letters sent to more
than a dozen key H� d
Senate members. req .
congressional in . tion.
Appol lal coun el In Ju�g
Imp ehment Inquiry
B1 A. H ,Sr.
News Editor
(NNPA) - The House
.Judiciary Committee an-:
nounced some movement last
week in the long-dr ed 0 t in
quiry into po ible impeach
ment of U.S. District Court
J die Alcee L. H . Jr.,
'th the appOintme of Alan I.
Baron, peciaI � for the
Committee.
Baron, ho specializes in
. te-collar crime, represented
I' L P trick Gray, f011ller .
h d of the FBI, been
indicted by the federal G<weru-
t and charged·th il-
legal authorizatio of FBI
break-in Into I e hou of
friends 8:Dd rei lives o( the radi-
Cal "W eatherman" fugitives. The
government eventually dropped
. case • t Or y.
In making the appointmen,
Rep. Peter W. Rodino (D., NJ.)
thairman of the Judiciary Com
mittee, aid: -Mr. Baron
selected from many highly
qUalified lawyers. H' outltaDd
. litiption experience and ex
pertise will be in to the
committee in the days ahead
it undert es a complex, dif
ficult inquiry into poi&ib e im
peachment proeeedi ..... •
On March 17, 1987, the Chief
.Justice of the Supreme Court
sent a oertificate of behalf of t
Judicial Conference of the
United State recommending
Judge H tinp be impeached' .
.BI c_k
um 0 n In Ohio
WILBERFORCE - America's Black . ory museum' opeDia this month
in Wdberforce, Ohio. OYer 5,(m people are expected. to end the openina cer . on
April 16. Work on the $13 miIIioD facility ed in 1980 after former president J�y
Carter siped . ·on naming Wilberforce the er for the orB . ory.
and Spartanburg, the size of the
city council will immediately be
expanded from (our to six mem
bers and six ne districts will be
established. Each will be rough
ly equal in population and three
of the districts will encompass
majority Black areas.
The city will conduct an elec
tion on or about July 19, 1988, to
fill two new cpUDcil itioas
which wiD come hom two of the
new Black districts.
for having "en ed in conduct
which might co titute grounds
I for impeachment under Article
I of the Co titutioe,"
The Certificate referred
to the House Committee on
Judiciary' nd Chairman
Rodino in tum referred the mat
ter for inve tig tion to the
Judiciary ubcommitte on
Criminal Justice, chaired by
Rep. John Conyers, Jr., (D. MI)
March of �.
A jury of . peers found
Judge Hastin not guilty 0
Feb. 4, 1983, on several co
includiDg 0 of conapiring to
elicit and accept money in
return for the performance 0 a
service.
Conyers' office aid the
re on it h taken so 10 with
the inquiry . want to be
Conyer ' office said the
rcaso it h taken SO •
the inquiry . t to be .
careful not to hurt yo
aeceuariJy.