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Testimony at NAACP hearings on brutality
ISY HANK LOW KAON
A OCIA TED PRESS WRrrER
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - There i a
political moke creen in In­
dianapoli that allows the city's
police to terrorize its Black citizens,
a wi tne told national NAACP
panel investigating police conduct in
the city.
Carl Kelley, 45, told the panel of
legal problems and alleged police
harassment he has experienced ince
police entered his home without a
warrant Dec. 14, 1990.
ult' unbelieveable! You he r
bout a lot of things, but it' hard to
believe the police department can
engage in what i almost like a ter-
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LeMarlon nd DeMarion Wilson with unidentified companion examine Afrikan-ln plred merchandl e during
the recent Arrikan Market held at Renal nee High. DeMarlon and fellow tudent Nina Smith were
co-organizers of the event. (photo by Houston Hud on)
Blacks: No Libyan War
HOUSTON-A group of Black
professors has called on President
Bush to refrain from any military
action against the North African
state of Libya.
They also asked Bush "to end
trade restrictions on Cuba and
Libya so that the peoples of th e
countries-who harbor a reservoir
of good will for Americans-may
continue the advance they have
made toward agricultural self-suf­
ficiency and in the areas of heal th
and education."
The letter to Bush was sent after
the United States and.Britain joint­
ly announced last month that they
had concluded that two Libyan in­
telligence officer were re pon-
ible for planting the bomb which
brought down Pan-American
flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scot­
land, in 1988. They demanded
that the two Libyans be turned over
to them for pro ecution and the
Bu h administration hinted at
military action against Libya.
President Reagan ordered a
bombing attack against Libya in
April 1986, which caused consid­
erable de truction. Although
some Americans continue to work
in Libyan oil field with U.S. State
Department approval, the United
States has maintained a policy of
trade exclusion against Libya since
1986 and again 1 Cuba ince thc
Bay of Pig attack against Cuba
three decade ago.
AMONG THE PROFES-
ORS joining in the appeal to Mr.
Bush are Drs. Imari Obadele,
Mack Jone , and Benjamin Berry,
of Prairie View A&M University,
Texas; Dr. Ronald Walters of
Howard University; Dr. Asante
Molefe of Temple University; Dr.
Manning Marable, of the Univer­
sity of Colorado at Boulder; Dr.
James Turner, of Cornell Univer­
sity; Dr. Ricky Hill of South
Carolina State, Orangeburg; Dr.
Sheila Fleming of Bethune-Cook­
man College; and Profes or Aubyn
See LIBYA, A-10
rori t au ck," added Kelley, who
aid he was arre ted for intimidation,
h d all charge dismi ed but i till
being su d by the policeman in­
volved in the incident.
"Indianapolis police do not like
or allow anyone to question them
about anything, and if they do, they
are ubject to attack," Kelley
claimed.
, 'THEY HAVE A profile that
they will attack young Black kids,"
claimed Charles Hendricks, who
called himself a spokesman for the
city's poor Blacks. "There is no
respect for Blacks among the city'
white police."
The Rev. R. Anthony Lee of New
Genesis Christian Mission said he
found conditions in Indianapolis
worse than he saw in Birmingham,
Ala., in the 1�. "What hap­
pened in the 60s in the rest of the
country had no impact, no effect, on
In anapolls,' Lie said and 'then
mentioned th well-publicized
police beating of Rodney King in
Los Angele thi year.
"Rodney King and his family out
in LA, they are ble ed, because had
he been in Indianapolis, he would
have been killed," Lee said. "They
kill you here. They don't just beat
See NAACP, A-10,
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By LARRY A.'STILL
W ASHINOTON, D.C. - Pre i­
dents of the nation' 107 Hi tori­
cally Black College nd
Universities and key African­
American educational leaders
were urged thi week to respond
to the latest Bush admini tration
efforts to limit affirmative action,
financial aid and schol rship
program for Black "di ad­
vantaged students."
Almost a year from the
December, 1990 date when As-
i tarn Secretary of Education
Mich el L. Williams i ued hi
controversial guidelines declar­
ing "race- pecific" education
programs ineligible for govern-
�.IDII"""" -uppor.t, Depart at of
Education Secretary Lamar
Alexander released a new t of
propo ed principle for "non-dis­
crimination in federally isted
programs." An estimated 45,000
minority scholarship may be af­
fected.
The National Association for
Equal Opportunity in Higher
,
Education called upon top HBCU
, officials to participate in a
Minority Scholarship Task Force
to help mobilize upport for
Minority-Based Scholarship at
the American Council on Educa­
tion ACE annual meeting,
January 22-25, 1992, and the Na­
tional Summit for Independent
Higher Education, February 5
and 6 in the nation's capital.
NAFEO will hold its annual con­
ference March 18-22.
Dr. Samuel L. Meyer,
NAFEO president. al 0 urged
high r education official to seek
m etin with Cabinet Secret ry
Alexander, new A ist nt
Secre ry Dr. Carolyn Reid- W l-
ace and Willi m who p'a -
ticfpa1ed in the reI e of the new
rul . NAPEO leaders are a 0 re­
questing meetings with Sen. Paul
Simon (D-Illinois) and Rep.
Craig Washington (0- Texas)
who have considered specific
congressional legislation to
strengthen race-specific-
. Sea NAFEO, A-10
ACORN challenges benk
merger to p te t r dlining
In a move to prevent Detroit's
lending institutions from carry-on
with "business-as-usual," which in­
cludes on-going disinvestment from
the city of Detroit, the community
organization ACORN has filed a
protest with banking regulators
against First of America's proposed
acquisition of Security Bancorp.
The seven-page protest wa filed
with the Federal Reserve Bank of
Chicago on December 17, 1991 by
. Michigan ACORN (Association of
Community Organizations for
Reform Now). Any "comments"
filed relating to a proposed merger or
acquisition are taken into considera­
tion by the regulators in making their
decision to approve Of prohibit the
propo ed transaction.
In explaining the reason for this
protest ACORN Banking Commit­
tee member Karla Brintley state,
"We at ACORN feel that First of
America needs to improve its lend­
ing policies in relation to the city of
Detroit.
We are concerned that if they
were allowed to go ahcad with the
acqui ition of Security Bancorp that
they would u equently move fur­
ther out of the Detroit area, reducing
what little lending they do now and
adding to the deterioration of our
city." .
THE DOCUMENT contains ex­
tensive evidence, based upon the
institution' own Home Mortgage
Disclosure Act (HMDA) tatements
and other documents is ued by the
bank, that ub tantiate ACORN'
claim that the bank has failed to meet
its obligation under the Community
Reinvestment Act (CRA) pa d by
Congress in 1977 to help meet the
crcdi t needs of its entire community,
including low- and moderate-in­
come and minority neighbor�. .
First of America' poor mortgage ,
lending in the city of Detroit is high-
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