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It'sthattime of the year
again when hundreds of ;
musical performers, col
legiate football gladiators t
and rabid fans descendl
on Augusta’s Butler Sta- |
dium for an afternoon of |
pageantry and sports '
drama. |
This year the CSRA |
Classic Banquet will sea- |
ture former Dallas Cow- I
boy running back Tony;
Dorsett. Mr. Dorsett will |
be in Augusta on Thurs- |
day, October 17 to kick off |
the Classic weekend. Mr. [
Dorsett was elected tothe |
NFL Pro Football Hall of |
Saturday, October 19 |
CSRA Classic Gridiron Classic |
Clark Atlanta vs Savannah State University |
2 p.m. Butler Stadium '
Pre-game Activities ’
10:30 a.m. - Pee Wee Football Game Local |
teams vy for CSRA Classic Trophy |
11:45 a.m. - Marchingßand ;
, Exhibition by local high schools. |
Tickets: $lO adult; $8 students. i
CIA-COCAINE UPDATE:
Newspaper that exposed
CIA-cracklink stands by story
By John Diamond
ASSOCIATED PRESS Writer
WASHINGTON
A newspaper that sparked a
furor with a series on links
between crack cocaine traf
fickers and a CIA-backed army
now faces criticism that its
reporting went beyond the
facts.
A three-part series called
Dark Alliance, published in
August by the San Jose (Ca
lif.)Mercury News, said a drug
ring in the San Francisco Bay
area sold tons of cocaine to
Los Angeles street gangs and
funneled millions in drug prof
its to a CIA-run guerrilla
army.
The series sparked wide
spread angerin the black com
munity toward the CIA. In a
lengthy article (Friday, Oct.
4), however, The Washington
Post challenged several of the
findings by The Mercury News.
The Mercury News stood by
its report, saying the basic al
legation, that people associ
ated with the CIA trafficked
in cocaine, had not been chal-
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Fame in 1994, his first
year of eligibility. He was
inducted into the College
Football Hall of Fame the
same year. During his 12-
year pro football career,
he appeared in five NFC
Championship games and
two NFL Super Bowls
(1978 and 1979).
Mr. Dorsett currently
serves as owner, presi
dent and CEO of Touch-1
down Products, which|
markets his Tony Dorsett |
Pro Flow spring water, |
the official bottled waters
of the NFL Retired Play-|
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In news stories and commentaries, the
term leader is predominantly applied to
white males and those in top political and
military positions. This is a key finding
from “Who Leads?,” a study released in
August by Carnahan, Smith & Gunter,
Inc. (CSG), a Portland, Ore., firm that
specializes in leadership development.
“We were dismayed by the research find
ings, which are similar to the results of a
study we commissioned in 1994,” says CSG
President Karen Carnahan. “What we are
seeing is that, although minorities and
women are increasingly assuming leader
ship roles, the official image of leadership
as portrayed in the media has not caught
up with changing realities.”
The study reviewed about 1,000 articles
from six general-interest newspapers and
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SPIRIT OF '96: Windsor Spring School staffers
parade down Broad Street in a demonstration of
school spirit. Photo by F. Benjamin
Over 1,000 school children
paraded down Broad Street
on Sunday to help boost the
Ninth Annual Children’s
Week. Students from Rich
mond, Columbia, and
McDuffie counties —includ
ing scout troops, pep squads
and cheerleaders — com
peted for top honors in their
“The key finding of the series, that
people associated with the CIA also
sold many tons of coczine, has not
been challenged.”
- Mercury News Exec. Editor Jerry Ceppos
lenged.
The series traced the crack
cocaine explosion to two Nica
raguan cocaine dealers,
Danilo Blandon and Norwin
Meneses, who were civilian
leaders of an anti-communist
commando group formed and
run by the CIA during the
1980 s.
Since then, CIA Director
John Deutch has rejected the
allegationsin the series, while
promising an independent in
vestigation of the agency’s ac
tions.
Although many who have
read the series make the
charge, the Mercury News did
not allege directly that the
ClAknew about the two Nica
raguans’ drug dealing.
“The key finding of the se
ries, that people associated
presentations. The winners
included the Fort Gordon
Youth Service Drilland Step
Team, which placed first; the
John Milledge Elementary
School (second); and the Belle
Terrace Community Center
(third). The theme of the day
was “Invest in Families: Fo
cus on Children and Youth.”
three special-interest business magazines.
Reviewers flagged articles and commen
taries containing the terms lead, leader
and leadership.
-The publications included all April 1996
issues of The Atlanta Joumal-Constitu
tion, Los Angeles Times, The New York
Times, The (Portland) Oregonian, The
Seattle Times, and St. Louis Post-Dis
patch; and all issues of Black Enterprise,
Harvard Business Review and Inc., from
May 1995 to April 1996.
Diversity was limited. Ninety-nine per
centofthe political leader referencesiden
tified were to niales; 83 percent to white
males. There were no female leaders
mentioned in any war/mayhem stories.
Of miscellaneous leader stories, only 18
See LEADERS, page 2
with the CIA also sold many
tons of cocaine, has not been
challenged,” Mercury News
Executive Editor Jerry
Ceppos said Friday in a tele
phone interview. “The beauty
of the series is that it clearly
went that far and didn’t go
any further than that.”
. In its report Friday, The
Washington Post said that
the Mercury News implies,
without alleging, a direct link
between the CIA and the
drug trafficking.
The first installment of the
series noted that cocaine
“was virtually unobtainable
in black neighborhoods be
fore members of the ClA’s
army started bringing it into
South Central (Los Angeles)
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Laney coach, Otis
Smart, says school
board’s security
division was out of
bounds for its
investigation of
his client.
By Timothy Cox
AUGUSTA FOCUS Staff Writer
AUGUSTA
Was the Richmond
County School Board out of
line by urging an investiga
tion by their Department of
Safety — ultimately lead
ing to the arrest of Lucy C.
Laney coach Otis Smart Jr.?
That question reigns high
on defense attorney Jack
Long’s list of questionable
anticsinitiated by the Rich
mond County Board of Edu
cation Department of
Safety.
Mr. Long, hired as Mr.
Smart’s legal counsel, has
On South Carolina roads —
Records show
black motorists get
disproportionate
share of tickets
COLUMBIA, S.C.
(AP) Black motorists get
more than a third of the traf
fic tickets from the state
Highway Patrol, while hold
ing less than a fourth of the
South Caro
lina driver’s li
censes, a re
port revealed
Wednesday.
White mo
torists, who
make up al
most 75 per
cent of the li
censed driv
ers, received
62 percent of
the citations
last year, The
Charlotte
(N.C,) ' 0b-
“Isn’t that
interesting? Do
black motorists
have a genetic
defect of the
right foot,
or is racism
“alive in South
Carolina?”
— John Delgado,
Columbia lawyer
server said after studying
375,000 tickets issued to
South Carolina motorists in
1995.
Col. James Caulder, High
way Patrol commander, said
the results surprised him.
“I want to find out why, if
we're writing proportion
ately more tickets to African
Americans than to whites,”
Caulder said. “I don’t have
the feeling that blacks are
driving worse than whites.”
About 15 percent of the
880 state troopers are black.
The results mirrored a
study done in North Caro
lina. Lawmakers’ concerns
prompted officials there to
start examining ticketing
practices, said Renee
Hoffman, a spokeswoman
with the North Carolina De
partment of Crime Control
and Public Safety.
Hoffman said the patrol is
changing its record-keeping
to designate the race, sex
and age of everyone stopped,
whether or not they get a
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consistently remained criti
cal of the school board’s role
in the matter.
“They (school security)
had nothing to do with this.
They over-stepped their
boundaries, as far as I'm
concerned,” said the lawyer,
in criticizing the board’s
actions.
In reference to the highly
publicized trial pitting the
coach against his accuser
and former player —
LaShandra Scurry — State
Judge Gayle Hamrick told
courtroom attendees he
would make everyone leave,
unless noise and commotion
subsided.
The trial, which started
Oct. 7, was held at the court
room in the Law Enforce
ment Center, 401 Walton
Way near Gordon Highway.
Ms. Scurry accused Mr.
Smart of sexual battery and
related misdemeanor
charges stemming from the
summer of 1995.
After school officials re-
See ATTORNEY, page 3
ticket. That will help the
patrol keep tabs on its proce
dures, she said.
Steven Bates, executive di
rector of the South Carolina
chapterofthe American Civil
Liberties
Union, advo
cates a similar
round of self-ex
amination
here.
“IfT were Col.
Caulder, I
would be con
cerned and
would want to
look into this
further,” Bates
said.
Beverly
Wiggins, a poll
ing and statis-
tics expert at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, said the percentages in
both states accurately reflect
the situation.
She noted that because all
tickets are being examined,
rather than a sample, there
i 8 no margin of error,
“I would call it a substan
tial difference,” she said of
the disparate proportion of
citations to blacks and
whites.
In some categories of tick
etsin South Carolina—such
as driving with suspended
licenses, improper parking
and failure to dim lights —
black drivers got more than
half the tickets. '
In 38 of 45 types of viola
tions, blacks received more
than 23.8 percent of the cita
tions — roughly their per
centage in the driving popu
lation. But overall they re
ceived 34.4 percent of the
tickets.
See TICKETS, page 5