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Some of state's public scRALEIGH -- Fifty-nine public schools in North

Carolina remain either almost all-white or all-black 30years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that orderedpublic schools desegregated, statistics show.Such segregated schools amount to 3 percent of North

Carolina's 1,989 public schools, according to figurescompiled at the beginning of the 1983-84 school year bythe State Board of Education controller's office.The statistics also show that some school systems that

desegregated with the court's ruling in 1954 are resegregrating.In at least 26 counties, such a trend has beennoted, often with the courts' blessings as local officialstend toward neighborhood schools and shy away frombusing, says an Associated Press report.

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Crimes affecting househ<WASHINGTON -- The rate of households touched by

crime was down 2 percent in 1983, from 29 to 27 percentthe year before, reported the Justice Department thisweek. The decline marks the largest decrease in nine

~ years.According to the department's Bureau of Justice

Statistics, nearly 23.6 million of the nation's 86.1 millionhouseholds experienced one or more crimes during theyear.

The drop of 2 percent in affected households

the largest decline in the nine years the figures have been

Soldier faces trial over rCAMP LEJEUNE ~ A black Muslim Marine who

refused to go to Grenada and Lebanon faces a courtmartialthis week for missing his unit's departure last October.Twenty-two-year-old Cpl. Alfred Griffin was scheduledto go on trial yesterday, two weeks after his unit

i r i . riciumeu irum a six-monin iour 01 auiy overseas.

He is charged with being absent without authorizationand missing the departure of his unit. If convicted, hecould face six months of hard labor, a bad-conductdischarge, a demotion to the rank of private andforfeiture of pay.

Griffin says the issue isn't guilt or innocence, but oneof religious beliefs.

"I'm guilty. I was absent without leave, and I missedtin (tjfwpifr mwmFIWJ*,1 .

^ Had he gone to Lebanon, -Griffin said, he would haye.had to fire on his brothers. "We have the same god,Allah, and I feel Allah would have punished me."

Griffin was a member of the 22nd Marine AmphibiousUnit, which left Camp Lejeune Oct. 18, five days beforean explosion in Beirut killed more than 200 Marines his

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Rlark nmnlp Hn UQ: I am black woman and I like to sun bathe. I waswondering if black people sunburn, and if so, how youtell it and what precautions you should take?

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A: Yes, black people do sunburn, though it's morenoticeable in some than others since blacks have variouspigmentations, says Dr. Gertrude Brown, a localpediatrician. Fair-skinned blacks are more likely to sunburnthan darker-skinned people because darker skinbounces the sun's ultraviolet rays better than lighter skin,she says.

Like white people, blacks also tan, says Dr. Brown,which is why blacks who spend a lot of time outside in thesummer get darker then. She suggests that, if you plan tospend extended periods of time sunbathing, you shoulduse tanning lotions and take other precautions to prevent

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;hools still segregatedlocalities where there are dual systems, says the report. InDurham County, for instance, the city system is 88 percentblack and 12 percent white, with three all-blackschools. The county system is 69 percent white, 30 percentblack and 1 percent other minorities.

Despite the problems, some educators say, NorthCarolina, and the South as a whole, have done far morethan Northern states in desegregating public schools.A report issued last year by the Joint Center for

Political Studies, a research organization based inWashington, indicated that Southern and border stateslead the nation in desegregation involving black students.According to the 1980 census, 22 percent of NorthCarolina's 5.9 million population is black. This year, 30percent ot tne state's 1,094,000 students are black.

Dlds down over last yeargathered. Also, the bureau noted, for the first timealmost every type of crime affected fewer households."We know that in 1983 about 70 million people lived ir

households touched by crime," said bureau DirectoiSteven Schlesinger. "Even though this number is smalleithan that for the previous year, it indicates that crime vietimization remains a widespread occurrence."

The number of households experiencing at least on<

robbery dropped by 19 percent, and the figures for aggravated assault and burglary dropped by 9 percent ant

11 percent, respectively.

efusal to serveunit was scheduled to replace.The 1,800-man unit was diverted to Grenada and latei

went on to Lebanon to serve peacekeeping duty there.Marine authorities said Griffin left Camp Lejeun<

without permission and returned Oct. 19, after missinjthe departure of his unit. He later declined an offer to re

join his unit and work on a troop ship in non-combat duty.

"I knew if I got on that ship I wouldn't have an;- rights," said Griffin.

Griffin is being represented by civil rights lawyeWilliam Kunstler and the New York-based Center foConstitutional Rights. Kunstler said he's prepared to prove that U.S. actions in Grenada and Lebanon violated international law and therefore justified Griffin's refusal t<

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__Griffin said he initially wanted to serve in Lebanon

which is more than half Moslem."I thought I would get a chance to meet some of m;

people," he said. "We were serving as peacekeepers, an<I had no problem with that. But, after a period of timewe began to take sides."

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few trees, for such beaches give little or no protecticfrom the sun.

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Crime Prevention

Three suspects cuThe following "Crime Box Score" is designed to keej

you abreast of criminal activity in your community during the past week and to help you protect your family an<

property from crime.

Armed Robbery400 block, Stratton StreetThe complainant reported he was entering a liquo

house w hen he was cut and stabbed by three subjects wh<chased him to his car and stole his wallet. The complainant left the scene enroute to the hospital and had an accident. He was then transported to the hospital, treate<and admitted.Strong-Armed Robbery1500 block, East Third StreetA known subject stabbed the complainant severa

times with a fork and took his money. The suspect hanot been located.

Kidnapping200 block, Walkertown Avenuenni.uiTMiuwTi-sniTjcui asKtru me L'uuipiauua^ii&XiflC

him home-and^aic^hr Tvoirtd pay her. She agreed, andupon reaching the 200 block of Walkertown Avenue, asked the suspect which way to turn. The suspect put a knifto her neck and said left, at which time the complainanjumped from the vehicle, but not before being cut on thneck and back. Her sister was also in the vehicle and als<received a cut. Both ran to a phone and called the policeThe suspect drove off in the complainant's 1983 bluFord Escort, license number BWT-126. The suspect i

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late 20s with light skin and freckles.i Siorebreaking

3500 block, Patterson AvenueA company safe was taken.1100 block, Wallace StreetFood, cigarettes and a calculator were taken from a

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An officer on routine patrol observed a suspiciouslookingvehicle on a mobile home trailer lot. When thei vehicle left the area at a high rate of speed, the officer

stopped it a short distance away. The driver jumped outand was apprehended. A search of the vehicle revealedseveral items stolen from the trailers,

il *800 block, Mock Streets A calculator and phone were taken.

Housebreaking2600 block, Rochester StreetAn unknown person broke into a new home and

t, anything.3100 block, Airport Road

e Two .22-caliber rifles and jewelry were taken,t Larcenye *700 block, Highland Avenueo A cassette player was taken.

3500 block, Patterson Avenuee Four spray guns were taken,

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