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...annual convention in Pittsburgh this week. N.A.A.C.P. elders prefer to see the airing of these ideas as a therapeutic exercise. "What we're trying to do is give these people respect, let them voice out their frustration, and then we state our position and move on," says Melvin ("Skip") Alston, president of the N.A.A.C.P.'s North Carolina state conference...
DIED. HAROLD MELVIN, 57, leader of the Blue Notes, the gospel-tinted rhythm-and-blues ensemble best known for its onetime lead singer Teddy Pendergrass and its achingly mournful 1972 hit If You Don't Know Me by Now; probably of a stroke; in Philadelphia...
...There is no fault," observes Dr. Melvin Levine, a North Carolina-based pediatrician and a nationally recognized expert on attention deficit disorder, one of the most common diagnoses requiring special help. "It's existential." Advances in medicine and psychology have vastly improved the identification of disabilities of all sorts in children. Technology is saving youngsters who 20 years ago would have perished at birth but today survive with profound learning problems. Children damaged by being born to drug-addicted mothers have added to the burden...
...second race against Melvin Watt, Martino still advocates returning control to "citizens, local government and North Carolina--in that order." He opposes abortion, but believes that the government shouldn't legislate morality. A kidney doctor who rose from poor immigrant roots, Martino would rather focus on education, and says improving schools would solve a host of other ills...
...MELVIN WATT (D) District...