Young says Nixon, Ford racists
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP)
— U.N. Ambassador Andrew
Young says in an interview in
Playboy magazine that former
Presidents Richard Nixon and
Gerald Ford are “racists” who
have “no understanding of the
problems of colored people any
where."
Young is quoted in the
magazine’s July issue as saying
that everyone in the United States
is inevitably tainted to some de
gree by racism and that his goal is
to bring the issue of “ethnocen
trism” out in the open and strip it of
its “moral stigma.”
Former Presidents Nixon and
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Plane hijacked to Kuwait
KUWAIT—A hijacker commandeered a Middle East Airlines
jet with 113 persons aboard Sunday and forded it to land in this
Arab sheikdom, Kuwait radio reported. It said the hijacker de
manded a ransom of $1.5 million.
Police and fire engines surrounded the Boeing 707 jet
liner after it landed at Kuwait International Airport. The 102 pas
sengers and 11 crew members were on a flight from Beirut,
Lebanon, to Baghdad, Iraq, when the plane was hijacked.
Pregnant hostages released
ASSEN, The Netherlands — South Moluccan terrorists re
leased two pregnant women Sunday from a hijacked train where
some 55 hostages have been held captive for 14 days.
The women were identified by authorities as Mrs. Nelleke
Ellenbroek-Prinsen, 25, from Wierden, who is five months preg
nant, and Mrs. A H. Brouwers-Korf, 31, of Nijmegen, two months
pregnant.
They were taken to a hospital in nearby Groningen where
their husbands and other relatives were waiting.
Ugandan defector denounced
NAIROBI, Kenya — Idi Amin says the health minister who
defected to Britain with reports of mass killings in Uganda had
channeled government funds into a “very fat bank account
abroad."
An aide to the Ugandan president, reached Sunday by tele
phone, said the defection of Henry Kyemba, 37, “is no real
surprise. After all, if he did dare to return to Uganda, he would
have a lot of charges to answer.”
The British Home Office said Kyemba turned up in England
asking for political asylum.
Chicago riot leaves 2 dead
CHICAGO — Shooting between members of rival Puerto
Rican street gangs at a park celebration apparently touched off a
night of fighting, looting and burning which left two persons dead,
70 injured and 119 in custody, police said Sunday.
At the height of the disturbance, thousands of rock and beer
can-throwing demonstrators, many of them demanding Puerto
Rican independence from the United States, forced about 200
policemen to withdraw for reinforcements and prevented fire
trucks from reaching a burning three-story building.
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Lone policemen safer
WASHINGTON (AP) — A
police officer assigned to a patrol
car is safer and more efficient
working alone than with a partner,
researchers concluded in a report
issued Sunday.
The findings challenge the stan
dard police practice of assigning
officers to patrol cars in pairs and
the widely-held assumption that
this practice reduces the dangers
for patrol officers.
The report could encourage
many of the nation’s big-city police
departments to phase out the
more expensive partner patrols as
a way of saving money in a period
of tight city budgets.
The koIice Foundation, a pri
vate research organization, spon
sored the year-long study in by the
System Development Corp. of
Santa Monica, Calif. The research
was conducted in San Diego and
involved measuring the perfor
mance of 22 two-officer patrol
units and 22 single-officer units.
The report suggested that
police departments could get
more for their money by switching
to single-officer patrol cars.
, San Diego can send out 18 of
ficers in 18 cars for slightly less
than it costs to field 20 officers in
10 cars, the report said.
Ford “did not face racism in their
lives and tended to rule it out,”
YoUng said. “Nixon and Ford did
not face it because they were, in
fact, racists.”
Asked by Playboy’s senior arti
cle editor Peter Ross Range
whether that charge might be too
strong, Young said the former
Presidents “were racists not in the
aggressive sense but in that they
had no understanding of the prob
lems of colored people any
where."
Young, a former civil rights
worker, said the “big weakness”
of former Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger was his failure to under
stand that “racism is one of the
most powerful dynamics in the
world today.”
Speaking of Kissinger’s experi
ence as a Jewish refugee from
Nazi Germany, Young said; “I
think the horrors of racism in
Kissinger’s childhood were so ter
rible that in order to function, he
had to put it behind him. Other
wise, he would have been so bitter
and filled with hate that he never
could have done anything.”
The outspoken ambassador
whose foreign policy pronounce
ments have sometimes put him at
odds with the State Department,
also said in the interview that one
of his major problems with repor
ters was he found it "almost im
possible to say, No comment. ”
“But now they've got me
paranoid," he is quoted as saying
about reporters. “I hate to admit it,
but maybe I’ll just have to be
rude.”
IRS probes
slush fund
WASHINGTON (AP) —The In
ternal Revenue Service says a
special tax probe of major U.S.
corporations has uncovered 481
cases of possible illegal corporate
slush funds.
Some 71 cases have been
turned over to the IRS Intelligence
Division for investigation of possi
ble criminal fraud, a spokesper
son said.
Other cases may be turned over
to the Intelligence Division later as
the tax probes proceed, the
spokesman added. The IRS is
prevented by law from identifying
the corporations but most have
gross assets exceeding $250 mill
ion.
Jerome Kurtz, the new IRS
commissioner, said the probe of
corporate slush fund activity that
was started under his predeces
sor, Donald Alexander, has been
“very productive” and will be con
tinued.
But he said in an interview there
may be some changes in the
questions on slush fund activity
that the IRS now asks of each of
the nation’s 1,200 largest corpora
tions.
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