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P««* 2 Portland Observer Thursday, December 30, 1971 WASHINGTON BRIEFS The end of 1971, but unlike the year, the war lingers on. The Congressional Black Caucus revealed that secret Papers document official d is cussions that shaped the policy setting a ratio on the percen tage of black service men sent to Iceland. Rep. Shirley C his holm said the papers "show that racism has become insti tutionalized at all le v els o fth e m ilit a r y " . Rep. Ronald D ellum s la id the caucus has been Informed that the governments of West G erm any, G ie e ce and Turkey demarxl the same lim itations on black G l's assigned to th e ir countries. The Defense Departm ent has d e c im a l to comment on the documents. Ih e Pentagon re fu s a l to release the number of blacks among the 3,000 s e r vicemen stationed In Iceland. • • • The U , S. Food and D reg A dm in istration admitted laws requiting declaration of use of a rtific ia l food coloring are seldom enforced against F lo rida oranges, red potatoes and sweet potatoes. Die adm is sion was made a fte r alleg ations of three consumer groups that the agency was Ignoring the law. It is be lieved that coloring used foi Citrus fru it Is cancer produc ing. Portland Observer Thursda>, Dec. 30, 1971 The Northwest'» Best W eekly A Block O w ned Publication Published every Thursday by Due Publishing Company, 2201 N. Killingsworth Portland, Oregon 97217, Subscription rates: 40 cents per month by carrier, $5. 00 per year;$5.25 per year by m ail in Tri-County are a:$ 6 .00 per year elsewhere. Phone 283-2486 ALFRED LEE HENDERSON, Publisher Editor V erna L . Henderson A sst, P u blish er/B usm ess m anager Helen Hendrix Personnel and Production M anager Any erroneous reflection upon the c h aracter, starwing o r rep utation of person, fir m o r corporation, which m ay appear in the Portland O b s e rve r w ill be ch eerfu lly corrected upon being brought to the attention of the E d ito r. The Editor’s Desk •o your representatives represent you? Senator M a rk H a tfie ld , a " lib e r a l Republican" la also up fo r re -e le c tio n this y e a r. Those persons elected on the state and local level seldom if e v e r, present them selves to the people of Albina to determ’ine how they car, best represent cur interests - even those who are elected specifically to represent this are a . These people should not be returned to office simply because they have a fa m ilia r name o r because they belong to the m a jo rity p arty. Conservatives control Supreme Court When Richard Nixon was elected P resid ent of the United States, he prom ised to return the Supreme C o u rt to a " s t r ic t Construc tio n is t' philosophy. It is P re s id e n t Nixon's hope to reverse the humanist trend of the W arren C o u rt whch was responsible fo r fa r reaching decisions such as the school desegregation decisions and the broadening of legal rights to persons charged with a c rim e . Nixon has had the ra re opportunity to appoint four Supreme C o u rt Justices during his firs t term of office. The lib e ra l wing of the court has lost three seats, those held by Justices W a rre n , F o rta s and Black. Nixon’ s conserv ative replacem ents a re C h ief Justice B urger, and Justices Blackm an, Rehnquist and P o w e ll. A lread y, even before the seating of Justices Rehnquist and P o w e ll, the conservative trend is being fe lt. The Supreme C o u rt perm itted a c ity to close its swimm ing pools ra th e r than Integrate them; low cost housing was kept out of a community; police were allowed to use ille g a lly obtained confessions to d is c re d it suspects. O th er im portant cases to be heard this session include: the legality of the death penalty, the legality of s o lita ry confine m ent in prisons, anti-abortion law s, newsmen's rig ht to protect th e ir sources of Inform ation, and ra c ia l d isci lmination in private clubs. Not only has the philosophy ui the court become m ore con servative, tu t the Judicial and intellectual caliber of its m em bers has declined. The court has been d iscred it»! somewhat by the m ed iocrity of Nixon’ s appointees and his attempts to appoint C a rs w e ll and Haynsworth. C iv il rights and legal organizations do not have much hope fo r the decision of these important cases to favor the Individual. They do not expect decisions that w ill furth er the cause of c iv il and human rig hts. Julian Bond said lie believes the court w ill be cool to fu rth e r demands fo r black rights and advised p olitical organization as the solution for black grevien cea. C h a rle s M organ of the Am erican C iv il U b e rtie s U n lo n urged his organization to stop relying on the courts and to "g e t rid of Nixon arxi to obtain a new supreme C o u rt." ♦ J 4 M o s t r o a t o n a b lo F o r working couples, the income tax withheld fro m th e ir pay- checks this year falls f a r below th e ir actual 1970 tax lia b ility . The gap is much bigger than e v e r before at nearly every level of incom e. It ’ s so big, in fact, that the A d m inistration la w orried about the consequences - both p olitical and economic - when unsus pecting couples find they must pay hundreds of d o lla rs to the T re a s u ry next spring. It could be a bi ow to the business recov e r y . And it could hurt p o litic a lly in an election ye a r. The W hite House reportedly has asked the IRS to fig u re out A recent p olitical survey by Sepia M agazine shows P resid ent Nixon running 7th in the field Including a llp r e s - xlential candidates. Senator Edw ard Kennedy la most popular with black vot e rs , claim ing 30% of the total. Senator Hubert H . Humphrey followed with 22%. New York C ity M a y o r John Lindsay has 17$. Senator M uskie, s till affectal by his statements about a black V ic e Presid ent, received 7$ fro m those po lle d . Senator George M cC overn was 5th, with fo rm e r Senator Eugene M cC arthy and P re s i dent Nixon both receiving 5%. Eight p ercentw ereurxiecxled. A pproxim ately 8 m illio n blacks w ill vote In 1972 as compared to 6,300,000 In 1968. In the 1968 elevator, Richard Nixon received only 12% of the black vote. some way to ease the Im pact, but there haven't been many bright ideas so f a r . Tax legislation, now working its way through Con gress, w ill give a little help by raisin g the personal exemption re tro a c tiv e ly fo r 1971. But that won't help much, considering the size of the tax gap. A Washington c e rtifie d public accountant did a little anticipa tory pencil w ork, and came up w ith these findings: - Assum e two children and Income of $300 a week fo r the husband and $150 fo r the wife: They w ill have to w rite a check to the T re a s u ry fo r $923 on A p ril 15. - A childless couple in which the husband earns $400 a week and the w ife $200 a week w ill come up against the deadline ow ing $ 2 ,19 1 . A t higher income levels the withholding never has come very A national conference on close to matching the actual tax lia b ility . Now the discrepancy black health care c ritic iz e d exists fo r low er income fam ilie s; it Is m ainly because o f the Nixon adm instration policies Low Income Allowance which took effect this y e a r. toward blacks and the poor. The allowance excuses many persons fro m paying any tax at The conference, attended by a ll, tu t there's a quirk in it which can penalize other taxpayers 649 persons from 30 states at if they are unw ary. The allowance is availab le to m a rrie d coup M e h a rry M edical C ollege, op- les only if they file join t returns, and each couple gets only one allow ance. But the tax-w ithholding tables which IRS supplies to em ployers are figured on the basis of one allowance per w o rk e r. Throughout the y e a r, therefore, the paychecks of husband and wife re fle c t two allowances. When the tax day of reckoning com es, they are entitled to only one allowance and have to pay the d iffe re n c e . Crim e’s a problem in small Towns, Too A national magazine recently pictured the tra v a il of residents of the country*s biggest c ity , showing bow they have been fo rc ed lite r a lly to Imprison themselves in th e ir apartments behind barred windows and double-, t r ip le - o r quadruple-locked doors. Even so, most of them have experienced b reak-ins despite th e ir most elaborate precautions. A t about the same tim e , a newspaper In the same city de scribed the problem s of the residents of one fashionable street in the E ast 70s - specifically, the problem of finding parking spaces fo r th e ir c a rs , as well as finding the cars themselves if they w ere le ft unwatched fo r any length of tim e. New Y o rk , fortunately. Is unlike any other place In the country, y e t the c rim e problem its citizen s must contend w ith, w hile la rg e r than that of any other city sim ply because New Yo rk 1« la rg e r, is the same kind of c rim e problem more and m ore A m ericans are beginning to w o rry about and to know first-h an d even in sm all towns. * And there Is a v e ry s tartlin g truth which can be read between the lines in both these a rticles: Just as there must be two dishonest people for any confi dence game to w o r k - t h e con man and h.s greedy v ic tlrn -th o s e who pillage apartm ents o r steal cars o r hijack trucks or r o h n X Z “ * StUCL Wlth Which they re a l, ¿ X no use fo r, w ere there not someone w illing to buv th e ir m erchandise at an a ttrac tiv e discount. P o r instance, one of the c a r owners In the newspaper a rtic le ^ w 7 s ° £ U^ Pr i X ,OlV ' H ew ,B advi~ d t0 I” lx te known that he was In the m arket for two replacem ents, and he would have done so except that thieves would steal his two rem aining hub caps and try to sell them beck to him . * Throw in crooked cops, incompetent Judges arxl re v o lvln e - “ “ '" ” “ “ " t o •!» « Notice The O b s e rv e r's o fficial position isexpressw l only In its Pub lis h e r's Column (The Observation Post) and the U d lto r's D e s k . Any other m a te ria l throughoutthe paper la the opinion of the In dividual w rite r or subm itter and does not necessarily re fle c t the opinion of the O bserver. 2 6 0 9 N . V a n c o u v e r Avo P o rtla n d , O ro . champagne, wines, m ix e rs . . a t the lowest prices In < town .. 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Killingsworth • V* A fric a Is the Invisible con tinent of A m erican foreign policy, and it's about tim e we form ulated a consistent pel icy of support fo r black A frican governments and liberation movements and withdrew our backing of colonialist powers and rump se ttle r ru le . The B ritis h government re cently announced that It reach ed agreement with the tiny white m in o rity of 243,000 that rules over 5 m illio n black Rbwiesians who have no say In th eir country. Black leaders have been ja iled for th e ir d es ire fo r in dependence and m a jo rity rule, and the black m a jo rity has been ruthlessly confined to poverty In laboring, farm in g, and servant's Jobs. The new agreement pro vides fo r Independence, a new constitution, and m ore black representation In P a rlia m e n t, h it the catch is that blacks w ill have to meet financial and pro perty qualifications to get the vote. U ltim a te ly , there would be a 5 0 -5 0 w hite-b lack s p lit in P a rlia m e n t, and then the pos s ib ility of m a jo rity rule w ill be considered, but It w ill he sub je c t to a white veto. That the whole deal Is dodge to provide a veneer of constitutionality fo r continued white supremacy Is made Cieai by the Rhodesian p re - ru le r's statement that 1 'they (blacks) w ill not be in control then and | don't believe they w ill be fit to be In c o n tro l.” He couldn't say what the sit uation would he " In 100y e a rs ' tim e oi 1,000 years’ tim e ." Southern A fric a is apowdei keg that la bound to blow up in not too many ye a rs . tow n PKPT’S B 6 T f|.E S H 6 P posed fam ily planning as a means to control black popu lation gains In a white society. It recommended child care program s instead. The conference, which w ill be followed by task groups charged with ca rry in g out Ihe recommendations, c ritic iz e d pioposals to legalize m a r i juana as ra c is t, recomn.eded that c a re fo r the e ld e rly be concentrated in the home and coixlemned the placing of tre e ld e rly in mental institutions. A n ti-A m e rica n feeling is widespread in South Asia be cause o f P resid ent Nixon’s p ro -P akistan stance and his seeming insensitivity to th e plight of the people of Bangla Desh. Being pictured in Wash ington as the aggressors, some Indians say, " H e should read the A m erican D e c la ra tion of Independence." Italians express disappointment that the US, a dem ocracy, opposed the b irth of a new nation un d e r the leadership of India, A s ia 's most prom Inant dem ocracy, while the Sovietl nion supported India a il the w ay. in L e t P E P j S B O T T L E SHOP be your headquarters for O b s e rv e r’s Intercom Couples m a y face T a x Trap shop Carlos ? 8 7 -8 5 2 9 MUST IVOk'K T0UETHEPFPU FULL ANU EQUAL EMPLOYMENT. T h re e c ru c ial votes w ere made in Congress during the week of Decem ber loth. P re s id e n t Nixon vetoed the bUlexterxling the O ffice of Economic Opportunity (O EO ) and authorizing a system of c h ild c a re centers fo r low and muddle income fa m ilie s . C h ild re n whose fa m ily income is low would have received free child care and others would have paid according to th e ir income and fam ily s ize . When the Senate attempted to o verrid e the veto, Oregon Senator M a r k Hatfield voted against the veto, but R o bert Packwood voted in fav o r of the veto. The veto of the child c a re and OEO b ill was welcomed by Representative E dith G reen, who voted against the b ill in the House. M r s . G reen , a D em o crat, represents Albina and most of the low income areas of M ultnom ah County. She said she w ill never again vote to extend O EO . She called the child care p ro g ram , which was designed to allow women to seek employ m ent without jeapo rd izin g th e ir preschool c h ild ren , "a n o th e r case of reverese in c e n tiv e s ". She said it would provide free child c a re fo r women on w elfa re but w orking mothers would have to pay. But Representative Wendell W yatt, a conservative Republican and a loyal supporter of the Nixon A d m in is tra tio n , favored the child care b ill and voted fo r it. About OEO he said, " I didn't think this was any tim e to disrup t the OEO program with un em ploym ent what it is in Oregon and around the cou ntry.*' The House of Representatives voted on a b ill to extend Unem ployment Compensation benefits. The bill would have allowed persons who have used th eir 26 weeks of re g u la r benefits an additional 13 weeks in states where unemployment reaches a 6-5 p er cent le v e l. Oregon would have benefited from the h il l, as would Washington and C a lifo rn ia . Representative Green voted against the b ill. O f Oregon’ s four representatives, only Representative Al O ilm an voted fo r it. The Senate voted on the confirm ation of W illia m Rehnquist to the U . S. Supreme C o u rt. He was opposed by the National C o alition on C iv il Rights, the National B a r Association, the N A A C P , the A m eric a n C iv il L ib e rtie s Union, the Am ericans fo r D em o cratic Action and others including Senator Humphrey, F u ilb n g h t, M cG overn, and M uskie. Senators M a rk H atfield and R o bert Packwood of Oregon voted fo r con firm ation . W ith elections coming in 1972, it Is time to take a close look at the voting reco rd s of our representatives, both at the national and local levels. Representative E d itb Green has beer, elected again and again by B lack People and by voters in low income and working class neighborhoods where there a re heavy D em ocratic m a jo ritie s . But how well does she represent those who elect her when she consistantly votes against social program s which are designed to help the poor o r the te m p o ra rily unemployed and when she joins with the Southern conservatives to stall desegregation and black rig hts. Body and Fender Repair • A VERNON JORDAN JR. The black m a jo rity , like th e ir brothers In other A f r i can nations, w ill be Tree even II It lakes the kind of pro ti ac ted g u e rrilla w a rfa re now seen in the Portuguese te r rlto les. I h e question fo r A m erica is: "W hich skle are we on?" Do we re a lly believe In de m ocracy and m ajoi ity ru le o r w ill we continue to support the white m in o ritie s and colonial ists who dom inate the black m ajo rity? rhe fun place ro go. Pool and skill games for your Recreational Pleasure. At Record Library you can find the top tifty 45’s and albums ot your1 choice. All Religious albums in stock reg. $4.98, during rhe month of December $3.98. We are open seven davs a week. 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