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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
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•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."
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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.
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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
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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 .
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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.
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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?
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