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Page 8 P o r tla n d /O b s e r v e r T h u rs d a y , S e p te m b e r 2 8 ,1 9 7 2 Coach says Olympic referees poor Marines If there is to be a future fo r the Olympic Games, there needs to be more equality in the way the refrees and a[>> peal boards are chosen, ac cording to Cordell T ittle , mathematics teacher at tie Oregon Eplscdpal Schools, who recently returned from the Munich event. "T h e Olympics should seek to being about greater friend ship be tween countries and strive to remove political b a rrie rs . Not only did the Munich games result in tradegy and disaster, but the scoring was very unfair. The referees overlooked certain When Ed Gree was a fresh man at Westchester Sts« College In Pennsylvania, he had never met a black Marine o ffic e r, in fact, he had never seen one. But through a M arine re c ru ite r ha had heard of the Platoon Leaders Class, a summer program leading to a commission as a Marine second lieutenant after college graduation. So he joined. In the summer of 1956 Ed Green was one of two blacks In the program. At that time he fe lt a few more black brothers would make him more comfortable. Today, as M a jo r E l . Green, USMC, he s till feels the same way. He is one of 300 black Marine office rs. M ajor Green has been tapped to become a racial trouble shooter fo r theCorps. He is the new Special Assis tant fo r M inority A ffa irs , fo r the C o m m a n d m e n t of the M arine Corps. He was born in Henderson, N.C., and his wife, L ilia n , is a guidance counselor. They have three children. The outlook fo r many blacks in the service until recently, according to M ajor Green, w o u ld have made good m aterial fo r a Kafka novel: "T h e black serviceman enters the m ilita ry from a society which he has learned Mike Walsh Reports Thursday Night KPTV Channel 12 10:30-10:35 immediately following the news Tune in. M eet Mike Walsh He s the candi date for Congress who can win. Mike has personally met and listened to thousands of third district voters M ike will explain his stand on an issue of mutual interest. M ike Walsh H e II Do More For You H ere At Home. 7 2 ,8°* 4 ’of Congress Ore 97207 J im l _ . r p e n t .u r C h a irm a n players and fouled others fo r no goal reason. In addition, the «ppe«l txiards was largely controlled by the Communist co u n trie s," M r. T ittle said. "M y son, M ark, who la 12, attended the games with me. On one occasion, during a water polo event, one of tlie players was given a jenalty shot. My son turned to me and said, "Daddy, why are they giving the fellow a penalty shot when the other guy did the same thing'* 1 couldn’ t see anything wrong either, so I told my son, perhaps the referee saw something we didn’ t see. I don’ t want my son to believe that sports events are controlled by poli ticians.** M r . T ittle attended many of the sports events, including the tract, field, swimming, water polo, diving and soccer events. O riginally he was scheduled to be at tlie games in order to coach the Sierre Leone team, composed of John Koroma, tract, star, who at tended tlie Oregon Episcopal Schools. Koroma did not at tend the games, however, due to a communication mix-up with his country. Book Review w ill remain in d o ub t." The M artneC orpscurrently has an extensive recrutim ent program underway to in crease the number of blacks from its current 13 percent of M anne officers. M a jo r Green hasbeendomg his part to get more black M arine officers. F o r the past three years he was as signed to the Naval Academy as an in stru cto r— the firs t black Marine to have his post. Due probably to M ajor Green's awareness of black- white relationships, eight of 12 blacks who were graduated from Annapolis this year joined the Marine Corps. The 34-year-old career of fic e r received his m aster's degree from John Hopkins U niversity in Baltim ore dur ing his assignment at the Naval Academy. The degree was in 20th centrury U.S. H istory, giving him perhaps more perspective on the cu r rent racial conflicts than the other officers. “ The sense of alienation, the bitterness and the anger being vented in increasing in cidences of racial violence in the m ilita ry is very definitely related to the failures and disappointments of racial relations in our c iv ilia n so ciety. It is becoming increas ingly c le a r that the racial problems in the m ilita ry are inextricably bound to the racial problems of our nation at large.” s' s o o S o R O h b O cured tlie attention of the gov die facade of states rights to ernment and citizens alike. In abdicate d ie ir duties. 1900, the Black man’ s position The book sunnises that I« - was not markedly improved cween |9b5 and 1970, the "We over his status as a slave. He Shall I»vercome 'p rin cip le s of was outside of the law and his the Black Liberation move legal attempts to seek justice, ment were merged with, and tn as well as his m ilita n t enter some cases, overwhelmed by prises. w e re frustrated. an Increased emphasis on v i There was s till noenlightened olence as a tactic and strategy. v lew of how to solve tlie prob Where the Kennedy Adm ini lem of racial violence within stration had leen forced by the the framework of the United movement to use federal m ili States Constitution. tary power to protect Blacks Treatment of Blacks altered within the framework of con only slightly with the 1920's, stitutional law, the Johnson 1930's and 1940's. There was and Nixon administrations no national anti-lynching law, found tliemselves using gov and though the number of per ernmental power against sons lynched was decreasing. Blacks, who seemed to he law Blacks were s u ll repressed violators. The adm inistra and racial violence continued. tion's conservative position The la tte r 1940’ s and early seemed to be that police and 1950’ s saw the beginnings ot a m ilita ry power would 1« used new era of reforms in race re to suppress those who refused lations with tlie adm inistra to submit to tlie system, a po tions of F ranklin D. Roosevelt, sition which required no real H a rry S. Truman and Dwight alteration in constitutional D . Eisenhower. Both of the theory; tie techniques fo r in la tte r administrauons had re stituting local and federal sponded to increasing public suppression of rebellion and pressure and to the exigencies disorder had always teen in of maintaining moral leader the Constitution and had a l ship in tlie world with innova ways leen effectively utilized tions in the area of race rela when considered necessary, tions. M ilita ry powerhad been used to enforce court orders favorable to Black citizens. School desegregation was up held by tie federal govern (Cont. from p. 1 col. 5) ment. There was hojie tfa t questionable. Does the City constitutional authority could intend to expand and open up be used to equitably adjust tliat many positions, p a rti Black-white relations. cu la rly at the senior levels By enacting the 1964 and |9 d 5 indicated? This is unreal, C iv il Rights Act. the nauonal as it is most evident in tlie government. indicated its present C ivil Service system willingness to provide, at tin t few leave unless by death least, a basis fo r tie achieve o r retirem ent. I he proposal ment of full equality for also b rie fly deals with "bum p- Blacks. The legislation re i/ig and appeal privileges” . sulted in part from pressure Poverty programs and Model generated by a c ivil rights C ities programs have, in movement that had taken to the most cases, teen in existence streets. While the three pre less than five years, while vious administrations had tak some C ity employees have en some interest in tie en as much as twenty years forcement of the c ivil rights tenure. Tlie question is, if of Blacks, it was the Ken edy lumping becomes a necessity, adm inistration that seriously even the staff members who intervened in cases of racial have been aboard through the violence under tlie authority fu ll existence of these pro provided in becUons 241, 242 grams could possibly be and 333 of the United states "bum ped"? Code, which had teen in exis tence since tlie Reconstruc 1 want it to be clearly under tion. Now states found It stood that J am not totally more d iffic u lt to hide lel.md question the cornitnient, the The book Is excellent fo r students of Constitutional H is tory, as well as Amertcanand A fro - American Histories, who want to get a new insight undergirding the Constitution al suppression of Black people in Am erica. Each chapter is well footnoted and documented with many manuscripts, jxibllc documents, newspapers and perlixlicals and general stud ies, as well as secondary ac counts. Excerpts from the United Slates Cixles are in cluded in the Appendix. The book is scholarly written and unlike most historical works. It is easy to read because each chapter u s e s transitional themes to help the reader comprehend the c e n t r a l thought presented. BLACK RESISTANCE/W HITE LAW is one book that must be read by the general public, as well as every serious student of American H istories. It ap pears as though it w ill te some nine le fo re anutler book of tins magnitude is pub lished because very lew scho la rly historical worksdare of fe r psychoanalytical and de ductive interpretations. I Chickering f plus, lovely walnut c a se m e n t................ $1995 |C hickering 7’4” , Immense power and tone, mahogany finish $3295 | Steinway M 5’8 " . 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Union Avenue Held at Memorial Coliseum October 11—7:00p.m. Everybody “RpH Somebody.” integrity, nor the promises tfiat have been made by Com m issioner Nell Coldschmtdt. But 1, as an individual, can not place all my trust, belief, and confidence in one man, when there are so many jeople to be affected. Change die C iv il service System fir s t and den I would he w illin g to give consideration to die promises made by Commissioner Neil Goldschmidt in his proposed changes in the system, which he and his comrades contem plate w ill integrate black, m inorities, and disadvantaged whites into d e City C ivil ser vice structure. I would strongly urge tie publisher of this newspaper, p rio r to forming any further opinions on this m atter o r any other, to fu lly Investigate and research the matter be fore releasing erroneous in formation to the hundreds of readers of this newspaper. 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(Cont. from p. 5 col. 6) to d istru st, and he joins a society he does not know. "H e is more aware of and sensitive to past injustices than ever before and unfor tunately, the recollections of past injustices merely tend to solidify the m istrust that he may already possess." " I f you're white, visualiza a court m artial where you w ill confront a black m ilita ry judge, an a ll black court, a black tria l counsel, and a black defense counsel. And, if that is not enough, discover that if convicted, the case w ill in itia lly be reviewed by the black convening authority who referred the case to the court in the fir s t place, and subsequently reviewed by a black supervisory authority, and fin a lly by the all black Board of Review.” M ajor Green says his exam ple is an exact reversal, in racial composition, of the m ilita ry justice system that some black servicemen con front every day (with m inor exception). He draws a s im i- la r picture of the selection and promotion system. 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