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National Black Assembly predicts
action on Black Agenda
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National Urban League Executive Director \ e m o r E. Jordan (left) shakes hands with Secretary
of Labor James D . Hodgson afte r they signed a new $9.2 million contract to provide on-the-
job training for 5,tXX) persons. Left to right are: Lrban League Deputy Evecutlve D irecto r
Adolph Holmes.
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Manpower Malcolm R. Lovell, J r „ Urban
League General Counsel Ronald Brown and Manpower Administrator Paul J . Fasser. J r .
Kenyatta denies Mau Mau threat
The leader of the Harlem
Mau Mau, a seven-year-old
black revolutionary organi
zation,
to d a y
challenged
reports in the nation's press
of the existence of a 3000
member terro rist movement
of black V iet Nam veterans
dedicated to systematic m ur
der
of white Americans.
The leader is Charles Ken
yatta, of New York City,
form er Black Muslim en
forcer and onetime bodyguard
to the late Malcolm X at the
□me of his assassination in
New York. Himself the target
of
a
1970
assassination
attempt, M r . Kenyatta,com
mented
on
th e
alleged
M au " black terro rist force
which commanded headlines
last week after arrest of nine
young black men charged with
murders
of nine Chicago
whites.
In an exclusive telephone
interview with The Associated
Negro Press, Kenyatta took
issue with widely published
claims that the Chicago sus
pects are affiliated with a
nauonal " lie Mau Mau” con
spiracy.
"1 started the Mau Mau
movement in \m e n c a and, if
they are Mau Maus, they be
long to Charles Kenyatta,” he
said.
While denying the Chicago
men are part uf his organiza
tion, Kenyatta, wi.o as a M us
lim was known as Charles
37X, boldly stated his em
pathy with “ defensive and
retaliatory black violence.”
The C> icago suspects. he
declared, "s ' ould be looked
upon as saints.
"Now that black folks have
learned the true meaning of an
eye for an eye and a tooth for
a tooth, the press and the white
public is in an uproar,”
he observed. "T h e re was not
such an uproar about the
activities of the Minute Men,
the John Birch Society, the
American Nazi Party, White
Citizens Councils and KuKlux
Kian. White folks might not
call their activities murder,
but black folks were dying just
the same.”
Black
people,
Kenyatta
contended, have no other re
course than to strike back.
"They have tried the Pan
thers.
They
have tried
non-violence. They have tried
the M uslim s. They have suc
ceeded in getting a class action
and a caste action only. It
is to oe expected that we should
take a page from the book of
the Mau Maus in Kenya and
strike for freedom by any
means necessary.
Kenyatta who, in the past,
has taken sljarp issue with
such leaders as the late D r .
M artin
King and Whitney
Young, said fie had predicted
in July 1967 that returning
black veterans would seek
racial revenge.
In a special issue on vio
lence published byESQLIRE
Magazine, Kenyatta was quo
ted as saying:
" F o r the firs t time, the
young black man has learned
how to be violent. By the
year 2000. America w ill have
had its bloody revolution.
M alcolm's death wised upa lot
of young black men and they’ve
learned that these Uncle Tom
leaders - the M artin l.uther
Kings, the Whitney Youngs and
the Roy Wilkinses - are con
trolled by m illionaires who
aren’t going to change anything
..„G iven the BlackMuslims is
an organization set up to keep
things the way they are,
“ Faced with this, the young
black man has to turn to the
Mau M au. We can help him,
teach him how to fight...„They
can’t kill off these young men
in V iet Nam fast enough; a lot
of them a re going to come back
here and find conditions un
changed and they won’t stand
for it. They’ ll already know
something about fighting and
we’ll welcome their services.
It’ s going to be a real bloody
struggle. Don’ t forget, we’ re
organized to fight black as well
as w hile.”
In the 1970 attempt upon his
life, Kenyatta was hit five
times as gunfire was directed
against him when he was
gening into his parked car in
the Bronx. Hospitalized for a
month, he still carries a bullet
in his body, lodged so close to
his heart that surgeons thought
it w ise not to remove it. New
York City police held him
under protective arre st while
he was hospitalized. A charge
against him for carrying a
weapon was later dismissed.
The Mau Mau Leader, asked
to reveal the number of
members in his organization,
flatly refused.
"You don’ t reveal your
strength to your enemy,”
he said.
Tri-met runs special PI buses
T r i-M e t w ill run special
lourly bus service all nine
days of tlie Pacific Inter
national Livestock Exposition,
November 10 through lb, it
was announced by General
Manager lorn King.
F irs t Lus will leave down
town Port'and each day at
12:32 p jn . :rom SW bth \v e
nue b e tw e e n Yamhill and
M orrison,
proceeding
Oil
Avenue
to NW Everett,
across the steel bridge, out
N . W illiam s Avenue to tie
neeway, then express to the
Lxposition Center.
The P -| specials w ill con
tinue the hourly runs through
the aiternoon and evening, with
tie final bus from tie P -l
leaving tie Exposition Center
at 11 pun. to return across
tie Steel Bridge to tie S.W.
otl Jeparture point.
Single cash fares wdl be 50
cents. King said. Passengers
with valid transfers from
routes into downtown w ill pay
an additional 15 cents for tie
P -l run. Students and senior
citizens pay their regular
rates of fare plus 15 cents.
F o r information on connect
ing bus service, passengers
may call T n - M e t Information
Center at 233-3511.
(AANS) - The man elected
to serve as principal co
ordinator by the firs t aeasion
of the National Black As
sembly which convened here
last weekend has predicted
that the group’s firs t move
would be to begin implement
ing the decisions expressed in
the Black Political Agenda.
Imamu A m iri B a r a k a ,
chairman of the Congress of
African Peoples and founder of
the Comm mee forUnlfied New
A rk. said that the initial
operational
thrust of the
structure w ill be to address
itaelf to resolving the Issues
of the Black community as
charged by the resolutions of
the National Black Political
Convention held last March in
Gary, Indiana.
Baraka’ s election to the
position, to 1» known as a sec
retary-general, came during
the initial gathering of close to
300 delegates to the 5 ssembly.
The Assembly Is the struc
ture designed to be an ongoing
embodiment
of
the Gary
meeting. Its total delegate
strength is 427, or ten per cent
of the people present at Gary.
Most persons are chosen by
local elections, with some 15
seats
being allocated for
recognized national organi
zation.
As secretary-general, Ba
raka’ s
ta s k
w ill be to
coordinate the efforts of this
Assembly with those of the 51
member National Political
Council, composed of persons
elected by the Assembly on a
regional basis grounded in
population precentage figures
for local Black residents.
The
assembly
w ill be
chaired by the President.
Representltive Charles Diggs
of Michigan, while theCouncil
w ill be presided over by its
chairman,
G a ry 's M ayor
Richard C . Hatcher. Itw illb e
one of Baraka’ a jobs to maxi
m ize
the cooperative and
effective operation o^the two.
“ It ’ s more of a coordinat
ing
role,”
ha explained,
“ seeing (hst one hand knows
what the other hand is doing
and seeing that all hands are
fUctioning towards the best
interest of the whole.”
The newly approved Struc
ture did not change the persons
in leadership of the group. But
it did, stkl Baraka hopefully,
provide
a
more precise
dellnation of work resjxjn-
slbillties than the fornw r
leadership
th ree co-
by
conveners.
Asked
what
the Black
community might expect to see
firs t from the Assembly,
he said that tlie newly elected
committees of thegroupwould
probably
first
investigate
ways to best begin addressing
the charges of the National
Black Agenda.
The Agenda, a55pagedocu-
ment issued In its final form on
May 19, was tie coni|x>site
position statement. In both
general and particular terms,
of the Convention. Some saw
it also as a "shopping lis t”
for peddling the Black vote
in the upcoming election.
However. Baraka said that
tlie Agenda had not really been
created for that purpose.
Rather, he said. It was
conceived of as a working
document for a continuing
structure, and the things that
it called for are obviously
still not done.”
“ And no election addresses
itself to those things," 1«
added. “ The (current presi
dential) election does not even
address itself to the issues in
tlie document.”
Baraka offered the belief
that the value of the Agenda's
existence to date he gauged not
from its success In bargaining
Black support for any par
ticular presidential candidate,
but rather from the fact
through its exlatance there
was now a functioning A ssem
bly. That group embodied no
leaa than 26 i n u i In which
local groups were organizing
and working towaula em
powerment
in
the Black
community, ha explained.
“ I think that in itself,” sakl
Baraka, " la aufllclent com
ment on the Black Political
Agenda.”
Baraka stated that ha would
retain hia current rolea in the
Congress of African People
and the Committee forUnlfied
New A rk. The resource» of
those bodies, he explained,
should be able to help him
shoulder thia heavy load, al
though Its sheer volume would
require
nothing less that
"system atically delegating"
all hla time lnordartoachieve
tlie maximum results and
effectiveness.
sage President Nixon sakl 'll
Congress provides the neces
sary funds. 1 shall happily
approve acquisition of these
unique lands'. “ Hatfield said.
Hatfield said that "purchase
of the land by the federal
government la the only way
that we can prevent immedi
ate
liquidation
of
thia
invaluable tra ct.”
“ A private concern invest
ing the estima ted $52,000,000
required for purchase w ill be
forced to immediate action and
a rapid and complete logging-
off of the land w dl result,”
he said.
“ This w ill not only destroy
the recreational potential of.
this region for years to come,
it
would
place
a dis
proportionate
amount
of
timber on the market as well
as upset the balance we are
trying to achieve in our sus
tained
yield
practices,"
Hatfield said.
Hatfield said that “ I have
discussed my plans wlthChlef
M cC une and he is incomplete
accord with what 1 propose."
"H e agrees that approval of
supplementary funds by the
Appropriations Committee is
the only method by which we
can get the immediate action
necessary,” 1« said.
"W ith both Congress and the
President having made clear
their Intention and desire to
^...including
transportation
Cuba gains
According to reports is-
s «■' recently,
educational
1- grass has sky-rocketed
under the regime of Fidel
Castro.
Before the Revolution, it
was reported, some hOO.OtXf
children, or 37.5 per cent of
the population, were illiterate.
However, In the recently com
pleted 1971-72 school year,
Cuban
officials
reported,
enrollment at inatltutlons of
higher education was
up
35 par cent, middle school
enrollment was up 400 per
cent and prim ary school en
rollment. 130 per cent.
The Cuban schools have
placed a lieavy eniphaals on
manual work and educational
efforts in rural areas have
not been neglected,
said
the report.
Hatfield to introduce Indian land purchase
Senator M ark Hatfield said
that he w ill introduce a Sup
plemental appropriations re
quest m the Senate Appro
priations
Committee f o r
federal purchase of the Kla
math Indian forest lands m
the January session of Con
gress.
Hatfield said that in a tele
phone conversation he was
assured of "the full support
of Forest Service Chief John
McGuire who has promised to
back up my request by in
cluding such funds in his
budget fo r fiscal 1974."
Hatfield, who is a member
of the Appropriations Com
mittee,
said he is "op
timistic
about
passage
because both Congress and
President Nixon have ex
pressed
approval
of the
purchase.”
The 135,000 acre tract in
the W inema forest is held in
trust for the Klamath Indians
and w ill be sold under terms
of the Termination Act of 1964.
Deadline for the trustees to
provide the federal govern
ment with firs t opportunity to
purchase the land expired In
June, 1971.
In the last session of Con
gress a bill providing tor
tederal purchase of tlie lands
passed as a rid er to another
bill which was vetoed by
President Nixon.
"However, in his vetom es-
Your ticket to
the big game:
purchase t l * land and with I t *
promise of action early in tl«
next seseion of Congress, the
trustees can in good faith with
hold a final sales decision,”
Hatfield sakl.
Hatfield pointed out that M c
Guire’ s original opposition to
acquisition of the land was
“ purely from a monetary
standpoint because the Forest
Service did not have the re
quisite funds,” but that as a
professional
forester M c
Cune has always favored
immediate purchase.
Hatfield said that the exact
supplemental request would
not be known until January
“ because the sale must be
made by the trustees at fa ir
market value."
“ However, we anticipate the
figure to te in Ll* nelghlxir-
hood
of
the
$52,000.000
requested in the last session
of Congress," Hatfield aaid.
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d ill unities with job placement
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social significant about the
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in finding new jobs if they
should
lose t l« lr present
posts.
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