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policy admitted 'a failu re’
United States
by R Harvey
M
Memlwra of the Congres
■tonal Blark Caurua, meet
log with Secretary of State
Henry
Kiisingrr
August
lt*th. called for Administra
lion conaideration of debt
cancellation* for the leaat
developed A frican coun
triea
More than aimply
admit that he. Kissinger,
haa no African policy
aa
Carl T. Rowan w rite* in hi*
ayndicated column (O re
gonian.
Auguat
internal aubveraion.
The
Hlark Caurua alatement ia
adam ent:
"T h e
U n ited
State* ahould not endorae
or aupport any e ffo rt
through official or private
channel*, i.e.
Gulf Oil
Corporation, to impair the
ter re tor ia I integrity of An
gola
Any aucreaaioniat
attempt by FIG C or other
force* in Cabinda ahould be
u n a lte r a b ly o p p o a e d .
A m e ric a '* long run in te r
eat*, .dictate that our hand*
remain clean during thia
period of armed conflict."
In addition, Senator Dirk
C lark (D e m o c ra t. Iow a)
Chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relation* Commit
tee ia currently in Angola,
in v e a t ig a t in g
" U n ite d
Stale* interference in the
conflict."
( ’lark ia re
portedly aympathetir to the
M P L A (Popular Movement
for the Liberation of Ango
la).
During a tour of
.'flat)
Kiaainger told the memliera
of the Blark Caurua that hi*
policy toward the Third
World waa "a failure.'*
The Black Caurua ia led
by H e p rea en taliv e Ron
Delluma (Democrat, Cali
formal and Charlea Rangel
(D em o crat. New Y o rk).
The caurua. with other
houae and aenate groups,
haa worked againat United
Slate* interferanre in the
Third World through CIA
sponsored military coup* or
southern Africa, Clark ia
aued a alatement that the
United Statea, China, and
the
Soviet
Union
atop
aupplying arm * to any of
the liberation movement*.
Thia demand, coming from
official* aaaoriated with the
Kennedy faction in Con
greaa, tend* to blow the
rover off denial* by Gulf Oil
and the State Department
regarding their complicity
in the Zairean Arm y inva
aion of Angola
W a s h in g to n
P oat
dia
patches from Luanda (Au
guat 24th. David Ottaway)
report
that
the
FNLA
(National Front) "is re
portedly moving self pro
pelled long range cannon
from Zaire into Northern
Angola....there are reports
too that it ia bringing
medium w eig h t Chinese
tanka to the war front...”
The Poat dispatches de
School boards abet racism
losses.
Asserting that "we have
given the foxes full charge
of the hen houae." the
director of the National
Education
A ssociation'*
Teacher Rights
program
charged
in an
address
delivered that prejudiced
school board* have been
mainly responsible for the
sharp decline
in
Hlark
prinripalahips in seventeen
Southern and border slates
"We asked the court to
order the school board to
give us our rights," he
declared, analyzing "what
went wrong " "We ahould
have asked the judge to
order the school board out
of office....the same people
who were in charge in 1954
are still in charge.
So
nothing has really changed
We have given the foxes
full charge of the hen
house."
Four states
Arkansas.
Kentucky. West Virginia,
and Texas
have displaced
fifty five to sixty five per
cent of their Black prinri
pals.
Ethridge
revealed.
"T hese s ta te s ." he ex
plained, "had a large num
ber of small schools which
were cloak’d and ronsoli
dated under the guise of
desegregation."
A projected loss of forty
to f forty five percent of
Black principals was at
tributed to
la ha ma. Mis
sivsippi. M isso u ri. Loui
siana, Oklahoma, Delaware.
Florida, and Tennessee.
H aving
p ro p o rtio n a lly
more Blacks as principals
than these other states are
Virginia. North Carolina.
M a ry la n d , G eo rg ia, and
South Carolina
Even so.
these five states sustained
losses of
thirty five
to
th ir ty seven p ercen t in
Black principals, projections
Sam uel
B.
E th rid g e ,
s p e a k in g b e f o r e th e
Southern Christian lead er
ship C onference, empha
sized that "the North is
guilty too" in respect to
Black educators
For ex
ample, Massachusetts, Con
nectirut. and Wisconsin all
need at leaat eighty percent
more Black principal* in
order to provide an equit
able ratio with Black atu
dents.
Ethridge reported that
the numltor.W Black prinn
pals in the seventeen /fates
haa dropped from an esti
mated total of more than
5.000 in 1954. the year of
the landmark United Slate*
Supreme Court desegrega
lion order, to about 3.000 in
1972. He termed his new
projection on school prinri
pal* "very
conservative"
since 1972 was used aa a
base rather than an earlier
year which would have
show n m o re d rn m a tic
from the latest (19721 HEW
statistics indicate.
Among large school dis
tricts throughout the nat
tion. only in San Antonio.
Texas,
were
the
Hlark
principal ratio and
the
Blark student rati»- equal
leach sixteen p erc en t).
(Nevertheless. San Antonio
has sigmfirant disparity in
the ratio of Spanish speak
ing principals to Spanish
speaking students, the N E A
staff official added ) Wash
ington. D.C., is the only
other major rity that comes
close to San Antonio in
Hlark principal Black stu
dent equity.
Ethridge listed seventeen
Northern states that need
at least fifty percent more
Blark principals in order to
achieve an equitable ratio
with Blark student popula
tions.
Ethridge suggested that
the SCLC's agenda for the
remainder of the 70 s should
concentrate on exercising
political power to bring
about educational change.
Among goals should be
in t e g r a t io n
o f school
boards;
in te g ra tio n
of
superintendents' offices; re
cruiting Blark and other
minority principals and tea
chers as well as sensitive,
understanding people of all
races; "getting to drive the
bus as well as ride the bus.”
scribe the E N L A as being
"almost the exact reverse of
the M P L A (Popular Move
ment)
non ideological to
the extreme
and
vehe
m en tly a n ti S o viet and
anti communists China and
Zaire arc providing it mas
give aid."
It is through
Z a ire th a t the U n ited
States aid is funneled.
As reported in the P o rt
land O b s erver (A u g ust
28th), the F N L A , headed by
Zairian President Mobutu's
brother in law Holden Ro
berto, has amassed a rag
lag army of reportedly
5,000
which
is
moving
toward Luanda; this "army"
has already displaced more
than half a million Ango
Ians, according
to
Red
Cross estimates. Also, the
massive exodus of Portu
guese refugees from Angola
is understood to be a
deliberate policy being exe
cuted by the F N L A , the
effect being to destabilize
further the situation in
Angola, and to use the
Portuguese colonials again
in Portugal as a hysterical
anti communist force to de
stabilize
the
progressive
efforts of the M F A (ruling
government) there.
“Western observers," ae
cording to the Washington
post, "here (Luanda) have
been struck by the large
number of Portuguese they
have seen in the National
Front Army.
Many ex
officers of the Portuguese
colonial army have gone
over to the Front, and of
them, Captain Alves Car
doso is described as being
its chief of staff or Com
rnander of its army in
Caxito.
While the Front
has many Portuguese, it is
constantly
attacking
the
presence of mulattos in the
Popular Movement..."
"They A re T ry in g
Tn
Make A nother V ie tn a m Out
Of The Place..."
Sally N'Dongo.
M PLA
representative in Paris, has
issued an urgent call for an
investigation of the United
States role in Angola. Ac
cording to the M P L A com
m u n iq u e ,
th e
U n it e d
States “...is trying to make
a Vietnam out of the place,
but more important, if the
M PLA does not win, it will
mean in short order the
destruction of the progres
sive tendencies in Africa."
Gas price
hearings
scheduled
Public Utilities Com
missioner Charles Davi* has
scheduled public hearings
on "pass through" increases
from three natural
gas
distributing companies op
erating in Oregon for Sep
tember 10th and 11th.
The pass through in
crease* include already ap
proved
higher costs of
natural gas from British
Columbia, the impact of
adding more expensive nat
ural gas costs and other
costs to the pipeline allowed
to be passed on to the
distributing com^inies by
the Federal Power Com
mission
Thursday, September 4. 1975
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to approximately 7 per cent
in average monthly bills for
residential customers. The
average residential monthly
bills of the 194.000 custom
ers of the Northwest Nat
ural Gas Company, will
increase from nearly $26.50
to $28.30 for 100 therms.
If approved the pass
through would become ef
fective around November
1st.
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Three seats on the Port
land Hoard of Education
will come up for election in
1976 William J. Radako
vich. registrar of elections
for Multnomah County, said
petitions or
declarations
will be available to potential
candidates beginning Sep
tember 18th in his office at
1040 S.W Morrison Street
or at the school district
office at 631 N. E. Clack*
mas Street.
The three positions are
held by Jonathan Newman,
Paul Howe and
Phyllis
Wiener, whose four year
temrs expire in 1976.
Candidates can file for
office by circulating and
filing a petition of nomina
tion containing signatures
of 25 registered
school
district voters or by filing a
declaration of candidacy and
paying a $10 filing fee.
Candidates must declare
which position they are
seeking.
All petitions and declara
tions must be filed with the
registrar of elections before
5:00 p.m. March 16, 1976
and signatures must be
verified prior to the March
16th filing date.
In order to be eligible to
serve on the School Roard
an individual must be a
citizen of the United States
and live in the State of
Oregon and the
school
district for one year prior
to the primary election
date, May 25, 1976. The
Portland
School
District
includes the City of Port
land and some areas of
Multnomah, Clackamas and
Washington Counties.
Home jweet Hummm.
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Regretobly. o lot of people still
use electricity like there's no
tom orrow; like conservation mokes
no sense of oil.
Dut. there s one thing everybody
understands: money.
From here on out. everyone will
poy for the pleasure of waste.
Conservation of electricity won t
completely moke up for increased
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