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I « ra Frances Schoen-N.wspaper Room U n iv e r s it y o f Oregon L ib r a r y tu g e n e , Oregon 97403 PORTLAND 7 OBSERl/ER lilllfl I'll ay la o iia a .. I itir tn Caucus under cointelpro attack Robert Phillip», who were pictured in the The HUrk Caucus, the most consistent December 25th edition of the Observer Congressional body in opposition to the State Department Angola policy, has been the target of an intense terror campaign in the past two weeks. The On the evening of December 23rd, four Black Caucus two months ago called for a young Black men, all employees of the debt moratoria for the underdeveloped states Albina Human Resource Center, African countries. Caucus member were held at gun point by Portland Police Itonald Dellums (D California, has been officers. Although shotguns are still one of the most outspoken critics of the supposedly used only for specific purpos Secretary of State. Dellums is a member es involving high risk, a shot gun was ini of the House Intelligence (Pike) Commit the arsenal used against the men. tee investigating the CIA. Several A! about 8:00 p.m., Chuqk Hollis, Roy months ago Dellums' nephew was kid Worde, Prince Washington and Robert napped and murdered. Subsequently Phillips were on their way to the home of leading members of the Black Caucus and Robert Ruiz, a fellow employee. Passing their families have been terrorized. 82nd Avenue and Sandy Boulevard, with A midwestern Congressional source Hollis driving, they saw two cars quickly has indicated that the attacks "are part of turn into a motel lot. Out of the cars a national pattern which bears the jumped several white men in plain characteristics of other ongoing FBI clothing. Hollis s<;!d he thought he saw a operations." The Congressional source Black man being cornered by whites. cited the "break in and ransacking of Phillips saw that some of the white men Congressman Ralph Metcalfe (D Illinois, had guns. and similar attacks on Congressman The Group turned around and returned Charles Diggs and John Conyers (D-Mi- to the motel. According to Worde, “As we chiganl, Shirley Chisolm (D New York) drove into the motel parking lot and and especially Congressman Parren stopped to observe, I saw at least four Mitchell (D Maryland,”, Mitchell has armed individuals, pointing weapons at been threatened repeatedly with assas another, who was leaning against a sination, while close political associates vehicle in the “spreadeagle" positon. One (Maryland State Delegates Verda Wei of the armed persons had a shotgun with come and Lena Lee) were assaulted, a shortened barrel length, in addition to a while Baltimore City Councilman elect Michael Mitchell iParren Mitchells nep handgun." Phillips described the scene, " . . . I hew, was burglarized. Consistent with noticed one officer leaning over the car the kind of FBI COINTELPRO terror operations against Martin Luther Kins? with a gun pointed at the Black guy's head. Another guy was standing to the and other Black political figures since the side of the Black guy with a gun and (Please turn to page 2, col. 4) were target of police shotgun. State employees target of police guns GRETCHEN KAFOURY Kafoury seeks House seat Gretihen Kafoury announced her in tention to seek the Democratic Party nomina ;*>n for the House of Represents lives, District 13, by di livering petitions to Secretary of L u te "lay Myers. The more tr aditional mcthoc is filing for office and p< ying a small filing fee. The peUtiiri, however, ind rate support for Mil. Da lour) in her district. Ma. Kafoirv, who is currently a oonsu ti nt on r.'qual Emoloyment Oppor tunity, a running for I er first elective tiflee. S he has been acti /e in community causes including lobbying for consumer protection and women's rights legisla tion. She has participated in a number of Democratic campaigns. Ms. Kafoury has participated in the drive for quality child rare and is active in the National Organization for Women iNOW). She is currently a member of the Multnomah County Democratic Central Committee. The House seat sought by Ms Kafoury is currently held by her former husband, Stephen, who will run for the State Senate. WliSch w ay for South Africa? by Roy Harvey Southern Africa is one of the world’s richest areas, with deposits of copper, The U.8. S u te Department has chrome, gold, diamonds, zinc, lead, become so divided ovi r SecreUry of cobalt, nickel, iron, tungsten, uranium SU te Henry Kissingers Angola (and and Untalum. as well as oil and coal. [ioutheri Africa, policy that State De Hydro-electric power is available from partme it opponents of Kissinger's policy Nigeria to Namibia (South West Africa,. actively lobbied in Cong ess in behalf of South Africa has the industrial capacity (.he Tum ey Angola amendment, accord to massively produce (supplemented by ing to le slie Gelb (New York Times, imports from the U.S., Japan and the rest Decern! er 20th), while Anthony Lewis of the industrial sector, industrial plants (New Y wk Times, Decer iber 20th) links and factories to be located at key sites K issing t ’ s '»nterventionUt' policy to the (for example Ndola through I.umumbashi early s ages of the Vietnam war and copper belt region in Zambia and Zaire). suggest i (referring to another article, All the essential ingredients for develop that th • SecreUry of S u te is a war ment of southern Africa and hence all of ciimina for his role in th» barbaric' 1973 Africa are available. The greatest Christinas bombing of H ’noi. scarcity is a skilled labor force: skilled In hii 45 minute prims conference workers, technicians, scientists. December 23rd devi ted mostly a South Africa Policy Angola Kissinger said tile real issue is The Republic of South Africa (RSA) is the Soviet Union. U.M. Ambassador determined to stop an independent Moynih in says that thu Soviets are Angola from coming into existence 'colonizing' Africa. Such assertiveness because semi industrial South Africa cohere with the view that Kissinger requires slave labor from the ‘Bantus Moynih: in are front men in using Angola tans' (six million Black Africans are into coercing the Soviets into a nuclear forcibly detained in the Bantusans, and war sho vdown. Our questions? What is from the neo colonies. Angola was a the Sec-eUry of S u t e ’s Africa policy? large supplier of essentially slave labor What la the Sovth Africa: (RSA, policy along with Namibia. Mozambique, Rots vis a via Angola and southern Africa? wana, Rhodesia, etc. These countries What wiuld be the PropD's Republic of providing the bulk of semi skilled and Angola orogram? unskilled workers for South African industry and mines are paid less than five percent of the salaries paid to the white workers...this policy (as South African Professor Dennis Rrutus of North western University says, "the genocidal grinding up of human beings") is identical with the Nazi economics engineered by Germany's Third Reich Finance Minister, Souihirn Africa is exceedingly under Hjalmar Schact. Again, South Africa’s populated, with f.,5 inh.ibiUnts per 'development' is also based on the looting square kilometer, compared to 21 for the of raw materials from the whole of US’ or ¡'40 for Gre'.t Brit .in. Agricul southern Africa ('loot' is the extraction of tural production a not sou,hern Africa's wealth for which the social cost for the pr imary ’oniern (equatoria Africa could reproduction of that wealth is not paid). easily br come one t f the world's bread Cut off from its slave labor-and 'cheap' baskets wiih cap’u l jn ten »ive develop raw materials market, the apartheid ment el the agricultur d sector racist regime of Vorster can only pr»dicai d in large part on the develop collapse, thus the primary African Burnt ol the industrial sector in the bulwark thwarting full scale development couth). (Please turn to page 2, col. 4, News analysis Officer Petery held a shot gun to the guy's back.” Hollis got out of the car and approached the men, asked what was happening and questioned why the Black man was being treated in this manner. Officer Petery asked Hollis if he knew the man and Hollis replied, "He is a Black brother and that is why I am concerned." An exchange between Hollis and Petery took place, in which Hollis continued to question the treatment and Petery asked repeatedly whether Hollis knew the man, who he said was an alleged murderer wanted in California. The men then left and drove toward their destination. Soon they found that they were being followed by what appeared to be an unmarked police car, so they pulled into a driveway to find out why. “Right as Chuck pulled into the driveway", Phillips explained, “The car was blocked so we could not back out. Two officers stepped out of the car with their guns drawn. Officer Petery's car pulled in, another car followed his, and a police car blocked off the head of the street. A plain police car appeared to be parked on the side of the street. A police light was on and people began to appear in their windows. One of the officers pounded on the fender of Chuck's car screaming, "Stop the car, stop this earF". “Chuck then stopped the car and stepped out. He asked the officer, ‘Why were we being stopped?" Officer Petery walked over with the shot gun lowered, screaming at Chuck to move over to the side. Chuck asked, ‘Why were we being stopped?" The officer then said that they were stopping us because Chuck said he knew the guy, and that we could be wanted for arrest. Chuck told the officer that he told Officer Petry that the guy was a “Black brother” and that was why he was concerned." The men said they were then ordered to get out of the car, one at a time, while being held at gur. point. “Officer Petry with both hands on his shot-gun, which was hanging low, but a little midway in the air", according to Phillips, asked them for identification. After some time, Rui;:, who lived down the street, noticed the cars and went to see what was happening. Seeing his friends being held at gun point he told the officers that the men were state employees and were "all right”. In explanation of the need for the guns, the men were told that they were suspected of being friends of the man originally arrested. Phillips said that when he asked Officer McDonald why the guns were necessary and why they were using a shotgun, he was told that the ' strike force”, officers are allowed to have shot guns. When Hollis asked Petery why he was (Please turn to page 2 col. 4) Vancouver photo - journalist compares Soviet Union to US by Roy Harvey second. 'Why is it the Americans always “The Soviet people don't want war... say Russians this Russians that? Don't they are reminded constantly of what Americans know there are Georgians they suffered in World War II, with 22 too?" (Russia is one of the Soviet million dead they are still working very Republics,. Soviet people, especially hard to rebuild their country, and don't Georgians, compare Stalin to Nixon: want to suffer that once more..." “Stalin did some bad things like Nixon, especially as they know that the next war yet he was a responsible leader and did will be nuclear. "But they would find the Some good things." Stalin is often viewed resolve to go to war if they are the man who stopped the Nazi hoard, but threatened." Photo editor Steve Small of who's world view never became Marxian, the Vancouver Columbian spent two and as such was prone to a paranoid weeks in the Soveit Union, a guest of the world outlook and was victim of 'dirty Union of Soviet Journalists. Subse tricks' of the right wing European quently the Columbian published fifteen aristocracy (the group which was to pages of Small's photo essay - and his develop the fascist organizations in the account of his stay in the Soviet late 20s in Italy, Germany, Great Britain, Republics Georgia and Russia. etc.). “TASS (Telgrafnoye Agentstvo Sov- What are the major social problems yetskoyo Soyouza -- the Telegraphic Small encountered? “Housing, but it's Angency of the Soviet Union, is more being resolved...some alcoholism, but it's overtly political than the U.S. press. The not severe - there's a different style of U.S. is covert. It's odd." Steve Small drinking. Cognac or vodka, before said, “but the Soviet press tends to print dinner, generally with good Russian more positive stories about the U.S. - bread." Small described the food as while the U.S. press prints the negative “excellent, pure, and fresh - I lost 22 lbs stories about the Soviet Union...I saw lots in 13 days, and I ate more than I do in the of Soviet human interest stories, but they U.S." Russians joke with Small: "There almost never appear in U.S. coverage...” may be American wheat in this, but it's Pravda, Small said also covers the good Russian bread." The Columbian positive side of the U.S. Pravda devoted photoeditor was at a loss to explain the '• two thirds of its back page on the U.S? withholding of grain from the Vancouver Soviet monument. “Pravda Soviets: “The Soviet people had a bad (the Communist Party daily, is only six year in wheat, but a good harvest in most pages photos are quite small - but everything else. A few years ago we that's six pages of news - no ads." were paying farmers not to grow wheat, Steve Small described his visit as very and now we're withholding it." Small open: no tourist route, freedom to go says there's a healthy abundance of anywhere he pleased, any time of the day money and consumer goods, and no or night (t dr.ver and car available 24 unemployment. "There's not much fancy hours a day -- or he could walk alone, stuff - the orientation is toward the which he frequently did). "People were functional." very friendly, but when I said I was an “The Soviet people especially fear American ('Ya Americanski’) it often Senator Henry Jackson, but the average resulted in an invitation to a meal, and person does not think Jackson's ‘war friendly conversation...One thing which mongering' is representative of the really puzzles the Soviets is ‘why are American people. They have a higher Americans so d istru stfu l'- that they regard for the American people than cannot understand...they feel closer to that." Small thinks the Soviets are Americans than perhaps any people in correct about the American working the world..." Steve Small accounts for people. this by the similarity of the cultural and scientific level: “Apollo-Soyouz is an Science and the Soviet Union example of this bond." Small said that the “Scientists share a very special place in cultural activity that most predominates the Soveit Union. Sixty years ago the in the Soviet Union is classical music, country was very backward, and in those ballet, opera - and of course television. sixty years the Soviets have caught up "Soviet people watch a lot of TV - it's with and surpassed the world in several mostly classics, or film versions of the ways. They are very pro science. Their theatre. Comparable to PBS, but better.” attitude contrasts with that in the U.S., Steve Small maintains that chauvinism where science is used for human progress a«e statue of Soviet still predominates: "Georgians are Geor (Please turn to page 6 col. 1, Small] stands watch at subway station. iPhoto by Steve
