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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
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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).
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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
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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
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Small]
stands watch at subway station. iPhoto by Steve