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Portland Observer
Thursday. January 1. 197#
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Third World Wrapup
Victory For World Development -
D A I) to Recognize Angolan Government
by Roy Harvey
Recently held Organization of African
Unity meetings 146 African countries)
discussed Africa's industrial development
over the next 25 years, planning for a
growth rate ol 11 to 13 percent per
annum. This growth rate they hold to be
realizable, pointing to ten industrial
complexes which have been established
by the Soviet Union. This is also the kind
of economic development they wish to see
with the U.S. industrial sector --
development which is explicity in the new
economic world order put forward by
leading Third World countries, but which
is predicted on a moratorium on dollar
debt and the new credit institution, the
international development bank.
O ver the weekend major U.S. news
papers have conceded that the Secretary
of State's Africa policy is dangerously
incompetent.
The Chicago Tribune
ridicule's Kissinger's domino theory
applied to Angola and gives "marching
orders" to Congress: “Congress will not
go along with this nonsense.“
The
Washington Post •‘ditorializes about the
"wrong African policy" in Angola,
condemning this as a hypocrisy of the
worst sort the State Departm ent demand
that Gulf Oil not pay the People's
Republic of Angola $125 million for oil
already pumped out of the Cabinda
province, while perm itting hundreds of
corporations to do business with apar
theid South Africa. The Post likewise
ridicules Henry Kissinger's ‘superpower
thesis'.
The Superpower Thesis
A t his Christmas Eve press conference
Kissinger stated: “In the 1970s and 1980»
the Soviet Union wll have achieved...ef
fective strategic equality, which means
that whoever may be ahead in the
damage they can inflict on the other, the
damage to the other in a general nuclear
war will be of a catastrophic nature."
Kissinger has taken up lock, stock and
nuclear warhead the Schlesinger Doc
trine of ‘limited nuclear war* -- a doctrine
which last year 97 congressman con
demned (the O ttinger Resolution). In
addition to continued nuclear blackmail
(part of Hilex 76), Kissinger has imposed
economic sanctions against Angola and
Cuba, while the West German daily
Süddeutsche Zeiting (December 27th)
carries a story detailing large sums of
money given to the F N L A and U N IT A
(the C IA counter gangs in Angola) to pay
salaries of North American mercenaries.
To date these mercenaries are reportedly
flying spotter transport planes for the
C IA groups, though IPS learned from
U.S. Special Forces in Virginia that “500
Green Berets are now fighting in
Angola...if any of the men are killed or
raptured, the U.S. will officially deny
their existence." This is identical to U.S.
policy in the early stage of the Vietnam
war.
The San Diego Tribune corro
borates earlier stories reported in the
Portland Observer of mercenaries re
cruited for Angola, conduited through
( ’O RE connected 'David Kufkin' and
other C IA funded operations. "People
have the wrong idea about mercenaries,
Hufkin said, “they are not hired killers,
they are skilled, disciplined military
professionals.
O A U to Recognize People's Republic
of Angola
By the time the O A U Conference
convenes (January 10th) in Addis Ababa,
the m ajority of the O AU members will
have recognized the Angolan govern
ment. Nigeria has extended an offer of
$100 million in aide to the Angolan
gov nment (RPA); Nigerian External
Affi rs Commissioner Joseph Garba has
pled ;ed his country will do everything
necessary to ensure Angola's liberation is
successful.
It was following Nigeria’s recognition
and full support for the RPA that Ghana
sod a number of other African countries
broke loose. The Ghanian Times called
for the full recognition of the PRA , the
unmasking of neocolonialism in Angola,
and the O AU determination to rid all
Africa of neo colonialism. The exception
to such moves are the countries Ivory
Coast, the Camaroons. Malaawi. Senegal
and, of course, Zaire. These are countries
on the itinerary of Kissinger's new
Assistant SEcretary of State William
Schaufele. Kissinger hopes to block AO U
recognition to give tim e for his C IA
concotion in Huambo (Novo IJsoa) to get
moving. Tanzania's N yerere has thrown
the F N I,A U N IT A representatives out of
his country.
South Africa Manuevers
South Africa continues to bring in
heavy artillery (140 mrr. guns, which have
a range of 20 kilometers, longer than any
gun of the People’s Republic of Angola),
while offering a pull out of Angola if a
number of their demands are met
(Soviet-Cuban withdrawal, protection of
the Cunene River hydroelectric project
etc.). The Vorster-Botha policy seems
simply consistent with Henry Kissinger's
red scare and nuclear war blackmail
scenario.
Oregonian Editor I'nrealizes
If they weren't so harmful, it would be
‘fun’ (of the sort realized in working out a
cryptogram) to read Oregonian edi
Clarence Mitchell receives acclaim
Clarence Mitchell, Jr., one of the quiet,
unsung heroes of the civil rights
movement for the past quarter of a
century, will be honored at a testimonial
luncheon on January 27th at the
Shoreham Hotel in Washington. D.C.
For the past several months Mitchell
has been an active and highly vocal
delegate for the United States at the
United Nations. Recently, in what U .N .
observers said was the strongest U.S.
statement against apartheid policies of
South Africa, Mitchell, in a major speech
before the U.N.. challenged and criticized
the South African government for its
“oppressive government which deprives
the m ajority of South Africans of their
basic human rights.”
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The testimonial luncheon for Mitchell
will focus on his years as a journalist, civil
rights attorney and activist and highly
respected lobbyist for civil rights legisla
tion on Capitol Hill. Since 1950 Mitchell
has been director of the Washington
Bureau of the N A A C P and leg islative
Chairman of the leadership Conference
on Civil Rights.
In a cover story in the Potomac
Magazine in 1969. the Washington Post
described Mitchell as "the 101th Senator
of the United States." In the article, the
Post said, “Mitchell is considered by
those in the know to be perhaps the most
singular figure in getting civil rights
legislation through Congress
and in
prompting Presidents to issue executive
orders."
Mitchell gave his first congressional
testimony on his eye witness account of a
lynching that occurred in 1933. Since
then he has been a major behind the
scenes force in the civil rights movement.
Although his name is not familiar to
most Black Americans as a publicly
known “civil rights leader," Mitchell is a
fam iliar name in the halts of Congress. It
was his ceaseless efforts that resulted in
the no compromise provisions of the 1964
civil rights bill, according to the Wash
ington Post.
And the Congressional
Q uarterly attributed the miraculous
passage of the 1968 open housing bill to
Mitchell's persistent and effective lobby
ing.
A t the age of 63. Mitchell still works a
ten to twelve hour day. He will return to
Washington and his job as director of the
civil rights lobbyng and monitoring
efforts in January.
In Baltimore and throughout the state
of Maryland, the name Mitchell is
synonymous with civil rights and the
NAACP.
His wife, Juanita, also an
attorney, is a former president of the
Maryland State N A A C P.
Mitchell’s
eldest son, Clarence. I l l , 35, was a
founding member of SNCC and at the age
of 22 was elected to the Maryland
General Assembly and at 26 to the State
Senate.
Another son, Mike, also an
attorney, was elected to Baltimore City
Council in November.
Mitchell’s youngest brother. P a r r e l 1
represents Baltimore in the United
States Congress.
The committee of more than 100
persons planning the Mitchell luncheon
represents a broad cross-section of
organizations and individuals who have
worked with Mitchell over the years.
torials, as an exercise in explicating
reductionist thinking.
"Anguish in
Moscow, Havana, Too” (12/28), for
example.
The editorial gloats that
because a (C IA aligned) faction killed
some hundreds of Syrian leftists, "some
high officials in Moscow are questioning
whether the government might be
throwing its money away ir Angola, since
the M PLA is highly nationalistic...” The
editor psychologically is projecting his
reaction onto “some officials in Moscow",
reasoning that there are undoubtedly
some individuals like himself in Soviet
leadership. (It is Kissinger's Middle East
poiicy to meditate a provoked war
between Syria and Israel, with the
express aim of forcing the Soviets out of
Syria.)
The Oregonian fantasorializes
that the M PLA is 'highly nationalistic'. It
is probably the most internationalist
minded of African governments, which is
not to say that it is socialist, but that it is
pro-development and pro socialist. And
while we ran not so easily assess the
psychological state of the Cuban people
over Angola, it is probably not “very bad"
as the Oregonian hopes.
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Under Title X X of the Social Security
Act which became effective October 1st,
1976, day care eligibility was broadened
to include more children and their
parents, but no more dollars were made
available.
The State 4 C Council completed a
statewide needs assessment in June 1975.
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The needs assessment indicated less than
11% of families who are eugible for and
need day care in Oregon are receiving
day care.
The message from Governor Bob
Straub, in Oregon's T itle X X plan, points
out that more citizen participation and
more day care services are critical needs
in our state. Day care services for their
children is the key for many parents to
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Child Care Advocacy
by M arjorie Brown W right
Robert B. V ann,
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remain employed and self supporting.
The value and need to expand day care
programs are widely recognized and
supported. Additional funding is possible
under T itle X X .
Following a nationwide survey, the
Day Care and Child Development Council
of America recently revealed that only 38
out of 50 states have expended allocated
funds under T itle X X . Rather than funds
going bark to the United States Depart
ment of Health, Education, and Welfare,
federal guidelines should be changed so
that unexpended funds can be reallocated
to those states (like Oregon) where funds
can be used (as required) during the
1975 76 program year.
In Oregon, federal and state day care
funds are channeled through the State
Children's Services Division (CSD). To
prevent the federal situation occuring in
Oregon, we call on CSD to monitor the
expenditure of state general funds
allocated to day care, and to keep the
State 4-C Council and the State Legisla
ture regularly informed of the status of
expenditures. W e also request the State
Legislature to establish the necessary
regulation so that funds which cannot be
spent in one district of the state may be
timely reallocated to districts in need.
Another possibility for help is S. 2425
which is being studied by the United
States Senate Finance Committee. This
bill would make an additional $500 million
per year available to states for chiid care
under T itle X X of the Social Security
Act. I t would also raise the Federal
matching rate from 75 to 80 percent in
the case of child care.
The extra $500 million would bring to
$3 billion the total of funds available for
social services. Oregon needs the funding
this bill would provide. W ithout more
federal or state funds, we run the risk of
having to reduce standards 'and the
quality of child care or serving fewer
children.
Help make survival less of a burden for
day care children and their families.
Speak out to CSD about day care needs.
Contact your federal and state legislators
and request their help in gaining needed
administrative changes and new legisla
tion care. Do your share during this
bicentennial year.
I EDITORS NOTE: This is the first article
of a weekly coeumn hy Marjorie Wright,
State Chalrpersou, the Community Coor
dinated Child Care |4-C| Council.)
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