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I Page 6 Portland Observer Thursday, January 15, 1976 Baptist missionary explains mission in Africa reverend douglin Several weeks ago. Oregon's Senator M ark Hatfield introduced legislation calling for a curtailment of C IA use of missionaries. C IA Director William Colby and the Executive announced that they saw no reason why the C IA should not use the church. Apparently feeling the effect of the Hatfield and C IA revelations in their missionary work in Africa. Reverend Deighton Douglin of the Conservative Baptist Church offered his views on his missionary work in Africa - and his relationship to the C IA . Reverend Douglin spent nearly twenty years in Zaire (formerly the Congo) - from 1955 until the end of 1974, with a brief 'furlough' during 'decolonization* period (19601961). Before his assign ment in the Kivu Republic (eastern Zaire) Reverend Douglin obtained an M.Ed. and went to school in Belgium and France. Douglin was the principal of the Conservative Baptist Teacher's College in Zaire - the college is now run by a Zairean. Asked about his relationship to the C IA , Reverend Douglin said there was none. Questioned on C IA involvement in Zaire, Douglin said: “no comment". Asked about the C IA U.S. interests in Angola, the Reverend said he had “no comment". Querried as to what the CIA might want of a missionary in Africa, the Reverend said he hadn't any idea. Asked COMMUNITY CALENDAR “The Story of Eric" an enlightening film of one couple’s prepared childbirth experience will be shown at the Public Service Building 920 S.W . Sixth Avenue in the second floor auditorium on Monday evening January 19th, 1976 at 7:30 p.m. There is no charge and all interested persons are invited. This film is sponsored by The Portland Association for Childbirth Education. Questions concerning this film may be answered by calling 284 0591. Marriage Enrichment is the theme for a series of programs being offered by Oregon State University Extension Service free of charge to all interested persons. Taught by Extension human development specialist, Marcelle Straatman, the opening program will focus on “Love and Expectations.' Following programs will highlight “Caring and Sharing Sexually," “Changing Roles" and “Communication." Multnomah County Extension Home Economist Tod Hamilton states that the series will be offered at three different times and locations in the metropolitan area. Evening programs will be held on January 19th, 26th and February 2nd, 9th at Westminister Presbyterian Church, 1624 N .E . Hancock (near the Lloyd Center) in Portland from 7:30 to 10:00 p.m. Morning programs will be on January 20th, 27th and February 3rd, 10th at the Oregon City Far West Savings Community Room from 9:30 a.m. to Noon. Afternoon programs will be on January 20th, 27th and February 3rd, 10th from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. at the Washington County Extension Office, 27280 S.W. Tualatin Valley Highway, Hillsboro. Evening classes at the Museum A rt School will begin January 19th and registration is now open. The semester continues through A p ril 30th. A variety of classes both for the beginner and the advanced student are offered including calligrahy, advanced calligraphy, beginning sculpture, advanced sculpture, ceramics, basic life drawing, advanced life drawing, silk screen printing, commercial design, advanced photography and general drawing. The Museum A rt School is fully accredited and one semester credit can be earned in each class. I In- Medium, a two-act opera in English by Gian Carlo Menotti, will be presented by the Portland Chamber Orchestra and the Portland Opera Association's Opera Studio at 8:00 p.m. Thursday. February 12th and Saturday. February 14th at Evans Auditorium. Lewis and Clark College. Washington Square Shopping Center will host a novel invitational »«Me »___<- tournameat in the M ali Saturday and Sunday, January 17th and 18th. Sixteen of the top rated Oregon table tennis players have been invited and have accepted the invitation to play in this tournament. Matches begin at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, January 17th and are scheduled on one table at twenty minute intervals. Painter Louis Bunco will join a gathering of poets and musicians in a Benefit for the Portland Poetry Festival at the Earth tavern. 632 N .W . 21st Avenue, Sunday January 18th, starting at 3:00 p.m. Bunce will be on hand to talk about the 1960 film, “Jazz A rts." which features his painting to a jazz accompaniment. Bunce, active in the Portland arts scene for three decades, is represented in major art collectikons across the country; he is the painter of a major mural for the Portland International Airport. Poets reading at the benefit include William I. Elliott of Linfield College co translator of the recently published W ith Silence M y Companion (Prescott Street Books by Shintaro Tanikawa) W illis Eberman, author of M — » i-g . Partings, and numerous other volumes; Gloria Russakov, restaurant reviewer and poet, author of Guide to Eating Out in Portland; M arty Cohen; and Kathy Terrill, poet and teacher at M t. Hood Community College. Harpist Ruth Bonparte along with a recorder consort and a pianist will supply the music. The second six week labor management seminar being offered by the University of Portland during this academic year will begin February 3rd and continue on successive Tuesday evenings through March 9th. Directed by D r. Kent J. Codings, dean of the school of business administration and current practitioner in collective bargaining, fact-finding, and arbitration areas, the seminar wiil feature a collective bargaining game, a mock arbitration before a practicing arbitrator, and speakers and panelists experienced in labor management relations. The seminar is open to interested persons from business, industry, labor unions, government or education. Enrollment is limited to tw enty in order to insure active participation. Applications and information may be received by calling the School of Business Administration, University of Portland. „ J 30? * ~ The Cameras E ye Galleries, will open it's 1976 exhibition schedule with „„7 , “ d Fo™ ” "' during Preview gallery openings on Tuesday, January 20th and Wednesday, January 21st from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. A special reception and no host cocktail party celebrating artistic freedom in America will be held Wednesday. January 21st from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. at the Paramount Theater, 1037 S.W Broadway Musical entertainment will be provided by a local group to be announced. Artists from the 1307 show, “People, Places and Forms" will be present to discuss their work. The H arry C. Kendall Planetarium at OM SI opens its year of Bicentennial programming with a look at man's next 200 years in space. “2176 A .D . The Next 200 Years,” scheduled to run January 7th through February 29th, will examine future space projects from Viking I to travel between the stars. 2176 A .D . The N ext 200 Years” will show in the Kendall Planetarium at O M SI January 7th through February 29th. Showtimes Monday through Friday at 1:30 and 3:30 p.m., with a special 7:30 p.m. showing on Friday. Shows Saturday and Sunday at 11:00 a.m., 1:00, 2:00. 3:00 and 4:00 p.m. There is no additional charge, after the regular O M SI admission. For further information, call O M SI at 248 5900. “The Challenge of the Future Now That International Women’s Year has Ended, W here to?" is the topic of Nellie Fox, at the Planned Parenthood Annual “ r-^ '-g ’ Nellie was recently elected Political Educator Director of the Oregon AFL-CIO . The first woman in a top job in the Oregon Labor Movement, she lobbied for labor's COPE (Council on Political Education; during the 1976 Oregon Legislative Session for election law changes, women's issues and consumer affairs. The luncheon will be held at noon. Januay 23rd, at the Benson Hotel, Crystal Room. P ractical pointers for dealing with frustrating work, social and family relationships make the focus for a Portland Community College workshop January 19th, at the Southeast Center, 3600 S.fc. 79th. Saiiy Anderson will work with participants from 10:00 a.m. to noon in Assertiveness Training, helping those attending pick a way to come to grips with their own self image. Cost is just $1. but enrollment is limited so telephone reservations should be made by calling the Southeast Center. The Oregon State M arine Board and Portland Area Safe Boating Council are suggesting all recreational boating families start the new year by enrolling in the Coast Guard Auxiliary Bicentennial Heal lag Classes. The seven lesson program will start at 7:30 p.m., January 27th at Red Cross Building, 4200 S.W. Corbett. For further information call W alter M.C. Gettigan at 645 2096 if he had any criticisms of the Zairean government of General Mobutu. Rever end Douglin said. “W e are guests in that country. W e are not at liberty to question the policies of that government." Asked what he thought of Joseph Mobutu's new name (in 1970 Mobutu changed his name to Seee Kuku Ngbendu Wasa Bangs, which means “the cock which leaves no hen untouched"; Douglin thought that was appropriate for “who he is and where he comes from." I t is a widely known view that part of the deal Kissinger worked out with Mobutu in the use of the Zairean army in Angola against the M P L A was the annexation into Zaire of the oil rich Cabinda coastal province. Tw o months ago Senator Clark, head of the African subcommittee in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, accused Kissinger of withholding information on Zaire, while New York bankers noted that “Zaire was invertebrate . . . with no fabric of nationhood . . . it is always in a tinderbox in Zaire - the population is up in arms. Mobutu is extrem ely paranoid and unstable...” Reverend Douglin said that he thought the government was doing quite well “considering what they had to work w ith." The Reverend was unaware of the 150 cases of malaria reported recently in the Portuguese newspaper Diario de Noticias The Reverend revealed that the press is AJC supports employment legislation The American Jewish Congress this week marked M artin Luther King Day with a call by its president. Rabbi A rthu r Herzberg, urging adoption of federal full employment legislation as “a fitting tribute to the life and work of a great American." In a statement recalling D r. King's “leadership in the struggle for freedom and equality for all mankind". Rabbi Herzberg declared: “The American Jewish Congress, on this day of remembrance, pledges itself anew to the building and strengthening of the coalition of commitment that D r. M artin Luther King symbolized." Rabbi Herzberg said, “The present level of unemployment in this country is intolerable. Blacks and other disadvan taged minorities know all too well that they bear the brunt of joblessness. We must compel the American people as a whole to understand that the security of the nation cannot be insured when so many go hungry.” The Rabbi called on Congress to obtain speedy enactment of effective federal full-employment legislation early in 1976. highly controlled by the Mobutu govern ment. Douglin described tribalism as "having some very good things in it, like social cohesion, concern for the elderly, and ■narraige controls." In the Kivu province “you purchase your wife; there are some advantages to that - it eliminates the possibility of divorce, given the complex economic relationship that such a pur chase involves..." The Conservative Bap tist Church, Douglin said, does not chal lenge thia, but rather uses it?" after all, in the Bible it says..." Asked to comment on the widespread witchcraft and magic (used by the C IA for social control purposes in Africa and Latin America). Douglin said that the Church combatted it by teaching about the Holy Spirit: " If the Holy Spirit comes into your being, then the evil spirits are driven out. There simply won't be any room for any other spirits but the Holy Spirit." Zaire, a potentially very rich country, has been a Rockefeller (IM F /W o rld ; A’. . 1 Bank/Chase and First National City Bank) satrapy since about 1961. The training of university students, for example, has almost entirely been funded by the Rockefeller or the Rockefeller controlled Ford Foundation. Likewise with remnants of Belgian interests, Societe General and Union Miniere du SPECIAL OPERATIONS RESEARCH OFEIC Haute Katanga, were largely subsumed by the New York banks. I t is to these TME AMI KICAN UNIVtRSITY ïTvSS same banks (Chase. Morgan. First wu>«4CK» ikoc National City, Lazard Brothers, etc.) that Zaire is in debt - about $2.5 billion). Zaire has one sixth of the world's copper f SC ilNft» llXil'CI WIH !l» reserves, half of the world's diamonds, OiPAKlMINf 0 1111 ARMY and an eighth of the world's manganese and is rich in other minerals - and yet the income of the Zairean is less than $75 per year. T h * “• * tribalism, magie and racism (etc.) are old mechanisms of social control: ‘It it not for the Church to question divide and conquer. The tribes/races etc.'are fitted against one another, while the whether or not Mobutu is a good leader controller continues to loot the social wealth of the victims. The Congo (Zaire) but it is imperative to respect authority.” provided extensive cases studies for C IA . Reverend Douglin reiterated that respect - even obedience to authority was the agreed that the Church leadership set the Kenya, Ruanda and Madagascar. They appropriate Godly behavior. "But what if example. are also in Argentina and Brazil. the authority is ungodly?" came the Reverend Douglin was asked if this Asked to evaluate the more positive question. Douglin said that the Church would have been the attitude of the elements in the Mobutu government. would have to advise the individual government in Germany between the Reverend Douglin said he was "not at leader of the error of his ways if it got formative years of the Third Reich liberty to discuss the m atter - if we want access to him, but other than that, it is (roughly 1933 1936): whether obedience to be able to talk to the right people." not the business of the Church to or respect of authority would have been Asked who the 'right people' were, interven: “God says we must respect followed. Reverend Douglin responded: Douglin said that it was best to terminate authority." The Conservative Baptist “Yes . . . it is not our business to criticise the interview. “Our educational program Church has 100 churches in the Kivu the government; to do so would see an is the essential thing. We are teaching province alone - asked if they were not expulsion of the Church." children that they are somebody: to an essential institution to promulgate develop all their powers to the fullest - obedience to the Mobutu government. The Conservative Baptist Church is that each person has a soul and is Reverend Douglin said that each man in established in six other countries in responsible before God - every human his own conscience would decide. He Africa: Senegal. Ivory Coast, Uganda. being has a place in God’s economy." WITCHCRAFT, SORCERY, MAGIC, and other PSYCHOLOGICAL PHENOMEN and their implications on M ILIT A R Y and PA R AM ILITA R OPERATIONS in the Congo L JIV >s w 4 S 4 3 8 cinf< - I F I CAN DO NY DUTY A S A CHRIST IAN OUGHT. IF I CAN M IN S SAL VATION TO A HORLD 0N C £ BROUGHT. IFICAN SPftFAO THE MESSAGE AS THEHASTER TAUGHT. THEN NY LIVING HILL NOT BE IN VAIN. • FO LIKE FOR SOME- BOOT TO SAY THAT PAY, THAT MARTIN LUTHER KING OR. TRIED TO LOVE SOMBBODY." NAACP hosts JDH head The “N A A C P ” will hold its first general membership meeting for 1976 on Sunday, January 18th at 4:00 p.m. The meeting will be held a t Hughes Memorial United Methodist Church, 111 N.E. Failing. President Ellis H. Casson announced that the program will be "The Juvenile System -- where do we go from thc-re?" Harold C. H art, Director, Juvenile Court will be the speaker. M r. H a rt is an attorney and has many years of ex perience in juvenile work. He serves on many boards and commissions. The public is invited to attend. 'D ecisio ns’ b egin s G reat decision groups for 1976 are now getting organized in order to begin study of the first topic the week of February 8th, announces Harold Black. Multnomah Councy Extension Agent. This program, now in its 22nd year, is cffered nationally by the non-partisan Foreign Policy Association. In Oregon, it is sponsored by a wide variety of organizations. Anyone interested in learning and discussing world affairs is invited to participate in the program. Participants meet once a week in neighborhood groups to discuss eight different international topics. The 1976 topics are: 1. Arabs vs. Israelis: W hat Price la s tin g Peace in the Middle East? 2. O ar Mediterranean Commitments: W hat Priorities? What Prospects? 3. Latin America and the UJ9.: A New Relationship to F it New Realities? 4. Asia A fte r the Vietnam W ar: W hat Role for th# U.8.? 5. The American Dream Among Nations: W hat Impact? W hat Future? 6. The UJA in the World Ecoeomy: Toward Cooperation or Conflict? f. India: Can Poverty Be Overcome and Democracy Revive? 8. Rethinking U .8 . Foreign Policy: How Should Our Power Be Used? Background material w ill be provided through study books. There will also be news articles and special radio and television programs on each week's subject. The opinions of participants will be made available to congressional bodies, in Washington D.C., through opinion ballots after each topic. For more information, contact the Multnomah County Extension Office, P .0 . Box 1261, Portland, Oregon 97207; or telephone 229 4830. ,1 1999-1968 vtatì*odlsfg ALLEN TEMPLE CME CHURCH Corner of 8th and Skidmore Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Sunday Worship 11:00 a.m. Christian Youth Fellowship 8:00 p.m. (Second nd Fourth Sundays) Reverend Thomas L. Strayhand. Minister ST. ANDREW CATHOLIC CHURCH 806 N .E . Alberta Street Reverend Bertram Griffin, Pastor 5828 N.E. 8th Masses i 5:00 p.m. Vigil - Saturday 10:00 a.m. Choir - Sunday 12:06 p.m. Polk - Sunday ST. ANDREW COMMUNITY SCHOOL 4919 N .E . 9th Avo. N orita Kelly, Principal A. Loo Hondorson, Minister oai^aoo Phone: 284-1620 Grades I through 8 Church School Morning Worship Wed. Noon - The Hour of Power Wad. Prayer A Class Meeting Nursery Caro Provided 2 8 8 -5 4 2 9 9.45 11:00a.m. 12:00 Noon 7:30 p .a . "W E A R E M A K IN G O U R N E IG H B O R H O O D A B R O TH ER H O O D "
