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Page 2 Portland Observer Thursday. January 29. 1976 Third W orld Wrapup We see the world through Black eyes Conspiracy continues D eath is a tim e o f re -e v a lu a tio n o f th e past a n d o f reassessm ent o f the fu tu re . The d e a th o f Paul Robeson leads o ne to c o m p a re the p e rse c u tio n o f the Black le a d e rs o f ye ste rd a y to th e g o v e rn m e n t h arassm ent o f th e Black lea d e rs o f to da y. It has a lw a y s b ee n th e m e th o d o f th e g o v e rn m e n t a n d o f its w h ite press to e lim in a te a n y Black lea d e rs w h o chose to speak o u t a n d d e m a n d th e rig h ts g u a ra n te e d th e m by th e U n ite d States C o n stitu tio n . T w enty years a g o it w a s s u ffic ie n t to c a ll a m a n a "C o m m u n is t." R obeson, w h o used his v o ic e a n d his ta le n ts to d e m a n d lib e ra tio n fo r Black p e o p le a n d fo r a ll p e o p le , w as harassed a n d c o n fin e d to the U n ite d States in o rd e r to stop h im fro m te llin g a b ro a d th e story o f s la ve ry a n d d e g re d a tio n . The A m e ric a n p e o p le , in c lu d in g m a n y Black A m e rica n s ,, w e re led to b e lie v e th a t he w as " u n A m e ric a n " in o rd e r th a t his in flu e n c e m ig h t be d im in is h e d . A t the a g e o f 83, W.E.B. DuBois w as h a n d c u ffe d a n d h a u le d in to court, ch a rg e d w ith fa ilin g to reg ister as a " fo r e ig n a g e n t." The P ittsburg C o u rie r w ro te , "T h e h a n cu ffs on DuBois a re m e a n t to serve as a g a g on N e g ro le a d e rs h ip th a t is disp ose d to 'sh o o t th e w o rk s ' fo r fr e e d o m ." Dr. M a rtin Luther K ing w as th e o b je c t o f g o v e rn m e n ta l harassm ent, p la n n e d a n d c a rrie d o u t by the FBI. W h e n he b e g a n to b rin g Blacks a n d w h ite s to g e th e r in a m assive c a m p a ig n a g a in s t p o ve rty, he w as e lim in a te d . M a lc o lm X w as a n o th e r ta rg e t o f g o v e rn m e n ta l p e rse cu tio n . W h e n he re tu rn e d fro m A fric a ta lk in g a b o u t th e b ro th e rh o o d o f a ll m a n k in d , he w as m a rk e d fo r d e a th . C ongressm an A d a m C la yto n P o w e ll, th e m ost p o w e rfu l Black in A m e ric a n g o v e rn m e n t a t the tim e , w as re m o v e d fro m o ffic e fo r the sam e a c tiv itie s , b la ta n tly p ra ctice d by th e w h ite m e m b e rs c f Congress w h o v o te d to re m o v e h im . R ecently co lu m n is t C arl R ow an w ro te , " A n y o n e w h o fo llo w e d th e W a te rg a te h e a rin g s a n d w h o is a brea st o f cu rre n t c o n g re ssio n a l p ro b in g s o f the n a tio n 's in te llig e n c e a g e n cie s has su re ly b e c o m e a w a re o f o ne re a lity : fo r th e last se v e ra l years no Black le a d e r w as so ra d ic a l, so m o d e ra te , so U ncle Tom ish, th a t he w a s n ot the ta rg e t o f w ire ta p p in g , b u g g in g , ta ilin g by the FBI, CIA, DIA, IRS or som e o th e r a g e n cy o f g o v e rn m e n t. le re ce n t w eeks, m em be rs Qf the C o n g re s s io n a l Black Caucus, w h o h ave o p p ose d State D e p a rtm e n t p o lic y in A n g o la , h ave b e e n th e ta rg e t o f a c a m p a ig n o f te rro r. The n e p h e w o f Ron D e llu m s (D -C a lifo rn ia ) w as k id n a p p e d a n d m u rd e re d , Ralph M e tc a lf's (D -lllin o is ) a p a rtm e n t w as ran sacke d, Parren M itc h e ll (D -M a ry la n d ) w as re p e a te d ly th re a te n e d w ith assassination, etc. Even m o re serious to the fu tu re o f h u m a n rig h ts is th e a p p a re n t co n sp ira cy to b rin g c rim in a l charges a g a in s t e le cte d Black o ffic ia ls -- a g a in the o ld ca m p a ig n to d iscre d it Black le a d e rsh ip . M a n y o f those Blacks w h o h ave s tru g g le d to a c h ie v e h ig h o ffic e in o rd e r to b rin g g o v e rn m e n t back to the p e o p le , h a ve fo u n d th e m s e lv e s the targets o f c rim in a l in v e s tig a tio n s a n d in d ic tm e n ts , a n d the fa ith o f th e ir co n stitu tio n s has b e e n b a d ly sh attered . C a lifo rn io L ie uten an t G o v e rn o r M e rv y n D y m a lly has been c h a rg e d by th e Los A n g e le s Times, w ith m isuse o f fu n d s o f a n o n -p ro fit o rg a n iz a tio n he h e a d e d . A lth o u g h th e a lle g a tio n s w e re k n o w n fo r se v e ra l years, it w a s o n ly a fte r D y m a lly b e c a m e L ie u te n a n t G o v e rn o r th a t th e Times la u n c h e d its c a m p a ig n a g a in s t h im . L ie u te n a n t G o v e rn o r G e o rg e B ro w n o f C o lo ra d o w a s c h a rg e d w ith m isu sing $4,090.57 in state tra v e l fu n d s. A fte r a le g a l c a m p a ig n a g a in s t h im , a g ra n d ju ry in v e s tig a tin g s h o w e d he h a d used th e sam e p ro c e d u re s as o th e r to p o ffic ia ls . W illia m C la y, C ongressm an fro m M isso u ri, w as accused by the g o v e rn m e n t a n d th e press o f b e in g a d o p e pusher a n d w h e n c le a re d o f th a t c h a rg e his c a m p a ig n c o m m itte e w as in v e s tig a te d o f ch arge s th a t he fa ile d to re p o rt a ll c o n trib u tio n s , a n d a g a in he w a s cle a re d . C u rre n tly he is b e in g in v e s tig a te d , a g a in by the Justice D e p a rtm e n t, fo r a lle g e d ly h irin g his sister a n d the IRS " c r im in a l d iv is io n " is in v e s tig a tin g his tax returns. S h irle y C hish olm (D -N e w Y o rk) w as c h a rg e d w ith c a m p a ig n v io la tio n s , ch arge s th a t w e re la te r d ism issed . LeRoy Johnson, fo rm e r m e m b e r o f the G e o rg ia Senate, w as c o n v ic te d o f f ilin g a fa ls e L oca lly, C le v e la n d G ilc re a s e has b e e n u n d e r a y e a r lo n g fe d e ra l in v e s tig a tio n a n d press e x p o s e ' w ith charges s till ye t file d . A n d the list goes on a n d on. The p ossible fa llo u t o f these c a m p a ig n s -- th e c a m p a ig n o f te rro r to a tte m p t to s ile n c e v o c a l Black o p p o s itio n to g o v e rn m e n t p o lic y , a n d th e c a m p a ig n to d is c re d it th ro u g h c rim in a l ch arge s - is th a t Black p e o p le w ill lose fa ith in Black le a d e rs h ip . A n d th is is w h a t w e m ust g u a rd a g a in s t. N e v e r a g a in can w e a ffo r d to a llo w such m e n as Robeson a n d D eBois to be re m o v e d fro m a m o n g us by th e g o v e rn m e n t a n d its press. W e as a p e o p le m ust k e e p in m in d th a t th ese Black m e n a n d w o m e n w h o a re b e in g te rro riz e d a n d v ic tim iz e d n e e d o u r fa ith a n d o u r su p p o rt. Wrestlers risk expulsion The s c h e d u lin g o f a South A fric a n ju n io r w re s tlin g te a m fo r c o m p e titio n a g a in s t O re g o n h ig h schools can je o p a rd iz e th e s ta n d in g o f a ll U n ite d States w re s tle rs , a n d can b rin g e x c lu s io n o f U n ite d States w re s tle rs fro m the O ly m p ic G am es. In te rn a tio n a l re g u la tio n s p ro h ib it c o m p e titio n w ith n o rt'-m em be r n a tio n s a n d South A fric a has b e e n e x p e lle d fro m m e m b e rs h ip . This u n fo rtu n a te e p is o d e c o u ld h a v e b e e n a v o id e d h a d the o ffic ia ls o f th e schools in v o lv e d b ee n c o n c e rn e d w ith the a p a rth ie d p o lic ie s o f South A fric a and co n s id e re d th e ra m ific a tio n s o f a th le tic c o m p e titio n w ith a n a tio n w ith these racist p o lic ie s . A y e a r a g o , the 1.5 m illio n m e m b e r N a tio n a l E d uca tio n A sso cia tio n (NEA) a sked th e A m a te u r A th le tic U n io n to b a r A m e ric a n p a rtic ip a tio n a g a in s t ra c ia lly s e g re g a te d team s. AME Bishop H.H. B rookins, C on gre ssm a n Diggs, a n d o th e r Blacks w h o a re o u ts p o k e n a g a in s t the in ju s tic e s o f a p a rth ie d h a v e b ee n b a n n e d fro m R hodesia a n d South A fric a , y e t th e le a d e rs o f our O re g o n school d istricts in v ite South A fric a n a th le tic s to o u r State. W e w o n d e r w h e re o u r e d u c a tio n a l le a d e rs h ip w as w h e n this fia s c o w as p la n n e d . bv Key Harvey People'll Republic of Angola Take« Counter Gang -Capital' As of thia writing wire services other than IPS have not yet indicated that the FNI.A UNITA headquarters in Novo Lisboa CHuambo'l have fallen to the government of the People's Republic of Angola. The story was undoubtedly held back from the press in hopes of getting the $28 million from Congress, which was to drag on the war for some five or six months, in the hopes of a “peaceful negotiation’*: a CIA 'Social Democratic' attachment to the pro socialist PRA government. IPS (the wire service of New So lidarity) reports that the MPLA govern went captured Nova Lisboa on January 24th. a day after the coastal town of Novo Redondo was taken by a column of MPLA troops. Those troops are now moving on the rail and port cities l,obito and Benguela giving the MPLA control of at hast both ends and the middle of the Renguela railroad. Congressional rejection (the House voted 323-99) to cut off funds for the UNITA-FNLA countergangs is a clear victory for humanity, but until the nature of their own CIA created counter gangs FNLA-UNITA is understood by Con gress and the American working people, the CIA will next move to subversion, terrorism, and other efforts to destabilize the PRA and the catalytic role the young Angolan government will play toward development and the implementation of the new world economic order. Signs of such destabilizing are already evident: the South African Bureau of State Security (BOSS), which claims to be more skilled than the CIA in exacerbating racial tensions in Africa its key to its maintaining control. BOSS efforts in Luanda apparently met with some success last week, in incidents of Black Angolans assaulting assimilado or mes tizo Angolans. The purpose of such BOSS Please publish this and let your readers know they have a responsibility to help their mentally or emotionally sick friends before it is too late. In reporting the death of leR oy D. Clark, you make it look like the police shot him down without cause. By your own story, you prove they did everything possible to prevent a tragedy because they were his friends. But the police can not accuse or commit anyone before that person commits an illegal act. In this case after the shoot out and death of Mr. Clark, his family and social friends admitted they had observed his irrational behavior for at least a week. Why didn't they see that he either got help for himself professional counselling or have him committed to Dammasch or Holiday Park Hospital's mental ward. Mental sickness is no more of a d'«grace than physical sickness. The real disgrace is not recognizing it and doing something about it. Only the man's family or a responsible friend ran commit an emotionally or mentally sick person, if he or she won't or can't do it for themselves. You don't stand around waiting for a person having a heart attack to get himself help, do you? Not if you really love him! Where were Mr. Clark's tearful friends when he really needed them? Afraid it would be "unkind” to accuse him P o rtla n d O b se rv e r 1st Place Community Service O N P A 1973 Published every Thursday by Exie Publishing Company, 2201 North Killingsworth, Portland, Oregon 97217. Mailing address: P O Rox 3137, Portland, Oregon 97208. Telephone: 283 2486 1st Place Best Ad Results O N P A 1973 Subscriptions: $5.25 per year in the Tri-County area, $6.00 per year outside Portland. 5th Place Best Editorial N N P A 1973 Second Class Postage Paid at Portland. Oregon A L F R E D L. H E N D E R S O N Editor/PubUaher The Portland Observer's official position is expressed only in its Publisher's column (We See The World Through Black Eyes). Any other material throughout the paper is the opinion of the individual writer or submitter and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Portland Observer. MEMBER I S ™ Association member I ■ Association • Founded IMS Honorable Mention Herrick Editorial Award N N A 1973 2nd Place Best Editorial 3rd Place Community leadership O N P A 1975 Mobutu." I Significantly absent from most of thia in a dearly articulated view of develop ment, comparable to that of the new world economic order: a regional de velopinent thrust should be the direction of the OAU PRA grouping; if it does not develop in that fashion, the loose coalition will evaporate. Probably the key to thia is the Soviet Union, which is sitting on its thumbs. The Soviets have not embraced the necessity of debt moratoria (espe dally for Third World countries), and have not offered to extend the ruble as a transferable currency. Apparently the Soviets do not take such steps out of fear of being viewed as provacative but without a regional development program (e g. raw materials for industrual infra structure, three way trade, explicit program for controlled thermonuclear fusion power), this progressive moment in history will be lost: the OAU countries will try to make the best deals they ran (for a lime) in bilateral refinancing to pay off the some $75 billion debt by offering up their people and lands for further World Bank and IMF (etc.) looting: labor intensive austerity, fa mine CUBA According to the People's Republic of Angola (via AP), there are about 4.000 Cuban troops in Angola. One of the main press sources blatantly lying in its coverage of Angola r*q>crially about Cuba was Reuters, the British wire service, recently exposed to be the CIA's major conduit of 'news' along with fourteen other major conduits. Cuba entered the war at the request of the PRA after thousands of South African troops eventually to number 11,000, invaded Angola Recently Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley declared his government's support to the PRA. and hailed the role of Cuba in Angola as being a most profound expression of inter nationalism 'And that’s the way it’s not (Continued from p. 1 col. 3) and heightening their despair. Variations to this occur for example the reporting of the plague warning in eastern Oregon. Apparently (had we the adequate resources this could be check ed) the press plague warning resulted from a superior method of raw data collecting by the vector control officials. Subsequent to the press plague warning, health officials denied or explained away the charges, leaving the situation intact: global health crisis does exist, but it ran )«• understood as such only when brought into context within the real state of the union land the globe). Viewed in that context, the plague warning is real, but to stop the threat does not mean rat poison in the 1,400 miles of Portland's sewers, but a program to restart production internationally, which would wipe out the basis for disease, malnutrition, famine and the threat of nuclear war psychologi- cal holocaust that accompany breakdown. Such reporting is hardly 'objective' it rather assumes responsibility for the condition of humanity, offering a direc tion to resolve the problem that is the content of its news story. In the context of reductionist reporting of "the news", the CIA using its witting and unwitting agents has a field day. It points the direction: ‘zero growth', 'quality of austerity life', 'too many people’, 'running out of energy' (entropy) etc. The witting agents mouth the line, and the unwitting agents offer variations. Is Francisco Goya being O B JE C TIV E ? Does this newspaper editor R E A L L Y have bat wings growing out of his head? ifrom Goya's The INsasters of W ar, print 71: Against Common Goodl Not Everyone LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Take care of your Dear Editor: manipulations would be to tie down the PRA as much as possible, preventing the OAU coalition formed around the PRA from coalescing into a solid pro-develop ment bloc. Another indication of a CIA plans change is seen in the LJNITA ‘foreign minister' Jorge Sangumba statement last week. Sangumba declared he was a "Social Democrat** (a la CIA agent Mario Soares, head of the Portuguese Socialist Party, etc.) and that his group would not be committed to guerrilla war against the PRA UNITA head Jonas Savimbi in Lusaka met last week with Ford Foundation representatives. The Pro Development Faction of the OAU I jis I week the Liberation Committee of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) met in Mozambique where host presi dent Samora Machel railed for “the destruction of apartheid in South Africa." Earlier in New Dehli. Tanzania's Presi dent Nyerere declared “I will call for arms and troops from friendly countries" in support of the People's Republic of Angola The Tanzanian government controlled paper Daily New« subse quently announc'd “the moment has come for the African revolution to go on the offensive." calling for “battle fronts" to be opened up in South Africa. Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and South West Africa (Namibia). Two other incidents signify the mood of the OAl! countries which have coalesced around the PRA. 500 Zambian students “militantly demon strated" January 15th for their govern ment’s withdrawal of support from the CIA countergang UNITA, demanding recognition of the PRA. And in Geneva (January 15th) the Deputy Prime Mini ster (1961) under the CIA murdered Patrice Lumumba (of Congo Kinshasa now Zaire) held a press conjerence. Ex Deputy Prime Minister Antoine Gezenga detailed the progress of his organizations eight year long guerrilla war against “the CIA installed dictatorship of General Subscribes of mental sickness and have him committed? This happens time and again. We read where a suicide or murder or many murders could have been prevented, if only the person who broke down had had help or commitment in time. But nobody wanted to "disgrace" him or her. Portland has good mental health counseling for free or based on ability to pay. Multnomah County Mental Health Division, family counselling by a numbe of churches and other organizations are availabe and you can always call in the police to help transport a patient to a hospital for mental sickness, but only after someone else signs the romplaint and commitment papers. Tragedies like Mr Clark's don't have to happen if families and friends really love someone. Sincerely, Rev. Samuel Jackson Wrong man To the Editor, In your January 22nd, 1976 pictorial coverage of the Martin Luther King Day events you identified me as Andy Kaubeson. I assure you that there are no hard feelings and that I realize the problems caused by the fact that men with beards "all look alike." Sincerenly, Kalman C. Szekely To The Portland Observer Iwt then, not everyone How About You? SUBSCRIBE NOW Tri-County area Other Areas $5.25 $6.00 Nam e Address City .............. ,............... State PORTLAND OBSERVER 2201 N. Killingsworth Street Box 3137« Portland, Oregon 97208 (503)283-2486