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Portland Observer
Thursday. February 19, 1976
Third World Wrapup
We see the world
through Black eyes
Primary not effective
It is time for a change in Oregon's primary
election. The current system, placing all who are
considered to be serious candidates with national
followings on the Oregon ballots is no longer
justified.
This law came as an effort to bring back the glory
of the Oregon primary of the days when major
compaigns were decided in Oregon — Dewey vs.
Stasson, Rockefeller vs. Lodge. When other states
began holding primaries, now numbering about
thirty, the Oregon primary lost its significance. The
•law was designed to force candidates to campaign in
Oregon.
This year the Secretary of State, who has the sole
power to determine who will be on the ballot, has
made a farce of the Democratic primary.
With two popular names on the ballot, Hubert
Humphrey and Ted Kennedy, both of whom claim
not to be candidates for the presidency, Oregon's
delegation could very well go to the Democratic
National Convention committed to "non-candi­
dates". Yet Seargent Shriver, who is campaigning
actively and has gained delegates in other states,
was left off the ballot.
The Republican Party fared better. Only the two
major candidates -- President Ford and Ronald
Reagan were put on the ballot -- even though there
are additional announced candidates, the Repub­
lican citizen of Oregon will have a clear choice.
The primary should go back to the old system. Let
each candidate decide whether he is a candidate
and whether he wants to participate in Oregon. Then
perhaps the primary will again have meaning.
Law still there
Former Oregon residents, William Mackie and
Hamish McKay, who have been bannished from the
United States because of alledged political views,
will soon be allowed to return. Both men were
children of American parents, but were born abroad.
The men were exiled from the only country they
had known because the Nixon-Mundt and Walter-
McCarron acts allow the deportation of "aliens" who
are judged to be "subversive."
Although this action has not been taken in recent
years, the law still allows the Immigration Service to
deport persons considered dangerous to the country.
Not only can the individuals be deported for beliefs,
but these can be retroactive — occuring before the
laws were passed. It is never to late for "witch
by Roy Harvey
hunting" committees to dig up the past and
persecute loyal and law-abiding persons.
The Congressional delegates from Oregon -- a
state which has felt the law administered in a
punative and brutal way — should lead the move to
have these laws abolished.
Another Point of View
A man before his time
Paul Robeson was a man before his time. When he
died last month in Philadelphia, the country and the
world lost a great citizen.
Robeson was great
primarily because of his undeviating integrity and
wide range of talents.
Admitted to Rutgers
University at a time when Black men on a major
campus were a rarity, he excelled in every area,
earning a Phi Beta Kappa key in addition to
becoming an all-American grid player, and a star in
baseball and track as well.
Recognizing the evil of racism, this sensitive,
creative leader began early to speak out against Jim
Crow and racial oppression even during his recitals.
He saw fascism for what it was when other
Americans were enchanted by Hitler and Mussolini.
And when he visited Socialist countries, he was
impressed with what he found there and had the
courage to say so. He is revered and honored in the
Soviet Union and other Socialist countries where
schools and other buildings are named in his honor.
When Robeson urged coexistence or detente a
quarter of a century ago, he was criticized and
ostracized.
But when arch conservative and
Red-baiter Richard Nixcn did the same thing in the
1970's, it was hailed as a cornerstone of America's
foreign policy.
Yes, during the Joseph McCarthy cold-war era,
Robeson became a victim of the thoughtless hysteria.
Denied the concert stage in America, he was forced
to decline opportunities to appear abroad by his
government which seized his passport. He never
overcame the vicious smear and lived out the
remainder of his life in obscurity.
However bloodied his statuesque head, it
remained unbowed to the end, while most
Americans, even Black Americans, washed their
hands of him like modern-day Pontius Pilates. It's an
old story that goes back 976 years. The continuing
shame of it is that we still permit such tragedies to
happen. (NNPA)
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W ith the People's Republic of Angola
now a full member of the O AU, and the
C IA funded counter gangs U N IT A and
the F N L A routed in northern and
southern Angola, the independence and
colonial w ar is draw ing to a dose. South
Africa is reportedly requesting terms for
their Calueque hydro-electric project in
southern Africa: they still have some
20,000 troops in southern Angola and
Namibia. The U N IT A group has pledged
itself to guerrilla w ar against the PRA: a
repitition of the CIA-funded Kurds
(Barzani) against the pro-development
Iraq. But as the Atlanticiats take control
of the C IA and foreign policy, they will
not rely on simple U N IT A terrorism to
contain Angola. Sweden's recognition of
the PRA is indicative of the adjustment
the Atlanticiats are making to contain
Angola and southern Africa.
Development or Triage
Angola w ill have no breathing spell -- it
emerges victorious after fifteen years of
warfare w ith the Portuguese and then
with the C IA funded counter-gangs into
the throes of an international depression
collapse. The PR A w ill move quickly
toward the New W orld Economic Order,
or will be contained according to World
Bank and International Monetary Fund
(IM F ) dictates. This 'containment' will
serve to stop the revolutionary process
now tearing southern Africa from the
IM F W orld Bank and South Africa's
apartheid fascism. T riag e -- the genocidal
scrapping of “useless eaters” - will be the
victor if Angola is contained.
Zaire
Bankrupt Mobutu's condition has be
gun now to surface in the press: some
6,000 Zairean troops who “fled Zaire
following Mobutu's (C IA ) repression in
Katanga (now Shaba) province ten years
> ago and who have fought alongside the
M P L A (PR A )" will soon return to Zaire,
remoraliaed and armed.
Industrial
collapse in the advanced sector has led to
a collapse in Zaire's economy (copper,
etc.) while General Mobutu faces a
flanking attack by pro-socialiat forces
from the eaat and the west of Zaire.
Mobutu recently purges itself of his
'Politburo', and is now attempting to
negotiate terms to ship out his copper
and preserve Zaire's port city Matadi and
the 23 mile stretch of land on the
Atlantic. Lacking any foreign exchange
since A pril, Mobutu has imposed deadly
austerity on the population to stay in the
good graces of his creditors and potential
loan sources (but the loans from the
IM F W orld Bank sufficient to rectify
Mobutu's decimation of the population
will never be seen).
Zambia
'Christian Maoist' Kenneth Kaunda has
had to close the University of Zambia
(Lusaka), and detain a number of
prodevelopm ent professors, while a
m ajority of students have called the
U N IT A su p p o rtin g professors 'm e r­
cenaries and lackeys of the U.S.' The
Ford Foundation has been a primary
source of funds for the University of
Zambia. Lusaka continues to be U N IT A 's
Jonas Savimbi's headquarters.
M auritania - Senegal - Mali
Rats and disease give evidence to the
genocidal austerity policies of the IM F
World Bank: millions of rats are
devouring crops and spreading plague in
West Africa, where much of the
population larks sanitation, potable wa
ter, shelter, disease control measures,
food.
Kissinger
(Continued from p. 1 col. 3)
and imports necessary to sustain them
cease to exist the price of fertilizer, for
example, was up 372 percent in 1975. The
vast unemployed and sped up employed
working class is rapidly being under
mined by ruts in social services (public
health, sanitation, education) which has
exacerbated deadly hepatitis, plague,
chagas, meningitis and vastly increased
the high infant m ortality rates. The rat
population in Buenos Aires outnumbers
the human imputation by sixteen to one.
On top of this the IM F has demanded
debt payments in the next sixty days of
$1.1 billion dollars. Argentina is not safe
for Henry.
Brazil: Henry's 'safe house'
Brazil is Argentina's future if the
Schactian IM F looting policies are
continued in Argentina. Prior to 1961
Brazil had probably the most prosperous
working class imputation in Ia tin Am eri
ra. April 1964 the C IA organized the
overthrow of Brazil's civilian govern
ment, replacing it with a police state
regime that would honor the dictates of
the World Bank above all.
In 1965
Brazil's foreign debt was small about $3
billion; in ten years the debt had
expanded to $22 billion (compared, for
example, to Italy's $14 billion) with debt
service alone being $3 billion. In order to
meet such interest rates, anything of
value is ship|>ed out of the country, while
Death Squads have tortured, terrorized
and destroyed union and political opposi
tion to the Junta
The working
population is subjected to recycling: "a
w orker is replaced like a worn out part
by a new worker from the vast reserve
army of unemployed." The diet of Bra
zilian workers and their families consists
of black beans, cassava flour, brick sugar
and fruit: an intake of about 1.500 calories
and 17 grams of protein , m t day. Brazil's
one th«- job accident rate is the highest in
the world (in 1974 then- were a reported
1.8 million serious industrial accidents
and deaths), while child labor (ten to
fourteen years) is soaring Sixty |>errcnt
of the population is infected with at least
one serious disease, while the money
alloted to health care has dropped 70
¡HTcent between 1964 73.
A imputation of nearly 100 million
|K-ople is being decimated
It is a pilot
project of the World Bank, touted as the
economic miracle'.
Its population is
'pacified' to its own extinction, and as
such it is a safe place for Henry to visit.
It is unlikely he will visit the favela
slums, nor associate with |N*ople who
have contact with the plague, or chagas,
or meningitis, or malaria, or shistoso
miasis, or tuberculosis, o r.....
Niger
Pledged to pay the IM F W orld Bank
1ebt. the peasants and farmers in Niger
were forced to switch from growing
grains for domestic sale and consumption
to growing export crops (especially
peanuts).
This policy has led to the
starvation of a fourty of Niger's popula
tion, while the country is forced to plead
for emergency food suppliea to avert
further mass starvation.
Nigeria
laist week Nigeria's Chief of State
Murtala Muhammed was assassinated in
a coup attem pt similar to the assassina­
tion scenario spelled out by C IA covert
operations head Richard “Don't call it
murder" Bissell against Patrice Lu­
mumba in the Congo (Zaire) etc., etc.
Muhammed had incurred the wrath of
two sectors of Nigeria's 65 million
population: the pro-CIA (many of whom
had been purged from the m ilitary by
Muhammed) and the corrupt, whose
activities Muhammed was exposing. The
coup attem pt had little support, and is
over. Lieutenant Colonel Musa Dimka,
who led the attempt, has not yet been
apprehended.
The so called 'young
Revolutionaries' were reportedly critical
of Muhammed's foreign policy: a foreign
policy which played a key role in the O AU
recognition of the People's Republic of
Angola. Dimka's (and his probable C IA
backers) efforts have backfired, as
Lieutenant General Olusejun Obasanjo is
reportedly a key pro-development advo­
cate who will continue and expand upon
the pro development efforts of the slain
Muhammed."
The A tlantkista
The foreign policy of Kissinger toward
the Third World (love us or leave us) has
been replaced by the Harrim an Ball
faction, which pushes a soft line so as to
maintain the flow of debt service capital:
the same triage genocide advocated by
the Rockefeller Chase
First National
City grouping. George Ball, of I^hm an
Brothers banking house revealed his
policy to the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee: “...respectable opinion sug
gests that in providing aid to countries
already crowded in relation to spare and
resources, we may be multiplying the
misery for future generations...this poses
distasteful questions...the idea expressed
in the m ilitary term 'triage'." The Atlan
tirists are dictating triage genocide not
at all palatable to the Third World, or
anybody in his right mind.
Henry Kissinger is unlikely to survive
as Secretary of State much longer. His
trip to Brazil. Peru. Guatemala, Colombia
and Costa Rica will only serve to heighten
U.S. awareness of the ravaged conditions
of I^atin America, especially the condition
of the World Bank 'economic miracle'
Brazil. Kissinger will have nothing to
offer Latin Americans except good credit
ratings and more austerity.
A Question
What does it mean when the majority
of syndicated columnists and assorted
harks w rite ‘anti western' forces, when
referring to the Third World? They mean
'anti austerity, pro-development forces'.
SMITH'S
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(Continued from p. 1 col. 6)
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a«d efficient, “The W hite House memo
continues. “There is widespread agree­
ment that the current income assistance
programs are unwieldly, costly and that
some needy persons receive insufficient
help while others receive more than they
should have. Jordan responds. “He put
forth the idea that ‘massive national
programs' were tried and that they
failed. He Lamented the supposed shift in
emphasis from defense to domestic
spending which supposedly unbalanced
our economy.
“Anybody here remember Vietnam?
That w ar cost over $200 billion, shifting
money from the domestic economy to war
waste and inducing the inflation and
depression of the early 70s. That, not the
febble social programs of the 60s is what
turned our economy sour.”
The W hite House Memo explains, "An
improving economy is often the key
factor in the determination or disposition
of countless programs of major impor
tance to Blacks. As one economist catches
the sniffles, specific but worthwhile
programs may come down with pneu­
monia.' To further bolster the economy,
the President called on Congress to
reduce Federal taxes and to curb
Government spending and to work
toward a balanced budget in Fiscal Year
1979."
Jordan says, “Again, the same sort of
'thinking small' comes through on jobs,
for the President says ‘our kind of
government cannot create that many
jobs.' W hy not? That sounds more like an
argument for changing our kind of
government than it does as a reason for
accepting intolerable
unemployment
rates."
“The President said: ‘I t ia time we quit
downgrading ourselves as a nation.' To
which I say, amen', but indulging in the
new rhetoric of smallness, propogation
myths, and refusing to recognize our
social and racial problems is in itself a
way of dovngradir.G our country and its
potential."
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