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Demos seek Senate, House seats
Four Democrates announced their
candidacy for public office Tueaday. The
four men. Max Runyon, Bruce Plumb,
Marv Owena and Lonnie Roberta will
run on a platform seeking Jobe; an end to
the tax raising powers of appointed
governmental bodies including Tri-M et,
( RISS, CRAG and LCDC; and relaxation
of environmental quality measure* to
allow for economic development.
Runyon, a candidate for the Demoera
tie nomination to State Senate for
District *8, the position now held by Bill
McCoy, also is concerned about equitable
benefits to senior citiaena and the de­
velopment of nuclear power to provide
the power needed for development, “I in­
tend to bring about changes in our
judiciary system, to correct the leniency
of punishment to hard core criminals. A t
the same time, i intend to find ways to
bring bark the inmates to society to live
in a productive way,” he said.
Runyon is president of the Bridgeton
Faloma Citizens Association, a member of
the Multnomah County Labor Council;
past Diatrict *15 Democratic Party lea­
der: and has held a number of positions
in the International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers, Local *48. He is a
Journeyman electrician, employed by
Sirianni Electric.
Runyon was defeated by McCoy in the
1974 elections when he sought a position
in the Oregon House of Representatives.
Bruce Plumb ia seeking the Democratic
nomination for Houae of Representatives,
District *18, now held by Stephen
Kafoury.
Plumb is currently employed as a sales
representative for Budget Rent-A-Car.
He ia active in the “W e're Committed to
People's Rights Committee,” purpose of
which is to remove taxation powers from
non-elective boards.
Plumb's prior political experience
includes working for the State Senate in
1972; serving as campaign coordinator for
Gene Anderson's city council race;
serving as legislative assistant to State
Representative Robert Dugdale in 1989.
He ran unsuccessfully for the Senate in
1972. He was recently nominated to be
one of the “Outstanding Young Men of
America."
Plumb lives at 1311 N .E . Davis Street.
Marv Owens has announced for the
Houae of Representatives, District 11.
Owens ia a clerk-inspector for Pacific
F ru it Express. Owens is a member of the
Board of Directors of Multnomah Fire
District *12, the Foster Boosters, The
American leg io n , the Southeast Opti-
The People's Republic of Angola (PRA)
has now been recognized by a majority of
the world's nations -- with China and the
U.S. still holding out. C IA stooge Mobutu
of Zaire will recognize the PRA if only
they will concede that Mobutu was the
victor. He wants the PRA to turn over to
him 6,000 Katangan soldiers who fought
him in 1981 and who will now be a leading
force to oust him; Mobutu also wants
financial support for the F N L A remnants
his brother in-law land in-crime) Holden
Roberto has abandoned in Zaire.
The focus now turns to Rhodesia,
where the British are manuevering for
time. They recognize that the tiny racist
regime of Ian Smith ran hold out no
lunger, so are in process of choosing the
Black leadership acceptable. The prob­
lem they fare is that the Black Rhodesian
(Z im b a b w e ) population has alre a d y
ejected most of the Maoist agents and
counter gang operatives (Sithole, Muzo-
rewa and Chickerema). The British have
settled on Zimbabwe African People's
Union (Z A P U ) head Joshua Nkomo as
their man. Nkomo also heads the African
National Council (A N C ). Z A P U has a
working class base, as opposed to the
near defunct Z A N U (National Union).
Last week the U.S. High Commissioner
for Namibia. Sean McBride, predicted a
bloodbath in Rhodesia .if Smith did not
surrender his minority regime over to the
British. The attack is to come in a month
from Angola (Cubans, et •!)....
Thia
nonsense coming from the former Irish
Republican Arm y functionary McBride is
designed to justify the deployment of
British troops bark to Rhodesia to
enforce their choice of a 'Black face' rule.
None of this scheming will work for long,
but from the reductionist point of view it
is pragmatic.
Debt Moratoria On The Third World
(And Italy, Britian, Ete.| Agenda
This past week a gentleman who
should know better told this w riter: ‘T've
enjoyed some of your stuff on Angola and
so on but I don't agree with your notion
of a debt moratoria: I'm for letting the
whole imperialist system collapse. Capi-
talism is dying, why not let it die?”
The m ajority of the 107 non-aligned
nations of the Third W orld (still called the
77 non aligned nations) hsve publicly
called for debt moratoria (none haa made
the first move). The Third World holds a
sizable share of the $800 billion debt
overhang that stifles international pro­
duction. Now what is the nature of this
debt? W hy shouldn't it be paid back?
W hat will happen when it is not? Where
did the debt come from in the first place?
W e will address these questions in detail
in a later article on fictitious capital, but
to touch on them briefly here:
The Third World debt is largely of
three in terested kinds: the first is the
capital loaned prim arilly to U.S. and
British satrapies (nations whose foreign
and domestic policies are largely con
trolled by the U.S. and Great Britian
(with an amalgam of other Western
European nations) for the purpose of
financing the infrastructure (roads, rail­
roads, ports, some mining industry, etc.)
for looting the raw materials and labor
power of the host country. In order to
ensure that such infrastructure for
wealth extraction is safe, the armies of
the satrapies must be paid for - with
loans (via the World Bank and the
International M onetary Fund. etc.). All
thia carries interest. The interest rates
(debt service) alone are extracting more
wealth than the countries can produce.
The notion of 'letting imperialism
collapse' abstracts itself from the pre­
dicament humanity finds itself in. One
might as well say 'let humanity die o ff. In
fact, that is what the statement actually
means. W hat is imperative is to have in
motion the essential machinery to restart
international non-inflationary (or wealth
producing) production. To forgo socialist
cialbt intervention into the process of
collapse is to ensure ecological break­
down, mass starvation, plague. Absense
of socialist intervention is to ensure that
the coupon-dipping bankers who rule
(the Atlanticist Harriman-Ball group) will
repeat Hitler's domestic and foreign
policies on a global scale.
The Bankers Comedy
A key story planted in the press last
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M A X RUNYON
mists, and the “W e're Committed to
People's Rights Committee."
Lonnie Roberts is seeking the position
of State Representative for District 21.
He is a member of the M t. Hood Freeway
Committee and Citizens' for Usable
Freeways. He opposes -the D EQ auto
emission tests and favors the eight-lane
option for I 205.
7:30 p.m. - W ednesday Evening
March 3, 1976
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Please be
In town a week ago. Senator Frank
Church lamented the 'leaks' dribbling
from his (now defunct) Intelligence
Committee, saying that the leaks tended
to discredit his committee.
Church
recently introduced a British style Offi
cial Secrets Act into his oversight
committee recommendations, making it
illegal for any government employee to
reveal 'national security information'.
Under such laws, this article would be
illegal.
Morton Halperin, former member of
the National Security Council and cur­
rently a member of the Washington
based think tank Institute for Policy
Studies stated that the President's
O v e rs ig h t C o m m itte e (proposed by
Church et al) makes legal all of the abuses
which were investigated by Church, Pike
and Rockefeller regarding the illegal
activities of the F B I and the C IA .
President Ford last week requested
Congress ‘clean up its own house’ by
passing legislation which would penalize
its own members for leaks, while
requesting Congress hand him an Official
Secrets Act law.
C IA head Donald
Rumsfield put fears to rest by declaring
that if the President asked him to do
anything illegal (the powers of the C IA
director were enormously expanded in
the Executive decision on intelligence),
he'd quit.
Several incidents are simultaneously
being played up in the press which are
creating the climate for police state laws:
1.) CBS's Daniel Schorr's 'leaks'; 2.) an
increased spate of terrorism; and 3.) the
Patty Hearst trail. On February 17th the
President recommended a three man
oversight board to be headed by old cold
w arrior Robert Murphy (long associated
with Nelson Rockefeller and the ‘old boy'
intelligence school), and the drafting ol a
new F B I charter by Attorney General
Edward L e v i Murphy was head of the
Rockefeller created Commission for the
Reorganization of Foreign Policy - which
reported that the ruthless kinds of
decisions that were required in a period
of economic decline lor collapse) were of
necessity too ruthless for popularly
elected officials to make (and get
reelected), so recommended the political
framework of non-elected men who could
make the ruthless decisions the imposi­
tion of austerity dictated. Simply put:
dictatorship.
News analysis
On February 19th the House of
Representatives voted 289-115 to in­
vestigate the Pike Committee leaks to
CBS's maverick reporter Daniel Schorr.
Schorr is being set up as a patsy by the
Washington Post as well as the Report
ers' Committee for Freedom of the Press
while CBS haa pulled Schoor from his
intelligence beat.
W hile massive attention has been
focused on the repressive Senate Bill 1,
Congress with the Supreme Court - and
the Executive -- is slipping all the
essential features of S-l in through the
back door, the basement, the windows
and other chinks. The Supreme Court
under Chief Justice Burger has recently
established the right of police to conduct
arrests without w arrants even where one
can be obtained, and has ruled against the
right of citizens to hold higher up police
officials responsible for the actions of
their subordinates.
F B I Director Kelly gives the show
away in endorsing (he proposed Justice
Department guidelines which make legal
most of which the FB I has over the past
year, been investigated for.
Attorney
General Levi haa advocated “preventive
action” against political groups and
terrorists prior to commission of a crime.
or
time
Contract M anagem ent Association Inc.
week was the 'cutting off of aid’ to India.
As the story goes, India continued to
disrupt 'legitimate' C IA operations in
that country, so the State Departm ent
cut off some $85 million. The fact is that
India has gotten no aid from the U.S.
since 1971 - and had requested none this
year. This fabulous fiction was meant to
scare the Third World countries away
from the new world economic order - but
the pragmatic joke itself has backfired, as
Pakistan's press scored the U.S. for
‘cancelling the aid' and has cautiously
moved closer to the notion of debt
moratoria and the International D e­
velopment Bank (IDB).
New Solidarity reports that a plethora
of memorandums are circulating in
Washington regarding the 'unfeasability'
debt moratoria: the Treasury D epart­
ment's brief insists that Congress (1)
op posses moratoria. while the State
Department's memorandum says that
only Kissinger's case-by-case reschedul­
ing of debt payments will be considered.
W all Street is panicked that if any one of
the shaking Third World dominoes falls,
the whole world will be set off in an
irreversible wave of debt moratoria.
The Paris Conference on International
Economic Cooperation (C IE C - the
North-South meetings) have concluded
their first round of meetings in Paris. The
non-aligned nations have pulled the
CO M ECO N group into participation. This
move has been paralleled by the Italian
Cefis industrial pro-development group
which has had leading representatives
meet with Soviet and now Cuban
planners. Likewise Britian is banking
some form of debt cancellation for the
Third W orld by way of covertly pushing
debt moratoria for Britian.
London
Times Economics editor Peter Jay says of
the Healy social service cuts: "The
(British) government has forfeited any
real chance of creating new national
wealth except temporarily by a reckless
reflation that would lead straight to
hyperinflation...This is indeed the classic
profile of national bankruptcy. I t is the
slippery slope which leads ineluctably to
repudiation of debt and political col­
lapse."
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Lurching toward a police state
by Roy Harvey
Thursday, February 28, 1978
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Third World Wrapup
by Roy Harvey
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A spate of domestic terrorist activity,
which critical observers of the workings
of the C IA et al view to be F B I created,
provide the needed psychological climate
for the passage of the Levi police state
measures.
The T rail of Patty Hearst
I f properly conducted, the trial of
Patricia Hearst, critical observers report,
would be sn indictment of the Invisible
Government: the F B I, C IA and L E A A
involvement in the creation and destruc­
tion of the terrorist SLA. Typical of the
composition of the SLA were Em ily and
W illiam Harris, now besieged by the
press to testify to the character of the
kidnap S L A brainwashed victim, Patricia
Hearst.
A brief look at the background of the
Harris couple indicates the nature of the
cover up surrounding the trial. W illiam
Harris, with his wife Emily, worked for
the narcotics division of the Indiana State
Police Intelligence Division ('mod squad')
while going to the C IA linked College of
Foreign Affairs (Bloomington). W illiam
obtained an M A in urban studies
following his tour of duty as a M arine in
Danang. I t was in Vietnam that W illiam
Harris probably met fellow BSA orga­
nizer C IA operative Colston Westbrook
(Westbrook was head of the experimental
behavior modification unit at Vacaville
prison called the Black Cultural Associa­
tion BCA) - out of which the SLA was
created. Following their schooling at the
College of Foreign Affairs, the Harrises
made their way toward the BCA and the
political climate ou, of which the dupes
who were to become the SLA were
spawned.
The circus like atmosphere of the
Hearst trial, close observers say. is being
used to create psychological conditions
for repressive legislation: the sanctioning
of massive surveillance, harassment and
interference in legitimate political ac­
tivity. Such is the stuff of a police state?
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