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t K rs C7I F r- PORTLAND OBSERVER Voi. 6 No. 25 Portland, Oregon Thursday, May 6, 1976 10c per ropy y •**1 • M di 'Huddle for Good Health.' Kids "Huddle" around Kufua Roadrunner" Ferguson in promoting nocharge health clinic sponsored by the Portland Jaycees for children and youth of the Model Cities/North Portland Area. The clinic will be at the Albina Human Resources Center on May 15th. Call the Jaycees for appointment, 227 5656. Jaycees sponsor health clinic for Albina children Mrs. Hazel Hays, Manager. Albina Human Resources C e n te r announces that the Portland Jaycees are sponsor ing a no charge multiphasic health clinic for children and youth on Saturday, May 15th at the Albina Human Re sources Center, 5022 North Vancouver. Joining in the Huddle for Good Health' are several local sports personalities including Greg Smith. Rufus "Roadrun ner' Ferguson, and M arv Kendricks. The Jaycees will assist staff of the Multnomah County Division of Health Services, State of Oregon Health D ivi sion. Portland Center for Hearing and Speech, and Emanuel Hospital. The health screening is for children and youth, birth through eleven years of age and involves health history, immuniza tions, dental check, hearing testing, vi sion testing, speech testing, blood pres sure and blood tests including a test for Sickle Cell Anemia. One of the purposes of the 'Huddle for Good Health' is to promote the Children and Youth Project which is a Federally funded health program for children and youth in the Model Cities and North Portland communities. Co ordinator of the Children and Youth Project is Floreid Ambers who has been very active in planning 'Huddle for Good Health' along with Jaycees Dave Hrandes, Gary Gott and Doug Pfeiffer. Active support and participation have been provided by many individuate in cluding Dr. Warren Johnson, Director, and Dr. McKenzie Ruck, Head Speech Pathology Services. Portland Center for Hearing and Speech, who will provide the speech testing phase of the Clinic. Dr. Duane Anderson of the State of Oregon Health Division which monitors the efforts of the Children and Youth Project at the State level is providing the hearing screening component for the multiphasic Clinic. Emanuel Hospital (as provided laboratory services for the Sickledex testing and Thelma Golden is helping to coordinate the e ffo rt at Emanuel. D r. Robert Isman, Dental Health Officer for Multnomah County is providing for the Dental Screening. The sponsors of the program ask that every parent or guardian in the Model Cities/North Portland Area invest a little time in the health and well being of their child. You be the quarterback - join with Greg, Marv, Rufus and thirty to forty teammates in the 'Huddle for Good Health.' Call the Jaycee Office for an appointment at 227 5656 any time between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Seattle minority firm earns SBA acclaim A minority owned firm, Urban Con struction Company, Incorporated, 716 13th Avenue, S e a ttle , has been de signaled Small Business Administration Prime Contractor of the Year for the Northwest Region of Washington, Ida ho. Oregon and Alaska. The firm was nominated for the award by the Rase P ro cu rem ent O ffice, M o un tain Home AFB. Mountain Home, Idaho, and the General Services Administration, Con struction M anagem ent D ivisio n, Au born, Washington. The firm is engaged in general building construction. According to D a n iel R. W a rd . Re gional Director, SBA, Seattle, Urban C o n s tru c tio n C o m p a n y , In c o r p o r sled, was selected for the award by a committee of high level procurement officials who screened nominations from 35 m ilita ry and civilian procurem ent agencies. Urban Construction Company’s Presi dent, Johnny Allen, received the covet ed award during special ceremonies ho noring his firm's accomplishments. “U r ban Construction Company is a good example of the overall performance de monstrated by our Nation's small busi ness community. This firm is indicative of the ability of small business to com pete in a highly competitive market," Ward said. Noting that final inspections perform ed upon completion of work in over twenty buildings have resulted in "no deficiencies" even though in every case the work was completed ahead of sche dule, Peggy Thomas, Contracting Of ficer, Mountain Home AFB, said, U r ban Construction Company’s quality of work, and reliability of operations are overall far in excess of that which is normally expected even of a much more experienced and larger contracting firm. Of the hundreds of contractors who have worked on the base in recent years. Urban Construction Company is one of the very best. This excellence is all the more outstanding by virtue of the fact that it is a relatively new, minority-owned small business. For a beginning concern they have come a very long way." Blacks support Carter campaign The support of Black voters has add ed impetus to the campaign of Jimmy Carter for the Democratic nomination for the presidency. In his home state of Georgia, Carter swept to victory with an 84 percent majority -- with the aid of a Black vote of 90 percent. Among the promiment Black supporters in his home state are Dr. Martin Luther King. Sr., Congress man Andrew Young. Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson and SCLC President Dr. Ralph Abernathy. Carter has had Black support since the outset of his campaign. based on the record he set as governor of Georgia. During his term as governor Carter appointed Blacks to the state's boards and commission, raising the total from three to fifty three. He implemented an affirmative action plan which pro vided state job3 for nearly 2,000 Black men and women. The Department of Judicial Process, which he initiated, not only worked to provide equal justice to all persons, regardless of race or eco nomic status, but provided a vehicle for citizens to bring complaints against jud ges who did not apply justice equally. Carter is also remembered by Black Georgians for placing a picture of M ar tin Luther King, Jr. in the state capital building, the first Black to be so hon ored. In the Florida primary Blacks gave Carter 70 percent of their vote: in Illionois, 50 percent and in North Caro lina, 90 percent. This week's victories in Georgia, In diana and Washington, D.C. bring Car ter's total of delegates to 556 of the 1,530 needed to win the nomination. Following his win in the District of Columbia, Carter met with Black lead ers to request that they submit to him positions that they believe should be filled by Blacks. Among the first to be named were positions in the U.S. De partment of Health, Education and We- fare. Carter had earlier stated that he will appoint Blacks to his Cabinet if elected in November. 9* j i 7 • J \ , K » jW 1 *. L ’’W B J »X JIMMY CARTER Dr. Milton Davis: Church legal counsel D r. Milton H. Davis. Legal Counsel, W estern Ju ris d ictio n , to the U n ited Methodist Church who were in Portland attending the United Methodist General Conference, is the only Black lawyer of the Legal Staff for the Judicial Council - the body which works in the same capacity for the Methodist Church as the U.S. Supreme Court. D r. Davis' jurisdiction covers the states of Mon tana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Cali fornia, Arizona, Hawaii and Alaska. A native of the U.S. Virgin Islands, he attended the Virgin Island Public Schools. His educational and profes sional acheivements spanning the fol lowing 38 years, quickly reveal a man of strong commitment, faith and persever ance. His Degrees include: BA in Sociology, St. John's University, New Y o rk; B .D ., Union Theological S em i nary. New York: M A, Harvard Divinity School; Doctor of Philosophy, Mansfield College, Oxford. England; Doctor of Ju- risprud?nce, U n iv e rs ity of Southern California. He is admitted to the Bar to practice law in California. U.S. Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia. As an educator, he taught Ancient History and Sociology a t Houghton College, New Jersey; Church History at Harvard Divinity School, Drew University and Andover-Newton School of Theology; and was in the Head Department of Religion at W hittier College. In addi tion, he served as Assistant Director of Research and Survey for the National Council of Churches and Executive Sec retary of the World Methodist Council. While in England, he served as Minister to the Methodist Churches (circuit). Extrem e modesty overshadows Dr. Davis' dynamic personality when asked “to what he attributes his many and continued achievements?" He simply states: "I learned early and saw the need for education if I were to do the things I wanted to do. 1 was licensed to preach at seventeen....I had been ex posed to church all my life, which meant I had some preparation so that in schooling, what was new to some was not new to me. My greatest desire was to finish seminary and have a small church in my home town (Virgin Is lands). Being Black. I never really considered a factor; however, in retro spect, I know now that color was a factor!" To understand the in porta nee of that statement, his dreams, goals and determination, D r. Davis reflects back to his beginnings which he says clearly explain why he perservered! The Virgin Islands were a part of the United States, but the island church was the British Methodist Church and all the ministers were white English men. It was very difficult for a native It has taken a long time for American political leaders to realize that Mao, the great radical revolutionary, might now be their closest Chinese ally. Before his death that position was usually accorded to Chou, incomparable diplomat and s ta te s m a n , o fte n la u d e d by U .S . analysts for his “moderation." Yet Chou was also a favorite of the Russians, and his death in January was as upsetting to Moscow as it was to Washington. Given the right conditions, Premier Chou and his professional col league Teng might well have been w ill ing to exercise the same moderation for the Russians as they did for the Ameri cans. power in a world dominated by the emerging Soviet empire. Schlesinger and Reagan vocally reject this notion and argue for a foreign policy of regain ing U.S. supremacy. Both sides agree on one thing: the key element of any U.S. world strategy lies in the U.S.- China connection. Kissinger is the architect of a deli berate and cautious use of the Chinese connection. Schlesinger, now a Reagan advisor and leading spokesman for the American rightwing on military mat ters, has upped the ante - advocating U.S. arms aid to the Chinese to counter the 45 Russian divisions stationed on the Sino-Soviet frontier. And Schlesin ger has announced he will visit China this summer, as if to say he will begin negotiations himself for a new U.S.- China military alliance. Thus simply by sitting in his book lined study. Mao, the old revolutionary, may have pulled off one last political sleight of hand - engineering the trans formation of the old U.S. China lobby into the new U.S. China lobby. The old U.S. China lobby, which so long resisted any U.S. opening to the People's Republic (especially over the issue of Taiwan), was composed of many of the same persons who now represent the new China lobby -- favoring re approachment with China as a lever against the Soviets. Nixon was the first defector from the old lobby. Now the rest are rushing in, who was Black to get into the ministry at all. This racially motivated prejudice mainly colonialism in the church meant you couldn't get into the church. So brainwashed were the natives that Dr. Davis was considered crazy for wanting to be a minister. He cites the late Judge William Has- tie, whom he knew well, as a very influencing force. He noted that during Judge Hastie's tenure, the government still had all white ministers and persons in power, with the exception of Judge Hastie! A fter the result of much strug gle, however, leadership in the Car ribean, especially in the last fifteen years, he noted, is mostly native Black. Upon finishing public school in the Virgin Islands, D r. Davis had the choice of going to Kingston, Jamaica to a Bible School, obtaining no degree but only a promise of an assignment to a rural Carribean Island, or leaving for the U.S. Mainland. D r. Davis said he wanted to go to school in England, but was told: “Those schools were reserved for En glishmen - not natives of the Car ribean!" Hence, his drive and deter mination which led to the major decision that he had to leave the Virgin Islands to become a minister. A t the same time he faced his first major problem - money, of which he had none! Mao and New China Lobby by David Milton (PNS) Mao's persistent and calcu lated courtship of the American political rightwing over the past few years has brought the U.S. to the brink of a major foreign policy transformation under scored by James Schlesinger's recent statem ents concerning possible U .S. arms aid to China. China. China's relations with the U.S. and Russia not the pace of China's own internal revolution may in fart have been the key issue behind the current turmoil in Chinese politics. Foreign policy is never publicly de bated in China. Political struggles between Chinese leaders are always handled in the Peking press as disputes over internal policies. Yet foreign po licy has been a central issue in every Chinese power s tru g g le since 1959, when Defense Minister Peng Teh Huai was purged for being too close to the Soviets. While a number of internal factors are clearly involved in the recent lead ership changes - such as friction be tw een deposed Teng Hsiaoping and Mao's wife Chiang Ching, and long standing disputes over economic and educational policies a series of events prior to Chou En lai's death point to the build up of a major confrontation over foreign policy. Teng Hsiao-ping's greatest crime may have been to advocate a Chinese ac comodation with the Soviet Union - Chairman Mao's greatest enemy - at the expense of Sino-American relations. As early as September 1975, Teng and some of his associates were the targets of an attack in the Peking press by young leaders close to Mao - against “ ca p itu la tio n is ts ," a Chinese code word for those who want to settle differences with the Russians. A t the same time, however, Sino- American relations were reaching a cri sis stage, virtually frozen for three years since former President Nixon and then Premier Chou En lai signed the Shanghai Communique When Secretary of State Kissinger arrived in Peking in the fall to arrange a summit meeting between Ford and the Chinese, he found a less than usual ly cordial reception. And Ford's De cember meeting in Peking was notice ably frigid - revealing growing doubt among Chinese leaders, including Mao, that the U.S. would break off relations with Taiwan, establish full relations with the People’s Republic and, above all, stand up to the Russians. A few weeks after Ford’s "no pro gress" negotiations in Peking. China astounded the diplomatic world by re leasing the Soviet helicopter crew held there almost two years as "spies." say ing they now believed the crew's de nials. I t was a clear signal for a political and military reapproachment with the Russians possibly the same sort of opening as the 1971 “ping pong diplomacy" was to the U.S, As Chou's colleague Teng continued to consolidate his own national power, Washington began to fear that the Chinese leader whom Kissinger once called "that ugly little man" might be about to enact the recurrent American nightmare: Chinese reconciliation with the Soviets. MAO'S COUNTER MOVES But Mao had his own plan. One of this century's leading military strate gists, Mao has throughout his career shown both great caution and the incli nation to take bold risks at decisive historical turning points. Rypassing K issinger, Mao began dealing directly with American right- wing or anti-Soviet politicians out of power like Nixon, Senator Henry Jack son (D „ Wash.) and former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger. (Mao has followed a similar strategy in other countries by dealing with then out-of- power rightists like Rritian's Dennis Healey -- now the chancellor of the exchequer -• and W est Germ any's Christian Social Union leader Franz-Jo sef Strauss.) While Mao is the advocate of radical and egalitarian policies at home, on the international front he is more interested in military power balances than in re volutionary movements. International ly. he courts the right at the expense of the left. HISTORIC TRANSFORMATION Now with Chou dead, Teng purged, and another of Chou's old colleagues Defense Minister Yeh Chien ying re signing. Mao's efforts to court key U.S. rightwing politicians seem to be paying off - in the potential of an historic and world shaking transformation of U.S. foreign policy. That courtship has now resulted in the proposal by American conservative politicians of a Sino-American military alliance that could hem the Soviet Union in on all sides militarily. The Russians have indicated they would consider such an alliance a dangerous altering of the world's balance of power. Henry Kissinger's recent pronounce ments would suggest that he views the U.S. as future holder of the balance of ! armed with a new vision: military al liance with Communist China. Taiwan hardly seems to m atter to them any more. Reagan, Schlesinger and Barry Gold- water (who has claimed that an Am eri can-Chinese alliance would be unbeat able) now constitute the new China lobby’s executive board. Schlesinger is a particular favorite of some senior Chinese officials, who have echoed Mao's belief to foreign visitors that Schlesinger has an extremely accurate global view of Soviet power. 'Schlesinger's views appear now to be gaining strong adherents in Congress, producing dramatic support for an in creased defense budget. Ql'ESTION REMAINS The question still remains whether the Chinese would accept a military alliance with the U.S. Now that M io has chosen a new successor m ore- amendable to his views -- Hua Kuo-feng - the answer is quite likely yes. China would probably be willing, per haps eager, to accept the kind of mili tary aid suggested by Schlesinger. Pre cedents already exist. In October 1975, the Chinese reportedly made a direct bid to buy an advanced American made computer that could be used both for oil exploration and to strengthen China's defense capacities. (The request is c u r r e n t ly u n d e r c o n s id e ra tio n by NA TO .) (Please turn to p. 5 col. 3)
