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I Portland Observer P ro p a g a n d a : R h o d o tia ’i o th er w a r ® _ . hard . put to rind believe .. it or not _ are find by Robin Wright SALISBURY, RHODESIA IPNSI A sedate bar on Salisbury's main avenue suddenly had taken on a festive air with bright stickers added to the dark wood walls, tables, bar stools and cash regis ter. But themlogans on the stickers were far from festive: n "Speak now and we'll know no peace , a turquoise sticker warned. “Think »bout national security. Don't talk about it. “Your tongue could pull a trigger . a chartreuse sticker declared. Among the others: . "Women's lib is one thing, women s lip another." "What you've just said may blow up a truck." “Is your conversation killing? “An open mouth makes a big target. Even the public lavatory had its own version: . “Are you having a security leak” The slogan stickers are part of a mas sive propaganda campaign launched here at the beginning of the year to booet morale and counter the ominous warn ings from abroad that Rhodesia's ,’ hlte population must now make way for the majority Black population. The campaign mounted after the col lapse of efforts at peaceful settlement between Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and Black nationalist leader Josh us Nkomo in March and the subsequent escalation of guerrilla attacks from across the 800 mile border shared with Mozam enough to do or see. There are no massa cres and bloodbaths. there are no maasive terrorist force build-ups. there is no panic or hysteria, and there are no queues of people leaving the country. “We do not deny that Rhodesians are going through difficult times - difficult but not drastic, and compared with most countries in the world today Rhodesians have much to be thankful for. Grisly Pictures Perhaps the single most effective piece of propaganda is the recently re-issued pamphlet "Anatomy of Terror", full of grisly pictures of innocent Africans and cattle mutilated by the "terrs" - the Rhodesian nickname for the estimated 12.000 terrorists based in neighboring Mozambique. The booklet explains in the introduc tion: "Outright torture has long been a weapon of the Communist-trained thugs who. for the past fifteen years, have been trying to force their philosophies on an unwilling and peace loving, indigenous bique. "Outsiders are overdramatizing Rhod esia's problems." a senior government official complained. "We are trying to clarify the situation by providing our people with the facta so there won't be unnecessary alarm." But the campaign is not limited to the 8.3 million Rhodesian population. One of the latest additions is a airletter, printed by the government, for distribution to relatives and friends abroad. Authorities claim over 16,000 have been sent over seas. “No doubt you are worried about the situation in Rhodesia." an excerpt reads, “particularly in view of all the sensational headlines and horrific articles which ap pear in the press . . . “Scores of journalists from all over the world have descended upon Rhodesia and days p pointing out that the whites - out day» < numbered 22 to one by Blacks - have something to fight for. Maintaining one of the highest stan dards of living in the world, Rhodesian whites have an average annual income of 18.000 while costa are comparatively low despite United Nations sanctions. Dorn antic help and industrial or farm labor are cheap at an average of 640 a month, and taxes are low at five per cent. The Land Tenure Act divides land into twtf parts: one-half for the five per cent oppressed community." A new addition to the growing govern ment campaign - printed on cheap pulp due to the paper shortage - is “Bloody Love", which tells how an African woman was forced by guerrillas to cook and eat flesh cut from her husband's face. The author. V. W. Rijnberk. condemns the World Council of Churches -- a “vile body" -- for supporting the liberation war in Rhodesia and for the Council's state ment that "liberation fighters m southern Africa are motivated by love, not hate.” “Love indeed", he writes angrily. “A love that at gunpoint forces a wife to eat her husand's flesh. Satanic love - sadistic love - bloody love.” United Whites The impact of this campaign has been immense. The 280.000 whites are now closer than at any time since Prime Min uter Smith declared unilateral indepen dence on November 11, 1985. The white minority government is spending a good deal of its time these The Portland Chapter of the National Association for Community Development will sponsor its third consumer confer ence at the Ramada Inn on July 14th. 1978. Thé conference will center around food purchasing and nutrition, as regard ed by those attending the first two con ferences held earlier this year. Among the featured speakers is Mrs. always support our African their »trugfie against apartheid and colonial ism. On November 11th. 1975. when we proclaimed our independence to the world, a constitution was declared for the new republic, and was expanded by Decree Law No. 1. approved in February by the ruling Council of the Revolution. The new decree provides for broad, effec tive participation of the masses in the exercise of political power through the consolidation, expansion and develop, ment of the organizational forms of peoples power. We have a pyramid shaped structure, with each level electing the next one. In the rural arena the precess starts with Village Peoples Committee. The various provision» of the u cree U w are aimed at Institutionalizing on a country wide basis practices developed during our 16-year armed struggle. Frantz Fanon warned that the failure to create a comprehensive program to enable the people to advance once pou cal independence was won would lead t e a new type of domination, economic, by fall into thia trap. Our most urgent task remains the d e fense of our territory, the defense of our revolution. But we have embarked on issues and answers of economic develop ment, education, health, social services, politicization programs. We are already in the proce»» of planning agricultural development, the baaia of our national economy, as well as in the fields of indus try and commerce. Our objective of people's democracy spings from the will of our people to establish people’s power throughout the country. I t is essential that the workers be represented on all decision-making bodies that administer the state. Soon we will have created the conditions where by our workers and peasants can participate most effectively in the running of the country. Let me make It dear that we are not against private business or investment. Under our new law, the People's Republic “shall recognize, protect and guarantee prive activities and property, even those of foreigners, so long as they are useful to the country's economy and to the inter ests of the Angolan people." DR. JEFFREY BRADY Soy»: "Do Not Pot Off Needed Dental Colo” Enjoy Dental Health Now ond Improve Your Appearance Come In A t Your Convenience Open Saturday Morning • No Appointment Needed Complete Cooperation On All Dental Insurance Plana • ' Complete Dental Services Union or Company Dental Insurance Coverage Accepted On Your Needed Dentistry Park Free - Any Park ‘n Shop Lot HOURS: Weekdays 8:30 am . to 5 p.m. Sat., 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. . JEFFREY IRADY, DENTIST SEMLER BUILDING S.W. 3rd A Morrison St. Portland, Oregon Take Elevator to 2nd Floor 3rd St. Entrance Phona: 229-7545 Shrinking Food Dallar." The conference will begin with regis tration at 8:00 a.m. Subjects explored by workshops are: Budgeting and Dollar Power, the Puzzle for the Prescription Drug Buyer, the Consumer Concern of Older People. Registration fee is 610 in eluding lunch. Is back in the area. . . 3038 N. E. Union 288-6574 up for sale. The defense budget has double over the past five years and businesses are being drained of manpower to beef up the Rhodesian armed force». Meanwhile, the government claims that only 3.000 Blacks have left the country, although the UN Commission on Refugees in Mozambique says it is providing funds for 14,500 who have left Rhodesia since Mozambique be came independent a year ago. Confined to their isolated country, the Rhodesian whites have had little oppor tunity to see how the role of white set tlers on the continent has been altered over the past fifteen years. Even the bitter Angolan civil war failed to rouse their concern, a survey of whites found that the vast majority viewed it as just another African punch-up”. A leading South African newspaper editor summed up the Rhodesian situa tion: "Whites who have deluded them selves for years are marvelously equip ped to delude each other . . . The result is an endless flow of contradictions and du _in m ini the cases the certain interests. But rases in most new bourgeoisie in newly independent African and Asian states, the intellect uals and other strata of the population could not grasp this reality. I t saw no reason why it could not create a modern capitalist state once the Europeans were gone. In Angola we are determined not to Roberts Baylor, who is Assistant Direc tor of Consumer Protection, Legal Ser vices Division Office of ti s Comptroller of Currency is working in D.C., who will speak on the Equal Credit opportunity Act, and Ms Mercedes Bates, Vice Presi dent Consumer Center, General Mills, and who will speak on “Your Incredible MOR-MILE TIRE FACTORY UNIROYAL bious claims. “On the eve of an inevitable takeover by Blacks, propaganda seems more im portant than truth, and morale is better served by boasts and evaaions than real F eatu rin g U n iro y a l Tires, ity-' Recaps, & T ire Service The w ill o f »he p e o p le o f A n g o la (Continued from p .l col.4) no foreign power will tat h n e i la Angola...A revolution i exported. W e are | — “ eeonemienBy with ------- — - it thov respect our basic orientation with the sole exception of imperialist and racist South Africa, against whom wo Iwll Page 3 W orkshops e x p lo re consumer problem s white population and one-half for the 96 per cent Black population. Eleven times more is spent for the education of a white child than for the average Black. And Parliment is controlled by whites with a 50 to 16 ratio -• with half the Black government appointed. The good life, reinforced by govern ment propaganda, has led many Rhode sians to shrug off the tell-tale signs of trouble: Last year over 10,000 whites left the country for good. The black market has increased dramatically as whites try to get their savings out to safer terrain. And there are few takers on new houses population. . "If. as they say, the people are on their side, why is it necessary for them to resort to such barbarism in order to con vince them? Perhaps this publication will serve to prove the calibre of men who masquerade as liberators of a so-called Thursday, July 8th, 1976 The new law also refers to a Resistance Political Economy—predicted on the fact that with hostile neighbors, all public activities must gravitate around resist ance to potential invasion. We plan to build an economy with three basic sectors: state economic enterprises, cooperative enterprises and private enterprises. We are at present in the process of negotiating new contracts with establish ed industrial concerns, such as Gulf Oil. for our oil, diamonds, gold, copper, etc. Our new contracts seek to put first the interests of the Angolan people, so that never more shall they or their resources be exploited, so that they can enjoy fully the benefits of their inheritance. Not only because of the centuries of exploitation, but also because of the mas sive efforts to strangle our nation—right at birth, we had to start in ruins and chaos. But because we had mobilized the people, because they were with us. be cause we had never betrayed them, this gigantic task of economic, social, admin istrative and national reconstruction is slowly getting under way. From the basics, like building bridges, schools, hospitals, ldw-cost housing, office build ings to more ambitious projects like sett ing up training institutes, universities, industrial and agricultural councils, un dertaking a widespread literacy cam paign. producing enough food to feed our people and for e x p o rt-a ll these problems and projects are being tackled wih devo Sale 20% off these sport fabrics Sale 1 .83* Reg. »2-29 yd. Country Cousin punt and aUrt weight cotton in summer-perteet prints. Colorful design.. 44/45 wide. Sale 1 .5 9 * Reg. «1.9» yd. Country Cousin Meuae- weight coordinates pair up with Comrtry Cousin psntweight prints in fashion enters. AH cotton; 44/45“ wide. U Sale 2.89 yd. Reg. »3.50 yd. Woven polyester twin makes great sportswear. 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