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Wilkins remains 'till August V y Spmgarn Medal Winner - Alvin Ailey, founder of the modern dance company bearing hia name, waa presented the 61at Spingarn Medal of the NAACP at the Aaaociationa Annual Fellowship Dinner in New York. Ailey waa honored for hia international pre-eminence in the field of dance and for developing one of the world'» finest dance companies. The Spingarn Medal is the NAACP*a highest award for merit It waa preaented to Ailey by Leonard DePaur. renowned eonductor and director. From the left are. Benjamin L. Hooks NAACP* FnCr ° ;.tbeIJ ederBl Communications Commission and H“ k Aaron’ World Honl < Run* “ d winner of the 601,1 X " * J “ 4 7#<r: M r* Margaret Bush Wilson Chairman of the NAACP National Board of Directors- A ilev- DePaur; Judith Jamieson, star dancer of the Alvin Ailey Company, and N A A C P Executive Director Roy W i l k i n . Is Trojan doing its job? NEW YORK The NAACP National ikiard of Directors on Monday. January 10. re-elected Roy Wilkins as Executive Director and Secretary of the Corpora tion for a term that will run through July 81, 1977, when he will retire. Benjamin L. Hooks, Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission was elected as hia successor, effective August 1. The Board's vote at its regular quarter ly meeting on the elections was unani mous. The actions were taken according to tie NAACP constitution, which re quires the annual election of officers at the January meeting. The official language of the Board’s action states that M r. Hooks “shall become Secretary and Executive Direct or with a term to begin on August 1,1977, and until that time Benjamin L. Hooks shall have no official duty or status within the Association.** Until he assumes office. M r. Hooks will have the title of “Executive Director designate." This term, the Board said, “shall be used as a descriptive title only with the reference to Benjamin L. Hooks until such time as he assume. o ffic T Yes indeed. During December it saved Inside Africa W A SH IN G TO N . D.C., (P N 8 /A N ) - Two Black Americans are spending January in the Tranakei - the controversial tribal reserve far South Africa’s Xhoaa people- for high-level talks that are Dart of • campaign to win American recognition of Tranakei independence. The Tranakei has been recognised by no other nation but South Africa since it was declared inde pendent on October M th. The two Americana are J. S. Parker, a Washington. D.C. public relations agent who founded Friends of the Tranakei. and Andrew Hatcher, an associate proas secretary in the Kennedy White House. Hatcher now works tor Sydney 8. Baron fr Co., a pubic relations firm that won a $866.000 contract from South Africa last summer to promote its interests in the UA Meanwhile controversy continues over South Africa’s rale that all Xhoea people, whether ia the Transkoi or far away in urban centers, must become Tranakei dtisens. Critics charge this deprives them of political and social rights where they live. Angry crowds appeared recently at the Bantu Affairs Commissioner's Office in people were refused S o e tT A M a u p m ^ porta during the Christmas holidays. And 30.000 refugees who have fled the Trana- kei since October remain camped near Queenstown. Mostly subeisteoee farmers and their families, they say they did not want to lose South African ritisonship •nd feared living under Tranakei F t liar Minister Chief Kaiser Matanama. ...... .......... ------------------------------ i te AfwAmm D A B ES SA LA A M . T A N Z A N IA - An official of the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa said here recently that West German fa cooperating with Israel to supply the South African Navy with missile-equipped patrol boats. The official said several of the beats are currently being built by Israeli experts in the South African port of Durban, aad that engines for the boats are now en route to South Africa from West Ger- Israel doss not deny its military in volvement with the white minority re gime ia Pretoria, but Germany, like the U 4 claims that it forbade military - though not civilian - trade. The ANC offioai said here that such a poaitioa fa hypocritical since so-called civilian sup plies such as boat engines and American light aircraft are routinely put to military Ute by the South Africans. Seutk African play under alece hi New Yerk N E W YORK - The publicist for a South African theater production currently Paying here says the show might have to dose down because of protest demon strations. “Many people don't like to cross a picket line,“ says Barbara Glen of the Max Eisen Co., “and this one is very vocal.” Elombe Bargh, one of the protest leaders, calls the musical “Ipi Tombi" - which is playing to all-white audiences in Johannesburg - “South African propo- the PU y' "hose title is a Zulu phrase meaning “Where Are The Girls?“, presents Black South Africans as “happy-go-lucky darkies in terested only in sex and parties." The protest committee includes people promi nent in New York th eaterand media, among them Marcia Ann Gillespie, editor in chief of th Black magazine Eeeeoee. and Hasel Bryant, president at the Black Theater Affiance. N® < w f a sgying exactly how many persons have asked for ticket refunds as a ‘ result of the protests, but one SouthAri- ean journalist told Africa News, “I f the pf*y doesn’t dose down soon, w e ll know it’s being subsidised financially, perhaps by the South African government." MAPUTO. M O ZAM BIQ UE - w — m. bique has taken U.S. Ambassador W il lard de Pree and five other diplomat, on a special tour to counter Western press reports that the Soviets are budding a military base on Mozambique's Bazaruto Island. According to Mozambique’s Radio Maputo, the diplomats saw nothing more than a colony of flamingoes. Reports of a Russian base at Bazaruto have been denounced by Mozambique - which neighbors Rhodesia and provides a base far Black guerrillas fighting there - as pert of a deliberate South African and Western “campaign to present Mozam bique as a threat to peace and security in this area of the continent." When con tacted by Africa News, the U.8. State Department said it had never charged that Bazaruto hooted a Soviet base, but •M o d that de Pree’s visit did not prove that a did not exist. «19000000 According to Western diplomats based in Maputo, however, Rhodesia and South African media have previously fabricated reports to portray the Mozambican gov ernment as unstable and unpopular. ABAB/T e t o IOPIA - Accord ing to Hakim, Ibrahim, foreign minister for the desert guerrillas fighting to defeat Moroccan and Mauritanian troops oc British News Service editer Baked te C IA cupying the Western Sahara, the Organi LONDON, England - The editor of an zation of African Unity (OAU) will soon expensive British information service hold a special summit meeting to discuss that has published articles attacking the the growing war - only the second such present left-wing government in Mozam summit in OAU history. Some Africans bique has been linked to the C IA by the fear the meeting - should the OAU take a British newspaper, the Manchester stand on the Western Sahara question - Guardian. Robert Moss, editor of Foreign will be as divisive as the first summit on Report, which is published by the pres the Angolan civil war. Morocco and Mauritania have been tigious F re e f ist magazine, is the author of a book the Guardfaa has revealed was fighting the guerrillas, who call them commissioned by a CIA-funded company. selves the Polisario Front, since they Forum World Features. The book, occupied the phosphate-rich territory “Chile’s Marxist Experiment”, was used when colonial power Spain pulled out a by the Chilean Junta in its public yesr ago. Though the two countries insist the Saharan issue is closed and any OAU relations operations. Foreign Report last year reported discussion would interfere in their inter several stories, widely carried in the nal affairs. Western correspondents vis South African and Rhodesian press, that iting the region have reported the Poli were labelled pure invention by on-the- sario Front controls all but the heavily spot observers. Among them were a fortified towns. Polisario successess - in c lu d in g guor report that a Mozambican cabinet m inj.- ter had been wounded at the Presidential rilla attacks on railroad lines, bombard Palace and a story that the whole ment of Moroccan and Mauritanian-held government had been evacuated to Ihaca towns and direct clashes with enemy island during the short-lived mutiny of troops - have forced both occupying several hundred soldiers in December. nations to increase their military spend- ing. Morocco is doubling its military 1975. budget, while Mauritania, a lesser part ner in the war, has announced a 26 per cent increase. 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