Wilkins remains
'till August
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
Copyright PNS 1977
Veterans planning to use State educa
I I veterans are no longer eligible for this
tional aid benefits to attend school this
benefit.
winter should immediately contact their
The benefit pays $60 for each month of
school registrar or veterans’ counselor, a
full-time undergraduate college or associ
county service officer or the Department
ate degree studies and up to $36 a month
of Veterans’ Affairs. H.C. Saalfeld. Veter
for other studies. The benefit is based on
ans* Affairs Director, said today. Appli one month's entitlement for each month
cation must be made before the end of the
of military service, up to 86 months. A
term to receive benefits.
veteran cannot draw State benefits for
Eligible are Korean war veteran« and
studies for which federal V A training
recipients of the Armed Forces Exped
benefits are being received.
itionary Medal or the Vietnam Service
There are 249 veterans currently en
Medal. In addition, the veteran must
rolled in the program. Students in 1976
have been an Oregon resident for one
received a total of $64,984 in benefit
year prior to military service, must be an
payments. Since the program started in
Oregon resident upon application and
1946, payments have gone to 15,444
must have served 90 days or more during
veterans in the amount of $4,557,482 for
wartime or after July 1 .1968. World War
an average payment per veteran of $296.
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