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Portland Observer
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From behind the wall
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by Larry Bali
Salem fOSPI
(TH E JO IN T W AS ROCKIN)
On March 18th. the Black Culture Club
(Uhuru) with a membership of one
hundred Black prisoners out of three
hundred housed at the Oregon State
Penitentary. had their 9th Annual Anni
versary. Although only about half of its
membership was allowed to attend be
cause of the visiting room capacity
where the gathering was held.
The
prisoners were allowed to invite wives,
sweethearts, members of family and
guests.
This once a year occasion, in which the
Black prisoners donated their nickles,
dimes, and dollars will be a great one to
be remembered. Thanks to it’s inmate
Coordinator, Kay Charles Maple, the
Club's Executive Body, the two Inmate
Staff Advisors, Nathan Baker and Bob
Ricktor, who put in many, many long
hours of planning, scheduling and arrang
ing for its success. And a success it was!
Opening the evening program was a
pledge of Uhuru, (freedom) the master of
ceremony, inmate Harold Hammick, bet
ter known as the "Fat Man" gave a
special acknowledgement to many of the
beautiful young ladies throughout the
wall to wall packed audience, along with
many other loved ones, who drove as far
as three hundred miles away to attend
this two hour (7 9 p.m.) Anniversary
benefit.
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With the dynamic singing of individ­
uals such as Michael Johnson, Harvey
Gaither, Steve Kennedy and Dee William
thrilling the crowd with songs by their
talents and uniqueness of style of pure
professionals.
While the guitar magic fingers of
Charles Williams, Mel Tilman, mellowed
by saxophonist piano and Michael N’athen
sweeten the atmosphere with sounds of
rhythem, blues and spicy jazz.
Half way through the ceremony—
D IN N E R was served. Southern Fried
Chicken, home made potato salad, rolls,
cake and soft drinks -deliciously pre­
pared by Jewelia's in Portland. Watching
Pan Fry (Leroy Hasting) and Brother
Luther (Luther Hamilton) as they fill
their plates, one would say, ‘It Was
Finger Lickin Good.'
Door prizes were given away of hand­
made leather crafted beautiful wallets
and key purses.
The Black members of Uhuru would
like to give a special thanks to Ron Sykes,
photographer, and Gloria Fisher, Mana­
ger of the Portland Observer to whom
many express their feelings on how much
Behind the Walls is needed in order to
bring close ties of communication be­
tween their Black community in Portland
and this institution.
A great deal of thanks go to Doris
King, Uhuru's Outside Coordinator, who
unselfishly volunteers her time and effort
working with the Club. She stopped
into the party wearing an attire of
elegancy.
A big appreciation was the appearance
of Rev. and Mrs. Parker, who throughout
the years dedicated themselves to all the
Black prisoners at O.S.P. by their spirit­
ual guidance. Mrs. Parker was called
upon for her soulful gospel voice to bring
to a conclusion the Black Culture Club's
9th Anniversary. YES
there were a
few faces in the crowd choked up on
memories, for they could remember the
first.
A N D TH E N IT WAS OVER
As this reporter slowly walked back to
his cell among all the others, there was a
touch of saddness mixed with silence
chilling the air.
Was that a tear seen in the corner of
your eye.....George Gain?
Don’t worry, you were not the only
one.
the following areas:
1. Arrest
2. Preliminary Hearing
3. Grand Jury
4. Pleads
5. Discovery
6. Suppress
7. Habeas Corpus
8. Mandamus
9. Trial
10. Pre-Sentence
10. Venue
11. Parole Procedures
12. Revocation
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13. Civil Rights
14. Appeal
15. Sentence
The class will be under the sponsorship
of the Black Culture Club Special Pro­
gram Committee. It is with great hopes
in the near future to implicate the
scheduling, to invite attorneys and also
judges as guest lecturers on per-subjeet.
If anyone of the Legal Profession is
interested, please write:
Black Law
Class, Black Culture Club, 2606 State
Street, Salem, Oregon 97310.
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BLACK LAW CLASS
Starting Friday, April 8,1977, the first
Black law class will be given bi-weekly
from 7 • 9 p.m., in the Education
Department at the Oregon State Peniten­
tiary.
It has been a well-known awareness
among the Black population that a large
number of the prisoners actually are
unknowledgeable of the legal procedures
they have gone through in our Criminal
Justice System.
This class will allow a maximum of
twenty-five students which will deal in
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Inside Latin America
E D IT O R ’S NOTE: Inside Latin America,
developed from on-the-spot sources work
ing with PNS, is designed to give readers
a quick sense of the dominant moods and
trends in this vital region.
COLOMBIA D RO W NING IN COFFEE
BOGOTA. COLOMBIA. (PNS) - “I
have this recurring dream of drowning in
my cup of coffee," commented one pess­
imistic Colombian coffee exporter about
the current bonanza of this country,
second only to Brazil in world coffee
production. The exporter's fear, shared
by many officials here, is that the record
high prices will encourage massive over
production inevitably leading to a post
bonanza crash. “Everyone is increasing
production to increase their share of the
international market even though this
will eventually glut it," says Coffee
Federation head Arturo Gomez Jara
millo.
Another concern is that a lack of
national economic planning wiU fail to
channel coffee profits-expeeted to top a
billion dollars this year -for national dev
elopment to benefit Colombia's 25 million
citizens. Finance Minister Abdon Espin
oza explains the predicament:
“All
national planning and projection are
based on coffee at S I.20 per pound. It is
very difficult to adjust to $2.45 when it is
extremely unlikely it will remain there."
Colombia is one of Latin America's
poorest countries, and the small coffee
growers and laborers are traditionally
one of the most impoverished groups. For
these people, some of whom had never
tasted beef or owned a transistor radio,
the extra income has been spent wildly on
consumer goods.
A t the same time, increased demand
for meat and milk in the coffee regions
his led to shortages in other parts of
Colombia, especially in the capital of
Bogota, and has forced prices up through­
out the nation. According to one local
agronomist: “The sad thing is that when
the boom is over, these people are going
to have nothing to show for it—not a
school, not a clinic, nothing."
C LAM PING DOWN ON P IL L POPPING
G U A TE M A LA C IT Y . G U A TE M A L A
Guatemala will no longer be a haven for
pill-poppers. The military government
has finally ordered an end to over-the-
counter sales of several dozen stimulants
and sedatives including Nembutal, Secon­
al and Ecuanil. Until just three years
ago, virtually any drug could be bought
freely in Guatemala. But when lines of
young people waiting to buy Quaaludes
and similar depressants became common
sights outside of pharmacies, the govern
ment passed its first controls. The recent
order is an extension of that original
ruling.
NO CUBAN TROOPS IN U G A ND A,
BOTH N ATIO NS
W ASHINGTON, D.C.,
Cuban and Ugandan officials have
denied last month's sensational reports
flashed worldwide that Cuban troops
were reinforcipg the army of Uganda
President Idi Amin.
"There is no Cuban troops in Uganda,”
to^tíWiú^, today
Chris Nabata, spokesman for the Ugan­
dan government in Washington told PNS.
A Cuban diplomat at the U.N. also denied
the reports. A U.S. State Department
spokesman acknowledged that “We have
nothing to confirm these reports.” In
Havana a Western journalist with exten­
sive ties in the diplomatic corps said that
“No one here has heard anything solid
about that.”
He called the reports
'screwy.' ”
The first news of the alleged Cuban
intervention, published during the height
of the recent mini-crisis in Uganda, was
reported by two newspapers in Kenya
and fed by wire services to newspapers
and radio stations throughout the world.
The reports, which made page one
headlines in major U.S. dailies, have
never beert retracted.
The original
reports were apparently based on rumors
picked up from either Ugandan refugees
or anti-Amin factions in neighboring
Kenya. The report said the move had
been planned several weeks earlier when
an official Cuban delegation led by Cuban
Defense Minister Francisco Cabrera met
with Amin in the Uganda capital of
Kampala.
L A N D REFORM K EY ISSUE IN E L
SALVAD O R
SAN SALVADOR. E L SALVADOR
While U.S. attention focuses on this
country’s deteriorating human rights sit­
uation-dramatized by the government's
bloody repression of post-election pro­
tests-the number one political issue here
is land reform. The one percent of landed
interests who control 70 percent of the
cultivable land have successfully blocked
The Palestinians in Israel
(Third of four parts)
by T.D .
N A ZA R E TH . (PNS) Nearly 30 year,
have passed since Israel's founders, to
use the Biblical idiom, drove the Palestin
ians of Jaffa and Haifa and Galilee and the
Negev out from before them.
Yet even within the borders establish
<d then, which the Arab states are now
prepared to accept, the problem of the
two peoples has not gone away. In many
ways the problem of Israel's Palestinian
minority poses a far greater threat to the
cause of Zionism, and to its ideals, than it
did in 1948.
Indeed, the major threat to Zionist
aspiration today is no longer external
Arab hostility, but the very existence of a
large, well-organized and unassimilable
non Jewish population within Israel it­
self.
It affects everything from the attitudes
of Israeli youth, who increasingly regard
menial labor as "Arab” work, to Israel’s
democratic stability.
Within Israel's
multi party system, the danger always
exists of the Palestinian members of the
Knesset gaining the balance of power.
The problem is visible almost every­
where inside Israel, from the Palestinians
sweeping the streets of Haifa to the de
facto segregation of the Jerusalem school
system. But nowhere is the discrepancy
between military success and political
failure more conspicuous and more omin
ous for hopes of a permanent peace settle
ment-than in northern Israel.
There the Golan Heights taken from
Syria during the 1987 Six Day War
tower above Lake Tiberias and the
farmlands of Galilee like some immense
barricade erected to hold back a flood.
The Arab population has been expelled,
the promontories covered with Israeli
defenses, the empty Syrian villages re­
populated with fortified Jewish settle
ments.
Today in Galilee there is no external
military threat at all. But behind the
bristling Golan defenses in Galilee and
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the Jezreel valley - Israel has suffered,
without a single Arab attacking or
scarcely a shot being fired, one of the
most disturbing political defeats in its
entire national history.
During the last 10 years, in that crucial
northern area lying between Syria and
the sea, and between the West Bank and
Lebanon, the Palestinians of Israel have
developed from a politically powerless
minority into an increasingly potent but
unassimilable group within the bound­
aries of Israel itself.
The Palestinians today comprise nearly
half the population of the entire northern
region of Israel.
By next year, the
Israelis fear, the Palestinians will become
a majority. As even the Israelis them­
selves now point out, this demographic
defeat could in time render most of
Israel's victories on the battlefield mean
ingless.
While the Jewish population of Israel
today is increasing at a rate of 1.5 percent
per year, the non-Jewish population is
increasing at a rate of 5.9 percent. Since
1948, the non Jewish population has
grown from 150,000 to nearly 450,000 in a
nation of 3.5 million people.
Despite announced Israeli policy of
converting Jerusalem into an overwhelm
ingly Jewish city, the Jewish proportion
of Jerusalem's population declined last
year. In 1974, the Jewish population of
Western Galilee and the Jezreel valley
increased by 759 persons, while the
Palestinian population grew by 9,035.
W IN N IN G CONTROL
In an official report made public last
September, Israel Koenig, governor of
the northern region of Israel, warned
that the Palestinians in that region were
steadily gaining power “through methods
that were followed by the Jewish settlers
before the creation of the state.”
Not only, he complained, were the
Palestinians winning control of more and
more municipal governments by peaceful,
legal means, but “organized operations
for the purchase by Arabs of real estate
implementation of the 1975 agrarian
reform law. Unrest has been steadily
growing among the 90 percent of camp­
esinos who are landless in this smallest
and most densely populated of the six
Central American republics.
Landowners have been scoring the
Catholic clergy for allegedly supporting
“anti-Christian and antipatriotic subver­
sion and campesino unrest,” following the
shooting of a prominent landowner. In
the latest incident a Jesuit priest working
with the campesinos was ambushed and
killed March 12 near the town of Aguilar.
A spokesman for the local bishop said
that Fther Rutilio Grande, 49, was
machine gunned by agents of rich land-
owners. Eight Catholic foreign mission­
aries, including three Americans (Ber­
nard Survil of Pennsylvania, Lawrence
McCullough of Michigan and John Kevin
Murphy of Minnesota), have been ex­
pelled from El Salvador in recent weeks.
T H IR D W O R LD ECONOMIC U N IT Y
URGED
CARACAS. V E N E Z U E L A
Two prominent third world leaders,
Jamaica’s Michael Manley and Vene-
uela’s Carlos Andres Perez, met recently
and agreed to work together to strength­
en third world economic power. Manley
arrived in Venezuela at the end of a
Carribbean trip that included stops in
Guyana and Trinidad-Tobago, both of
which have supported Manley's left­
leaning program for Jamaica. He has
been seeking markets for Jamaican
bauxite and aluminum oxide outside of
the major industrial countries.
in the northern areas” were beginning to
threaten Jewish predominance there.
Gov. Koenig also lamented the growing
Palestinian proclivity for higher educa­
tion. He found particularly ominous a
Palestinian “hunger strike in front of the
United Nations headquarters, as some
people are doing with regard to the Jews
in the USSR.”
Koenig’s recommendations for dealing
with non-Jewish Israeli citizens were
similar to policies outlined by Israeli Gen.
David Maimon for policing the Palestin­
ian refugees of the Gaza Strip,
Higher education for Palestinians,
Koenig argued, should be discouraged.
Government agents should infiltrate legal
political parties in which Palestinians
were active. Palestinian leaders who
threatened Jewish interests should be
removed from public life and replaced by
officials willing to serve Jewish interests.
Taxes on non Jewish Israelis should be
increased so as to deprive them of
disposable income for real estate pur­
chases and capital investment.
Em
ployers should be required to give prefer­
ence to Jews over non-Jews. Palestinian
refugees who left the country should
have “obstacles placed in the way of their
return and obtaining work in Israel."
Welfare benefits should be made avail­
able “exlusively to Jewish families.” In
areas with large non Jewish populations,
the government should "increase the
Jewish population in all social cat­
egories." with the aim of making Galilee
"loyal to Jewish society.”
A considerable distance still separates
the Gaza conditions of barbed-wire en­
closures from the Koenig recommends
tions for Galilee.
But as the Koenig
report demonstrated, one of the chief
effects of military rule over a subject
people has been not to enhance Israeli
Palestinian understanding, but to predis­
pose Israeli officials toward using dis
criminatory martial law tactics even
against Israeli's own non-Jewish citizens.
about low tax receipts from Palestinians.
But in those areas where Palestinians
have won control of their own municipal
governments, the fiscal results are even
more disconcerting to the Israelis.
Tax revenues from Palestinians have
soared, and Palestinian voters have in
some cases tripled their own tax burden
to pay off municipal debts and finance
new public works.
For an Israel that no longer attracts
major Jewish immigration, that faces
continuing economic problems, and
whose government is shaken by charges
of corruption, this growing problem of
Palestinian power seems one that no
borders, however defensible, can solve.
The Palestinians of Galilee have
learned that emancipation, which never
arrived in the form of Arab armies, is
never going to arrive in the form of bomb-
toting guerrillas either.
Instead they have learned, as the
Palestinian mayor of Nazareth, Twefig
Zayyad, recently told a visitor, “We must
organize ourselves and depend on our­
selves, if we are to survive as a people."
“We will never repeat the mistakes
that produced the historical catastrope of
1948,” a Palestinian resident of Jeru­
salem said recently. “We will never flee
and leave them empty lands to claim as
their own. Let them annex the city and
fly the Israeli flag here forever. I will
stay, my sons and grandsons will stay,
whatever they do to us.”
And in Nazareth, Mayor Zayyad said in
a recent interview that even if a Palestin­
ian state were established on the West
Bank, the Palestinian minority in the pact
of Israel would remain where it was. “We
naturally do not intend to leave our
country," he said, “for we are a part of it.”
In this sense, the Palestinian problem
inside Israel, like the Palestinian problem
in the Occupied Territories, is not merely
one that lacks a military solution. It is,
for Israel, a problem within its own
borders for which there may be no
solution at all.
A PROBLEM W IT H IN
In his report, Gov. Koenig complained
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