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Portland Observer Thursday, September 14, 1978 Page 3 The beginning of the end for white supremacy A recent LA Times banner headline reads: ‘Guerrillas K ill A ir Crash Victims' and the subheading: ‘ K ill 10 After Crash in Rhodesia.* It goes on to detail the A ir Rhodesian Viscount plane that had left Kariba, one o f the most popular tourist resorts in the country, with some 52 passengers bound fo r Salisbury, Rhodesia’ s capital. Some ten minutes after take-off. the pilot had radioed that he was in trouble and a few minutes later the plane crashed. Thirty-eight people were killed in the crash. Apparently the guerrillas showed up shortly after the crash and killed ten o f the survivors. Five managed to escape by crawling into the bush. The cause o f the crash has yet to be determined but there is growing speculation that the plane could have been the guerrillas using the SAM-7, the surface-to-air missle. Already a g u errillas source in Lusaka, Zambia has been quoted as saying the guerillas shot down the plane because they thought it was ferrying troops. Guerrillas have used surface-to-air missies before to shoot at Rhodesian planes and even though the last time they reportedly missed their target — a Rhodesian A ir Force plane — they h it an hotel and damaged it extensively. Except for a Scottish couple, ail forty-eight people killed were white Rhodesians and South A fricans. Guerrilla activity has escalated in the Kariba area in recent months to discouraged tourists who frequent K ariba Dam and tyosi-a-tunya (“ Victoria Falls") touritt resorts and thus put a dent in Rhodesia's flound ering tourism business. This in cident, plus thé accom panying publicity, w ill go a long way to cut ting down the business even further. This incident is just the latest in a series o f headaches fo r rebel Ian Smith, self-styled prime minister o f beseiged Rhodesia and his “ biracial interim government.” A few weeks ago, Smith held a secret meeting in Lusaka, Zam bia w ith Joshua N kom o, co-leader (w ith Robert Mugabe) o f the P a trio tic F ro n t guerrilla alliance, Kenneth Kaunda, » President o f Zambia and Brigadier Joseph Garba, N igeria's Foreign Minister. The meeting was aimed at accomplishing what the “ interim government” established in March o f this year has failed to do — end the six-year old war. This war has, in addition to irrevocably shattering the Rhodesian lifestyle, claimed more than 10,000 lives (the majority being Blacks) and incarcerated another 600,000 in concentration camps (euphemistically called ‘ protected villages' by the Smith regime) accord ing to various conservative estimates. Refugees who have fled this carnage and are temporarily living in neigh boring Mozambique now number over 100,000!! From our point o f view the Lusaka meeting was most unfortunate. For one thing Nkomo should not have agreed to attend the meeting alone — and without the knowledge or con sent o f his partner, Robert Mugabe. Both Mugabe and Julius Nycrerc, President o f Tanzania are now said to be very upset over the clandestine meeting. Nkomo responded angrily to Nycrcre’s condemnation o f the secret meeting by accusing the Tan zanian leader o f meddling in the in ternal affairs o f Zimbabwe. Kaunda is to blame to o , not o n ly fo r arranging the secret meeting but also for a clampdown on reports about the meeting. Even though the meeting took place on August 14th, it is only over the past week that the news has fin a lly come to lig h t. A fte r N dabaningi S ithole, one o f the “ leaders” o f the internal “ govern ment” had leaked the news. Smith, Kaunda and Nkomo were separately interviewed and all three denied that a meeting had taken place. However, after rumors continued to persist, Nkomo finally admitted that he had met Sm ith in Lusaka, Zam bia. Smith, has for a long time now, been trying to break up the Patriotic Front and the cooperation o f the Front-line states (Zambia, Botswana, Angola, M ozambique and Tanzania) and, thanks to Kaunda, he may have suc ceeded. A veteran p o litic ia n like Nkomo ought to have been aware of this. This is also the second time that Nkom o has held a secret meeting with Smith, excluding Mugabe in the process. Earlier this year he met with Jeremiah Chirau, Smith’ s most loyal partner in the internal government, in London and later tried to deny it. A t the Lusaka meeting the claims that Smith offered him the chair manship o f the interim government’s Executive Council and he told him (Smith) that he would not make a deal when his partner, Mugabe, was not present. Smith, however, says he never made the offer, he was merely making exploratory moves to see if there was a basis for negotiations — the all-parties conference. Inciden tally, all three Black members o f the so-called Executive C o u n cil are vehemently opposed to the proposed conference. So, chances are i f Nkomo comes in exit Muzorewa and Sithole. On the war front, a few more in teresting revelations: it has recently come to lig h t that some o f Rhodesia's senior m ilitary officials have diverted more than R$1 m illion in funds earmarked for m ilitary pur chases in to Swiss Bank accounts. Even though the news was sup- Sale ends S a tu rd ay S e p te m b e r 16. T im e ly v a lu e * by N. Fungai Kumbula tRU pressed in Rhodesia's censored press, South African papers were not so "scrupulous.” W ith the economy straitjacketed as it is, Sim. is a lot of dough. Moreover, such action by the security chiefs, who arc supposed to be very knowledgeable, does not in spire too much confidence in the dem oralized and already badly frightened white population. Consequently, last m onth there was a net loss o f white immigrants o f 1,111 the largest single month figure ever. Previously, they would take out o f the country as much money as they wanted, then to stem the tide, it was cut down to R$4,000. Now it has been further cut down to R$ 1,400. T o people used, through the ex ploitation o f Blacks, to the highest standard o f living in the world, that is nowhere near enough money to get started elsewhere. Another problem is where to go. They have been run ning from m ajority rule all the way from Uganda, Nigeria, Tanzania, etc. The only place left is South Africa and South A frica, too, is a volcano on the verge o f eruption. Maybe the Indian Ocean? The Zimbabwe situation has been described as “ flu id ” . 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I asked him regarding Mrs. Gladys McCoy that to forget what she looks like or where she came from what did he think about her. He said he thought she was a very intelligent person, and an ex cellent person to get her jo b well done. According to your articles Mrs. M cCoy has endorsed Ms. Evie Crowell. I f she did I think she made a wise choice. Ms. Crowell was also interviewed by our Political Action Committee. She certainly appeared to be an intelligent person, well ver sed in the issues o f the day. 1 admired her straightforward and to the point answers. Her resume that she present ed to our Board indicated that she had a bachelors degree from Port land State University and a masters degree from the U n ive rsity o f Washington. At that time she was a candidate fo r Oregon State Representative. She also indicated (hat she had worked and were still w orking w ith various com m unity organizations. W ith my experience w ith our school system and in the business w orld 1 th in k Ms. Evie C row ell w ould be an excellent choice to replace Mrs. Gladys McCoy when her term is up at the Portland School Board. I highly endorse her can didacy and believe that she would do an excellent job for the total com munity. Respectfully yours, Samuel G. Whitney "W hite fo lk s live by i t . . . Niggers die by i t . . . A in ’t no way to beat the law. ” (13" color set also available) Roots It has been brought to the atten tio n o f the Black inmates incar cerated in the Oregon State Peniten tiary that the Prisoners’ Legal Ser vices last week became very upset with what was printed in the August issue o f ‘ Behind the W all’ in the Port land Observer. In response to those articles ex posing Prisoners’ Legal Services ob vious conflict o f interests in accept ing $40,000 operating funds from the Division o f Corrections, Larry Matasar tried to discredit ‘ Behind the W all’ by presenting the offending article to Judge Michael Hogan in a federal district court hearing last week. The ‘ Behind the W a lls’ correspondent had dismissed PLS at torneys fro m han d lin g his race d is c rim in a tio n suit against the Corrections Division. We, the undersigned, wish to go on record as saying that we are proud ‘ Behind the W all’ had the guts to place before the public this agency’s questionable professional ethics and to suggest investigation o f the 'con flict o f interests* issue. Is Prisoners’ Legal Services providing us the legal service it claim s to be? We are speaking from the Black prisoners’ point o f view. James E arl Wilson 040249 John L. Smith 034923 Floyd Boxtey 038286 Anderson B. 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