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Section II Portland Observer Thursday, October S, 1978 Page 5 there, you can’ t get but so big. So there are good and tivities. “ Can you just picture this shown on American bad points on both sides.” TV?” he says. “ I think it ’ ll help make a better relation A li says he plans to devote m ajor time and e ffort to ship, showing the Russians are just like everybody else. W O RLD — W orld Organization fo r the Right to Live Now, I ’ m getting American films into Russian schools, in Dignity. One o f W O R LD ’ S aims is promoting people- letting the Russians see that we don’ t want war. We’ re to-people understanding in the interests o f peace. He funny people to them, too. Let them see how America already has permission to film a documentary o f Soviet is, how we picnic, how we play ball, go to the horse people in all walks o f life, going about their daily ac- races.” * * * * "THE CHAZ" Open Thursday - Saturday * * * * * * * * * * * Muhammad Ali reviews World Review art'cle on his recent USSR trip. The trip to the USSR “ The Russians don't want war, just like we don’ t want war, but the two sides are afraid o f each other because they don’ t know each other and anything you don’ t know about, you’ re scared o f,” says Muhammad A li in an exclusive interview with the magazine New World Review. “ From what I understand, propaganda keeps the cold war going, keeps people against each other. I f you could talk to a Russian man, a Russian woman, they’ re going to work every day, they love their children, they like to shine their cars. They’ re human beings just like all o f us and they’ re not people just looking to make war and to take over the w orld.” A li tells o f his meeting with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, shares his observations on the situation o f the Soviet U nion’ s racial and national minorities as well as its religious groups, tells what he likes about the Soviet life-style and why he prefers living in the United States. A li says he saw a hundred nationalities living together in harmony. “ No such thing as a white man or a Black man.” He tells o f jogging past two women on a Moscow street. “ They didn’ t even look back to see why a Black man was out here running. 1 can't go jogging in the morning in some streets in a white neighborhood in America. I f they see a Black man coming, they wonder who I ’ m going to ju m p .” Nobody in the Soviet Union was worried about being robbed or mugged, he ob serves, and people walk or sit in the park late at night without fear. His meeting with Soviet President Brezhnev was one o f the greatest honors o f his life, says A li, “ A ll he talked about was peace and better relations. He doesn’ t want his country to fight. It would be a nuclear war and nobody would win. He wants peace and he hoped my stay there could help bring more peace.” “ One thing that surprised me,” A li observes. “ I saw nothing American. I ’ ve been all over the world. It seemed like America dominated the w orld, or had something everywhere. T o see another country that could still go to the moon, make weapons, feed people, build hospitals, make cars, buses, cameras, televisions — that really impressed me because I didn’ t think a country could exist without America.” Before he went to the Soviet Union, A li says, he thought people there were not free to worship. “ I went to three different mosques to w orkshop." He points out that people are not allowed to promote or push a faith, but anyone wishing to attend services at a mosque, synagogue or church is completely free to do so. “ The Russian people share what they have,” he says. “ They’ re all together. No big shots, no loan sharks. Everybody’ s got a job. That’ s more like the Christian teaching. Over here where you preach God, we have rich, rich, rich people and the poor, poor, p o o r.” Nonetheless, he says, he prefers to live in the US: “ I f you’ ve got a chance, you can prove you’ ve got it. Over * * * * * * NO AGE LIMIT BETWEEN 7 P M -1 A M OVER 18 ONLY FROM 130 A M TO 5:00 A M SO COME ON OUT AND Ladies Nite Is Thursday Nite * * D IS C O Ladies Nite Is Thursday Nite ADMISSION: $3.00 2629 N.E. 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