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P a g e 2 P o rtla n d O b s e rv e r M a y 1. 1980 EDITORIAL/ OPINION Namibia: Sitting in limbo by N. f-ungat Kumbuta Was Iran venture coup attempt? On April 17, 1961, the United States landed Did the United States attem pt to join w ith a force of Cuban exiles - financed, trained and elements of the Iranian m ilitary who are still directed by the CIA on the coast of Cuba. loyal to the shah, or w ho oppose the current The plan was to establish a beachead and to government, m an attem pt to overthrow the declare a provisional government which would government of Iran? ask the United States for military aid. Together We predict that w ithin the next few weeks, the exnes, the Cubans who would join them a shakeup in Iran's m ilitary w ill indicate the against Castro, and the U.S. m ilitary would conspirators have been identified. Eventually O ve rth ro w the C astro g o v e rn m e n t and a we will know the truth. government which the U.S. considered frien dly to its interests would be established. Of course it is now history that the plan failed. The Cuban people did not join the a t A few m onths ago the Canadian go ve rn tem pt to o ve rth ro w their gove rn m en t, but ment rescued employees of the U.S. Embassy fo u g h t and defeated th e ir a tta cke rs in 72 m Iran by providing false Canadian passports hours. and hiding them in the Canadian Embassy. Nineteen years later, on April 24, 1980, the Every since, there has been an outpouring of U.S. military landed in Iran, its stated purpose gratitude to the Canadian people and their to free the American hostages. Again the o u t government and justly so. Not only has our come is history - everything went wrong and government heaped praises on the Canadians, another campaign failed. but just recently a busload of Portland talk Lhe parallels between these tw o invasions show listeners travelled to Vancouver to ex are interesing. Following the Iranian excursion press their thanks. the government has revealed that an air base This week the Cuban governm ent rescued was established in the desert; many of the the U S Am bassador to C olum bia, Diego men were Farsi speaking (Iranian exiles?); CIA Asencio and fifteen other hostages w ho had operatives had infiltrated the country; aid was been held captive fo r 61 days. The Cuban expected from w ithin Iran. government not only negotiated the capatives' Iranian sources have said many more men release and transported them from Columbia were involved than the U.S. adm itted and to Cuba, but sent Asencio home to the United many spoke Farsi; much m ilitary equipm ent States the same day. was left behind. Since the operation, there W e have n o t heard any o u tp o u rin g of have been bombings and sporadic shooting in g ra titu d e to the people of Cuba and th e ir Tehran. An Assassination attem pt was made g o ve rn m e n t. We have not even been told on the Foreign M in is te r d u rin g a v is it to w h e th e r our g o ve rn m e n t has fo rm e rly e x Kuwait. pressed its gratitude. Thank you, Fidel! Carter economics + Black apathy = President Reagan By Norman H ill, President A Phillip Randolph Institute level ot his Black support is not the crucial factor. Instead, the Reagan forces are tar more interested in the Blacks who won’ t vote on election day. To put it another way, Reagan has a vested interest in Black apathy and disenchantment. Ronald Reagan, who just a lew weeks ago »as being written oft as a sure loser to President Jimmy Car ter, has become a real threat. A lready talk ot a Reagan ad m in is tra tio n is circu la tin g in W ashington, and several recent polls have shown that Carter’ s once huge lead over Reagan has dwindled to nothing Some polls even show reagan beating the President For Black people and workers, this unexpected surge in Reagan's p o litic a l strength poses serious dangers It elected, Reagan would seek to transform his archaic and simplistic conservatism into policy. Among other things, Reagan has already promised to abolish the minimum wage, to slash the tederal budget, and to support measures that w ill fu rth e r weaken the bargaining power of workers. With Reagan and his triends comfortably entrenched in the W hite House, Black people can expect nothing more than four years of economic setbacks and political disappoint ments. In an ironic way, the political behavior o f Black voters in Novem ber may be the single most impor tant factor leading to a Reagan vic tory Reagan, an outspoken and consistent opponent o f the economic and social policies sup ported by the civil rights and labor movements, can hardly expect to receive anything more than a sprinkling of Black votes. But the Looking at the arithmetic ot the 1976 presidential race, Reagan's dependence on Black apathy becomes all too apparent: it just a tew thousand Blacks had remained at home in 1976, Gerald Ford, not Jimmy Carter, would be sitting in the Rose Garden. W ithout strong Black support, Carter would have certaintly lost the closely fought contests in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Y o rk, states that were in dispensable for his electoral vote majority. In 1976, Carter did exceptionally well w ithin the Black community because Black people understood that he was offering the country a set of economic policies that differs dramatically from the conservative policies espoused by Gerald Ford. Whereas Ford argued for a stark version o f the jobs vs. in fla tio n trade-off, Carter strongly backed the H um phrey-H aw kins b ill and com m itted him self to fu ll em ployment, meaningful tax reform, and greater economic security for the poor and elderly. In short, Car ter ran as an economic liberal, an heir to the tradition o f Roosevelt, Kennedy, and H um phrey. Black people responded to Carter’ s cam paign program ; they responded overwhelmingly. p’ * Pubh* h'n9 Company Inc 2201 North Killmgsworth T ? 97217 PO” ° " ' Ce B° ’ 3 ,3 7 Oregon 9 ZTXi Second cleM postage paid at Portland, Oregon Subscriptions »7 50 per year in Tri County area S8 00 per veer County area P o . t m . . , . , address e b a ^ the / or,land Observer, P 0 Bos 3137. Portland. Oregon 97208 Oh'r f >,rr'* d J T ” P °»tion is e,pressed only in rna,Bn'’1 ,hf0u« hou' ,h" ’• N a tio n a l A d v ertisin g R ep resentative A m a lg a m a te d Publishers. Inc N e w York 2nd Place Best Editorial 3rd Place Community Leadership ONPA 1975 . PÄ1PER ISM fW £ fW i , Asiooahon - Founded ft ft H Newspaper 1st Place Best Ad Results ONPA 1973 Honorable Mention Herrick Editorial Award NN A 1973 283 2486 .. 1st Place Community Service ONPA 1973 5th Place Best Editorial ONPA 1973 individual writer or submitter and does not neces sarily reflect the opinion of the Portland Observer ALFRED L HEND ER SO N E ditor/P ublisher By Charles Jordan Commissioner o f Public Safety Sometimes there are unforeseen problems with getting your property back once you’ ve been arrested. The reasons vary with every situation, however, procedures do exist to make this effort easier for you. AA ith that in mind you may want to know, W H A T H APPENS TO YOUR PROPERTY AFTER YOU HAVE BEEN ARRESTED BY AN O F F IC E R , BO O KED IN TH E C O U N TY F A C IL IT Y and IT IS DECIDED T H A T YOU MUST BE HELD AT THE COUNTY JAIL? It you have anything on your per son the officer feels could be used as On the surface at least. Carter's evidence, the officer w ill seize it and strategy o f co-opting Reagan makes hold it at the police station’s prop erty room . You w ill be given a some sense, but it fails to recognize the key lesson o f 1976 - Black receipt for your property. A ll other voters will turnout for elections only personal property will be held by the when the choice is absolutely clear. County Corrections officers when Moreover, the choice must be based you are processed into jail. Each item you turn over to the on more than just superficial d if County Corrections officer w ill be ferences; it must be based on significant differences in economic identified and listed on a receipt. You sign this receipt and receive a policy. copy for your records. Il a Reagan-Carter race becomes Upon release fro m ja il, your as close as the Ford-Carter contest receipted personal property will be four years ago, the outcome may returned to you. I f you should very well be determined by Black discover that an item listed on this votes. But it Blacks are forced to receipt is missing, alert the person choose between tw o versions o f on duty, so that an initial search for Ronald Reagan, the votes that your property can be conducted. allowed Carter to squeak through in I f your belongings are not found, 1976 may be missing this tim e you w ill be asked to complete a around. PORTLAND OBSERVER 3rd Place B Community Leadership IS SB Association Publishers II V ONPA 1978 South A fric a reportedly » ill, resuscitate the nation ot Lganda through various intermediaries, sell Amin’s bandits mentioned above some 100,000 tons ot maize to have been raiding northeastern Kenya. Uganda among the Karam ajor.. Kenya’s problems also stem from people, killing people, livestock am poor government planning. Just last destroying »hat they cannot carr year, she exchanged some 20,000 back to Sudan. As if that »ere m tons o f maize for 10,000 tons of enough, the area is the last to recei »heat through the W orld Food any international relief that come Program. Food production mean- to Uganda because ot the securit »hile has fallen 11*» bet»een 1969 situation, lack ot transportatio and 1977: the country only facilities (trom trucks to gasoline) produced 2.6 million tons ot maize poor communications, impassable in 1979 even though national needs roads and the central government’s »ere in excess o f 7 m illion tons. preoccupation with ’ ’ more To encourage production , the pleasing" problems. government has raised consumer In the urban areas, stores are and producer food prices and is also critically short of supplies. Where subsidizing farmers by o ffe rin g available, the food is prohibitively loans. This plan has backfired expensive: beyond the reach ot the though, as a result ot middlemen average Ugandan. Sugar, which hoaiding supplies in anticipation of should sell tor $2.(kJ per kilo (2.2 higher prices tor the goods in the lbs) sells tor as much as 510.00 per very near future. So far tw enty kilo . Gasoline costs as much as people have been taken to court in $2.00 per gallon, though that is N airobi on charges ot hoarding somewhat ot an improvement from The country’ s situation does not the $3.00 per gallon during the days look good. ot Am in. Bread cost as much as It's been »ell over a year no» - $5.00 per loaf! At these prices, who since the overthrow o f Idi Amin can afford to eat? Smuggling has Dada o f Uganda, but the country become a very thriving business. has yet to return to normal. Gangs The average citizen sinks further o f A m in loyalists s till make oc and further into despair. casional raids from across the bor A ll of East Africa is in dire need der in Sudan. Tanzania soldiers still ot food aid and, unless something is p a trol the countryside but the done and done last, there will be a security situation is s till very »hole lot o f starvation going on. In precarious. Uganda, the flow of international By the time Amin tied the coun aid needs to be closely monitored try , he had lite ra lly drained the too, because local bandits con treasury dry, food production had tinually disrupt shipments of food. ground to a halt, the economy was The ghost o f Idi Amin Dada stalks in shambles and Uganda »as, to all the land. intents and purposes, dead. The in NOTE: Across the border in coming a d m in is tra tio n ’ s firs t o f Sudan, thousands ot refugees lace Yusufu K. Lule and then of Godfrey starvation too, as do thousands Binaisa have been grappling with more in Somalia but, that is another the mammoth task o f tryin g to long story. Notes from City Hall A lthough the vast m a jo rity ot Blacks saw a clear choice between Ford and Carter, I now tear that" many Blacks believe that the d if ferences between Reagan and Carter are so slight and so uncertain as to make a choice meaningless. This is not to say that real differences don’t exist (they most certaintly do) But, Carter, who is playing to the con servative mood o f the country has set out purposely to obscure his d if ferences w ith Reagan, apparently w ith the hope o f neutralizing Reagan’s attack from the right. In deed, with Carter's deep cuts in the tederal budget, and w ith his growing devotion to conservative economic doctrines, one m ight think that Reagan’ s advisers have already arrived in Washington. The Portland O bterver IU S PS 96S 680) is published every Thur, S n ^ Starvation looms in East Africa, unless massive infusions of foreign lood aid reach the countries o f Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania very soon, thousands of people face star vation. The reasons for the acute food stortages range from poor govern ment planning to severe drought to lingering fallout from the overthrow of Idi Amin. Only five months after Tanzania shipped 70.000 tons o f maize (corn) to Mozambique and Zambia to ease their shortages, she (Tanzania) »as requesting 100,000 tons of »heat, 50.000 tons of maize and 25,000 tons o f sorghum grits from the Lnited States. Tanzania had exported her maize because the planners thought they had a surplus. Instead, they no» find they have only enough supplies to last to the end of April. C om plicating Tanzania's food problem is the ever soaring bill for oil currently consuming 45r « o f her export earnings. The »ar Tanzania »aged against Idi Am in cost the country over $560 m illio n and falling production of export crops are all adding up to a very serious budget deficit. Consequently, there are no reserves with »hich to pur chase the needed food. Outside nations have pledged assistance but it is uncertain if this aid » ill arrive in time to avoid a major crisis. Kenya s drought problems are not as serious as those of her neighbors but she too faces some very trying times ahead. Shortages have already produced some very long queues and there have been reports o f violence. When Kenya's president, Daniel Arap Moi, visited the U.S. recently, he arranged to purchase 15,000 tons ol rice, 30,000 tons o f »heat and 60,000 tons ot maize. Property Claim Form. This form w ill be reviewed by supervisory staff, and a full search will be con ducted in all possible property storage areas. At this point, your claim will be forwarded to the investigative o f ficer who will make a determination as to the validity o f your claim. Inquiries are then made to ascer tain the circumstances leading to the loss o f your property. If your property is still not found, your claim is submitted to an ad justing firm, and you will be reim bursed tor an equitable amount o f the lost item. Those items the police o ffic e r seized for evidence when you were arrested w ill remain in the police station’ s property room until your case is adjudicated, or a judge releases the property to you. This evidence can include anything from your clothing to weapons or coun- traband. The officer w ill give you a receipt for all items seized. Upon fin a l disposition o f the case, the property will be returned to you if you are the legal owner. The police bureau will give notice that the property can be released to you and that it must be claimed within 30 days ot the nonce. Other wise, your property will be delivered to the property control officer, who will dispose o f it. When you are released from police custody, your personal property will be returned to you. All property will be held, free of charge, during your incarceration. However, if for some reason, you are unable to claim your property when you are released, no charge will be made prov ided you remove it within 15 days after being released from custody. Thereafter, your property can be held at a storage rate of JOC per day per item. You can request that someone else claim your belongings for you. This person must present a signed authorization from you, as well as your property receipt. It the property is not picked up by the designated date, it may be disposed of. Incidentally, all contraband and illegal weapons will be destroyed. DO YOU REALLY WANT TO SAVE ON YOUR FOOD BILL? 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