Portland Observar M arch 19.1991 Paga 3
ogle
Dick
By Dick Bogle
H erb C aw thorne is a busy, busy
man. Not only is he in the middle o f
a heavy campaign to retain his seat
on the P ortland School Board, but
he has a fu ll time jo b as director o f
the O ffic e o f Special Services at
Portland State University.
“ I t ’ s no secret th a t P o rtla n d
schools face a tremendous financial
c ris is ,” C a w th o rn e says. “ When
there’ s a financial crisis, the Black
c o m m u n ity ’ s program s w ill be
severely hit. We use education as the
fundam ental driving force to make
progress so we shouldn’ t want any
th in g to happen to weaken the
educational system because when
th a t larger system weakens, it
weakens us.”
He says that i f the school levies
d o n 't pass, Blacks w ill lose some o f
the kindegarten program s, the im
provem ents in the early ch ild ho od
education p ro gram and perhaps a
n um ber o f o th e r
im p o rta n t
programs that it took a struggle over
the past ten years to o bta in . That,
he says, would be “ tragic.”
“ People are going to have to ac
cept fin a n c ia l cu tba cks and th a t
means we are going to have to look
fo r d iffe re n t ways to achieve some
o f the same goals. That means in
novative programs that would bring
together teachers, a dm in istrato rs,
parents and c o m m u n ity represen
tatives to provide the same q ua lity
o f education,” Cawthorne says.
School closures are sure to hap
pen here in Portland and Cawthorne
feels it was a slap in the face o f the
Black c o m m u n ity by the School
Closure C om m ittee when it recom
mended the closure o f two East side
high
schools,
A dam s
and
W a sh in gton -M on roe , both having
large Black enrollm ents. He thinks
th a t decision w ill cause severe
problem s in the next six o r seven
months.
C aw thorne says he is ru n n in g a
hard campaign for the school board
despite the fact that his opponents
stand very little chance o f unseating
h im . He says no m a tte r w ho o p
poses h im , he should run a good,
stron g cam paign so th a t people
know who they are voting for.
He sees a n o th e r b e n e fit to a
stron g and w ell o rg an ized cam-
Murder in Atlanta
(E d ito r’s N o te : Below is a state
ment by U .S. R epresentative Ron
W yden on the m u rde r o f Black
children in A tla n ta , to be included
in Congressional Record)
M r. Wyden: It hasn’ t been very
long since we untied yellow ribbons
as our hostages returned from Iran
Now we are w itnessing a new
sprouting o f ribbons fo r an equally
serious crime against Am erica - the
murder o f 20 children in Atlanta.
These murders have riveted atten
tion once again on the rising rate o f
crim e th ro ug h ou t the n atio n . This
wave o f crime, in a very real sense,
has made each o f us feel as i f we are
hostages in o u r own homes, o u r
neighborhoods, our cities.
The fact that these ch ild re n are
Black make the murders no more or
no less im p o rta n t th a n any o the r
crime. But the failure to stop more
murders from occuring and to ap
prehend the kille r or kille rs are un
derstandably re k in d ly resentment
and bitterness in o u r Black co m
m u n ity - a co m m un ity that knows
all too much about being a hostage
in their own land.
President Reagan deserves pfaise
fo r taking steps to assist A tla n ta ’ s
p o lice o ffic ia ls
in th e ir in
vestigation. His e fforts have helped
ease mounting tensions in the A tla n
ta com m unity. I have agreed to co
sponsor legislation by my colleague,
M r. C lay, fo r an a p p ro p ria tio n o f
$1.5 m illion to beef up police efforts
to tra c k dow n the k ille r o f these
c h ild re n . M y th o u g h ts and hopes
are w ith one o f our friends, form er
Portlander Lee Brow n, as he leads
these efforts.
I o me, the issue runs fa r deeper
than m erely a conern fo r ram pant
crim e in the streets. W hat bothers
me is the waste o f human potential
these killings - and all violent crimes
- produce.
O f these 20 c h ild re n , one may
have g ro w n up to be the scien tist
w ho discovered a way to harness
solar energy so it is affordable in all
our homes. Another may have been
a d o c to r w ho saved lives. S till
a n o th e r may have excelled in the
arts and given us an in sp irin g play
or novel. And yet another may have
been a h a rd -w o rk in g fa th e r and
friend to his children.
W e’ ll never know because these
20 children are lost forever. T h e ir
loss robs A m e rica o f p ro d u c tiv ity
fo r the fu tu re . It d im in ish e s o u r
chances to make a b rig h te r
tom orrow.
Regretably we w ill never stop all
v io le n t crim e. But we m ust move
quickly to solve this particular crime
against the c h ild re n o f A tla n ta ,
against the com m un ity o f A tla n ta ,
against the Blacks o f A tla n ta - and
the rest o f the nation.
I f we fa il, o u r fa ilu re w ill sym
bolize much more than faulty police
work. It w ill symbolize that the very
fo u n d a tio n s o f o u r society arc
c ru m b lin g , and th a t o u r great ex
perim ent o f men and women livin g
in a free society at peace is in terrible
jeopardy.
Did Haig read his security report?
( E d ito rs N o te : Last m onth,
Secretary o f State Alexander H aig
announced that fo rth co m in g U.S.
p o lic y in El S alvador w ou ld be
based on a massive W h ite Paper
w ith some 47 pages o f appended
d ocu m e ntatio n. W h ile the con
clusions o f the W h ite Paper were
w ide ly discussed, and the p o licy
initia tives it claimed to ju s tify were
sharply c ritic iz e d , no one has yet
p u b lic ly questioned the W h ite
P aper’ s actual d escrip tio n o f the
contents o f the docum ents them
selves.
John Dinges, a W a sh in gton ,
D .C ., based w rite r w ith extensive
experience in Latin America, under
to o k an exhaustive stu dy o f the:
docum ents fo r P a cific News Ser
vice, cross-checking them w ith the
description provided by the W hite
Paper and State D epartm ent o f
ficials, as well as additional in te lli
gence reports available to the A d
m inistration but not included in the
W hite Paper. Dinges found d istu r
bing d isp arities between the
allegations o f the W hite Paper and
the contents o f the docum ents on
which they are allegedly based. His
analysis dem onstrates how the
documents themselves refute the in
terpretation o f an escalating Soviet
co nfron ta tion w ith the U.S. in our
own fro n ty a rd . M r. Dinges, co
author o f the book Assassination on
Embassy Row, w orked in C hile
from 1972-78 as a stringer fo r Time,
W ashington Post and the Peru-
based Latin America Press.)
Bound between s tiff brown paper
covers, complete with photo inserts,
title pages, glossaries o f terms and
tra n sla tio n s, the inch and a h a lf
packet is e ntitle d "D o cu m e n ts
Demonstrating Communist Support
o f the Salvadoran Insurgency. ”
The meat in the package is a
co lle c tio n o f 20 docum ents in
Spanish captured from Salvadoran
guerrilla hideouts, 47 pages in all o f
handwritten jottings, aide memoirs,
minutes o f meetings typed on paper
torn out o f spiral notebooks.
T his is the o rig in a l law in t e lli
gence upon w hich the State De
p artm e n t and the Reagan A d
m inistration based its W hite Paper
released F ebruary 23. There was
n oth in g secret about the data: one
documents reveal that the guerrillas’
hundred copies o f the docum ents
Communist Party representative en
were released to reporters along
countered a co ol reception in
with the W hite Paper.
Moscow, and was deeply concerned
The captured documents are in
that Soviet “ indecisiveness” m ight
tended to prove the Reagan A d
jea po rdize any prom ise o f arms
m in is tra tio n ’ s co nte ntio n that the
made by other socialist countries.
Soviet U n io n and In te rn a tio n a l
* A c c o rd in g to a C arte r A d
Com m unism are sponsoring armed
m inistration Latin America expert,
aggression in A m e rica ’ s fro n ty a rd ,
Robert Pastor, much o f the in fo r
and ju s tify the firs t dispatch o f
mation used in the W hite Paper w^s
Am erican troops as advisors into a
in U.S. hands before Reagan took
combat area since the Vietnam War.
o ffic e , and had been taken into ac
But do they?
co un t in earlier p o lic y decisions.
Leaving aside the m atter o f their
W hile an increased arms flow was a
a u th e n tic ity , they unquestionably
key fa c to r in C a rte r’ s decision to
demonstrate that socialist countries
resume shipments o f U.S. weapons
have supported the e ffo rts o f the
to the ju n ta s h o rtly before he le ft
Salvadoran opposition to overthrow
o ffic e , the documents did not alter
the c o u n try ’ s ru lin g C iv ilia n -
the conclusion o f experienced
m ilita ry ju n ta , and th a t immense
C arte r analysts th a t the g u e rrilla s
quantities o f arms and am m unition
were an indigenous m ovem ent,
were on th e ir way at the tim e the
largely independent p o litic a lly o f
Salvadoran guerrillas launched their
outside forces.
offensive in January.
The documents — read lite ra lly -
But these very same documents -
portray a period o f nearly a year in
in a d d itio n to o the r intelligence
w hich the Salvadoran o p p o s itio n
reports a vailab le to the Reagan
was gearing up p o litic a lly and
A d m in is tra tio n w hich were not in
m ilita rily for the January offensive.
cluded in the W hite Paper - provide
A relatively haphazard co alition o f
conclusions that fall far short o f the
g u e rrilla
forces and c iv ilia n
A d m in is tra tio n ’ s p o rtra y a l o f El
p o liticia n s forged a united general
Salvador as an arena o f East-West
com m and called
the
U nite d
c o n fro n ta tio n in w hich the U .S.
R e vo lu tio n D ire c to ra te , obtained
faces the challenge o f the Soviet
arm s, lo g istica l and p o litic a l
Union.
backing from so cia list co un trie s,
The W h ite Paper charges that
p a rtic u la rly th e ir c h ie f allies
some 800 tons o f arms were
N icaragua and C uba, then con
prom ised to El Salvador, and )hat
fro n te d serious supply bottleneck
200 tons were delivered to the in
problem s and fin a lly launched an
surgents by the tim e o f the o ffe n
o ffe n sive th a t sputtered in to
sive. The captured documents them
isolated skirm ishes and sabotage
selves, however, provide evidence o f
after 10 days.
far lesser quantities promised or in
None o f the documents, however,
shipm ent — and in d ica te th a t o n ly
ind icate a nyth ing but groups o f
about 10 tons ever actually crossed
Salvadorans o rg a n iz in g th e ir own
the border.
revolution. I f the Soviet U nion and
• M oreover, b attle field evidence
Cuba were pulling the strings behind
gathered since January, in clu d in g
the guerrilla movement, as Secretary
the statements o f a captured
o f State A lexander H aig has
N ic a r a g u a n
s o ld ie r - t u r n e d -
charged, evidence o f such control is
in fo rm e r, fa ils to c o rro b o ra te the
not to be fo un d in any o f the cap
W h ite Paper p ic tu re and, in fa c t,
tured documents.
reveals th a t the g u e rrilla s were
The State D epartm ent W h ite
forced to depend on re la tiv e ly an
Paper says that the documents show
tiq u a te d rifle s and o the r weapons
“ com m itm ents (b y the socialist
purchased on the in te rn a tio n a l
countries) to supply the insurgents
black market.
nearly 800 tons o f the most modern
• In contrast to the Reagan inter
weapons and equipm ent (and) the
p re ta tio n th a t the Soviet U n io n
covert d elivery to El Salvador o f
masterminded the arms tra ffic , the (Please turn to Page 9 Col 3)
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speaking. So, he began to read
a lo u d speeches by M a r tin L u th e r
King and, Malcom X and others. He
researched the h is to ry o f o ra l
tra d itio n back to A fric a and at the
same tim e remembered that when
Blacks came to th is c o u n try as
slaves, reading was pro hib ited and
th a t we a ll became dependent on
oral communication.
He sees a c o n tin u a tio n o f th a t
stron g o ra l u n d e rsta n d in g and
facility. He says after reading aloud
to his students, many o f them were
encouraged to read m ore a bo ut
famous Blacks.
When asked i f he plans to pursue
higher p olitical o ffice in the future,
C a w th o rn e s im p ly says, “ I d o n ’ t
know what the future holds as far as
p o litic a l o ffic e . I ’ m not reailv con
cerned about it at the present time.
I ’ m m ore concerned about serving
on the b o a rd and c o m p le tin g the
work I ’ ve started there.”
He said, “ The key to progress in
o u r co m m u n ity is good aggressive
c o m m u n ic a tio n and th a t alw ays
tra n s la te to some degree in to
p o litic a l a c tiv ity and I guess th a t’ s
how I ended up where 1 a m .”
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Newhall - A track record
of community support:
• Fought for Harriet Tubman Middle School
• Consistently supports strong basic skills for students
• Voted for increased parent involvement
in neighborhood schools
• Will fight for balance in school closures
Newhall - An independent voice
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It all began while the 33 year old
C a w th o rn e was te ach ing at the
U n iv e rs ity o f O reg on . He noted
m any o f his B lack students were
weak in reading and w ritin g s k ills
because o f p o o r high school
p re p a ra tio n . But these same
students were strong in listening and
paign. He has been very visible in
the Black c o m m u n ity and has
organized through the churches and
c iv ic o rg a n iz a tio n s so th a t Black
people can have im p a c t on the
overall community.
He is also urging his supporters to
vote fo r another candidate fo r the
school b o a rd , Sarah N e w h a ll.
C a w th o rn e says she w o rke d fo r
“ us” when we re a lly needed her
help and i t ’ s real im p o rta n t fo r the
Black c o m m u n ity to understand
that when people help us politically,
i t ’ s im p o rta n t fo r us to retu rn the
favor.
C a w th o rn e spends some o f his
free tim e w ith his w ife Joyce and
th e ir three c h ild re n ; A le na , Elise,
and Jon, but there always seems to
be time fo r him to work on his oral
h is to ry p o rtra y a ls o f fam ous
Blacks, such as W .E .B . D u B o is,
M artin Luther King and others.
Nick Barnett
Herb Cawthorne
Rev. John Garlington
Lillian Herzog
Leon T. Johnson
Committee to retain Sarah Newhall for School Board.
Gretchen Kafoury
Neil Kelly
Armando La Guardia
Vesia Loving
Bob Nelson
Edna Robertson
Ruth Sponcer
Raul Soto-Seelig
Betty Walker
Commissioner Charles Jordan
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