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PORTWND OBSERNER
July 21, 1982
Volume XII, Number 41
250 Per Copy
Two Sections
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Dellums warns of nuclear, social explosions
by C. Eddie Edmondson
Envision two men in an airtight
room filled with gasoline. One of
the men has ten matches and the
other has seven. One o f the men
says to the other: *7 won't nego
tiate with you until I have 15
matches. " Imagine that those
two men are Ronald Reagan and
Brezhnev. Whether we agree with
each other in this room or not,
this planet unifies us all.
—Congressman Ron Dellums
Friday, July 16, 1982
Portland, Oregon
Ronald Reagan cut $48.5 b illio n
in social service and related p ro
grams from (he nation’s budget, not
to reduce the size and cost o f gov
ernm ent, but to help offset a 53.3
per cent increase in the m ilitary side
o f the budget, Congressm an Ron
D ellum s, ( D -C a lif.) to ld over 525
persons attending the Portland Ob
server's firs t Achievem ent A w ard
Banquet F rid a y , Ju ly 16th, at the
H ilto n
H o te l
In
dow n to w n
Portland.
The awards banquet was to honor
Portlanders identified by the com
m unity newspaper fo r their contri-
buttions to Portland through their
work and community activities. (Sec
related story in this issue.) A l
M cG ilbcrry, managing editor, said
the banquet, w hich w ill be an an
nual event, would include a feature
speaker o f n a tio n a l prom inence.
Ron Dellums is an eleven-year veter
an o f the House o f Representatives.
“ Ronald Reagan is not about re
ducing governm ent expense, but
only w ith reducing governm ent in
certain areas,” Dellums told the au
dience. In the short span o f ten
years, the m ilitary budget w ill qua
d ru p le i f Ronald Reagan has his
way, Dellums said.
" I n 1971 the m ilitary budget was
$91 billion. Ten years later it's $223
billion. And for 1983 Reagan is pro
posing a $258 b illio n m ilita ry bud
get. And by the end o f this decade
we are talking about h a lf a trillio n
d o lla r m ilita ry b u d g e t," Dellums
said.
" I t ’ s o b sce n e ," D ellum s p ro
claimed.
By cutting social service and other
n o n -m ilita ry parts o f the n a tio n ’ s
budget, such as the regulatory agen
cies, Dellums said, the adm inistra
tion hoped to offset the dramatic in
creases in the m ilita ry side o f the
budget.
" W ith no policy debate this ad
m in is tra tio n is re -w ritin g spend
in g ," he said. “ The in fra structure
o f governm ent is being reduced in
an arbitrary and capricious w ay."
When the chairman o f the House
Armed Services Com m ittee replied
blandly to his request that the com
mittee “ expand the parameters o f
the debate " on the proposed m ili
tary budget before it this year, Del
lums said he raised private funds to
finance the operations o f an ad hoc
committee hearing to look at the fu ll
implications o f the m ilitary budget.
During the six days o f hearings in
M arch, D ellum s said his subcom
m ittee exam ined " th e m o ra l, the
economic and political im plications
o f the m ilitary budget.”
" W e ’ re k illin g o u r c h ild re n ,”
D ellum s said was one con clu sio n
learned in the hearings. A study
showed that a higher num ber o f
children have less fa ith in their fu
ture because, Dellums said, the chil
dren believe they have been handed
over to a possible m ilita r y h o lo
caust.
Another point brought out in the
hearings, he said, is the unnecessary
o ve r-p ro d u ctio n in nuclear arms
" I f the United States and the Rus
sians used only 10 per cent o f their
nuclear weaponry, it would destroy
enough o f the ozone layers (w hich
cover the earth atmosphere) to cause
everyone to die o f cancer,” Dellums
said.
“ I maintain we are in the incredi
ble human misery that we are in be
cause Am ericans d id n ’ t debate in
1980. We cannot a ffo r d to make
that mistake in 1982,” he told his
audience to loud applause.
Dellums said the results o f the ad
hoc com m ittee hearings w ill hope
fu lly a llo w debate on the House
flo o r when the A rm ed Services
Committee sends out a 1983 m ilitary
appropriation bill for consideration.
“ The more we spend on the m ili
tary budget, the fewer jobs are de
veloped— in fa c t, we take jo b s
away,” Dellums said.
" W h e th e r we agree w ith each
other in this room or n ot,” Dellums
pointed out, “ this planet unifies us
a ll. T his planet is in d a n g e r," he
said.
Dellums said that despite the ad
m in is tra tio n ’ s co n te n tio n that we
can solve our problems w ith the as
sistance o f p rivate in d u s try , " th e
collective w ill o f people is expressed
itir o u & k o lir governm ent and not
through som^eprporate board.”
“ We are building a monument to
nuclear madness. We are w ithdraw
ing o u r c o m m itm e n t to save
people.” He called on his listeners
to participate in the 1982 elections.
CONGRESSMAN RON DELLUMS
(Photo: Richard Brown)
South African wrestlers boost apartheid
by Ed Ferguson
Rogar Colas and Jans Titus In William Shaksspaars's A Midsum-
mar Night's Draam .” Tha play Is producsd by the Portland Actors
Ensambla for tha 13th Annual Shaksspsars-ln-the-Parks.
(Please sea page 8)
Secrecy surrounded the arrival o f
the South A frican Springbok wrest
ling team in P o rtla n d , Oregon, on
June 18th. Seeking to avoid local
o p p o s itio n and a repeat o f the
S pringbo k rugby fiasco o f last
Septem ber, the organizers o f the
tour had to avoid advance publicity
o f the premier U.S. tour which in
cluded the firs t blacks to wrestle
outside South A fric a . The 33-man
delegation was qu ie tly taken some
300 miles to rural Oregon where the
Springboks w ould spend h a lf their
four-week to u r. The rem ainder o f
their visit w ould be to C a lifo rn ia ,
Oklahoma, and New York.
Oregon has a history o f sporting
ties with South A frica . The Spring
bok to u r is the latest episode in a
long series o f w restling exchanges
that date back to 1968. The ex
changes were in itia te d by Dale
Thomas, wrestling coach at Oregon
State University (OSU) fo r 29 years.
Suspended by the Amateur Athletic
U n io n (A A U ) in 1973 fo r his ties
w ith South A fr ic a , Thom as has
been described as “ America’ s No. 1
p ro m o te r o f sports contacts w ith
South A f r ic a " by R ichard Lap-
chick, N ational Chairperson o f the
American C oordinating Committee
for Equality in Sports and Society.
Thom as’ ties went unchallenged
locally u n til 1980 when the A frican
S tudents’ A sso cia tio n (A S A ) at
OSU protested. By the summer o f
1981 they successfully prevented
Thomas fro m taking a team o f 12
OSU wrestlers on a five-week tour
o f South A frica . The ASA has con
tinued to educate people lo c a lly
about a p a rth e id South A fric a .
Speakers brought to the OSU cam
pus include Fred Dube o f the A f r i
can National Congress. Ellen Musi-
alela o f SW APO, Dumsani Kumalo
o f the American Committee on A f
rica, and Richard Lapchick.
The S pringbok visit was organ
ized by tw o central Oregon high
school coaches after Dale Thomas
“ persuaded them to take on the pro
je c t." Coaches jo in e d high school
and college age wrestlers to compete
w ith the Springboks. Such competi
tio n is illegal under the statutes o f
the In te rn a tio n a l A m ateur W rest
lin g Federation ( F IL A ) w hich ex
pelled South A frica from that body
in 1970 because o f its racist policies
o f apartheid. The A A U , which im
plements F IL A statutes in the U.S.,
is now processing the case. Those
Americans found to have engaged in
c o m p e titio n w ith South A fric a n s
w ill be banned fro m in te rn a tio n a l
competition for life. Six o f the wres
tlers who competed w ith the Spring
boks are members o f Thomas’ OSU
wrestling squad.
The 33-member S pringbok dele
gation was composed o f 14 wrestlers
(10 white and 4 black), 18 coaches,
and a journalist. A fte r their arrival
they were active in public relations
w ork. Johan du Plessis. President
o f the South A fric a n A m a te u r
W restling Federation, rem arked,
" w e ’ re not interested in w in n in g
matches, we’ re interested in winning
people.” The image presented by du
Plessis was one o f “ blacks in South
A fr ic a w ho have m ore c o m fo rts
than in the whole o f A fric a togeth
e r . " The S pringbo k jo u rn a lis t in
fo rm e d the lo ca l press th a t " a
couple o f weeks ago non-w hites
were given representation in the par
liament, driving one o f the last nails
in apartheid's c o ffin .” The images
conflicted w ith front-page news o f
state b rutality against striking m in
ers in South A frica.
The four black Springboks, all o f
whom w ork fo r the South A fric a n
police, conveyed a sim ilar image o f
South A fr ic a . 26-year-old E lias
M n is i, called “ big b o y ” by the
white Springboks, met the press fre
q u e n tly to reveal " I am sa tisfied
w ith my life ." Mnisi said “ as far as
sports are concerned, you can forget
about apartheid. It ju st is n 't there
anym ore.” Blacks are responsible
fo r the slow pace o f change in South
A fric a according to M nisi. It is his
o p in io n th a t " th e re has to be a
sound re la tio n s h ip between the
white man and the black man, and
the black man has not accepted it
yet. So many times 1 see a white man
(Please turn to page 9 column I)
A Third World perspective on the peace movement
by Philip Ochieng
Pacific News Service
(Editor * note: Mr. Ochieng, a
p rom in en t A frican Journalist,
h at written for tha Nairobi Daily
Nation, tha Uganda Sunday Times
and tha Dar Ea Salaam Daily
N ew s, and la co -a u th o r of The
Kenyatta Succession.)
A question I o fte n ask m yself
a b out the peace m ovem ent now
sweeping across the United Slates is:
What is there in it for me as a mem
ber o f the Third World?
And the answer I keep arriving at
— perplexing though it may sound
to most Am ericans— is: N othing. I
could even say that the movement
runs afoul o f my best interests.
The central demand o f the move
ment is general disarm am ent o r,
more specifically, a nuclear freeze.
It is a demand, however, based on
assum ptions w hich are fu n d a
mentally false; indeed, they can only
impair the real cause o f peace in the
long run.
One false assum ption is that a
freeze or arms accord can provide a
long-term answer to the intense r i
valry between the United Stales and
the Soviet Union.
A second false assumption is that
the conflict is a purely Soviet-Amer
ican a ffa ir , a phenomenon exclu
sively for the Northern Hemisphere.
It is probably from this assumption
that the peace movement behaves as
though the problem can be solved
w ithout any reference to the Third
W orld.
Every seminar I have attended de
voted to “ the Soviet p ro b le m " has
restricted itse lf to the po litica l and
m ilita ry m aneuvers by the tw o
w orld powers as they struggle fo r
advantage in given situations. Every
seminar has confined its discussion
to questions purely o f tactics and
strategy. None has asked the more
fundam ental question: What is the
spoil? W hat is to be gained by all
this political and m ilitary struggle?
To ask such questions is to begin
to understand that the p o litic a l r i
valry and the arms race are not ends
in themselves, t o ask such questions
is to realize that, in the last instance,
politics and war are means to ends
which are sometimes—as now—sel
dom mentioned by the belligerents.
Even when they do refer to ends,
it is o n ly in extrem ely subjective
terms, phrases which are so hack
neyed that they only help to mystify
the real objective o f the present r i
valry. Such is the case when the U.S.
and its allies claim that their only
aim in the world is to foster and de
fend “ freedom " and “ dem ocracy"
or, to put it another way, to counter
the " t h r e a t " o f Soviet " c o m m u
nism " and “ totalitarianism .”
Such is the case, to o . when the
Soviet U n io n alleges that its only
mission in the world is to “ liberate”
m ankind by helping us defeat U.S.-
led im perialism and b u ild in g “ so
cialism .”
But neither assertion prevents the
United States from siding with some
o f the most totalitarian and tyranni
cal regimes in the w orld—as long as
those regimes tend fo r the tim e
being to serve the long-term in te r
ests o f the U.S. and N A T O . L ik e
wise, such terms as "socialism ” and
"lib e ra tio n " have not prevented the
Soviet U nion from going out o f its
way, wherever it has a foothold, to
channel most re volutiona ry fervor
to the Soviet mold so as to prevent it
from taking a more popular dimen
sion.
To talk o f Soviet and Am erican
riva lry in the T hird W orld is to be
gin to answer the question posed at
the outset: The T hird W orld is the
spoil, the aim, the target o f the in
tense riv a lry between the U n ite d
States and the Soviet Union.
This should be clear enough. The
Soviet Union is not interested in anv
territorial par, o f the United States;
nor is the United States interested in
any te r r ito r ia l par, o f the Soviet
U nion. They w ould no, go to war,
much less arm themselves so frig h t
fully, in the claim o f such territory.
What is there in the T hird W orld
to warrant such an unprecedented
race, then, such a frightening m ili
tary array on both sides? The ans-
(Please turn to page 8 column I)