Portland Observer, June 1.1983 Section I Paga 5
Washington Hot Line
by Congressman Ron Wyden
denies interracial dating or mar
riage, had sought charitable tax ex
emptions on the basis o f the church-
connected activities at the schools
In iu decision, written by Chief
Justice Warren Burger, the court
held that the IRS has the authority
to deny exemptions to any institu
tion acting "contrary to public
policy."
Further, the decision said that
"there can no longer be any doubt
that racial discrimination in educa
tion violates deeply and widely ac
cepted views o f elementary justice."
The Court's ruling does not bar
the schools from continuing their
discriminatory practices, but, as
Chief Justice Burger noted in the
decision, the denial o f tax benefits
The Supreme Court recently con
ducted a special course in civil liber
ties for the Reagan administration
and the more than 100 schools in
this country that practice racial dis
crimination. It did so by upholding
the right o f the Internal Revenue
Service (IR S ) to deny tax breaks to
such schools
T h u ruling repudiates the adm in
istration's claim that the Internal
Revenue
Service
lacked
legal
authority to deny charitable tax ex
emptions to two schools involved in
the recent case before the Supreme
Court.
These schools, one o f which bans
blacks from admission and the other
which admits blacks but specifically
will inevitably have a substantial
impact on the operation o f private
religious schools.
The Court's ruling comes almost
a ycar-and-a-half after the Reagan
administration revoked the 1RS*
authority to deny tax exemptions,
saying it required explicit congres
sional authorization. This action
touched o ff a storm o f protest
within the Congress and around the
country, which caused the Justice
Department to switch sides before
the Supreme Court in an attempt to
head o ff a ruling.
Despite efforts to minimize pub
licity about the abrupt policy change
and later attempts to soften it, the
action raised considerable contro
versy even within the admimstra-
tion, including a letter signed by 200
officials of the Justice Department's
Civil Rights Division.
The actions o f the administration
combined with continued reports of
racially motivated vandalism and
violence unfortunately have proven
that, twenty years after the civil
rights fervor o f the I960'», the
United States is still struggling to
find a way to a truly equal society.
The Court's decision is a beacon
o f hope for those who have
witnessed the seeming backward
slide in civil rights progress during
the past tw o-and-a-half years, but it
is also a warning that we must be
ever-vigilanl in our pursuit of equal
justice under the law for all A m eri
cans.
Investing in South Africa
Moral issue with a bottom line
by C a rl A. Penn
The main question on disinvest
ment is what is the total impact o f
American investment and does it
contribute more to the welfare of
nonwhites or does it strengthen the
apartheid regime's reluctance to In
stall real changes? For proponents
o f divestment that question is an
swered clearly by reviewing some
current
statistics:
The average
monthly wage in the mining industry
is still discriminatory depending on
color. W hite workers earn $1,056 a
month, compared with $173 for
blacks. The infant mortality rate is
12 per every 1,000 births for whites
and 282 for blacks.
W ith legislation now pending in
more than 23 states and cities calling
for withdrawal of public funds from
companies doing business in South
A frica, church, educational, labor
and community groups are leading
the call for United States divestment
from South A frica. And the mo
mentum o f their efforts parallels the
rapid growth in public ownership o f
corporate America.
Through their pension funds,
Americans today own nearly 50
percent o f corporate America, and
with United States minorities cur
rently holding a $75 billion interest,
it's not surprising that when the
question o f investing in South
Africa arises, so does the question
o f investment social responsibility
Last January, following the lead
o f Michigan, Connecticut, Philadel
phia and other major cities and
states, Massachusetts passed legisla
tion that called for total withdrawal
o f $100 million o f its funds from
banks and corporations doing busi
ness in or with South Africa. W hile
many investors have toed the middle
line for years, claiming that both
divestment and investment involve
great ambiguity, a large group is
now beginning to move left o f cen
ter on this issue.
It is extraordinary, if not alarm
ing, that all principle discussion has
focused on equity for minority
workers and has not included dia
logue on the transfer o f necessary
economic assets to the m ajority. In
other words, in order for the m ajor
ity to cooperate with the minority-
controlled government, the majority
must gain control over one or two o f
the major sectors o f basic industry,
i.e. coal mining or rail transporta
tion.
Moreover, American corpora
tions are concentrating most o f their
investment in high technology and
manufacturing, producing capital-
intensive equipment that will lessen
the economy's dependence on black
labor.
Yet, South Africa still requires
large amounts o f foreign investment
to remain self-sufficient and a w ith
drawal o f investment and restraint
on new investment would force de
pendency on imports of all cate
gories, thus making the government
more reliant, perhaps responsive, to
the world's concerns about apart
heid.
In a study conducted by our firm
on institutional portfolios over a 10-
year period, we sanitized (hose se
curities o f companies that had in
vested in South Africa and allocated
the value o f those securities into the
remaining non-South African in
vestments. In some cases, the allo
cated value went into companies of
the same industry, but which had no
South A frican investments.
The return on investment from
the sanitized portfolio stock proved
to be superior to the return from se
curities that had invested in South
Africa. It should be noted that our
study was .-ompleted in June 1982,
and does not include the last six
months o f market surge.
Apartheid, a persistent discrimi
nation against people o f color in
South A frica, has steadily become
more thorough, more efficient and
more severe. It impedes fam ily sta
bility, spirituality, intellectual, per
sonal and moral growth. It violently
suppresses free speech. Worse yet.
for 23 million people, it offers no
vote in its government. This is slav
ery, no matter how sophisticated its
design.
There is no question that the con
tinuance of South Africa's racially
repressive government has caused a
qualitative shift to armed struggle
by the South A frican nationalist
movement. G uerrilla activity will
intensify through this decade. Reso
lution of (his struggle will depend on
the timeliness of South African con
cessions to nationalists at the nego
tiating table, or Western-backed de
militarization o f (his struggle
As segregationists continue to de
flect, channel and absorb nationalist
opposition with broken promises of
improved conditions, the brightest
hopes for peaceful resolution fade.
Demilitarization o f the nationalist
movement through increased m ili
tary and financial aid, in light o f no
concessions and broken promises,
will only strengthen the thorough
ness, efficiency and srverily of
apartheid, and thus continue to add
risk to American investment in
South Africa.
Carl A. Penn is at Daniels A Bell,
a New York brokerage firm.
Apartheid, nuclear power and mine safety
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touting for nuclear scientists and
technicians. It also seems clear (he
purpose o f this is to get a nuclear
bomb on the cheap.”
Last June the apartheid regime
restructured and brought into cen
tralized control and direction its
various nuclear agencies. Beginning
on July 1, 1982, an overall Atomic
Energy Corporation
of
South
A frica began functioning. Under it
are two large subsidiary bodies, the
Uranium Enrichment Corporation
o f South Africa and the Nuclear
Development Corporation o f South
the chairman of which is Dr. J .W .L .
Villiers, former president of the old
Atomic Energy Board, are the fol
lowing: S.J.O . de Plessis, director-
general o f M ineral and Energy
Affairs; D .A . Etherredge. chairman
o f Nufcor; M .G .A .
M cM illa n ,
chairman
of
Palabora
M ining
Group; J .H . Smith, chairman o f
Escom; J.A . Stegmann, managing
director o f Sasol (the oil from coal
extraction plant); D r. N . Stutter-
heim, chairman o f Telephone M frs.
o f SA and vice-chairman o f M intek;
Donald Sole, outgoing Washington
ambassador; and J. van Dalsen,
director-general o f foreign affairs
and inform ation.
Africa.
Included on the board o f direc
tors o f the new state corporation.
medicine, preferring olive oil as a cooking fat.
•
Tobacco got its name from the Y-shaped pipe
called a tabaca, which Columbus saw Caribbean
Indians using.
•
Long before the Susan B. Anthony dollar, there
was the Martha Washington one dollar Silver Certifi
The Beisa mine is a part o f the
nuclear complex now run by the new
Atomic Energy Corporation. It is a
supplier o f the pilot plant at
Valindaba. which is now producing
enriched uranium and delivering it
to the nuclear power plant at
Keoberg. Formerly South Africa
sent its uranium abroad, particular
ly to the U .S ., for enrichment. Its
attainment, with the help o f its
Weatern allies, o f its own enrich
ment process, is an ominous devel
opment: South A frica has refused to
sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty.
U .S . supplying o f South Africa
with nuclear materials, suspended
for a time due to international
pressure, was resumed by the
Reagan administration in m id -1982.
According to Carlton Stoiber, d i
rector o f the U .S. State Depart
ment's Nuclear Export and Import
Control Ofice, this was done “ as an
inducement to the South Africans to
be more forthcoming on non-pro
liferation issues." Beside this vastly
unbelievable statement needs to be
set the many continuing declara
tions o f South African generals that
they possess the nuclear weapon
capability o f dealing with their anti
apartheid enemies.
A t least five new unions are now
recruiting among black, colored
(mixed race), and Asian mine
workers. Most o f the organizing is
occuring in the gold mines and so
far about I I * » o f the non-white
miners have been recruited. H o w
ever, unions are barred in the
uranium mines (including in the
huge Rossing uranium mine in
cate, in 1891.
Enough hot dogs are produced in the U.S. every
year to reach the moon and back 2 % times.
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Tinto Zinc company). The white
gold mine companies were com
pelled to deal with unions so that
orderly negotiations could be con
ducted with black miners, instead of
having to confront the type o f chaos
and disruption (hat has occurred at
the Beisa mine. As the foothold of
Black unionization spreads, the
urnggle against conditions in the
mines is bound to reach all sections
of the South African mining industry.
Oregon Reps
buy missiles
Oregon congressmen Les AuCoin
(D ) and Ron Wyden (D ) joined their
colleagues in the House o f Repre
sentatives M ay 25 to pass 309-92
$454 million in additional funding
for continued production of Persh
ing I I missiles. In a speech on the
House floor, AuCoin said the
Pershing II appropriation was forced
by the "outright arrogance o f the
A rm y,” in pursuing production of
the missiles, "contrary to the direc
tives o f Congress."
Congressman Addabo (D -N cw
York) introduced amendments to
both reduce and delete funding for
the Pershing I I , but was defeated by
voice votes in the Democratic-con-
trolled House o f Representatives.
Oregon congressman Wyden and
AuCoin voted in favor o f the
Addabo
amendments.
Nuclear
Freeze advocates say that deploy
ment o f the Pershing II will make a
nuclear freeze impossible to achieve.
The $454 million for Pershing II
missiles was lumped together in a
package o f appropriations totalling
$4.8 billion for fiscal 1983. The
measure granted additional funds
for a variety o f other federal pro
grams, including $12 million for re
search on acquired immunity d efi
ciency syndrome (A ID S ); $49 m il
lion for restoration o f the west front
o f the U .S. Capitol; and $50 million
lor Farmers Hom e Administration
(F H A ) guaranteed operating loans.
Notice of Public Hearing on the
Proposed Statement of Objectives
and Projected Use of Funds
CITY OF PORTLAND
JOBS BILL PROGRAM
The City of Portland intends to apply
” >• Department of Housing
and Urban Development for 84,080,000 in supplemental Community
Development Block Grant funds that have been made available begin
rung August 1, 1983 through Title I of Public Law 9 8 8 , the "Jobe
BUI"
Theee fund* will be made available to undertake community develop
ment activities that will result in productive jobe in the areas of
houaing. neighborhood improvements, economic development and
community services
Following is a "Proposed Statement of Obiectivee and Projected Uee
of Funds" for the Jobs Bill Program Citizens are invited to submit
comments on the proposed statement by June 15. 1983. Comments
should be directed to: Mark Davis, Bureau of Community Develop
ment. 1220 S.W . FifthAvenue. Room 1120, Portland, Oregon 97204.
Any comments received will be considered before developing and
submitting the "Final Statement of Objectives and Projected Use of
Funds" to HUD on July 1. 1983.
A public hearing will be held before City Council at 10 a m. Wednes
day. June 15. 1983 in City Hall Council Chambers. 1220 SW Fifth
Avenue, Portland, to receive testimony on the proposed Jobe Bill
Program.
Additional information end details on the "Projected Use of Funds"
can be obtained by calling the Bureau of Community Development at
798-5159
PROPOSED S TA TE M E N T OF OBJECTIVES
A N D PROJECTED USE OF FUND S FOR
S U PPLEM ENTA L HC D FU N D IN G (JOBS BILL)
FISCAL YEAR 1983-84
CITY OF PO RTLAND
The primary objective of the City of Portland's Housing and Com
munity Development Program is the provision of decent housing, a
suitable living environment and expanding economic opportunities,
principally for persons of low and moderate income.
Program emphasis w ill be on:
• Improving Portland • public facHitiet and promoting • healthy economic environment
by supporting project» that will reeult in productive |<>be or eapended economic
opportunities
• Providing eeei«tence to low and moderate income persons through houaing. commu
nity «ervice and employment programs
Proposed uee of the funds made availeble to the City
of Portland in fiscal year 1963-84 undar tha Jobs Bill
(Title I of Public Law 98-8) include:
NEIGHBORHOOD
IMPROVEMENTS
ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT
Street improvements, bike paths, traffic
diverter» park improvements «treat light
n g BuUdmg Code enforcement fstimeted
budget 12 M 8 0B0
Economic incentive program, site >m
provements to mdustnei commercial lend,
implementation of urban service policy
Estimated budget 11 187 236
ADMINISTRATION
COM M UNITY SERVICES
Siilewelk aubetdy ’ cm aenion. en ^ry en iy
lood end fuel program». youth work e i
penance, emergency houerng »ääntänee,
eummer employment Io* teenä letim ated
budget 1718 320
Estimated budget 1206 /flb
TOTAL JOBS BILL PROGRAM BUDGET M.S80.000
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