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PORTLAND OBSERVER
Volume XIV, Number 1
October 19, 1963
26C Per Copy
Two Sections
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Dellums blasts missiles
? ¿is,
by Conn Hallm an
O A K L A N D . C X .— Drawing his
audience back to (hat chilling morn
ing in 1962 when the U .S. and
Soviet Union came within minutes
of a nuclear war during the Cuban
missile crisis. U.S. Rep. Ronald Del-
Iqms (D -O akland) last weekend de
livered a powerful call to halt the de
ployment of U .S.
missiles in
Europe.
"O u r lives hang in the balance."
the dynamic Congressperson told
hundreds of people who packed the
Hyatt Regency here Oct. 8.
Billed "N e w leadership for the
80s,” the dinner also featured C h i
cago M ayor Harold Washington,
and drew an audience representing
community organizations, church
es, labor, senior and peace groups,
virtually the entire spectrum of acti
vist progressive and left organize
uons in this city. Indeed, the crowd
bore a remarkable resemblance to
what has come to be called the
Linda Williams, former Oregonian reporter for City Hall, diacuaaes her reporting experiences In the
Rose City.
(Photo: Richard J. Brown)
Williams discusses City politics
by Lam ia Duke
G rassroo t News, N . JF.— P o r t
la n d ’ s only daily newspaper. The
O regonian, is about to lose one o f
its best reporters. The Black com
munity will miss a voice it had come
to trust. 'T hat voice was the writing
o f C ity H a ll re p o rte r, L in d a W il
liams.
W illia m s ’ news tenure at the
slate's largest newspaper gave the
paper insight in to issues it never
knew existed In 1981 her series on
police b ru ta lity caused her to be
come the focus ol verbal abuse by
the Police Union's publication, The
Nap Shed
The Nap Sheet told her if she ever
needed heip, not to call the police.
" M y g u n d m o th e r used to tell me
there was a certain futility in paying
ioo much attention to idiots. No one
irgues with a fool but a fo o l," W il
liam s said in an interview at C ity
officers planting drugs on people,
lying to obtain search warrants, as
well as the historically bad relation
ship w ith the Black com m unity It
was interesting because there were
four reporters assigned to the story
and only Alan O ta, a Japanese A m
erican, and I were targeted for that
abuse."
W illiam s believes there was a lot
more to the criticism she received
fro m the Police U n io n . "S o m e
people who historically did not like
The O regonian, fo r their own rea
sons, attacked me They thought I
was a more vulnerable symbol than
a white m ale."
As an A fro -A m e ric a n w om an ,
Williams fell her presence has made
a d iffe ren ce at The O reg o nian
" T h e paper is m ore sensitized
People are really careful about using
certain cartoons, and they are care
ful to note how the story will be per
ceived. I also hope there w ill be
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Hall
H o w ever, W illia m s had to take
this attack somewhat seriously. " I t
identified me as a target lor anyone
out there who wanted to attack me.
They (the Police Union] did not un
derstand, nor did they have any re
spect fo r, a person tryin g to do a
professional job . They took every
thing personally and reduced every
issue to the simplest, idiotic base of
'You don't like m e .'"
W illia m s sought and received a
personal clarification from the Po
lice C h ie f, Ron S till, who told her
those opinions did not reflect the
Bureau's.
" W h a t we were w riting about at
that time raised questions about the
police department in general These
were le g itim a te questions in the
minds o f the public. W e would have
been derelict in our duties if we had
not w ritten about this. There was
the whole scandal involving police
"rainbow coalition.”
Dellums delivered a detailed in
dictment o f plans by the Reagan
Administration to deploy Pershing
II and Cruise missiles starting Dec.
15 of this year, warning diners that
only an "escalation of activity" can
get the world through "this fright
ening and dangerous m om ent."
“ Maybe it's time to go to ja il,”
Dellums said in a call for stepping
up civil disobedience "M ayb e it
ought to be 800,000. maybe eight
m illion.”
Bringing to bear all of the expert
ise he has developed from his posi
tion on the House Armed Forces
Committee, Dellums gave the crowd
a scary nuts and bolts view of exact
ly what deployment o f the missiles
will mean He pointed out that over
the past 10 years there have been 107
separate incidents in which compu
ter and radar errors have resulted in
nuclear alerts.
In those previous accidents, “ we
had I ) to 20 minutes to check them
o u t," Dellums said, but pointed out
the new missiles can strike major
Soviet targets within "six minutes of
launch."
Warning that the possibility o f ac
cidental nuclear war will become a
" re a lity ," Dellums urged the au
dience to become deeply involved in
the Oct. 22 demonstrations to halt
deployment o f (he missiles, and to
join in support o f the "h o t au
tum n” demonstrations in Europe.
" W e have to assert our right to
live," Dellums warned. " I t is time
to escalate the controversy, time to
intensify our activity."
Given who the two major speak
ers were, coupled with the impres
sive array o f U.S. representatives,
state, and local political figures, a
major draw for the evening was the
subject of the 1984 election and the
possible candidacy o f Rev. Jesse
Jackson. Dellums. who just re
turned from a European tour with
the Operation PU SH director, has
endorsed Jackson’s candidacy, al
though Jackson himself has yet to
declare himself in the race for the
Presidency.
"Jesse Jackson has a winning set
of politics, not just a personality,"
Dellums told the crowd, and argued
persuasively for candidates repre
senting "every major oppressed
group in the U .S ."
Dellums pointed out the key role
Jackson's candidacy could play in
the registration of Black voters, and
what impact (hat could have on the
REP RON DELLUMS
1984 race. " In the 1976 race Blacks
elected the President," Dellums
said. “ In 1980 Black people stayed
home and dumped a President. We
don't have to buy someone in M id
die America We can elect a progres
sive voice in 1984."
The U .S.
representative was
strongly upbeat in his view o f Ihe
impending showdown wilh Reugan
next fall, and then expressed confi
dence Ihe Republican President
could be defeated. " I f we go out
and look up all the people he has
hurt, there is no way he can be elect
ed,” he told the diners. "They got
the money, we got the votes. I ’m not
afraid o f Ronald Reagan," he said,
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Grenada:P M. Bishop killed
V i / m /’ i i «’ Hishop, Prime Minister
ol Grenada, was killed Wednesday.
Neports from Grenada slate that
Hishop was freed fro m house arrest
by followers, went to army head
quarters and was in the act o f
obtaining weapons f o r supporters
when
he and several others,
including two soldiers, were killed in
shooting that insued.
On Saturday, the Grenadan Army
took temporary control o f the liny
island nation from its popular
leader, Prime Minister Maurice
Bishop
M ajo r Liam Omo Cornw all, who
is Grenada’s Ambassador to Cuba,
issued a statement over Radio Free
Grenada Sunday, staling that Bish
op was removed because he refused
to share power with the Central
Committee o f the party in power—
the New Jewel Movement. Cornwall
said, " N o one man can be above the
rule No man can be above Ihe ma
jority. As much as we love and re
spect Comrade Bishop, we will defi
nitely not tolerate this development
in our country."
He added that Bishop is under in
vestigation to determine if he had
elected Prime Minister when Great
Britain declared the island indepen
dent. Bishop, a lawyer, was educat
ed in Great Britain and returned to
Grenada in 1970. He was elected to
Parliament in 1976
Since Ihe 1979 Revolution the na
non has opened free public schools
for the first time, built new hospi
tals, attempted to diversify its agrar
ian economy, developed mass o r
ganizations to enable the people to
be involved in local and national de
cisions. It has developed trade ties
with Cuba, the Soviet Union,
Chechoslovakia, East Germany,
and other socialist nations as well as
with France and Western Europe
The nation is in the process of devel
oping a new constitution and elec
toral process.
Grenada also has been under d i
plomatic and economic attack from
the U.S and fears an invasion simi
lar to that being waged on Nicara
gua by the U.S. The break between
the U.S. and Grenada closely fo l
lowed the 1979 Revolution When
Grenada requested aid in developing
its airport and tourist facilities, the
U.S. offered $5,000, but only if
spread a rumor that there is a power
struggle in the Government Bishop
reportedly is being held under house
arrest The Arm y, Cornwall said, is
an integral part of the government
and "w ill tolerate absolutely no
manipulation whatsoever of coun
terrevolutions. no mailer in what
guise, shape or fo rm ."
Army Commander, General H u d
son Austin, said the Central t o m
mitiee had given Bishop an ultim at
um to share power or resign He
said the Central Committee had de
cided Bishop should work among
the masses while Deputy Prime M in
ister Coard guided and organized
the "political work of the party."
The problem, he said, "is that C o m
rade Bishop has disgraced the party
and the revolution by trying to by
pass the New Jewel Movement's col
lective leadership and spreading a
rumor that Deputy Prime Minister
Coard had plotted to kill h im ."
Coard, who is expected to be
named Prime Minister by the party,
resigned in response to Bishop's
charge
Bishop, 39, led the 1979 coup
which took power from U.S.-sup
ported Sir Eric G airy. who was
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Through tha cat scan Tha camera, peeking
through Kaiser s naw cat scan, picks up visitors
with Alvin W Washington. Vice President and Ra
gional Associate Manager (canter), and Hanry
Mead Kaiser. grandson of Henry J. Kaiser (right)
during radadicatlon caramony
(Photo: Rlchdrd J. Brown)
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