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Kr» Frenes» S chaen-'easpaper Rooa U n iv e r s ity o f Ors-’ an L ib r a r y Rainbow Coalition Blacks in the NBA Thousands protest Euromissiles Page 4 Page 8 Page 2 PORTLAND OBSERMER “ s U«PS 959-680-855 t t w F M M M « C t h r IMJ U.S. Marines invade Grenada "Foreign troops are invading Grenada This is our country, our sovereign country, our dear home land Foreign trsxips began landing this morning Our armed forces are now meeting them in fierce bat tle With these words the people ol Grenada learned early I uesday morning that the long expected U.S ins avion of their nation had begun Jx-.V — President Ronald Reagan told the American people that the reasons for the attack on the small island off the South American coast, which is twice the size of Washington, D C ., and has 110,000 people—nearly all Black—were; To protect the lives of U.S. citi zens. mainly medical students living on the island; to restore law and or der; to establish democratic institu tions. A ffa n ita M c C u ff. a fifth grader at King School plants a juniper bush for the playground border Or M a tth e w Prophet's report on scholastic achievem ents in the Portland schools appears on page 3.1 (Photo: Richard J Brown) District 18 public forum chooses candidate The District IH I eadership Forum will hold a community-wide forum on leadership to determine who is the best candidate to oppose the in cumbent Representative in District 18. "The splitting of the Black vote by loo many candidates and divided supporters caused an excellent chance for representation to slip through our hands We cannot al low this to happen again." the group stated. In an effort to unify behind one candidate, a Community Wide For um on issues and candidates will be held on November 5th. The forum intends to: •Discuss the needs and issues of the District. •Establish the qualities necessary for a candidate. • Allow candidates to make pre sentations. • Endorse one candidate. •Assist with the campaign of the candidate chosen. Each candidate will speak for ten minutes, answer questions, and close in two minutes. The same questions will be asked each candi date. Following the presentations a se cret ballot will be held with voters identified by voter registration cards or drivers licenses Issues identified are: taxes and tax structure; unemployment; educa tion; crime and prostitution; dis- vestment in South Africa; economic- development; health care. The forum will be held at 1:00 p.m. November 5th. Members of the steering committee are Ronnie Herndon, Edna Robertson. Rev. John Garlington, Marion Scott and Herb Cawthorne For more infor mation call 248-4575. All of Reagan's reasons for the attack have been refuted On Monday, Oct 24th, the day before the invasion, the government of Grenada sent the United Slates a message "W e are for peace, friend ship and for maintaining the histori cally established ties between our countries and hope they grow and strengthen We further take this op portunity to inform yout govern ment that the Military Revolution ary Council of Grenada has no de tire or aspiration to rule the coun try. We are presently beginning the process of establishing a fully con stituted civilian government within ten to fourteen days. Such a govern ment would be broad-based, ex pressing the interests of all social classes and strata in our country. We have already held discussions with our local Chambers of Com merce and industry, commercial, banking managers and holders, as part of the process of constituting such a government. "O ur civilian government would pursue a policy of mixed economy with state, cooperative and private sectors and would encourage for eign and local investments within the framework of the national inter- political contributions to enhance its image in the U.S. An in-depth investigative effort by reporter Murray Wass, in this two-part series, reveals, in part, that: •The South African government funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions to two U.S. Senate candidates Some $250,000 in covertly provided South African funds was used to help fa cilitate the election of Senator Rod ger Jepsen, R-lowa, and the $150,000 was funneled to Senator S I. Hayakawa, R-Calif. • Hayakawa received and never returned a $2,000 payment from a front organization of the South A f rican government, the South A fri can Foreign Affairs Association, in V u of the country." The U.S government also states that it invaded Grenada at the re quest of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean stales, which was or ganized in 1981 with Grenada as a founding member. The organization met Sunday; however, Guyana and Trinidad, Grenada's closest neigh bors, refused to participate in the at tack, while Barbados and Jamaica, non-members but allies of the U.S., joined in the invasion These small island nations all hope to benefit fi nancially from Reagan s Caribbean Initiative. "W e are faced with a very grave situation in the Caribbean; a situa tion that has been directly brought about by the intervention of the United Slates into the sovereign and independent country of Grenada," Out now! Out now! by Chuck Goodmacher " O U T N O W ! O U T N O W !” ech oed o ff the front of the Portland Federal Building Wednesday as nearly 1,000 people demanded an immediate full withdrawal of Amer ican Marines from Grenada The protest had been called less than 24 hours earlier by people outraged over the invasion. The event ended with a conversa- South Africa payoff P H IL A D E L P H IA - Several mem bers and former members of Con gress and the U.S. Senate have ac cepted gifts and money from the South African government, accord ing to a copyrighted story in The National leader, the nation's only national weekly newspaper aimed at the Black community. The story, which appears on the front page of the current issue of The National Leader, was released on October 20. It alleges that the South African government has en gaged in a massive influence-buying campaign in the U.S. Several of America's best-known political leaders and journalists were in volved. South Africa spent millions of dollars in free trips, favors and Black United Front co chair Ron Herndon adds his voice to W ednesday's protest against th e U S July 1978. •The South African government covertly financed more than 50 trips to South Africa for members of Congress and their aides. •The South African government provided free travel and secretly funneled campaign contributions to members of the House Agriculture Committee in an attempt to secure higher sugar quotas. •The South African government funneled some $20,000 in payments for speeches to former President Gerald Ford through one of its front organizations. •The South African government provided more than 200 U.S. jour nalists with free, all-expense paid trips to South Africa Among those Please turn to page 4 column 4) t'a » -»a- tion between Senator Packwood (who was pulled off the floor of the Senate) and Ada Sanchez, who spoke on behalf of the protesters The demonstration, publicized mainly by phone calls, overwhelmed everybody there Several experi enced organizers said they'd never seen such a successful spontaneous demonstration. The crowd included people of all colors and ages—a true Rainbow Coalmon—opposed to Reagan's war in Grenada By 12:30 there were so many peo ple present that it became impos sible to make an orderly circle in front of the building. Among the slogans— led by Citizens Party co- chair John Blank— were, "U .S . M a rines come home, leave Grenada alone," and " I , 2, J, 4—dump Rea gan in '84.” Ronnie Herndon, Black United Front co-chair, speaking to the crowd through a bullhorn, noted that the administration'! "concern" about the safety of Americans in Grenada was a big lie. Herndon quoted the chancellor of the medical school there, who said during a tele vision interview the night before that there * u no danger to the Am erican students whatsoever. Calling the leaders of the Caribbean nations which also sent troops against Gren ada "Uncle Toms and Aunt Jemi- t Please turn to page I I column I) aasar invasion of Granada Grenada's Deputy Permanent Rep resentalive to the U .N . Ian Jacobs told the U N. Security Council Jacobs called Reagan's statement that the U.S. is assisting OECA states it merely a smokescreen to hide the truth. "There is no doubt in anyone's mind as to who is behind the invasion of Grenada Talk of multi-national force is a joke, an ab solute joke, because over 95 percent of the forces that are present in Grenada tonight are from the United States and those forces are there. Mr President, in keeping with what has been the policy of the United States towards the people and the Revolution of Grenada since March 13, 1979 Nobody should be surprised at what has hap pened in Grenada tonight "W e merely have to look at the t IPhoto Richard J Brow n) facts I ook at the 1980 plot that was revealed in the Hashington Post just six months ago—a plot that de tailed an attempt to organize and ex ecute the overthrow of the govern ment of the People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada " He quoted Larry Speakes. White House spokesman, as saying that overt and covert activity against Grenada has been stepped up in the Iasi two or three months "The people of Grenada to night," he said, "are suffering un told hardships and despite reports being issued by the U.S we have other reports that indicate many deaths As far as reports we have been getting from around the world, as many as 700 people, many of them civilians, have been killed as a Please turn to page 4 column 4/ o Iris Arm is Is srrsstsd and dragged out of Senator Bob Packw ood's office by federal marshalls IPhoto Gerald Taylor)
