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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
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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-
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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
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Iris Arm is Is srrsstsd and dragged out of Senator Bob Packw ood's
office by federal marshalls
IPhoto Gerald Taylor)