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Mondale needs Rainbow
Jesse Jackson called it a ‘ 'lovers’ sp at" when
Mayor Andrew Young expressed his frustrations
Thursday, August 16th, in fro n t o f a group o f
Black journalists in A tlanta, Georgia, when he
called M ondale's campaign sta ff a "b u n c h o f
smart-a
d white boys,” because they refused
to listen to him.
Young prefaced his assessment o f M ondale’s
s ta ff by statin g tha t Blacks need to vote fo r
Mondale because we could not face another four
years o f Reagan.
Young was part o f a group o f Black leaders
who s p lit w ith th e ir populace by su p p o rtin g
M ondale d u rin g the p re side n tial p rim a rie s.
Young went beyond the call o f duty by stating
he did not th in k Jackson was q u a lifie d to be
president.
His inflexible stand fo r Mondale, during the
National Democratic Convention, and his sup
port for the racist "d u al prim ary” system netted
boos and cries o f “ shame on you” from Black
delegates.
Y oung has experienced a case o f chicken-
coming-home-to roost. The same insensitivity
and arrogance exhibited by Mondale’ s staff to
the concerns o f the “ rainbow ” constituency is
being mirrored towards those Blacks who stood
up for Mondale by sitting down on Jackson.
As im portant as it is to defeat the policies o f
the Reagan administration, Mondale supporters
and campaign staff are not making the necessary
overtures to the ten m illion new voters who will
give Mondale the margin o f victory in Novem
ber.
Outbreaks, such as Young’s, will only fuel the
apathy among grassroot people. We challenge
the local M ondale committee to give the ra in
bow a reason to come out and glow in Novem
ber.
Hatfield mistake won't die
State Senator Margie Hendriksen (D-Eugene),
once considered a long shot, is now edging
closer to incum bent M a rk O. H a tfie ld in the
race to represent Oregon in the U nited States
Senate. H atfield himself put Hendriksen there,
th ro u g h engaging in questionable business
relationships and then trying to buy o ff public
opinion by donating the money in question to a
charity— after the episode has been exposed.
H e n d rik s e n , by refusing to make the ap
pearance o f impropriety a major campaign issue
and concentrating instead on H a tfie ld ’ s poor
voting record, is showing admirable restraint.
The release o f considerable evidence that Hat
fie ld 's real estate agent w ife , A n to in e tte ,
received payments totaling $55,000 in exchange
fo r the S e n a to r’ s active su pport o f a trans-
African oil pipeline is shaking Oregon. The scan
dal began with the publication o f two articles by
syndicated columnist Jack Anderson and is now
front page news across the nation. Hatfield had
been know n in W ashington circles as " M r .
Clean".
Greek tycoon Basil A . Tsakos, the promoter
Street Beat
by Lam ta D u k e and R ichard B ro w n
o f the pipeline, has been linked to illegal efforts
to sell U.S.-made helicopters to Iran and other
weapons to Ira q . C o n tinu e d armed c o n flic t
makes an African oil pipeline an attractive alter
native to exposing oil shipments to the Middle
East conflict.
The Senate Ethics Committee, at H a tfield's
request, and the F.B.I. (on its own initiative) are
now both investigating the Senator’s connection
w ith Tsakos. H a tfie ld adm itted to arranging
meetings fo r Tsakos w ith U.S. officials and to
w riting letters to foreign officials. This was at
the same time payments were made by Tsakos to
H a tfie ld ’ s wife; supposedly for real estate ad
vice.
H a tfie ld characterized as " a m ista ke ”
allow ing his w ife to do business w ith Tsakos
w hile he p rom oted the pipeline. E xpecting
O regonians to exonerate him fro m any
wrongdoing, on that basis is another H atfield
m istake— and one w hich ju st m ig h t help
catapult Margie Hendriksen to an upset victory
in November.
As the Bhagwan broke his vow o f
silence to answer questions fo r a
d eposition, the Street Beat team
asked, " D o you think the Bhagwan
Shree Rajneesh has been treated
fairly?” _____________________
Ferraro should thank Jackson
by Dr. Manning Marable
' 'From The Grassroots ' '
In recent weeks, most o f the
Presidential campaign spotlight
has focused on Congresswoman
Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman
vice presidential candidate of a
major party. Nearly everyone sings
her praises. Ms. magazine describes
her as "a ttra c tiv e but not beauty
pageant beautiful,” "a t ease with
the old-boy network” in Congress,
and "h a p p ily married with two
children and a dog." The three-term
representative was the one woman
whom "the men in the back room
find most palatable.”
Most political observers credited
Ferraro’s selection by Mondale as a
m ajor victory for the N ational
O rganization o f Women (N O W ).
Judy Goldsmith, NOW president,
declares triumphantly, "W e said we
would change (he political land
scape, and we have.” In Ferraro’s
acceptance speech before the con
vention, she characterized her
nom ination as the realization of
" th e American dream ... The
daughter of working Americans tells
all Americans that the future is
within our reach—if we’re willing to
reach for it." She praised Mondale
as "o n e o f the g re a t" future
Paula Brown
Administrative Aaalatant
"Yes He came to Oregon.
Oregonians like to keep Ore
gon to themselves. He is up
against tradition.”
"N o t really, they are trying
to get back at the man for stand
ing up for what he believes. If
he took a vow o f silence, it
should have been respected ”
Reprint appreciated
To the Editor:
Howard D. Willits
Civil rights now
John Edeline
Food Broker
"Y e s , he gets treated like
everybody else Also, I think
his press coverage has been
more than fair.”
Every significant advance in hu
man rights or social equality ever
achieved by any oppressed group in
the U.S. has evolved directly or in
directly from the A fro -A m erican
Freedom Movem ent. In the nine
teenth century, suffragists like
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth
Cady Stanton first acquired their
political skills from the Black
abolitionist movement.
A century later, the modern fe
minist movement largely evolved
its tactics and agenda from the civil
rights and Black Power movements.
Ferraro is liberal on many economic
issues, but she voted against busing
for school desegregation, and sup
ports the Pershing 2 missile and the
Trident nuclear submarine, which
take billions of dollars from human
services needed by poor women.
Blacks and workers. It is certain
that Ferraro— who is not one-tenth
as qualified for vice-president
as M ary Berry or Shirley Chis
holm — owes Jesse her current
claim to fame. And it is equally cer
tain that most Black women and
men who will vote for the Mondale/
Ferraro ticket will do so for only
one basic reason—THE DEFEAT OF
R O N ALD REAGAN
Letters to the Editor
Thank you very much for reprin
ting Jesse Jackson’s speech (before
the National Democratic Conven
tion). I read every word o f it. It is
very readable, concise, very
meaningful and very quotable. I
read parts of it to our church. I hope
Mondale makes Jackson an impor
tant part of his administration. He
could be Secretary of State. Other
nations would listen to him and act
with him.
You are doing a great jo b of
educating all of us on the real issues
o f the day. You are much better
than the Oregonian.
Best of success!
Rudla Reaves
Security Guard
Presidents. She also applauded Sally
Ride and John F. Kennedy for
"beckoning America” to new fron
tiers.
But
in
a dependent
clause— not even a full sentence—
she briefly praised Jesse Jackson,
"the descendant of slaves” who ran
for President.
What Ferraro d id n 't say, and
should have declared honestly, was
the follow ing: " I would not be
standing before this convention
tonight as your vice presidential
nominee had Jesse Jackson not run
this year. Jackson, more than any
other candidate, consistently raised
women’ s issues; he kept Mondale
from capturing all of the Black vote,
and in so doing, denied the front
runner an easy, uncontested
nomination. I thank Jesse for being
the firs t candidate to commit him
self to a woman as a running mate. I
praise Jesse and the entire Black
electorate for its historic revolt
against the established Democratic
Party leadership, which created the
political opportunity for a white,
upper-class woman like myself to
advance into power.”
To the Editor:
This year, 1984. marks the 20th
anniversary of passage of the land-
MMt
mark, historic C ivil Rights Act of
1964, the most far-reaching civil
rights law in our nation’s history.
This is an appropriate time to con
sider the state o f civil rights to
America, and to determine whether
the direction in which Reagan is
taking us is the direction in which
we choose to go for four more
years.
The same Reagan Justice Depart
ment that argued in favor of giving
tax exemptions to provide univer
sities that discrim inate, that op
posed extension o f the Voting
Rights Act, that missed no oppor
tunity to oppose affirmative action,
and that convinced the Supreme
C ourt to narrow T itle IX , which
prohibits discrim ination against
women and girls in education, now
shows every sign that they are about
to enter the Washington State pay
equity case on the side o f the
discriminator.
This case will likely be one of the
most important in the history of our
battle against sex discrimination in
employment. The outcome could
determine whether employers may
pay workers in female-dominated
jobs less than they pay workers in
male-dom inated jobs, simply
because women predominate. The
impact of the case cannot be over
stated.
When Reagan ran for president
four years ago, he insisted that
although he opposed the Equal
Rights Am endm ent, he favored
equal opportunity for women. His
actions to date show no such com
mitment. A Justice Department in
tervention in this case on behalf of
Washington State would leave no
doubt that Reagan will continue to
use the powers of his office to deny
civil rights to women and
minorities.
Patricia M Shockey
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