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1994
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Nelson Mandela, “The Star Of Africa”
by
P rof . M c K inley B urt
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Income Enhancement
Guide Offered
A guide of income enhancement
opportunities for African Americans is
the latest project from the national black
self-help group known as the Better Life
Club. According to spokesman James
Nathan, “Our latest guide is our most
extensive ever. We show how to double
your current income through home-based
businesses, acquiring 900-Number lines,
sp o n so rin g m o n ey m ak in g e v e n ts,
through investing and in 21 host of other
ways.” Interested persons can get the
guide from the non-profit organization
by sending S3 to cover postage costs to
the Better Life Club, P.O. Box 28422,
Washington, D.C. 20038.
Anti-Welfare Program
Unveiled
While blaming the nation’s welfare
system for everything from the increase
in crime to out-of-wedlock birth, a group
of mostly Republican conservatives last
week announced a plan that would dis
mantle the system. Under the proposal,
unwed mothers and non-citizens would
be disqualified from receiving welfare.
And if the mothers are unable to take care
of their children without public assis
tance they would have to put them up for
adoption or in government run orphan
ages. The group is led by former Reagan
ad m in istratio n drug cz ar W illiam
Bennett. One critic of the proposal said,
“First the welfare system weakened the
family by driving the man out of the
home since mothers often could not get
aid if a man was present. Now, these
white conservatives want to totally de
stroy the fam ily by driving the mother out
of the home and putting the children in
institutions.”
4 Magic* Johnson To
Open Theatre
Former basketball superstar Earvin
“Magic” Johnson and the Sony Corpora
tion last week announced plans to build
a 12-screen multiplex theatre in the
Balwin Hills-Crenshaw section of Los
Angeles. Johnson and representatives
from Sony promised the complex would
be just the first they plan to build in
minority areas. The complex is expected
to cost between $11 and $15 million.
GREEDY WORLD WERE NOT
R IV E T E D
U PO N
TH AT
FABULOUS WHITE DIAMOND
FROM THE BLOODY GRASP OF THE
BLUE CLAYS OF SOUTH AFRICA’S
KIMBERLEY MINES.
Instead, “They were fastened on the ma
hogany countenance o f the stalwart son of a
Thembu chief - about to be dec lared the “first
black president” of a land his people had
always owned. Sitting Bull never experienced
this irony.
And guess who came to dinner? Leaders
and representatives of 145 nations and 16
international organizations: the Secretary of
the United Nations; Vice President A1 Gore;
TransAfrica head, Randall Robinson; Com
merce Secretary, Ron Brown; Fidel Castro;
Palestine Liberation Chairman, Yasser Arafat;
a dozen jet loads of African American leaders
and just plain blacks (many from Portland);
thousands of reporters - and, quite naturally,
the indefatigable Mr. Jesse Jackson.
Before a global gala began and the huge
throng would begin to dance the “toyi toyi”
in a huge natural amphitheater ringed by
sandstone columns, jacananda trees - and
farther away, gleaming office towers and the
hazy outline of hills — the dignified and
unflappable Nelson Mandela began his inau
gural speech.
“Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses,
distinguished guests, comrades and friends:
Today, all of us do, by our presence here and
by our celebrations in other parts of our
country and the world, confer glory and hope
to new bom liberty.”
“Out of the experience of an extraordi
nary human disaster that lasted too long must
be bom a society of which all humanity will be
proud.”
later - that finally they will be willing to share
the bountiful riches of the land with the
TORN
original man. Many will be looking to see just
how much power Nelson Mandela will actu
ally wield. Will the new government really
down-size the huge military forces equipped
with hundreds of jet fighters and bombers as
well as nuclear bombs?
It is to be remembered that South Africa
is an integral part o f a huge Western War
machine. That embargo was a force because
the ten most critical minerals to the manufac
ture of n uc lear bombs and m ilitary alloys were
excluded from the beginning. The entire south
quarter of Africa is rich beyond belief in
natural resources. The intelligence services
(and taxpayers) of America, Europe and Is
rael spend billions to aid South Africa to
contain its black population and to destabilize
its neighbors, Mozambique, Angola and Zim
babwe. Did you think the tribal slaughters just
happen?
There is much concern among Africans
of the Diaspora as to exactly how the new
regime will deal with one very special group
of black South Africans who numbered sev
eral million when, at the age of 14 or 15, they
went to the street in 1976 and “virtually
destroyed South Africa.” Black Washington
Post columnist, William Raspberry, quotes a
close friend o f Nelson Mandela, Dr. Motlana.
“Apartheid was really over the 16th of
June, 1976, about 10 o ’clock in the morning...
The first violence occurred diagonally across
the street from the Mandela residence at the
Rand West High School. I was there when the
police turned dogs against unarmed school
girls and young school boys, and I saw those
boys take hold of those vicious Alsatian dogs,
throttle them with their bare hands and bum
them. I saw it all.”
Nelson Mandela, South African President
“And then the kids throughout South
Africa - as if on a signal - stared burning
government buildings, bottle stores, schools
throughout the country... in Cape Town the
colored children responded to those of S o weto
in a 'critical fashion’, again burning shops
and government buildings. The whole coun
try was i turmoil for six months., there were
trials after trials and lots of our children left
South Africa to go into exile to form MK
guerilla units that came back in and blew up
power stations.” CIA had a nervous break
down.
The concern mentioned is that these
young, heroic freedom fighters are new adult
mothers and fathers with little or no educa
tion, but must be employed, fed and housed -
- along with their own children. The price o f
freedom is very, very high.
There is not, of course, enough room here
for any in-depth recitation of the European
Conquest of Southern Africa w ith the slaugh-
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Dave Frohnmayer Named Interim
President Of The University Of Oregon
HE OREGON STATE BOARD
O F H IG H E R E D U C A T IO N
TODAYANNOUNCEDTHAT IT
HAS NAMED DAVE FROHNMAYER AS
INTERIM PRESIDENT OF THE UNI
VERSITY OF OREGON, EFFECTIVE
JULY 1, 1994. HE WILL REPLACE
M YLES BRAND, WHO HAS BEEN
NAM ED PRESIDENT OF INDIANA
UNIVERSITY.
“Dave Frohnmayer has a broad range of
fl
experience in serving Oregon,” said Board
President Janice Wilson. “As an experienced
CEO and educator, he will bring the leader
ship necessary to sustain the momentum of
the campus and advance it to the next level.
His skills as an academ ic ian, a political leader,
and a fund-raiser will benefit not only the
University of Oregon, but the entire Oregon Dave Frohnmayer
State System of Higher Education.”
“ Dave Frohnmayer is a seasoned leader, dean of the UO School of Law since 1992 and
exceptionally capable of continuing to build as a UO professor for nine years, have given
on the University of Oregon’s tremendous him valuable insight into the institution. His
successes,” saidChancellor Thomas Bartlett. deep roots in Oregon and his commitment to
“His extraordinarily strong academic creden Oregon, state and university, give his ap
tials, combined with his experience as both pointment special strength. The support for
T
Banquet To Honor
1994 Graduating
Ethnic Minority
Students
his appointment from UO faculty, staff and
students is a most promising beginning.”
F ro h n m ay er is a Phi Beta K appa
grad u ate o f H arvard C ollege, attended
O xford U niversity as a Rhodes S cholar,
and holds a law degree from the U n iv er
sity o f C alifornia.
He served as consultant to the U.S. De
partment of Justice, Civil Rights Division,
from 1973-74, and was assistant to the U.S.
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
from 1969-70.
He was a professor of law at the Univer
sity of Oregon from 1971-80 and served as
special assistant to the president from
1971-79.
Frohnmayer represented South Eugene
and Goshen in the Oregon House of Repre
sentatives for three, two-year terms begin
ning in 1975. From 1981-1992, he served as
Oregon’s Attorney General, and assumed the
post of dean of the UO’s School of law in
1992.
He is director of the National Marrow
Donor Program and founded the Fanconi
Anemia Research Fund.
The Office of Ethnic Students
Services invites the public to honor
Lewis & Clark College graduating
ethnic minority students at a ban
quet, Thursday, May 26, at 6 p.m., in
Stamm Dining Room, Templeton
College Center. Lewis & Clark Col
lege, 0615 S. W. Palatine Hill Road.
Cost for the buffet dinner and pro
gram is $10.
The evening will feature special
comments from Kristie Cruz, presi
dent of the Hawaii Club, and Derek
Foster, president of the Black Stu
dent Union. Richard E. Adams, asso
ciate professor of sociology/antbro-
pology who was selected professor of
the year, will be the keynote speaker.
Bon Appetit will prepare the special
buffet dinner for the evening. For
reservations, call Ray Warren, eth
nic student services director, make
checks payable to Lewis & Clark
College.
ESSENCE Magazine Publisher, Edward T. Lewis
Attends The Inauguration Of Nelson Mandela
Reggie Jackson’s
Father Dies
The father of baseball great Reggie
Jackson died last week in Philadelphia.
Martinez Jackson was 89. During his
youth he had been a second baseman for
the Newark Eagles of the old Negro
Baseball League.
God grant that avancious Europeans will
his time the eyes of a permit this, here, many trillions of dollars
Edward T. Lewis, Publisher o f ESSENCE
Magazine and CEO of Essence Communica
tions, Inc., was invited by the White House, to
be a member of the United States delegation
attending Nelson Mandela’s historic inaugu
ration in South Africa. Lewis represented
both Essence Communications, Inc., and
TransAfrica, Inc., a lobbying organization
Arts & Entertainment
for Africa and the Caribbean, where he serves
as chairman of the board o f TransAfrica
Forum, the research and education affiliate of
TransAfrica, Inc.
“The election of Nelson Mandela marks
a historic milestone not only for the Black
community living in South Africa but for all
of us who are committed to justice, espial
representation, and improvement in the qual
ity of life for Blackcommunitieseverywhere,”
said Lewis. “It is an honor and a privilege to
be present at the inauguration of Mr. Mandela
who fought unrelentlessly to make the dream
of freedom and equality a reality in his home
land. I had tears in my eyes as I witnessed
Nelson Mandela becoming the President of
Entertainment
Housing
Health
South Africa.”
With 5.1 million readers, ESSENCE is
the preeminent magazine for African-Ameri
can women. Published by Essence Communi
cations, Inc.,ESSENCE magazine is the lead
ing source of cutting-edge information relat
ing to every area o f African-American
women’s lives.
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Mental disorders in pregnant, substance
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Focus groups rank the features
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We are planning a three day tryout for
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SPORTS
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