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O bserver • M arch 8, 1995
The State Of The Nation: Volatile And Treacherous
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I hope (hat headline d o esn ’t
upset your karm a or other life
forces y o u 'v e assem bled to help
you deal with a cold, cruel world.
A fter all, for m onths, now. I've
been w arning o f the plans o f that
horde o f hungry R epublican lo
custs that have descended on the
n a tio n 's cap ito l. ‘In d iv id u als”
did not supply the most money.
It was in my “ P erspectives”
colum n for D ecem ber 8 (“ All
Roads Lead To Rom e") that I
detailed the "W elfare-F or-C or-
p o ratio n s” that congress uses to
repay its big cam paign con trib u
tors. Isn 't it strange that the me
dia are ju st now beginning to use
that term ? Perhaps they regret
having gone so far in supporting
the N ovem ber election efforts of
many o f these new and irrespon
sible fiscal hoodlum s and hypo
crites (and racists). Suddenly,
both the print m edia and T V.
netw orks are beginning to show
pictures o f the W hite Poor, see
cover, “ Parade M agazine.”
Last year 1 wrote a “ M athe
m atics Rap” for some school chil
dren, part o f a copyrighted series
I'v e been developing to aid ch il
dren to conquer here-to-fore d if
ficult concepts in math and sci
ence. M onday a parent persuad
ed me to write a political rap for
her own little group o f four; it
begins...
g o v e rn m e n t e n title m e n t are
wrong! “ C h ise le rs , p a ra site s,
welfare state” , he cries.
Senator G ram m ’s personal
"w elfare state” did not stop there
His college education and ex
penses we paid through the War
Orphans Act and his graduate
work underwritten by the Defense
Education Act at Texas A&M
he’s been on the governm ent pay
roll every since. Yes, this is the
same hypocrite who in 1979, p ro
claim ed h im self “ an advocate o f
fiscal resp o n sib ility ” — and then
poured 8 billion down the “Super
C ollider hole in ground” .
Now it is perfectly obvious
that you can ’t balance the budget
on the backs o f the poor (black
“Gramm was on the dole from
the get go. Now attacks the blacks
from the ghetto”
T his little ex c u rsio n was
prom pted by a W ashington Post
r e v e la tio n th a t s e n a to r P h il
Gramm (R ) from Texas, the lead
er o f the “ bash-the-poor” forces
has a long history o f being sup
ported by governm ent e n title
ment and w elfare program s. In
fact, we taxpayers paid for the
birth o f this m onstrous hypocrite
who was born at the base hospital
where his father was living on a
v e te r a n ’s d is a b ility p e n sio n .
N othing w rong with this kind o f
entitlem ent for those who have
served our country, but to sud
denly discover 50 years later that
South Carolina State University
Recipient Of The Coca-Cola Award
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South Carolina State University
head football coach Willie Jeffries,
third left, displays The Coca-Cola
National Black College Football
Championship Award received at the
60th annual 100% Wrong Club Ban
quet in Atlanta, Ga. The award was
presented to the University for hav-
and w hite), or by snatching the
bread out o f the mouths o f ch il
dren on the School Lunch Pro
gram or by sacrificing the safety
and good health o f us all through
their “ p ay -b ack-industry” p ro
grams m eant to gut Product Safe
ty, O ccupational Health and Safe
ty, the Food And Drug A dm inis
tratio n , A g ricu ltu ral P roducts
Inspection, and through a gener
al rollback o f the environm ental
laws passed (elatedly) to m ain
tain the health we have left.
There is not enough gained
here to finance a tax cut for the
w ealthy—so stridently prom ised
in R epublican campaign litera
ture. Nor will the elim ination of
fe d era l fu n d s for the P ublic
Correct Number For
Albina Youth Fund
60-Year-0ld Begins
March Against Hunger
A year-long cross-country trek
to promote the work o f food banks
and publicize the problems of hun
ger and poverty began Thursday at
the Oregon Food Bank in north
east Portland.
“Food banks do a lot of good,
and 1 want to get that message out
to the public,” said March.
He started the journey on his
60th birthday after arriving in Port
land by bus from Cadillac, Mich.,
where he worked at a food bank
for three years. He plans to return
to the Oregon Food Bank next
year for 61st birthday.
Wherever he stops, March
says, he will promote hunger-re
lief agencies that belong to Chica
go-based Second Harvest, a na
ing won the most football games
during regular season play. The 100%
Wrong Club, founded in 1934, annu
ally recognizes the accomplishments
of collegiate athletes, community
leaders, and national pioneers in the
fields of sports and social justice.
The awards banquet was sponsored
by The C o c a -C o la C om pany.
Joining in the presentation, from
left, are A tlanta sports broadcast
er and b an q u e t c o -M .C ., Stu
K lite n ic ; E u g en e M c C u lle rs ,
m an ag er, C o rp o ra te E x te rn a l
A ffairs, The C oca-C ola C om pa
ny; M arion M arshall, q u a rte r
back, South C arolina State U ni
versity; W illiam B. S hropshire,
president, 100% W rong C lub;
and Jeff H ullinger, A tlanta sports
b roadcaster and co-M .C .
B roadcasting C orporation be of
any m easurable help Not any
more than the little to be saved
by the profanely announced o p
position o f C onfederate Senator
Jessie Helms (R) to a ch arter for
a N atio n al A frican A m erican
H is to ry M u seu m w ith in th e
S m ith so n ian In stitu tio n C o m
plex.
It is painfully clear that the
R epublicans have no cards in the
ultimate game o fth e n ation’s hyp
ocrites: “ Balance The B udget"
A m illion here and a few hundred
thousand there will not match up
to a deficit in the “trillio n s” .
Next week, more gam es at
the national level, including the
NAACP
Donations to a PaineWebber
Scholarship Fund to benefit the
Albina Youth Opportunity School
can be made pay able to the AYOS
Benefit Scholarship Fund (account
number: FR 36465-17). The num
ber was incorrect in our Feb. 22
edition. We regret the error.
tionwide network of food banks, of
which the Oregon Food Bank and
March’s food bank in Cadillac are
members.
“We have enough food for hun
gry people in this country, “March
said. “It’s a matter of getting it to
where it’s needed and that’s what
Second Harvest Food Banks do."
March intends to walk from
Portland, Ore., to Portland, Maine,
then to Florida, then head back west,
walking to California, up the West
Coast returning to Portland and the
Oregon Food Bank next year.
At each stop, March will ask
people to donate to their local food
banks one cent for every mile he
walks or as much as they want to
pledge.
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Officer Arrested On Drug Charges
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Bradley R. Benge, 26, a Port
land police officer, was arrested last
week on 11 criminal counts alleging
possession and distribution of Mar
ijuana, official misconduct, forgery,
theft, and tampering with public
records. Two civilians were also ar
rested in connection with the inves
tigation.
These indictments followed an
investigation by members ofthe Port
land Police Bureau. The District At
torney’s Office, and the Federal Bu
reau of Investigation. Benge was
lodged at the Justice Center Jail with
bail set at $227,500.
The investigation began about
six weeks ago after a citizen contact
ed the Portland Police Bureau with
information about possible criminal
conduct by a Portland Police officer.
Portland Police detectives and
Drug and Vice Division officers,
assisted by the District Attorney s
Office and the Portland F.B.I. of
fice. conducted an extensive inves
tigation which centered on allega
tions that Benge was involved, with
two citizens, in the distribution of
marijuana he seized in connection
with his duties while on duty as a
uniform patrol officer.
During the investigation, exten
sive surveillance was conducted, and
investigators exam ined a large
amount of police reports and auditecj
evidence records in the course of
their inquiry into the allegations.
The results of that comprehen
sive investigation were presented to
a Multnomah County Grand Jury,
who returned the indictments earlier
this week.
The indictments allege that
Benge seized marijuana from sus
pects in the course of his police du
ties, falsified reports relating to the
seizures, than kept the marijuana.
Further it is alleged that Benge and
the two other citizens, Michael and
Terri May, conspired to, and later
did possess and distribute the mari
juana.
Benge has been relieved of all
police responsibilities and authority.
The suspension, by law, is with pay
pending internal disciplinary proce
dures.
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