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justifies our demand for complete separation in a state or territory of our own.

5. We want freedom for all Believers of Islam now held in federal prisons. We want freedom for all black men and women now under death sentence in innumerable prisons in the North as well as the South.

We want every black man and woman to have the freedom to accept or reject being separated from the slave master's children and establish a land of their own.

We know that the above plan for the solution of the black and white conflict is the best and only answer to the problem between two people.

6. We want an immediate end to the police brutality and mob attacks against the so -called Negro throughout the United States.

We believe that the Federal government should intercede to see that black men and women tried in white courts receive justice in accordance with the laws of the land—or allow us to build a new nation for ourselves, dedicated to justice, freedom and liberty.

This is the question asked most frequently by both the whites and the blacks. The answers to this question I shall state as simply as possible.

1. We want freedom. We want a full and complete freedom.

2. We want justice. Equal justice under the law. We want justice applied equally to all, regardless of creed or class or color.

3. We want equality of opportunity. We want equal membership in society with the best in civilized society.

4. We want our people in America whose parents or grandparents were descendants from slaves, to be allowed to establish a separate state or territory of their own—either on this continent or elsewhere. We believe that our former slave masters are obligated to provide such land and that the area must be fertile and mine-ally rich. We believe that our former slave masters are obligated to maintain and supply our needs in this separate territory for the next 20 to 25 years—until we are able to produce and supply our own needs.

Since we cannot get along with them in peace and equality, after giving them 400 years of our sweat and blood and receiving in return some of the worst treatment human beings have ever experienced, we believe our contributions to this land and the suffering forced upon us by white America,

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1. WE BELIEVE in the One God Whose proper Name is Allah.

2. WE BEMEVE in the Holy Quran and in the Scriptures oi a.1 the Prophet' of God. 3. WE LEI IEVE in the truth of the Bible, but n believe that it has been tampered with and must be teinte'preied so that ma ikind will not be snared by the falsehoods that have been added to it.

4. WE BELIEVE in Allah's Prophets and the Scriptures they brought to the people.

5. WE BELIEVE in the resurrection of the dead—not in physical resurrection—but in mental resurrection. We believe that the so -called Negroes are most in need of mental resurrection: therefore, they will be resurrected first.

Furthermore, we believe we are the people of God's choice, as it has been written, that God would choose the rejected and the despised. We can find no other persons fitting this description in these last days more than the so called Negroes in America. We believe in the resurrection of the righteous.

6. WE BELIEVE in the judgment; we believe this first judgment will take place as God revealed, in America . . .

7. WE BELIEVE this is the time in history for the

7. As long as we are not allowed to establish a state or territory of our own, we demand not only equal justice under the laws of the United States, but equal employment opportunities—NOW!

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separation of the so -called Negroes and the so -called white Americans. We believe the black man should be freed in name as well as in fact. By this we mean that he should be freed from the names imposed upon him by his former slave masters. Names which identified him as being the slave master's slave We believe that if we are free indeed, we should go in our own people's names—the black peoples of the earth.

8. WE BELIEVE in justice for all, whether in God or not; we believe as others, that we are due equal justice as human beings. We believe ir-^ality--;.^ a nation—of equals. We do not believe that we arc equal with our slave masters in the status of "freed slaves".

We recognize and respect American citizens as independent peoples and we respect their laws which govern this nation.

9. WE BELIEVE that the offer of integration is hypocritical and is made by those who are trying to deceive the black peoples into believing that their 400 year -old open enemies of freedom, justice and equality are, all of a sudden, their "friends". Furthermore, we believe that such deception is intended to prevent black people from realizing that the time in history has arrived

We do not believe that after 400 years of free or nearly free labor, sweat and blood, which has helped America become rich and powerful, that so many thousands of black people should have to subsist on relief, charity or live in poor houses.

8. We want the government of the United States to exempt our people from ALL taxation as long as we are deprived of equal justice under the laws of the land.

9. We want equal education—but separate schools up to 16 for boys and 18 for girls on the condition that the girls be sent to women's colleges and universities We want all black children educated, taught and trained by their own teachers.

Under such schooling system we believe we will make a better nation of people. The United States government should provide, free, all necessary text books and equipment, schools and college buildings. The Muslim teachers shall be left free to teach and train their people in the way of righteousness, decency and self respect.

10. We believe that intermarriage or race mixing should be prohibited. We want the religion of Islam taught without hinderance or suppression.

These are some of the things that we, the Muslims, want for our people in North America.

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for the separation from the whites of this nation.

If the white people are truthful about their professed friendship toward the so -called Negro, they can prove it by dividing up America with their slaves.

We do not believe that America will ever be able to furnish enough jobs for her own millions of unemployed, in addition to jobs for the 20.000.000 black people as well.

10 WE BELIEVE that we who declared ourselves to be righteous Muslims, should not participate in wars which take the lives of humans. We do not believe this nation should force us to take part in such wars, for we have nothing to gain from it unless America agrees to give us the necessary territory wherein we may have something to fight for.

11. WE BELIEVE our women should be respected and protected as the women of other nationalities are respected and protected.

12. WE BELIEVE that Allah (God) appeared in the Person of Master W. Fard Muhammad, July, 1930; the long -awaited "Messiah" of the Christians and the "Mahdi" of the Muslims.

We believe further and lastly that Allah is God and besides HIM there is no God and He will bring about a universal government of peace wherein we all can live in peace together.

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INDEX Nixon phased out by Black history Nixon budget encourages riots Last interview with African hero Noose around Black medical center Will police spark Detroit riots?

What Islam Has Done

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Prison News in Black West Indies universities threatened Youths charged with white man's crimes Interview with Benjamin Hooks .

Black man heads D.C. committee Black Journalist victim of media

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been readied to hate the press as the author of Black ticker tape r a d i c a l i s m . Thusly CHICAGO — As we drove up Nixon's slaughter program for to the library, where" I was the poor and Black, the death going to f i n a l i z e some knell by the government, the preparations for a talk during politicians, upon the media and Black H i s t o r y week, at the people's right to know is Marquette University, on the intertwined. subject of the press, the cab WHEN Benjamin Banneker, driver completed his epitaph the man who surveyed the on the general state of the nation's capital, received Union, decreeing: 'Well by the s e v e t a l tempered time he's finished. Nixon is compliments by Thomas going to make L B J seem like Jefferson, during his first the g r e a t e s t p r e s i d e n t presidential campaign, in 1800, ever...Somebody may even political enemies assaulted the exhume LBJ's body from down slave - holding, so - called there in Johnson City, re - aristocrat, Jefferson: "What mourn his remains and do the shall we think of a secretary of twenty - one gun salute upon state, thus fraternizing with the natural body of Nixon, n e g r o e s , w r i t i n g them hanging in the nation's capital, c o m p l i m e n t a r y e p i s t l e s , REPORTEDLY TWO Black men pulled guns and shot it out in another urban battle of Black against in live effigy...Oh yes, my congratulating them on the Black, which involves narcotics, earlier this week on Chicago's Southside. Nelson Moody, 30, seen man, because I see T H E Y evidences of their genius, and ready to try us again...' here on the ground after being shot is listed in critical condition, in Chicago's County Hospital... assuring them of his. good OBSERVERS AT Extreme Left, express a range of emotions: from shock to apathy. One observer told T H E C A B B I E ' S remarks wishes for their speedy were occasioned not only emancipation?" Nixon, in 1973, MS that Black plainclothes policeman, at RIGHT, acted with dispatch and compassion... ANOTHER because we had been listening will never of' course be thusly G U N M A N , (not pictured here) Douglass Jones, was wounded in left arm. Police said Moody is to the radio version of Mr. accused. supposed to owe Jones a debt of $100. WITH EXTREME cuts into job - life potentials coming from Johnson's funeral, but because Young Blacks honoring and the President's proposed budget cuts in the war on poverty, many people fear new, alarming acts we had also been discussing celebrating the 'Souls of Black of violence. Mafia - syndicate is ready to feed on this possible despair with millions of pounds of the proposed lynching of many people' this week, might do heroin. A rise in Black on Black crime, exacted out of a sense of 'no-way out' and drugs is also Johnson - sponsored programs well to recall Banneker's feared... Article at LEFT, on this page, tells why this must not occur. (Photo by Roy Lewis) by the newly re - inaugurated, highly personal, privately old Nixon. honed achievements. In NIXON WAS elected by a addition to the capital survey, remarkable majority of these Banneker learned astronomy, white voters who voted, many and learned to compute an of whom had voted for Johhson ephemeris, an astronomical in the 1964 - L B J landslide. almanac, covering such Knowing that the political information as phases of the withdrawal — Arab Jerusalem revolutionary trend taking

By Ali Baghdadi center of the country has moon, l u n a r , and solar IN ISRAEL, young dissenters included — in return for peace. place in Egypt. shifted, Nixon does not want to eclipses. The year noted Black However, Moshe Dayan, his The arrest of students, be caught napping with any newsman, Thomas Fortune who oppose Zionist occupation father, who introduced what he workers and intellectuals and programs that meet the was born—1856—a healthy 30- of Arab land and who call for t e r m e d n e i g h b o r h o o d the firing of public employees outrageous conditions of the year old Black female slave dialogue with progressive punishment in his attempt to who disagree with Sadat's Arab elements in an effort to powerless poor. He intends to with child would sell for about suppress the Palestinian misguided policy is a sign of cultivate the new found $700 on the open market of liquidate Israel as a racist r e s i s t a n c e , c a l l e d f o r bankruptcy of Sadat's leaderR e p u b l i c a n m a j o r i t y of human merchandising. She imperialist state, are branded annexation of more Arab land. ship. election '72, for years to come. was worth one - sixth to one - as spies for Syria. In Egypt, P E A C E C A N N O T B E IN A SPEECH made last His coalition of ethnics recalls quarter more than a non - students who protest against A C H I E V E D by S a d a t ' s week, Sadat, the new Pharaoh the F D R political empire, breeding woman...During this their government's inability or appeasement of the U.S. — the of Egypt, warned those who except Roosevelt's moves same time span, an ex - slave, unwillingless to mobilize the enemy of the Arab and speak or act in opposition to his Arab masses in a war of were against the class, special Harriet Tubman was forging Vietnamese people. A deal government that they will be interests in the country, and it her peoples' freedom via the national liberation against which might be struck between subject to severe punishment. included the Blacks and the U n d e r g r o u n d R a i l r o a d , Israeli aggression, are accused Hassanin Haikel, the editor of "Every person as of today of being instigated by foreign poor. Nixon's majority is bringing slaves to the North Al -Ahram newspaper in Egypt should watch his work and pitted against.the poor and the and to Canada — occasionally power hostile to Egypt. Both and Henry Kissinger, a Jew behavior," he said.

Black. And like the creator of at gun point. She was born the regimes seem to be united and a strong supporter of HE TOLD T H E NATIONAL Archie Bunker, Nixon, who is year Jefferson and Madison ags ist those who oppose the racist Israel, will not serve the ASSEMBLY (Parliament) that " a ieace no war" situation. also a manufactured man, were calling for the possible true interest of the Arab and "every person wherever he never takes on the special deportation of the slaves, as an Bo regimes have conducted a should be — particularly those of m i s - the Israeli people. interest barons of society. Also answer to the problem — 1821. c a u t p a i g n occupying sensitive positions H U S S E I N ' S V I S I T to •c i mentation and character his increased military budget This is just a fragment of the President Nixon in an effort to in the State and information — despite the Viet Nam peace upheavel of ideas and men assassination against their impose an American solution media—who is not convinced *"*** — springs with boons to the during a terrible period of our opponents. of our line of conduct, should T H E NEW generation of which would guarantee the history.

Pentagon pirate interests. leave his post right away.'' exploitation of the Arab and Arabs and Israeli Jews today Fortune was to go on to Israeli masses cannot bring demand peace which could Significantly, the Nixon Muhammad Speaks become one of the most spare Arab and Jewish blood. about lasting peace. majority is made up of whites influential journalists of his Published Weekly T h i s p e a c e c a n n o t be THE ARAB POPULATION, who think the Press actually day, establishing several Vol. 12 No. 23 February 16,1973 accomplished by occupying particularly the students, coddled 'the colored' and newspapers.

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Nixon's Impeachable assault on poverty budget, courts rebellion

By Donald Mosby CHICAGO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Black communities across the nation are still reeling in shock as a result of President Nixon's new budget which calls for massive cutbacks in human welfare expenditures. One thing is abundantly clear in the new budget, and that is the War On Poverty is a 'long gone dream.'

In order to determine both the short term and long range effect massive cuts could have on the aspirations of Blacks, in America, Muhammad Speaks spoke with several persons whose knowledge, skill and involvement placed them all in a unique position to comment on the crisis.

Chicago's rebellious Black pastor of Holy Angels' Catholic Church and chaplain of Chicago's Afro-American Patrolman's League vigorously attacked the proposed budgets, predicting bleak days ahead for Blacks.

GENOCIDAL SLASHES "The cuts are a step up in the genocide of Blacks," Rev. George Clements told Muhammad Speaks.

"It's been going at a slow pace," R e v . Clements continued. "Now the pace will quicken. They'll also mean an increase in Black fratricide as Black youths turn to 'survival crimes.' " Rev. Clements said as these youths turn to " s u r v i v a l crimes" they'll be further

abused and brutalized by the police. In speaking of the police. Rev. Clements said, "Their sole function is to serve as the military arm of the establishment."

This c i t y ' s lone Black Congressional representative says that President Nixon is courting a "rebellion" by Black and other oppressed persons with his recently announced budget cuts.

Congressman Ralph Metcalfe made this statement in an exclusive interview with

Muhammad Speaks a few hours after the cuts were announced.

Metcalfe went on to say that " I t is most tragic the President is proposing drastic cuts in these vitally needed services, and I believe it is going to be disastrous for the entire nation."

Mrs. Brenetta Howell Barrett, newly appointed State Director of Human Resources, echoed Metcalfe's statements about disaster, and added still another dimension.

THE REV. GEORGE CLEMENTS who told M U H A M M A D SPEAKS the proposed budget cuts by President Nixon mean an increase in Black genocide. The out spoken community leader fears that the cuts will lead more Black youths into crime.

'HAVOC OF HARD TIMES'

THE BUDGET CUTS in the new Nixon budget will mean that a great many more Mental Health Clinics' like the one pictured above will have to close. The users of such clinics will be hardest hit by the proposed cuts. Inner city health delivery systems are woefully inadequate, and the proposed budget cuts will practically eliminate the little that exist. (M.S. Photo by Roy Lewis)

"I'm not surprised by the budget," Mrs. Barrett said, "but I do feel that a great many people who voted for Nixon, like the hard hats, and blue collar workers, are going to get a jolt.

"The President is talking about c u t t i n g back on programs that many whites also benefit from, especially where education is concerned.

The cuts are across the board, but most whites evidently haven't realized that yet."

Chicago's O.E.O. and Model Cities Director Erwin France, was another high ranking Black who foresaw "hard times" for all Blacks, along with-GtherLrrdnorities.

Muhammad Speaks asked Congressman Metcalfe if the proposed cuts meant that Black America could quickly return to the conditions which existed prior to 1954?

"Yes, it does," Metcalfe replied, "but I'll also say this, that the oppressed people's aren't going to stand by idly, as they did before. They know their rights and they'll demand them. " T H E P E O P L E A R E much more sophisticated than they were t h e n , " M e t c a l f e continued, "and they will rebel; and this rebellion may

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CHICAGO CONGRESSMAN Ralph Metcalfe told M U H A M M A D SPEAKS that President Nixon is inviting "riots" with his proposed budget cuts. He termed the budget a return to the pre-1954 era in Black America.

will take the form of what happened in New Orleans. This is what happens when a person gets completely turned off by the society. And this is what the president is inviting."

According to Metcalfe it was the existence of the very social ills which the War On Poverty attacked that led directly to the ghetto flareups of the 1960's.

"The real tragedy," Metcalfe continued, "is that the people the programs are servicing are the ones who'll be hurt most.

Without a doubt if these people could help themselves they would. Now they are being dumped by the government they believed in.

Muhammad Speaks asked Congressman Metcalfe if the new cuts were designed to enable President Nixon to continue a military buildup without angering many people because the Vietnam War is supposed to be ending?

"I don't know if the president is building up the military establishment, at the expense of the poor, but I know he is trying to dismantle the "Great Society" of President Kennedy and President Lyndon Johnson.

President Nixon wants to eliminate everything they did for poor peoples," Metcalfe answered.

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Nixon cuts termed escalated genocide

According to Metcalfe it is the frustrations and anger that is born from being isolated from the American mainstream, with no chance of ending the isolation that led to the 1960 'uprising' and could very well lead to such occurances again.

ELIMINATING POOR PEOPLE Illinois' newly appointed Human Resources Director expressed agreement with Congressman Metcalfe that the cuts could lead to a 'people's' rebellion.

"But I don't think the rebellion will take the form it did in the 1960's," Mrs. Barrett said, "I think that this time the 'protest' will be much more selective. Such as what took place in New Orleans. This time they'll be attacking symbols of the establishment, in a much more individual way."

"I feel there will be many more M a r k E s s e x type eruptions," Mrs. Barrett said, softly.

The top Black aide to New Illinois Governor Dan Walker, Squire Lance, told Muhammad Speaks "it was too soon for him to comment on what effect the proposed cuts would have on state human service programs."

"It's very hard to say," Lance said, "but I'm certain that when Dan presents his budget to the state assembly on March 1 we'll have our policy straight by then. But I can't comment on what the cuts will mean until after the bureau of the budget has made an analysis."

Muhammad Speaks asked Lance if he foresaw the moves

by Nixon as an attempt to limit the number of persons his administration would have to deal with in regards to domestic problems, which was one reason the president was such a staunch supporter of revenue sharing, since each state governor was the 'man in charge' of the money?

"I get very paranoid about Nixon," Lance replied, "As I see it what Nixon is doing is freeing himself up to deal solely with the defense mechanism.

If there is any protest about the domestic thrust Nixon can say go to the states. What this does is free him up to build up the Army which is not unlike a good many South American dictators. And that's what frightens because we don't know where he's going."

Famed Chicago Alderman Leon Despres told Muhammad Speaks, "Nixon has switched from warring on the poor peoples of Asia to warring on Blacks and other minorities in America."

He went on to say that the net effect of the cuts on the inner

ILLINOIS' NEWLY APPOINTED Director of Human Resources, under Gov. Dan Walker, Mrs. Brenetta Howell Barrett, told M U H A M M A D SPEAKS, that a great many whites who voted for President Nixon, "are going to get a big surprise." The long time activitist also agreed with Congressman Metcalfe that the cuts could spark new "protest by disenchanted balcks."

c i t y w h e r e h e a l t h and educational services are concerned "will be incalculable."

"It's a catastrophy" Despres continued," what is so striking is' the drive to withdraw needed attention from Blacks and other minorities, while increasing the defense budget by $6 billion," Despres concluded.

The director of both the Model Cities and O.E.O.

programs in Chicago, Erwin France, saw a very bleak future for both thrusts. "The director of the Office of Management and the Budget has declared the President's intentions to dismantle the Office of Economic Opportunity.

"I do not know precisely what that m e a n s , " France continued, "but it is a fact that for the first time in eight years, CCUO was denied a full

IRWIN FRANCE, Chicago's director of both Model Cities and the local Office of Economic Opportunity thrust in the city, attacks President Nixon's proposed budget cuts, which will leave the people with "the power to decide, but not the power to implement."

year's funding, and contracted for only a six month period which takes us through June 30, this year.

According to France the city's Headstart program is in serious trouble, and a portion of the grant already made for 1973 has been withheld. At the same time France has been told to expect a reduction in next years Headstart grant.

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IN A N INAUGURAL "first" Julie Nixon Eisenhower and her mother, Pat Nixon, are shown with John L. Wilks and Judy Jackson, during a party commemorating the contributions of ethnic citizens to America. The president's newly proposed budget will make it almost impossible for many ethnics to continue to survive, with no opportunity for making contributions, whatsoever. With the bleak days now confronting the nations Black millions; one also wonders how Nixon's Blacks, who supported the president so strongly feel about that support now.

Richardson has recommended that the entire Headstart and Follow Through Program be reduced to a level which would make it merely an experimentation and research project."

France went on to say that while he recognized an apparent effort to cut down on the Federal Bureaucracy, and Red Tape which often hinders more than it helps. He also recognized "an insatiable desire to cut Federal spending."

According to France the cuts will have a grave and adverse effect on the economy of minority communities. He indicated that the revenue sharing monies which will come to the city are not nearly enough to salvage the current programs being conducted by the two agencies.

"We would a l l agree," France said, "that local initiative and local self determination are critical to the ability of a city to proceed in an orderly public/private partnership to solve its problems.

"But the power to decide w i t h o u t the p o w e r to implement, makes the power to decide very, very empty. In this regard the rhetoric about giving the responsibility back to the cities becomes as a 'sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal" he concluded.

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FEBRUARY 16,1973

Last interview with AMILCAR CABRAL CONAKRY, Guinea (LNS) - When Amilcar Cabral was assassinated by Portuguese soldiers on January 20 one of the world's most successful liberation movements lost its leader. Since 1963 the guerrilla army of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and the Cape Verde Islands (PAIGC), under Cabral's leadership, has driven Portuguese troops from more than three-quarters of the small West African nation.

Cabral, one of only 14 people from Guinea (Bissau) to receive a college education during the more than 400 years of Portuguese rule, became part of the independence struggle in the 50's. Early attempts to organize an independence movement in the cities suffered a crushing blow in 1959 when Portuguese troops fired into a group of striking dockworders, killing 50 of them.

It was f o l l o w i n g t h i s massacre that Cabral and other leaders of PAIGC started to t r y to organize the peasantry into guerrilla war.

This peasantry has since

become the backbone of the guerrilla movement.

Within the liberated territory PAIGC has established itself as a functioning government, representing more than half of the nation's people. Recently PAIGC held its first National Assembly of representatives elected from all liberated areas.

In addition, the United Nations Committee on Decolonization visited some of the territory that the PAIGC has decolonized by armed struggle and returned to report that PAIGC already is a functioning government of an extensive area.

BELOVED BY ALL for his unique ability to mingle with all types of people even though he was one of the 14 people to receive a college education in Guinea-Bissau during the 500 - year reign of Portugal, Amilcar Cabral, shown here with the sun-glasses, was a leader which will be hard to surpass.

In October 1972, Cabral was in New York to address the U N Committee on Trust and Non-

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The night before he addressed the UN, Cabral sat down with a small group of friends and s u p p o r t e r s and s p o k e informally of his people's struggle.

"Let me fill you in on what has happened in my country in the two years since I was in the United States last.

THE URBAN CENTERS "First, we have liberated more areas of the countryside.

However, during these two years one of the principle aspects of the evolution of the situation is a big change in the urban centers. When you have reached the point when you are going to liberate the towns, the fight develops more slowly.

"But our presence is felt in the cities. Proof of that is that during the last six months, hundreds of young people have abandoned the towns, including those studying in Bissau (the capital), to come and join us in the countryside and put themselves at the disposal of the struggle.

"Our relations with the Cape Verde Islands are now better than ever. We recently received a message from our comrades that there have been riots between the Portuguese authorities and the people in Praia, the capital of the Cape Verde Islands. The Portuguese declared a state of emergency for 7 days. They arrested many people.

"We have attacked Bissau already and feel that we would be able to destroy it if we wanted to. F o r example, Portuguese settlers in Angola have recently contributed money to buy a big radio station for the Portuguese to use to fight PAIGC in Guinea. I sent a message to the Commander of the area near Bissau, and told him that if he planned any kind of action in or near Bissau, it would mean nothing if they didn't destroy this radio station. One month later, they destroyed it. " T w o y e a r s ago the Portuguese c o l o n i a l i s t s , through their famous Governor Spinola, were implementing what we call the politics of blood and smiles. But now they are finished with smiles.

"We also attacked Bafato, my (Continued on page 6)

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Last interview with AMILCAR CABRAL own town — I'm not the owner of this town, but I was born here. Bafato is the second largest town in Guinea, and in the past two years, we attacked it four times.

regional councils, and the first National Popular Assembly for our country.

It was a need coming from the results of the struggle — a need to impose on those of us in "We attacked Gabu. the most the party some limits to our important town in the eastern own action, some possibilities region. We destroyed planes of control on us. Because if. as the l i b e r a t i o n struggle and helicopters in the airport. develops, you don't "We also attacked the airport simultaneously create a of Bissau. For us the best way structure to help always do to face the Portuguese planes good things, maybe you are is to destroy them in the fields, creating the conditions for not fight them in the air. In your own defeat. And the best their air war, the Portuguese way to stop yourself is to have found it necessary to have create conditions for the many air fields spread around people to stop you.

"We want our people to take the authority for their own lives in their own hands. For that, the party is not enough. It is too dangerous, the fact that in our historical condition we have to have only one party. It is necessary to create some organ, some instrument, in order to give to the people this real consciousness that they are the masters of their own destiny.

TO ASSURE their children the proper education, liberation movement under Cabral, wrote their own textbooks. Portuguese have made desperate attempts to destroy all jungle schools in liberated areas.

the country. But the planes remain in the smaller fields only during the day. At night all these planes fly back to Bissau, and to the Cape Verde Islands.

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"There were some in the Portuguese government who advocated the Europeanization of Portugal. Called "liberals" or technocrats, these people were recently expelled from the government.

"Now there are also the racists, the ultras, and their goal is to keep my country for more time.

"The Portuguese plan is to put one million settlers in Southern Africa. Recently many Italian people have been a r r i v i n g in Angola. The Portuguese are establishing agencies all over Western Europe to recruit people to Angola and Mozambique. The program is to increase the white population and to do everything to prevent the Black population from increasing.

Our political position has gained much strength in the last two years. We achieved one of the most important goals of our struggle — the In the words of Kaulza de first general elections in our Arriaga (Military Commander country, the creation of our of Portuguese Forces in

MAKESHIFT BRIDGE forms picturesque sight crossing one of many rivers in Guinea-Bissau.

Liberation movement, so intent on freeing their country from the colonialist grasp of Portugal, never veered from the path of freedom because of such hardships.

Mozambique): "Naturally it is a very difficult problem for us because first of all we cannot give contraceptives to each Black family..."

Portuguese colony is France. blown up.

There are 800,000 in France.

Over 200,000 young men have Last year I learned of a secret escaped conscription. And the report by Portuguese in which people of Portugal now seem they declared that for the last to be more actively trying to two years they have not been This is their strategy, but it is struggle against the colonial able to get more officers for just not working. Portugal is a wars. Recently, a Portuguese their army, because people do c o u n t r y that i s l o s i n g ship with military material not want to go to the military population. Today the biggest destined for Guinea on it was academy.

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"..spirit of C a b r a l and e v e r y t h i n g he stood for is with n s "

Hundreds attend funeral services for assassinated African liberation leader the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), asserted that the assassination NEW YORK - About 700 people filled Harlem's St. of Cabral "shows another Phillips Episcopal Church diabolical manifestation of Community Center to pay colonialism." He said that tribute to the late Amilcar present waging battles in Cabral (1924-1973). "While Angola, Guinea - Bissau and Cabral the man...the body may Mozambique have proven to the Portuguese and the world have left us...the spirit of that independence for the Cabral and everything he stood people there will not be denied. for is with us," declared Bob ' 'Despite military Van Lierop of the African Information Service who superiority, financial power chaired the homage. "This and all types of aid from memorial service is a call to abroad, Portugal has failed in Amilcar Cabral action — to translate into their efforts to subdue the true aspirations of the people of In the struggle against concrete reality the things that Cabral (and the Southern Angola, Mozambique and colonialism and racism, the Guinea-Bissau, whose Angola freedom fighter called Africa freedom movements) have been fighting for all these d e t e r m i n a t i o n to f r e e the late Cabral "one of the themselves from Portuguese most outstanding African years." oppression has grown stronger theoreticians in guerrilla warfare" and the organizer of Present and introduced as than ever before."

Portugal is using chemical •one of the most successful honored guests were the Ambassador to the United warfare to kill crops in the p o l i t i c a l and m i l i t a r y Nations from the Organization liberated zones of its colonies, organizations in Africa."

Afro - American educator of A f r i c a n U n i t y , the has thousands of Africans in Honorable Mamadou Diarra; concentration camps and Owusu Sadaukai delivered the and UN ambassadors from bombs the free areas of Guinea major address of the evening.

Guinea, Tanzania, Zambia, - Bissau, Mozambique and He indicated that he had Algeria, Congo (Brazzaville), Angola, reported Guimaraes. recently spoke at a memorial Sudan, the Soviet Union, It has now, he said, also for the two brothers murdered Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, and embarked on "one of the most at Southern University in u n c i v i l i z e d " t a c t i c s of Baton Rogue, La. "The thing Sweden. kidnapping and murdering that bothers me about these memorial services is that to African nationalist leaders.

Abel Guimaraes, member of many of us they become our contribution to the struggle.

We attend a memorial and H E A R M R . M U H A M M A D SPEAK then return to what we were doing before the service and O N RADIO 1470 A.M. say that we have done what we STATION could do," he lamented.

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Portugal is the poorest country in Europe and yet is able to fight three colonial wars on the African continent.

The answer to how, Sadaukai offered, is United States aid.

"Do you understand," asked Sudaukai, "that Nixon is talking to us about how he is going to return the government to the people and at the same time he is totally centralizing the government in his office?

Do you think the change in the Cabinet is an accidental thing that don't mean nothing?

"Do you think that revenue sharing is just another jive program? Nixon has four of his own people sitting on the Supreme Court and at any day they may take the 'pacemaker' away from Douglas and he's gonna have five.

"As we sit here in our various costumes.''

Sadaukai continued, "(the Nixon people) have a plan. The plan is to totally deal on us. Cabral's death is only one indication of w h a t ' s h a p p e n i n g , and brothers and sisters have got to understand it.

"Not only did they kill Cabral but the day after, they bombed Tanzania. Just two years ago they invaded Guinea. Why? Because Tanzania and Guinea represent not only progressive places on the African continent but also the bases from where the (Southern Africa) liberation forces jump off."

Southern Africa, rich in resources, is key to the Euro American existence and he warningly noted that Brazil is developing a close relationship with Israel and South Africa to support U.S. designs for control of the South Atlantic Ocean.

Sadaukai urged B l a c k Americans to give "direct support" to Africa "without apologizing." He called for massive turnouts in every major U.S. city on May 26, the OAU's African Solidarity Day (called African Liberation Day in this country), and a boycott

of G u l f O i l , P o l a r o i d , Portuguese sardines, and other products.

Other speakers included the Rev. D r . Lucius Walker, director of the Inter-religious Foundation for Community Organizations, who announced the naming of its Institute for the training of community organizers after Amilcar Cabral and the joining of the* campaign to raise $100,000 for the Southern African liberation movements.

A number of Afro - American organizations will be co sponsoring a drive throughout the month of May, featuring door - to - door collections, to raise $100,000 or more for the freedom movements in Southern Africa, it was announced.

Rev. Dr. Moran Weston, rector of St. Phillips Episcopal Church, told the assembly that the connection must be seen between "the struggle for independence in Africa and its leadership in the world and our struggle for survival and leadership in this country."

In other actions, several hundred people marched to thePortuguese government tourist agency in mid - town Manhattan from 125th Street, chanting, "U.S. dollars and Portuguese colonialism killed Cabral" and "We are with the people of Guinea - Bissau."

In Boston, 200 people, including immigrants from the Portuguese - controlled African Cape Verde Islands burned Portugal flags at that government's consulate. Other anti Portuguese demonstrations took place in Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., and Ithaca, N.Y. A condolence book for the late Amilcar Cabral can be signed by the public at the office of the Organization of African Unity, 211 East 43rd St., Room 1002, Manhattan.

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Memphis youngsters' year long ordeal approach to life regardless of their condition.

Through a series of conveniently spaced events, beginning with the apprehension of a 13 - year old boy, Calvin Pittman, for "strong - armed robbery" of fifty cents from a paperboy, the police were given their first "break."

They took Calvin to the police

questioning, the 13 - year old boy said he "heard" that some boys had bombed the Red Lantern. One of those boys just happened to be his own brother, Terry Pittman, a 17 year old who, rumors had it that Detective Davis had been quoted as saying "I'm going to get that Pittman (Terry) boy" long before the bombing took place.

Willis were the only ones of the five to sign any kind of statement which implicated them to any degree. Fletcher said he signed the statement out of fear of what "they (the police) would do to me.

They've already cut my head once. After what they did to Elton Hayes, I knew that when they said they'd take me in the basement if I didn't talk,

was at home the night of the firebombing, sleeping on the front room couch, and has witnesses to back up his story.

When asked why he had signed the statement, Clarence said that police had kept him up all night questioning him and he would "have done anything to get them to leave me alone."

One of the people who had steadfastly believed in Clarence's story has been Bishop J.O. Patterson. Bishop Patterson saw Clarence in jail just after his arrest. He says, "I explained to.him that I am a

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MEMPHIS POLICE have been known for their brutality towards Blacks in that city. Photo above shows policeman purposely firing a tear gas cartridge at helpless Black woman during violence which had broken out. Unnecessary killing of Elton Hayes angered Black community leaders and pointed out the racism prevelant in the police department.

station where they interrogated him for an hour and a half. Young Calvin, frightened out of his wits, by the knife - wielding, policemen towering over h i m , was continually asked about the firebombing.

According to Calvin, the police threatened him with a long jail sentence if he didn't talk but he could get off light, on his 50 cents robbery charge, if he told them what they wanted to know about the bombing.

Finally, after being led on through suggestive 1

But a number of other youngsters were claiming credit for the firebombing, too, as boys are prone to do when it can make them look big in their crowd, Often it brings repercussions that can mean trouble.

Within a few days five young Black men, including Terry, were picked up and charged with the firebombing - Terry Pittman, 17; Fletcher White, 19; Clarence W i l l i s , 16; Norman Warner, 21; and George Brown, 31. They came to be known as the Memphis 5.

Fletcher White and Clarence

they'd do anything.''

He said they began putting words in his mouth and hoping to save time for either his mother or a lawyer to show up, agreed to what the policemen were telling him. Police said White signed a statement, but he denies signing anything.

The state's case against the five defendants hinged on the signed " c o n f e s s i o n " of Clarence Willis, 16 - year old high school student. Young Willis gave the police a detailed statement, which he says was signed under duress.

Clarence maintains that he

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minister and that I was there to help him, whether he was guilty or not. I believe I had his confidence. He told me with tears streaming down his face that he didn't do it. I believe he was telling the truth."

The only other time Clarence was seen crying was when Calvin Pittman saw him coming out of an office in the police headquarters where he had been questioned before signing the "confession."

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WHITTAKER was known for not being hostile or brutal toward inmates and therefore frowned upon by other guards who didn't share his outlook.

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Memphis youths charged with crimes attributed to white man firebombing was the result of a grudge someone had against him. At no time was there any mention of the thought that Black people had anything to do with the firebombing, since they did not patronize the tavern.

Police readily discounted any racial connection and even went as far as to flash a detailed description of the suspect over their car radios that night.

Apparently the climate in the city of Memphis was still too hot over the Hayes murder, for the Homicide Department didn't spend too much time looking for the white suspect, there were other fish to fry.

By Chester Sheard MEMPHIS, T E N N . - Five young Black men, the oldest, 31, the youngest, 17, had been in jail for over one year before they were brought to trial for crimes attributed to them that eye witnesses say was done by a white man.

ARRESTED over a year ago for the firebombing of The Red Lantern, a hillbilly tavern patronized by whites only, in which one person died and eight were burned, the entire charade of arrests and seizures of five B l a c k suspects pointedly exposed the methods used by city and state officials to bring to trial any Black person they wish to charge with committing crimes.

Coming on the heels of the brutal police beating - murder of Elton Hayes, a 17-year old Black boy. a week before the Red Lantern incident, the firebombing proved to be the p e r f e c t a n s w e r for an opportunity to turn the cries of "police brutality" to voices of indignation against Blacks in a city well entrenched in the Southern racist idioms.

In a positive statement given by an eye witness to the firebombing, Melvin McBride,

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police and reporters were told that the person who threw the bomb was white, had long hair, was about 5'9 tall, weighed about 165 pounds and was about 21 to 24 years old.

It seems that there are times in Memphis when a white man's word don't mean nothing and this happened to be one of those times.

In addition, the word had begun to go out that the owner of The Red Lantern, Frank Deaton. had been mistreating patrons of the bar and he, h i m s e l f f e l t t h a t the

The disregarding of the eye witness' story seemed to many that the police were out to erase the stigma of over acting that had been put on the police department by the previous week's slaying.

Police Department officials put Detective R.R. Davis, a 14 year veteran of the force, with 6 years on the Homicide Squad, as head of the investigating team.

Nicknamed "Rail Road" for obvious reasons, the cunning, pompadoured Davis and his' men swept into action with the persistence of a lion seeking its prey, reaching into the Black community, picking up all kinds of "suspects."

In most difficult cases, the police have a list of people they would like to "get off the streets" for one reason or another. Some because they refuse to become frightened by the bullying tactics exerted by trigger - happy policemen; others because they appear to be self - sufficient in their (Continued on page 24)

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Mr. Nixon's crude educational hoax

By Lonnie Kashif (M.S. Washington Bureau)

AT CAREER CONFERENCE...Anna Chennaolt, head of Nixon's National Republican Heritage group demands Asian role in minority affairs, also voiced 'other minorities' negative sentiments against Blacks SEATED: Mrs.Elizabeth Koontz, head of Womens' Bureau. Mrs. Koontz ignored question of ethnic priorities among minorities, but instead lectured' men on such things as changing baby diapers. She urged men to encourage their boys to play with 'baby dolls' in order to change malefemale role patterns. She received 'cool' reception. (Photo by Lonnie Kashif)

Chinese to buy on installment LONDON—China's Ministry of Foreign Trade, in its continuing economic battle with capitalist nations, has announced that it will pay interest on its purchases of Western plants which they buy on credit.

IN MAKING the announcement, Pai Hsiang-

Kuo told British government invoices for purchases, in representatives that Peking accordance with China's would make " d e f e r r e d attitude against payment for payments" for h e a v y capital.

Business sources in England equipment instead of paying cash as they have done in the and Japan were surprised at the turn of events since all past. dealings with China after they The cost of industrial plants opened their society to the and the interest charges would West, have been on a two and not be listed separately on three year deal.

WASHINGTON, D.C.-A major White House backed conference on C a r e e r Education for Minorities held here recently resulted in a near "free-for-all" verbal clash between minority groups for priority in a nebulous educational program being offered by the U.S. Office of Education.

IRONICALLY, the minority groups, which included Blacks, American Indians, Chicanos, J a p a n e s e and C h i n e s e Americans, denounced the program from, the outset, and almost unanimously voiced suspicions and skepticisms of the Administration's intentions. Nevertheless, the vague promise and concepts of " C a r e e r E d u c a t i o n " put forward by the administration, offered seemingly just enough "pie-in-sky vision" to create mostly subtle, but often open clashes among the ethnic groups. "This was just what Mr. Nixon intended," declared one Black delegate, "to get us fighting among ourselves over a promise that won't be delivered."

Another delegate, Eugene Williams, a consultant for Health Education and Welfare, more bluntly called the program "a farce." Williams

contended that the "Career" program was just another of a^ series of "games", being "run on Blacks and other minorities."

A Chicano representative voiced his suspicions in a paper presented to the conference: "We in the Chicano community have been burned by hoi milk—not only vocational education," he said, "but the whole educational system—that we wish to blow on the cottage cheese (career education) before we partake of it."

But again, as the conference proceeded, the Chicanos, as well as the Asian delegates strongly voiced their resentment of what thej apparently felt was "priority" given to the plight of Black minorities in the drafting ol the concepts of the "Career Education" program. Mrs. Anna Chennault, Chairman for Nixon's National Republican Heritage Group and Nationalities Council flatly declared, "I speak for the Asian Americans, and we want it understood that it can no longer be only the white and the Black in the decision making positions. The Asian community has been overlooked, yet we have suffered as much as any other ethnic group."

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Ifill police spark new Detroit riots?

By Donald Mosby Part-Two DETROIT-Famed Black Judge George W. Crocket, Jr., who sits on the Recorders Court bench in this Michigan city recently told MUHAMMAD SPEAKS that many of the policemen assigned to the city's controversial Tactical Mobile Unit (TMU) and the STRESS undercover operations have developed a "Gestapo like" attitude, and therefore the only sane remedy for the situation is to disband both units.

Judge Crocket went on to say that members of the two units apparently view themselves as "super-cops," and since this is the case, they are not subject to the restraints the law imposes on ordinary policemen.

" T H E Y GET AWAY WITH IT," Judge Crocket continued, "because in most instances the people stopped are Black, who unfortunately get themselves l a w y e r s who a r e not sufficiently concerned to raise the basic constitutional questions involved.

"OR, IF T H E Y A R E POOR," the judge went on, "they have to accept a court appointed attorney. And let's face it the only thing those guys are interested in is getting the individual to plead guilty, in order to collect his fee as

" T H E Y GO AROUND IN A contents itself with harrassing in the Black BOASTFUL M A N N E R , ' ' activites Judge Crocket says, "with the community. idea that they are the 'cream Detroit has been termed the "Dope Capital of of the crop' and that there is America," where, it has been reported that $40 nothing they can do that is going to be considered illegal." million dollars per year are spent on heroin alone.

J U D G E C R O C K E T SAID, According to police statistics drug addicts account that if the police continue for 15 percent of the city's murders, which are at a operating as they are currently record high. Police also theorize that 90 percent of doing in the Black community the bank robberies are dope connected, as well. they will precipitate another The city's number one Black heroin wholesaler is riot, such as occured in 1967. reputed to rake in $250,000 weekly. This provides "I think that the Black him with a new Lincoln Continental each year, a community is fed up with the maxi mink coat and $100 dollar shoes. Police police," Judge Crocket stated, attempts to suppress the drug traffic have recently "they're fed up with STRESS been attacked by most Black community leaders, and T M U . " including famed Judge George W. Crocket, Jr. In The Judge went on to say that this series MUHAMMAD SPEAKS continues its TMU was started after the 1967 examination of the police problem in Black Detroit riots to provide tactical backup in emergency situations. in an interview with Judge Crockett.

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MUHAMMAD SPEAKS asked Judge Crocket to comment on the apparent fact that the police want to end the narcotics traffic in Detroit, but that they (the police) feel they can break the law, if need be, to accomplish this.

"What happens," Judge Crocket replied, "is that we get the public all steamed up about a particular kind of offense. For a long time around here it- was control.

'There are too .many handguns around.'

DETROIT JUDGE GEORGE W. CROCKET, JR. who recently told M U H A M M A D SPEAKS, "If the police continue in their present conduct they could spark another riot." The famed jurist also said that many members of Detroit's police force believe they are "Super cops" and have a " G e s t a p o " like attitude.

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law, perhaps more than the people who are engaged in the narcotics traffic."

MUHAMMAD SPEAKS asked Judge Crocket about the apparent turn away from prime consideration for individual rights in this country, since the departure of Chief Justice Earl Warren from the U.S. Supreme Court.

Now many people are willing to deny the Constitutional rights of a person accused of certain kinds of crimes.

"I think you are right" Judge Crocket replied. "You see, by virtue of the information media, the people have become indoctrinated with the idea that the country is so pervaded with crime, that now all you have to do is make an accusation and immediately they feel the person is convicted.

"And certainly this attitude seems to dominate the police department here, and in just about every other major city."

Judge Crocket stated.

"The police here refer to persons whom they have arrested as, the 'thug'. I can read a police report and it'll say the criminal did such and such," the judge said. "Mind you now, in many cases there isn't an indictment and certainly no conviction. Still as far as the police are concerned the person is already convicted and has no rights."

Judge Crocket went on to say that one of the big problems with the police is illegal entry "Now with our high homicide and searches of Black people's rate, everyone agrees that homes. there are too many hand guns.

"We have the police breaking But, what happens is the police into private homes," the judge use this as a justification for s a i d , " a n d d e s t r o y i n g stopping and searching the everything in sight; claiming automobile of every citizen they are doing it pursuant to a who alledgedly commits a lawful warrant." traffic violation.

"And all of this," the judge "So starting out with the continued, "is because there is l e g i t i m a t e i n t e n t i o n of the popular notion that we preventing homicides by have a 'no knock' law here in getting at the handguns in the Michigan. We don't." city, the police end up, The Black jurist explained completely violating the rights that while the city council has of the citizens. passed a statute which "The narcotics situation is "purports to be a no knock another case in point. In an law," it is unconstitutional. attempt to solve the problem the police end up violating the To Be Continued

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Hamilton's building proposal for welfare EAST LANSING, Mich. - A Black political scientist has proposed that abandoned buildings in America's central cities be turned into public sector housing cooperatives for persons receiving welfare.

DR. CHARLES V. Hamilton, co-author w i t h Stokely Carmichael of "Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in A m e r i c a , " explained his proposal during a recent visit to Michigan State University, and sought comments from MSU faculty members.

D r . H a m i l t o n describes persons receiving welfare as "conduits" whose money for rent leaves the community and never returns once it is paid to absentee landlords, the actual welfare beneficiaries. To stop that flow of money, he would like for welfare families to form cooperatives and use the money formerly spent on rent to purchase multi - unit housing.

"This will terminate welfare benefits now extending to communities who profit without receiving any of the political flack now directed at welfare communities," he says.

He suggests that social services departments use

housing allowances to pay mortgages on the purchase of property. " U n l e s s this happens." he says, "we will be sinking more money into the pockets of the wrong people."

DR. HAMILTON estimates

that 18.000 housing units are staff are investigating the cost being abandoned each year in of buying, renovating and New York City. In 12 census m a i n t a i n i n g m u l t i - u n i t tracts in Harlem being studied, housing which is abandoned in 106 multi-unit buildings are Harlem, to determine whether people would be willing to vacant, he says.

The political scientist and his invest in such cooperatives and

to study social consequences.

While at MSU, economists and urban affairs specialists offered suggestions on facets of his proposal which should be investigated further, and possible methods of research.

Z a m b i a keeps borders shut LUSAKA, Zambia President Kenneth Kaunda said that Zambia would keep its border closed w i t h Rhodesia despite the Rhodesain announcement that the 400 - mile border was to be reopened.

Kaunda said Zambia would continue to export all its copper over northern routes to by pass Rhodesia, and would also bring in all its imports over these routes.

HO JSING IN THE INNER CITY is rapidly falling apart. The above building is but one of thousands across the nation that stand empty and mute, while Black people suffer an acute housing shortage.

The President's propose, new budget calls for an increase of $6 billon in defense spending, and the new HUD criteria for building low cost, and moderate homes make this almost impossible to accomplish. (M.S. Photo by Roy Lewis)

Rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith closed the border on Jan. 9, claiming that it would remain closed until Zambia stopped permitting guerrilla forces to use its territories as a base.

The announcement by Kaunda was made after he met briefly with most of the Zambian cabinet.

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FEBRUARY 16,1973

" T h o s e w h o built a m o s q u e to cause h a r m (to Islam)"

By Abass Rassoull National Secretary (Holy Qur-an 9:107) "And those who built a mosque to cause harm (to Islam) and (to help) disbelief, and to cause disunion among the believers, and a refuge for him who made war against Allah and His Messenger before. And they will certainly swear: We desired naught but good. And Allah bears witness that they are certainly liars."

The Wisdom taught by The Honorable E l i j a h Muhammad enables us to properly understand the complexities of the world in which we live today.

As the rotting remnants of the foundation of the devil's (white man) civilization crumble before our very eyes, it is understandable and predictable that the former rulers of earth and her people will fight with every grasping breath to hold on to that Rulership, which was given to them for a limited time.

The recent attempts by the devil and his imps to slander the Messenger of Allah and His Followers are manifest proof that the Arch - Deceiver is at his wits end in his methods to try to trick the Black People of America into turning away from Allah and His

Messenger. These enemies are trying to find something on us. They explore everything in an attempt to make the public think evil of us.

Just as a wounded animal's body shakes with violent spasms as it gasps its final breaths of life, so the white man and his so - called Negro stooges have been reduced to whimpering, sniveling snakes by Allah as He induces their last death blows in the form of Truth from the mouth of His Servant.

The devil's communications media (radio, television, newspapers, magazines, etc.). has served as the "mouth" through which he has spewed his venomous lies against The Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

He has been able to use the hypocrites and disbelievers as pawns in his vicious campaign because they are Black people who obviously believe that there is no one able to "make war" with the beast. The eyes of these foolish so called Negroes have been sealed with complete blindness to the events happening in their midst.

Allah, in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad, rs in our midst today proving to the world that He is Supreme in Power and well Able to destroy His enemies and raise His Servants to success and wealth in the midst of the destruction of their

B l a c k a n d W h i t e

By Minister Yusuf Shah Temple No. 2 I have noticed within the past two weeks that the devil white man has started his lying campaign from one end of the country to the other on the Nation of Islam led by The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, in the wilderness of North America.

We have seen on television, heard on the radio, and read in the newspapers and magazines of what is being presented to the public by the white man — some of it is true and some of it is false.

I read all last year in the newspapers and magazines and the good things that the Black Press wrote of the Nation of Islam — about how powerful the Black Muslims are, and the great work that Messenger Muhammad is doing for our people to elevate them from the bottom of civilization to the top of civilization.

I saw pictures of the Muslim farms, Printing Press, Businesses, Bank, and the New Temple purchased in their newspapers and magazines. There was a tremendous i n c r e a s e in sales of their newspapers and magazines because Messenger Muhammad's followers

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bought them and recommended them to others. Now, today, we see where the Black Press, along with the white press are attacking us for the joy of the white man.

I have noticed that everytime the devil says something concerning us which is false, the Black Press is like a dog lying down half asleep, and when he sees a rabbit he jumps up so fast that his feet look like wheels when he takes off after the rabbit.

The Black Press, especially the Chicago Daily Defender, does not take time to check with us to find out whether it is true or false. They want to show the white man that they are with him 100 per cent when it comes to the Muslims — whatever the devil says. I often wondered what was meant by Chicago Defender. Now, I see—a Defender of the white man (devil)—whatever the devil says.

M r . Editor of the Chicago Defender, the white man makes fun of you for being such an Uncle Tom newspaper — instead of coming to us, Muhammad Speaks, who will give you the Truth to go into your paper, which would help your paper become a more dignified paper and nationalized. .. . , ... i ......

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oppressors.

World and national events are proof that America is number one on Allah's list of destruction. The devil, by controlling the flow of news which reaches the American people, uses every device to hide the true "State of the Union." One has to dig deep in order to uncover the R E A L NEWS of the past year.

The year 1972 was a crushing year for the devil — large amounts of crops destroyed by weather and insects; a dwindling gold supply; unemployment; military defeats in Southeast Asia; soaring use of drugs among his own youth; a widening "Credibility gap" between his leaders and the people; a growing distrust of all political leaders, i n c l u d i n g the president; uncontrollable inflation; labor strikes; pollution; school closings; sharp increases in sickness and disease; violent crimes (from the back alleys of Chicago to the Senate chambers in Washington); earthquakes; airplane crashes; open disagreements between the U.S. and her European brothers; a growing African - Asian Unity; internal decay of the Israeli Zionist machine; a bloody white tribal war in Northern Ireland; African liberation victories in central and southern Africa; and the list goes on and on.

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We will teach you how to clean up your people whereby it would be a fit paper to read. We notice that you have half - nude sisters and devil white women all through your paper. We notice that you have whiskey, beer, and wine advertised all through your paper. How do you expect to clean your Nationhood with this kind of filth in your paper?

We, the Muslims, have stopped buying your Jet Magazine because it is the most filthy little book that a decent person could read — right in the center of that book is a half nude sister. We, the Muslims, have stopped buying it because the white man spreading his lies and p r o p a g a n d a on M e s s e n g e r Muhammad and His followers.

We, the Muslims, will stop buying your Chicago Defender Newspaper and when the white man finishes with you — you will have to come to us, for there is no other place for you to go except to hell with the white man, as it is written in Revelations, that "they that worship the Beast (love white people) had the mark of the Beast (with the devil in whatever he does), and the Beast's name (the names you are now wearing), were cast alive in the Lake of Fire." «r»fc»-4-*

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We can readily understand why the white man must try to divert the peoples' attention from these real news issues to "fabricated news" — indecency, sport and play.

Above all, they cannot afford for the Truth to be made known to the Great progress and success of The Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam. If this Truth were to be made known to the Black Man and Woman of America, the devil knows that his last vestige of hope, his last friend in the world today (the American so - called Negro) would be stripped from his stranglehold of mental slavery and death. He will battle to the death with his weapons of lies and falsehood to keep his filthy neck from being slashed with the Sword of Truth emanating from the mouth of Allah's Messenger.

For 42 years the beast has fought with all his might to oppose the Messenger. Yet, knowing that Messenger Muhammad's Rise signals his Fall, the white man proves that he has the wisdom of the Mission, Identity and Power of the Lamb of God. The intelligent of the white race have not murmured one word saying that the Messenger's Teachings are other than Divine Truth.

Their propaganda campaigns against The Honorable Elijah Muhammad are planned by them but acted out by Black hypocrites and disbelievers.

For 42 years the devil has been able to posion many Black peoples' minds against Our Leader and Teacher and His Great Programs for the Black Man's rise to Nationhood.

But, all praise is due to Allah, the end has come. No Longer can the Black Man be tricked and deceived into seeing the Messenger as other than Who He is — the Last Messenger of God to the Black Man. The Power of Allah has raised His Servant too high above the earth for falsehood to be able to pull H i m down to the obscurity and disgrace which has been fallen other socalled Black Leaders.

The events of recent weeks proves the Black Man and Woman's growing immunity to the poison of the devil's tricknology. After the white press had done its best "job" on the Nation of Islam using every lie imaginable stuffed in the throat of a paid hypocrite in Washington, D.C., it failed miserably in its attempts.

You can walk to any quarter of the Black Community and talk to Brothers and Sisters about this latest barrage of lies, and you will find reactions v a r y i n g from nonchalant disbelief to open hostility for such a vile attack on the (Continued on page 18),

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By Elijah Muhammad Messenger of Allah THE so-called Negro in America needs education into the knowledge of self and education into the knowledge of others, in order to get the respect and the recognition of others.

THE so-called Negro in America is not independent. The so- called Negro in America does not own any land that he can call his own. The socalled Negro in America needs more than EQUAL education. The so-called Negro in America needs a SUPERIOR education, to that education which is ruling the nations of the earth, today.

IF a nation wants recognition, IT IS ESSENTIAL FOR A NATION TO B E UNITED and to enjoy selfcontrol. If a nation wants recognition it is essential for them to be in a country of their own.

When we are in a country of our own, WE CALL THIS INDEPENDENCE. NOW, we the so-called Negro in America, do not have self-

Qualifications F o r I education. We do not have selfcontrol, nor do we have a countryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not even some of this earth that we can call our own.

WE, the so-called Negro in America need a SUPERIOR EDUCATION or a SUPERIOR TEACHING, in order to achieve the respect of others, who are now enjoying such recognition.

T H E MOST E S S E N T I A L QUALIFICATION is the art of PRACTICING that which we need in order to be a c c e p t e d .

C l e a n l i n e s s , inwardly and outwardly, is number one on the list.

MANNERS, along with general moral aspects, are second. The socalled Negro in A m e r i c a ' s WARPED MINDS and DISRESPECT of self is one of the main objections of the selfrespected societies.

THE majority of us, so-called Negroes in America have been reared by southern white people, who have the most profound hatred and dislike for us. And, this being true, the white people have made us, a degree below nothing (just as they did our foreparents) for the last 400 years.

AT the time, the southern white people frightened the so-called Negro slaves to such a degree, that they had no hope of ever being recognized authorities among themselves.

T H E so-called Negroes in America try to please the same white people just as our fathers did, under servitude slavery. Whether this pleasing of white people is for, or a g a i n s t the s o - c a l l e d Negroâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;they will try to 'please' white people because they fear the white man.

T H E R E A R E NO members of an educated and clean self-respecting society who want their society disgraced by a member who has ill and disrespecting manners and ill morals.

WE must remember that the Bible closes with announcing this fear in Rev. 21:8. Our people are afraid of the slavemaster and his children, afraid to displease them in their dislike of the salvation that

The Filth That Pr Holy Quran (7:27) O childrc arch deceiver seduce y o u , as h< from the garden, pulling off fr that he might show them their you, he as well as his hosts, froi not. Surely W e have made the of those who believe not.

This happened to the Blac Y a k u b from Arabia. He pulled Self, the clothes of Righteousnes er their shame; and then made hills and cave-sides of Europe, You are warned. Y o u beli< lowing the invitation to evil am Wait and see.

ldependence has come to the Black slave and God has not offered the same salvation to the white slave -master and his children.

THE so-called Negro who tries to PLEASE his master, DISPLEASES himself. The socalled Negro would love to see the Hereafter and live in a kingdom (a government) of Peace and Security, but he would not like to accept any such glory, if this acceptance is not liked by the white slave-master.

THEREFORE, the so-called Negro suffers the consequences of the slave-master's children, which is referred to in (Bible) Rev. 19:20 under the name, 'beast.' In Rev. 19:19, 'beast' is clearly symbolized as human beings.

Destruction THOSE of the so-called Negro, who refuse to accept God (Allah) as their King, and the People of God (Allah) as their brothers and nation,—they will suffer the destruction of hellfire with the enemies.

YOU must 'wash and be clean,'

c e s T h e Filth. n of A d a m , let not the e x p e l l e d your parents om them their clothing shame. He surely sees whence y o u see them devils to b e the friends People who followed off, from their original and the clothes to covthem to go nude in the ntil the birth of Moses, ve y o u a r e safe in folfilth of the white race.

as (Bible) Isaiah 1:16, warns you.

The Bible, Proverbs 30:12, specifies us as a generation not washed. Hebrew 10:22 (Bible) makes mention that it is necessary that our bodies be washed with pure water to enter into the recognition and respect of God (Allah).

THE Bible, Rev. 1:5 reads in a parable of Jesus, that he will wash us inwardly, from our sins. I want you to remember that this does not mean the Jesus who was here 2,000 years ago. It means a Jesus, at the end of the time...One whom Jesus prophecied God would Send under the title of a Comforter (in the Bible) and as Ahmad, in the 61st Chapter of the Holy Qur-an.

In Malachi (Bible) Elijah had to first come—before the Coming of Allah (God)—and wash and clean up a people and make them selfrespecting so that GOD WOULD Accept them in His Presence.

So, if we want white or Black to respect us, we must clean and wash ourselves of the filth, in and out. No self-respecting nations will accept you as you are today, because of your ill-mannered behaviour.

HURRY AND JOIN ONTO YOUR OWN KIND. THE TIME OF

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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad Messenger of Allah.

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THIS WORLD IS NOW AT HAND. Write to: MUHAMMAD'S TEMPLE NO. 2, 7351 South Stony Island Avenue, Chicago Illinois 60649.

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F E B R U A R Y 16,1973

MUHAMMAD SPEAKS

Respectforthe Messenger stressed

By Minister EarlX Temple No. 60 Beloved Brothers and Sisters of the lost found Nation of Islam in North America, and especially those who have not yet decided to follow the M o s t Honorable E l i j a h Muhammad. In this Great Day of D e c i s i o n , w h e r e i n we find ourselves, in order to decide which way we must go; Who to follow; Our decision must have, as its base, intelligence, sensibility and wisdom.

As the Apostle Paul said (I Thess: 5:21) we must "Prove all things and hold fast that which is good." To prove a thing or a man, according to dictionary definition we must show him to be true or genuine by evidence or argument; establish the authenticity or validity of him; to justify, confirm, verify.

As you notice, every year around this time before our annual Saviour's Day Convention, the white man's campaign against the Honorable E l i j a h Muhammad begins. Every year he pulls the same trick. However, the fact that he pulls the same trick every year should wake our people up to the trick, since at all other times during the year he is silent.

And you are not being wise if you don't examine his reason, his motive. He, the white man, thinks that he has made Black People so blind, deaf and dumb that you will fall for the same old trick time after time, year after year. You are not given credit for any intelligence.

But I think that he is being deceived himself today, to think that Black men can be deceived so easily. Especially with the light of Truth of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad ever shining and increasing with intensity daily, and his works ever bearing witness that he is a man concerned with, and has the key to, the Salvation of Black People.

When he, the white man and his imps pop up. like every year with his smear campaign, in view of Messenger Muhammad's continuous progress and accomplishments: he's like a man, in the streets naked, charging and condemning the fullyclad people with indecency.

While he was preparing to attack and accuse God's Messenger, perhaps you were g i v i n g consideration and concern to what Messenger Muhammad was doing.

Perhaps you had time to calculate on why Messenger Muhammad was still being successful after 42 years in the midst of this evil race of people, and time to consider who was behind the success of this great man.

Maybe your m e m o r y was revitalized by the prompting of Messenger Muhammad"s Laborers; having pointed out how this same attacker and accuser had himself bowed to, respected and honored Messenger Muhammad, as well as a d m i t t i n g that Messenger Muhammad was the True and Last Messenger of Allah.

The scriptures teach us that

everything will bear witness that Allah is God and that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is the last Messenger of Allah.

highest respect and honor. The Last Messenger of Allah and His religion Islam. Not Christianity, their religion.

Consider America, a giant of a nation. Not a play nation. But a nation that herself brags on being the most powerful nation on earth.

The scriptures refer to her as the great Beast that caused the Earth to tremble. That brought fire down from heaven. This same people who persecuted and prosecuted God's Messenger; threw him in jail on false charges, accused him day and night, have already bowed and admitted that Messenger Muhammad was of God, from God and had the power of God with him.

Some of you may remember or heard that when Messenger Muhammad went to Washington D.C. in 1959, how the government p o l i c e e s c o r t e d h i m down Pennsylvania Avenue, meeting him at the airport and escorting him as they would only escort a King from a foreign Land. The same man that they had persecuted, prosecuted, accused and are still persecuting and accusing. They are still resurrecting hypocrites, dead and alive, to try and dis-credit the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

Brother preacher of the white man's slavemaking religion of Christianity, when did you ever get this kind of respect and honor?

Never. No matter how big you get in his religion and no matter how violently and fervently you preach it, you never get this kind of honor.

Why would they treat him (Messenger Muhammad) so royally and protect him so carefully if he was a nobody. They knew that he came to Washington D.C. to preach their doom. Yet they gave him the

Continued:

If the master of you bows and admits to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad's Messengership. and he's your teacher of his religion, then most certainly you should bow and a d m i t to M u h a m m a d ' s Messengership. As you most surely will one day soon.

As long as you are in his religion, preaching it; preaching love for him, you're his slave. You come to us on behalf of him. Defending him and trying to make us worship him.

You come today out of his Theological Seminaries. Not from God. You get the white man's degree. His license. But yet he does not honor you, respect you. You are in his name, as his property. He can't honor his slave.

To Be Continued

O l d age h a p p y

Those who built a mosque Greatest Black Man in the World.

After such utter failure, we can expect the beast to come up with his most devilish tricks as the curtain closes on his 6,000 - year performance of murder and evil.

The success of The Honorable Elijah Muhammad in molding the Black once - slave of America into a powerful, righteous Nation of Civilized People has drawn world wide respect and admiration to the Man who the devil would have you believe is a "fake."

Eastern (Orthodox) Muslims would never grant and loan millions of dollars to a "fake" who is teaching other than the Islam which is accepted by the Islamic leaders and scholars of the world. No matter how many sects and organizations of hypocrites the devil tries to glorify through his news media to distract Black People, they will not be successful in their attempts. Listed below are a few of the Great accomplishments of The Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Does this work reflect the achievements of a Man who is the "fake" the devil would have you believe?

•Muhammad's Temples of Islam in every major city of America and elsewhere.

•Muhammad's Universities of

R e v e r e n d , as M e s s e n g e r Muhammad says, you should read over your Bible again and see maybe he's showing you what you should be doing. Giving respect and honor to God's last Messenger.

Islam in more than 60 cities. *Muhammad Speaks Newspaper Printing Press (a multi-million d o l l a r complex p r i n t i n g an international weekly newspaper with a circulation of more than 600,000 copies) *Cold Storage and Warehouse •Good Foods Meat and Produce, Inc. •Chicago Lamb Packers •A cross country Trucking System •Airplanes •A cannery in Georgia •Fruit, vegetable and poultry Farms in Georgia, Alabama, and Michigan (thousands of acres of land) •Shabazz Barber Shop •Shabazz Bakery and Coffee Shop •Shabazz Restuarant •Salaam Restuarant construction) •New Addition for Muhammad's University No. 2 (a multi-million dollar complex under construction) •Residential Homes •Apartment Buildings •Salaam Snack Shop •Your Supermarket •Capitol Cleaners ••Temple No. 2 Clothing Store & Medical Offices •National Clothing Factory •Muslim Import Store •Sales and Office Building (a $2

million structure under construction.

•Guaranty Bank & Trust Company •43,000 acre farm - British Honduras Although the above accomplishments are miraculous, indeed, they do not reflect the greatness nor the impact of the Presence of The Honorable Elijah Muhammad among the Black People of North America. His greatest impact is the raising to Life and Righteousness of millions Of Black People all over the earth who have heard and accepted His Message from the Lord of the Worlds.

Make sure that you are in Chicago for, Saviour's Day 1973. After viewing and hearing The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, make your own decision on His validity and purpose.

I am sure that you, too, will join the millions of Black People who can bear witness that "There is no God but Allah and The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is His Messenger."

Note: Although most of the Enterprises named above are located in Chicago, Illinois, similar Businesses and Schools can be found in all cities where the Followers of The Honorable Elijah Muhammad are located.

w i t h Islam

By Sister Dorothy E . X Seattle, Washington I wonder if I can in a few words tell you all that Islam means to me.

I A M WELL advanced in years and we older folks receive very little respect or consideration from the "lost-found Negro."

But thanks be to Allah! With the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, our leader and teacher, the women and children in Islam are taught differently, and I want to say, the natural loneliness that comes with old age is greatly alleviated through the thoughtful kindness of the young sisters.

The teachings of the Messenger, and the clearer and deeper meanings of the Bible that are explained to us from Him by our Brother Minister, is- food for my mind each day and fills my heart with good thoughts.

I SAY OVER and over in my prayers: " A l l praises to Allah for giving us His Messenger, The Honorable Elijah Muhammad Who is teaching of knowledge and self respect, bringing peace of mind and heart that is to be found only in Islam.

I wish all the aged and lonely of our people could know such kindness and be so happy.

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SALES & OFFICE BUILDING 78th ST. and Cottage Grove Ave.

The photograph

above

conception of a beautiful

is an artist's

new "Safes and

Office Building" under construction at.78th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue, on the

This structure will be added to the long list of accomplishments by the Honorable Muhammad,

who is

constantly

calling tor the Blackman to build up and beautify his own community.

Great plans are in store for the East side of Cottage Grove Avenue. days

growth

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Temple of Islam No. 2 Chicago, III. LE ROY HILLIARD ARCHITECT A.I.A.

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leadership a n d guidance. The building represents another step i n The

Sales a n d Office Building at 78th Street a n d Cottage Grove A v e . on

Honorable Elijah M u h a m m a d ' s program of beautification of Chicago's

Chicago's South Side is a n excellent a n d moving e x a m p l e of w h a t

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Prison News In

Mack

Pain, death await prisoner in experiments weak all over, right arm hurts worst than ever."

They were joined by others CHICAGO When two who complained that, " M y inmates won a $6,000 out of court settlement for suffering head feels as if it will fall off," damage d u r i n g " p a i n and "I felt chilled, feverish, tolerance studies" they were weak and exausted."

The above quotations were merely being compensated for participating in dangerous taken from a January article in experiments which have the Alantic Monthly Magazine b come common for prisoners. written by investigative VHE D A N G E R O U S reporter, Jessica Mitford. An4 experiments are by and large are describing some of the which sponsored by drug companies a d v e r s e e f f e c t s who hire prison inmates to thousands of inmates, mostly serve as guinea pigs in trying Black, have suffered when out new drugs because new participating in "Experiments drugs cannot be marketed behind Bars", as the Mitford article is titled. unless first tried out on human The inmates participate in the beings.

Those experiments cause the experiment for an extra $10 or inmate participant to suffer $15 per month, which is nothing "cold chills, sweat, and nausea compared to the money they through"* the night," said one will eventually have to spend inmate who participated in to have themselves repaired from 'ne ill-effects of the them.

And "sharp abdominal pains" experi nents. And often those were suffered by another; ill-effects are so severe as to "headaches and pain in my be permanent.

And the $10 or $15 is nothing stomach," was suffered by the third, and the fourth suffered - again compared to what the pains in "my body, which feels doctors make by performing

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the experiments. According to an Atlantic Monthly quote of a 1963 Time Magazine article, "doctors in Oklahoma were grossing an estimated $300,000 a year from deals with pharmaceutical companies to test out new drugs on prisoners; the same doctors were paying prisoners $5 a quart for blood which they retailed at $15."

According to the Atlantic Monthly article, many times an inmate is paid as little as $12 per month for a blooddrawing experiment for which a student would be paid $100.

By s u b m i t t i n g to the experiments, the inmates have been subjected to contracting a host of deadly diseases such as cancer, lukemia. and also hemorrhages in the skin, scurvy, and diseases of the nerves.

Other ill-feelings suffered from the experiments include pain in the joints, swelling of legs, loss of hair, shortness of breath, scaly skin, mental depression, dental cavities,

and recurrent loss of new dental fixtures.

Mitford lists some 25 prisons where the deadly, unfair experiments occur. Most of them are located in northern states. However, it is doubtful i that she was able to obtain a complete list of the performing prisons from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, where she obtained the list of 2.) Only prisons in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia and Virginia are among the deep southern states listed.

And it was at the Atmore Alabama State Prison where health conditions for inmates were so negative that the state itself sent in an investigating team from the M e d i c a l Association of Alabama to investigate.

In addition to witnessing appalling health and medical facilities for the inmates, the team reported that inmates themselves were ordered to perform minor surgery on

patients.

One of the investigating doctors, Dr. Julius Michaelson, described his experience touring the prison thus: "They were served their evening meal in paper bags.

Inside, at the bottom of the sack in a pile was a hard, dried, cold egg on a piece of old, dried-out white bread, a greasy piece of old, yellow cheese with globules of fat exuding from it.

"This too, of course, on a piece of stale white bread together with a small square of crumbly substance that was supposed to be cake. The only thing available to wash down this delight was water."

Describing his feeling upon leaving the prison after the tour, Dr. Michaelson said, "I was depressed. I wanted to shed my clothing and take a cleansing shower. As I got into my automobile nausea welled up within me. I looked back and cried."

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JOIN THE MUSLIMS IN A GREAT CARAVAN From your city to the annual Muslim's Convention to be held M o n d a y , February 26, 1973 in Chicago. See in Person the Divine Accomplishments of Messenger Muhammad as he transforms the South Side of Chicago into what it can and should be.

SAVIOURS ' DAY 1073 See page 8 for time and location (Subject to be announced.)

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Firing Black lecturers threatens to close University of Hest Indies KINGSTON, Jamaica - A storm is brewing on this Island in the Caribbean. A storm full of sound and fury and indicating a new and higher level in the struggle of Black people to totally transform Jamaican society.

The most recent development is a threatened strike by workers at the University of the West Indies in response to attempts led by a white administrator to fire two young University lecturers who have been active in support of recent worker struggles. The two, Trevor Munroe and Bobby Figueroa, face possible dismissal from the faculty if found guilty of charges stemming from a previous strike last October.

THE ROOTS of the current situation are to be found in the strike of University workers in October 1972. The Universityj and Allied Workers Union ( U A W U ) won bargaining 'rights for 550 junior service workers who make an average of $10 for a 50 -hour work week on June 1, 1972. Thirty-two claims were immediately presented to the management of the University.

After 20 negotiating sessions, the University flatly refused to discuss seven points, including such issues as a 5 - day, 40 hour work week, maternity leave with pay, and worker participation on University committees which directly affected their welfare. This refusal was seen by many as a last ditch effort by University officials to improve their public image in the face of the Union's negotiating successes.

As a result of this refusal, the UAWA membership authorized a strike which started on October 9, 1972. The strike completely paralyzed the University for three weeks

CONTINUED STRIFE in one of the few institutions of higher learning hinders the possibility of young Jamaicans getting the education they so badly need. Historical importance of Jamaica in the Carribean is threatened by insensitivity of educational leaders who force their short-sighted rulings on highly qualified leaders.

as students, faculty, and workers honored the picket line. It ended on October 30 with both the University and the Union agreeing to enter detailed discussions.

An important clause in the' settlement was that there would be no victimization of striking workers or Union personnel. It is this specific clause which the Union claims has now been violated.

ONE OF the key figures in the October strike was Dr. Trevor Munroe, an Oxford trained lecturer in Government at the University and vice - president of the Union. Munroe and Bobby Figueroa are charged by a white vice - chancellor, O.R. Marshall, with seven

violations of a vaguely worded University "code of conduct."

The c h a r g e s i n c l u d e "disorderly conduct, uttering gross statements against members of the University, behaving in a manner to disrupt the good order of the U n i v e r s i t y , engaging in a c t i v i t i e s c a l c u l a t e d to endanger Peace and Security, etc." Any of these could lead to dismissal.

BUT IT is the incident from

which the charges stem that has created the greatest outcry of anger and disbelief. A white consultant on the Faculty of Medicine, Dr. Cecil Mclver, who is not a citizen of the West Indies, drove his automobile through a workers' picket line during the October strike, not stopping after injuring two workers.

Munroe and Figueroa were called to the scene by campus security officers to assist in calming an angry crowd of workers who had witnessed the incident. Statements which support these facts have been filed with police by the campus security officers and several w i t n e s s e s . A group of University professors who witnessed the act, including Dr. George Beckford, head of the Economics Department, have formally requested that the U n i v e r s i t y i n i t i a t e criminal charges against Mclver.

The only response from the University has been its diligent pursuit in the prosecution of Munroe and Figueroa. A hearing before a Professional Committee of University faculty had been scheduled to begin on Monday, January 22.

The University was forced to p o s t p o n e the hearing indefinitely &nd it is now clear that the University is not on solid ground.

The immediate cause of the postponement was the sudden resignation of the appointed chairman of the Professional Committee. Dr. Munroe, however, attributes the

postponement to "a massive build - up of public pressure."

Over 500 workers walked off their jobs in a protest demonstration which coincided with the start of the hearing on Jan. 22.

THE RESPONSE to the situation is p a r t i c u l a r l y significant in that it has o v e r c o m e some of the contradictions which have prevented effective mobilization around similar issues in the past. Faculty members are i n t i m a t e l y involved in the struggle to improve the lot of workers.

Students have come to see their position in regards to workers as a privileged one and are actively supporting the w o r k e r s ' demands. The community - U n i v e r s i t y dichotomy has also been partially overcome.

Indeed, the most militant expressions of support have come from among working class people at such gatherings as nightly street rallies held all over Kingston. At the fin such gathering, over 200 people braved rain and a chilling wind to listen â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in high spirits â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to almost three hours of speeches by a broad cross - section of Jamaicans.

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Charges of racism were c e n t r a l t h e m e s in a l l comments. Marshall, the ViceChuiicellor who is directing the U n i v e r s i t y ' s \ attempt to prosecute, was ; described by one speaker as "a white boy, an expatriate from Barbados...a white imperialist (Continued on page 25)

HOLY NAMES The Nation of Islam WILL NOT recognize nor accept Holy Names adopted by persons desiring to rid themselves of slave-names. Buying names or changing them through the; court WILL NOT be accepted. The rule is that only names given by The Honorable Elijah Muhammad wii! be recognized.

Your names are not to be bought they are free. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad gives some of His laborers nasses Himself, which are recognized by Allah, to keep them from being called by slavenames. He has the freedom to do this. You are very foolish to go and buy names when they are free. You make a fool of yourself when you buy these names from the devil. I am certain they laugh at your ignorance. From the reading of this notice, any one who adopts [names without permission wjll be penalized.

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You are not tn put X's behind Holy Names. The Holy Name is free within itself. When you place an X behind it you are X -ing yourself out of the Holy Name. The best thing is that you keep away from trying to order and correct these names yourself. You will get a name as it is written and as Allah told The Honorable Elijah Muhammad. The Bible teaches in Revelations that the judgment cannot proceed unless you have your Holy Names.

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Memphis youths charged with crimes attributed to white man

By Chester Sheard

firebombing was the result of a grudge someone had against him. At no time was there any mention of the thought that Black people had anything to do with the firebombing, since they did not patronize the tavern.

Police readily discounted any racial connection and even went as far as to flash a detailed description of the suspect over their car radios that night.

Apparently the climate in the city of Memphis was still too hot over the Hayes murder, for the Homicide Department didn't spend too much time looking for the white suspect, there were other fish to fry.

MEMPHIS, T E N N . - Five young Black men, the oldest, 31, the youngest, 17, had been in jail for over one year before they were brought to trial for crimes attributed to them that eye witnesses say was done by a white man.

ARRESTED over a year ago for the firebombing of The Red Lantern, a hillbilly tavern patronized by whites only, in which one person died and eight were burned, the entire charade of arrests and seizures of five B l a c k suspects pointedly exposed the methods used by city and state officials to bring to trial any Black person they wish to charge with committing crimes.

Coming on the heels of the brutal police beating - murder of Elton Hayes, a 17-year old Black boy. a week before the Red Lantern incident, the firebombing proved to be the p e r f e c t a n s w e r for an opportunity to turn the cries of "police brutality" to voices of indignation against Blacks in a city well entrenched in the Southern racist idioms.

In a positive statement given by an eye witness to the firebombing, Melvin McBride,

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The disregarding of the eye witness' story seemed to many that the police were out to erase the stigma of over acting that had been put on the police department by the previous week's slaying.

Police Department officials put Detective R.R. Davis, a 14 year veteran of the force, with 6 years on the Homicide Squad, as head of the investigating team.

Nicknamed "Rail Road" for obvious reasons, the cunning, pompadoured Davis and his' men swept into action with the persistence of a lion seeking its Trey, reaching into the Black community, picking up all kinds of "suspects."

police and reporters were told that the person who threw the bomb was white, had long hair, was about 5'9 tall, weighed about 165 pounds and was about 21 to 24 years old.

In most difficult cases, the It seems that there are times in Memphis when a white police have a list of people they man's word don't mean would like to "get off the nothing and this happened to be streets" for one reason or another. Some because they one of those times.

In addition, the word had refuse to become frightened by begun to go out that the owner the bullying tactics exerted by of The Red Lantern. Frank trigger - happy policemen; Deaton. had been mistreating others because they appear to patrons of the bar and he, be self - sufficient in their h i m s e l f f e l t t h a t the (Continued on page 24)

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Continued:

Memphis youngsters' year long ordeal approach to life regardless of their condition.

Through a series of conveniently spaced events, beginning with the apprehension of a 13 - year old boy, Calvin Pittman, for "strong - armed robbery" of fifty cents from a paperboy, the police were given their first "break."

They took Calvin to the police

questioning, the 13 - year old boy said he "heard" that some boys had bombed the Red Lantern. One of those boys just happened to be his own brother, Terry Pittman, a 17 year old who, rumors had it that Detective Davis had been quoted as saying "I'm going to get that Pittman (Terry) boy" long before the bombing took place.

Willis were the only ones of the five to sign any kind of statement which implicated them to any degree. Fletcher said he signed the statement out of fear of what "they (the police) would do to me.

They've already cut my head once. After what they did to Elton Hayes, I knew that when they said they'd take me in the basement if I didn't talk,

was at home the night of the firebombing, sleeping on the front room couch, and has witnesses to back up his story.

When asked why he had signed the statement, Clarence said that police had kept him up all night questioning him and he would "have done anything to get them to leave me alone."

One of the people who had steadfastly b e l i e v e d i n Clarence's story has been Bishop J.O. Patterson. Bishop Patterson saw Clarence in jail just after his arrest. He says, "I explained to.him that I am a

C h a r g e

MEMPHIS POLICE have been known for their brutality towards Blacks in that city. Photo above shows policeman purposely firing a tear gas cartridge at helpless Black woman during violence which had broken out. Unnecessary killing of Elton Hayes angered Black community leaders and pointed out the racism prevelant in the police department.

station where they interrogated him for an hour and a half. Young Calvin, frightened out of his wits, by the knife - wielding, policemen towering over h i m , was continually asked about the firebombing.

According to Calvin, the police threatened him with a long jail sentence if he didn't talk but he could get off light, on his 50 cents robbery charge, if he told them what they wanted to know about the bombing.

Finally, after being led on through suggestive 1

But a number of other youngsters were claiming credit for the firebombing, too, as boys are prone to do when it can make them look big in their crowd, Often it brings repercussions that can mean trouble.

Within a few days five young Black men, including Terry, were picked up and charged with the firebombing - Terry Pittman, 17; Fletcher White, 19; Clarence W i l l i s . 16; Norman Warner, 21; and George Brown, 31. They came to he known as the Memphis 5.

Fletcher White and Clarence

they'd do anything.''

He said they began putting words in his mouth and hoping to save time for either his mother or a lawyer to show up, agreed to what the policemen were telling him. Police said White signed a statement, but he denies signing anything.

The state's case against the five defendants hinged on the signed " c o n f e s s i o n " of Clarence Willis, 16 - year old high school student. Young Willis gave the police a detailed statement, which he says was signed under duress.

Clarence maintains that he

N i x o n

WASHINGTON - A leading Senator has charged that the Nixon Administration was wrong in contending that the 1969 Tax Reform Act cured the worst inequities in tax laws.

THE CHARGES were made

by Senator Edmund S. Muskie, former candidate for the Democratic nomination for President. He supported this contention by c i t i n g an individual (without naming him) who paid no Federal income tax on a $2.2 million income in 1968. Muskie said that even with the new tax law in effect the same person would pay only 6.7 percent of his income. This is less than the tax rate paid by a person earning $10,000 who has a wife and two children. Such a person's Federal income tax amounts to nine per cent of his total income. " A flourishing business of peddling expertise in tax a v o i d a n c e m o c k s any argument that the tax code

minister and that I was there to help him, whether he was guilty or not. I believe I had his confidence. He told me with tears streaming down his face that he didn't do it. I believe he was telling the truth."

The only other time Clarence was seen crying was when Calvin Pittman saw him coming out of an office in the police headquarters where he had been questioned before signing the "confession."

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d e c e i t

works fairly and needs n( overhaul," Muskie said.

The l i b e r a l senatoi recommended some 24 specif i< changes in the tax law, amonj them such reforms as heavie taxation of capital gains.

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NEW YORK â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Black Tomb: prison guard Earl Whittake was acquitted here of al charges that he aided i rebellion of inmates in Octobe 1970.

WHITTAKER was known fo not being hostile or brute toward inmates and therefor frowned upon by other guard who didn't share his outloot During the uprising in 1970 h and other correction officer were seized as hostages.

Two inmates s t i l l fac charges stemming from th October 1970 revolt at th Manhattan Men's House c Detention.

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F E B R U A R Y 16,1973

Sen. Dymally asks for

Firing threatens puppet...a pimp who seeks to victimize us in a country that is987c Black."

statewide voter system SACRAMENTO - A bill to statewide system. set ' up a statewide file of "These bills are not aimed at registered voters—to be the taking away the County Clerks' first step toward a statewide supervision of elections or system of voter voter registration,'' • Dymally registration—was introduced said. "But eventually the state in the State Legislature today should consider moving to a

by Senator M e r v y n M .

Dymally, chairman of the Continued: Legislature's Joint Committee for Revision of the Elections Code.

The measure would require voter information on every lynching and taxation without registered voter to be kept in representation, gave meaning computers by the State to Black protest in Crisis D e p a r t m e n t of G e n e r a l magazine.

The saga of our ancestorial Services. The bill would set scroll, represents a lantern of 1975 as date for the new abundant luminosity, during system. " A statewide system of this latest hour of savage registering voters could repression aginst progress. eventually save millions," Our young people need to know Dymally said. "If states do not that our people have gone unertake it, we may end up through worse periods of evil with a nationwide system," he and debasement and survived ('the oldest have seen the added. most').

D Y M A L L Y , Democratic The men and women we honor Senator from Los Angeles this second week of February, County, also introduced a were epic creatures, who did companion bill to set up an not perish under war-time Advisory Commission of seven conditions. Their stories tell us members, to come up with a plan for coordinating 58 county how our ancestors technically shaped the l i m i t e d but voter lists into the proposed

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statewide system of voter registration. It would be more efficient, and it Would permit counties to cut costs. There is no real point to having 58 different systems for registering voters," he added.

Another claimed that "this society is so drunk off the blood of workers and so fat off the flesh of slaves that it cannot realize that its own death is near." Several calls for worker ownership and control of the means of

Nixon phased out meaningful freedom they did win...how they faced the constant fires of genocide by preparing themselves, mentally and spiritually for every foul turn the menancing enemy devised. The 'genocide' of the current hour is perhaps an all too easy metaphor to reach for. What we need now are steel-willed men and women who will not quake before the Nixon war on the poor and the seige of benign neglect slated for our people.

Whatever else the Black experience can be called, it must always be defined in terms of the towering, majesty of the most glorious people in the tragic jaws of the Western World — tried in the furnace of

affliction, starved so that poverty also defined much of our condition, but never a poverty of spirit, or a poverty of ideas and techniques to deal with our condition.

T h e h i g h e s t f o r m of intelligence in this criminalminded society has to do with this country's capacity to merchandise its most sacred values, and its most timehonored anti-human qualities.

Nixon merchandised these latter qualities into a national victory. It would be a scandal to our ancestors and to our children, if we didn't meet this formidable primate power, with the broadest possible unity of techniques and intragroup discipline.

production were also heard.

THE F U L L significance of the October strike and the current situation on campus must be sought in the general social and economic conditions in Jamaica. In a constant shortages in not just sugar, but flour, milk, bread, and rice.

A "booming" but foreign owned bauxite (necessary for aluminum) industry sends over 50% of its profits to other countries. A few years ago, the bottom 60% of the population received only 19% of the income, while the upper 40% of the population received 30% of the income. Unemployment is well over 25%. With the notable exception of Cuba, most Caribbean countries exist in similar circumstances.

Thus, the current militant surge of University workers is likely to spark the imagination and support of workers all over Jamaica and all over Jamaica to assist them in building stronger worker organizations.

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An exclusive interview with B.L. Hooks, Federal Communications Commissioner

By Lonnie Kashif (M.S. Wash. Bur. Editor) Part II WASHINGTON—Editor's note: In the f o l l o w i n g exhaustive interview, newly appointed Federal Communications Commissioner, Benjamin L. Hooks, candidly discusses his role as the first Black member of the Commission. Hooks answers critics who consider him a "token" Negro, and vows to guard minority rights in the field of communications.

Throughout the interview the commissioner noted the success of the Nation of Islam.

The interview was held at the office of Commissioner Hooks in Washington, D.C. KASHIF: Mr. Hooks, the turnover of "super-status" Blacks, particularly Equal Employment officers in the government is very high. Some examples include C l i f f

Alexander at the Equal advance the cause more in other fields.

Employment Opportunities 'It is a fact, however, that Commission ( E E O C ) and Bennett Render and their just simply being equal successor at the Department employment officers does not of Defense (DOD). With the relieve the Blacks who are rate of turn-over usually hired from being diligent in associated with these officers their business. The fact of the having become too vigorous in matter is — in any society, in trying to do their jobs, how can any country — those who have Blacks be assured that if you, ability, who work hard, and will as a commissioner, attempt to who apply themselves do your job vigorously, you more than likely wind up on won't be purged like the top, and those who don't will end up on the bottom. others?

HOOKS: Well Brother Kashif, I can't think of any society I do happen to hold a seven- that ever existed where those year appointment, and I would who showed diligence—who not be purged for being applied themselves—did not vigorous in pursuing anything I succeed in any movement, saw fit, so long as it is not religious, or otherwise. illegal. I cannot comment In your society (The Nation of personally on the high rate of Islam), for example, I notice turn-over at various offices. It that you emphasize cleanliness may be possible that some of and the work ethnic — not these men felt simply that they because it is the white man's had done as much as they bag, but because you (The thought they could do and had a Nation of Islam) feel it is the chance to do other work in way out of the problems we are other fields, or that they could in.

H . Rap Brown rambling on

By Joe Walker NEW YORK — "Truth is in the eye of the storm, and I myself no more than a raindrop looking for a fertile place to fall; a poet who speaks to the deaf; a scribe whose ledger is the wind; a rainbow in the mind of the blind."

These were the concluding words of H. Rap Brown's 15minute opening statement to the jury sitting in judgment on the 24-counts leveled against him and three co-defendants in criminal court here.

Brown, following in the footsteps of Angela Davis, is acting as his own co-counsel with Attorneys William M .

Kunstler, and Howard Moore Jr., who also defended Miss Davis.

Speaking in a restrained manner. Brown told the jury and the packed, intrigued courtroom, that for him there was no p r e s u m p t i o n of innocence until proven guilty (noting that he was detained in high bail — $100,000 reduced from an early $250,000) and indicated that with the small number of Blacks on the jury (2 Black men and 1 Black woman in the 12-member jury, 1 Black man among the 4 alternates) it was not a jury of his peers. Likewise, it was not a peer group in income or knowledge.

With armed guards conspicuous throughout the courtroom, the 29-year-old

former head of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee declared, "Man is not the law-giver, nor is he the ultimate law-executioner. And this is what your job and responsibility have become.

Remember, he who executes for the law-if it's a man-made law—will also exterminate for the law."

In one part of his statement, Brown noted that the United States government "creates conditions that make war profitable, that make hunger profitable, that violates the very law that it tells you it enforces."

KASHIF: Mr. Commissioner, you have often stated that the TV-Radio business is a "gold mine." How can Blacks, as it's often put, 'get a piece of the action?"

HOOKS: Well, this goes back to the question I raised previously. The purchasing power of Blacks in this country is enormous. There are 25 million Blacks. If we were considered a separate nation, economically, we would have the fifth larger gross national product"in the world. However, in corporate life, in community life or group life, just as in personal life, we all know

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some individuals who make g o o d m o n e y , but d i e broke.. .people who don't even have an insurance policy to bury them. It is not what you make but what you do with it that counts.

Therefore, if Blacks want a piece of the TV -Radio business they will have to put up the money. There are many sources that will help. My answers are pretty hard and abrupt, because I think we have dealt with socialscience clap -trap too much.

There is no need of talking about a piece of the action if you don't have any money. If you are given a license, you will have to meet payrolls and pay rent. As your leader (The Honorable Elijah Muhammad) says: 'Self Help'.

K A S H I F : B l a c k s have literally been asleep to the whole area of communications and its potential for abetting the uplift of our people — from the so-called Civil Rights era, down to the awakening of Black consciousness — with one or two notable exceptions.

Whenever Blacks awaken to anything, there is usually white hysteria and active opposition. What is the effect of this in the field of communications?

HOOKS: Yes, I would say that whenever Blacks awaken to anything they will meet white opposition. But again, it is because Blacks are, havenots, and the whites are, haves, and it boils down to those who have — not being willing to give it away. Some

may not like it, but it is a fact of life — a fact of human nature. I doubt there are too many Black folks, when they see somebody sleeping in the streets, they will say 'Hey, come get my house.' You may give him a dollar or rent him a place, but you won't give him your house. Everybody does for self. This is a fact of human nature we have not overcome.

What Blacks have to do is organize and not be overcome by the hysteria and active white opposition.

KASHIF: You stated recently that while you recognize and appreciate the foresight of the President in appointing a Black commissioner, you also recognize that such appointment might not have come about had it not been for pressure exerted by such groups as Black Efforts for Soul Television ( B E S T ) , headed by Bill Wright. What should be the role of such groups and individuals now?

HOOKS: The role of all community groups must be that of continued pressure on the broadcast industry. Their goal must be to continue to agitate and to fight for change and for betterment, for more relevant programs and for all the things that will bring about a state of equality for minorities in broadcasting for Blacks and for women also.

HOOKS: As you might be aware, Mr. Wright and his group have come under severe pressure and have literally ''folded up''.

(TO B E CONTINUED)

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Viet Nam NOT first war U.S. suffered defeat

By Joe Walker NEW YORK - Viet Nam is not the first war that the United States has lost. Korea was also a defeat for the U.S.A. This Muhammad Speaks correspondent was reminded of this fact as this month marks the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Korean P e o p l e ' s A r m y . Before Harrison E . Salisbury of the New York Times made his recent trip there, this writer toured the D e m o c r a t i c People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) in 1971.

As reported in a series of eye witness articles in MS, I found the North Koreans to be a proud and industrious people who have made tremendous gains in rebuilding their war devastated cities and towns constructing modern industry, developing cooperative farms, instituting a system of compulsory and universal education, creating - a people's c u l t u r e and establishing a system of national defense against outside aggression.

These achievements were made in spite of and in response to the war of intervention of the United States in North Korea in 1950 53, which levelled whole cities, tortured thousands of civilians, took the lives of one million Koreans and occupied and still occupies about 44 per cent of the Korean peninsula under the puppet cover of the Park Chung Hee regime.

The Korean people long for the reunification of their fatherland, North and South,

but until the United States withdraws from the South and stops propping up its front man there, the DPRK remains in a state of war with the U.S. STRONG ROOTS

The Korean People's Armywas founded under the personal leadership of their respected and beloved leader Kim II Sung on February 8, 1948 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 25 years ago. But its brilliant history dates back to April 25, 1932, when K i m II Sung organized an effective anti - Japanese armed force.

The Korean People's Army was composed of the best sons and daughters of workers and peasants of liberated Korea, with the revolutionary fighters tried and tested in the anti Japanese armed struggle as a backbone. Its basic mission today is to defend the homeland and the nation against foreign aggression and secure with armed force the socialist construction in Korea.

SHINING ACHIEVEMENT

DOWNED U.S. helicopter of captured crew in North Korea, is seen here with hands up. But the U.S. government has never had its hands honesty across the table, in any rightful dealing with the people of the Third World. MS new York Bureau Editor, Joe Walker, in an eye-witness articles found the North Koreans to be a industrious people who have made tremendous gains in rebuilding their war-devastated country." In adajacent article Walker discusses why Viet Nam was not the first war the U.S. lost.

Political prisoners in South Viet Nam

The road of struggle travelled

By Joe Walker by the heroic Korean People's NEW YORK â&#x20AC;&#x201D; While captured U.S. Prisoners of War are Army is covered with victory and glory. They displayed being released and returned by North Viet Nam and the peerless heroism and patriotic Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Viet Nam, the devotion, together with the Thieu government is scheming to block the return of political entire people of North Korea, prisoners in its hands. Release of these prisoners, as well as the d u r i n g the F a t h e r l a n d U.S. POWS. is called for in the Viet Nam peace agreement.

Liberation War (as they refer to the Korea War of June 1950 - THE METHODS being used and leaders of the movement July 1953). although it was only by the Thieu regime include to investigate the prisons.

Among them were Father two - years - old at the reclassification of political p r i s o n e r s as c o m m o n Chan Tin. a Catholic priest who outbreak of the conflict. criminals, the destruction of is chairman of the South Viet During the war the Korean prisoners records, and secret Nam Committee for Prison armed forces, with the help of arrests and detention.

Reform, and Ho Ngoc Nhuan, the entire people, killed, This disclosure was made to an opposition party deputy to Muhammad Speaks by the the National Assembly who (Continued on page 28) Asian Information Group. has played a leading role in Information about the current prison investigations. situation was obtained by According to Berge, there is Jerry Berge. a former field great concern in Saigon that as representative in South Viet the cease fire goes into effect, Nam for the Committee of Thieu will step up repression Responsibility. against upwards of 200,000 B E R G E , WHO speaks fluent political prisoners, and will Vietnamese, recently went attempt to prevent their back to South Viet Nam on a release. Among the political fact finding^sit to investigate prisoners are thousands of million (1,000,000) acres to political repression. While neutralists, who are aligned rent there he was able to make with neither the P R G nor the contact with former prisoners Thieu regime. They include lease or buy Location students, religious people, lawyers, intellectuals and In the Mid West or South UHAMMAD members of opposition parties.

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prisoners who were originally arrested as p o t e n t i a l opponents of his rule. Some reports indicate that Thieu wants especially to eliminate the neutralist leadership, who would be i m p o r t a n t i n implementing the formation of the National Council of National Reconciliation and Concord, which Thieu has opposed.

A key question is the definition of who is a "political p r i s o n e r . " The peace agreement explicitly calls for the release by both sides of all persons who "contributed to the political struggle between the two parties," as well as those who took part in the military conflict.

Thieu is attempting to circumvent this basic provision by reclassifying political prisoners. Father Tin told Berge that "Some of the most prominent political crimes to common criminal code offenses."

RECORD 'LOST

Other measures are reportedly being taken against lesser known prisoners. The agreement states that within 15 days of the cease fire lists shall be exchanged of the civilian personnel captured and detained by each party, and lists of the places at which they are held.

Father Tin, however, reports that many political prisoners (Continued on page 28)

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are being transferred from the large prisons near Saigon to distant provincial prisons. In the process, their records are being purposely lost or destroyed, so that it would be difficult, if not impossible, to account for them, or to determine where they are being held.

Also, a number of political prisoners have been released recently, only to disappear a few d a y s l a t e r .

The government cites t h e i r disappearance as proof that they have defected to the P R G zones, but their families believe that they have been secretly arrested again.

p r o g r a m , d e s i g n e d to eliminate " N L F Cadre," has been responsible, according to testimony before the U.S. Senate, for the assassination of over 40,000 South Vietnamese civilians.

Under the F - 6 plan, suspects can be arrested on the accusation of even one person.

Individuals and families who might, in the past, have had some contact with the P R G , or even those who only have a relative in the North, are now under suspicion. Thus, there is hardly a family in the South free from "taint," including the highest ranking government officials.

PHOENIX PLAN TO CONTINUE

INHUMAN UVING CONDITIONS

Berge also learned of the existence of a secret plan to assassinate political opponents of the Thieu regime. Referred to only as the "F - 6 Plan," it appears to be an attempt to continue the U.S. "Phoenix"

The peace settlement protocols state that civilian detainees "shall be given adequate food, clothing, shelter and m e d i c a l attention." Reports from Saigon's prisons, however,

indicate that prison conditions in South Viet Nam are among the worst in the world.

Overcrowding is so bad, reports Ho Ngoc Nhuan, that at the Chi Hoa prison in Saigon, over 300 prisoners are kept in rooms about 25 by 60 feet.

There is barely enough room to sit, let alone to lie down.

Prisoners are often shackled for extended p e r i o d s , sometimes for months on end, resulting in total paralysis of the limbs.

The prison diet is totally lacking in meat, fresh fish or vegetables. "No one can exist on such a diet for long," Nhuan states, "without suffering permanent damage, or death."

There are indications that Thieu is planning to subvert many of the provisions of the peace settlement. But the situation with regard to the political prisoners now under his control remains one of the most critical issues.

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wounded or captured more than 1,093,800 men, including over 397,000 US troops, and destroyed or captured over 12,200 "planes, more than 3,000 tanks and hundreds of warships and other vessels, and a huge amount of other c o m b a t and t e c h n i c a l equipment. These are figures supplied to MS in North Korea.

Premier K i m II Sung said: "In this great struggle, our people fought with monolithic determination and unity under the correct leadership of the Party and the Government of the Republic. They were thereby capable of honorably withstanding the harsh trials of war and winning a historic victory by i n f l i c t i n g an ignominious defeat on US imperialism and its running dogs."

During that war the Korean People's Army put the US solidly on the downgrade for the first time in history by inflicting a humbling defeat against the U§.

Since theri7 the Korean People's People's Army has captured the US - armed spy ship "Pueblo" and the,US big spy plane " E C - 121" which committed espionage acts in their territorial waters and air space.

In 1973 the Korean People's Army and the entire people have implemented the self defensive military line of the Workers' Party of Korea, whose main content is to turn* the entire army into an army of cadres and modernize it, arm all' the people and fortify the whole country. This is an embodiment in the military field of the great "Juche" idea

n o t

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of Premier K i m II Sung and unity between army and people and between officers and men.

As a result, the Korean People's Army is considered to be a most powerful match for

d e f e a t

any invaders. The North Koreans assert that their revolutionary armed force is "invincible... fully prepared politically, ideologically and in military technique."

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Sen. Brookefightfor public T.V. WASHINGTON-Senator E d w a r d Brooke recently a s s a i l e d moves by the g o v e r n i n g board of the C o r p o r a t i o n for P u b l i c Broadcasting, and their moves to control the programs that are aired by the Public Broadcasting Service, in a speech on the Senate floor.

"I am concerned about the uncertain future of perhaps.the most promising medium of communications and information in the country today," Sen. Brooke stated.

According to the Senator, public television has grown from "the pioneering efforts of isolated, noncommerical broadcasters scattered across the country to a system of more than 200 stations broadcasting high quality programs.

threatened. It is threatened because the basic principle u n d e r l y i n g the P u b l i c B r o a d c a s t i n g A c t —the principle of independence and autonomy for local stations within a national system—is being undermined. Along with this vital principal, the intent of the Congress is being undermined.

"According to the Public B r o a d c a s t i n g A c t , the C o r p o r a t i o n for P u b l i c Broadcasting was intended to serve the public TV system and to help it grow by supporting stations and producers with Federal funds and by assisting in the establishment of a n interconnection system among

the public TV stations. The Corporation was specifically forbidden in the legislation from operating this interconnection system itself.

Must Answer to Stations "In order to carry out the intent of the legislation the

Corporation and the stations together created another body, the P u b l i c Broadcasting Service, to operate the interconnection. P B S was created as a membership organization, funded by the C o r p o r a t i o n for P u b l i c Broadcasting but answerable to and controlled by its members—the stations.

Charles Diggs 'Inaugurated

system long enough to reach against the tidal wave of the their valiant efforts—can the position of chairman of a rest of the United States." The amply attest." committee..." reference was to the D.C. WASHINGTON, D.C. - For The total attendance for the overwhelming vote for George "The district," Diggs said the first time in the history of affair was well over 700, and McGovern. further, "is a 'microcosm' of Congress, a representative included nearly all of the city's all the problems of urban " L o c a l self control and was c e r e m o n i o u s l y political and civic elite as well America...of burdensome "Inaugurated" and sworn in as as a n u m b e r of t h e creativity are smothered vehicular traffic, deteriorating Chairman of a standing congressman's political well- beneath layers of bureaucracy inner city, devastating crime, committee in Congress, before wishers and friends. Rep. Carl from the White House to the and the 'suburbanization' of Congressional House," he "We are familiar with such several hundred spectators Albert, speaker of the House continued, "and no republic industry and the middle and guests.

This "first" went delivered the Oath of Office, class." national successes as Sesame can long disregard disaffection Street, and the excellent to Charles Diggs (D-Mich.) while Mrs. Diggs and younger at the seat of the central Concluding, the Michigan coverage of the 1972 election who now becomes the third members of the family looked government."

Black congressman to head a on. representative declared that, campaign," Brooke said.

Diggs said that in 1878, "Washington must become the Diggs. in accepting the oath, "These are mere glimpses of congressional committee in Congress approved a plan to vanguard and the model of took the opportunity to the p o t e n t i a l of p u b l i c 165 years. pay 50 per cent of the bugetary Municipal Administration and T H E R E H A D been some denounce the " c o w a r d l y television," he continued. expenses of the district, but life style... It is here that we lifted eyebrows at the first assassination of that dedicated "Six years ago, Congress mention of the ceremony, but African freedom fighter. eliminated the formula in 1924, must be worthy of the formally recognized the the event itself, as it appeared Amilcar Cabral". who had and currently the Federal illustrious government Which progress and the promise of to m o s t o b s e r v e r s to become a legendary leader government subsidizes less symbolizes international • public television by passing the emphasized the point — as was over most of Africa. Diggs, than 25 per cent of the district leadership." Leading the Public Broadcasting Act of intended — that an era of who is also chairman of a sub - budget." hearty applause at the 1967, which was to be the first racist domination of the House committee on Africa, has long "This form of government is conclusion of Diggs speech, steps toward a politically District Committee had come had an active interest in the not only inefficient - as the was D.C.'s appointed Mayor, independent, adequately to an end. progress of African nations.

Nelsen Commission evidences - Walter E. Washington. District financed national system of Delegate Walter E . Fauntroy, For Congressman Diggs. the Commenting on the fragile it is unwieldy, as the mayor, public television stations. ceremony also ushered in "an peace agreements, signed on council, school boards, your a strong "home rule now" "The act established the era of more productive the same evening of the delegate and other enlightened advocate offered the beneC o r p o r a t i o n for P u b l i c cooperation between the ceremony, Diggs said that "we members of Congress - despite diction.

Broadcasting and charged it Congress and local residents", welcome what we hope is the with the responsibility for who have been without self - end of a devastating war that assisting the Nation's public g o v e r n m e n t or v o t i n g has fragmented our nation for TV stations. The Corporation representation in Congress the past decade." was to support the production since its inception. The Detroit Turning to the task of his job of programs for national congressman, who follows the as "overseer" of the District viewing and to help develop a late Black political mentors — of Columbia, Diggs said, system to interconnect the Dawson (D.-Ill.) and Adam C. "Rarely in this city's history Powell (D.-N.Y.) called the have so many earned so much stations. occasion notable also because and enjoyed it so little." Many "it marks one of the few times understood this to mean that Dream Threathened a member of the Michigan the predominantly Black city Today the dream embodied congressional delegation has has well earned the right of -in that legislation is seriously endured under the seniority self - government, but has been so denied. Some others wondered however about Diggs' true commitment to N a t i o n a l Clothing Factory has immediate opening for "Home Rule" for the District in that he has indicated that rather than proceed to agitate for immediate self rule, he prefers to "study" the whole question again.

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NEW YORK - In its new brochure "Black Americans Stay Out of South Africa," BLACK CONCERN tells why South Africa is the most oppressive country on the face of the earth. Here are major excerpts: OPPRESSIVE LAWS A multiplicity of oppressive laws have been passed to force the African out of the urban "white" areas and to control his activities. ...No African, lawfully residing in a town by virtue of a permit is entitled to have his wife and children residing with him. ...An African boy, aged 16, who has left school and lives at home with his parents but does not work, may be arrested w i t h o u t w a r r a n t by a policeman who has reason to believe he is an idle person. ...An African declared to be an idle person may enter into a contract of employment with a white f a r m e r . If he is dismissed before the contract expires, he can be committed to a penal institution for two years. ...No white person living in town can accommodate on his premises the son of his African servant if such has reached the age of 10. ...It is unlawful for African workers to take part in a strike for any reason whatsoever.

Punishment for doing so is three years imprisonment. ...An African is prohibited from doing skilled work in the building industry in any town in South Africa. ...An African factory worker who is absent from work for 24 hours without permission is guilty of a criminal offense punishable by imprisonment for up to three months. ...An African who conducts a class in his home in reading and writing for his friends is guilty of a criminal offense punishable by six months imprisonment. ...No African is entitled to acquire land anywhere in South Africa,...not even in his own Bantu areas. ...Any African found on any premises with a firearm is subject to the offense of sabotage and liable to the death penalty.

APARTHEID T h i s whole system of oppression in South Africa is called apartheid. The basic purpose of apartheid is to secure an abundant supply of cheap labor for the economy.

It entails an elaborate system of rules for regulating the lives of the A f r i c a n s . L a b o r legislation, passing laws, and labor bureaus are all part of this system.

Under apartheid an African

who is unemployed and does not return to his reserve risks being arrested and sent to a work colony for up to three years. In most cases an African must accept a job offered to him. He is sent wherever he is needed. He must carry a pass book containing the details of his employment and produce it on demand of the police.

Apartheid deprives the Africans of any opportunity for escaping his condition. On the whole, they are denied access to e d u c a t i o n and the government has barred them from most skilled jobs.

Under apartheid the ready will to apply force results in: ...More than 2,000 Africans arrested daily. ...The

detention

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political prisoners. ...100 judicial executions each year. ...The torture and murder of political prisoners.

BANTU EDUCATION The special school system designed for Africans and Coloureds — called Bantu Education — is different in content and structure from that provided for whites. The South African government maintains that .there is no place for the African in the European community "above the level of certain forms of labor under white control."

Bantu education trains the African for a life of servitude.

Under Bantu Education: ...Three million African children receive no schooling whatsoever.

...Seventy per cent of Africans attending school are in the lowest primary grade.

Less than one per cent finish secondary school. ...Atncan teachers are paid less than white teachers. Their crowded classes often contain 100 children on double sessions. ...Education is free and compulsory for whites up to the age 16. It is neither free nor compulsory for Africans or Coloureds. ...The government spends $28 per year on each African student as opposed to $319 for white students.

STANDARD OF LIVING The standard of living for whites in South Africa is the highest in the world. They have achieved fantastic wealth

through the exploitation and subjugation of the African majority. ...The average white income per head is about $133 per month. The average African income is about $9.80 per month. ...The mines and quarries of South Africa employed 585,851 Africans and 62,373 whites in June, 1970. The earnings of Africans who constituted 80 per cent of the labor force totaled 31 per cent of the total wages. ...The annual cash earnings of' miners in 1968 was $5,275 for white miners and $265 for' African miners. . . . A f r i c a n s , the poorest section of the population, are taxed more heavily than whites.

Continued:

Nixon's crude educational hoax WHILE BLACK delegates were particularly restrained in the plenary sessions and General meetings, little emotion was held back in some of the "reaction sessions" and workshops. At one session. Dr. Ulysses Byas. director of Macon County public school system, at Tuskegee.

Alabama, declared. "I resent the implication being thrown around here that every other minority has suffered as much as Black Americans—that is just an outright lie, and we know it."

While the subtle ethnic antagonism appeared to misdirect attention from the program's functional aspects and validity, more than one of the conference major speakers spoke directly to this point, and demanded "clarification" from the administration before urging Blacks and other minorities to support such a program. Some observers suggested that the concept of "Career Education" was deliberately left "hazy" by the administration so as to acerbate ethnic tensions while covering over the program's shortcomings.

CONGRESSMAN Augustus F .

Hawkins, (D-Calif.) told the group "...Imposing Career Education on a system of neighborhood schools would inevitably foster such evils as tracking, lack of opportunity to all but a small number of c a r e e r options, and a continuation of poor quality education for children in poor schools."

Hawkins went on to question the administration's concept of the p r o g r a m , allegedly designed to steer a child in a secondary school to an occupational role consistent with his talents and ambitions-.

The program's advocates emphasized that^eight of ten

jobs in America will not require a baccalaureate degree by the end of the decade, and therefore minorities should be on career bound paths with the help of counselors and psychiatrists.

"I question the role of schools in career education if they From

continue failing to teach simple verbal and computational skills necessary to qualify for a job or a career.

We cannot afford the luxury of postponing the acquisition of good basic skills in favor of occupational awareness training," Hawkins declared.

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As-Salaam-Alaikum

Dear

Brothers/Sisters:

Because many o f you want t o have an atmosphere d e v o t e d to b u s i n e s s , and b e c a u s e many o f you have r e q u e s t e d a more c o n v e n i e n t d a t e , we a r e c h a n g i n g t n e d a t e of trie B u s i n e s s m e n ' s M e e t i n g from Sunday, F e b r u a r y 2 5 t h to a d a t e w h i c h w i l l be more c o n v e n i e n t to you. The new d a t e w i l l be announced i n t n e n e a r f u t u r e .

Now, b e t t e r f a c i l i t i e s and a b e t t e r program w i l l be p r e p a r e d , w h i c h we f e e l c o n f i d e n t w i l l add t o your b u s i n e s s a c t i v i t i e s i n a p r o f i t a b l e way.

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L u Palmer victim of white media madness

By Donald Mosby CHIC AGO —The circumstances surrounding Lu Palmer's departure from The Chicago Daily News make it unalterably clear that free speech for Black reporters with white news media is a sometime thing.

THERE WERE many people who thought Palmer had it made.

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Chicago's most prestigious, and liberal white newspapers (indeed the NEWS has won more awards for crusading journalism than all other Chicago papers combined.)

The honor and integrity of the Daily News was an established fact, in Chicago, long before the ordeal of Lu Palmer began.

Palmer was given a weeKiy

column, thereby becoming the politically and he was biased." first Black reporter of this era When this took place, the to attain that status with the Daily News immediately Chicago media. His was a hard carried an editorial defending hitting, no-holds-barred style, Palmer's right of "free and Palmer stepped on a lot of speech" and stating that the paper supported him toes. .completely in the Then came Lu's Notebook and confrontation with the six the hard hitting columnist was aldermen. This position was in an overnight success as a hard keeping with the Daily News hitting radio commentator. It traditional liberal stance. was soon very clear that without a doubt, Lu Palmer But, it is the third event, was one of Chicago's leading which has occured in the Daily journalists of any nationality.

News office that clearly Perhaps the ordeal of Lu illustrates why Lu Palmer was Palmer can be summed in fighting a losing battle with the three events which began in newspaper. the middle of last December.

Three days after the six The first occured on the City aldermen called for Palmer's Council floor when six Black firing, and after the Daily aldermen called for Lu's News defended his right of free Notebook to be taken off the speech on its editorial page, air because he "used it the paper refused to print a

column he had written.

This was plain unvarnished hypocrisy! The paper indicated that it defended his right of free speech only as long as it agreed with what he was saying, and not one second longer.

It is worth noting that one of the reasons that was given for not printing the column was that it could have "been taken as an endorsement of the Black Panther. Party and the newspaper couldn't endorse the Panthers even when what they said and did was right."

There are two fundamental problems which become all too apparent, as one views the circumstances surrounding Palmer's departure from the Daily News.

The points are control and

point of view. Palmer illustrated the first very graphically when he told a press conference that he had "complete control" of the content of his radio program.

On the other hand he faced a constant fight to get his opinions published On point of view, it has long been an established journalistic tradition that the views expressed in a byline column are those of the writer, and are not necessarily supported, nor endorsed, by the media which carries the column.

Thus, it is plain to see that Palmer is a victim of the racism which is always operative in white media.

Sometimes it is overt, sometimes it is covert, but it is always present.

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