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BLACK AND WHITE! INDEX Middle East Report Tornado smashes plantation town Resourceful A s w a n Dam Vanishing Black miner Police lair in Florida Councilman opposes union

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US bonds cashed i n protest A GOOD IDEA of how the military - industrial complex's hold on the government can be attacked was put into action recently by some Richmond, Va., construction workers.

Angry over President Richard M. Nixon's suspension of a law which requires the government to pay prevailing union scale wages on federal construction projects, one local union converted some $12,000 in union - held savings bonds to cash for its bank account. Other unions and individuals were urged to do the same.

C a i r o : two forms of idiocy AS THE BLACK PEOPLE of Cairo, 111., continued their two year - old boycott of local white merchants, it was inevitable that the merchants would groom a Black man who would have enough "nerve" to oppose his own people's struggle.

Recently those merchants and officials were successful in encouraging James Avery to begin active opposition to the United Front, an organization of Blacks which has been spearheading the boycotts.

If the Front were as united as its name indicates. Avery's actions would need no response. But apparently unity needs improvement because a Front member took the degenerate course of shooting Avery in the right shoulder, an action which will hardly help strengthen the boycott but which will certainly aid those whites who want Cairo to become a raging battleground.

F i g h t f o r full employment

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I f i l l test ban be enforced?

A NEW RULING by the U.S. Supreme Court has decreed that employers cannot use job tests to screen out Blacks without first measuring their true qualifications to perform the job. In an 8 to 0 vote, the court ruled that the 1964 Civil Rights Act bars examinations that do not relate to qualifications to perform a particular job. The new ruling came in the case of some 13 Black workers at the Duke Power Company's Dan River Power Station, Draper, North Carolina. Before the civil rights law was passed, the company employed Blacks only as unskilled workers.

When they asked to move up to jobs as coal miners, they were confronted with new requirements that they pass high school equivalency tests. An earlier court ruled that because they failed on the equivalency tests they were unqualified for the work. But last week's court ruled that the equivalency test were used to discriminate against them.

IN THEIR fight against Hussein. the Palestinian guerrillas need to follow the same tactics which they use in their war of, liberation against Israel: mobility, surprise attacks, choosing their time and place of ambush and escaping anti - guerrilla mop up operations.

In this new strategy, the guerrillas could count on the help and intelligent information supplied to them by the populace.

Setback j a r oil profiteers WESTERN OIL COMPANIES are becoming more and more frustrated as the people of Libya demand more and more revenues from the oil which the companies have been exploiting.

"We just don't know where we stand," said one executive of the once feared U.S. oil baron class. " I couldn't tell you if the deadline is Tuesday night or Wednesday night, or if they'll extend it. I've met with their technicians for five hours and I don't know whether I have settled anything or not. " At last word, the governments of Nigeria and Venezuela were joining those other Black countries which are seeking a greater share of the profits from the rich oils which western companies extract from their soil.

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Battles have been lost; war will be won

"Keeping the status quo" is one of Israel's long - standing slogans.

IS IT true that the guerrillas suffered a bloody nose and they are virtually helpless as the US news media likes us to believe?

Success or failure of a revolution cannot be judged by military battles alone. The political battles are far greater than the military ones in guerrilla warfare.

The Palestinian revolution has suffered a setback on the battlefield.

But there is nothing to worry about. The Palestinian Guerrillas are summing up their experiences and drawing lessons from the twists and turns.

The Palestinian freedom fighters have learned their lesson. The current situation is a transient one. Having survived, they are rearming, rebuilding, and may soon go underground. That is probably the logical and practical place for a movement faced with 3 superior enemies: U.S. imperialism, Israeli militarism and Jordanian counter revolutionism.

A NATIONWIDE struggle for jobs and adequate unemployment benefits was launched in Chicago this week by Trade Unionists for Action and Democracy. A Black spokesman for the group, Rayfield Mooty, chairman of a Black caucus inside the Steel Workers union, announced a coordinated attack of employed and unemployed, organized and unorganized, to force the government to obey totally ignored 1946 law committing the country to programs guaranteeing full employment.

In addition to the Employment Act of 1946 Mooty said the TUAD has also proposed an Unemployment Act of 1971. Hearings in Washington in May will publicize the needs of the millions of jobless citizens. In addition to testimony on the inadequacy of welfare and unemployment programs people with jobs will testify on the kinds of attacks government and monopolies are launching against wage levels, bargaining rights and the right to strike.

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Selective terror and assassination aimed at top government officials and military leaders become necessary to cope with the situation in Jordan. This will free the populace from the enemies of the people, and ensure also guerrilla survival.

Selective terror against Arab informers by the guerrillas in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, proved to be an effective measure.

One of the main problems that faces the Palestinian revolution is how to deal with the Jordanian army. Success of the revolution, to some degree, depends on her ability to avoid a military showdown with the Jordanian forces.

Excluding the generals and the mislead Bedouin legion, the army in general is sympathetic to the commandoes.

-Military confrontation among the Arabs, will serve only Hussein and Israel. Undoubtedly, the Jordanian army will become a future ally of the revolution.

ONE OTHER challenge that the revolution is faced with is her ability to preserve the unity of the Palestinians and Jordanians. Hussein and his regime have resorted to many methods for destroying This unity.

The Palestinian revolution has not yet realized the importance and effectiveness of public relations. In this respect it has failed. World public opinion is not only helpful but also necessary in internationalizing guerrilla demands and generating public pressure against the enemies.

Finally, what are the results of the confrontation between the Palestinian freedom

fighters and the cou revolutionary forces in Jor The steadfastness showei the guerrillas last Si though their actions viol guerrilla tactics, left posi effects among the people added to the isolation alienation of the reactiona from the masses.

The confrontation proved the guerrilla movement cai be liquidated except eliminating the en Palestinian people.

IT ALSO contributed to n moral isolation and loss legitimacy of Israel due to support of Hussein.

Self reliance was one of most important confirm lessons.

The Palestin learned not to depend on / regimes' promises.

The Palestinians discovi their friends and enemies.

It mobilized the Arab ma which forced th governments to publ denounce Hussein and tactics.

The most important aspe< this confrontation is the that the Palestinians, might have lost a battle, more confident of winning revolutionary war.

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U N I T E D N A T I O N S ( A W A ) — The latest barrage of lies and half - t r u t h s about the nature of the conflict between N o r t h and South i n the Sudan has been launched by Time Magazine ( M a r c h 1, 1971). As seen by Time, the Sudanese p o l i t i c a l confrontation is s t i l l " a c i v i l w a r " between " s i x m i l l i o n B l a c k southerners" and nine m i l l i o n " A r a b s " of the N o r t h .

MOREOVER, THE magazine socially with their southern independence," he recalled, notes that Major General brothers. 'southern troops mutinied, Jaafar Nimeri, the Sudanese "The British went so far as to killing almost all northern Head of State, is a "leftist" set aside special reserves for personnel and northern and that the Sudan, in its northerners living in the South, businessmen. This 1955 mutiny struggle to maintain its applying the 'Closed Areas threatened our independence." territorial integrity, is aided Act,' a kind of apartheid. The mutiny was suppressed by the Soviet Union. Thus, the Southerners were forbidden to and its leaders fled to Sudan is isolated as a target practice the Islamic religion, neighboring African countries. for the North Atlantic Treaty and Islamic religious leaders On achieving independence, Organization (NATO). were barred in the South; but Mr. Mustafa said, The On the other hand, Time Christian missionaries had Sudanese Government points out approvingly that the free access." It has been disbanded the southern southern dissidents are being explained that this was in line (Continued from page 4) assisted by Israelis and a few white adventurers from Europe.

Emperor Haile Selassie gets a good mark from Time for quietly permitting Ethiopian soil to be used by Israeli operatives for shipping arms and other material to the southern rebels.

Time also accepted the credentials of Rolf Steiner, a West German mercenary and adventurer, as a freedom fighter on the basis of his services to France in Algeria and Indo - China and for having served as a mercenary under Col. Ojukwu in so - called Biafra!

(Steiner until recently trained southern rebels to fight the Khartoum Government. But he is now a prisoner in Khartoum awaiting trial.)

To find out what really is happening in the Sudan we interviewed Mr. Kamal Mustafa, Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations of Sudan. Mr. Mustafa, a brown - skinned man who considers himself a "brother," readily conceded that there with Britain's Arab interests. were understandable bases for MR. MUSTAFA said friction between the North and universities were established South in his country. There in the North and all education was a cultural and economic in the South was neglected. gap between the two areas, he Even before 1956, when the said "which we inherited from Sudan achieved its the British." independence, Mr. Mustafa He explained: "For fifty said, British propaganda in the years, until 1956, the British South pictured northerners as did everything possible to keep slave - traders, imputing to northern and southern present - day Sudanese the sins Sudanese apart. They made it committed by British slavers illegal for Arabic to be spoken and the handfull of Arab • or taught in the South. No middlemen who aided them. northerner had free access to "The British tried to portray the South without first getting all northerners as slave British permission; and those traders, telling the southerners northerners who did go South they would invade the South were persecuted by the British and totally absorb i t , " he said. authorities if they mingled So that a year before

THESE ARE THE ARAB' Sudanese who are supposedly 'anti-Black' according to ZionistUS propagandists and the few demented Black people in Africa and the USA whom they can convince. Using the fact that culture, language and economic differences exist between northern and southern Sudan — all differences a legacy of British imperialism — white racists are justifying the sending of weapons, supplies and white mercenaries as another 'humanitarian' campaign is launched in Africa. Above are 'Arab' nurses in Khartoum.

BELOW, Omar Ahmed, an 'Arab' tenant farmer, gets TB test from 'Arab' Nurse el Sarra while Laila al Tayab looks on.

BOTTOM 'Arab' children whose lives are threatened by imperialist-financed civil war as are lives of children in Southern Sudan.

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Whites use lies to divide Sudanese Blacks garrisons and troops were sent South to "help establish peace and security and to safeguard territorial integrity."

He added: "But since that time, the self - exiled leaders of the mutiny organized factions and groups for the purpose of separating the South from the Sudan.

"They allied themselves with various African and non African forces and set up European offices."

Until 1969. Mr. Mustafa admitted, "The old Khartoum regimes were weak on the Southern Question: they had no plan for a radical solution to the problem, therefore they resorted to the use of military suppression. This suppression, however, was always condemned by the people in the North."

Then came the revolution of May, 1969 which brought the socialist government of Gen. Nimeri to power. Mr. Mustafa said one of the first acts of the new government was to

initiate a new policy "directed at ending the conflict in the South and thwarting foreign imperialism."

THE PLAN included the granting of full regional autonomy to the South in a federated Sudan: upgrading southerners in all levels of government and government services I there are southerners in cabinet posts; for the first time five southerners hold the rank of minister in the foreign service; the chief administrative officer of the Khartoum district is a southerner); a separate development plan for the South to accelerate the closing of the cultural and economic gap; "a fullfledged southernization' program, now under way, aimed at training and assisting southerners to become executives and professional in all fields of endeavor;" a special reserved quota for southerners in the Police and Military Academies to ensure

their preparedness to take over all posts of responsibility in an autonomous South.

With announcement of this program, Mr. Mustafa said, the separatists' elements "intensified their efforts to disrupt and sabotage its implementation."

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activists among the dissidents, he said, number no more than 4,000; and their opposition would have been liquidated long ago if not for the assistance given them by outside forces, "mainly Israel."

He felt that Gen. Idi Amin. who recently overthrew President Milton Obote of Uganda in a coup might also pose a difficulty by permitting the rebels to use Ugandan territory as a sanctuary. " I n many instances in the past."

Mr. Mustafa recalled, "Ugandan troops assisted our forces against the rebels."

Mr. Mustafa described the Sudan, one of Africa's largest countries, as "a link between Arab and other African cultures, thus, we represent a threat to the interests of imperialism and reaction."

Over and over the Sudanese diplomat emphasized that his government has not relied, and will not rely, on military action to solve the southern problem,.

nor is it seeking to impose Islam on the South.

He stated the Sudanese Government's position as follows: "WE BELONG to the Socialist Camp. We are strengthening our relations with the socialist regimes in Africa and with socialist countries in Europe and Asia.

When the Portuguese invaded Guinea last November, we immediately offered her military assistance and military training for any Guinean sent to the Sudan.

"We, as a revolutionary regime, representing the most advanced section of our society, do not believe in a military solution to the southern conflict; if we did, we would cease to be revolutionaries. In the South, our activities are aimed at isolating the separatists, a tiny minority of no more than 4,000, because we consider them to be agents of foreign imperialism."

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DENVER—Lewis C. Rhone announces his candidacy for City Councilman in District No. 8., Denver, Colorado.

Rhone, who resides at 2422 Welton Street, has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology and Psychology and he is currently working on a Masters Degree in Political Science.

RHONE IS a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity and organized the first Freedom School at Texas Southern University in Houston. Texas. He is a member of Black United Denver and is Director of the East Side Action Center and has long been interested in working towards bettering the conditions of the people in the community which the Action Center serves.

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He is also a member of the National Welfare Rights Organization; founder and chairman of Project Pride.

Dignity and Heritage. Inc.: a member of the Advisory Board of Community College; aided in the organization of the G.E.D. Program in East Denver; organized a "Soul Fair"; publisher of a newsletter called UHURU; worked very closely with the Black Cultural Development Society and its members in Canon City; organized

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He has organized food, furniture and clothing banks in the community; is exchairman of the Board of the Crispus Attucks Center; and organized the first baseball teams for youths in the socalled Target Area. Rhone has done unpublished psychological research on the "Psychological Effect of the Altitude on the People of Denver."

He feels that the real place to handle many of the problems which our people experience and give them the solutions which they desire is through the political arena. He knows that once he has a voice in the making of the laws by which we all live, he can—with the help of the people—bring

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by Mississippi "There were 56 houses out there and there are nine left." said David Scott. He has lived in Pugh City for 15 years.

He was referring to the battalion of tornadoes that hit Mississippi 2 weeks ago. They killed 102 people, mostly the poor and Black. Over 800 people were injured by latest estimates, although many Blacks in the Delta were afraid some of their dead might not be counted. " I BARELY escaped with my children. I'm going to live with my daughter in Indianola, until we can get something else.

You know, if Pugh kept the homes up, this wouldn't have happened. He never would fix these shacks. That's why all those people were killed, said Mr. Scott as bitter as a Mississippi sharecropper could be.

"You know, 21 people were killed instantly and five died later in the hospitals. I don't know how many were injured, but it was many of them," he said.

"Oh, we'll do all right, continued Mr. Scott. "We got $40 in food stamps and $56 in aid from the Red Cross.

Stories and Pictures

By Gerry Tyler PUGH CITY, Miss.-Pugh City is a tiny town in the Mississippi delta. It barely exists next to Swifttown, Miss., a small town.

PUGH CITY was covered with shanties. Shanties that grunted and strained to shelter their Black inhabitants. They were plastered with anything nailable. And supported by anything that could withstand a 20 mile per hour wind.

As one enters the town from Moorhead, to the left reigns a majestic oil drum merely 40 feet long proclaiming the "Joe Pugh Plantation."

Pugh City is a plantation town. An anachronism from a feudal past. The town was named for Joe Pugh, the white baron who has purposely curtailed the development of Blacks for decades.

THE TOWN is predominately Black. The possibility for Black children to finish high school is 1 to 3. Chances for the son of a sharecropper to finish college is almost nil.

There is only one store in town, owned by Joe Pugh. Only one place to buy grain or beans or fertilizers, from Joe Pugh.

Anything a sharecropper might need, Joe Pugh has.

Sharecroppers are too poor to buy anything they want.

A block from the oil drum, you might glance to the left again. And nothing is there. A long look will show scattered wood, dead animals, and uncovered foundations.

" I don't know if we'll receive andy aid to fix my hous; we haven't recieved any yet.

There's a lot of people receiving aid and they weren't hurt by the storm," he remarked.

HE WAS sitting with his neighbor near some junk that blew from where their homes had been. Now it was wet and discarded.

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TOWNSPEOPLE reported that over 50 homes were in this area. Because of their rotten construction, only nine withstood "terrible tornado." Twenty - six people died in the wreckage. hide except their neighbors' shanties.

Mr. Scott was a sharecropper.

With his house destroyed, he could now move to Greenville, a large city for Mississippi, with just over 40,000 people.

Greenville is rapidly turning industrial, but with a southern drawl. Greenville has a large unemployment problem and a "very good wage" is about $2.25 an hour.

BUT MANY Blacks will stay in Pugh City. They were born in Pugh City and they will die and be buried in the Black cemetery there. The most extravagant thing they will ever own will be their funerals.

Old folks sometimes sit and exclaim. "How fine it will be!"

The Black residents of Pugh City are sharecroppers and

farmhands. They grew beans or cotton before the storm.

They have nothing now. "Mr. Pugh wouldn't take a loss."

A few Black people have become truck drivers or tractor hands over the years.

Drivers work year round at poverty level. Sharecroppers work at survival rates.

EDDIE McCOY is a peaceful man. "Never gets into any trouble" and like most folks "minds his own business."

After the tornadoes hit he and other Blacks were helping Joe Pugh "get back together."

"I've been with Joe Pugh every year of my life except nine," he proclaimed joyfully with dead eyes. " I was hardly hit by the storm, see." He pointed across the field to a dash of a house with a recently painted white frame.

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A MOTHER of nine patiently waits for aid in Pugh City, Miss., victim of the recent tornadoes that left 102 dead and hundreds injured. Red Cross 'aid' was barely enough to sustain a family for a few days.

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DES M O I N E S ( L N S ) — D i c k N i x o n managed to f u l f i l l one of his campaign promises and p u l l a s m a l l p a r t of the country together for a few hours this week — together i n opposition to his foreign and domestic policies. revenue sharing THREE T H O U S A N D proposed radicals, p a c i f i s t s , program. construction workers and The crowd surged past police farmers were waiting on the steps of the Iowa Statehouse and Secret Service men to boo when Nixon arrived there to and shout at the president. Two arrests were made. address the State Legislature.

Four hundred city policemen, CONSTRUCTION WORKERS (so - called hard hats) were tricked last year into supporting US highway patrolmen and FBI LATER, AS Nixon was government's war policy by union officials directly in league with Spiro Agnew and other rightwing agents were also on hand to leaving the city, he shook 'hawks.' At the same time, rich white businessmen paid Black civil rights leaders to organize jobless protect the president and hands with the Iowa Highway Blacks to demand justly deserved construction jobs — but the demands were designed by Chief. The Chief engineer his arrival at the Patrol administration officials like Arthur Fletcher of the Labor Dept. in such a way as to attack union rights apologized for the disturbance, capitol's side door. instead of union racism and to organize Blacks into a work force which would be super - exploited Before the president showed but Nixon just shrugged it off, by working for wages below union scale. President's recent suspension of Davis - Bacon Act now "Don't worry about that.

We up, the demonstratorspaves way for Blacks and whites who plan to use Blacks as cheaper labor. (LNS Photo: East Street get a lot ot this everywhere." cowboys, long - hairs and Gaiters) hardhats, according to the Des Moines Register — mingled on Continued the steps, chanting slogans and waving signs. About half were P l a n t a t i o n t o w n s m a s h e d b y t o r n a d o there to protest the Indochina Joe Those are her nine children waist and followed the human after him.

War, especially the latest accolades concerning "That was Joe Pugh," I said Pugh.

They w e r e and they have no place to antique out the door. The Black invasion of Laos. live!" man almost lifted Joe Pugh to myself. "A living legend sharecroppers and McCoy was The others were farmers and into his spotless new Chevy now obsolete like the town he a foreman after 35 years.

He "What about the Red Cross construction workers fed up and sped from the town named made." was one of Joe Pugh's Black aiding this town" I asked.

She with Nixon's failure to keep walked down the one street campaign promises, disgusted "whips." downtown section and turned Across the highway, at his attempts to cover up the into an abandoned store owned "downtown" Blacks bring gaps and angered by his attack by Joe Pugh.

It was empty. their hard earned cash to Joe on construction wages when he Pugh.

"You want some flour.

Three tissue boxes of suspended the Davis - Bacon Miz? a white storekeeper a b a n d o n e d clothes requirement that workers drawled almost unintelligently masqueraded as help from the receive union wages on federal to an old Black woman. " I ' l l Red Cross. They were pushed construction projects. put it on your bill." into a dingy corner by the The administration singled townspeople.

HE SCRIBBLED something out high wages as the cause of in a pad and told her "That's i t . " she said. inflation in the construction Hi mmmm was allright.

I went back to the general industry, when it suspended everything the federal act requiring union Outside the store a women store with another reporter to wages on federal construction with nine children held tightly meet this Joe Pugh. to two tots as seven other "Mr. Pugh! Good day. Mr. The M G T & G C f H o u r jobs.

But in fact, according to the children danced and played Pugh. good day." said an employee.

Bureau of Labor Statistics the around her.

A tall Black woman grabbed "He can't hear. Son.'' said price of labor is a smaller at the chunk of the cost of a house my arm. "You a reporter, Joe Pugh's waiting man. right. You see that woman?

I dropped my camera to my now, than it was in 1949.

The biggest increase was S a l a a m R e s t a u r a n t actually in the cost of land and financing. That rose from 11% to 21% of the cost of a house.

Women Teachers, Civic THE NEW WAGE policy means that bricklayers — the Leaders a n d a l l who highest paid construction wish the best in workers — would get less than $4.30 an hour in Iowa, where education a n d slum they seldom can work year round. reform of our Black Nixon has been blocking the women of America a r e release of $56 million appropriated for rural water invited. and sewer projects, has cut $44.5 million from agricultural FOR TOP SALESMAN ( A N D (Teenage Girls a n d Women Only) conservation programs, and has tried to eliminate the GUESTS) O F MUHAMMAD SPEAKS special milk program.

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The Aswan High Dam WASHINGTON—New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller recently published a book entitled Our Environment Can Be Saved, wherein he alleges that the Aswan Dam in Egypt, built with Soviet aid. creates new ecological dangers in the Nile Valley.

ROCKEFELLER omits proof, presenting his view as something that is commonly known. As for this calculation, he is right in his own way: The Western press has come up with so many cries and warnings that readers may well have reached the conclusion that the entire Aswan project is ecologically harmful.

Such arguments against the dam may also be found in Research on Biological Limits of the Earth by Georg Borgstrom, professor at Michigan State University, and in the Washington Post (May 3.

1970), the Jerusalem Post (January 20, 1971), and many other Western publications.

Borgstrom admits that, technically, the Aswan High Dam is unquestionably a masterpiece, and that it vastly increases Egyptian farmland.

Yet in per capita terms, he a r g u e s , " his increase disappears, consumed by a rapid population growth. It looks like marking time.

This argument, though, is rather for the dam than against it. Borgstrom goes on to say that the dam's blocking

of the fertile Nile silt will deplete Egyptian soils and require more fertilizer.

Besides, the fellahs will be deprived of the silt which they use for making bricks.

Here's an authoritative view on this score by Zaki Quinawi, UAR Minister of Irrigation: Soil depletion within the next 20 years is just out of the question. When the Nile burst its banks, 15.000.000 tons of silt, equal of 17.000 tons of chemical fertilizer costing 500,000 Egyptian pounds, were used to make up for the shortage of silt. As for bricks made out of silt, these are of low quality.

We have constructed two brick plants and intend to build 24 more factories to resolve this problem.

The extra expenses on fertilizer are more than compensated by the benefits derived from the dam and by an increment in farm production resulting from the improvement of the irrigation system.

THE HIGH DAM permits the lands to be irrigated the whole year round and two or three crops to be harvested a year.

As a result, the country can be spared the annual fluctuations of the Nile, the floods and droughts. Now the Nile Valley has a huge tap which can be opened in case of need. 1 he Aswan Dam has protected the country from the dangerous inundation in 1964. when there was a catastrophically high

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flood. In the subsequent two years the threat of a drought was eliminated thanks to the dam.

The power of the Aswan hydroelectric station opens fresh possibilities for raising agricultural putput, notably, by using subsoil waters or increasing the manufacture of chemical fertilizer.

Another argument Borgstrom proposes deals with the destiny of the fish in the Mediterranean, near the Nile Delta, since the fish were drawn there by silt, their numbef will allegedly decrease. The salinity of water in the Eastern Mediterranean will supposedly be higher.

However. these are suppositions rather than arguments.

Even the Jerusalem Post, which is very particular, to put it mildly, in this matter, foresees nothing definite as far as ecological changes go.

BUT IT IS not the ecology factor that the Western press is concerned about.

Throughout the time the dam was under construction the Western press was always thinking up something new.

First-they expressed doubts as to the possibility of coping with this task as such. You won't succeed without help from the West, and we won't give you help, they said.

Then they began making speculations about the time of construction. "The Aswan

ASWAN DAM as seen from window on plane. Article describes artful lies of various western experts representing monopoly interests who predicted countless ways dam would prove failure.

But Israeli bombs remain dam's sole threat.

Dam is being built too slowly," wrote the West German paper Handelsblatt in December, ( 1962. The construction was completed in time.

So they began to look for shortcomings in the construction project. It was even necessary to set up a commission to refute the allegations that there was much leakage both through the dam structure and the bottom of the water reservoir. An so it continued up to the present ecological arguments.

There can be only one truly objective estimate: The dam is necessary, important and profitable in every respect.

Hilmy El-Said, UAR Minister of Industry, Electricity and High Dam, stated at a press conference on January 7 that hundreds of thousands of acres of new lands have been reclaimed; crops have grown; the inundation hazard has been eliminated; the young Egyptian industry has been provided with a power base; national income has increased to 450,000,000 Egyptian pounds since 1964, when the Nile was dammed.

The newspaper Al Gumhuriya has reported that construction expenditure will be recouped near the end of 1971. (Novosti Press Agency)

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THE UNION, which was to grow and signify representation for one of the largest work forces in the nation, did not pay him a salary that would enable Davis and his family to live decently.

Although he served two terms as a member of the national executive board, he had to work in the mines to eke out an existence to keep him and his family healthy.

Despite his pleas to the union officials to stop their tendency to accept the disci minatory practices of the mine owners, Davis found his efforts fell on deaf ears, as the turn of the century ushered in days of racial injustice that have left their mark on the industry to FACE COVERED WITH dust that might disable him one day, this day.

Black coal miner needs someone Mechanization of the mines to consider his plight. came into full being in 1959.

This meant the use of brought into the industry. The machines that could do the company also refused to open work of 20 men while jobs providing safer working employing only six men to conditions for the men who operate the machine and mine the coal.

Instead of drawing from the handle the coal as is it extracted from the mines. ranks of experienced men. the Rather than reducing the hours companies opened up training for the working men, the programs excluding all Blacks.

In order to keep the Black company cut jobs.

As is always the case, the experienced miner off the jobs, first to go when there is a the supervisors would ask drastic cut in jobs are the them if they could operate a Blacks when there is no built - loader etc. when they applied in protection for them from the for the job. Without proper training, no one can operate company's policies. any of the massive equipment THE PROCESS of being used in the mines today. eliminating Black miners was achieved by not involving them IN SPITE of the great in the training of men to handle dangers that confronted them the new machinery being

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There are no Blacks in positions over foreman employed in mining — no line or area supervisors. None of the companies employs Blacks in its offices as secretaries or any other type of clerical help.

Living conditions for Blacks are given no better considerations.

Most companies formed subsidiary firms to control the land which was used for housing mine workers and their families.

For this and many other reasons Black miners are firm supporters of the current fight to reform mine policies.

The land companies own all the houses surrounding the camp. They refurbish them and then sell the houses to whites only. Blacks, who do not live in the nearby cities, are forced to live in housing areas separate from the whites.

IRA BUTLER complained bitterly about his living conditions as he sat in his living room overlooking the mining camp. T've put in 32 years in the mines, working all kinds of jobs. Mining coal is back breaking work and when a man finishes a hard day's work, he ought to be able to come home and rest.

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"The company keeps on saying they are going to fix this old house but they don't. If some of those white miners had these same problems, you can bet the company would have fixed their place long before now. The company wants everything for themselves and don't want Black folks to have nothing but black lungs."

BUTLER SAID he had tried to buy a house for his family but his application was turned down by the bank, using as an excuse the fact he is a coal miner and the business is too risky.

"Hardly no Black person is considered a good risk when it comes to buying one of these old houses. But them white people get loans right and left to buy their houses."

survive adequately, to provide for their families under these conditions, thousands of Blacks have left the coal mining industry to seek employment in other fields.

Where there was once a working force of half Black and half white in the mining areas, the ratio is, now less than one out of ten.

The tragedy of the Black miner's case is the fact he must endure, for now, the corruptness and ineffectiveness of his union and the company, like all miners, but also must pay the additional price for being Black in an industry where white racist attitudes prevail for the purpose of saving the company large sums of money.

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By Nathaniel 10X ST. PETERSBURG. Fla. They are called 'undercover narcotics investigators." They assume various personalities and mode of dress which gives them "cover" in the Black community. Their activities include drinking, shooting dope, gambling, prostitution and all other forms of vice.

Thev are immune to the law.

• WHEN THEY invade Black neighborhoods, flashing smiles. making "friends" these vicious killers (bearded— dressed like hippies) there guns are concealed and so are their badges. They are allowed to use any tactic to harrass or arrest Black citizens.

Their victims are most often, young and always Black. Two Black youths were killed by such agents recently in the Tampa Bay area. Both were lured into dark alleys by police agents posing as crooks and shot to death. This tactic is forbidden by Federal law; it is known as "entrapment."

Palmer Lee Sanders age 21 was the most recent victim of entrapment in the area, he was killed in St. Petersburg.

(Muhammad Speaks covered the killing of 20 year old Wade Nathaniel Collins of Tampa in the February 12,1971 issue).

In the alley— the dark hole near the burned - out buildings in the back of Geechi's Restaurant, Palmer Lee Sander was lured and shot in the back of the neck at close range, by one of the two white policemen (Fred Busch or Donald Parks). Sanders died instantly. The Police have refused to say which officer was responsible for the shooting. Both policemen have been suspended.

Witnesses confirm that, the alley in back of Geechi's restaurant was the darkest spot in the entire area and they conclude that the officers must have studied the area well before Sanders was lured into it.

When Muhammad Speaks asked Sanders' mother. Mrs. Ruth Mae Sanders, if she thought there was a possible way to bring her son's killers to justice she said, "For someone like me who don't have nothing but a house full of children — poor people like us

ain't nothing we can do. " I don't have any money to hire a lawyer with. In fact I don't have any money at a i l not even insurance money . " to bury him.

"I THINK THEY just murdered him—" Mrs Sanders told Muhammad Speaks. ..Being that close upon Palmer— two of them— look like they could have manhandled him — or something if he was trying to do something.." she said.

She brought young Palmer to Florida from a small South Georgia town when he was only two years old. she said.

He was the oldest of her six children. " I don't believe— if he'd been a white boy— that they (the police) would have killed him.." she said.

The police did not notify her of her son's death nor have they contacted her in any way concerning the killing of her son. said Mrs. Sanders, the mother of six. who is heavy in pregnancv with her seventh child.

THE OFFICERS did not fire at the fleeing suspects., they made no efforts to apprehend them.." said St. Petersburg's Public Safety Administrator James P. Morgan. Morgan admitted that there was "credibility gap" surrounding the killing, but did very little to close the gap.

"The Police and the ambulance got in and out of the area quickly in order to avoid drawing large crowd.."

Morgan said.

A mass meeting was called by St. Petersburg Black citizens to protest the killing and make plans to seek justice and protection for Sanders' mother and his small sisters and brothers.

Later a group of young citizens led by the Junta of Militant Organization (JOMO) staged a walkout on the St. Peterbugh (morning) City Council meeting.

The protesting young citizens refused to satnd during the invocation prayer and the pledge of allegience to the U.S. flag.

After opening ceremony JOMO representatives read a list of demands, then walked out.

A list of JOMO demands included some of the following: 1) That reparations be made to the family of Palmer Sanders for funeral expenses and other expenses accumulated by his death.

2) The immediate indictment for murder of detectives Fred Busch and Donald Parks.

3) The immediate dismissal of Harold Smith, Chief of Police.

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(Killed in another entrapment was Wade Collins of Tampa.) She was not contacted, nor given notice of the death of her son. She said she believed her son was killed deliberately and "if he had been a white boy they would never have killed him." (Photo credit Nathaniel I OX)

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James: You mean the property tax rate? Well I think as said last night, the white majority of the council made a surface approach ot it. As I stated before, we're facing a financial crisis. The last council saw fit to delete some $21,000,000 from the Board of Education which was mandated to be put in the budget by the Commissioner of Education, Mr. Marlburg, so we're 21 million dollars short there.

The last public officials saw fit to vote a $1,000 across the board raise to all city employees, during a political year in order to receive personal advantages. This is costing us some six million dollars. Now we're faced with a $30 million deficit, and the taxes must go up. Therefore Mayor Gibson went to Trenton, N.J., and they gave him a package of enabling legislation.

It's not the ideal, it will not solve our immediate problem and it will not solve our problem in long range. But it did pose a revenue measure.

In your opinion sir, what is the most pressing problem facing the city to date?

I've always said the problem most pressing to our city is educating the young. I think when you go over thirty most

people say you're a suspect. If you're out of the education making process they don't trust you. So I say it's most important to educate the young because they're going to be the future doctor's, lawyers, teachers and even president of the United States.

I think white America has demonstrated over and over again, if they can keep our young in ignorance they don't have to worry about us in the future. We will not be in a position to compete against their young. We will not be competitive in the job market.

So I say this is a cruel attempt by the union and other people to keep us down. We have to fight to see that our young are educated.

An artical in the Evening News had headlines which read, "Councilman James, booed by Teachers." Would you explain sir?

Well I think what happened is, once the N.T.U. (Newark Teachers Union) invited me to be a guest speaker at one of their meeting, and I went. I went to that meeting and I disagreed with them on one issue and that was NonProfessional Chores.

You know the union has taken a position that a teacher should not have to escort their children into school, shouldn't have cafeteria duties, hall duties and what have you. Now I've taken a stand that it's very peculiar that nowhere in the state of New Jersey is this being done or asked to be done, except the city of Newark which is predominently Black.

I feel this is insulting to our young and it's insulting to our

community. I feel that any duties that a teacher performs in a school are professional because you're dealing with the young, their education and their future. I don't see how we in Newark can see these as nonprofessional chores when they're being performed in Livingston. Millburn, West Orange and other communities in New Jersey.

So when I made this statement at the union meeting I became unpopular, I was called anti-union. When I went to this meeting the union recently had. a young man from Livingston. New Jersey, stopped me and said, "You can't go into this meeting." I said, "Where do you live?" He said, "Livingston." I said, "How long have you been teaching in Newark?" He said, "A year. So I said, " I got news for you, I've been here all my life, born and raised. I've been teaching in Newark for twelve years and I'm an elected official."

He still didn't want me to go in, so I had to become somewhat uncouth and force my way in. Although they booed me, I was still there. I received the information as the rest and I will continue to go. I didn't let their booing bother me because our problem is most important, more important than their booing.

Were you openly threatened?

Oh. they actually got a goon squad to come over and remove me. It's just like an interesting thing, you never know what you're going to do in a crisis until it surrounds you. Here I was, in a meeting with 2,500 teachers being

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Sharpe James being "Jeans and Army Jackets." Do you have any information to add to this?

Well they should have just come out and said Leroi Jones.

I think the efforts here are to say that the Committee for a Unified Newark is part of these attacks. When you have a union that's 95% white, in order to incite them to stay out in that cold, in order to incite Where will the city get the them to risk going^g^jail in money to pay for the new which there's an injunction not contract if accepted by the to strike, you have to appeal to board of education. them on a very hard emotional Well this is where we're at. line and most of the union No one can answer that leadership knows Leroi Jones question. The union can't names carries a certain answer it. The mayor has amount of fear in the white already indicated that we do man. not have the funds and that the Perhaps they don't demands are unattainable. It's understand him. Perhaps they interesting to note also that if don't understand his writing. the mayor were to give into the So in order to bring about a union* next would be the way of having a strike in firemen, next then would be Newark, Leroi Jones names is the policemen— and then the always thrown out there. Like sanitation. Let's understand it's Leroi Jones, Leroi Jones' these collective bargainers are henchmen so forth so on. The looking at this and if you give people who even signed the to the one. you're just opening injunction, it was in the paper the door for the rest to come today and yesterday that they into. It's just like opening a live at 33 Sterling street, Pandora's box. The union will another address of Leroi have to sit down and have Jones, and I say this is sad. It meaningful negotiation and we seems as though in this will have to deal with things country, really every issue that have priority and things seems to come down to we can afford. racism, indirectly or directly, The city papers described the and it's very sad.

We ought to deal with real people who allegedly attacked the teachers as wearing para people in a real world and stop military uniforms. One of the appealing to, should I say, the teachers supposedly attacked very remote causes of racism described the uniforms as and what have you. hostile to me yelling, "Get Sharpe, Get Sharpe." Yet they didn't bother me. It was like I was stronger than two thousand five hundred, because I was there for committment, I was there for the people, I was there with the love and purpose that I had to protect the interest of my people.

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MUHAMMAD SPEAKS

The case of James Lightbourne

By Joe W a l k e r NEW YORK-Twentyt w o w o r k s of papiermache sculpture are c u r r e n t l y on exhibition on the m a i n floor of the Countee Cullen L i b r a r y , 104 W. 136th St., H a r l e m .

This e x h i b i t has not only generated artistic a c c l a i m for its creator but also resulted in support f o r his fight to be released from the "Tombs" (Manhattan House of Detention for M e n ) , where he has been i m p r i s o n e d for over t w o years a w a i t i n g t r i a l i n a m u r d e r case.

AMONG THOSE leading the fight to bring the Black artist's contemporary story to public attention are Edward K. Taylor, president of the Harlem Cultural Council: Edna Slatkin, a poor peoples "ombudswoman"; and the sculptor's Muslim brother.

They have so far enlisted the involvement of Livingston L. Wingate. executive director of the New York Urgan League; a number of artists and others.

James Lightbourne has been twice victimized by the US judicial system. He served 2V2

SCULPTURE OF imprisoned James Lightbourne draws motive force from teachings of The Honorable Elijah Muhammad. At left is "50,000 Years Ago East Asia,' depicting the oneness of Black Asiatic people despite historic and pre - historic migrations; in years in prison on a burglarv charge that was later reversed (after he served the jail sentence) in the state's highest court.

Out of prison only 90 days Lightbourne became an instant hero in the local papers for bravely risking his life while saving three persons from a blazing fire that had engulfed their home. Three weeks later he found himself behind bars again in the "Tombs" charged with murder in an attempted holdup that took place on November 18. 1968.

Obviously, the victim of hasty police work and mistaken identity, the local press carried no expose about the fishy circumstances surrounding Lightbourne's arraignment and imprionment.

Cops on the murder investigation had few clues to work on. They included a hat found in the vicinity of the crime with the initials "J.L." inscribed in the brim, the general age and the color of the suspect the time of the holdup and the fact that the murderer was hit and knocked down by an automobile while fleeing the site of the crime.

Police pulled 40 "J.L.'s" from their files and somehow settled

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However, many pieces of the puzzle don't fit. The hat found in the neighborhood where the crime took place didn't fit Lightbourne. According' to his brother Victor and others who know him well. Lightbourne never wore hats. No bruises were found on Lightbourne's body by a police examiner.

Also, only one "witness" was able to make an 'identification'' of Lightbourne. Those defending him ask "don't all Black youths look alike to whitey?" and "How close was the witness' who chased, but could not catch the culprit even when he was knocked down by a car?"

AN INFORMATION release, distributed by Lightbourne's defenders, states. "On endless excuses, trial is delayed, while various tactics are invented to make a case against Lightbourne, or wearying him into pleading to something he did not do.

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Black woman pushes political education conditions in their areas.

Miss Gulley is a board member of the Mid-South side Health Planning Organization and the Adult Education Council and a member of the Illinois Federation of Consumers and the League of Women Voters.

W hat are Miss Gulley's goals for life 0 She would like to help develop a real politics of participation in this city to replace what she calls 'the politics of fear.' What does Lawson passed a lighted that mean? A politics of (From Papel Chicano) candle to Chavez, symbolizing participation would enable HOUSTON— According to the unity of all faiths behind voters to express their views Cesar Chavez "Houston has the struggle of the farm politically; it would prevent more Non-Union Lettuce than workers and behind their their votes from being bought any other city in the U.S." leader Cesar Chavez, a bright or stolen and would stop Houston is the only city that shining light guiding his coercion and threats upon buys such large amounts of people. citizens to vote for the lettuce from Bud Antle," the SEVERAL THREATS on the Democratic machine. * lettuce grower who had him life of Cesar Chavez while in Illinois, Miss Gulley explains, jailed in December 1970.

Houston made it necessary for is the last state in the union COMPARED TO the rally for him to sit in the front row with a political machine and Cesar Chavez in Austin, the surrounded by boycotters until patronage to equal it. New Houston rally was subdued, his time came to speak. The York got rid of Tammany hall mild mannered, and lacking in Houston M.A.Y.O. (Mexican years ago. But in Illinois it is American Youth Organization) the machine all the way.

Chicano warmth and spirit. was working, guarding Chavez.

Judged by it's probable long " I t is not what you know, it is They provided much of the' lasting effect the rally was as security forces at the how well you have served your successful as any that has ever party. So many persons don't occassion. been held here. vote and I can understand why Speaking to a predominantly for many reasons." Miss The crowd of over 1,500 filled the large hall at the University Anglo crowd. Cesar explained Gulley would prefer that they of Houston Student Center to how the three months the "not vote than have their vote boycott already bought." over capacity, and many had to lettuce claimed at least a 10 percent stand up through the entire effectiveness.

The Houston It is futile to tell a man o r program.

Post and the Chronicle did not woman that he should vote for The "Texas Solidarity Day" see fit to carry any pictures of the best candidate when it Ecumenical Service of Unity this event in their papers, nor, means he or she may lose food was started by the inspiring even to give Cesar front page and shelter and clothing: words of Rev. William coverage. people can be intimidated Lawson, a well known Black The Post insisted on writing because of the power which the Baptist minister. The closing only about the problem ward committeeman holds. was a brief, simple but moving between the Teamsters and the " . . . A l l the education in the ceremony where Rabbi Malev. world is not going to make Father Smith and Reverend Farm Workers Union. The somebody go on election day growers have signed contracts with the Teamsters Union to and vote for the best candidate when there is a strong represent the lettuce workers.

However, the lettuce workers possibility that the guy who is were not consulted about what getting out the vote for the Democrats or Republicans union they wanted.

By Paula Saddler CHICAGO— Miss Rosemarie Gulley is the executive director of the Independent Voters of Illinois, a civic organization which is an offshoot of the Americans for Democratic Action group.

BORN IN Louisville,

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holds the welfare checks. And in some wards in this city the welfare checks are distributed by the precinct captains."

MISS GULLEY explains in detail how well organized the Democratic machine is in the city. The ward committeeman is the one "praise God from whom all blessings flow." The ward committeeman dispenses the jobs in the ward, he determines which streets will be lighted; what the zoning laws will be and which stores will be allowed to remain open in the area.

Precinct captains, who are an (Continued on page 14)

I n d i a n a

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GARY, Indiana— There is a deeply meaningful welfare fight going on in Indiana over the threat of cut off Aid to Families of Dependent Children on April 1. The following information on this problem was gathered by Ruth Norrick, a correspondent for the New York Daily World.

LEADING participants in the fight are the Governor, the Indiana Welfare Rights Organization, and State Representatives Daniel Huff and Bernard White.

The governor is fighting against an increase in the maximum payments which the state's AFDC program now makes to recipients.

The ISWRO is fighting to force the state of Indiana to live up to federal requirements for states to receive federal funds for their welfare programs.

The two representatives, Huff and White, are fighting to pass a welfare bill (H 1392) which would increase the maximum benefits now paid under the state's AFDC program.

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must raise their payments to meet the rising cost -of - living increases.

WHEN INDIANA refused to act to comply with the SS amendment, H1392 was introduced into the legislature

by Huff and White.

If H1392 passes it would raise the maximum for a mother and one child from $100 to 160 per month; each additional child would receive from $25 to $34 per month.

For a father who is not able to work the maximum payment will be raised from $25 to $37 per month.

According to Indiana (and other states as well) state law, welfare is denied to family if the " father lives in the household. But an amendment sponsored by the State AFLCIO calls for bringing unemployed fathers under the welfare assistance program.

When the Aid to Families of Dependent Children program was threatened last year, the ISQRO ranks began rising from six state councils to 36 now; from 150 members in 1970 it has risen to 2,500.

A good example of the growing political power of the ISWRO can be observed in its ability to help elect a representative to the state legislature.

The representative, J. Jeff Hays, is now a member of the important legislative welfare committee.

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Continued: P u s h i n g inteigal part of the patronage system usually don't even live in the wards, but when it is close to election time all of a sudden, there they are. The committeeman buys votes with money, hard cold cash, with groceries and with welfare checks.

How, indeed, can the patronage system be broken?

This is a difficult question for which there is no easy solution.

Certainly. Miss Gulley thinks that a starting point would be to get patronage people off the city's pay-roll and replace them with qualified persons.

There are about 5,000 jobs that the Mayor Richard J. Daley's office uses to reinforce his tight clasp over the city.

People have jobs in city hall not because they are qualified for it but because they work their little precinct well or sell a lot of tickets to the democratic organization's fund raising dinner.

But the road to actually eliminating patronage in this city is rocky. Patronage is

v i t a l

unconstitutional and a violation of the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment and of the federal civil rights act of 1870. A suit would have to be filed in court.

But even in this day and age when they are no longer using the gang style techniques I they don't kill the patronage worker anymore if he decides to quit or if he blabs), it is hard to get patronage workers to fight the system in courts. Miss Gulley believes that if enough people can be persuaded to become plaintiffs in a suit then a ruling prohibiting patronage can be obtained in federal court. But many judges are part of the patronage machine, and this discourages people from an all out attack.

But a law, is only as good as it enforcement. Miss Gulley has no real solution about how to get such a ruling enforced, even if patronage were found by the court to exist in this city.

ANOTHER PROBLEM in developing a politics of participation is to get qualified

p o l i t i c a l minority persons to run as candidates and to develop support for them. The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson's suit protests the number of signatures required of independents, which is 58.000 as compared to only 4,000 signatures needed for regular party candidates. Why should independent candidates for mayor have to have more than 10 times the required number of signatures for regular party candidates?

What Jackson tested is the freedom of people to enter into politics without having to do more than the other guy. So far. the machine's power seems to stretch all the way inside the Supreme Court because Jackson lost his first hearing there.

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Even though I V I is a whitq. funded organization, it has made efforts to educate the minority voter. "For a long time.'' Miss Gulley explains, "the idea of politics has been a mystery to Blacks." Naturally IVI draws its members from the more educated and sophisticated political groups.

IVI does not boast a large percentage of minority members but it has supported many candidates who were qualified and Black before it became fashionable to do so.

Political education has been IVI's main service to the minority community. Most Black voters are unaware of how they can split their tickets and many simply don't know how to use a voting machine.

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MUHAMMAD SPEAKS

MARCH 19,1971

15

Whol Islam Has Done For Me S i s t e r

B e v e r l e y

a d d r e s s e s Dear Graduates, You are. with the help of Allah, being given an education that is superior to any other education received anywhere in any school in any of the cities and towns in which you live.

Though you study some of the same subjects, though you read some of the same books, though you recite some of the same facts and lessons as do your youthful peers in other public, private, and parochial schools you have received and will continue to receive a better-more comprehensiveeducation.

WHYâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;because once you have been awakened it is easy to understand. For you. the Black Muslim Student, in the Muhammad Universities of Islam across the country have been given the first key to the knowledge of SELF. All praises are due to Allah iGod). Who came in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad, for raising from among us a Divine Leader, and Teacher who is continually giving to us an education that has no equal.

As you strive to understand who you are. your mind begins to expand with more definite

all

M a u r a d

I s l a m

thoughts. For. as a student, once you learn who you are. you are able to perceive and weigh and balance more clearly the curriculum presented to you. Messenger Muhammad teaches that you are the original man. the maker, the owner of the planet earth. This one fact gives the true student, the true believer, a desire to regain his lost heritage and with the help of Almighty God Allah, through the guidance of His Messenger once again become members of a great civilization and Nation. Once you "Know Self" you can see that you i Blackman) are the ones alluded to in your History Text books as having created wonderous civilizations with marvelous structures and using technological skills that have, in some cases, not been equaled by any people of today.

Once you "Know Self" you know that the 13 years of school you would attend under the leadership of the white man would be an "educational brainwash" That, without the teachings of Messenger Muhammad, you would have been kept in a state of "Mental Death." "Mental Death" is the most prevelant problem of the

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g r a d s Blackman in America today.

Islam, as taught to us by the Most Honorable Elijah Muhmmad. is the Key for it is not just a "religion" but it is a complete and full WAY OF LIFE. Islam builds character, gives meaning, and puts and keeps you on the right path.

As Muslim students, you are blessed. We thank Allah for young people such as you who have disassociated yourself from the corrupt ways of the generation and civilization in which you live.

All praise are due to Allah that you have been able to live in and be surrounded by the corrupt and evil ways of this generation and civilization, and not become a part of it.

DO FOR S E L F - Produce your own food, clothe yourself.

Seek the Heaven that was promised to you (by Allah in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad) â&#x20AC;&#x201D;money, good homes, and friendship in all walk of life. Learn my Brothers and Sisters.

"An Islamic Education is the Key to Your Future. " As -Salaam -Alaikum.

Sister Beverly Maurad National Director of Education

VALEDICTORIAN of Senior Boys class, (left) Muhammad's University of Islam No. 2, David X (Wright) gave stirring oration at recent ceremonies in Chicago.

At right is Valedictorian of Middle School, Sister Lynne X, daughter of Nation of Islam transportation manager, Lieutenant Albert 8X. (Photo by Ozier Muhammad)

Sister National Directoress Beverly Maurad addresses graduates.

See her words of inspiration on this page. (Photo by Ozier Muhammad)

THE

days

of

dissatisfaction

confusion

between

and

man

and

m a n — the w h i t e m a n against Black

man

and

the

the

Black

man

against the w h i t e m a n — is going on the e a r t h - over.

THIS

dissatisfaction

confusion

cannot

because the

come

the day

two

has

people

to an

BLACK

end

arrived

(Black

w h i t e m a n ) m u s t be

and that

Man

and

separated.

I T is the n a t u r e of the w h i t e m a n (white race)

to confuse

People

to

and

the

deceive

Black

them

m i x i n g w i t h t h e m . The white has n e v e r l o v e d the B l a c k

in

man

People,

b u t he i s c a p a b l e o f d e c e i v i n g t h e Black People.

W E play with wild game and wild fowl

— beasts and

order

to tame

animals — in

them

so t h a t

they

w i l l love a n d f o l l o w us. B u t , i t is not really pure love that we have these

animals.

We

do

not

for love

anything other than h u m a n beings.

We love a good horse only f o r his w ork and service.

THERE ignorant desire

are

Black

to

some

very

People

who

would

the

white

remain

with

people

and

some

People

really have

of

very-

the

Black

love for

white

people. These B l a c k People are not using their acts and their talk

as

false.

IT

is

People The

not

the

nature

of

Black

People

were

righteous

and

Almighty

God

Who Came

of

Master

Person

Black

to tell that w h i c h is false. truthful,

created so

said

in

the

Fard

M u h a m m a d , to W h o m Praises

are

due f o r e v e r and Who T a u g h t m e a l l

themselves. The white race cannot

t h a t I k n o w . So, p l e a s e d o n o t g i v e

m a k e p e a c e , so d o n o t b e a f o o l a n d

me

t h i n k t h a t t h e y c a n set up p e a c e f o r

the

credit for anything that

I

say. I do not k n o w a n y t h i n g ; i t is

us.

H i s T r u t h , not m i n e .

themselves. T h e y cannot help that

THE world's

Great

War

Third

Great

-

and

the

—

was

War

happened

BUT,

and

white — it began a m o n g the w h i t e

made

race.

you race

was

made

peace

for to

you are

b e i n g so

foolish,

due to y o u r i g n o r a n c e of the n a t u r e in

white

make

do.

that have included both B l a c k and

THE

cannot

w h i c h bv n a t u r e t h e v a r e m a d e

bred a m o n g the w h i t e race. A l l of the w a r s that have

They

by

which

they

(white

race)

were

i n , and the nature i n w h i c h

(Black Man) were created in,

that

you think

that

e v e r y t h i n g is

nature to m a k e w a r w i t h w h o m e v e r

possible for t h e m w h e n i t comes to

they can. I f they cannot fight

Peace, Righteousness

other

than their o w n race, they make w a r

for

w i t h each other. The w h i t e r a c e is

like

not a p e a c e f u l

people. They

were

this.

They

are a w a r r i n g people — a

Righteousness

trouble

with

fighting

whomsoever

Righteousness and

and Justice

to

Justice. is

far

they

do Justice regardless to o u r a s k i n g

them. The white race cannot

t h e m to do J u s t i c e . T h e y cannot do Justice among themselves.

w h i t e people. As I said before, i f t h e r e i s no s t r a n g e r

to m a k e

with,

war

make

made

from

- M A K I N G is the n a t u r e of

they

not

be

start

come into contact with.

WAR

were

righteous. They w e r e not m a d e do

— a l w a y s seeking to

Justice,

us. The w h i t e r a c e cannot

not m a d e peaceful. The w h i t e r a c e people

and

PEACE,

Righteousness

and

war

J u s t i c e is a g a i n s t the n a t u r e of the

among

white race, but they would like that

The

Filth

T h a t

P r o d

Holy Quran (7:27) O child arch deceiver seduce y o u , as from the garden, pulling off that he might show them the you, he as well as his hosts, fr not. Surely W e have made th of those who believe not.

This happened to the Bi Y a k u b from Arabia. He pulle Self, the clothes of Righteousne er their shame; and then m a d hills and cave-sides of Europe, You a r e w a r n e d . You Del lowing the invitation to evil a Wait and see.

WHITE!

you and m e believe these things of

t r u t h a n d has k e p t the t r u t h c o v e r e d

t h e m , of good. B u t , t h e y cannot do

up f r o m the B l a c k M a n i n o r d e r t o

good and we are foolish today,

keep

to

believing in

look to t h e m f o r good. I f they do a

The

good act to you, they could easily

false i n s t e a d of t r u t h .

t e l l y o u t h a t ' t h e y w e n t out of t h e i r T H I S is w h y A l l a h ( G o d ) A s k s us today

to separate ourselves (Black and

THE

is m a d e

to

teach

Black M a n . especially this

but that w h i c h the w h i t e m a n

has

from

t a u g h t h i m . F o r i n s t a n c e , he s e e k s

that

for the w h i t e m a n to put his seal of

t h e m . I f w e do not u n d e r s t a n d we t w o people

white man

falsehood.

o n e i n A m e r i c a , he k n o w s n o t h i n g

w a y to do good for you and m e . '

white)

approval

(his

o.k.)

on

comes

other

This the w h i t e m a n cannot do. The

—

while

one

is

wicked

and

the

made,

by

other

is

white

man's

o.k.

and

is

that

still

further

falsehood,

t h i s i s w h y w e a r e h a v i n g so m u c h

B l a c k M a n f u r t h e r since this is the

confusion.

d a y of m a n i f e s t a t i o n of d e f e c t s

confuses

the in

the tw o people ( B l a c k and w h i t e ) .

Man)

ALLAH

(God)

Is

t r y i n g t o see h i m s e l f i n t h e l i g h t o f

Confusion

About

by

day, of God's M a n i f e s t a t i o n of the

T r u t h B e f o r e us. W e w e r e r a i s e d up

t w o people, B l a c k and white.

on falsehood a l l of our lives, f o r the

the

mentally

mentally trying

dead

dead

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to understand

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By Margary Hassain IN the Name of Allah (God) MASTER FARD MUHAMMAD, to Whom Praises are due forever for Giving us His Divine Guide MESSENGER MUHAMMAD, and His Divine Guidance, making us winners, in Islam.

RECENTLY a Black Christian Woman worker in a contractor's office telephoned in with a heated outburst, on a recent radio broadcast and demanded of a Muslim Minister, guest: I quote, "Why is it that each time they (Muslimsi build any type of structure be it office building, restaurants or remodelling they use white contractors?"

This is a false unfounded charge. It is impossible for her to have knowledge of the hundreds of daily transactions which MESSENGER MUHAMMAD conducts in behalf of the Nation of Islam all over the United States of America and elsewhere.

MESSENGER MUHAMMAD teaches that this is the day of truth. This woman revealed herself as a sore-loser by her own words. I quote her: •We received an (opportunity) to bid on a building project which they (Muslims) are building on 48th and Woodlawn." (Any one with business knowledge knows that it is standard business procedure for offers (bids) on jobs to be made and it is up to the contractor, who has received an offer, to measure up to fulfill the performance of that which has been offered. She did not give her reason for failing to comply. It is a blessing that we escaped doing business with this kind of person. If she had gotten the job and failed she would have conducted another smear campaign to cover that failure at our expense financially and otherwise.

THIS Black (business?) woman is green with envy and jealousy that MESSENGER MUHAMMAD is a winner in his Guidance of the affairs of the Nation of Islam. If she had a legitimate business question and wanted a legitimate business answer, she would have asked MESSENGER MUHAMMAD and not the radio audience.

HER wild accusations went on. •'Millions and thousands of (Muslim) dollars are going out of the Black community to the white community that could put Black carpenters, laborers and cement-workers to work." I MESSENGER MUHAMMAD taught her and all of us and awakened us to the knowledge of this. Our Black Problem and that our problem will continue as long as we are under the rule and control of the white christian government—therefore, we must be independent.)

ALL that this same Black woman earns and spends goes right back to the white man. If she had gotten the building job she would have had to buy all the building materials even the building permit, from the white man.

WHICH beach in America does the Black man own and control that he can remove the sand to make cement for the building?

Which gravel pit does the Black Man in America own that he can make his own mortar? From which clay-bank can the Black man in America gather clay to make his own bricks? Which forest does he own from which he can cut down his own trees with which to make floors, roof-beams and rafters? Where are the iron deposits and his coal mines that are needed to make steel?

Where is the Black man in America's Building License Bureau.

Inspectors and City Engineer's Department? Where are his shipping fleets, highways and waterways on which to transport raw materials to building sites 0 THESE are only a few things which are necessary in order to construct.. .to build. But. it is enough Black Sister, to let you know that with a fast flow of words, you are not covering your weaknesses and inabilities. You are not pulling the wool over the eyes of the Black Woman in Islam. MESSENGER MUHAMMAD has opened our eyes. The Woman in Islam comes from all walk of life, and has all kinds of experiences like you mentally dead Black Sister, she even came out of Christianity. No longer will we be silent while the menally dead, blind, deaf and dumb of our Black people fool our poor Black People who have no technical knowledge, and who put stock in your false christian guidance.

WHEN we were in Christianity, like you, in business like you and without the Divine Guidance of MESSENGER MUHAMMAD, we were losers like vou. Now. we are The Woman in Islam. All that we know of Wisdom. MESSENGER MUHAMMAD taught us. We are winners with MUHAMMAD. And the wisest and best thing that you can do is to learn from MUHAMMAD that all of our needs come from the earth and that we must have earth to supply our needs. Wake up! Take your Black Man by the hand and tell him, "COME ON LET US JOIN MUHAMMAD AND GET IN THE WINNING CAMP" Allah Is The Greatest!

PANORAMIC VIEW of Graduation Day ceremonies at Muhammad's University of Islam No. 4.

Graduating brothers and sisters won admiration and approval of parents and audience—a rare thing in Black community these days except in schools of the Nation of Islam which are guided by the Divine Wisdom of The Honorable Elijah Muhammad Messenger of Allah. (MS photo: Lonnie Kashif)

Unalike attracts

By Bayyinah Sharrieff We who attended the Saviour's Day meeting.

Friday. February 26. 1971. can certainly bear witness that the unalike teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad in reforming the woman certainly proved that it is the right thing to get us women together.

NEVER BEFORE have I seen so many women gathered together. I have been to gatherings of women in Africa, Europe and America, but I must say again, never have I ever seen so many women together in unity before in my life, hundreds and thousands of women.

You who did not visit us should have, for you would most certainly have been amazed at such a miraculous sight: To have that many Black women together in peace is a miracle in itself. All were smiling. Such unity as was shown at this meeting definitely showed the attracting power in the words of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad's teachings. I am sure you Black women who are reading this article know how hard it is to get Black women smiling together, especially thousands of Black women. .

As one looked out from the platform, one saw three tiers along the whole west wall of the coliseum dressed with the beautiful Sisters in clean white robes. The east wall was flanked with the Brothers in their handsome Blue F.O.I, uniforms, such a massive assemblv. The Brothers had to

leave their seats to make room for the Sisters, and as the meeting progressed. the Sisters filled the north wall, and the east wall then the balcony on the south wall. With many women, it was difficult to distinguish the registered Muslim Sisters from our visitors, for many of our visitors dressed in white with their hair completely covered as we who are registered do.

Sisters. Sisters. Sisters, in white in unity, smiling and sharing joy in the warmth of the light of TRUTH emitted from the mouth of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

Indeed to those of us who looked on the Honorable Elijah Muhammad as he delivered his Saviour's Day address we saw a light.

reformer for the woman, he is that reformer.

You who did not visit our Saviour's Day meeting really missed a great day for our Black kind in North America.

The Truth cannot be denied.

Unalike ATTRACTS. And the ATTRACTING POWER of the Messenger's words to this mass assembly showed the power of the word of God whose proper name is Allah with His Messenger, The Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

Our women are turning towards Muhammad fast.

They crowd into our small building on 54th and Greenwood here in Chicago to hear the teachings of Allah's Last Messenger. Opposers to TRUTH are preventing Messenger Muhammad from purchasing larger buildings in " The people who walked in hopes of smothering the truth darkness have seen a great (which acts as a flame of fire to falsehood) by demanding light." (Isaiah9:2) This is no spooky thing. This huge sums of money up to five is TRUTH: that meeting of and eight million dollars for thousands without a quarrel, property not worth two million without a trace of drinking or dollars. This Saviour's Day smoking, or loud talking, or meeting at the Coliseum fighting shows that Allah proved that they cannot stop comes to bring peace. The only the spread of the Honorable noise made was the clapping of Elijah Muhammad's teachings. hands of the listeners to express their happiness at the We who Believe in Allah. Who Message from Allah's Came in the Person of Master Messenger.

This meeting Fard Muhammad to Whom showed that the Message praises are due forever, thank which Allah has given to His Him for Blessing us with His Messenger certainly has an Last Messenger.

Elijah attracting power on us women. Muhammad. And, pray that He We do not argue with the Continues to " GRANT HIM Messenger about what he THE NEARNESS AND wants to do with us. For he EXCELLENCE AND RAISE makes us act differently HIM TO THE POSITION OF towards ourselves and on GLORY WHICH THOU HAST another. If ever there was a PROMISED HIM."

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PRINCETON. N . J . - T h e accuracy, the long- time percentage of U.S. citizens trends in birth rate. who favor large families has THREE BASIC reasons declined dramatically since emerge from the survey to 1967 and is now at the lowest explain the decline in interest point in the 35 years that in large families since 1967: regular surveys on the subject (1) The cost of living have been conducted. (particularly, the cost of IN THE LATEST Gallup poll education). survey, only about one adult in (2) Concern over crowded four (23 percent) said the ideal conditions and overpopulation, number of children in a family and is four or more. The (3) Uncertainty of the future. percentage was 40 percent in A 32-year-old strutural the fall of 1967. the last time engineer from Wet Covina. the subject was dealt with in a Calif., said: "A man today survey. cannot support a large family The poll reflects the effects of and give them all they need. a consistent and heavy flow of It's not fair to the children to official Madison . Avenue- have large families." designed propaganda warning A Milford I Mass. ) of "overpopulation crisis." homeowner asked: "This is a The decline since 1967 in the crazy world- what do we have to offer children?" A young percentage favoring large Chicago housewife remarked: families has been most "People should have two pronounced among younger persons and the better - children ro replace themselves if they want more, they can educated, groups which adopt them." traditionally have been most opposed to large families.

The previous low point in the The trend reported today is of percentage of adults favoring considerable significance in four or more children was terms of expected population recorded in the depression growth. Although many factors year of 1936: 34 percent. The are involved in projecting this ^ high point over the 35-year (49 percent) was growth, the public's views on period the desirability of large recorded in 1945. reflecting the families have been found to high birth rate of the war anticipate, with considerable vears.

Following is the trend since 1936: PER CENT SAYING 4 OR MORE IS IDEAL NUMBER OF CHILDREN 1957 38% 1936 34% I960 45 1941 41 1963 42 1945 49 1966 35 1947 47 1967 40 1953 41 1971 23 The following table shows the change in views between the latest surveys by key population groups: PER CENT SAYING 4 OR MORE IS IDEAL NUMBER OF CHILDREN 1971 1967 NATIONAL 23% 40% Men 19% 34% Women 26% 45% 21-29 years old 15% 34% 30-49 years old 24% 40% 50 and over 27% 42% Protestants 22 37 Roman Catholic 28 50 College 34 14 High School 40 22 Grade School 44 33 The results reported above were obtained from recent personal interviews. There was a total of 1.502 adults in more than 300 scientifically selected localities across the nation.

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It is indeed unfortunate that the color of Mrs. Graves' skin has been used to mislead the most respected communications media that Black people have. Our brothers and sisters all over the country are probably believing the many incorrect assumptions drawn by that article.

Since the Congress of African Peoples was established to be a binding organization of nationalist,

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liberation forces and to carry the armed struggle through to final victory, by President Kwame Nkrumah in his "Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare" had given me enthusiasm to show my appreciation as an African for such very important

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I am an avid reader of your excellent newspaper and rely upon it heavily for information concerning our people the world over. When I am seeking an accurate report of incidents involving or affecting our people, such as in the recent Uganda coup, it is Muhammad Speaks that I read.

THEREFORE you can imagine my shock and confusion when I read your recent article ( 2/19/71 — Pg. 29) by Joe Walker in which the Newark Teachers Union was praised as a positive force in a' "negative" Black city. ...Apparently the brother who wrote the article is not a resident of Newark, or any of its neighboring cities. It seems he just zipped into the city for a day, talked to a few people, and drew his own conclusions, largely with the help of Mrs. Carole Graves. NTU president.

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Understand that the NTU is 90 per cent white and 80 per cent suburban teachers.

Understand also that 82 per cent of the Black and Puerto Rican community is opposed to this senseless strike. If the brother had just analyzed the community groups working to keep the schools open, ranging from the NAACP to the Black Panthers, he would have realized that the strike was not in the interest of Black students.

IT IS A SHAME that an organ of Muhammad Speaks stature has been misled by Mrs. Graves' Black skin, and it is unfortunate that brother Walker failed to really survey the situation before he wrote his article. I am hoping that the strike can be further investigated by a member of your staff and the real facts uncovered.

I am hopeful you will consider this letter what it is intended to be. an honest observation given to you by your humble and loving brother, whose only aim to develop a sincere unity and communication among our people.

May you continue your success as our national communications organ, as I shall continue as a faithful and observant subscriber.

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Moreover, the Organization of African Unity (OAU) by considering this my plea should give provision in the conditions for issuance of such passports, to enable all African descents wherever they might be to apply for it to eradicate this monstrous inhumanity our brothers and sisters on foreign lands are catching. We should not forget the fact that both independent Africans, dependent and all the descendants, whether Black, brown, yellow or red are catching the same hell from the whitemen.

For. if the original American constitution still states that a Black American is three fifths of a white American, in

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Pan - Africanist and liberationist groups, I was awed that Brother Walker did not consult with Immamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) personally to find out his observations of the strike.

Instead, the brother refers to Imamu's statements on television, which he colored a very ugly shade.

ANYONE LIVING in Newark knows that Imamu has proven himself to be a dedicated fighter for the rights of Black people not only in this city, but the world over. They also realize that Imamu is one of the most brilliant Black minds on the national scene today.

Therefore a conversation with this brother, whose Committee For Unified Newark represents the Congress, was in order, but brother Walker failed to do so.

It was evident last year that the union had a specific reason for choosing Carole Graves as its president in a city composed largely of Blacks and Puerto Ricans. The fact that they chose a sister is indeed disgusting, for they are now trying to project an image that Black people in this city

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To conclude this my suggestion, I hope as well as all progressive Black people, that Heads of States of all African independent states and the General Secretary of the OAU will pay heed to the "Black Students appeal to Africa."

(Jet, Nov. 19th/Africa and the World issue no 63.)

For, we need ourselves to work together in Africa to prove to the rest of the world that we can also develop our so - called jungle, primitive or dark continent of Africa which is ours, to an extent of competing with the other world powers in economical, scientific, military, social and whatever they may call it in the so - called developed countries, if only they can be all that honest to leave us to solve our problems ourselves; for we know that it is Africa that has made them what they are today. And if perchance we don't realize this fact then I am sorry.

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I write you in response to an was the first one in the entire article appearing on page 24 of state to integrate from vour issue for Februarv 12. kindergarten through junior 1971. college.

I AM THE person referred to i\To friends of mine in the in that article, and I simply Legislature "cut from the want to state some facts budget the job of Director of relative to the article which Community Relations". I did you published. not ask anyone to make the You stated "the only way the cut. This apparently was in the law got passed was when black mill prior to the time I became people in St. Louis and Kansas a member of the Commission City elected B l a c k (December 1968) and in fact representatives... . " The became public knowledge very composition of the Missouri early in 1969. In appearances Legislature, is approximately before the Legislature in that the same as the composition of year. I protested against the the population of the state, cut. and since then our budget there being two Black Senators requests for 1970 and 1971 have out of thirty-four and thirteen contained a request for the Black Representatives out of restoration of the position. one hundred sixty-four. The I ATTEMPTED TO percentage was slightly less investigate the rumor that the THESE ARE THE RESTROOMS for people receiving food stamps at the Elder Street Center in Houston. than that in 1959, 1961 and 1965 man you referred to as when the laws relating to the "Whitey Moore" was an exIf they look like refrigerators it's because they are! (M.S. photo: Ralph Cooper) Missouri Commission were Klansman and I have never passed. The law was passed by been able to get one bit of white legislators who might information that the rumor is Nigerian school likes M.S. have done it unwillingly, but correct. Mr. Max Fry of St. Your beautiful Black MY CLASS have asked me to we may reach other students in they did it.

Joseph is the manager of an newspaper was introduced to write you on their behalf to the U.S. You are really doing a Elks Club which is segregated.

I did not fire all of the Black me by my brother here, and I thank you for the way you fine job. Please keep it up.

You say "most of the staff have in turn introduced it to present facts to all the world Hoping that you'll publish this teachers in Moberly in 1956 quit in disgust". This is not when my home town true, either. Losses related to my class and later the whole over. They have also asked me letter as I am anxious to get a integrated its schools. The fact Risk's resignation were less School including the Principal to inform you to please help us reply. is, as a member of the School than 25 per cent of the staff. is interested in the paper for to publish this letter so that Yours Sincerely, Board, in July 1954, a month We are now at full strength, the factual way the editorial anyone (or students) who after the historic decision of and doing better than before. staff disseminates its news; wishes to correspond with us Akin Falade (IVB) the United States Supreme Richard J. Chamier each copy I received from my can write to me in the above Court, I made the motion that Chairman brother is kept in the School address and we shall open an ABEOKUTA GRAMMAR integrate our school SCHOOL, we Library for every student and avenue of communication IGBEIN HILL, P.M.B. 3006 system, and this was done in P S. In a number of places, I master to read. through this medium, so that ABEOKUTA W/STATE, September of the following have said "you say". I do not NIGERIA. year. Perhaps our community mean to leave the wrong FREDDIE WILLIAMS' Deluxe Super Service jm impression, because it as Muhammad Speaks responsible for returning 14417 Linwood Ave, obvious that you have printed a TOwnsend 6-9508 T.V. SALES & SERVICE welcomes letters from unsolicited stories, pictures "to the editor" letter, so I Expert Auto Repairs — Overhauling Our Specialty Tune-Ups BRING SET IN » SAVE $$$$ would want you to understand readers.

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IAN FLEMING was Englehard's close friend for twenty years; they met in South Africa in the late forties while Englehard was smuggling gold out of the country in the shape of small trinkets (the apartheid government had barred the exportation of gold bullion).

Englehard shipped the trinkets to Hong Kong, where they were melted back into gold ingots. Fleming later modeled his character Goldfinger after his buddy Charlie Englehard.

Englehard had other friends, influential friends, who served him well before he died in his sleep at 54, at his "winter home" in Boca Grande, Fla. Among those close friends were John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.

Charles Englehard was the single largest investor in the South African economy, and a main mover of the "Native Labour Association," whose purpose is to recruit cheap African labor, workers who will toil in Englehard mines at one fifth the salary of white workers.

Through the fifties, Englehard pumped millions into those mines — money he made by dealing in shares of the precious metals business his father left him — a business that he first expanded by taking gold out of South Africa, James Bond - style.

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Oppenheimer, the diamond magnate) controlled more than half of South Africa's main resource, its mineral wealth. He wheeled and dealed himself into the directorship of the Anglo - American Corporation, which, according to Forbes magazine, has assets of almost $3 billion, and "dominates the South African economy."

The year 1961. however, marked a disastrously low point for South Africa's economy. By the time of the Sharpesville massacre, when 90 Africans were killed during demonstrations against compulsory pass - books, South Africa desperately needed cold cash. Englehard provided it.

HE ARRANGED for a $30 million loan through Chase Manhattan and First National City banks, money that enabled the economy to keep going while the rest of the world began to think about boycotting the apartheid economy.

Englehard, the liberal Democrat from New Jersey, had no qualms about keeping apartheid alive and well.

Charlie Englehard who plundered South Africa was also Charlie Englehard, Democrat among Democrats.

Lyndon Johnson was known to take his Florida vacations at the Boca Grande estate where Englehard expired on March 3, 1971.

The politician from Texas who never made it big in Business, arid the imperialist from New Jersey who never succeeded in politics — were they simply good friends?

In 1968, a mild scandal reverberated for a day or two in Washington, to the effect

that the U.S. government had sold 115,000 ounces of platinum at a price $12 million below the prevailing market rate, to a "Johnson friend." That friend was Charlie Englehard.

So strong was Englehard's unseen influence over the Federal Government and foreign policy that, in 1967. the Anglo - American Corporation was allowed to invest $28 million in a nickel mining operation in Rhodesia even though the United States had and still has an official policy of economic sanctions against the white Rhodesian government.

Englehard, while living a self consciously inconspicuous life in New Jersey and Boca Grande, had a way with smaller governments too. In his role as "prominent citizen" in the New York - New Jersey area, he was made a commissioner of the Port of New York Authority, which was jurisdiction over JFK International Airport.

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He was also a trustee of Columbia University.

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Englehard's hometown of Newark is perhaps the poorest city in the United States. The city government has nearly run out of money. Recent investigations revealed that half of Newark's city officials were linked to the Mafia. Its neighborhoods are decaying.

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economically enslaved poor who have fallen upon the evils CHICAGO Total of hard drug usage. abstinencey from the use of Methadone is a synthetic those arthritic, soul lynching compound used in medicine as cripplers of mind and body, an analgesic; it is more potent hard drugs, is simply not being than morphine. encouraged in the way it Certain highly influential should be among those who are therapists in key positions in Black and poor by the existing the field now are saying that major drug abuse programs, in methadone eliminates the the ill-financed rehabilitation craving for heroin and its centers, here in Illinois. effects.

(THE POORLY financed (Only this week liberal Mayor drug abuse programs in New York allocated $75 - million of New York. John Lindsay last year towards addiction called for $9.2 million to the methadone programs, but the decimated further social conscience of Illinois maintenance program.)

Yet in our research, we found swept only $2 million into that the use of methadone varying kinds of willy - nilly perpetuates permanent drug abuse programs, in 1970. j addiction and guarantees that In studies and investigations the addict is an eternal slave. just concluded

by MS Among other things, reporters, we found that those methadone attacks and drug abuse centers, which dissembles the libido: it mainly cater to whites, or to creates a metabolic lethargy, the offsprings of the wayward souring the individual's will from middle-income families and resolve — along with his who find themselves in deep sexual appetite — and his drug trouble, a psychological passion to strike out for self reversal is sternly counseled against the forces of and demanded. Each inductee oppression within the society. must kick the habit "cold In its way methadone is allied turkey" and completely to the worse aspects of the rap abstain from any form of sessions and seminars, as, it narcotics — totally. constantly assaults the centers All drug abuse centers here of courage and rely upon an extensive network aggressiveness; it monitors of sado-masochistic assaults the Id, and axes down the upon the individual within the ego—thereby potentially ex-addict "family" trap entombing the individual's sessions), as they allegedly manhood and psychologically build him or her up vaulting the individual back psychologically. into the womb, and into a kind But our fact sheet shows that of return to Nineteeth century at the centers, or drug addict personal vision of the sadistic retreats, where Blacks and the crucifixion and blissful poor dominate, addicts are redemption, without any indirectly encouraged in the indictment or perceptible drug habit and supplied with attempt at indicting the savage regular dosages and supplies of economic forces within the methadone, the heroin structure of the country, and replacement drug. They pick understanding how that up their new drugs two to three pathological structure feeds times a week. upon human life, across the METHADONE I S board.

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the US attack against the Asiatic Black man in Viet Nam.) Although a great many of the participants within these instutitions worship the group personality rap sessions, which susposedly exorcise the demons which bedevil the grieving soul of the man or woman in crisis, the sessions only touch the surface of the nightmarish world which practically enshrouds their soul.

IT IS AMAZING to see people who are loaded with forests of savvy about a great manv aspects of life unable to see that the root of the corrupt landlords in the well-known (Continued on page 24)

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Arab liberation, South African apartheid, and big business are the strange bedfellows seeking to recolonialize the emerging developing nations.

THE INTERNATIONAL character of Zionism was pointed out by professor Richard Stevens, in a report carried by the Beirut Daily Star, where he stated that "the traditional Jewish condemnation of apartheid on ethical grounds came to a stop coincidentally with the end of the British mandate in Palestine, and the coming to power of the South African Nationalist Party, notorious for its racism."

But there is more involved here than just plain "out and out racism'. Israel is in the diamond business. Diamonds not only are Israel's best industrial friend, they also add a sparkle to a lack luster economy flagging badly under the burden of "defense spending".

This "defense" is in fact a premeditated "offense," because Israel seeks to defend land (Palestine) which was illegally given to them by "Great" Britain, and to maintain land gained from their 1967 invasion of surrounding Arab countries.

The connection between Arab liberation and African liberation is clearly demonstrated in the use of African resources by Zionist-

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Africa is the world's largest producer of diamonds. South Africa is the world's largest producer of gem diamonds, which are distinct from industrial diamonds (the largest producer of these is Kinshasa in the Congo).

Israel buys 40 percent of its raw diamonds from a South African -controlled but London based central selling organization.

But the Consolidated Mines Co. Ltd.registered in the U.K. in 1897, whose interest covers the major mining activities of S. Africa is controlled by Rand American Corporation.

FOUR HUNDRED factories in Israel apply the finishing touches to more than 1.75 million carats annually or 80 per cent of the world's total production of small and medium -size diamonds.

The skillful press of Zionistimperialist forces has concealed Israel's history of persecution to veil its expansionist aspirations. The recent four hour telecast of the movie Ben-Hur was another instance of how these Zionistimperialistic forces saturate the "collective subconscious mind" of the public with Zionist propaganda as an investment towards a future act of tyranny against the Afro Asian peoples of the world.

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friend similar "entertainment" as "state's evidence", supporting their crimes against Africans and Arabs as justifiable homicide.

Despite the picture pandered by the Zionist -controlled press which shows Jews always as the victims of a depraved aggressors, Israel practices that same kind of hypocritical depravity with respect to its neighbors.

Professor Stevens, pointing to the silence which has descended upon international Jewish organizations regarding S. Africa, said that "the official policy is one of non-interference in a country which has a Jewish community that can speak for itself."

Dr. Stevens, who is presently co-authoring a book on the politics of North Africa and the Middle East with the American University of Beirut's Dr. Hisham Sharabi, feels that in the eyes of South Africa's Blacks, the Jewish community shares the same burden as the rest of the country's dominant group and would consequently share its fate. With the exception of the Dutch Reform Church, it is the only religious affiliation in that country that has not openly condemned apartheid.

This is the background against which Dr. Stevens made this statement: "Since 1961. in an effort to gain a foothold in Black Africa, Israel has officially condemned apartheid."

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continued: S u b s t i t u t e Harlems of their minds (the shop keeper who peddles bad meat) is mathematically linked to the poor each year.

The information and savvy is not linked up to other kinds of indictment and data needed and necessary if the addict is to understand the power and depths of his condition in relationship to the inherent root evils of the system which placed him where he is. For at base these discussions among addicts are attempts to make the individual a weak, slaveminded worshipper of the system which nearly fractured his mind and body.

The sado-masochistic streaks, which characterize the so-called rap-sessions of the seminars, that this reporter witnessed during the period MS spent at several drug abuse "way-stations," found individuals breaking

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each other down, susposedly to build each other up in loyality to the "family"; they employ a confessional-style crossexamination whereby privacy and final reign and power over one's destiny and dignity is demeaned.

By turning on each other and themselves, strangely enough the addicts' develop a kind of muted "One-ness" which they constantly affirm by calling themselves and their centers "The Family."

The symbolism at times gets rather weird, but let it suffice to say that in one way-statio"we studied, the term "primordial puddle" was deployed, at the reception center, on the top floor, where the new inductees spend a week to ten days or longer before they are allowed to join the "family," downstairs.

The explanation given to us by

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the director was: "Since all THE WILFUL SEIGE of the the aim of silencing the will of life came out of the sea the Black communities throughout a generation of young Blacks addict should also see or view the North by those of the Mafia for liberation. himself as a baby coming into and Costra Nostra, for direct the world again...that he or profit, should be linked up with The direct action by the Mafia, she is like a new-born baby." the willful connection and provided the US government No one can deny the personal collusion the US government with a perfect escapegoat. victory of an individual addict invited and cajoled during the The US government was and over an abjectly poisonous 1950's by allowing free-flow is as corrupt in this regard as enemy but that victory is never traffic of hard drugs back and the English who introduced really won until the addict is forth into and out of the and perpetuated dope into able to finally hurl off all Harlems of this Republic, with China to silence the Asiaticforms of body leeching, the purposeful intention of Black man and destroy him in cancerous drugs. This also genocide, or specifically with the nineteeth century. means the addict must indict the system which tried to destroy him.

The system destroys and sells the human body and human values by forcing "rehabilitating" addicts to attack themselves â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as if the world of their little center, is in fact the whole world. This system has not changed and perhaps is not about to change, for the better. And this of course is the world the exaddicts must meet on the "outside."

Just as the addict digs down into the dimensions of weaknesses and powers within his own soul, he must go from the specifices of his conditions, his memories and his saavy. to a general condemnation and indictment of the larger system, even as the carries all of the tragic personal disaster data within his body and his soul.

BACK OF UNIDENTIFIED DRUG ADDICT is seen taking methadone pills. Methadone, a substitute drug for heroin and other hard narcotics, still perpetuates dependence on part of addict. Man Yankee ingenuity facing camera is dispensor of prescription pills which addicts pick shows i n e u n n i n g up two or three times a week, depending on their addiction. (MS Photo by Chester Sheard) attacks o n births ANNAPOLIS, Md.-FivMaryland state representatives have come up with a new gimmick for reducing the birth rate of Black babies in that state.

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By David 15X Cirrhosis of the liver is a serious disease which has been on the increase in recent years. It currently ranks fifth

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The death rates among male Metropolitan policyholders were appreciably lower than those among males in the general population. Mortality rates among insured women were only slightly lower than those for women in the general population.

The lower death rates in the insured group reflect to some extent their more favored socioeconomic background.

These policyholders have been drawn chiefly from the urban middle class engaged in nonhazardous work and usually have somewhat higher living standards than the average for the general population. A substantial proportion of them were screened medically and found to be in apparent good health at the time their life insurance policies were issued.

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Although there have been however, is alcoholism. About a third. of the deaths from advances in treatment of the cirrhosis of the liver are complications of cirrhosis, medically certified as being there is some question as to the associated with alcoholism, effect of such treatment on rates, especially but the precise relationship survival where evidence of liver failure has not been established.

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By Winston Berry During his recent tour of French neo colonies President Pomidou stopped for fence - mending chores in Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Mauritania and Senegal where the ritual was much the same.

IN GABON it was was to safeguard the source of mineral raw materials manganese, iron ore, oil and uranium; in Senegal, peanuts, peanut oil and phosphates; in Mauritania, irone ore; in Cameroon and Ivory Coast, peanuts, coffee, cocoa, cotton and timber. And in some cases there could be added gold, tin and diamonds.

It was in Dakar, where the French President met his high school classmate, President Leopold Senghor of Senegal, that he became almost maudlin in his remarks at a state luncheon on February 6.

He spoke of the "Importance of what is called Francophonie," and went on to assert how "speaking the same language (and) practicing the same culture makes exchanges easier." This, he told President Senghor, "makes our understanding total."

But here again, Pomidou was aware of rumblings of discontent in the villages, among the Senegalese in the shantytowns of Dakar and other cities, of the unemployed intellectuals who must suffer a shabby existence while

Frenchmen occupy most of the well - paid jobs.

Speaking obliquely to this issue, President Pompidou said: "We have been and we will remain at your side to speed up the successful completion of your labor for the economic advancement and particularly to complete the adaptation of the professional and intellectual elite for the duties which they have to perform in presentday Senegal."

WOMEN OF IVORY COAST display a poster picturing President Houphouet-Boigney, one of Africa's worst leaders. Houphouet -Boigney continues to support the expansionist aspirations of South Africa by his refusal to actively combat South Africa; he is also friendly with Israel and be recognized Biafra' during recent Nigerian civil war. (Photo: Marc & Evelyne Bernheim)

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WASHINGTON- Guyana's Prime Minister Forbes Burnham told 1,000-odd Guyanese resident in New York, attending a reception at the Carleton Terrace, Manhattan, that while Guyana could not offer them the salaries which they get in North America, "Guyana can offer you human dignity which you cannot get in New York and the opportunity to

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THE RECEPTION was held on Saturday evening, January 9, during Mr. Burnham's stopover visit to New York, while en route to Singapore to attend the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference.

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Amidst prolonged cheers the Prime Minister spelt out the non-negotiable terms submitted to Alcan, the owners of the Demerara Bauxite Company, and explained the effect which his Government's moves would have on the economic future of the country.

He made the point that Guyana would most likely find alternative markets for its bauxite should Alcan decide to discontinue operations in the country at the conclusion of the present '"meaningful participation" discussions.

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"Alcan is not the only company interested in Guyana's bauxite." adding to loud applause, "We are not quarrelling with anyone. When you are mature you do not quarrel. You do or you die."

He said Guyana was following Zambia's example of owning her resources, that what Zambia had done with its copper Guyana was doing with her bauxite.

HE STATED that his Government's move to take control of the industry had been welcomed, with a few exceptions, by a majority of the national organisations in the country, including the Church, and by Guyanese in all walks of life.

Earlier, in an aeti ity-packed programme, Mr Burnham was ABC-TV programme "As it is", which will be featured on Channel 7 sometime in April.

Within an hour a ÂŤ returning to his hotel M Burnham an informal Diplomatic C hosted E Reception for a small group of U.N. Ambassadors and their wives. An interview by Mr. Thomas Johnson of The New York Times followed. During this interview Mr. Burnham summed up his intolerance of racial discrimination in these words: " I am a black man. I believe that a black man lias a right to be treated like a human being."

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Defense of Angela Davis growing in Latin America

By Henry L. Jackson HI (Special to Muhammad Speaks)

MEXICO CITY - Increasing numbers of angry and indignant Latin Americans are bombarding the United Nations, the White House and California Gov. Ronald Reagan with petitions and resolutions demanding the release of imprisoned Angela Davis because they are convinced the Nixon administration wants to kill her.

THE OVERRIDING impression is that Miss Davis cannot get a fair trial in the U.S. at this time. News of President Nixon's nationwide televised congratulations to J. Edgar Hoover, following the capture of the avowed Black woman communist by the FBI, served to strengthen this deepening conviction.

In Caracas, the Legion of Nationalist Women published a six page pamphlet to acquaint Venezuelans with the case which has captured world attention.

But, thus far, Mexico has mounted the most vigorous programmed activity in behalf of the former UCLA assistant philosophy professor.

In Brazil, where torture of political prisoners has reached unprecedented proportions, the citizenry is kept abreast of the Angela Davis story through

the clandestine delivery of the Communist Party newspaper.

Although leftists everywhere have rallied to the defense of the Birmingham, Ala. native, they by no means represent the most prominent forces in Latin America.

Cases in point: In January, visiting Roman Catholic Church Bishop Antulio Parrilla S.J., of Puerto Rico took time out from a conference on the state of his island's affairs to tell a Mexico City audience: "With respect to the Black freedom fighter Angela Davis, I sympathize with her. She is a Marxist, a professor, but for me it seems that this is no more than an aspect of the American revolution.

"Angela Davis is no more than a part of that American revolution. as are the Chicanos, as are the Black Panthers, as is the work of Cesar Chavez, as are the pacifists. They are people that are very disgusted with the American establishment that is rotten, that is deteriorating, that I predict is coming to a halt before the end of the decade.

"For what is happening in the U.S. — and I give thanks to God, I see His hand in it — is a marvelous thing, all those movements. I am not in agreement with all the methods they use, but I sympathize with the objectives

they have, that is a tremendous disgust for the American way of life that today is practically a totalitarian system, where there is electronic espionage."

Bishop Parrilla added: " I cannot condemn revolutionary violence without condemning institutional violence."

Prominent writer Rosario Castellanos. recently named Mexico's ambassador to Israel, addressed herself to the case on the editorial page of Excelsior, the nation's leading and most widely circulated daily paper. Under a three column headline: The Trial of Angela Davis — Act of Justice or Vengeance?, Miss Castellanos concluded with these words: "The case up to now is invalidated because of its difficiencies and its irregularities.

When the verdict, is rendered will there be anyone in the world who will believe that an act of justice has been performed and not an act of vengeance?"

INTEREST IS spreading into the magazine field, too.

Oposicion, a weekly, ran a story entitled: "Let Us Save the Life of Angela Davis!" and said: "The life of Angela Davis is in grave danger. It is necessary for our voice to join the struggle to save the life and the liberty of Angela, victims as millions of Blacks and millions of Chicanos, of North

COVER OF electrical workers' union newspaper, Solidaridad, issue of January 15, 1971, with Angela Davis as cover subject, both in positive and negative forms, show how world of Black people is increasing its unity for each other's defense and progress regardless of country where citizenship is held. by the parent body, The International Democratic Federation of Women. But on the birthday eve, they made the following declaration: "The National Union of Mexican Women manifests its The National Union of profound preoccupation and Mexican Women, in concert alarm over the grave violation with their sisters in 94 against university professor countries, has a strong role in and great American freedom the defense movement also. fighter Angela Davis who is Short notice among other being made a victim and who things prevented them from is being unjustly jailed and launching a demonstration in menaced with the application front of the U.S. Embassy on of the death sentence.

Angela's birthday as requested (Continued on page 29)

American racism."

And Solidaridad, the magazine of the Mexican Electrical Workers Union, ran an Angela Davis cover on their issue of January 15.

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These words appear to be a gentle nudge by Pompidou of President Senghor toward training Sengalese in the skills now being furnished by Frenchmen.

Behind the polite rhetorical exchanges between the African leaders and President Pompidou lie the ugly reality of African existence.

Pompidou would like to be reassurred that his black assistants who now govern some African countries will be able to contain and withstand this reality. What is it in Senegal, for example?

1. Senegal's people are only five per cent literate.

2. Poverty and joblessness is a way of life for the Senegalese while French expatriates hold good jobs and live even better than the colonialists did before independence.

3. There are rumbles of discontent and rebellion among the youth and unemployed that must be heeded by the government.

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On November 8, 1970, a New York Times article by William Borders described French life in Dakar: "Its handsome main square is surrounded by elegant restaurants, smart boutiques and grocery stores in which French housewives pay $4 a pound for beef tenderloin flown from Paris."

From the same article: "With its broad, tree-shaded boulevards and its mood of graceful chic. Dakar has long been called the Paris of Africa' and is regarded as the continent's most European city."

Pompidou*s ' F r e n c h But even more important than this contrast of French living to African poverty ($170 yearly per capita income, including the high - salaried French workers who get most of it) is what has happened to the cultivation of peanuts.

Senegal's principal cash crop.

In 1968. the peanut crop was 1.200.000 metric tons. This was cut in half by 1970. The reason was given by Borders as follows: "Dissatisfied by a declining return, the peasants have sharply cut back their peanut crop... The informal strike, coupled with less than

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MRS. MARTA TAMAYO (3rd from left) president of the National Union of Mexican Women and members of her executive committee prepare their statement in support of Angela Davis. The women are (from left to right) Mesdames Aurora Barcena, Consuelo Hernadez, Marta Tomayo, Laura Bolanos, Delores Sotelo, and Josefa Rodriguez. Mrs. Tomayo is the holder of the Lenin Prize, the Nobel - Prize - equivalent of the socialist countries. (MS photo: H.L. Jackson III)

MISS ANGELA DAVIS, at the time of her arrest.

Continued:

Defense of Miss Davis grows in Latin America "Using the same tactics that are used in other countries where democratic liberties do not exist, United States authorities accuse this great woman of a series of false crimes to keep her in prison and even go to the extreme of possibly trying to eliminate her physically.

"The real motive behind the jailing of Angela Davis is her implacable struggle in favor of her Black brothers, traditionally discriminated against on all levels, also her struggle against the wars loosed by the imperialist monopolies to increment their gains, her struggles for the respect of democratic freedoms so dear to the people of the United States and so cynically trampled by the representatives of the oligarchy in that country, especially when they are

dealing with non - white citizens."

NEXT DAY, on Angela's birthday, the still expanding Mexican Committee for the Defense of Angela Davis was officially formed. Their first communique was wired to a meeting held at New York's Manhattan Center February 2.

It said: "On the 27th birthday of the courageous Angela Davis we constitute the Mexican Committee that will join its voice to world solidarity against the arbitrary procedures that menace the life of this brilliant intellectual who with strength and conscience has taken up the cause of her Black people."

Committee members included such notables as Dr. Mauricio Magdalleno. former Mexican undersecretary of Culture: Dr. Guillermo Montano. the nation's leading

through a campaign to educate Mexicans to the true facts by a series of newspaper and magazine articles and meetings with different sectors of the population, and to circulate petitions demanding both a fair trial for and the freedom of Angela Davis.

cancer specialist: Roberto Garibay. director of the National University Art School; Luis Cardoza y Aragon, famous art critic: Dr. Albert Ruz, the famous anthropologist who discovered the tomb of Palenque (Mayan civilization 514 A.D.); Dr. Alonso Aguilar, a director of Nuestro Tiempo Publishing House and a leading economist; Manuel Felguerez, outstanding modern sculptor; Architect Rafael Lopez: writer Elena Poniatowsky; Elizabeth Catlett Mora, Black American - born sculptor and teacher; and Martha Tamayo, president of the National Union of Mexican Women.

Shortly before Christmas, 58 political prisoners in Mexico's Lecumbarri Prison signed a statement supporting Angela Davis and the Basque prisoners placed on trial by the Spanish government last year.

Some of the Mexican prisoners had been in jail since the teacher's strike of 1958 and the railroad workers' strike of 1960.

THEIR STATEMENT, in part, said: "The Mexican political prisoners at the jail of Lecumbarri in Mexico City

According to a committee spokesman, their mission is to counteract US press association and newspaper attacks upon Angela Davis

express their complete solidarity with comrade Angela Davis now imprisoned in the United States for her militancy in the black movement, and who has been extradited to California where she faces the possibility of the death sentence.

"We demand Angela Davis' freedom as well as the freedom of the rest of revolutionary militants now prisoners in U.S. jails.

— We call for protest meetings, assemblies and any acts of solidarity with these comrades who are political prisoners, and against the Franco dictatorship and U.S. imperialism.''

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Committee a t t a c k s l a c k of opportunity for B l a c k s i n a l l phases of T V industry MUHAMMAD SPEAKS New York Bureau NEW YORK - In front of the TV camera Flip Wilson. Pearl Bailey and Bill Cosby have their own weekly programs.

Other Blacks are frequent guests on major network programs and some news shows have a visible Black announcer.

BUT FOR every person in front of a TV camera, there are about 90 positions behind the camera. These include jobs j n the technical, programming, %ales and administrative areas, and are practically all white. Discrimination, false educational barriers, technological changes and union practices have excluded Blacks.

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Two goals are outlined by the Full Opportunity Committee.

They are (1) to find jobs in the industry for those minorities who presently qualify by virtue of training and experience, and (2) to devise a unique School of Televisiofi Arts and Sciences to train minority group people in every aspect of television from acting to sales.

WITH THE FIRST goal some token results have been realized. Resumes have been forwarded to prospective employers and a few Black applicants have been hired. As for the second goal, it is still in the think tank and planning board stage.

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New York City's municipal government - owned and operated television and radio stations (Channel 31 and WNYC AM-FM) have agreed to make their facilities available for training purposes. Also, they have promised to provide future air time to showcase the programs developed by the students.

The Subcommittee on Training Programs, chaired by Edgar E. Lowry of N.Y.C.'s Manpower and Career Development Agency, has prepared a detailed model of the training school.

ONE OF THE first tasks of the Full Opportunity Committee was to raise $6,000 "seed money" to enable Blacks and Puerto Ricans in the Coalition Filmmakers to undertake three training (Continued on page 31)

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HOMESTEAD, Fla. (LNS) Robert M, Shelton, flanked byconfederate flags and standing before 100 red lightbulbs on a tall cross, was dripping sweat five minutes into his tomato field speech from a makeshift platform.

IT DIDN'T take long for his baritone drawl to capture the attention of 300 dungaree and khaki-clad south Floridians who stood bathed in the red glow from the cross on a muggy Friday night.

The imperial wizard Ku Klux Klan was using a time - tested speech, and it didn't take long to get the listeners in the palm of his hands "Negroes are the tools of an international Communist conspiracy," Shelton said.

"The welfare system has a bunch of loaders getting more money than working people like you and it pays mothers to breed illegitimate children."

His argument is similar to that of Gov. Ronald Reagan and other administration officials.

Shelton unbuttoned his grey suit coat and began talking of the "Jewish anti-Christ when James Hatmaker, a 24 year old Cherokee Indian stepped forward. " I want to say something," the young Indian shouted — shattering the uptight mood Shelton had so skillfully molded.

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The words had barely cleared the young Indian's lips when a dozen men grabbed him and moved him into the darkness beyond the reach of the red lightbulbs glowing from the 20 foot cross. " I DON'T WANT violence," Hatmaker protested. " A l l I want to do is talk to Shelton.

This is a free country. My people were here long before you. I have a right to express my opinion just as much as your imperial wizard."

A ham - like fist shot out and caught Hatmaker squarely on the jaw, sending him sprawling over the hood of a dusty pickup truck. Several more fists slammed into his kidneys. " I don't want violence," the young Indian wheezed as he was spread - eagled on the hood of the truck.

"Let me at him. .that Indian's mine," a gruff voice said just as Florida Grand Dragon John Paul Rogers interceded.

"We don't want any of this sort of thing," Rogers said. "'You all go back and listen to Mr. Shelton."

They left, and so did Hatmaker at the urging of two Dade Clounty sheriff's deputies. The officers told Hatmaker to return to his home in Goulds, that there was little thev could do.

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PUBLISHED AS a brochure, "Toward A National Health Program", the position paper reveals that despite the nation's annual medical bill of

almost $63 billion—second only to the $85.2 billion spent for defense—the medical care system is ailing and "requires immediate and radical surgery."

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Continued: A t t a c k l a c k of projects. One of these, a documentary filmed in Great Barrington, Massachusetts during the dedication of a memorial park to the late Dr. W.E.B. DuBois was shown over National Educational Television Network (NET).

Upon agreeing to head the Full Opportunity Committee,

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Ossie Davis declared, "This Committee hopes to meet head on the problems of discrimination and rejection in the industry based on race.

Many barriers to Blacks and Puerto Ricans are being depressed but not fast enough.

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to accomplish anything. The reason we are with this Committee is because we think, in a sense, that this is "There are many committees the last committee. We are a which deal with how to get group of professionals who Blacks and Puerto Ricans into know what we are doing. We television, radio and motion are in a position to help by pictures," Davis continued. ^teaching. People in depressed "None of them have been able areas are moving more and more to take over the control of their own lives, to fight their own battles of equality. This

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A hard task looms before this committee at most times but especially now since TV networks and local stations are cutting personnel, on and off camera, and especially hard hit have been so - called Black oriented programs.

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SUN. 2 P.M.

MOSOUE NO. 4 5 Area Code 713

MOSQUE NO. 33 883-7025

334-3201 SUN 2 P.M.

MOSQUE NO. 4 9 4 8 5 N. Indiana WED A FRI. 8 P.M —

Kankakee.

SUN. 2 P.M.

644 1432 SUN. 2 P.M.

WED. A FRI. 8 P M

- SUN. 2 P.M.

N.J

392-9117

Area Code 5 0 4

SUN. 2 P.M.

WED. A FRI. 8 P.M

239-6738

SUN. 2 P.M.

.1675 Oak St.

MOSQUE NO. 3 4

435-6845

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MOSQUE NO. 32

2 2 4 6 Broadway

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Long Beach. Calif

WED. 8 P M . —

SUN. 2 P.M.

WED. A FRI. 8 P.M. —

Jersey City. N.J.

89 Kearney Ave

& FRI. 8 P.M —

924-5683 SUN 2 P M.

288-1090

MOSQUE NO. 2 1

MOSQUE NO. B

WED

2 2 3 4 - 3 6 Atlantic Ave.

South Bend.Ind.

MOSQUE NO. 2 0

WED. & FRI. 8 P.M. —

San Diego. Calif.

SUN. 2 P.M.

Area Code 2 1 9

WED. A FRI 8 P.M. —

SUN. 2 P.M.

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MOSOUE NO. 4 2

WED

Area Code 5 1 3

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SUN. 2 P.M.

MOSQUE NO. 4 1 Bridgeport Conn 1 4 2 5 Seaview Ave. WED A FRI 8 P M SUN. 2 P.M.

4 3 1 S. Dundee

681 - 8 0 8 8

2 5 7 5 Imperial Ave.

SUN. 2 P.M.

Kansas City. Mo.

Dayton. Ohio

WED. A FRI. 8 P M

New Haven, Conn.

757-8741

FRI. 8 P.M. —

1102 Broadway 1 0 0 0 Morris Ave

MOSQUE NO. 4 0

MOSQUE NO. 19

MOSQUE NO. 7 - D (Bronx) N.Y.

419 Madison Ave.

111 Goffe St.

'. „ Fresno. Calif.

266-3598 WED. A FRI. 8 P.M. — SUN. 2 P.M.

WED A FRI. 8 P.M. —

3 2 0 6 E. 2 7 t h St.

SUN. 2 P.M.

1517 W. 5th St.

WED. & FRI. 8 P.M.

WED. 8 P.M. —

S i Louis. Mo.

SUN. 2 P.M.

MOSQUE NO. 3 1

Cleveland 6. Ohio

SUN. 2 P.M.

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Miami. Fla

Area Code 8 1 6 WED. A FRI 8 P.M. —

SUN. 2 P.M

12416 Superior Ave HA 9 - 8 9 1 5

WED. & FRI. 8 P.M, —

1 3 2 9 " B " St.

MOSQUE NO. 3 0

MOSQUE NO. 1 1

WED

Angelas 3 7 . Calif.

WED. A FRI. 8 P.M. — Joliet.

FRI 8 P.M. —

MOSQUE NO. 7 - B U o n g Island)

SUN. 2 P.M. —

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5 2 4 5 N.W. 7th A v t .

Area Code 3 0 5 WED. A FRI. 8 P.M. —

SUN. 2 P.M.

726-2365

666-3977

2 P.M. —

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MOSQUE NO. 29

1225 Bankhead Hwy

SUN. 2 P.M.

1 0 5 - 0 3 Northern Blvd.

SUN

2 7

JE 3 - 2 4 9 7

2 1 0 - 1 2 S Chicago St

N.Y.

102 W. 116th St. WED. A FRI. 8 P.M. —

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MOSOUE NO. 25

MOSQUE NO. 17 MOSQUE NO. 7 (Harlem)

254-9124

WED. A FRI. 8 P.M. —

SUN. 2 P.M.

1 4 3 4 N. Grand Blvd.

MOSQUE NO. 15

514 Wilson St. & FRI. 8 P M

M o s o u t

WED. A FRI. 8 P.M. —

MOSQUE NO. 14

101 E. University Ave.

Columbia. SC.

MOSQUE NO. 38 5 6 0 6 S. Broadway

2 P.M.

4 9 5 Union St. WED

SUN. 2 P.M

MOSQUE NO. 5

WED

1125V5 Washington

MOSQUE NO. 13

MOSQUE NO. 4

WED. & FRI. 8 P.M. —

SUN

P.M.

Area Coda 8 0 3

Philadelphia, Pa.

WED

WED & FRI. 8 P.M

San Francisco, Calif.

Fl 6 - 9 9 6 6

KI-5-8994

£UN.

MOSQUE NO. 35

MOSOUE NO. 2 1

WED. A FRI. 8 P.M. —

1517 South St.

SUN. 2 P.M.

1 5 1 9 Fourth St., N.W

376-3197 WED. A FRI. 8 P.M

SUN. 2 P.M.

1 7 4 5 Fillmore St.

SUN 2 P.M.

MOSQUE NO. 1 2 - B

MOSQUE NO. 3

Akron, Ohio

3 5 9 W. Bartges

622-9021

Philadelphia. Pa.

WED & FRI 8 P M —

Newark. N. J.

WED. A FRI. 8 P.M. —

3 7 5 4 Germantown Ave

5 3 3 5 S. Greenwood Ave

2 5 7 S. Orange Ave.

2 P.M

MOSQUE NO. 12 MOSQUE NO. 2

MOSQUE NO. 37

MOSOUE NO. 2 5

35 Intervale St.

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The Messenger

of Allah

Presents

The Muslim

Program

What the Muslims Want 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 minerally 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

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.

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

equality, after giving them 400 years of our sweat and blood

7. As long as we are not allowed to establish a state or

and receiving in return some of the worst treatment human

territory of our own, we demand not only equal justice under

beings have ever experienced, we believe our contributions to

the laws of the United States, but equal employment

this land and the suffering forced upon us bv white America,

opportunities—NOW!

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.

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

2. WE BELIEVE in the Holy Qur-an and in the Scriptures of all the Prophets of God. 3. WE BELIEVE in the truth of the Bible, but we believe that it has been tampered with and must be reinterpreted so that mankind 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

separation of the so -called Negroes and the so -called white Americans. We believe the black man should be freed in

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

for the separation from the whites of this nation.

If the white people are truthful about their professed

name as well as in fact. By this wo mean that he should be

friendship toward the so -called Negro, they can prove it by

freed from the names imposed upon him by hts former slave

dividing up America with their slaves.

masters. Names which identified him as being the slave

We do not believe that America will ever be able to

master's slave. We believe that if we are free indeed, we

furnish enough jobs for her own millions of unemployed, in

should go in our own people's names—the black peoples of

addition to jobs for the 20,000,000 black people as well.

the earth.

10. WE BELIEVE that we who declared ourselves to be

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 in equality:—as a nation—of equals. We do not believe that we are 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.

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 fiom 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

that the offer of integration is

Person of Master W. Fard Muhammad. July, 1930; the

fitting this description in these last days more than the so -

hypocritical and is made by those who are trying to

long -awaited "Messiah" of the Christians and the

called Negroes in America. We believe in the resurrection of

deceive the black peoples into believing that their 400 -

"Mahdi" of the Muslims.

the righteous.

year -old open enemies of freedom, justice and equality

rejected and the despised. We can find no other persons

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

9. WE BELIEVE

We believe further and lastly that Allah is God and

all of a sudden, their "friends". Furthermore, we

besides HIM there is no God and He will bring about a

believe that such deception is intended to prevent black

universal government of peace wherein we all can live in

people from realizing that the time in history has arrived

peace together.

are,