THE CABOLOIIAN
RALEIGH, N. C., SATURDAT, AUGUST 11. IHC
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Editorial Viewpoint
WORDS OF WORSHIP
“He saw Matthew sitting at the receipt* of
custom and said, ‘Follow me.’ " Matthew ran a
but prosperous tax collection agency, and
a lesser man that Jesus would have had to con
vince Matthew to close up shop and Join a Chris
tian movement. If there had been any doubt
It is heartening to feel the tingle of courage
reverberated in John W. Winter's (member of
the Raleigh City Council) thinking and itand
on the closing of the Raleigh public swimming
pools here last week.
Joined by Councilman J W Coffey (whom
we salute, along with Mr. Winters). Mr. Win
ters voted no to the closing of the poola against
Mayor F.nloe. Councilmen Tomlinson. Mc-
Laurin, Reed and Hoover, who voted to cloae
the pools because Negro and white youth
gamed entry to the swimming pool at Pullen
Park (In the past used only by white).
No matter what The immediate results may
he vour councilman has proved beyond a
shadow of a doubt what representation
through registration and voting means. It
rame at an opportune time, to also in a meaa
ure sav thank you hv performance to the
great effort put forth by the student workers
:n ’hr registration drive
We salute Mr Winters for his forthright
iess m obeying the mandate of h‘s oath of of
i. , represent the best interest of *ll the nen
pV n f R drigh. His voice used for his
< > n( . rs the great reasons for his being on the
C • Council He demonstra‘ed his awareness
Some 1,600 Register To Vote
--. Kt'.'S" voter registration campaign
_-, r i -e.-er.t'.v w.th over 1.600 new Negro
.. j-~- _r dur.ng a two-month period.
- Dorothy Dawson, of the
\• -,-,i : A«*>.-.s?:on with headquar
.. i « w. -‘ th.e resul's of the drive
v ,„ . ‘ *■ ‘•- S. —r 1' students who
:r ttif =-vr got 1 *>4l local resi
:i-v.t> tr --ciirrm
~nti v/m i nTiteti'lir wtek toe r-art of the
r’utt'rtTi vrtu tri>>"-i-r t'.- 1 Nef'c precincts
•mnlnmnu TepnTrnti >i nnt vnt.-.g p"vedures
~-nv r-nrsmr- vr * »t*-et
ave-rriru it tic v it-": - “i st-der’s
'» rtur* tnr s- :i«nT: ~«'“f •' p fr- the
T'.itp—r Ans 1*1:0 voi p_* the
W» -i- v- - that the Federal
g-\> —T-—• a-eys and means of re
ducing *-.e that poor and labor
ing pec p’.e could get some relief
Now it seems that the tax rut is off until
next vrar or mavbe later. This conclusion is
based upon some facts gathered by U S A#w*
and Wor/rf Reporf from the most influential
members of the House and Senate Here are
some of the facts
1. Sentiment against a tax cut if anything
is hardening rather than softening as the tax
debate develops in and out of Congress
2 The nrrd for a tax cut as an emergency
measure to stimulate business has not been
demonstrated to the sntisfacton of the House
Ways and Means committee and the Senate
Finance committee
.3 Members of the tax writing committees of
Congress are disturbed bv the eff-ct that re
duced taxes would have on the Federal govern
ment's budget, even if some of the President's
•dvisors are not disturbed
6 President Kennedy wall not propose a tax
cut unless he feels certain in advance that Con-
We Need Federal Tax Amendment
Oftmies the Federal government lacks hu
manity when dealing with individual citizen*.
The government gets its "pound of flesh" or
else
This is what happened recently to a 31-veer
old man in Indianapolis Indiana. He was hailed
into court for failure to make support payments
to his former wife and four children At the
trial the defendant testified that his entire
weekly wages hsd been taken by the Federal
government as payment for hack Income tuxee.
Garret was charged with being e total of
$295 behind In his payments set by the court
at S2O a week for support of his family. His
children range from 10 to 4 veers old.
He had carried the children as Income tax ex
emptions since their hirth and his estranged
wife also had clamed them for exemption for
the last two years
Garrett said he was notified by the district
Internal Revenue office that he owed the gov
ernment approximately SSOO because he was no
longer entitled to dependent deductions and
would have to repay that amoutn.
It aeema to us that the estranged wife should
have been made to repay the money, since she
knew tile husband had alwavt been claiming
them as dependents This it an instance of the
THE NEGRO PRESS—that America can toss hod the wOrio
away from racial and national antagonisms whan h accord* to avaty Otar
ragardlaea of raca, color or eraad. hi* human and lagal right* Hating no mac
taarmg no man—tha Nagro Praaa arrive* to halp every man an tha tfrm be
P*d that all man an h jrt aa long aa anyone i* held hack.
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A Well-Earned Salute
NC Tax-Cut In Sight
shown In Jesus' ton« of voice. Matthew would
have said, "Lord, give me time to think It over.”
Because of this experience on th« part of
. ihe world will never forget the man who
wrote one of the gospels. Matthew made hts
name immortal by accepting the call to aervlce.
of the trust Raleigh Negroes in particular
placed in him. However, we feel certain that
his consideration of all of Raleigh is as strong
ly felt as his declaration on his stand for con
tinued operation of Raleigh's swimming pool*.
But should the swimming pools remain clos
ed we are certain the great stride made here
through support of a Negro representative by
a white collegue on a major policymaking
body is worth any sacrifice we may suffer in
not being able to use a water sport for a short
period Men like Winters and Coffey, who are
unafraid to take a stand according to the dic
tates of their conscience need never worry a
bout their niche before the great public audi
ence who judge and applaud courage as shown
by their actions of representing all the people
and not a choaen group or special interests.
May Raleigh continue to grow and fashion its
future upon the pillars of right and justice to
all of it* citizens irre»pective of their position
in the community, race or religion thron eh the
vision and courage of the Coffeys and Winters.
Again we salute two Os our city fathers who
whether said or thought have earned the
goodwill and plaudits of a goodly number of
our 100.000 inhabitants
group in touch with local leaders who laid the
ground work.
We have no complaint against the students
who did an excellent job in a short period of
time. But community laaders must complete
the work which the students have started.
We are not satisfied with the Negro citizens
of Raleigh—thoae who failed to register after
being asked. If every citizen had assumed his
responsibility, we would have had 5,000 new
registrants.
Getting nonchalant citizens to register and
vote is a never-ending task, and we don’t know
how much longer it will take leaders to teach
Negroes that their community salvation rests
upon the power of their ballot.
gress will approve his profrosals. Such issuranee
does not seem possible at this timf in view 6f
the opposition of key members of the tdx-writ
ing committees of Congress.
7 The weight of opinion in Congress is that
no political advantage is to be gained bv votin|
a tax reduction before the elections in Novem
ber. On the contrary, many members of Con
gress feel that they might be damaged politi
cally by voting to lower taxes now. There is no
inclination at the White House to put members
on the spot by asking them to vote on ax cut
before the 1962 election
It seems, therefore, that the Congress mem
bers consider political disadvantages more im
portant at this time than stimulaton of busi
ness activity out of its so-eal’ed slump.
When we come to think of it. a govern
ment reduces its income it must at the same
time curtail its spending domestic and foreign
As yet we haven’t heard too much about redue
ing the national debt through well-planned
economy.
As for now. let's forget about an income tax
cut this year or ever
law which “favor* the woman no matter what
The judge heard the man's case and set him
free to attempt whatever arrangements he could
make to meet his support obligations. And the
judge added. "Everybody else (private creditors
and other agencies) is restricted to take only 10
per cent of the weekly earning above sls from
a debtor's wages, but I gueaa the Federal gov
ernment needs the money badly ao it can send it
to India. Siam and Yugoaolovia and places like
that"
We should urge our Congressmen to press for
legislation amending this kind of law. because
no matter what a man owes he should have
enough left out of his salary or wage to live. The
law as it stands can work a severe hardship on
poor, laboring people
Surely our government doesn't need to force
the laboring man in jail just to collect alleged
back taxes. Even if it can by law take every
cent a man earns, it could be sensible about the
matter and prorate payment* on the basis ®f
the man’s family-support commitments and
what he can afford to pay the government while
at the tame time having to purchase food and
pay Uving expenses.
The Federal government isn’t so poOr that
it must exact Shylock’s “pound of flesh."
JUST FOR FUN
Bf aaARCVI B. SOLLWAJta
■OLE IN DOUOHMUTS
In Indianapolis, Indiana, a
grocar is looking tor sAmeOne
who can build a batter trip to
catch a thief wha kedpa basting
a path to his door.
Tha grocer who owns a market
across the street from his home
explained It this way:
A deliveryman used to leave
five dozen doughnuts on the
sidewalk outside the store early
each morning until frequent
thefts prompted s change in the
delivery system.
At the grocer’s order, the
doughnut deliveryman began
leaving the doughnuts on the
from porch of the grocer’s home.
The thief soon changed his route
accord i'gl.v.
One night the grocer arranged
to have the next day’s doughnuts
left on his rear porch.
On the front porch be stacked
four empty doughnut boxes with
a fine wire attached. The
other end of the wi-e was hook
ed to a garbage can lid on the
edge of a stand on the porch to
set up i thief-catching eUtter.
On Saturday the frustrated
grocer found not only the
doughnuts missing from his rear
porch, but the trap lid, boxes
and all one from his porch on
the front porch.
“I'm open for suggestion*.’’ the
rrocer told a news reporter. <TSo
you have on*’ If so. mail it to
Mr Gale Klnmpeh. of 194 East
Patterson Avenue, Indianapolis,
Editorial Opinions
Hare art excerpt* frem
editorial* compiled by As
sociated Negro Prate ap
pearing In tome of the na
tlon’i leading dally newtpa
papers on subjects es current
Interest te our readers:
WELCOME TO JAMAICA
NEWS. Miami
"In these devs when •‘neutra
lity" seems to be the fashion for
smaller countries of the world,
it Is fine to note that the first
new nation to be born In the
Western Hemisphere in 00
years greets life at a staunch
friend of the West.
"We refer, of course, to Ja
maicn. which Monday set* eail
on it* own sfter more then JOO
year) of colonial rule. The pe
rils of 'ne.vly-won sovereignty
are gr-at. as the young nations
of Africa can attest, and Jamai
ca must (ace its share of both
economic and political pitfalls."
COURIER JOURNAL. Louisville
"THE ISLAND NATION of Ja
maica. which celebrates its in
dependence today, is a bright
spot ,n the Caribbean are* that
haa produced too few bright
spots In recent years. Its politi
cal stability, relative economic
proaperity and general social
progress ar* In happy centrist
to the poverty and unrest that
plague so many of our neighbors
to the south, and afford Nte Ja
maicans the soundest of reasons
for confidence a* they cut th’ir
ties with Britain and set out on
their ou n "
NEWS. Detroit
"We've got a new independent
nation in the hemisphere this
weekend, the first since Panama
emerged 39 year* ago. Three
hundred years of colonial rule
are ending for Jamaica, and it's
What Other Editors Say
LINES FROM AMERICAN
CATECHISM ON NON-.
VIOLENT ACTION
Out Os the hard struggle down
in Albany. Georgia, the lines of
the American Catechism «n
nonviolent resistenee has evolv
d It springs directly fiom Gan
dhi and his life-time of resist
ance in Tndi* The acknowledg
ed American exponent is Mar
tin Luther King, who spel'ed
out The following credo t« the
Washington Press Club a few
day* before his second incarce
ration in Albany. It must he
read sentence bv sentence with
time to reflect and digest each
piqcopt Here are some of die
lines-
Those who adhere to the me
thod of nonviolent direct action
rgcognite that legislation and
court orders tend only to declare
rights. . they can never tho
roughly deliver them.
Onlv when the people them
selves oegin to act are rights on
paper given life blood
Nonviolent resistance provides
a creative force through which
men can channel!** their discon
tent . It doe* not require that
they abandon their discontent.
This discontent is sound and
healthy Hate is always tragic
It distorts the personality
and soar* the soul The beau
ty o f nonxiolence is that you
can struggle without hating, you
can fight war without violence.
As a group we must work
passionately and unrelentingly
for first-class citizenship. but
w# must not use second-class
method to gain it
We have come to the day when
a piece of freedom is not #-
neugh for us as human beings
nor tor the nation of which we
are a part . . Freedom is one
thing—you have It all, or vou
are not tree
All this is not only a strange,
new approach tor the average
man or woman, boy and girl, but
a drastic change In thinking and
tactic* far th# old-time "race
leaders” who preached a vica
rious doctrine of Interdependent
retaliation . Even perfumed
hate is tragic
—ST LOUIS AMERICAN
wmr the nfc.ro press
With the agitauon for :acial
integration moving to flood tide,
the queer ion it often asked: Why
the Negro areas? The answer
should he obvious, w# see llv
Indiana. He will be vary grate
ful if he can catch tb* persistent
thief
FINAL EXAMS: Wednesday
morning st *0 o'clock, I took the
multiple-choice section of my
test tn “Articulation Speech Dis
orders.” We had M quest!ana.
On Thursday morning, the class
will take the easy section
'Thursday. August I, MW). It
will be a sample of parental
counseling with a parent of a
child who has an articulatory
speech problem.
On Thursday also. TH take my
examination in the apSech cor
rection seminar on cerebral pal
sy It will last for two hours.
I plan to be on my way to
ward Tallahassee by 3 p. m. Fri
day. August 10th.
ON PAYROLL: HI be gald to
get back to work, bseouse I have
not been or the University pay
roll this summer. Maybe you
think I did a silly thing, but
perhaps I didn’t Th# study will
make me more proficient in my
work.
Florida A&M University will
begin the trimester system the
first of next month, and I am
ready to get going.
Perhaps, you already know it
but a new gymnasium is be
ing built. Construction on the
building began in May of this
year
I vigitid Ohio Stats Universi
ty in Colutobus over the peat
weekend.
appropriate that Princess Mar
garet. who's quit* a girl in her
own right with a calypso, will
be on hand to with those million
and ■ half Jamaican* happy sail
ing
“So mqch news that IS disturb
ing comet out of the Caribbean
Cuba, Haiti and the Domini
can Republic that it's a re
lief to find Puerto Rieo at last
has a neighbor of similar demo
cratic bent."
FAURUB PLATS IT SMABT
CONSTITUTION, Atlanta
"As wiird as it sounds, con
sidering his international repu
tation as a racist, Orvat Faubus
has won reelectlon In Arkansas
as a “moderate."
"Faubus fieured it was time
to soft-pedal racism. He let
Congressman Dale Alford of Lit
tle Rock carry the ultra segre
gationist label in this election
“Faubus played It right. He
flawed the political wind* in
Arkansas were shifting. And the
diift toward moderation, the
eivdence indicates, also applies
to other Southern states."
MUSLIM PRISON RIOT
POST. Washington. D C.
"Donald Clemmer appears to
have handled Tu#*day'« outburst
of violence at the Lqrton Youth
Center with the combination of
humanity and effectiveness that
has characterized his long ad
ministration lb* District's cor
rectional Institutions. The con
cessions ho made to his rebelli
ous prisoners art for the moat
pert quite reasonable, although
we are not sure that it i* wise
to let *ll th* Black Muslima live
Ogether In a dormitory "
ing in a dual society in which
the perspective* are yet narrow.
The Negr* Is still the clinically
tick men Os the American demo
cracy fils wbrld lingers in the
dark shadows Os segregation and
discrimination.
Kit foe .this hampering limita
tion. there weuld be no rational
argument in Support of a mdcial
press. Negro problems and woes
ire compartmentalized by pres
sures from negative social for
c*a
On the whole, the white press
coverage of Negr© news Jr con
cerned with satisfying *ne cu
riosity of its whit# reader*. Th#
Negro resdershp is given Subor
dinate consideration. Especially
is this true of the Chicago V**
trof*<jt*n dailies which t«em>to
specialise In bobtail reporting of
Negro news.
A recent case in point was the
treatment given by the white
prcee her* of the crista in race
relations in Albany. Georgia,
and President Kennedv'. pointed
ference. Deapite the obvious im
allusion to it at his news (-im
portance of th# incident, th# Chi
cago papers devoted only two
skimpy paragraphs to it and re
legated it to th* bottom of an
inside page
In contrast, both of the major
New York newspapers N»«-
York Ttmef and New York He
rald Tribune—gave front page
coverage and in depth to the
tame item.
The Albany Movement as it
is celled, is of deepening cons#
queue# not alone to the Negro
people there, but to Negroe* ev
erywhere It symhollies th* mo
set: es that heroic struggle for
human equality and social Jus-
Um.
for a long time to com*. Ne
gro** who ar* sensitive te th*
unfinished business of democra
cy, will have te leoh te th* N*
gro proas for Rtorough presen
tation of th* news as it affects
their dally Uvea
The Negro pree* has not veer
ed flora th* historic role Into
which ft was cast during the
time of Frederick Douglas* when
Rie kettle for emancipation es
lh* dove* erne at Its height
There'll be a piece for this press
se long a* Amertdan democracy
renulnt in th* realm of theory,
and se long as the Negro 1* push
'd around as an unwanted see
-1*" —DAILY DEFENDER
Civil Rights Action Will Assure Them Ot
The True American Way
Morgan Says:
Beneath the Surface, Changes
Are Being Made In Mississippi
By Edward P. Morgan
1 This column Is excerpted from the nightly
broadcasts of Edward P. Morgan, ABC com
mentator sponsored by the AFL-CIO. Listen
to Morgan over the ABC network Monday
through Friday at 7 p. m., EDT.)
SLOWLY, IMPERCEPTIBLY but undeniably,
the state of Mississippi Is being forced to face the
facts of life. At first glance this might not seem
to be so. After all only recently one of the state's
rare contributions to civilised politics, Rep. Frank
Smith, was beaten by a Dlxiecrat. And Mississippi
remains outwardly and loudly committed to the
dark ages of racism and reaction, refusing emo
tionally to belong to a union of 00 states, let alone
admitting that the United States belongs to the
family of nations.
But beneath the surface, changes are taking
place. They do not come easily and before they
are accepted they may produce the pain and
shame of violence. After 17 months of litigation,
the eourta have ordered the University of Missis
sippi to admit its first Negro undergraduate in
the fall. There may be delays, there may be ugli
ness but desegregation will surely come to Mis
sissippi too just as it has to that proud aristocrat
the Confederacy, the Old Dominion of Virginia.
Another Mississippi moderate, ex-Oov. J. P.
Coleman, is going to run again for the governor
ship In 1903 and it is not likely he would make
this choice If the extremist foroes of massive re
sistance were In the ascendancy. One of the rea
sons they aren't is a woman, though she herself
could become a casualty of their death throes
For 30 years a native Southerner, Hasel
Brannon Sm'th (no relation te the congress
man whom she backed), has fought bigotry,
backwardness and corruption as a weekly
newspaper publisher in rural Mississippi, 69
miles frem the state eapiUl. Jackson. But to
day she Is fighting for her Use, professionally
speaking, and in a very real sense the validity
of Mississippi's social evolution, whleh she has
done so much to push, depends In part in her
survival.
Eight years ago. on the Fourth of July week
end In 1964. Holme* County Shsriff Richard F.
Byrd utterly without provocation shot a Negro.
In her weekly Lexington Advertiser Mrs. Smith
reputed the brutality, followed with an editorial
branding Byrd as unfit for office in a land where
th* laws of America—she wrote—"are for every
one—rich and poor, strong and weak, black and
white.” Byrd won a 010.000 Judgment for libel but
in November 1950 the State Supreate Court unani
mously reversed the Judgment and dlsmlaeed the
Focus On Africa
By EDDIE L. MADISON. JR-. for ANF
THE ATTEMPT on the life of Ghana's Presi
dent Kwame Nkrumah was followed by a police
round-up for some 25 person* for questioning in
an apparent effort to determine whether the ac
tion was politically inspired. President Nkrumah.
52 escaped Injury when a bomb or hand grenade
exploded near his car In the village of Kullngugu.
about 500 mile* north of Accra, the Ghanaian
capital The blast killed four persons. Including s
schoolboy and two policemen, and Injured 60 peo
ple tn the crowd that gathered to greet Dr. Nkru
mah. The assassination attempt came while the
President was returning to Accra from a visit to
neighboring Upper Volt*.
THE BOMB exploded as President Nkrumah
stepped out of his car to greet some school chil
dren and a large crowd. Hi* life was saved by the
quick action of one of his bodyguards, witnesses
to the incident reported. Just as Nkrumah step
ped from his car. Captain S A. Buckman. the
bodyguard who accompanied him. heard a thud
and quickly gathered the members of the Presi
dent's party into s circle around Dr. Nkrumah.
forming a human rampart. Then the blast oc
curred. Captain Buckman. a 34-year-old Ghana
ian. was struck In the back by Shrapnel and was
one of the 50 injured, many of them seriously
Regional Commissioner A. Asumda. who was tr
the official party, suffered minor Injuries. The
President was rushed to a hospital at nearby
Bawku but aui examination disc lowed be was not
hurt-
THIS WAS the first officially reported at
tempt ob the Use of the Ghanaian President, whe
has curbed most political opposition la the coun
try. The government reported crushing a plot tc
km Dr Nkrumah tn 1960 and since then be has
tightened his control ever the country Before
Ghana achieved independence. Nkrumah'* OolC
Coast home was damaged by a dynamite blast tr
1955. but be was not there at the time. Just before
Britton’• Queen Elisabeth came la Ghana 00 a
royal xtatt last October, a aerie* of bomb attempt!
were made tn Accra, damaging Nkrumah * statu*
outside parliament house. President Nkrumah
with the approval es many of his staunch ad
sheriff’s suit. He died later, a discredited man.
But the Citizens Council, formed in the wak«
of the Supreme Court’s school deaagregation de
cision. vowed vengeance and for six years the
Smiths have been the targets of a campaign cl
intimidation and boycott. First the editor's hus
band, Walter Dyer Smith, was fired as adminis
trator of the county hospital despite the unani
mous pleas of the staff. Then advertisers cancell
ed and her Job printing business dropped off. But
Mrs. Smith kept publishing.
THREE YEARS AGO, however, an opposition
paper, the Holmes County Herald, suddenly ap
peared In Lexington, owned, apparently exclu
sively. by Citizens Council members with State
Rep. Wilburn Hooker as the principal stockholder.
This year Hooker and others tried to ram a bill
through the legislature to deny one of Mrs
Smith’s weeklies local government printing con
tracts. but it was so patently punitive and Mis
sissippi editors rose so strongly to denounce it
that it died in committee.
Still the attrition goes on. The Smiths have
mortgaged their home and their 500-acres farm
to raise money to keep the Lexington paper going
but they need more. Last winter Mississippi’*
Pulitzer-Prize-winning newspaperman. Hod ding
Carter, wrote in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that
if Hazel Brannon Smith should lose her fight,
"another light will have gone out in a shadowed
state ’ 1 Another light did go out Just the othei
day with the death of William Faulkner.)
But Mrs. Smith simply refuses to be extin
guished. She is neither s radical nor an ideal
ist. She is not even a crusading integratlonlst.
She describes herself as a practical woman
with a stubborn belief that “every citisen is
equal under the law” and should be Judged on
individual merit, or lack of it, not on the color
of his skin. Her views on racial issues? “To
me,” she says. “Negroes sre people.” Which
speaks eloquent and courageous volumes in
Mississ'ppi.
Os Holmes County’s 27.000 populatloon 75
percent are Negroes She has the support of many
of them even though the racists are now trying to
get her readers, white and black, to cancel their
subscriptions.
Recently Hazey Brannon received In Ban
Antonio the latest in a long line of distinctions,
the Headliner Award of Theta 81gma Phi. wom
en's national journalistic fraternity. What an
empty award It would be If the benighted but
powerful forces of Holmes County were allowed
to triumph over her in the end.
—AFL-CIO NEWS
mlrers. has ruled Ghana with a firm hand since
leading the rich Gold Coast colony to indepen
dence from Bntain in 1957. These admirers point
out that firm leadership is essential in a new
country where tribal and other differences pre
rail.
MEANWHILE, in MALI. Ghana’s partner ir
the "Union of African Btate" and Casablanca
Charter Group, an . fficial communique announc
ed the rest of 252 persons in connection with an
alleged plot supported by an unidentified foreign
embassy to overthrow the government of Presi
dent Modibo Keita. The communique said more
arrests were expected and warned the govern
ment would crack down on those responsible for
the conspiracy to seize power in the West Afri
can republic. Keita said he received warning;
from Europe and particularly Britain of subver
sire movements and an attempted coup d'etat. H*
said these warnings, from “natural a’lias” of Mali
indicated there would be attempts at subrersior
and a coup d'etat in the country between July II
and August 15
PRESIDENT KEITA. speaking at a meetin:
called to probe the history of anti-govemmen*
demonstrations in Bamako, the capital, by a
group of merchants on July 20. He said the dem
onstrations were part, of a plot prepared a km*
time back, with foreign support. The object of the
conspiracy Keita said, was to overthrow the gov
ernment. liquidate its leaders and replaoe the
government with a new one. “more docile towards
directives received from outside Mall.” He reveal
ed that three people, now under arrest, were to
have played a part in the coup d'etat. The three
were identified as Pily Dabo Sissoko. Hamdoun
Dicko and K&saoum Toure. Sissoko Dieko
were former members of the French Parliament
for the Sudan and leaders of the former Sudan
Party, the “Parti Soudanais Programme” ‘PSP 1
which wa# allied to the French section of the So
cialist International SFIO' The SPTO was de
feated by the “Union Soudonoiae.” a branch of
the .African Democratic Rally 'IIDA'. and now
the only party in Mali Toure was described aa a
former member of the "Union Soudanam." who
was discontented because his personal ambitions
had been frustrated-