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' . Duke University library -t ; - , Newspaper', Department v-' , ' - , . Durham, .N. C. 27706 f. 11-30 " Tfio Dlcdi Prcps 6ur Freedom Depend On It! Words of Uhdcm . We love fo expect, ond when expectation b Ithtr disappointed or gratified, we wont to be again expecting. 5omu Johtiten VOLUME 55 - NUMBER 12 'READ BY OVER 30.000 DURHAMITES" DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA-SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1977 TELEPHONE (919) 683-6587 PRICE: 29 CENTS rv n r m nrn Western Press Reverses Ifself On Pros. Ida Amrn By Laura Parks Recent events in Uganda are confusing. The following quote from the British pa per, The Sunday Telegraph, conveys the depth of feeling in the West about Idi Amin and about ever discovering the true story of Archbishop Lumum ba's death.' ' ' '' "PoUtically, Idi Amin is a dog who has earned the worst of all possible names. He has only himself vto blame, there fore,; if the outside world assumes almost automati cally, that last week's death of the Anglican Ugandan Arch-, bishop, and two Cabinet Minis ters was no car accident but plain murder. The final proof, however, is still lacking and may never come." If at the moment the facts are hidden it is worth while to recall some recent history and hazard a guess as to what might be going on in Uganda, free from hysterical outbursts coming from the press and government. The first thing to note is the fact that Africa, Vh times the size of the U. S. and with 400 million people, is possibly the richest piece of real estate in the world. The colonial powers know that indepen dent Africa is daily becoming stronger and together with the , Third. World nations in making corruption within the Nkru increasinn demands on the 'inimahi gcrnrnent. t v Within dustrial world's technology;. Ghana itself these stories' by powerful oil interests who They feaf the Third World's gamed cUrrening'largeJjetWm demand for a New Economic 'segments of the populationrby interest over the Irich Nigerian Order because they realize it way of the British influenced Continued On Page 2 " UllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltlllllllllllllllH RALEIGH (CCNS) Legislation to . require testing of all public school students in 1st, third, sixth, and ninth grades has been opposed by the North Carolina Black Democratic Leadership Caucus. They also opposed legislation to make mandatory successful comple tion of competency test by all high school seniors before the issuance of a high school diploma. Both pieces of legislation have been backed by Governor James Hunt. Both pieces of legislation are opposed by the Caucus be cause clarification ' of the type of testing to be done, the use of the results, and com position of minorities in the TO HEAD DIOCESE Bishop Joseph L. Howze, 53, was named the first black to head a diocese In the Ro man Catholic Church, March 8 when Pope Paul VI named him to head a newly establslhed diocese in Louisiana and Mississippi. The Alabama bom Howze will head the diocese of Biloxl, Miss. (UPI). will signal the end to cheap raw materials. The. second thing to note, is the fact that old style colonialism in Africa died with in a decade following the. Second World War. It was re placed by Neocolonialism which substituted the White Man; direct rule for the White Man's indirect, hidden in fluence using vast sums of money and the multinational corporations to gain his purpose. " The third thing to note is that Africa is rich and diverse in its peoples, cultures, reli gions, and that the founding fathers of the African states invariably had to perform with superhuman energy and skill to achieve national unity with these political and social build-. tag blocks. It is not surprising, there fore, that the industrial powers developed a post Second World War strategy towards 'Africa, designed to protect the ability of the multinational Corpora tions to penetrate deeply into the African economy by ex ploiting the cultural tribal and religious conflicts of the conti nent. ' Thus, when Nkrumah of Ghana was deposed the world's press carried stories of ruinous financial wrongdoings and deep wttnin public hearing of the House Committee on Education a summary of six recommenda tions to the house and senate from a Special task, force that studied the legislation, structure to administer the tests. On March 5 the Caucus decided to develop a position paper that would be presented to the Genral Assembly by Caucus ' chairperson, Clarence lightner. Until the Caucus develop ed its position on the testing it had primarily been Involved in attempts to get blacks appoint ed to Boards and Commissions as well as to jobs in the Hunt Administration. Nearly all of the groups' members supported Hunt in the fall election? - X imiiHi..,,,J"'"' k., - I ii :t . 1 c - ID! AMIN press. Today, we know the Lords of the London Cocoa Board did not like the fact that the Ghana growers were demanding higher prices for their cocoa crop. They decided that Nkru mah had to go. City of London bankers feared the drain on British monetary reserves, even then a cause for worry, ironi cally the fall of Nkrumah neither saves the British pound nor improved conditions in Ghana. Today, in fact, that name of Nkrumah is proudly hailed in Ghana, his status restored, because he was one of the original conceivers of the New Economic Order. Thus, the Nigerian civil war began. Stories began cir culating about government in stigated atrocities and massa cres. Today, it is generally agreed that the Biafran seces- ; sionist. movement was inspired Former Raleigh Mayor Lightner released prior to a The first recommendation is that all tests be used to measure student achievement of measurable objectives or "criterion referenced" testing "as opposed to normative based testing" which is weight ed to favor the white "middle class". Governor Hunt was ques tioned at a press conference where he announced support for the legislation if safeguards would be incorporated in the proposed laws to pro hibit cultural and racial dis crimination. His response was; he didn't know. ; Another recommendation is that testing should be used for "diagnostic purposes re sulting in prescriptive instruc tional programs." The legisla tion as written does not spell out the use of the test. The proposal . would have testing administered at the state' level with the results sent back to the local boards of educa tion that would determine how the results would be used. The proposed law would allow the Governor to appoint a member board to select test and set policies for their ad ministration by the N. C. Department of Public Instruc tion. Under that proposal of : the board's members would be ; teachers in the public schools, administrators and lay people. C The Caucus' recommenda tion would place an assurance ; in the legislation that "at least 1 25 racial minority representa 'tion living in the administra tive" school unit. The recom mendation does not specifi cally say who should appoint the board at the local level, v Also recommended is a quota of 25 "minority repre sentation" for the state Con petency Test Commission. The recommendations were developed by a special Black Caucus Task Force Chaired by Dr. E. Lavonia Allison- V; of Durham; ? Dr. Richard Mizelle, Vice-chairperson; Dr. Henry Frierson; 0. A. Dupree; Edward Silvey; Charles Alston; Bernard Allen; Artis Davis and Eva Clayton. '. p"'MmnitiiiiiiiiifHiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii(Mnit;ifiiii)iM(fH hMilUIIIIIIIIIHUUIIUIUllllltullllllliltMUlMIIIIIIIIIMUUil LAS VEGAS, NEVADA The efforts of minorities to achieve economic parity in the ? foreseeable future art seriously jeopardized by steady deterio ration of the nation's centers of commerce, according to the head of the nation's oldest national business organization, r Dr. Berkeley G. Burrell, tenth president of the National Business League, warned that unless minorities can produce a healthy economic steady deterioration of our climate in their communities, urban communities and noted efforts to achieve economic , the impact of persistent econo parity may well be doomed;mic stagnation on the black Said Burrell: "Among the community, saying, "Our many obstacles confronting us, current problems of inflation the one, I think, which most .t and sluggish recover from the threatens to undermine and : worst recession since the Great destroy our parity struggle is the absence of national economic policy vitalization of for the re America's ii:::::;;;;;:!:;!:!!!! tospfel GGUDGS I HENDERSON(CCNS) -Pregnant, twenty five year old Georgia Brown, expecting - t twins, had the time of her life ' trying to get admitted to Maria Parham Hospital in Henderson. Medicaid was going ' to pay the bill, but a hospital policy requires a $100 deposit :J from medicaid patients haying -. babies. Hospital, officials ;say the deposit is required to in sure that services rendered for:' i the unborn child," hot Covered ty medicaid until actual de- . livery will be paid to the,", hospital. . Questioned if she had experienced racial discrimina tion in the long " wait 'and denial by hospital authorities, Ms. Brown said, "everybody ain't equal because some white . folks go in there (Maria Parham HospitaQand have no trouble without money and stamps," (medicaid stickers).. Hospital business manager, Basil Asbury, denies discri mination irf the application of the $100 deposit for pregnant mothers. Asbury says, "whites are treated the same as blacks". He said $100 is required for a deposit on the unborn baby's hospital bill because during the ?eriod from July 1976 to anuary 1977, twenty five medicaid recipients did not go to the social services depart- The National Black Poli tical Assembly and the Commi sion for Racial Justice United Church of Christ has announced their plans to co sponsor the first national conference to be held focus ing solely on the struggles in Southern Africa. Scheduled to take place in Washington, D. C. March 18 - 20th, conference organizers hope to attract a large broad-based group , of Arabs Help Afrto liberation CARIO (HSINHUA) -Seven Arab countries have de cided to provide 1 1 million U. S. dollars of financial aid for the African Liberation move ments. The decision was made during the first Afro-Arab Summit Conference, and announced by head of the Arab Group at the Conference and Tunisian Foreign Minister Habib Chatty at a press conference in Cario. The sum was shared as follows: Egypt, one million dollars; Saudi Arabia, two million; Qatar, two million; Kuwait, ' one million; , the United Arab Emirates, two million; Libya, two million and Jordan, one million. T . - The aid will go to the African Liberation movements through the 0. A, U. Libera- HUH IIMHll centers turning centers storing of commerce, thus, our commercial around and re them to patterns of productivity growth and must become a national priority." , Addressing the Mid-Wim-' ter Conference of the National ? Association of Minority Con tractors, sponsored by the Minority Contractors Resource Center, Burrell decried the Depression, place tremendous pressures on unstable income areas. As a result, the black market is seriously depleted." - ; MS. GEORGIA ment and return a sticker for the . child after delivery so the hospital could be reimbursed. Asbury puts the blame on the Department of Social Services and the medicaid recipients. He says DSS should send the ifirii) black people from around the country to take part in this in depth educationalstrategy -session. Ron Daniels, Chairperson of the National Black Political Assembly says that there are several objectives for the week end gathering. "The theme is 'Mobilizing Support fot eh' Struggle in Southern Africa". One of our primary goals is to generate an increased aware- tion Committee, OIL-PRODUCING COUN TRIES TO PROVIDE ECO NOMIC AID On March 8 the four oil producing countries Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, The United Arab Emirates and Qatar announced at the Afro-Arab Summit Conference their financial aid totalling over. 1,500 million U. S. dollars to African and Arab countries to promote their economic development, according to Mena. These announcements were warmly received by the delegates to the Summit Conference. i. Saudi Arabia will earmark 1,000 million dollars, Kuwait 247 million, The U.S. E. 157 million and Qatar, 97 million. - -rJ It t www Jovefiicfifs III Burrell noted that Booker T. Washington founded this organization when he con cluded that there was a need for a structure that could bring black business persons together for consultation and to secure information and in spiration from one another. Washington had an abiding faith in America; but he had an even greater faith in Black America. According to Burrell, that faith is being severely tested today because the same issues and concerns that con fronted black Americans in 1900 still confronts them today. He continued: "Four hundred years after blacks help to create the first American enterprise - through the trade of their lives into, bondage we are still a poor race. For when we divide our total assets BROWN stickers for the unborn baby to the hospital rather than to the recipient as required by Federal law. Describing the twenty five parents who he claimed did not return stickers so the ness and understanding of the background, historical develop ment and present Status of the liberation struggles in Zimba we, Namibia and Azania. Another goal is to provide a description and detailed anal ysis of the nature of U. S. in volvement in Southern Afri ca and the objectives of U. S. policy". Daniels continued by stating that a discussion as to the kinds of material and political support needed from blacks in this country which can be effective in assisting the liberation ' movements will also be key. Dr. Charles Cobb, Execu tive Director of the Commis sion Racial Justice - United Church of Christ, expressed his hope that such a conference will increase an understanding of the entire situation with in the religious community of this country, and "begin to generate some tangible material, (financial) support for the liberation movements In Southern Africa." ; Dr, Cobb also explained, his feelings that in spite of the increased publicity about Africa in the past several months, there , has not pre viously been a meeting in which blacks in this country have discussed their reponsi bility to the political struggles in Southern Africa and dis covered ways to help in a unified and coordinated fashion. He" says that this conference is "long overdue." jiliitiiHmtmiitiiiMiimiiinmH)HHMiMj(if(M(iiimi!riiHmiin ItiaillWIIIllllHIllUltlHHIIIItlllliaiiitililaiiHUitlUUMlllillUIIIIUIUtiMUUI among the millions ot our population, it does not re- present a very large per capita." Turning to the plight of minority contractors, he noted: "Of all Federal con- tracts awarded, 74 of them went to big business. Only 26 per cent were awarded to small business firms, despite the fact that the small business community represents 98 of all business firms in the country. Yet, of the 26 that went to small business firms, 25.3 were awarded to white small businesses. That means that only seven tenths of ohe per cent of the $60' biiiion worth of federal con- tracts went to you (minority contractors)" Burrell urged the minority contractors to join in the hospital could be reimbursed, Asbury said, "they are too sorry to sign that baby up and deserve just what they are getting." Georgia Brown, mother of seven children, had the last two of her children delivered at Maria Parham Hospital with no big hassle. She presented them with her medicaid stickers and was admitted. But on the morning of . . January 22, 1977, Georgia was . told by a receptionist 'and the busfoe?riraanagwtftat1deTiKu attitudes in circumstances could she be ad mitted without the $100. Her doctor had told her to meet him at the hospital so he could end her problem pregnancy by inducing labor. Six hours in the hospital's emergency room, in pain and unable to walk, Ms. Brown was turned down until black civic leaders got in touch with County Commissioner, Billy Hughes, who phoned the Assistant Director of Social Services, who in turn phoned the hospital business manager, who decided to make an exception to the rule in Georgia's case and admit her. But even then, Ms. Brown said she was taken "upstairs in the hospital in a wheelchair, not examined, and then sent back home". It was almost one week later that Ms. Brown was " The Southern Africa con- Terence has been scheduled for March 18-20 to coincide with the commeration of the Sharpeville . Massacre which took pake in South Africa, on March 2 1,1960. A number of speakers and panels are planned for the three day event. Include: Stokely Carmichael, Congress man Parren Mitchell, Lerone Bennett. Jr., and representa tives from each of the libera tion movement groups. These sessions will be conducted on the campus of Howard Uni versity. A special highlight of the March , conference is the In- f Jeivspcpor Copfens South hhitcn Uilfcds NAIROBI, (HSINHUA) - It emphasized 'that it is Kenyan paper; "Sunday inconceivable that the op Nation" in an editorial on pressed black masses of South March 6 strongly condemned Africa will abandon their oppo the racist regime in South . sition to the racist regime be Africa for killing and tor- cause of simple, though ruth touring political prisoners less, elimination of opponents, especially the blacks; It said. "So long as South The editorial said that it Africa continues to be a racial was reported that the South society where black majority African racist regime intended are denied rightful power, to eliminate black political opposition to the regime shaU prisoners by murdering them not cease. one by one. The Vorster " The editorial pointed out Regime hopes to instill in this that the South African autho- way fear and dread In the rities deserves to be con- hearts of its opponents, the demned for Us tactics of tU editorial pointed out. mination.- Iff ft fit" f HMW III IHMWlftWWW ft parity tight to demand, their fair share of huge govem- ment expenditures. However, emphasizing the relationship between the plight of comrner- cial centers and minority efforts to achieve economic parity by the turn of the century, he concluded: "1 seeking to turn our communis ties around, we recognize that the fundamental task is still economic development. Revi- talization of our commercial. centers is a necessary ingre dient in the parity; struggle. The strength of our unity appeals, upon which- success depends, is dependent in turn on our willingness to meet our basic commitment eliminating the barriers to minority eco- nomic development The National Business League was founded in 1900 by Booker T. Washington. It currently boasts an at-large membership of more than 5,000 plus 120 chartered local chapters in 37 states and the District of Columbia, and more than 50 national minority business, trade and professional associations that are affiliated through the League's National Council for Policy Review. The 77 year old organization is headquartered in the nation's capital, Washington, D.C. readmitted, labor induced and her infant son, Omega, was bom. There were a number of experiences during- her preg nancy . that show strong anti Henderson and Vance Counties : against Medicaid and medicare ' recipients by doctors and hospital personnel and adminis trators. When her family doctor diagnosed her pregnancy, he re ferred her to the only obsteri dan in the county that handles medicaid patients. Other doc tors in the county will take medicaid and medicare patients only if they have the money, who qualifies for the assistance is not able in usual circum stances to pay the spiraling cost of medical services. nwvu iiivji uuu i. nurvuv Having proDiems m most of her pregnancies, Ms. Brown decided to "Have her tubes (fallopian) tied, because some times people die from having babies," she said. Ms. Brown suffers from Rheumatic fever. ternational Reception planned for Saturday, March 19. It will be at this function that con-. 1C1C1IWG gUCIS KUi UICVl UlU greet representatives of the African Liberation Movements, the Organization of African Unity, African Ambassadors, l). N . Remesent stives and Re. presentatives of the Caribbean countries. A full evening of colorful and exciting events are planned. This aspect of the conference will be held at the Harambee Hotel currently under construction. This will be one of the first events held in this black owned hotel whose name appropriately means "pulling ii together .