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International Students At St. Augustine's
A few of the many foreign students at St. Augustine's College, pause briefly for an international chat. (L-R) Mohammad
Reza-Borchei, Iran; Sunday Okanlauson, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands; Kim Soonmee, and Ki Chan Yoon, Korea, and seated:
Elizabeth Wairaira, Nairobi, Kenya, St. Augustine's enrollment consists of international students from 21 countries.
Outside the State
Department, two former
lobbyists for pro-South
African policies are in
volved in the transition.
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issue believe that both the
leaked portions of the
transition team report and
Smoak's presence on the
team may be read by
African governments,
SWAPO, or South Africa
as a sign that Reagan will
tilt toward South Africa
and perhaps withdraw
U.S. backing for the UN
independence plan. The
current administration is
clearly determined to
carry through its Namibia
policy until Inauguration
Day, and officials deny
transition team sugges
tions that UN Am
bassador Donald
McHenry, chief architect
of the policy plans to
resign early.
Jay Parker, one of a small
number of black Reagan
advisors, is preparing an
analysis of the Equal
Employment Opportunity
Commission for the in
coming administration. A
founder the of the Lincoln
Institute in Washington,
Parker was a paid
I representative of the Tran
sfer in 1977 and 1978,
after the territory was
declared independent by
South Africa but failed to
gain recognition from any
other government.
At the White House of
fice of the U.S. Trade
Representative, once
headed by Robert Strauss
and now by Governor
Reubin Askew, the transi
tion team includes Donald
deKieffer, who. until last
year was chief South
African lobbyist in
Washington. He got a
dramatic start in 1974.
when he helped arrange,:
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secretary J. William Mid
dendorf, is currently tran
sition team leader at the
CIA.) Over the next five
years, deKieffer and the
law firm Collier, Shan
non, Rill, Edwards and
Scott was paid over
$880,000 in fees and ex
pense money by the
Department of Informa
tion, until the contract
was terminated during a
clean-up after the
"Info-gate" ' scandal in
South Africa.
Thomas Shannon,
senior partner in the firm
and a prominent
Republican, is believed to
be the leading candidate to
become 'assistant to the
president for public
liaison in the White
House.'
Television
Camera Helps
Secretary See
Sue Lovett uses a
;Jtldcuit television to
help her type and read.
Although she is legally
blind, she is a secretary at
Control Data's Sunnyvale
facility in Sunnyvale,
California. She was born
with cataracts. But with
the aid of a special televi-'
sion camera, which
enlarges the words she
types and displays them
on a television screen, she
can see what she is typing.
The special equipment
was donated to her by the.
Sensory Aids Foundation
in California while she
was attending a business
school to brush up on her
secretarial skills. Not long
after, she learned of the
secretarial opening at
Control Data, applied,
and was hired in June
1977.
Lovett, who was a
singer and a piano player
before she became a
secretary, said she took
the job because she
wanted steady employment.
LITTLE KNOWN FACTS
Experts recommend that
if you intend to give your
baby a play pen, you start
putting her in it each day
from about three months
of age. If you wait until
the baby starts to crawl
(usually around six to eight
months) she may resent the
restriction.
Blacks and the Reagan Program
ffy Bayard Rujtln and Norman Hil
Some voices in the black community have
responded to the election of Ronald Reagan
with a reaction that borders on panic. There
have been claims that a Reagan administra
tion and a conservative Republican Senate
will mean open season on blacks and the
poor; that we will see the growth of racism in
our country.
Clearly, a number of the positions which
President-elect Reagan endorsed during his
campaign were dangerous to the' interests of
blacks and other working people. In the view
of many economists, his support of the
Kemp-Roth tax cut not only will disrupt
needed social services and programs, but will
also fuel the flames of an already out-of-control
inflation. Additionally, President
elect Reagan's advocacy of a sub-minimum
wage would harm the interests of unskilled
adult workers, a significant number of
whom are black. The Reagan-Republican
strategy of blind reliance on free market
forces in such areas as energy will also result
in further inflationary pressures. In short,
the expressed policy of the Reagan Ad
ministration clearly will result in some
damage to black interests.
Some damage, yes. But open season on
blacks and the poor? The mushrooming of
racism? Here one senses that rhetoric has
clouded the vision of some black community
leaders.
As President, Ronald Reagan, like all
Presidents before him, will be limited in the
programs he is able to implement by both
Congress and organized segments of
American society.
Although our country moved in a conser
vative direction this election year, a
Republican Administration and a
Republican-controlled Senate, will have to
contend with a strong labor movement and
with a House of Representatives still in the
hands of Democrats. Moreover, there is divi
sion concerning policies and programs even
within the ranks of President-elect Reagan's
advisers. Some Reagan advisers, like Rep.
Jack Kemp, claim they do not wish to see
programs which would result in hardships to
working people. Others, particularly New
Right adherents and conservative policy ad
visers such as black economist Thomas
So well, have what appears to be a visceral
hatred for organized labor.
At present there are conflicting signs
about the Reagan Administration and the
Republican-controlled Senate. On the one
hand, Sen. Thurmond, a right-winger with a
history of racist views, has hinted that he
might move to abolish the 1965 Voting
Rights Act (an effort which, incidentally,"
would end in failure). On the other hand.
Senator Orrin Hatch, anti-labor Chairman
of the Senate Labor Committee, according
to the Wall Street Journal, dropped plans to
press immediately for a youth sub-minimum
wage. This, one Senate Labor Committee
aide notes, is because the Senator "doesn't
relish the prospect of spending a number of
years at war with labor."
That a conservative ideologue of the
Hatch mold would be unwilling to take on
the trade union movement on this important
issue may be an indication that at least some
Republicans are beginning to accept the
realities of power in America.
Labor and black community groups have
been and remain an important force in
American life. To attack them directly is to
risk confrontations and social unrest. The
power of the organized has clearly not been
washed away by the results of the election.
And so the Reagan Administration and the
Congress will have to deal with these social
forces just as previous administrations have.
Before responding with recrimination and
opposition to the Reagan program, we must
first know what that program will be. At
present, Reagan policy advisers appear to be
recommending proposals which are . at
variance with one another. Some argue for
huge cuts in government spending and for a
balanced budget, while others believe that
tax cuts will result in greater prosperity and
greater tax revenues to fund government
programs. Some Reagan advisers have
begun talking about- "urban enterprise
zones" which would offer tax breaks for
businesses locating in impoverished areas.
Programs such as this should first be careful
ly examined by economists, public policy ex
perts and those whom they will directly af
fect before they are rejected out of hand.
Perhaps such proposals are flawed, but
before we can make that judgment such pro
grams have to be formulated and proposed.
In a word, blacks and organized labor
should carefully monitor the policies of the
new administration, attacking and criticizing
those proposals which deserve to be
repudiated. It is counter-productive to
mount a political offensive without being
fully aware of what we are up against.
And in the final analysis, blacks and other
working people should maintain their con
fidence in the democratic process.
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