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f k 7 Mozambique. FtlachGl Explains Defections To SA i AN When ' news broke fast week s that Mozambique's ; director of national security had asked ; for political asylum in South Africa, the Mozambican govern ment issued ; an unex pected response, Security 1 chief : Jorge Costa was only one of several re- j cent ' defections; Presi- . dent Samora Machel an- nounced at an unusual public ; meeting In ; the . 'capital. Maputo,' -t According to cor- respondent Joseph Hanlon. there are indica tions the defections are linked to (he country 's drive against ;- brutality and corruption among police and government j officials,, and to the at tention currently being 'given to persons with suspected links . to ! Mozambique's forces. i Costa was in South , Africa to talk with police 1 officials there about routine ' security -; and border questions. As he and his three colleagues . prepared to leave; Costa 'nnnhunrtH hi. intention to defects Whether the South Africans had prior knowledge of his plans or a previous relation ship with him is not ' known,' hut his action : clearly pleased his hosts. Within hours, Costa was appearing before televi sion cameras declaring : that Mozambique's economy had been ruin ed by Machel's Marxist " government, the. coun try is under control of the Soviet's, who are us ing it as a. base to "destabilize southern Africa, he alleged, ; MAPpTQ ; - Presi dent Machel announced three other defections at a June 8 meeting here at tended by more than a thousand people who had been collaborators with the Portuguese'eol onial regime during the " long struggle Tor in dependence, which came ' in 1975. ; , . The three are Joao At aide, Mozambique's s , , - , ambassador In Portugal, .'" Anonia,da RochaXusl,..C, secretary In the embassy in Zimbabwe, ; and Zulficar Tricamegy, a . member of - the president's staff. 1 The meeting was part of a long process of what the Mozambicans call 'rehabilitation'. Machel said it was a curiosity that thousands of people , , who voluntarily assisted ' the Portuguese regime still walk the streets and . go to work i 'even though many of them were responsible for torture and other atrocities. Elsewhere-, he said, they would have gone before aj'iring squad. 1 Instead, the president argued, they5 lost some political rights and their . photos were-posted in workplaces so their co workers could keep an their ; "mental idccolonization". , Not all those who cooperated 'with the former colonial govern ment have been iden tified, since the Por : tugucse. took .their files with them when they left in 1975, so the current process of rchabiliia lion' in which col laborators arc asked to give details of: their ac tions and contacts . is' identifying more names. Officials of the ruling party I RF.UMO believe . some of those, still unidentified arc in high positions and arc prcpar-.. ing to lice. They sec the . ' defection of Jorge Costa as confirming this belief. ; Cost a was already in ' trouble, however, Com plaints about his brutali- , ty as director of security had been one of the trig gers in the recent law and . order campaign against . police brutality and abuse of the law. Costa, who is white himself, had reportedly been par ticularly brutal to white ' prisoners. He and Rocha also had colonial links, the officials said, and ap-. 'parently feared they were aoout to be exposed. The government has (also stepped up its ef- torts against the opposi tion movement known as the Mozambican Na tional Resistance. JMNR). The authorities , T7 r 1 l . , : : - ' i j . SATUMAY.JUKE.1S:2-TK2CAr.:LnATr-::3-tJ, - m . Business In The Black I Sears Sees $51,9 Million Down Drain . - - - - - - - . Blacks; Bigotry and Bankruptcy Charles E. Belle i Bankruptcy bothers both - Mack and white- panies, credit trureaus, creaii onions, nomc ror-businessest-Some businesses bite the dust rfloreihaxf pishers and nppliance dealers, petrotonn credit card others. Credit granting giants like Sears, Roebuck t companies, retailers, savings and loan associations Co., too often get caught in the middle. Many in- ;and too many, small business organizations have dividuals have signed off sheepskin coats and cars , crippled the earning capacity or peopie 01 coior iot In bankruptcy court, while holding down a job . . Bankruptcies are now so easy to come by that "nearly 407 of those who bail out could have paid off their bills in five years; Seventy-two per cent of males filing for bankruptcy hold full-time jobs, 41ft of the women hold full-time jobs,", according to a Purdue University study. Some say, including Sears, this has resulted from faults in the 1978 Bankruptcy Reform Act. An Act they wish to change, When you start to lose many, you usually figure it's time for a change and Sears lost SSI. 9 million last year because of personal bankruptcies. J But the question of how people are getting over ' extended is excused too often by opulent lenders. Without ' exception, the National Coalition for Bankruptcy Reform "a consumer credit industry united effort" is made up of industries who have not provided adequate professional advancement goals for black Americans and other minorities nntflAnf fAloral lour mit rtiantAe OA4inct tkm . hi . Such areas as antnmnhile dealers, hanks, hand card companies, collection agencies, consumer credit counseling services, consumer finance com- tod Ipngi Now with an economic down turn, credit is dropped down the drain. , You get what yon pay for, reap what yon sow, etc. Bankruptcy courts are jammed with, a growing case load. Countless numbers of those employees and especially the management of the National, Coalition for Bankruptcy Reform encouraged, voted, indeed paid for, the President's current economic program. Perhaps they could not see past their pocketbook at the time. The very idea of filing bankruptcy is bad for business and the individual. It is not to be encouraged or ignored for its damage to the person or society. Some sense that we all' pay when poverty is dic tated to a chosen group is the lesson to learn. In conclusion of an oral statement by the National Consumer Finance Association before the House Committee on Judiciary, March 23, 1982, no truer words could have been spoken, MIt is our belief that no debtor should be allowed to avoid a debt that he can reasonably afford to pay." America can afford to eradicate racism if she will pay the price, and she owes it to all her citizens. Premedical Students Guide Published At Special Broadway Performance NEW YORK Ina Home poses backstage wiih Mrs. Rosa Parks, follow- A ing a special performance of her Broadway hit musical in honor of Mrs. Parks. Back on December I, 1955, Mrs. Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, Foh sitting in a bus forward of the white passengers. Her arrest touched off the boycott of Montgomery blacks against the city's bus lines. A year later, the Supreme Court ruled that segregation on that city's transit system was unlawful. Mrs. Parks has been honored on many occasions since as "the grandmother of the civil rights movement here have produced evidence they say shows that, the group is heavily supported by South Africa and is directed by former Portuguese' col laborators. -A new arms shipment that arrived here ihrcc weeks ago may be in tended to help with these efforts. . The supplies, which arc said to include nine tons of ammunition and five Ions of uniforms, is a gift to. I PlPhnln Mozambique from the Portuguese army. The items are expected to be used by civilian militias now being set up in the center of the country, where MNR activity is (Continued on Page 15) Dr. Doris Byers Kwasikpui is the author of a new book, RX For Premedical Minority Students. Published in April, 1982, the book is a prescription for making a sound decision about medical education for minorities., While ( highlighting the work of' the Sixteen Institution Health Sciences Consor: tium (all traditionally black i colleges and universities in North Carolina and Virginia), the book deals with the problems of the high cost ' of medical education for minorities, inadequate faculty, adjustment of minority students enter ing medical school and OR. KWAS1PUI career advisement. It gives vital information regarding selecting a medical school, getting financial aid, summer employment and admit tance to summer rein forcement and enrich ment programs. A graduate of ' Johnson C. Smith University, Dr. Kwasipui holds the M.S. degree from Virginia State : University and the Ed.D. degree from the Univer sity of Sarasota in human services. Serving as the Southeastern Regional director of the National Institute of Science and an editorial board member of the Beta Kap pa Chi Bulletin, she. is a member of the North Carolina. Academy of Science, the American ' Medical Writers Associa tion, the Author Guild, ' Inc. and the National Minority Health Affairs Association. She is also; the author of a nature book, A World Of Their Own (A Nature Activity Book For All Seasons) and numerous articles in scientific and educa tional magazines and journals. Dr. Kwasikpui makes :her home in Greensboro. Join The NAACP rnj MUtai 11' i'jfll'- : ' -HI- I ?1 ' 1(14 - I rvtftyy-k...p C : t Extra Dm to t$v M ,, -tjr, -A A. ! V J -;jH;v.-j :,: ; .nm1-' 1 1 iiiM&l - I-Extra Prg 1 j Gito i , ; OWTH.LCD nd lOTTLto v ml . vvV'v-- !4-- MtIJ4ft Oil 00f - v'.'" ' .i- : ' .. ' 'W-.;,.vi 11 ... -:yy .('..V s'W' ;jmMm 4 Wi i-i"
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