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BLACK DOCTORS MUST TAKE POLITICAL ACTION__ (Guest editorial from the Carolina Times) If gains and progress made in the care o! nation’s minorities and poor ai»e to be maintained, the National Medical Association, the professional organization of the country's more than" 6,000 Black doctors, must take an active role in national politics. Dr. Paul Batalden, an assistant surgeon general who is director of the Federal Bureau Community Health Services, stressed this point during HTs address to delegates of the 78th annual NMA convention in New York. i Dr. Batalden said when attention is placed on financing health care, there is great danger that programs designed for the poor an^ supported by groups such as NMA might not survive. In short, Dr. Batalden charged NMA members to take clear steps to insure that this involvement be translated into public policy. The Tribune supports Dr. Batalden’s stand. Black physicians must become active.in politics to insure that health programs geared to aid the minorities and poor are not brought to a sudden end. The Tribune believes in the right to all citizens to have the best medical care available, regar dless of his or her ability to pay. In the last 10 years because of action by groups such as the NMA, the national infant mortality, which affects poor people most severely, has dropped 26 percent because the National Health Services Corps has been sending cortocs into poor areas and the neighborhood family care program. a These programs, supported by the Tribune, provide much of the health services now available in Black and poor communities. The Tribune urges the National Medical Association to continue to support these programs and work towards gaining additional health care for all citizens. _ NIX ON N1XON1SM i The unfair equating of the protests for social fcnd legal Justice as well as needed economic opportunities for all Americans and for Black Americans in particular by President Nixon in his message to the Nation on Wednesday August 15 to the most sordid illegal acts characterized by extortion, pay off monies, burglary and theft, wire-tapping and who knows what else by his Gestapo-minded subordinates brfrigs shame and dishonor to those who have long fought and diedto preserve this so-called democracy of ours. / It has always appeared to many that since this Administration took office the growth, develop ment and progress of the Blacks and other ethnic minorities had been geared to advance only the interests of the powerful and the rich. Nixon, by his own statements on nation-wide TV in the message of August 15, by his tactics of equating the illegal actions of his aides, appointees and his administration in the Watergate Horrors in the legitimate activities by the protestors in the 1960’s is deplorable at the least and disgraceful at the most and should cause unequivocal alarm to all Americans. > • t The Congress of United States must truly rise to its duties and certainly make this Number One citizen, the President, observe the same rules ol justice that is forced upon others. For if we are to survive, Nixon and other alleged guilty ones among his subordinates must be taken ,to task and not be granted the immunity from prosecution that many appear to be seeking. Tc do otherwise would be a miscarriage of justice and is certainly an outrageous insult to the in telligence of the American people. Let the Watergate Investigations continue sc that the American people may be apprised of al! the facts. For in the final analysis the sovereigr right lies in the American people. i— ■ — —--- - TIIK CHARLOTTE POST P>,bll»h»«1 n.n Tnurvlay ny in<- Crmral Publishing ' o'/ij»»r.:« *,itb ullvf nff hr <i at I O', South Main *.»/•»* P.»|n.ont S' 2H012. known offir* of publb ation I Kli»*l ' harlott*. N f 2H21(t '•*** Jva.nton Manager l.illtoY y>A» Mitt.r . ■ , ‘"•in-laiy frll.ri P..I.. * . I » • K*#«* If • »/• M f|»M.f iM* I'll an# |ili<ilti:. 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The first warning signs went up more than three years ago. —when drought hit the region. It has confirmed, and is likely to go on for some years yet. Last fall, word was spread by the UN Food and Agricultural Organization that crop failures in the area were due So the world knew about*’!!, but little was done until tribesmen started streaming into towns and villages, pleading for food. Where were the members of the vast army of International experts then’’ Why didn’t our State Department start things moving sooner? Was in formation about the im pending disaster filed in neat -folders while people died? — Now relief supplies are coming in, too little and too late. The UN and individual countries, including our own, are sending food, but it is one thing to get them to the ports and airfields of the legion and another to get them into the hands of the people off in the hinterlands. Lack of roads and local transportation has been a stumbling block and the imnrnviseH nature nf operation results in waste and confusion. While Africans are starving and a small amont of food is seeping in, American grain is filling the—holds of ships— bound for Russia, and this cargo bottleneck hampers relief efforts. Right now, the biggest dangers facing some twenty million Africans in the _drought region is not stnr vation -that’s still a few months off. It is disease, for their weakened condition leaves them prey to otherwise controllable illnesses. There have been reports of hundreds of children dying in a measles epidemic, and the very old and very young dying of other sicknesses. The —tribal died. Nomadic cattlebreeders have moved to the cities, abandoning a way of life that goes back over a thousand years. An estimated forty percent of their livestock have died. Farming peoples are eating their seeds, meaning that future crops will not be sown. And the drought-driven desert is pushing relentlessly southward, threatening future progress in the region and upsetting the delicate balance of life and ecology in nor thwest Africa. hardened to pictures of hungry people, even of children with distended stomachs- and-Tnatchsttctr-; limbs. But this current catastrophe in Africa can’t depend solely on the goodwill of individuals moved by tragic - photos. It requires large-scale —mternational—and—govern_ mental action. The United States should take the lead by establishing an African relief “czar” empowered to rut the red tape and deliver the goods. The UN ought to act boldly, for since most people have doubts about its effectiveness as a peacekeeper, its total credibility now lies on its ability to stave off disasters such as that which threatens six African nations. Beyond the Immediate emergency relief that is required, American and in ternational policy ought to be —■- 1 VERNON E. JORDAN. JR.£: retooled to provide massive aid to rebuild the stricken areas and to launch plans to help develop the region's economy. The inadequate ports and transportation network now proving to be a major stumbling block to relief efforts ought to have been improved long ago. Colonialism's heritage, which now includes starvation, can r be erased by an international" Marshall Plan that funnels aid to impoverished nations of the Third World. Instead of competing in development of destructive weapons, the super powers should now start competing tn humanitarian works. _:_L_ j, HE SUGGESTED THAT * THE POLITICAL ESPIONAGE SPYING AND BURGLARIES THAT FLOURISHED UNDER HIS ADMINISTRATION HAD j THEIR ROOTS IN THE CIVIL k RIGHTS PROTEST MOVE ■V £ MENTS OF THE1960s education Hr Gf Vro VOTE 1 Mf^ SENATOR EDWARD BROOKE } STATED THATfT WAS INCON CEIVABLE THAT PRESIDENT NIXON WOULD EQUATE THE STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS WITH THE WATERGATE ~ BURGLARIES. r~ --—--" - ■ ■ i i —» ■ ■ —i r Again Copntipg On Th^ C^e phrase National Educational Campaign On Sickle Cell Disease Set Dr. Charles F. Whitten announces the launching of a national educational cam paign on sickle cell trait and sickle cell disease to correct some of the misinformation about the disease. Dr. Whitten is president of the National Association for Sickle Cell Disease, Inc., (NASCD1, which was organized to provide leadership and coordination of activities of many sickle cell groups for med at the grass root level. The campaign kick-off was made with the presentation of the first National Sickle Cell Seal to members of the Congessional Black Caucus. In addition to the educational program, Dr. Whitten stressed to members' of the Caucus, the need for continued and accelerated support of sickle cell programs. Sickle cell disease was identified over a half century ago. Only recently has it come to the fore as a serious health problem among black natAnla In IKa ihaLa 1m creasingly public awareness of sickle cell disease, the need for information and service programs has become quite urgent However, in trying to meet the need, many well meaning but poorly qualified "experts" and organizations have sprung up across the nation As a result, scien tifically inaccurate literature has', been circulated, testing programs have used unreliable or imcomplete methods, persons with sickle ' ell trail have not been in Inrmed or have been misin formed^ to the implication of • tie trail tor their lives, said In Whitten. Kach of these inndei|oacies has resulted in grave human tragedies '♦lie National Association h/i Sn ide Cell Disease, Inc., is Keep your out of town Ire nils utlurmed on whut's tmpf idling in Charlotte liy $r‘Tiding them a copy of the Charlotte Post each week A year's subscription cost only S', 21) % seeking funds to help correct some of the misinformation and to provide services to interested groups on a national b&sis to insure that sickle cell programs are developed in the best interest of the black community. Urban Affairs, General Motors Corporation; Howard N. Lee. Mayor, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 0 JCSU Grad Heads Soul City (Continued From P. 1) Mrs. Clayton, an alumnus of Johnson C. Smith University, North Carolina Central University, is a native of Augusta, Georgia, and now lives in Warren County. Before going to the Health Manpower Development Program, she served as Executive Director of the Eastern North Carolina based Economic Development Corporation. She now serves on the Board of Directors of the Economic. Development Corporation, the N.C. Federation of Child Development, the N.C. Voter Education Project, and the Southern Regional Council. She is a member of Cotton Memorial Presbyterian v-nurcn, a memDer of the Warren County Chapter of the NAACP, a trustee of Jubilee Health Center, and a member of the American Public Health Association, the Education Coalition, the National Black Alliance on Graduate Level Education, and a number of other professional and social service organizations. She has served on a number of state government- committees*, including the Advisory Task Group of the N.C. Health Commission, and the~ governor’s special.committee to deal with school problems and racial conflict. She is a consultant to the United Read the Charlotte Post each week, Charlotte’s fastest growing weekly newspaper. I Presbyterian Church, National Committee for Self Development of People. * ' r De Mffleton telb why he bought a Patio Home. 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