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HAVANA, CUBA - 'With the military situation under control, Angola hat dramatically ttapped
up lt nation-building campaign boldly reaching out for broad-bated international cooperation that
would enhance the young socialist government'! economic development and non-aligned ttance.
In a significant and unprecedented stop for tuch a newly independent African country, Angola
President Agostlnho Neto dispatched three membert of hit Popular Movement for the Liberation of
Angola to Cuba last week to 'discuss hit nation 't views, plant and needt with an unofficial,
; predominately black U. S. delegation of 26.
A second-floor conference room of Hotel Free Havana was the letting for most of the far -ranging
discussions hosted by Premier Fidel Castro's Cuba, a country which tent troopt to Angola in
' 'response to MPLA appeals for aid
When it faced military attack
by aggression forces of several
other nations.
In addition to providing an
important informational forum
on the MPLA and Angola, the
seminar afforded U. S.
participants an updated,
first-hand review of how a
revolutionary people and their
supporters, including Russia,
assess the southern Africa
dam and hydro-electric
installations erected in Angola
while it was a colony ruled by
Portugal.
MPLA spokesman disclosed
that they were sure Cuban
troops, which included enough
black Cuban volunteers to
. surprise the people of Angola,
i would fight with them again if
s South Africa fails to pull its
f forces out of Benguela
' situation as result of Angola's Province near the border with
successful liberation struggle
MPLA REPRESENTATIVES to; wml'with' Americans in1 Cuba are interviewed by Motes J
Newson; 'AFftOtiMtdtt'fMiii'frAr W (Left to Wight) Miss Olga time political
affairs director,' Ministry c4'F6ret of Centra,
Committee and political commissar of thtErn front,' end Pedro Zinga Baptista, foreign relations
for the Popular Movement for 'the Liberation i 'of Wrigole.' Commandante Dlbal. headed the delegation
for the brief ingt in Havana.
A major unfinished military
challenge is posed by the
presence in Angola of several
thousand South Africa troops.
That country's
protect multi-million dollar
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Namibia.
i . Cuba played a low-key role
' in the conference sessions,
providing three-language
translators and sending
' observers at the request of the
white-minority, apartheid $ MPLA delegation, which also
regime claims it has a right to invited the U. S. participants.
Representing Angola at the
!' seminar were :
I Rui Falomeno DeSa, a
""member of the Central
Committee and political
commissar of the Eastern
Front who is known as
. Commandante Dibala;
Miss Olga Lima, a member
of MPLA's department of
public affairs and director of
Apolitical affairs for the
Department of Foreign Affairs;
Pedro Zinga Baptista, a
former underground agent now
with the MPLA's foreign affairs
department.
Commandante Dibala, chief
of the MPLA delegation, set
the tone for the meeting when
he said his team was 'not
revealing state secrets here for
carrying out plots against the
government of the U. S. A.."
and thus everything said was
for the public record.
The only questions MPLA
representatives declined to
answer related to the number
of Cuban and South African
troops in Angola.
Subjects touched on
covered South Africa's troops
in Angola, the MPLA's
explanation of why it does not
take threats of guerrilla warfare
seriously, Cuba's military
support and Russia's material
backing, plans to improve the
life of Angola's peoples, what
will be expected of
multi-national firms, hopes for
diplomatic relations with
nations that opposed the
MPLA, and the holding of
elections.
See Cuba page 9
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Insido This Week
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RACIST PROMISESELECTION ISSUES 2
EASTMAN INSIGHTS 3
IN & AROUND ROCKY MOUNT 3
BOOK REVIEWS 12
INFOGRAMSRECIPES 14
ON THE LIGHTER SIDE 16 17
EAGLES NEST OPINION IS
BARRISTERS' WIVES 18
CLASSIFIEDS 20
SPORTS 21
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Special Awards Highlight Founders Day
At South Carolina St. Carolina College
ORANGEBURG - Close to into the Quarter Century Club,
1,000 faculty, staff, students marking 25 years of service to
and friends of South Carolina the college. Employees with
State College in Orangeburg 10, 20, 30 and 40 years of
witnessed the special . service were also honored.
recognition Sundayof udge. GlHiarn and Perry jte both
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Matthew Perry .professional
football star John Gilliam and
Coca-Cola executive Charles
Boone during Founders Day
activities at the college.
Dr. M. Maceo Nance, Jr..
president of the institution,
presented each of the three
men a plaque denoting his
accomplishments and his
services to South Carolina
State College.
The ceremonies preceded a
pageant tracing the college's
80-year history. Presented by
the school's internationally
acclaimed Henderson-Davis
Players, the pageant was
written and directed by Dr. H.
D. Flowers, II, director of the
group.
A reception was hosted by
the Founders Day committee
in the Nance Classroom
Building after the pageant, and
was followed by an alumni
band concert featuring former
band members from across the
nation.
The Sunday afternoon
activities climaxed the
Founders Day celebration,
which also recognized Mrs.
Vera P. Wright as an inductee
alurhhi jKfrU'CNif-;
while Boone, national manager
in charge of special markets for
Coca-Cola, was honored as "a
friend to higher education in
general and a true friend to
South Carolina State College."
A product of the S. C. State
College Bulldog football
program, Gilliam has played in
the professional football ranks
since his graduation in 1967.
He has been named All-Pro a
number of times, and was
instrumental in the Minnesota
Vikings' status as Super Bowl
contenders. Dr. Nance noted
of Gilliam, "He has
distinguished himself as a
gentleman and an athlete as we
at S. C. State College are quite
proud of him."
Perry, who holds a law
degree as well as an
undergraduate degree from S.
C. State College, is noted as a
spokesman for legal, orderly
change in his efforts as a Civil
DENVER, COLORADO -A
historic class action case that
found the Pullman Company
had discriminated against black
pullman porters by not making
them conductors was decided
here in U. S. District Court,
and could bring damages in
excess of $10 jnlllion.
The case that represents
some retribution for all the
years of mistreatment of black
pullman porters was handled
mainly by the Washington, D.
C. firm of Hudson, Leftwich
and Davenport, with Willie
Leftwich the "main catalyst"
and the Denver firm of
Conover, McClearn, Burkhardt
& Heppenstall.
The decision was handed
down by Chief Judge Alfred A.
Arraj. He found that the
Pullman Company limited
promotional opportunitites for
black employees and
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this year he was sworn in -as a job classiflcations in that
judge
Court
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state,
mater
of the U. S. Military
of Appeals, 'bringing
honor to himself, his
his race and his alma
pullman; porters could not
become conductors until 1967
although as Pullmam
porterin-charge they
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EXILED BLACK PANTHER leeder Huey Newton poses with
his family near swimming, pool at Hotel Free Havana In Havana,
Cuba. In Cuba for several months now, the Black Panther isn't
permitted to give Interviews. Family circle Includes wife Gwen,
daughter Jessie, 8, and son Ronnie, 10. Ronnie had just come out
of the pool. (Photo by Newson).
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Senator Drooko Urges Blacks To
Seek More Control Over Lives
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HONORED DURING FOUNDERS DAY - South Carolina State College president. Dr. M. Maceo
Nance, Jr., right, presented distinguished service awards to these three man during the collega's 80th
Founders Day celebration Sunday ..larch 7, on the Orangeburg campus. Honored by the Institution
were, from left, Charles Boone, national manager for minority markets for the, Coca-Cola Co. and
friend of the college; John Gilliam, wide raoeivar for the Minnesota Vikings and an alumnus of the
collage; and Matthew Perry, recently appointed judge to the U. 8. Military Court of Appeals, also an
alumnus of the college. "
United States Sen. Edward
W. Brooke (R-Mass.) today
called on black Americans "to
seek more power in and
control over"the institutions
that directly affect their lives.
We are no longer begging
for our rights,' said Sen.
Brooke. 'We are in the
position to demand them; to
work for them; to secure
them."
The senator, delivering the
convocation address at Howard
University's Charter Day
exercises at Dramton
Auditorium, said that black
America could not wait
another hundred years for a
' final resolution of the conflict
between stated principles and
actual practice."
In the face of increasingly
subtle attempts to deny blacks
their rights, Sen. Brooke said,
black people "must shift from
overt protest to a more
pragmatic approach" to their
problems.
Blacks should devote the
remaining years of the
Seventies to continuing their
fight to seek inclusion ' against
those who would exclude us,'
he said, a fight that must be
conducted with the same vigor,
concern and unity that blacks
have used so effectively in the
past.
As for those who would
have blacks withdraw from
celebrating the Bicentennial,
Brooke, said that, though he
sympathizes with the view, he
sees a need for blacks to
celebrate their achievements
and to bring to all Americans
"a reawakened dedication to
the impulses" that founded
America.
Senator Brooke underlined
1976 as a year for black
Americans to rewrite their
agenda for future
accomplishments.
"At this point, we are a
nation in flux," said Brooke.
"Black Americans can
transcend those difficulties
which still plague us only by
positive planning and
forthright articulation of our
needs and goals. In spite of the
naysayers, we can effect
change.'
Characterizing Howard's
role in the struggle for equality
as ' both symbolic and
central," Brooke said that
See Brooke page 9
PORTIA DENEALE COTTON (left) of Wakton k crowned
Miss Eastern" Carolina Teenager for this irea by Angela Rainey of
Littleton, Miss Black Halifax County, after winning the title at a
recent contest held at the Garysburg elementary School here.
Miss Cotton, a sophomore at Weldon High School, is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Cotton of 919 Corbitt Drive. The
winner received a cash award and will enter the Miss N. C.
Teenage Pageant in Raleigh. First runner-up was Miss Cynthia
Ann Best, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Best of Garysburg;
second runner-up. Miss Joyce Bell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Lonnie Bell of Enfield; third runner-up. Miss Patricia Ann High,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence High, Sr. of Roanoke Rapids.
Thirteen Northampton and Halifax county girls competed in the
areas of evening gown, poise, sportswear, talent and
question -end-answer. (Photo by Ray Spain)
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10-YEAR-OLD FOURTH GRADER WALTER PRESIDENT smOaa at ht receive Appreciation
Certificate from Police Commission president Sam Williams hi Lot Angeles, Calif., for hie part In
apprehending a juvenile gang of burglary suspects. With the certificate want a reel pair of handcuff.
Walter had used toy one In physically catching one bad guy. (UPl).