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VOLUME 54 -NUMBER 25
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
SATURDAY, JUNE 19,1976
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THANKS FOR THE PRESENTATION - Uft: George Foxwtll, prldent, National Alumni
Anociatlon, Saint Auguitine'i College, imile broadly, following the presentation of $300 from
the Durham Chapter by Russell R. ' Blunt recently at the. alumni luncheon.
George B. Russ, Times Columnst,
Dies Suddenly at Duhe Hospital
According to an employ- right bias in salaries and
ment study being conducted .? positions with blacks getting
by a Shaw University the short end of the stick
sociologist, Blacks hold a v all the way around," said
disproportionate share of 16w Levy,
level jobs with the city of - , He continued, "I've got
Durham. - ,;isome additional information
It was announced by that wui show gross
Mort Levy on Tuesday, that;. discrimination against blacks
sixty per cent or 303 of the;-' arid women. Included will
city's 492 black workers be a breakdown of where
hold laborer's jobs while . 0 what departments and
only eleven per cent (70 " agencies their work and
workers) of the 692 white ; what they do."
workers hold laborer's jobs". Levy will formally
Blacks hold only five adminis- announce the results of the
trative posts in the city study at a press conference
government ' ' ? if ? lwhich is scheduled for the
It's obvious that blacks near future. Levy said that
dominate the low level ,"1ow nfe has invited the national
paying jobs while whites . media to send representatives
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GEORGE B. RUSS
George B. Russ, for many
years, author of "Writers
Forum" and -'Potpourri Of
Recent Events" appearing
weekly in The Carolina Times
died Wednesday morning at
7:10 in the Duke Hospital
Emergency Room.
' Dnoe nilfncri at home
as he was preparing to go to
Complete funeral arrange
ments 'were ' hot known at
press time, but services will
be held at Union Baptist
Church where Russ was an
active member.
Survivors are his wife,
Mrs. Stattie Hill Russ, of
the home; hjs mother, Mrs.
Mable Dunston of Clinton;
two sisters, Mrs. Jacqueline
Douglas and Mrs. Mildred
Roundtree, both of Chicago,
111; one brother, William
Russ of Clinton.
JUNE 17.1775
'Httntf stave Pater 5lem
won the acclaim of his
comrades for shooting the
British Major Pitcairn
during the Battle of
Bunker (Breed's) Hill in
Boston.
dominate the .foreman and
supervisory jobs, according to
Levy. " -' 'rJ '' s "
"That's why you see
blacks loading sanitation
turcks, whites driving them
and blacks digging ditches
while whites stand nearby
and supervise."
"These figures make it
clear that there's not only
racial and sex bias in the
city of Durham, , but also
that the city shows out-
so the word on wnat s
"happening in Durham will
get out."
Levy said the city has
1,334 employees. Of these,
1,184 are males and 164 are
females. He said 59 per cent
of the males are white and
70 per cent of the females
are white, compared to
' Durham's population figures
if roughly 50 per cent white
. and black.
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By Ethel L. Payne
EDITOR'S NOTE: The Carolina Times is pleased
to share with its readers the second in a series of in
terpretive articles on U. S. Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger's six nation tour of Africa, April
23 through May 7, 1976. These written accounts
we by the organized Black press' foremost foreign
correspondent, Ethel L. Payne, representing the
National Newspaper Publishers Association on the
tour. At long last, the United States has moved
from a benign neglect stance to a clearly stated
policy on Africa. We believe these articles will en
able the reader to understand thesignificance of this
new U. S. posture toward Africa from a "black perspective."
KISSINGER, THE MAN ...
"A Mean Issue Far From Settled"
Henry Alfred Kissinger was
born May 21 i 1923 in the Bavarian
Alps town of Fuerth, Germany. His
parents, Louis and Paula, were of
the comfortable, Jewis intellectual
middle classwhich made up a solid
segment of the population before
the poisonous venom of Hitlerism
set in.
In 1938, when he was 15,
Henry and his younger brother,
Walter, were brought to the United
States, just before the holocaust
which took the lives of six million
Jews reached its peak.
Kissinger grew up in the Wash
ington Heights section of Manhat
tan, was drafted into the army and
later returned to his native
Germany as a student. He became
a naturalized citizen in 1943.
Although he started out to be an
accountant, Henry became-
fascinated with international
relations and the workings of
diplomacy. He was a brilliant acade
mician. At Harvard he found his
niche in the rarefield atmosphere
of scholasticism.
In 1968, Kissinger was tapped
by the President-elect, Richard
Nixon, to be his chief foreign
policy advisor. This was despite .
the fact that he was closely identi
fied with Nelson Rockefeller,
Nixon's old adversary in the Repub
lican party. They were poles apart
in disposition, but their views on
policy and the use of power coin
cided. It was not long
before Kissinger moved in as
Assistant to the President for
National Security Affairs. It
followed inevitably that he took'
over the reins of foreign' policy
completely, sending the incumbent
Secretary of State, William Rogers,
into a new total eclipse.
Kissinger began a series of
secret diplomatic missions
on behalf of the President and the
national parlor guessing game was
"Where's Henry?" A new word
was added to the every day vocabu
lary of the man in the street
'detente'. Not everyone understood
its precise meaning. It was some
thing that Henry Kissinger was
doing with the Soviet Union and
later with China.
AFRICA AND ANGOLA
Henry Kissinger was named
Secretary of State on Sept. 23,
1973. But this time, the situation in
Southern Africa was coming to a
full boil . Guerilla warfare in Ango
la, Mozambique and Zimbabwe
(Rhodesia) was escalating. In
Angola,' three factions ' were con
tending for leadership in the civil
., Continued On Page 13J -
Congresswoman Yvonne
Burke, Calif., Chairperson of
the Congressional Black
Caucus in Washington, D. C,
and Congressman John Con
yers, Jr. will address the
Second annual National
Legislative Conference, spon
sored by the National Black
Women's Political Leader
ship Caucus in the Cannon
House Office Building,
Capitol Hill on Friday,
June 25, and Saturday, June
26.
Dr. Nelis J. " Saunders,
Detroit, national chairperson,
made the announcement and
the Caucus invited women
and men to participate in
the activities, beginning at
8 a.m.
"The Role of Blacks
in the 1976 Political Arena
(Elections) is theme for
conference. Mrs. Zenobia
Hart, D. C, is chairperson
of the national Legislative
Committee.
Among other partici
pants in the conference
will be Leon Perry, Public
Affairs Officer, National
Aeronautics and Space
Administration in D. C;
Mrs. Maxie Riviere, Ohio,
television personality;
Hon. C. DeLores Tucker,
Pa., Secretary of the
Commonwealth; the Rev.
Walter Fauntrov. U. S.
Continued On Page 13
SENTENCE DELAYED - Mike and Sharon Atkinson Arrington, son-in-law and daughter of Leslie
"Ike" Atkinson who was convicted of masterminding an international herion smuggling ring,
leave court after their sentencing was put off until August 3 because Mrs. Arrington is due this
month to give birth to the couple's first child. (UPI ).
Part of a 2 - part series
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N. C. Justice on Trial?-
DR. NELIS J. SAUNDERS
lairian Official Demands
Ouster of Foreign Troops
KINSHASA
(HS1NHUA) - Zairian Com
missioner of State for Foreign
Affairs and International
Cooperation Nguza Karl
lbon condemned interference
in the affairs of the third
world by foreign powers and
demanded the withdrawal of
foreign troops from Angola.
At a press conference
held here recently, he gave
an account of the recent
ministerial meeting of the
coordinating bureau of non
aligned countries in Algiers.
He stressed that true
non-alignment consists in
condemning this or that
imperialism in the same
manner and "accepting no
interference by foreign
powers in the affairs of the
third world, Africa in
particular."
"The policy of non
aligned countries consists in
not aligning with this or
that bloc. It is an indepen
dent position against big
powers," he said.
He said, "Zaire holds in
principle that it is unjust
to support one interventionist
power and condemn another.
He said, "withdrawal of
foreign troops from Angola
is necessary because it is
unnecessary to transform a
neighbouring country into a
military base in order to
maintain peace and security
in Central and Southern
Africa."
The Zairian Commission
er, of State stressed, "We,
Zaire, cannot accept the
presence of heavy arms such
as missiles in our neighbour."
By Ray Jenkins
Prison officials claimed
that the transfer back to
Central Prison was out of
concern for Chavis' health
and had nothing to do with
the hundreds of thousands of
protests from all over the
country, however, if Chavis'
health was such a major con
cern to them, it is doubtful
that he would have ever been
transferred to McCain to be
gin with.
The treatment of Chavis
and the other nine by the
state of North Carolina has
been the target of much cri
ticism by numerous figures
and organizations across the
United States. Most believe
that a frame up and con
spiracy was at hand from
start to finish. It is also be
lieved by many that the
federal government had its
hand in the affair also. But
as time goes on the support
for Chavis grows especially
as more and more people
begin to know more of the
facts surrounding the case,
most of which are at best,
bizarre. As one noted
columnist wrote, "....it is part
of a pattern suggesting that
harrassment of black civil
rights workers has high
priority in a state that ironi
cally boasts of its New South
image." In essence it appears
that the image takes on the
appearnace of the very old
Jim Crow South where
blacks didn't even have a
breath of a chance in the
Southern Courts.
But there is still much
naivete in the stubborness of
the state of North Carolina
because they have literally in
creased a thousandfold what
they were seemingly attempt
ing to subdue. Had Ben
Chavis never went to trial and
gotten all the publicity, his
most recent calls for a con
gressional investigation of the
entire North Carolina
criminal justice system would
have probably been greeted
with a yawn. Now, with all
the pressure from virtually
every circle in the country,
that call will more than likely
be taken very seriously.
An entire year passed be
fore Ben Chavis, eight black
male students and one white
VISTA volunteer, were in
dicted on charges stemming
from the disturbances. The
chief witnesses for the state
were two men, both under
indictment. Allen Hall, who
had previously pleaded guilty
to riot related charges, said
that he saw Chavis directing
the throwing of firebombs.
Allen was serving an indeter
minate sentence of twelve
years under which he could
have been released at any time
prior to the twelve year
maximum. He was finally re
leased last year.
The other witness Jerome
Mitchell, was under indictment
for first degree murder, which
in North Carolina carries the
death penalty upon conviction.
Mitchell's charge was not re
lated to the riot incidents. He
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WHY LEVI DID NOT ENTER
THE D0ST0N CASE
Robert J. Havel, Director
of Public lnformationfor the
Department of Justice, has
issued the following state
ment regarding a news report
purporting to explain Attor-
ney General Edward H. Levi's
reasons as to why the Depart
ment did not enter the
Boston school-busing case:
"The unnamed Depart
ment of Justice official
quoted as the source of the
story was not speaking for
the Attorney General, nor did
he represent Mr. Levi's views.
Mr. Levi has never made any
statement as to his reasons
for not entering the case.
"In his statement
announcing his decision not
iu enter uic dumuii iusc as
this time, Mr. Levi said it
would not be proper for him
to discuss the reasons for his
decision now because (bur
petitions in that case are
pending before the Supreme
Court
"In that announcement,
the Attorney General also
said that no inference should
be drawn from the decision
not to file t memorandum at
this stage as to the Depart.
ment's view of the merits for
or against the pending peti
lions. . .