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DIASA ROBERTS
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Editor-in-<
Winston-Salem, N C.
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Where were you when the lights
vent... Click? If you are poor,
iowntrodden and in New York
\ :hances are you were in the streets
jeiaing the opportunity to get
something.
We do not condone looting or
rioting during blackouts, but we do
not go along with rich folk like the
mayor ot New York who look down
their long snobbish noses at the poor
and call them savages, beasts and
barbarians. "I just don't understand
them," they all proclaim.
The situation in New York was i\ot
a simple act of barbaric reaction. It
have heard people talking about.
We, in the U.S., live in a society that
from Day-One is taught to consume.
Our orientation is to consume more,
hpttpr nuicker and with less and less
effort. The consumer game is to
make life easier. Television
advertising alone is enough to show
some people how bad off they really
are. And most have no hope9 of ever
sharing in the wealth of this great
nation.
Still, it is not right to burn, loot
Rather Fight '
Next week the County Commissioners
will decide whom to appoint
to the Reynolds Health Center
Advisory Committee We rinn't know
what other names have been
submitte4 for consideration, but we
hope that the commissioners will
reappoint Dr. Wilveria Atkinson and
C7P. Booker. Their names have beei
aimost synonymous with the fighft?
keep the autonomy of the health
' center. They have worked long
hours, researching the matter anc
drawing up proposals to help
determine the fate of the healtl
center. The important thing is: the]
care. Board appointments ar<
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WORLD ?,
SCENE: ""
The destruction of th?
apartheid regime and the thirt '
liberation of the people of some satisf;(
South afnca is not only a racists in SoU
matter of international soli- Wome
darity with the oppressed ^rlon m
people of Sou h Afnca but { d increa
a so an urgent task in the i a] su r1
struggle ""for Inter national of forcesPh? t
peace and security. sib,y
BLACKS WHO THROUGH
BUILT THIS COUNTRY, SHC
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Saturday August% 13, 1977
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and riot but we understand why it '
happens. We have seen some people
literally starve to death while others
die of Obesity.
If ever the looting and rioting is to
~9top we must find a better way of
dealing with people who do not have
anything. President Carter's Welfare
Reform Bill may be a means to
-that end. 4t won' t put a Rolls in ^very?
garage, but we think it will make
people feel a little less hopeless.
Perhaps, they may even begin to feel
that they at least have a chance of
someday getting a few of the many
things they see around them all day
and most of the nighty
When the lights in New York went
out we were able to SEE the plight
fcnd the desperation of the have-nots.
No. Everyone involved in the looting
were not helpless, hopeless people,
but we think enough of them were to
justify our beliefs. We can continue
to fill the jails or we can look for a
solution to a problem that goes a
heck of a lot deeper than petty
thievery neither way, calling those
people savages and barbarians like
the mayor did won't help.
Than Switch
unpredictable things. Sometimes a
person wants the title -- or has it
thrust upon him ~ and does not care
about the organization, or lacks the
time to do an effective job. There are
i several members of the Reynolds
[ Health Center board who very
I seldom showup. In the last meeting,
i Mr. Booker had to consult the
i? appointment chart to recall "who they
i were. Rather than take a chance on
j getting more potential do-nothings
1 on the committee, we'd like to see
> the commissioners reappoint Dr.
i Atkinson and Booker. They have
/ proven their interest and their worth.
favor of freedom. The struggle
of the South African
people for liberation is sup artheid
From p0rted not only by African
ricmn Perspective an(j non-aligned States, and
the Socialist States, but also
by several Western Governments
and by public opinion
back over the jn Western countries.
in the past The recent abrogation of the
we can derive Simonstown Agreement by
lion that the ^e United Kingdom, after
th Africa have persistent public demands
sd and that the for an end to military coovement
has operation with South Africa,
ising interna- js one evidence of the
t. -The balance ?constant advance of solidar
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racism and in tjon
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To Be Equal
by Vernon E. Jord*
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Preside Carter's arguments for the
dec sion not to go ahead necessity of an additional
with production of the costly weapon r the B-T~
B-1 bomber was a bold bomber. Especially when
one, and he's catching a the cruise missile makes
??lot of flak because. oi_tt. even?the?new?bomber?
obsolete.
But it was a sound
decision, a good one, By grounding the B-1,
frum every standpoint. pres^ carter also takes a
step toward dampening
Despite the cries of the arms raca |t is
alarminsts, there's plenty obvious that new arms
of doubt that the weapon developments by one side
was needed. We e ju$t leads to counter Iready
got stock piles of developments on the
en- gh destructive other jhe arms race
weapons to blow the escalates, more weapons
entire world up several are produced, more
imes over, along with billions are spe t by both
the delivery systems to sides, and the relative
do the job. apabilities of both sides
remain the same
So dnn'r buy thsr
Alice In Winstonland
Tweedle -Dee &
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wsm/m m ?/
Alice had left the "You don't take care of
company of the Red King her!" screamed Tweedle and
was walking through
the forrest alone when the He '' screamed Tweedlesound
of shouting attrac- Dum." And I think you
30 ted her to a small clearing, want to sell her to the
JH where two men were packing plant when nofighting.
body's looking."
ijE They were chubby "And you would take
Y twins, dressed in multi- better care of her?" askec
colored outfits, with their Alice.
names, Tweedle-Dum and "Well," said Tweedle
Tweedle-Dee written a- Dum," I've read book!
? cross the back. As Alice about cows, and I want t*
QB entered the clearing, the own this one..."
two began to hit each "He used to be i
94 other while continuing to butcher,'' whispere<
B] shout. Tweedle-Dee.
mn "Why are you^. fight- "Your used to be i
ing?" asked Alice. butcher?" gasped Alice.
"He's trying to take my "Why did you mentioi
Sward," snapped Tweedle- that?" shouted Tweedle
dee, pointing to a cow tied Dum. "You want him t
to a nearby tree. keep the cow, don't you
"Your ward?" You don't like me."
"Yes," said Tweedle- "But I..really I hardl
Dee. "I'm her legal know either of you...
guardian; have been for Alifce stammered.
years. She's my ward.'1? See Alice, Page 12
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That's a self 138,000 slots of youth
destructive spiral that cost Ira. than 10 of the
doesn't make sense. big bombers.
especially when you
consider the_price tag on Suclv comparisons
the B?1r Some estimated could be made all alone
that are the projected ' ne ~ maior nQw
fleet of the new bombers weapons systems that
and support and? bring marginal
maintenance systems improvements in defense
would ultimately cost capabilities cost far more
about $1100 million. than proyams that
make a major difference
Just one plane would 'n people's lives and in
cost about $100 million. creating opportunities to
And then there are the escape from poverty,
extras* not to mention
the inevitable cost A d, that too, has
verruns that continually Important defense
plague our major defense implications. The real
systems. strength of a country
A . . . . . comes from its people
The Administration s . . ^
proposal5 for special 0fthe hardwara
r?" .. Pf?f9, "rnmrvarfi itS armed forces possess,
interesting pa That's especially true in
'-he cncts the B-l would . ......
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mcur An .nner-crty $jtuatjon where we've
Youth Community a|ready git aM th4
Conservation a^d weapons we need to
Improvoment Project, for defend ourselves with,
example, would create
30,000 jobs for teenagers History shows that
at a cost only a bit higher other nations thai
than two B-1i possessed powerful
armies and techno log i
Expansion of public cally superior weapon!
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Please sir write in
letters to your paper.
I want to thank all
drivers of the Winston-Salem
Transit Authority for
' speaking in my behalf. -*
When 2 of 3 drivers and
even the leader of the
Union, and Traffic Manager
and some things were
uncalled for and untruthful
about my conduct
while riding their buses.
By many of them speaking
in my behaif, they have
wives, daughters, and
girlfriends. Many stated
who wronged me. Many of
my white friends stated I
was too 'intelligent, to
lowrrated by the incident
by which I was accused by
the drivers. It always
takes two to tangle.?
In closing it is a might
weak person who calls
himself a leader and
believes untruthful tales
from the ones he lead
without getting understading
and facts of a case.^?^
They promised to meet
? with me and see what the
real problem was, but
they refused to. I am glad
they did not, but, asked
4 other drivers about my
conduct.
I had talked with my
could have been taken
against them. Slander, in
the civic work I have done
and still doing here and in
_ other cities and states.
Mary Sloon Jones
Dear Editor:
The Winston-Salem
J Chapter of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored
People is deeply grateful
to you for the coverage
given our membership
See Letters, Page 12
ultimately failed because
i of internal conflicts
' generated by inequality
and neglect of their
population'$ needs.
To the extent that we
can create economic
opportunities and reduce
social inequalities.--we?
While it is important to
keep our defense
capabilities up to full
strength, it would be a
i mistake to squander
: - scarce resources on new
i weapons systems that
i don't add all that much
i to our power ?while
imposing terrible costs on
our economy and our
special order.
It would be well for
critics of the B-1
decisions to remember
General Eisenhower's
statement: "Every gun
that is made, every
warship launched, every
rocket fired signifies, in
i the final sense, a theft
i ifuiii itomj wno nunyei
? and are not fed, those
who are cold and are
not clothed. This is not
a way of life at all, in any
t true sense. Under the
I cloud of threatening war,
- it is humanity hanging
i from a cross of iron "
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