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cdMiiTcomifiii | Super Bowl XIII’s Hidden Hero By Hoyle H. Martin Sr. Post Editorial Writer Super Bowels I and II were high lighted by the personality of Vince Lombardi and his Greenbay Pack ers’ dynasty; Super Bowl VI was glamorized and dramatized by the “I guarantee it” flamboyancy of the Broadway Joe Namath-led New York Jets; Super Bowl X, the best of the first 12 matched Dallas and Pittsburgh, with the latter winning 212-17. Undoubtedly, those bowls were considered great because they were at least able to match the high expectations of the press and the general public while others were not. The latest of these football extra vaganzas, Super Bowl XIII, was undoubtedly the most talked about, written about and theorized about bowl of them all because of the higher expectations in the game by the press, the public, the NBC-TV Network and professional football itself. All of this was justified by the game itself which included probably the two best quarterbacks in pro fessional football-Bradshaw and Sta ubach;two of the most explosive running backs -Harris and Dorsett; two of the NFL’s best defensive teams;two teams that .had won a total of 30 games, including four play-offs, while losing only six; and the two best-coached teams in the professional rank§. All of these facts contributed to making Super Bowl XIII the greatest most wide-open, shoot-out it was. finallv won bv Pittsburg 35-31, with the victory in doubt until the last minute of play. Thus, like Super Bowl XZ, involving the same two teams, Super Bowl, XIII was an exciting evertt seen and cheered by 79,000 people in the brange Bowl in Miami and witness ed by 100 million people-nearly half the nation’s population- on televi sion In order to understand the drama and attraction of this annual event, and why number XIII has been the best yet, it is necessary to look behind the spotlightl performers and the sports page headlines to see the hidden heroes, that is, how champ ionship teams are master-minded or developed. I am referring here to two things that the Dallas Cowboys and Pitts burgh Steelers do that most other teams don’t do: they hire good coaches and retain them through. Tom Landry has been the only headcoach the Cowboys have had in their 18-year history. Chuck Nolls was hired by Pittsburg as headcoach 10 years ago. Coaches Tenure Underlying this lact of the ' coaches tenure is the matter of the teams or organization’s manage ment philosophy and policy. Begun by Dallas, and adopted by Pitts burgh, the policy calls for building a tootball team from the drafting of college players on an annual basis and attempting to avoid any trades. Furthermore, in addition to hiring the best possible headcoach, the policy calls for filling every position from the lockerroom assistant to the organization’s president with the best available persons. This hiring policy has a positive side affect in that it encourages the football players to excell to the highest. It is undoubtedly partly for this reason that Pittsburgh’sd Lynn Swann caught 67 passes for 1,3030 yards and 13 touchdawns during the 16-game regular season and the play-offs. His teammate John Stall worth caught 52 passes for 971 yards and 11 TDs. Dallas’ Tony Hill and Drew Pearson collectively caught 100 passes for 1,676 yards and six touchdowns. > Dallas quarterback Roger Stau back has thrown for 3,421 yards and 27 TDs while Pittsburgh’s Terry Bradshaw, the NFL’s Most Valuable Player for 1978, has passed for 3,389 yards and 32 touchdowns. Added to this is the fact that both are good running quarterbacks. We need not mention the talents of Tony Dorsett or Franco Harris, the excellent runningbacks of Dallas and Pitts burgh, respectively, because most know their skills. The point is, players are motivated to play up to their potential in every game. The proof of the pudding in the mnciArtA»MAn4 ammmaaa1% a/ 4Laa a «... VWVII VI M<V0V OU per Bowl powers is in the fact that just six years after entering the NFL in 1960 as an expansion team, the Cowboys qualified for the play-offs and continued to do so for eight consecutive years, 1966 through 1973. They won the Super Bowl last year and, of course, played in the super event this year, losing out to Pittsburgh. By making the play-off this year, the Steelers have now qualified seven years in a row. Management Formula The management formula has been so successful for Dallas and Pittsburgh that other teams have begun to adopt the same manage ment approach. Finally, millions of the people who watched or listened to the super bowl are not regular football fans nor do they support a specific team. They watched the game because it was a reflection of a basic American value. That value is in admiring an individual or a group of individuals who can demonstrate great skill in the use of a specific talent. Basic to this is individualism. Thus, in the witnessing of a Bradshaw pass, a dorsett run, A Stallworth diving catch or a Butch Johnson punt return, we are admiring an individ ual utilizing a talent to the maxi mum. This is particularly true since we rarely have the opportunity to see such a raw demonstration of skill either in the joy of victory or the agony of defeat. Am g,BlAt Facts About Illegal Aliens By Bayard Rustin Special To The Post In the 1850’s, an ugly polit ical organization appropriate ly known as the Know Noth ing Party grew in size and influence by appealing to mass hatred of foreign immi grants. According to the Know Nothing leaders, the economic problems of America’s work ers and farmers had one main cause-the steady influx of Chinese coolies, European Catholics, and other such un desirables. These groups, the nativists asserted, deprived white A merican of jobs, suppressed wages, and threatened white supremacy.To counteract the ‘‘Yellow Peril” and other a lien threats, the Know-Noth ings proposed mass deportat ions and highly restrictive immigration rules.The nativ ists had a simple program and a simple slogan:"Americans must rule America!" A new wave of Know-Noth ingism seems to be sweeping America as we hear more and more about the economic threat from so-called illegal aliens. Of course, much of the outcry about “illegals” arises from the usual sources, organ izations like the Ku Klux Klan, and other racist groups.But I find it very disturbing-indeed, very disappointing-to discov er Know-Nothing sympathies even among some of the most sensitive and decent leaders of he black community. Here I have in mind those blacks who call for the virtual deportation of illegal aliens, as a quick-fix remedv for chronically high black unemployment. Such an approach obscures the real issues, and simply uses illegal aliens-most of them Mexi cans, blacks and Asians-as convenient scapegoats. On the surface, any argu ment pointing to “illegals" as the economic enemies of black Bayard Rustin people appears to make sense. Afterall, we all agree that the labor force includes an enor mous number of “illegals," anywhere from 3 million to 12 million people. But everyone seems to forget two important points: lui>i, uiegals 'subsist as a virtual under-class in economic terms, and second, many employers have a vest ed interest in preserving an obsolete and highly question able immigration system that creates "illegal aliens." Anyone who suggests that “illegals" displace large num ber of black people from desir able jobs should examine the facts especially as they relate to wage rates and occupat ions. By and large, "illegals" receive wages that are best described as “sub-poverty.” In'jvr/s, tor' instance, one of every four "illegals” earned less than $2.10 per hour;more than 65 percent received $2.50 per hour or less;and more than 95 percent earned $4.50 per hour or less.In terms of occupations, the largest group of “illegals” were concentrat ed in farm work, with the remainder scattered in ex tremely low-paying service and industrial jobs, jobs that would offer unemployed blacks scant opportunity for a decent living. Who benefits from the exist ence of a large and growing pool of undocumented aliens? The answer is simple:employ ers in labor-intensive indust ries who greatly prefer defen seless, workers willing to work at low wages.“Illegals,” who constantly fear deportat ion, fill that prescription ex actly.And the economic posit ion of black people, particular ly youngsters, is threatened more by this system of fear than by the mere presence of “illegals” who are in effect, innoncent pawns in the em ployer’s billy club-the threat of deportatio-blacks can begin moving toward_an effective and humane solution of the “illegal alien” problem. 'As a minimal program, I believe blacks should support two oroDoeals.First, and most important, we must call for some sort ot amnesty tor “illegals” presently working in the United States, especi ally those with long-standing attachments to the comm un ity.Such an amnesty would immediately eliminate the under-class’’ of low-wage terror-stricken workers so e asily exploited by some em ployers. Without the threat of ueporation, employers win find it impossible to exact tribute from workers in the form of substandard wages and working conditions.More over, they will be unable to play-off Mexican workers and other “Illegals” against black People. Second, employers who re peatedly hire undocumented aliens shoud be prosecuted and fined. Under the present immigration laws, those who hire and recruit “illegals" face no penalties whatsoever. The only .people subject to penalties are the “illegals” themselves. ■5“By Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. TO BE EQUAL I I IRS Under Fire The Internal Revenue Service has come under heavy fire in the past several months. The reason? Its new regulations barring tax exempt status to the notorius ‘‘seg academies.” Those are schools that were set up after local public school desegregation took effect. White parents who vowed their kids would “never” go ^ to school with black kids made good on their “ promise. They yanked their kids out of the public schools and enrolled them in private schools. In some cases, long-established private schools saw their enrollments swell. More often, new schools were set up, draining the public schools of white students. Such schools were helped to prosper by getting tax exempt status as educational institutions. That meant donations to them could be written off as * charitable deducations. Without that hidden subsidy from the federal Treasury, few of those seg academies could have survived. In 1970, the Federal courts got into the act. In a case that went to the Supreme Court, it was ruled that racially discriminatory private schools are not entitled to tax exempt status. Some schools lost their exemption, but most continued to flourish by making a simple »u*iemeni mai mey oiQ not discriminate. Those professions of non-discrimination were easily seen through-the absence of blacks from faculty and students were proof enough. So the IRS drew up a set of regulations that conforms to anti-discrimination were easily seen - the absence of blacks from faculty and students was proof enough. So the IRS drew up a set of regulations that conforms to anti-discrimination laws and to court rulings. It says that predominately white schools that were established in a period following public school desegregation or whose enrollment grew by 10 percent or more at that time have to prove they don’t discriminate. The regulation is i$ally a mild one. The schools would have to enroll a modest number of minority students. Or they could just prove they are making a good faith effort to do so. That’s all , it takes to keep the exemption. 4K But that mild regulation has resulted in over 100,000 letters to the IRS complaining about it. It has led a small army of Congressmen to put pressures on the IRS to revoke or modify the regulation. v.. Spokesmen for private schools have charges of “dictation by regulation.” They’ve wrapped themselves with the cloak of religious freedom, since some of the schools claim affiliation with a religious denomination. What’s all the fuss about? The argument doesn’t revolve around the right of such schools to exist. Everyone grants that right is constitu tionally protected. The issue is whether they should get a federal subsidy. And there’s no constitutional right to discriminate with federal monev. On the contrary,there is a constitutional mandate against such discrimination. If white supremacists want their own schools they can’t be stopped. But let them support those schools themselves-without raiding the federal treasury to do it. THE CHARLOTTE POST “THE PEOPLES NEWSPAPER” , Established 1918 Published Every Thursday By The Charlotte Post Publishing Co., Inc. 1524 West Blvd.-Charlotte. 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While economists differ as to the severity of the slump, they generally agree that unem ployment will exceed 7 per cent, that the inflation rate will probably be in the 8 percent range, and that the Gross National Product will decline by something like 1 percent or 2 percent.All this translates into a loss of well over 1.2 million Jobs, the con tinued erosion of individual purchasing power, and gen eral economic stagnation. Even worse, the anticipated recession-a favorite cure for inflation-seems unlikely to seriously control the problem of steadily rising prices. In deed the predicted inflation rale of 8 percent is actually higher than the present rate Thus, modern recessions are not only painful cures;they are also largely ineffective cures Considering our dismal ex perience with seven post war recessions, one might expect political leaders and economic policy makers to reconsider the old inflation-employment trade off.Ilul with over 30 years ol repealed failure, this vuiinuucu dim frequently in humane approach remains popular, at least among "mainstream” economists and conservatives.Several days ago, for example, a leading economic forecaster and consultant to IBM offered this prescription for Amer ica’s economic ills: "The pro blem that the country has to face is whether it really wants to get the basic rate of inflat ion down very substantially, to cut it. say in half.There is no way to accomplish that with out going through a recession and having a couple years afterward of slow growth.” Many key figures in the Carter Administration unfortunately share this pessimistic ap proach to economic policy. In addition to creating more joblessness and human suffering, recessions spawn other problems, problems that especially affect black people For one thing, a contracting or stagnant economy prevents blacks from continuing the economic gains of the last IS years With rising unemploy ment, and decreasing tax rev enues. pressure mounts for deep cuts in social programs at all governmental levels. And already, an attack has been launched against the oldest and most basic com ponents of the protective wel tare state- measures like the minimum wage, social se curity, and the Fair Labor Standards Act. By any standard, then, 1979 is hardly a promising year for black people But there are some positive developments, the most important being the renewed sense of unity among America’s black leaders.As evidence of this I point to the White House meeting of the Black Leadership Forum In December.Faced with the double threat of recession and substantial cutbacks in the federal budget, the black lead ers confronted President Cart er, and presented him with concrete proposals, regarding jobs, housing, and assistance for America's deeply troubled cities. Moreover, the Black Lead ership Forum left President Carter with a clear, straight forward message: black people, whether they be poor or middle-class, workers or businessmen, will not sur render their political inde pendence. even if it means criticizing -sometimes harsh ly an Administration elected with over whelming black support. One key sentence from the Forum's joint statement to President Carter is worth nt>C ing here."The failure on your part to take bold and decisive action on the matters we have set before you today could well undermine your Administrat ion.” Some people, of course, might interpret these words as veiled threats.But such an In terpretation is a mistake.The Black Leadership Korum was not joining a “Dump Carter” movement.On the contrary, it was reasserting its claim for a meaningful black voice in shaping the nation's economic policy. And it was convincingly defending the interests of those black people least able to survive another round of ■austerity” policies.This unity and political independ ence of the black leadership is, I believe, a hopeful sign that the worst prospects of 1979 may somehow be avoided, or at least moderated.And it gives cause for hope during the comina vear Business In The Black Bargains In The Stock Market oy Charles E. BElle Special To The Post Every stockbroker Is overly optimistic aoout an equity opportunity every now rfhd then.This year, there are plenty of common stocks to put your money into at reason able price*. Americans of all colors have been chastised for consuming rather than saving their dollars. Since Federal Reserve stat istics show U. S consumers devote 21 percent ol every nfler-tax-dollar to repaying existing debts, there is some truth to the comment Some economists cs ..<> oelieve be cause 1). S. policymakers over the- years have discouraged the public from saving, the II S now faces the prospects of higher inflation, i weaker dollar, slower economic grow th and declining productivity. , Further, beiiei Is that, unless such uimm* are correct ed the U. S. will be unable to get on to a stable high-lnveat ment. high growth path.Now let me take the personal pero gative an.1 pay homage to America's self-sufficiency. Some lax reform initiative will I:, 'igate a renewed In terest in se« urities Investment before ejection year I wo It is ta matter of record that the stock market moves sev eral month ula.aU of (he actual oral in into ahead of the actual economy.The stock murke. ..urrently reflects the coming nn.oaNton.Oti the the ory that elective represents! ivi*s fee* one aployinent per sonall; in -.»«*fl as for the iml'lic. ---t -hmioniic relief iHiore - feocral ••iectiiHis. l-r.niii Ntap'iil linn survey ,eacl. . irlersonietUNl lop financial people around the country.For the first time w since the survey was initiated In the first quarter of me, common *ks are given pre ference over all other invest ment alternatives as having the best prospects for apprec iation. Drexel Burnham Lam bert, Inc. an investment bank ing firm intimately associated with this writer traces its history back to lS3e.
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