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ByJo W. Le .
Conzre an Alan Wheat joined
recently with congre onal colleague to
aporove I tion to authorize the print-
Ing of a congre . onal eold medal
to commemorate President Harry S.
Truman. eat is a member of the con-
• gre 'onal committee plannins a Joint
Se . on of Congre on ay 8th to honor
the lOOth Anniversary of Pre' dent
Truman's birth.
Congressman Wheat repre nt
uri' Fifth Congre onal District,
hich Includes Truman's permanent-re
Idence in Independence . uri.
Congressman AUBUstu F.
chairman of the House Subcommittee on
Employment Opportunities, wrote re­
cently to Secretary of Labor Raymond
Donovan ex pre . his uave concern
with the Department's zreement with :
veral m ior U. S. co panle which by­
p the Department's normal anti-dis­
crirnin tion enforcement or ctices. The
gre ments were negotiated by the De­
partment' Office of Federal Contr t
Compliance Program under the recently
initiated ational Self- onitoring
Reportin Sv em.
- Conzre n Louis Stoke wa the
le d-off tne for a recent hearing fo­
cnsin on the re uthorization of the Fam-
ily PI nning . ranee Program. The
Ohio Congre an told the committee
. th t 'teen e preanancy and the need for
viable family coun ling service has ri n
tremendou y Inthis nation."
"Bearine in mind the mo recent
statistic vailab1e hkh indicate th t
one of four black habies is born to a teen-
er oppo d to one in en amo
white ," d Stokes. Each year the
Reagan Administration ha taken action
to erode the program.
RESOURCES
A handbook recently issued by the
Joint Center for PoUtical Studie , is an
invaluable re arch tool for blacks invol­
ved in local and national politic . The
JCPS Congressional District Fact Book,
which is particularly u ful for get-out
the vote effort, proVide demosranhlc
and political data on each state and the
new (post 1980) congr . onal district
rranzed in table for easy references and
quick comparison .
Included in the Fact Book are s -
ti tics on the precentage of blac and
Hispanics in the voting-age population
and the percentaze of the vote received
by pre dential and congre ional candi­
dates in the last election.
JCPS al recently published an up­
dated ver on of n earlier publication
"Ho to Use Section 5 of the Voting
Rights Act," which contains information
on w y citizen can become involved in
the procedures t UP by the Voting
Rights Act to guard the electoral rights of
mlnoritie .
BUSI 55 -I THE BLACK
Blood and Oil Flo
In San Francisco la month two men
m de gument for their point of vi
ictimized Lebanon. Fir t, Dr. Clovis
ak ud chief of . 'on and Amb -
dor of the le ue of Arab States to the
United tions and the United State ,
th Perman nt Ob rver to the U. .
and Special Envoy to the U.S. for the
Le ue, hich include 21 nations of
th rab World. Dr. ksou.d is PTO­
fe r of Political Sci nee nd Inter-
tiona! Law, a Lebane citizen
i committed to his raped count
t idealistic Arab cau of a homcan,
for the Palestinian Peopl with the t
of lf-determin tion. His Excellency
ideas of the immedi te need of the type
of rvice the U.S. could provide for
his country arply contr ted to tho
I of a Commonwe th Club of California
n aker in S n Franci 0 repre nting
th U.S. State Department.
Rich rd . Fairbanks III, is Am-
b dOT nd Special dvisor to the
,U .S. Secretary of State, ho lead he
follo in "the que t for pe ce in the
iddle E ." Pe ce or no peace, how­
ever, it is clear that this administration
d nd by idly when
hich threaten our
priority
c
"in de"
a the Camp
. n ider kin
I ael to step off the b c of the Pale­
stenians. Petroleum from the iddle
st corridor is the political justific tion
for the U.S. heing an I el patsy.
Pl cina the blame for the troubles
in the iddle East on the big, bad, red
be r ndlor her cub Syri em to be
the brunt of the State Department
foreign policv. Peopl without a home­
land h ve ver little "intere ts' for this
dmini tration. Am ba dor F airbanks
quotes the President for his position,
"Our view on the extent to which I eal
should be asked to dve up territory,
will be heavily affected by the extent
of true pe ce and normalization and the
curitv arrangements: offered in re­
turn." In short, Isreal shall say when it
"feels safe" before the U.S. will exer­
ci its tnfluence to end the occun tion
of tolen territory from war tom
Lebanese or Palestenian people. It is to
Israel's dv nt ge to seize a much 1 nd
in Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan or even
Syria in order to swap p rticles of these
ill Rotten aains for a fool's peace.
Amba dor Maksoud, when pe k­
ing before th International Trade Coun­
cil of the S n Francisco Chamb r of
(Commerce, under the auspice of the
U.S. Arab Chanb r c lied up n the
U:S. to work with the poor in these
"rich nation" in the Iddle E t. Dr.
ak ud ys the Arab orld i made
up of "rich n tions of poor people."
The problem i that the U.s. is dealing
onlv with n "elit "fe while ignorin
the poor. Populi t movements in Ir n
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APRIL 18 - 24,1984 THE CITIZEN PAGE SEVEN
fat
of
One of the mo deva tating, frighten­
ing catastrophe, like hurricane th t
s eep through a fore , leavin its
debris floatfng in the air are oppre ive
and depre ive changed and change
taht are taking pl ce in thi city.
Benton Harbor, once city of triumph
has now become a battle field for the
remaining carcaa .
Economical prostitution h become
an 0 here voices are ill crying out
in the de rt. . If this mephistophelian
pro titution i not curb, soon Benton .
H rbor ill be owned by half a dozen
people. Thi town will become a grave
yard with epitaph written on one . de:
y father are rich in hou and lands,
they hold the town in the palm of their
hands. on the other ide: "I'm goin
down this ro d feelin b d, I ain't got but
one lousy dime."
What the city is trying to prevent, it
is perpetuating. Here is the picture!
People who are hungry for money, and
like a vulture, 'are scraping off the remain­
ing flesh that i left on the bones. Land
sharks are buying up the downtrodden
home t an xtremly 10 price, not to
improve the condition, but to exploit
and enhance their financial gain. .
It is expedient that the City manager
, and politician take a broader vie of the
ituation and ek a cure for this disease
before it is too late. Like a cancer it
i spreadin rapidly. Some ark own
as many as 92 units, other 62 and 27 .
Go into some of these homes and e
where people live, it will sicken your
stomach. The problem i this! The land­
lords owned so many units they don't
have time to completely patch up
building before moving a tenant in it.
Once the tenant gets in that's it! He
paints a wall with a promise, and no one
es him until next month when the rent
is due.
One the oth ride of the picture: In
some of .the homes, floor are paved over
with dog fllth, Roache and rat play
tennis in paper bags full of garbage.
The Department of Health nd land­
owners should wor out a plan to teach
ome of the people. the basic laws of
health and good living.
In a time of no jobs for th unfor-
r
o
tun te no buildin should be lQ to
anyone unless he or she u rantees that
at least one person in city will be employ.
ed by the said landlord. There re many
thing that people right in Benton Harbor
can do in the homes, but the owners
patches up these homes themselves and
if they don't, they get their relative or
friends to do the job, In this way the
output of dollar is like breaking a dam,
and nothing coming in to help the need y .
A tour by the City an ger, politicia;­
and interested individual through the
do ntrodden, brokenup homes will rve
a good purpo .
A. Undo
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Disputes
Reagan's
unemployment
figures
To The Reader of The Citizen ews­
p per:
I h ve read the unemployment rate is
oin down - but that' an untrue state­
ment.
The ch ng in employment is people
like my elf, ha drawn all their bene Its
out and are unable to get n exten ion.
, There are more people unemplo ed
now th n before this administration got
in office, although the president y the
unemployment rate ha gon down.
The cuts in aid benefits have gone
down. I have fone to the O.S.S. my If
for help and as told that I could only reo
ceive 10. (ten) per month in Food
Stamps and no money.
I ill have to p y for gas, electricity
and food.
I hope that when ovember come
everyone will get out and vote b cause we
cannot go through four more years of this
Republican party.
We the people mu m e thin s
change becau as the work force of this
country we can make chan es with our
votes in ovember!
Walter Fo ter
531 Columbu Benton H rbor
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