Jacobs:
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eed national urbanpol icy'
YORl( - Describing
the need for a national urban
policy critical, ational Urban
Le gue President John E. Jacob
aid Thursday October 11 that
ucc ful partn rship between
the government, busin and
community-ba d-organizations
to r vive the economic role of
the nation' citie depend on it,
in a peech at a community
affairs conference held at the
Federal R rve Bank in Phila­
delphia.
J cob rted that,
national full employm nt policy
is an e ntial condiction 0 a
succe ful urban policy,' noting
that all too often, ''Downtown
Revitaliz tion" means 'he 10
of jobs for low- killed, pri­
marily minority workers re­
placed by tho e requiring a high
1 vel of educational attainment.
He cautioned that the kind
of job produced by a 'high
tech future" will not olve the
employm nt probl ms of Blacks
and the poor. J cob maintained
that only coordinated education,
hou ing, health, job creation
and training policies will make
cities "productive contributors"
to American ocietyagain.
He urged that the urban poor
b vie ed not a problem
but rather as presenting an
opportunity to invest in the
development of human resources
and called for more creative
partnership between the public,
private and non-profit sectors to
deal with urban problem.
Citing housing an example,
Jacob aid that state and local
governments could develop
plans to provide incentives to
the private and non-profit sec­
tor to construct and manage
10 -income housing in the
absence of sub tantial federal
efforts to improve urban hou ing
for the poor and the dis dvan­
taged.
Jacob said further that
government, busine and com-
munity-based-organiza ion have
common intere t in urban
revitalization and partnerships
that aim at hame ing the
city's human re urce dding
that:
"If we pre rve the immen
stake we have in our cities; if we
invest in the urban future, and
e pecially, if we inve t in the
productive capacity or our
people, then we will fulfil the
American ideals that have in-
pired the world."
He added that the nation
has the capability of bringing
unemployment down to four
percent with an equitable mix of
pending -and taxation, but said
th t ''The goal of full employ­
ment is impossible without
growth (economic and without
inve tment in human resource ."
Jacob warned that abandoning
the cities and their peopl
will doom the nation to the
. status of "a econd-cla power
and a third-rate civilization."
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South African backs ban on
investing. rejects Sullivan ',ACT'
Carlto LockhmI
ASHINGTO , D.C.
A) - Th American public
the c p city to effect an
end to the raci system 0 f
apartheid in South Africa "if
th y care fficiently," exil d
antiapartheid activist Dennis
rut declared here ee -
end in urging support of Con­
gre ional Blac Caucus (CBC)
legi ation calling for a ban
on ne inve ments in the all
hite operated African govern-
m nt proposed by Rep.
. illiam H. Gray 1lI (D.pa.).
Brutus, cl . led in South
Africa "colored" or of mixed
p ntage, ld two things are
nece to "help" in the South
. African freedom truggle. One is
"no more mo y, no more
technology, no more funding,"
to the par ti regime from
out ide.
Th other i to elimin te
"band-aid olution like the
Sullivan Act," t of guide­
lin which are intended to
encourage United State rums
b d in South Africa to ad­
vance the t t of Bl , native
South African· ,he dded.
The Sullivan Principle, de­
loped by Rev. Leon Sullivan
of th Zion Baptist Church
in Phil delphia and founder
of the Opportunities Industriali­
zation Center (OIC) If Ip
or nization, have been criti­
cized as part of the Reagan
dministration policy of "con-
ructive en ment" in th
rac· country .
Th t policy doe not call
for an immediate end to apart­
heid, but encour
f 1l.�l�'1II·J
emph "zed.
The South African w on
one of the 50 panel discu sions,
forums and workshops spon or­
ed by the C�C Foundation
and its upport groups during
the recent legislative weekend.
Another paneli t, Zak Ya­
coob, a member of the anit­
apartheid United Democratic
Front party in South Africa,
admitted the difficulty in out­
lining th exact step to free­
dom in hi country. To main-
tain the system, the racist
government use an "oppressor
force (the military}," bile
implementing an ideology which
promotes the separatist mor-
. ality and keeps the majority
divided, Yacoob said.
Gray said the CBC took
legi lative action on his bill
"long before" the late t rash
of violence in the country
following the ote to "colored"
and Asians in the government
while till barring the Black,
majority residents from citizen­
ship and holding elective office.
Brutus, a orthwestern Uni­
versity profe r, w s granted
political asylum in the U.S.
a year ago, hen the Immi­
gration and aturalization Ser­
vice 10 t in it attempt to have
him deported after he failed­
�o rene a temporary visa.
3r
Co tinuecl from P
1
cal system that denies equal
rights to orne 22 million Blacks.
The obel Committee, in an­
nouncing the award, called Bis­
hop Tutu "a unifying leader
figure in the campaign to resolve
the problem of apartheid in
South Africa."
TIll year's prizes carry an
ward of S 193 000. Recipients
will be presented diplomas,
medals and prize money on
December 10, the 88th anni-
rury of obel' death. Other
winne" for human rights have
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Co tinned from p I
dant to be reviewed after two
yea rs, and renewed every year
after that. He asked the board
to con ider ''the fine line be­
tween protecting the profes­
sional opportunities of the
superintendant and protecting
the interests of the school
board" in making their decision.
Trustee ielsen dded that
past uperintendant contract
have varied from one to five
year in length, and he him If
would like to see a three year
contract with annual reviews
performed by the school board.
The I board also approved
"memorandum of understand-
o
icist Andrei Sakharov in 1975;
the London-based group Am­
nesty International in 1977'
and Agrentine activist Adolfo
Perez Esquivel in 1980.
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".'011 • to
all ,h. a'ack
p
ing' reached with the Benton
Harbor Education A dation
concerning the In-Hou Suspen-
ion Monitor po ition. The
monitor will or with students
as igned to in-house uspen ion,
helping them with daily assign­
ments, m king n cessary con­
tacts with parents and orking
for the prevention of behavior
problems in cia .
Th monitor would report
directly to th high hool
principal. According to Jo ph
Shurn, Director of Per onnel for
the BHAS, the in-hou monitor
would be a member of the
BHJ!A bargaining unit.
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