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SEATILE, ASH. - 'Con­
tinue to do wh t you've been
doing. Agitate and explain
the i ue for your readers,"
Georgia State Rep. Julian Bond,
a pioneer in the Civil Rights
mo ment urged the ational
ewspaper Publishers Associat­
ions convention here.
Bond, who began his career
an ctivist hile working for
the Atlanta Inquirer newspaper,
recalled the role of the Black
Pre in chieving civil rights
gains for Bl cJc People during
th I t 25 years. The current
dministration of President
Ronald Reagan is practicing
'economic triage" that is cau­
sing th children and the p or
of America to suffer by being
eliminated, Bond declared.
He told the publishers the
policie of the current admini-
ation in regard to octal
and he th programs has had
the same effect as "going into a
hospital and slitting th throat
of the babie there."
In upport of that claim
Bond pre nted statistics on
unemp oyment, infant mortality
and pointed out change in
American values th t contribute
to th decline of the society.
'There are more Black in
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poverty now than four years
go and more than 20 year
ago. After four more years
of this kind of economic re­
covery many of us have ceased
to exist," the speaker de­
clared.
, e've experienced a great
improvement in our general
condition. Our relative con-
dition h managed to get
wor ," claimed Bond. He said
th t, in e nee, time have
changed yet remained the same
for B ck people. ' e've gone
from the Ku Klux Klan to the
eo- azis," he dded. He
attributes the stagnation in the
ci ty to "the lifeboads to go
round. "This feeling is keep- .
ing people from organizing and
pre ing for political change
according to Bond who called
President Reagan's re-election
the reinstallation of "the evil
empire."
Bond did not underestimate
the role of the Black Press in
making political change in
Am ric ., "There wouldn't have
been a artin Luther King if
there h dn't been an :Afro­
Amencan press." In that light
Bond urged the publishers to
"continue doing hat you've
been doing, agitate and explain
the issues." He also hopes to
see every Black pape hire a
young person to ease unem­
ployment among youth and
educate aspiring journalists.
Bond aid his first "real"
job was with the Atlanta in­
quirer, a Black publication
created 25 years ago in "the
middle of the struggle" and it
was the only paper, according
to Bond, to cover t e student
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GREE SBORO - A Federal
jury found eight people liabl
in the wrongful death of Dr.
. chael athan a demonstrator
shot to death when a caravan
of Klansmen and azis attacked
group of anti-Klan demon-
trators at 1979 rally in
Greensboro .C.
Found liable were two police
officers, a police informant,
and five Klansmen and azis.
Dr. artha athan idow of
Dr. ichael athan, was a ard­
ed 351 500 in damages.
The jury also found four
Klansmen and azis liable for
t e assaults of Dr. Paul Ber­
manzohn Dr. icb el athan,
and Thomas Clar. Berman­
zohn, who as left permantly
paralyzed from a shot in the
head, wa awarded 38,359.
Dr. athan w awarded
3,600, and Thomas Clark, who
was sprayed with birdshot, was
awarded I ,500 ..
The Plaintiffs in the suit,
in winning a verdict of liability
for police, Klansmen, and azis,
were able to do what was not
done in two criminal trials,
including the most expensive
prosecution ever undertaken by
the justice department. Klans­
men and azis were previously
acquitted in a tate murder
trial in 19 0 and in a feder I
civil right criminal trial in
1984. The role of la enforce­
ment agents wa not at i ue in
the two previou trials.
The two police officers, Lt.
P.W. Spoon in charge of poll e
protection for the demon trat­
ion, and Jerry Rooster" Coo­
per a detective who was the
control gent for police infor­
mant Ed Daw on, were not
named as defendent in the two
previou trial. Informant Da -
son, who, te timony has shown,
organized and led the Klan m n
and azi 0 the anti- an
rally, wa not called to testify
in the two previous trials.
Te timony shows that Daw­
son provided the Greensboro
Police with detailed information
about the Klan's plans to disrupt
the anti-Klan demonstration in
the weeks prior to it, and that
the morning of the rally he
phoned Detective Cooper and
told him armed Klansmen and
azis had arrived in Greens­
boro and were: going to disrupt
the demonstration. Detective
Cooper followed the caravan to
the rally site and watched the
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Aged Caucus pres-
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Esther D. Clay of dent of the South
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meet in .
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been aetive in m y com-
munity functio, one of .
offlCen elected at m tin
t Hope United et
Church in Benton Harbor.
Ot chapter office for 1985-
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