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VOL. VIII O. 21
APRIL 20-
The U.S. bombing attac on
Libya, vi eel favorably by mo t
Americans according to pr
polls, w received with mixed
reaction in the Black commu­
nity.
Detroit yor Coleman
Young told reporter, "I think it
. another calp on Rambo' belt
to go along ith Grenada.
There are real big nations e're
pushing over."
Libya has a population of 3.6
million according to A ociate
Pre figure making it a nation
mall r than etropolitan
Detroit.
. ouri Congr man
William Clay in a radio inter-
vie folIo' g the April 14
attac called it a "mad dog
attack."
Je eJackson, in a pr con­
ference held hours before the
attack, said Reagan's tough talk
calling Libyan leader Moammar
Khadafy a "mad dog" as
"beneath the tature of our
country" and counter-produc­
tive.
"Every time we give Khadafy
. another nickname, as if he were
a professional athlete, we mar­
tyr him," Jackson said. "We
make him bi er in his own
are ... Weare making
Khadafy a force in his region
bigger than life. Every anti-
NEWS BRIEFS
American force in the region
can rally around Khadafy."
A ked if he agreed ith
Reagan' decision to send U.S.
rerships into the Gulf of Sidra to
confront Libyan forces last
month,Jackson ld; "We have
the right to be in international
waters. The question i whether
it as nece ary to do it."
Jackson id that the moral
authority of the U.S. po ition
as undermined by continued
U. S. support for the white­
minority government of South
Afri� and for rebel guerillas in
Ca
Angola and Nicaragua.
The pread of terrorism
through the . ddle East reflects
a broad failure of u.S. foreign
policy to deal with the cau e of
violence and instability in that
troubled region, he said.
"Terrorism is the politics of
desperation," Jackson aid.
"When people can no longer
operate ithin the system, they
go outside the system. ... 1 have
met people (in Lebanon) ho
howed me U.S. weapons V>.at
killed their parents or ble up
their chools. People do not e
cusp a
is
or
LANSI G - Economics,
education, health and family life
in the Black communitie of
Michigan ill be discu ed at th
fir t ichigan Conference on
Blac I ues and Concerns.
The conference will be held
Flint, April 2'-27 and is spon-
ored by the ichigan D moe­
ratic Black Caucus, Blue
Cro s/Blue Shield, Stroh Brew­
ery, Blac Doctor and the
Tobacco Institute.
According to organizer of
th conference, the purpose i
"to di cu and develop a com­
mon tatewide trat to ad­
dre the i ues, c ncerns and
probl m that ffect the qu liry
f life for pre ent and future
BI cks in th tat."
Organizer list two goal :
- "To provide participant
with information on ho we can
work together to addre our
common i ues, concerns and
problem .:
-"To develop legitimate
strategies to nhance coalition
building in order to improve the
us a force for peace."
As a 'result, he said, the
United States' in a eaker po i­
tion internationally than it
before Reagan to office.
"Our foreign policy may have
made us fe 1 better, but it h
not orked," he aid. "We're
weaker in Central America,
weaker in Africa, weaker in the
iddle East. All the focus h
been on Khadafy. There' been
no focu on thing like th
collap e of the Camp David
proce ."
quality of life in th Blac
community."
For further information,
reader are urged to contact
Jame B. Franklin III con­
ference chairman b calling
(517) 373-2643.
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