Teaches aerobics
to senior eltlzens
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Arthur Ash
in Kalamazoo
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VOL. VIII 0.37 AUGUST 10 - 16, 1986
wn here with his wife Evelyn and daughter Steph .
on t Republican primary election and the chance to
o mber. Lu al on a place in hi ory. He'
ory. houJd he win in
arn '86 vote could repeat '80's doom
-Pre i­
major Blac
organization or th ir
repr ntative agreed to meet
in hington, D.C., Augu t
13-14 to di u the criti al
importance of up oming
enatorial and congre ional
I ction in 0 ember, a ell
a ignifican local and state­
id balloting.
en more important, Blac
voter could determine the
hap of future legi lation in
the 19 6 election , declared C.
D lore Tuc er, chairman of
the Democratic ational
ommitte B thune-DuBoi
und hich i co pon oring
the political briefing ith the
21-member ongres ional
Bla Caucu chaired by Rep.
i ey eland (D-T as).
Rep. rdi ollin (D-
hi ago) ill outline th pur-
po and go I and Rep.
Iter auntroy (D-DC),
pre ident of the ational
Lead r hip Roundtable,
ill provide the ele tion 0 er-
for targeted tate. The
n D C fund a recently
e tablished to help finance
more Blac candidate.
The 19 6 election are a im­
portant to Blac voter no a
the 1 0 po t-recon tru tion
hen all political
progre a topped (by a
combination of outhern
Democrat and Republican ,
Tuc er empha ized.' e had
two U.S. enator and more
jnemb rs of Congr than e
have now during reconstruc­
tion aft r the civil ar, " he
added in comparing the 18
to the 19 0 .
, ... People who forget
their history are doomed to
repeat it," the D C official
declared in r peating the
hi torical quote.
ith all member of th
Hou e of Repres ntative and
34 enators cheduled for re­
el ction, Black oter could
determine ten enators (in­
c1udin at least four Blac
candid at ), elect three to five
ne CB member and choo e
two Blac go ernor and
another lieutenant governor.
The ey tate Ii ted by the
D Care Mi ouri, Georgia,
Alabama, Loui iana, Florida,
ary and, orth Carolina,
California, Pennsylvania and
e or.
The importance of electing
candidate who upport the
civil right restoration act,
outh Africa sanction, the
ne budget and minority
business ill be outlined by
Rep. Gu Ha kins (Calif. ,
Ron Dellum (Calif.), illiam
Gray (Pa.) and Parren it­
chell ( d.).
Democratic party upport
for Blac local, tate and con­
gre ional candidates ill b
outlined by D C chairman
Paul ir, vice-chairman
Roland Burris and trea urer
Sharon Pratt Dixon. Other
participant included R
Je e J c on, chairman of
the ational Rainbo Coali­
tion.
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ea
a
c
e
Blac rna' ority rule were t
come t uth fri a the
viers might be able to g in
a foothold in the minerally
U. S. spied on
Blacks for
South Africa
the
re
- Presi­
dent Rea an vo ed last wee to
re ist what he called "emotional
clamor for punitive sanction "
ain the white minority
government in South frica. In
hi speech Rea an encour ed
dialogue etween the c untry's
Black and whi e but he an­
nounced no new U .. initiative
to pre re the government
to r form its ra ial poli ie .
The lac f ne initiative
rpri d many rver .
In fact the pre ident spe h
w s midly criti al f uth
frica that the c untry's forei n
minister Pik Botha a tually
said h was' encour ed" by
parts of the eech.
hile the Re eech
may have encouraged me
white S uth fricans, it
appeared to have angered just
about everyone el .
The day following the
speech Secretary of State George
Schultz wa roundly denounced
on Capitol Hill by both demo­
crat and republicans. One
nator declared that he w
ashamed of the administration
for maintainin a do nothin "
policy toward u th Africa
while Black were being' slaugh­
tered in the street .'
In uth fri a. BI c i-
can Bish p D sm nd Tutu
de ribed e an' ddres a
'nau ' atin . He t ld an
rneri an rep rter , 'Y ur presi­
dent is the pit a far as Blac
are c n erned."
For their part b th Pre ident
Re an and cretary of tate
hultz u d anti ommunism
a partial ju tification for the
failure to pply pre sure on the
white minority government. t
one point in hi speech Reagan
enhanced uth frica's
strategic importance to the
estern world and said 'The
Soviet n t una are
of the st
This as an apparent re-
ference to ldom stated ut
widely held belief among many
American conservative that if
in the country
70 per cent BI
G
eanwhile, it a revealed
wee that .S. intelli en e
or anizati ns have een spyin
on the African ational on-
re and sharing the informa-
tion with the uth frican
ver
auth ritie .
hultz h d n
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