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Washignton D - Pre i-
dent Rea an c lled a bi­
partisan meetin of Congre -
ional leader last wee to dis­
way to comb t illegal
. But hlte Hou aide
d to allo Bl ew
Yor Con e sman Charles
Ran el into the meeting.
Rangel i chairman of the
Hou lect Committe on
arcotic Abu and Control.
Ho ever he h been a
frequent critic of Pre ident
Re an. He h accu d th
drnini ration of doin very
little to c mbat drug abu .
i Hou aide told Ran­
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ashington, DC The
Equal Emp oyment Oppor­
tunity Commi ion la wee
cleared the way for six
Bl c Foreign Service Of-
en to e the U.S. State
Department. The six h lYe
ccu d the department of
racial di rimination in it
hiring and promotion polic-
. . Only 6% of the nation' .
Foreign Service officer are
Blae and there are' only
six Bl ambassador out of
total of 150.
JACKSO TAKES IDEA TO
STATE DEPT.
ashington, DC - The
Rev. Jes Jackson wants the
le der of eight uthern
African n tion to meet with
Pre ident Reagan. And last
he ore nted his idea
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To pressure Reagan on apartheid
J ILLE Fla. - Civil
rights activist Dick Gregory
ants African-Americans to
boycott Christmas this year if
President Reagan fails to tak
firmer action by Thanksgivin
against apartheid -in South
Africa.
"If you put a hurting on th
economy, you'll have rich White
folks in this country j umping
out of indo s over what is
happening in South Africa,"
Gregory said at the 29th annual
convention of the Southern
Christian Leadership Con­
ference.
"This is serious business.
This must be serious business."
_he added.
The former comedian said the
way to bring attention to the
problem' hit the nation'
economy here it hurjs the
most in the holiday shopping
season.
Gregory, a member of the
SCLC board, called for
Americans to stop buying pro­
ductions from South Africa and
to stop supporting American
companies doing business in
South Africa.
"We have to say in the
African-American community,
'Let's not buy any more gold or.
diamonds and those that have
them take them off' ," the
former comedian said during
the recent meeting. Gold and
diamonds are major exports of
South Africa.
lnq pans Schultz
y Larry A. Still
NNPA News Service
ASIn GTO Mrs.
Coretta Scott King, president
of the Martin Luther King Jr.
Center for onviolent Social
Change, Inc., is expected to
meet with U.S. Secretary of
State George Schultz this wee
after returning from her con­
toversial visit to white ruled
South Africa and e neighbor­
ing Blac ruled nations of
Zl;I1lbia, Zimbabwe and Bot
wana, her dvi rs announced.
She delayed her heduled
September 11 return to Atlant
after a hectic two week African
tour "filled with landmines",
id one spo e er n.
Mrs. King wa accompanied
by Christine King F ani, the
late Doctor King's sister; ar-
tin Luther King III; Robert
Brown, proposed Blac nominee
for ambassador to South Africa;
Carole Hoover, busine associ­
ate; Rev. Jo ph Roberts, Dr.
Bernard Lafayette, and taff
members Barbara Williams­
Skinner, AI Davis, Mamie
Thompson, S.K. Brown, amie
Thompson and Ofield Dukes,
pres relation.
r. King, thu joined for­
mer colleague Rev. J e J ck­
son in see ing a dramatic change
in U.S. foreign policy in sou­
thern Africa after rust hand
visit to the be iged are as
trong economic sanctions are
still being sought by Blac
leaders here to bring about
change without all out revolut­
ion for liberation.
J ac son, who also recently
returned from visiting he ds of
the six "frontline" nations bor­
derin South Africa, refused to
visit the apartheid country be­
cau of restrictions placed on
his travel during religious cele­
brations for African obel
Peace Prize laureate, Rev. Des-.
mond Tutu.
Mrs. King postponed a sched­
uled meeting with South Africa's
white pre ident Pieter . Botha,
while visiting t e raci
segregated country to witness
Tutu's installation as the fir t
Gregory also said a bo co t
on the material asp c f
Christma would help fo us on
th spiritual side of th holiday.
Earlier this ek S LC
President Joseph Lowry call d
for a boycott of Coca-Cola pro­
ducts until the Atlanta-based
company stops doing business
in South Africa. Gregory sup­
ports that plan.
Americans who crtticiz e
apartheid need to adjust their
life styles to make a difference,
Gregory said.
"You can look at the news and
see little babies being killed and
African men being arrested and
still go bac and bake your
ham," Gregory said. "We can
turn South Africa around. We
.can leav here with a commit­
I_!l�nt to turn it around. "
Atlanta Mayor Andre
Young told SCLC members that
sanctions were necessary in
South Africa to wake up the ma­
jority who do not want to
become involved in the struggle
against apartheid.
In another session Thursday,
Beverly King, the 23-year-old
daughter of slain civil rights
leader Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr., said African-American
churches need to do more in
their communities to eliminate
poverty, strengthen family
moral and help youths out of the
ghettos.
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Black Angli an Archbishop f
Capetown.
Spokesman Dukes said rs.
Kin f ced "landmine ' in gree­
ing to meet with white officials
after hedulin visits with Bl c
liberation leaders Rev. Allen
Boe and innie and elson
Mandela, impri ned pre ident
of the African ati nal Con­
gres . r . King later held an
emotional meeting with r .
andela in her S eto home.
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