VE DEATH-
OW TES ARE BLAC
W shington, OC - Accord­
in to a government report
r lea d last wee more thaB
40% of the people waiting
execution on the nation'
de th-row are Bl c . Th t's
even though B s only
. ICcount for 12% of the total
U.S. population. The Bureau
of Justice Stati tic reported
th t of the end of last
year 32 state held 1,591
pri ners on death-to . Of
th t number 903 were white
and 672 ere B . Seven-
een death-to inmates were
omen. The disproportion­
e number of Blacks given
th death ntenee has
prompted ca currently
before the U.S. Supreme
Court hich argue that the
th ntence i handed
do n in racially di rimi-
tory manner. The ju ice
ill i e a deci . n on that
Claim by late spring or
early mrner,
Page 3
·z
STATE'S AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY"
"Here lies Revlon dead because
of greed," said the Rev. Je Be
Jaciscm, "eouldnf stand to atch
Black businesses succeed."
Rev. Jackson' remarks were
made at a mock funeral held at
the Operation PUSH headQuar­
te on Chi�'8 South Side to
ki off national boycott of all
Revlon products.
.0
for
supportjfOC.U on
women �I��ell
e child pport, the rvey
o ed.
Of omen due child support
p yment in 1983, 30 percent
of African-American women and
23 cent of bite women did
ive any p yment. (There
a aU ically significant
difference be een the two
percent e.) Of tho who
received p yment, the verage
amount was 1,470 for African­
American women and 2,480
for white omen.
The survey also 0 ed that
health insurance wa included
in on -fourth of the award
to African-Americans compared
with one-half for white .
ASHINGTO - Two-thirds
of the 2.3 miDion African­
American mothers do-third
of the 6.2 million white
mothers ith children and no
father present ere not arded
child pport P n s of
1984, accord' to a ey by
the Commerce Dep m
Cen Bureau.
Of the women, bout 80
percent of African-AIDe ric an and
nearly 60 percent- of white
wanted child pport but ere
un e to obtain it.
enty percent of African-
�
American mother not warded
child pport and 30 percent
of the white mothers did not
14 IL 0 FO
ATIO
Roche er, .Y.
lack-o ned company
Continued on P • 3
NOVEMBER 23 29, 1986
'Renamo' - Blae . re Is
orking 'or Sou h Africa
frica being u
Blac nation'
clo their eye
of partheid"­
system of white minority rule.
ugabe h t an e timated
10000 tro ps from Zimb bwe
to ozambique to help the
hard-pres d nation battle
RE O.
FO DED BY WHITES
RHODESIA
What today i known as
RE 0 wa tually t up in
the early 1970 by the then
white minority government in
Rhode ia, When th t g vern­
ment fell to BI c rnai ority
rule the RE AMO Ie er no
I nger had government to
bac them. Under Blac rule
Rhode . a became Zimb b e and
RE 0 cam to the atten­
uth Africa.
The introduction wa report­
edly arran ed by Ken Flower .
The white Rhodesian official
who organized RE 0 and
later fled to South Afric when
Bla rule came to Rhodesia.
RE 0 Leaders do not
deny that they are backed by
South Africa. Ho ever, they
claim they are fighting th
spread of communism in Sou­
thern Africa. They justify their
South African support in the
same anti-communi term
UNIT - the right-win rebel
group fighting the An olan
government. UNIT is al
ba ed by South Africa and
is much better known than
RE O.
Mean bile, Blac ate in
Southern Africa have begun
organizing to defeat the South
fric -b ed rebel roup .
By Robert . Taylor
WASH GTO DC L S)
- For the pa t . year the
white minority government in
South Africa has armed train­
ed and in me instances direct­
ed a group of Black rebels who
have managed to become a
major military fore in southern
Africa by attacking tho in­
dependent Bla k states which
border South Africa.
Specifically, the group -
known by the acronym
REN 0' - ha significantly
disrupted the economic life of
Mozambique while al taking
control of large gment of the
poverty-ridden African nation.
United ation relief a encies
e timate that during the last
six years RE AMO'S hit and
run war against ozambique h
resulted in thousands of death
and ha displaced nearly 1
million people. In ddition,
the on-going battle have left
tarvation and ruin in larg
ctions of the potentially rich
country.
Most ob rvers agree that
RE AMO's disruptive tactic
have been ccessful only be-
cau of the pport it receive
from South Africa. Pretoria
is said to bac the Black rebels
in order to keep it Black
neighbors militarially off-balance
and to force them to op
supporting African ational
Congress guerrillas who are fight­
ing to bring down white
minority rule in South Africa.
DECLAR G WAR 0
ZIMBAB
However, there are indic­
tions that South Africa doe
not control all of RE AMO's
activities.
Recently, for example,
RE AMO Le der Afon
Dhlak am a, speaking from Li
bon, Portugal, i ed a declar-
ation of war again another
independent Blac nation.
Dhl ama id his soldi r
, ill att c military and
economic targets and other
intere s in Zimb bwe."
That announcement came a
a surpri to most of world.
It was believed prompted by
military aid Zimbabwe's Robert
gabe h s t to ozarnbi-
que to elp it battle RE O.
ug b has charged that
RE AMO is a tool of South