THE MICHIGAN CITIZEN APRIL 5 - 11, 1987
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NE\tVS BRIEFS
.C.· TO AGER SU E DED FOR P D
GOF A BLACK
Chadbourn, .C. - One day before he as heduled to
hire BI c m as police chief, tn white city man er of
Ch dboum, orth Carolina as filed. The idea of a Blac
poli ce chief apparently too much for the small to n
where to-thirds of the residents are white. The three white
member of the five-member city council voted to suspend
to n man er Steve yatt when they learned of his intention
to appoint Bl c officer elly Ro eIS as police chief. The
re of the to n' police officers are white.
co SERV TIVE TO GET POST
shington, DC - Con rvative BI c . political ientist
Glenn Loury ha reportedly been lected by the Reagan
dmini ration to fill the number two po t at the Department
of Educ tion .• The 38-year-old Loury i a profe r Of govern­
ment at Harvard University. He' politically aligned with
wh t is commonly t referred to a the Blac con rvative
movement. Among other things, Loury oppo s affirmative
ction program hich are designed to remedy past discrimina­
ti n by givin Blac preferential treatment in job and pro­
motions.
OB VICT FILES S2S ILLIO SUIT
e Yori .Y. - One of the Blac urvivor of an ttac
by a white mob in the Howard Beach ction of Queens 1 t
December ha filed 25 million it ain th city of ew
Yor. Cedric Sandiford is chargin that the city' fail d to
protect him from a lynch mob." One Black man was killed
during the December attac when he was struc by a car she
tried to flee. Thus far 12 white youth have been charged in
the incident.
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African-Am rican
fights impeachment
I I, FL . - The policy
m ing body ofa the federal
judici ry la t ee" urged Con­
gre to impe ch lcee H lings
of iami. H in s is Florida'
fir Blac federal judge.
The move ain 1 Hasting
i con trover ial becau it corne
over three ye rs ter a jury
cquitted him of liciting a
150,000 brib from convicted
racketeer.
Ho e er the 27-member
Judicial onference charge that
Ha ting lied under oath and
manufactured evidence t hi
trial. ean hile, the 50-year­
old Blac jud e ch rge that
th action gain t him are
racially motiv ted.
He i quoted a sayin
, ot guilty w the erdict
on February 4, 1983" and
rt d th t any further ction
him ould be uncon-
se s
Continued from P I 1
new Black middle cla outside
the ghetto."
But the E y also analyze
action that are well beyond
the capacity of Bl c s or any
single community to re Ive.
e incluqe the role of govern­
ment in re oring an economy
of moderate ill, and decent
p ying job as well as 'the
deteriorated infrastructure of
the citie th t provides the
phy 'cal framewor for the
ghetto and for ghetto condit­
ions. "
The holars contra t the
Ion history of' pa t and con­
tinuing BI ck If-initiated con-
tribution to government
ction hich it ys has been
"important, but both recent
and mode ." Especially since
1981, ' the federal government
"h retreated on all fronts,
deepening Black problems."
ASHINGTO IS) - The
amibian Council of Churches
(CC are con idering legal
action against South Africa
security forces for what h
been described an "intimi-
dation campaign" ainst the
mother of SW APO President
Sam ujom
According to publi ed news
report and eyewitne ccounts
supplied to . the CC , Mrs.
Helvi Kondombolo ujoma,
nearing 90 year old, recently
received veral visits from
armed curity men who
threatened to "blo up her)
home with hand grenade. "
The elderly woman was alleged­
ly abused by the curity men
who accu d her of harboring
South e t Africa People Or­
ganization (SW APO) guerillas
although no evidenve of APO
fighter 'as di overed.
m ujoma one of the
principal founders of SW APO
live in exile. in neighboring
Angol. He left his homeland
in 1960 the same year SW APO
formed. His ife and three
The report details six pro­
gram prioritie which it says
are suggestive of the kind
of action government should
take: The conversion of the
welfare sy em to training,
education and job program;
the replication of successful
models to addre the "alarm­
ing" spread of ructural un­
employment, especially among
mac men; the creation of
comprehensive child develop­
ment program to prevent costly
problem of pre-natal and early
childhood health and under­
achievement; the design of a set
of hool-to-work transition
strategie that respond to dra­
matic workplace changes in
order to avoid the high drop
out and jobles rates among
Black teenagers; the exp n 'on
of innovativ rategie for im­
proving performance level' in
hool and college; and the
a
children also live in 'exile.
Declared by the United
ations a "the sole and uthen-
tic repre ntative of the
amibian people", APO is
fighting for amibian indepen­
dence. The country h remain,
ed under South Afric rule
for most of this century, despite
an international court of justice
DETROIT - From Antigua
to Zaire, Peace Corps officials
are a ed one common que -
ion, "Where are the Black
Americans?"
According to records com­
piled for 19 6, the Peace Corp
experienced a decrea in the
number of application from
Blac Americans. Thi marks
the cond year in a TO that a
decrea has occured. Currently
6. percent of all volunteers
are minoritie down from the
19 4 record level of .7 percent.
The Peace Corps has respond­
ed to this phenomenon by
creating a special ta force
that will plan rate ie to
increase the number of min r­
itie who apply to the volunteer
pro ram every year.
o
decree calling the South African
occupation illegal. In 1966,
SW APO formed the Peoples
Liberation Army of AMIBIA
(PLA ,which h w ed armed
TUggle again the South Afri­
can military occupation. As
SWAPO pre 'dent, ujoma i
al commander and chief of the
military wing.
During one visit to r .
ujoma' home the curity
force, known as Koevoet, re­
portedly assailed the old woman
for "hiding Sam' terrorists.'
During another incident, the
Koevoet allegedly traveled
throughout the village shootin
beating people and demanding
the names of APO member .
either Major Fanie rige of
uth Africa Defen F
headqu rters in indhoe
Police Chief Liai n her r.
ujoma lives ould c nfirm
rep rt of the in ident .
A APO repre mauve i
e Yor id that th hara
ment of ujorna' moth r �
ther family member 11
per isted ov r the pa t 10 y
" a doubt th y have
targeted e J f the I
Pre ident 'uJ rna ha a U
t the helm )f \ P ,
.Jac son calls for Palestinian state
ASHI GTO D - Say-
ing that there could never be
peace in th iddle Ea t a
long as the Pale tinian people
are denied their rights, the
Rev. Je Jack n last week
called for the establishment of
a vereign Pale inian tate.
An independent Palestinian
state i opposed by both Israel
and the United States. How­
ever, Jackson charged that
attempts to depict Pale inians
a a bunch of namele ter­
rori ts were "racist prop and a
direc ions
re-introduction of rong en­
forcement of antidiscrimination
efforts which have been "de­
liberately bandoned."
However, the scholars stre s
that the Black community must
take the lead in defining it
'new and continuing problems"
and in "both prescribing and
initiating lutions with at least
the vigor and resourcefulne
ith which it pursued the civil
rights revolution when govern­
ment was either passive or
hostile, a it often i today. '
The E say credit civil right
and Black community organiza­
tions with succe in reducing
barrier . Thi ccess ha
I
exposed many novel' and
• ferociou" problem that re­
quire Black to help their in-
itutions 'adju to ne cir-
cumstances and challenge" and
incre their financial support
to them.
whi h fuels war p li y.
The pr bable andidate f r
president in 19 told the
ational Leadership Conferen e
of the Arab Ameri arl Institute
that he al sup rted curity
for the tate of Israel but he
denounced Israel for the of­
fen ive use of American ea­
pons to kill iddl Ea t citizens:
Delegates at the conference
said they planned to form an
Arab American support group
for Jackson's presidential cam­
paign .
The Essay stre s that," If­
help can have only a limited
impact on the economic en­
vironment" but ackno ledges
that it can "encourage action
and teach behavior that can
pay hand orne dividends for
Blac s and for the nation as a
whole." See ing a balance
the holars say ha been missing
from current debate, they con­
clude that "the inexcu ble
disparities between whites and
Bl ck that continue today ere
not created by Blac and
cannot be addressed by Blac s
alone."
:opies of Black Initiative and
Goiemmental Resp nsibilit
can be ordered for 6. 5 from
the J \. int Center for Politi al
Studie Publications Office
1301 Pennsylvani venue
.., o. 400, in ton
D.C. 20004, 202 626-3500.