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Vol. XXXI Nola
An ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CENTER Institution
November 5, 1979
Young Returns To Atlanta
BY MICHAEL H. COTTMAN
Panther News Editor
Former U. N. Ambassador
Andrew Young Tuesday told a
gathering of students, faculty
members, and city officials,
that his controversial
resignation occurred because a
black man “jumped out of
Africa into the Middle East.”
Young was the keynote
speaker at Morehouse
College’s homecoming con
vocation in honor of Young’s
return to Atlanta.
The famed, and yet con
troversial Young, before a
capacity crowd, discussed a
few perplexities" surrounding
his resignation.
The former ambassador
chose to resign from his
international position after be
ing under fire from the Carter
administration for conducting
unauthorized talks with a
Palestinian Liberation
Organization (PLO) represen
tative which violated IJ. S.
policy.
“I spoke to PLO officials
because I was interested in
peace for the people in the Mid-
dle East,” Young said. “This
was a moral issue and this was
one step I had to take in the
interest of my country.”
Young, who said “a policy
had to he challenged,” added
he felt it was necessary to take
this action, despite a United
States policy which dictates
strict guidelines in dealing
with foreign affairs.
“I did it (PLO talks) because
mv conscience told me to do
what was right, and let the
order to initiate a noticeable
change in the power structure,
one must take certain
decisions.
“I tried to uphold what this
country stands for,” Young
said. “It takes a controversial
act to make changes.”
“/ tried to uphold what this country stands
for — It takes a controversial act to make
changes
— Andrew Young
chips fall where they may,”
Young added.
He said his contact with
PLO officials came shortly
after the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s
wife returned from Lebanon
where she displayed pictures
of a school that had been
bombed by Israeli planes.
“I began to realize that those
bombs were bombs that you
and I paid for,” Young said.
“They were not paid for by us
for Israeli expansion. They
were paid for by us for Israeli
security, and Israeli security
does not go halfway up into
lehanon.”
Young suggested that in
Young, a long time advocate
of the Carter administration,
said he attempted to “identify
with the suffering in the world,
and a struggle for justice that
never ends.”
That statement was made in
reference to Young’s deep
concern over Israeli an
security, and a fight for peace
in the Middle East.
He said despite problems he
has had in the past concerning
decisions he has made, being
black and discussing
international politics with
other nations caused friction
within the . Carter ad
ministration.
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Troopers Removed
BY KATRINA JONES
Panther Staff Writer
A plan for a phased
withdrawal of state troopers
was worked out in detail Tues
day by three Atlanta officials.
Colonel Hugh Hardison,
commissioner of the
department of Public Safety,
Tom McGreevy, deputy direc
tor of the GBI and George
Napper, director of the Bureau
of Police Services devised a
plan to gradually withdraw
the state troopers from their
assigned jobs.
The state troopers were as
signed to help answer police
calls, aid with traffic accidents
and to help direct traffic at
special events, freeing Atlanta
police to investigate more
serious crimes.
“By the state troopers aiding
the police officers, more
policemen were able to patrol
areas for criminals,” .said
Morris Redding, deputy direc
tor for the Atlanta Police
Department.
“The state troopers were a
tremendous asset to us and we
really appreciate the help that
they have given us,” said Red
ding.
With the holiday season ap
proaching the state troopers
are needed back on the
highway to aid and prevent
traffic accidents and fatalities.
“The gradual withdrawal of
state troopers will begin after a
class of Atlanta police recruits
. have completed training,” said
Governor George Busbee, in a
recent press conference.
The Governor said the state
patrol visibility will be main
tained on the streets of Atlanta
until new Atlanta police of
ficers are given their as
signments.
“The first state troopers to be
removed from their post will be
those normally assigned in
Southwest and Southeast
Georgia. The troopers from
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Photo by Roger Tyson
Ford Holds Forum
BY KATHY MOORE
Panther Staff Writer
“Our plans for cars by 1985
is to make them much smaller
and to hold only four
passengers at a time,” said
Thomas C. Page,, vic-e-
president of "diversified
products operations at Ford
Motor Company.
Page spoke before a group of
more than 200 college students
from eight colleges and
universities in Atlanta that
were participating in the Ford
College Roundtable Program
at the Hyatt Regency Hotel.
The College Roundtable was
established in 1956 by The
Ford Motor Company to en
courage an understanding
between the communities of
education and business by
exchanging ideas.
Ford had more than 164
college roundtables with more
than 30,000 students
participating, said Bryce
Russell, Ford’s manager of
educational affairs.
The colleges and
universities in the Atlanta
area that participated in the
college roundtable were:
Atlanta University, Clark
College, Emory University,
Georgia Institute of
Technology. Georgia State
University, Morehouse
College, Morris Brown
College, and Spelman College.
The program was set up so
that administrators and
faculty from the. colleges and
universities participated in the
morning session of the college
roundtable discussion and
then students, participated in
the afternoon session.
“We’re not here to sell Ford
products, to recruit employees,
nor to sell you on private
enterprise," said Page. "But
we’re here to communicate
with faculty, administrators,
and students of major colleges
and universities in this area.”
"Students and faculty are
interested in how a company
that has about 500,000 em
ployees and produces seven
million vehicles a year
operates,” Page went on to say.
“We want to talk about the
decision making process of a
large business,” he added.
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