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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, February 24, 1977
Meany wants public tv
to use U. S. actors
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) - George
Meany has nothing against
Shakespeare. But he believes that if the
British playwright’s works are to be
shown on public television, the actors
should be American.
The issue is a sample of growing
tensions between organized labor and
an institution of which it has long been a
supporter — non-commercial, publicly
funded television.
At the same time, the unions are
questioning a key slice of public
television’s support — the sponsorship
of high-quality, prime-time programs
by major U.S. corporations.
A statement adopted Wednesday by
the AFL-CIO Executive Council during
its winter meeting expressed concern
that “too little attention has been paid
to the influence which corporate
sponsors or so-called ‘underwriters’
wield over the system.”
The council also said that since
Congress “meant for public broad
casting to encourage greater American
creativity, we are troubled by the
steadily increasing use of foreign-pro
duced material which now dominates
major prime-time programming.”
The dispute began last year after the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
decided to spend $1.2 million of federal
money to produce a series of Shake
spearean plays entirely in Britain for
Amin charges Uganda
under invasion threat
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -
President Idi Amin’s regime
said today an invasion force
was reported in Tanzania six
miles from the Ugandan border.
Radio Uganda said a military
spokesman warned that if the
Tanzanians “attempt to enter
Ugandan territory by even an
inch,’’ Amin’s armed forces,
“particularly the marines and
air force, would strike deep”
into Tanzania in retaliation.
However, the spokesman, be
lieved to be Amin himself, said
the border would remain open
and there was no cause for
alarm.
Uganda’s relations with Tan
zania have been strained since
Amin seized power six years
‘Foot stomper’
strikes again
ATLANTA (AP) - It’s no
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when Atlanta’s “foot stomper”
strikes.
Police say a young male with
hair that’s bushy on the sides
and flat on top grinds the heel of
one of his platform shoes into
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showing on U.S. public television and
later in American schools.
Additional funds for the planned 36-
part series were to come from Exxon
and from Morgan Guaranty Trust Co.
Meany, the AFL-ClO’s 82-year-old
president, protested in a letter last
December to CPB Chairman Henry
Loomis, saying “the decision cannot be
justified artistically or economically.
“There are thousands of unemployed
American performers and craft per
sonnel who could match or exceed the
work of their contemporaries in other
countries,” Meany said. “Highly
successful Shakespearean productions
in the United States prove there is no
artistic deficiency in this country.”
The AFL-CIO says it will ask
Congress to restrict the way in which
corporations can give money to public
TV.
Presently, companies like Mobil Oil
and Exxon often underwrite the cost of
such programs as “Upstairs, Down
stairs" and the “Forsyte Saga,” and
freely publicize their support. The AFL
CIO contends that these tax-deductible
gifts amount to taypayer subsidy of
corporate institutional advertising.
The restriction sought by the AFL
CIO would require any corporate funds
donated to public TV be for general
purposes, not tied to a specific
program.
ago from President Milton
Obote, and President Julius
Nyerere gave Obote asylum in
Tanzania. Amin’s forces fought
a brief and successful war in
September 1972 against 1,000 of
Obote’s supporters from Tan
zania. This week the Ugandan
dictator accused Nyerere of
helping Obote in the plot against
him in which Amin charged the
Anglican archbishop of Uganda
and two Ugandan cabinet
ministers were involved.
Amin claimed that the arch
bishop, Janani Luwum, and the
two ministers were killed in an
automobile wreck last week
after their arrest. But there
have been numerous uncon
firmable reports that they were
the victim’s foot and then runs.
His targets have all been
women. One had to be treated at
a hospital.
His stomping ground never
changes. It’s on the sidewalk
near Alabama and Broad
streets in downtown Atlanta.
murdered.
Amin told foreign
correspondents in Kampala on
Wednesday that plans for the
plot against him called for
paratroopers from the United
States, Britain and Israel to be
airlifted from an aircraft
carrier and dropped into key
Ugandan towns. The U. S. State
Department said the charge
was absurd.
The broadcast today said men
in the Ugandan army from the
Langi and Acholi tribes were
recruited to direct the invading
forces and help them capture
military and government
installations. Ugandan refugees
arriving in Tanzania on
Wednesday reported that Amin,
who belongs to the Moslem
Kakwa tribe, has launched a
massacre of the two Christian
tribes in which thousands have
been slaughtered.
The Nairobi Standard report
ed today that Archbishop Lu
wum’s widow and five children
arrived in the north Kenyan
border town of Kisumu after a
“hazardous journey from Kam
pala.” But an Anglican church
spokesman in Kisumu said Mrs.
Luwum had not contacted
church officials there.
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McKinney criticizes Young, John Lewis
ATLANTA (AP) - A candi
date in the March 15 special
congressional election in At
lanta has accused fellow candi
date John Lewis and U.N. Am
bassador Andrew Young of
“trying to build a political dy
nasty” in Georgia’s capital city.
Both Young, who resigned as
sth District congressman to ac
cept his present position at the
U. N., and Martin Luther King
Sr. have come out in support of
Lewis, the former executive di
rector of the Voter Education
Project.
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“And if they are successful in
the congressional race, they’ll
move on over into the mayor’s
race, the city council races and
the races for Atlanta Board of
Education,” said state Rep. J.
E. “Billy” McKinney, a candi
date for the post. “If that hap
pens, the King family will run
politics in Atlanta.”
Yance Martin, campaign i
manager for the Rev. Ralph
David Abernathy, former presi
dent of the Southern Christian i
Leadership Conference, said i
the ambassador’s support of <
Lewis came as a surprise to
him.
But he said, “When Daddy
King endorsed John Lewis that
didn’t run us out of the race and
neither will Andy Young.”
Although he has not yet quali
fied for the race, Abernathy has
picked up the support of civil
rights activist Dick Gregory.
Gregory told a news conference
Wednesday he considers
Abernathy a “moral voice for
all of America.” Gregory also
said he believes Abernathy un
derstands the problem of pover-
Bingo bill
bogged down
ATLANTA (AP) — A com
promise bill, designed to stop
professional gamblers from
conducting bingo games under
the names of nonprofit groups,
bogged down in the Georgia
Fugitive
arrested
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP)
— A fugitive for the past 18
months, Stacy Charles Gray
beal has returned to this coun
try and arrested in a case in
volving fraudulent home mort
gages, the FBI reported.
Graybeal, 33, of Jacksonville,
was taken into custody Wednes
day at Miami International Air
port when he arrived from Cos
ta Rica, said FBI spokesman
Arthur F. Nehrbass.
Graybeal is one of nine offi
cials of Bell Mortgage Co. who
were charge with conspiracy to
violate racketeering laws by
selling fraudulent home mort
gages.
Graybeal is the last to be tak
en into custody. The others have
been sentenced.
ty in rural as well as urban
areas.
Besides Lewis and McKinney,
two other Democrats have
qualified. They are state Rep.
Henrietta Canty and Alma
Johnson, who works with a reli
gious group in Atlanta and lists
her occupation as “coat check
er.”
The only Republican expected
to qualify is state Sen. Paul
Coverdell.
Democrats expected to quali
fy besides Abernathy, include
Wyche Fowler, vice mayor of
Atlanta, and Marge Thurmond.
House Wednesday because of a
haggle over legislative power.
Rep. Dick Lane, the bill’s
sponsor, said the final version
worked out by a House-Senate
conference committee would
crack down on “profiteering”
bingo parlors and would be ac
ceptable to House members.
But, the compromise does not
contain a House-supported pro
vision to give the legislature
veto power over regulations
state agencies may initiate un
der the bill.
That provision has been tack
ed onto numerous bills by the
House, but it is opposed by the
Senate and Gov. George Bus
bee.
Lane said the House may be
satisfied with a separate bill,
worked out with the governor,
giving the legislators similar—
though perhaps slightly re
duced-power over state
agencies’ regulations.
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