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The Augusta News-Review - November 29, 1973 -
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ISRAELI’S POLICY OF MASSIVE RETALIATION AGAINST
THE ARABS HAS CREATED THE EXACT OPPOSITE
RESULTS OF THOSE SOUGHT IN THE MIDEAST. THE
ARABS DON’T EVER HAVE TOEVEN POLICE THIS OIL
SITUATION; THE NATIONS THAT ARE SUFFERING FOR
FUEL WILL BE DOING IT FOR THEM
The problem is only a true reflection of the psychological
fallacy of down-grading an opposition, one time too often. It has
been talked around world capitals that the Arabs couldn’t wage a
coordinated two front war, and that they lacked the sophisticated
logistics to smash across the Suez Canal. It was also said the Arabs
did not have the fortitude to stand and fight.
All of these myths were toppled when the bloody 18-day war
depleted more of Israel’s man-power than the experts anticipated.
Then atop of this stiff resistance against the Israeli’s cocky war
machine comes the oil boycott. The Arabs are certainly carrying
the oil problem into the capitals of the world in away that they
can’t be ignored. They are saying loud and clear: “force Israel to
give up our land, or you want get our oil.’’
The United States, South Africa and Holland are the main
targets of this embargo. The U.S. has established itself as the
number one culprit to he Arab world. Time is no longer on
Israel’s side in this confrontation, and America had better hurry
and move to disfuse the Mideast problem for its own, as well as
for a permanent peace in the Middle East.
Heretofore, most Western Nations labored under the delusion
that Arab oil producers couldn't work together to put together a
boycott as a political weapon. It was also assumed that the Arabs
were lacking in shrewed money managers to impliment a
world-wide boycott. The many complexities of the international
oil business made many western tycoons to think of an Arab
boycott as utter incredible.
But the combined Arab Community has demonstrated that
they could coordinate actions in a carefully synchronized manner
that has amazed the entire world.
BOYCOTT MAKING ARABS RICHER-The oil embargo is
certainly not an empty rhetorical boast. It is not hurting Arab oil
producers, their revenues have increased since the boycott. An
effective system of policing is in complete control of the
embargo. Arab oil nations have had 12 years training in getting
the bugs out of global marketing.
Two Arab organizations, the Organization of Petroleum
Exporting Countries (OAPEC) and its sister outfit, The
Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC),
have been working hard to unite the Arab Communities, as
Western Countries can well testify. There is no discord with the
boycott, with the exception of Iran and the nations that will
deliver a tiny trickle to the west.
This compact action makes one wonder, why these same
nations did not work together politically in the last 12 years or
so. Crusty old King Feisal of Saudi Arabia is a type of Winston
Churchill or Sun Yat-sen, and in the best sense, a godfather, using
the words of Time Magazine. The old boy is leading the oil
resistance movement with Oater, Algeria, Kuwait, Libya, Iraq,
Oman, Dubai, Bahrain, and Dhabi are all contributing.
The oil produce in October and November of this year will be
about 6 million barrels per day lossage, measured from the
production levels which would have been produced before the
boycott. To get a clear picture of what this slow-down means to
us, the United State consumes about 17 million barrels of oil per
day, normally.
President Anwar Sadat of Egypt is working closely with the
boycott implimentation council. Policy making is used as a
fearsome weapon to force the Western Nations to pressure Israel
to draw back, as well as a reminder to the non-Arab world that
the Arabs have brains, power and a working knowledge of big
money.
Enemies are rated according to how they support Israel. ARAB
INGENUITY-The oil producing nations voted themselves a
bundle in price increases for their liquid gold. This means that
production will be substantially slashed, yet overal revenues will
mount, as the Muslim boys do their thing. A unique policing
method has been introduced at various shipping points in the
Persian Gulf with companies forced to document every shipment
of oil.
Since no company desires to be put on the blacklist; they are
all cooperating in making sure, that no oil goes to a prohibited
destination.
ARABS CATEGORIZE FRIENDS, ENEMIES, AND NOT SO
FRIENDLY-Arabs divided oil users into three brackets: those on
the blacklist, exempted nations, and non-emempt countries. The
United States tops the boycott list for its baby-sitting of Israel.
South Africa, the slave-driving nation is tabbed a staunch buddy
of Israel, because Israel does a great deal of diamond polishing for
the apartheid slave masters.
Saudi Arabia is confronted with a peculiar situation; the tiny
country of South Yemen, an extremely leftist nation, that seeks
to arouse trouble among the Sheikdoms in the Persian Gulf area.
King Feisal has added Yemen to the boycott list. Canada is not
exactly on that restricted list, for Arabs generally have no specific
quarrel with this North American Country. But due to the fact
Canada and the U.S. are such close neighbors, oil has been halted
for fear a bit may find its way across the border southward.
The exempted nations are France, Spain and the Arab and
Moslem nations which have no oil, plus Britain on a conditioned
basis. England must prove by its diplomacy that it is not
pro-Israel if it is to remain on the exempted list. Exempted
nations are being promised adequate supplies of oil provided they
do not ship any of it to boycott nations. They will be guaranteed
the same volume of oil which they purchased from Arab lands in
the first nine months of 1973. Os course they will suffer a bit,
because their use of oil has increased.
The Arab countries have worked out a perfect distribution
plan. The non-exempted nations include Japan, Italy and West
Germany. These three nations will have to divide the oil which is
left after the favored countries are taken care of. It is estimated
that some of the nations in the non-exempt group may get as
much as 40% less oil than they desire. The Arab boycott weapon
is one which could hit the Western World with devastating force,
and the United States is a part of that world.
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As I sat down to write a column this week I noticed the
excellent article by Charlayne Hunter, Georgia’s very special and
talented gift to the mighty New York TIMES. It is all about
what’s happening in the South via an interview with John Lewis
of the Atlanta-based Voter Education Project.
In subsequent coluns during the next few months,! am going to
have Augusta friends to serve as guest columnist. They will write
on special and interested facts of which they are closely
acquainted.
Now let’s get on with Charlayne’s article in the Sunday TIMES.
BLACK ACTIVIST SEES NEW SOUTH
Lewis Seeks Funds to Help Enroll More Voters
The year that the Black Panther and Black power emerged as
the symbols of a new direction for Black olitics in the South
-- was the year that whies were urged to leave the
movement and work in their own communities.
It was also the year that Stokely Carmichael, the architect of
that change, urged Black to turn inward and concentrate on
strategies for seizing political power as a means toward reversing
the trend that always saw Blacks bargaining with whites for small
favors.
And it was the year that John Lewis, a disciple of non-violent
demonstrations and coalition politics, was replaced as the head of
the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee by Mr.
Carmichael.
Now, seven years and more than a million registered Black
voters later, John Lewis is beginning to see a meshing of the two
philosiphies of Black power and coalition politics. Blacks in the
south are gaining political strength-there are now more than
1,000 Hack elected officials in the 11 states of the Old
Confederacy-by they are doing it in conjunction with whites.
Mr. Lewis, who now heads the nonprofit Voter Education
Project in Atlanta, the major organization registering and
educating Black voters in the South, was interviewed here last
week on his way to a conference of Black Mayors in Tuskegee,
Ala., this weekend.
Explaining his rather circuitous route, Mr. Lewis said: “I’m
here trying to convince the people with the financial resources
that we need that what’s happening in the South is good for the
rest of the country.”
What is happening, he said, is “a revolution-not as dramatic as
the sixties, but a registration of more than three and a half
million Black voters, larger numbers of Black elected officials and
a new breed of white politician.”
“Within the next eight to 10 years,” he continued, “Blacks are
going to be elected to some of the highest offices. Goergia,
Mississippi, the Carolinas are going to be sending several Blacks to
Congress to join the few who are there now.
“Now, many of those Congressional committees are
dominated by Southerners. As Blacks continue to register, they’re
going to have to go. And even if whites still head a few of those
committees, they’ll be responding in a different way. And the
politics of the South will change the politics of the country.”
Mr. Lewis, who picked cotton as a boy in Alabama and was
beaten, jailed and constantly harassed on freedom rides and sit-ins
as a young man, believes that it was that era, those experiences
that make him hopeful.
“The civil rights period cleansed the psyche,” he explained.
“Got it allout. And people here don’t want to return to that
period of confrontation any more.
Mr. Lewis said that in his travels for the Voter Election Project
he was running into the people he knew as sharecroppers and
tenant farmers in the early sixties.
“These people are 40 and 50 years old now, and they’re the
ones who are getting ready to run for office. As they listen to the
whites talk about the disgrace of national politics, these Black
people are saying they’re sick of it. And it’s almost like T told
you so’.
“And the whites are losing interest because they’ve lost faith in
the national scene, and they’re turning to the Black as a kind of
last hope. They’re saying, ‘They’re the ones who’ve been
excluded from this system; maybe if they get in they’ll be
better.’”
Mr. Lewis went on to say that they were right.
Mr. Lewis also said that the South had “killed the politics of
race”.
Despite racial overtones in the Atlanta mayoraly race, in which
a Black was elected, he said, Blacks helped elect a white woman
over a Black man to the City Council.
The Black candidate had sided with the white Mayor to use
revenue-sharing funds as tax rebates for landlords, and also
supported the Mayor in his attempts to stop a sanitation workers’
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A PRESSING PROBLEM IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY
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BY VERNON E. JORDAN, JR. U k
PUBLIC TV HAS A LONG WAY TO GO
Public television is supposed to be more responsive to the
needs of all the people than commercial TV, but as far as Blacks
and minorities L concerned. 1. Is deftaitely no bettm and
nossiblv worse. In fact, when you consider the tax dollars ot
minorities help fund public broadcasting, it becomes clear we are
getting precious little return on our investment.
8 Public TV’s potential in creating programming geared to the
needs of minority communities has never been fulfilled. And in
the all-important test of training, recruiting and employment
XXTat all levels of the beWnd-the-camera jobs and
esoeciallv decision-making jobs, public TV isatlop.
example, only two Blacks hold important positions in the
Cornoration P for Public Broadcasting and neither has a strong say
on policy matters. This is not at all different from most
commerical stations and networks, but it cannot be tolerated m a
federally-funded agency.
Overall, public TV’s programming practices rely on the
time-tested ghettoization of Black-oriented programs. And the
very few public network shows aimed at Blacks were almost cut
off altogether earlier this year. In the special programming
category, only two programs out of 143 hours dealt with Blacks.
Out of 1,500 hours of national public TV programming, only 89
were devoted to Black people. Blacks are rarer than the test
patterns on public TV.
There are some signs that the Corporation is beginning to try
to change this destructive pattern of Black invisibility on its
screen, but it is a long way from expressing intentions to carrying
out substantial changes. And our past experience has mady us
wary of CPB’s intentions - at least until some results are visible
on the home screen and on the payrolls of the Corporation.
Black support of public broadcasting is conditional; if it
doesn’t respond to the needs of minority communities, we can
live without it. Public broadcasting, which is dependent on public
funds, will have to wake up and begin courting minority
audiences if it wants to survive. At the minimum it must:
: Increase Hack and minority programming and insure its high
quality content, not merely filling in some set goal of hours.
: Tell its affiliated stations to hire Black people and insure
minority representation on their boards. Non-compliance ought
to mean denial of the use of federally-funded program material.
: Put its own house in order with more adequate minority
board and staff representation, and create a department to
up-grade increased minority programming.
: Institute programs that explore race relations in depth,
investigate controversial issues, and portray the rich ethnic
heritage in our pluralistic society.
: While increasing minority-oriented programming, avoid
making such programs a “ghetto” within broadcasting by drawing
on Blacks and minorities for general programming.
This last is especially important. Community theatre and dance
groups are straved for funds and could share their talents with a
national audience, but instead of backing them, public
broadcasting runs after old BBC films and similar fare.
Programming should show ordinary minority people doing
ordinary jobs, such as on the Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood show,
or as on Sesame Street, two public TV offerings unusual for their
first-class content and their treatment of minorities.
Os course, all of the above holds true for commercial TV,
where Blacks are Only in standard comedies, or as guest
performers on variety shows, or when the script calls for a Black.
Hack newsmen are almost never seen, unless interviewing a rare
Black guest on civil rights.
But the many failures of commercial TV notwithstanding,
public broadcasting has to set an example, not follow a bad lead.
It is the TVA of the broadcasting industry and has to use its
federal funds to set new, higher standards for private sector
interests to imitate.
strike.
And while Blacks voted heavily for the Black candidate, they
provided the whte candidate the margin of victory. Mr. Lewis
attributed their support of her to her stand in favor of the
sanitation workers and her position that the revenue-sharing
funds should be used for things like day care centers.
But Mr. Lewis would not have been in New York if he thought
the battle was over, he said. Many of the newly elected officials
need help and guidance-the kind the voter education project
experience would help provide them, according to Mr. Lewis.
In addition, half of the total Black population, he said, is in the
South. Os that number, there are six million of voting age and
three and a half million registered.
“There’s been very little enforcement of the Voting Rights Act
under this Administration,” Mr. Lewis charged. “So that we still
have places where there is not a single polling place in the Black
community.”
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BUYER BEWARE by Georgia Consumer Services
NCIC Schedules Annual
Consumer Conference
The National Consumer Information Center will
hold its second Annual Consumer Conference January
7-11 in Washington, D.C.
The purpose of NCIC’s
yearly conference is to bring
together business, government
and community leaders to
study consumer problems and
issues with an emphasis on
those affecting people with
low and limited incomes.
The conference will present
several two and three hour
panel sessions in which
representatives of community
action agencies, business and
industry and government
officials explain their present
and future roles in improving
consumer affairs. The sessions
will then be open for group
discussion, offering an
opportunity for consumers to
be heard.
Among the topics included
in this year’s conference are
the impact and enforcement
of consumer regulations, the
establishment of consumer
education, social, economic
and political alternatives to
the movement of businesses
from cities to suburbs, the
roles and responsibilities of
business, government and
consumers in changing
economic and social values,
improved use of resources for
delivery of services to the
poor, educational advertising,
food prices, contracts, and
consumer research.
Two GCS staff members are
slated as participants in this
conference. Richard Harris,
MR. & MRS. HOME OWNER
Do you employ a cook, cleaning woman or other
domestic worker in your home for one or more
days per week? If so, you are paying them more
than fifty dollars per quarter in wages, and you
should be withholding and paying Social Security
contributions for them. Your failure to do this
denies your employee his right to receive Social
Security benefits for themselves and their
dependents in later years. We urge you to obey the
law and help us to improve human relations in the
Augusta Area.
...Human Relations Commission
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training and creative director,
is serving on the advisory
committee which is planning
the conference, and Otis Head,
director of field services, will
moderate the panel on
establishing consumer
education.
Other participants include
Senator Jacob K. Javits, U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture Earl
Butz, Congresswoman Yvonne
Btathwaite Burke, and
representatives from General
Electric, 3M, and Lever
Brothers.
The conference is open to
the public, and will be of
special interest to all those
working in the related social
welfare fields as well as civic
groups, ministrial groups and
businessmen. These sessions
will be held at the Washington,
D.C. Statler-Hilton. For
further information, call the
GCS free statewide WATTS
line, or write the National
Consumer Information Center,
3005 Georgia Avenue, NW,,
Washington, D.C. 20001. '
GEORGIA CONSUMER
SERVICES is a unit of the
Division of Community Services,
State Department of Human
Resources. If you have questions
or problems concerning product
quality, credit and contract terms
or how to spend your money
wisely, call 1-80&282-89M free
from anywhere in Georgia. If you
have trouble reaching the number
ask your local operator for help.