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The Augusta News-Review - November 29, 1973 - ■Walking fl I jw'iL fi I fl Dignity ■ by Al Irby | J 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. THE AUGUSTA NEWS-REVIEW PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Mritory K. MMwMtor Editor and Publisher Mailing Addrtai: Box 963 Augusta, Ga. Phone 722-4655 Second Claes Postage Paid Augusta, Ga. 30901 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Payable in Advance One Yser in Richmond County $5.00 tax ipd. 6 Month* $2.50 tax Ind. Ohe Year elsewhere $® °° ttx incl - advertising department Classified Advertising Deadline 12 noon on Tuesday 1 Display Advertising Deadline 12 noon On Tuesday News Items Printed Free Page 4 IT ■ -T - s {[going |l I PLACES ® I ■ Philip Waring fl 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’ I GIVE A UNIQUE GIFT | C K ' WBpr HOUR PERIODEIGHT & x X RAPES WERE & 'Till? Z .J—fOSr Z3T ” reported, all 9 IHE g . SSSS&I NEWS-REVIEW i g The AUGUSTA NEWS-REVIEW is the gift that is remembered week J Ff » after week. Send it to your friends and family. 5 Enclosed is $ SflpHP \ *1 end tO g JvMaKF if SB x Address fi uF /„ L S CityStateZip W v From: Your Name M V 9 6 Months Year S g no to & I £ AUGUSTA NEWS-REVIEW A PRESSING PROBLEM IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY TO BE fjjggSi EOUAL /Isl- > 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.” LETTERS TO KOnC'S- si ™ mn..————Jf? Dear Editor: Just recently I lost my entire family in an automobile accident! I don’t have anyone on the outside and because of this I’m afraid I’ll lose contact with the people in the Free W0r1d...! would like to hear from people no matter what creed, race or color. I will most appreciatively reply promptly 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 LOST FAMILY a WANTS LETTERS to all letters received. Thanking you in advance for your time and consideration which I now rest assured in assuming that your assistance will enable the success of this article in behalf of one’s personal grievances. Respectfully yours, Alfred Jones Jr. 137-283 P.O. Box 69 London, Ohio 43140 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.