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Sex Change Turns 'Eligible Bachelor’ To Eligible Bachelorette
(From Jet Magazine)
“Technician Robert T.
Saunders, 27, of Baltimore, a
laboratory worker in the
division of neuro-surgery,
Johns Hopkins Hospital, plans
a carreer as a doctor of
veterinary science and “could
love forever a woman of high
morals who is honest, sincere,
and intellectual,’’ reads the
Woman Kills Boyfriend
In Sunset Villa
An Augustan man was killed
by his girlfriend Saturday in
front of 167 Sunset Villa
apartments.
Ophelia Padgett told sheriff
Tabernacle Burglarized
The office of Tabernacle
Baptist Church was burglarized
and ransacked last Friday.
The thieves took a casette
recorder and an Olivetti adding
Editorial
U.S. - Africa,
A New Dentente
On balance, we think the Kissinger proposal for a new U.S.
policy on Africa as outlined by Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger in his Lusaka speech deserves the support of the
American people.
We find the two-year limitation for settlement of the
Rhodesian problem faulty. The government of lan Amith is as
intractable as ever in its determination to deny majority rule to
the Blacks in that country. Two years from now, unless the full
force of world opinion is brought to beat, white supermacy will
remain the same. Time has run out for placation. The cry of the
rightful majority is for freedom now. Nothing less can be
acceptable.
It is too early to make a complete assessment of the Kissinger
Africa mission. Some aspects of it, however, are already sharply
in focus. First, it is clear that this trip was necessary. Perhaps, it
was too long overdue to repair the damages from years of neglect.
To his credit, Dr. Kissinger sought to make up for lost time. Once
the decision was made, he threw himself into the task with the
same energy and determination that has characterized his past
performances in the realm of diplomacy.
Not surprisingly, there was wariness on the part of African
leaders as to the sincerity of his motives. Kissinger was
“disappointed” by the Nigerian rejection of his bid to include
that nation on his schedule. The abrupt cancellation of the Ghana
visit was another setback.
The six countries that did receive him, provided him with the
learning experience he needed on Black Africa. Now, that he has
come to know somethings of the personalities of these leaders
and sensed the feelings of the people, we hope the lesson will lead
to improved communications between Africa and the United
States.
The ten-point program will not satisfy everyone. Let us say, it
is a step forward in improving relations. Neither benign neglect nor
the harsh rhetoric of recent days will serve the interest of Africa
or America. There must be a partnership of mutual respect.
Africa is the last great storehouse of raw materials. In his
address to the United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development at Nairobi, Dr. Kissinger called for a more equitable
code of conduct in the sharing of that wealth. U.S. Blacks have a
vital stake in the accomplishment of these goals. For better or for
worse, our destinies are entwined. To that end, we must pledge all
of our energies. We call upon those national organizations that
have led in the struggle for civil rights at home to join with others
in the formation of a strong, effective peoples lobby to promote a
new African policy for progress, peace and prosperity.
By Ethel L. Payne
if necessity is the mother of invention, it also dictates the
course of diplomacy. Last week the coincidence of events and
circumstances sent Henry Kissinger to Africa, south of the Sahara
and it was a Livingston and Stanley stand-off on both sides. The
explorer and the missionary had their historic meeting in Africa.
In a sense, Kissinger was discovering Africa and Africa was
discovering Kissinger.
What was Henry doing here? Well, he has been under severe
criticism for his neglect of the continent. All of it cannot be
attributed to his preoccupation with detente in China and Russia
and the smouldering Middle East. He just didn't have time for
Africa. It is too big, too diversified and has too many charismatic
personalities to deal with. So like other statesman before him,
Kissinger just pushed the idea for making an official visit to the
back burner.
Angola exploded onto the front pages and dominated the air
waves. Cuban troops with Soviet weapons moved in on the side of
the MPLA forces. In the South, South Africa stationed its army
inside the border on the pretext that it had to protect the Cunene
River dam project. Suddenly, as one observer put it, “everyone
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biography sheet of an Ebony
magazine “Eligible Bachelor”
in 1964.
Now 12 years later,
Saunders is still “eligible” and
looking for that “honest,
sincere and intellectual”
individual. Only difference is
that he, or should we say she,
wants a male soul mate.
deputies she shot and killed
John Edward Scott during an
argument in which he slapped
her twice.
Ms. Padgett said Scott told
machine.
The entered the office by
removing plywood from a
window of the west side of the
office.
'Where Were You When We Needed You?’
Specifically, Robert T.
Saunders is no longer a male,
due to a sex-change operation.
The “rebuilt” Saunders goes by
the name of Embre Knight in
San Francisco.
“Mentally, I have always
been a woman,” Ms. Knight
related to Jet. “I’ve been a lady
all my life and with the help of
her if she had a gun she better
use it because he was going to
kill her.
Pulling a .22 caliber pistol
from her purse, she fired
several shots. She said she
killed him because he had shot
her on two different occasions
and she feared he might shoot
her again.
Charged at first with
murder, the charge was
reduced this week to voluntary
manslaughter.
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Dr. Vivian U. Robinson and Dr. Julius S. Scott Jr.
Paine Honored,
Dr. Robinson Appointed
Saturday, May 8, 1976 was
offically proclaimed “Paine
College Day” in the city of
Atlanta by Mayor Maynard
Jackson, in appreciation of
Paine College and its president,
Freedom
Nite
The Augusta Chapter of the
NAACP will sponsor freedom
nite Sunday, May 23, at
Tabernacle Baptist Church, at
7:30 p.m. Speaker for the
occasion will be the Rev. R.L.
Donaldson, pastor of Antioch
Baptist Church.
The public is invited.
was selling tickets to the fight". Zimbabwe (the African name for
Southern Rhodesia) was next at the center of the world stage.
Henry' began packing his bags, insisting that the idea tor the
trip started long before Angola blew up. But even as he was
preparing for his long-awaited mission, the enthusiasm for his
presence was curdling. “Where were you when we needed you?”
seemed to be the general attitude of African leaders.
On the way over, he stopped off in London to pick up a little
moral support from the British. At the Royal Air Force base in
Waddington, he met with the new Foreign Secretary, Anthony
Crosland, who had been in office barely three weeks. He said he
wouldn't take any new initiatives at the present for nudging the
lan Smith government further toward giving the Blacks majority
rule, but it might help if the two of them could make a joint
declaration of support in that direction. Kissinger was grateful for
the gesture since it helped to set a climate of cooperation on the
eve of his entry into the dark continent.
The first stop was Nairobi, Kenya for a courtesy call on
President Jomo Kenyatta where he sought and got the blessings
of that father figure of Africa. The old man sorta leaves the
maneuverings on Southern Africa to the younger lions, like
Kaunda and Nyerere and Samora Machel of Mozambique. His
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doctors, I’m now a total
woman.”
“The doctors only
physically made me a woman,”
Dr. Julius S. Scott Jr.
Dr. Scott held the position
of assistant director of the
Southern Fellowships Fund in
Atlanta and later held the post
of Executive Director of the
Martin Luther King Jr. Center
for Social Change. During this
time, he was associate
professor and chairman of the
Department of Sociology at
Spelman College. He was also
special assistant to the
president of Spelman.
Because of his active
involvement for the
improvement of higher
education. Dr. Scott was guest
of honor at the Paine College
Atlanta Alumni Banquet held
that night.
Dr. Vivian U. Robinson has
been named dean of academic
Embre Knight
she explained, “Truth of the
matter is that I’ve always
thought and acted like a
female. I’ve known that 1 was a
affairs Paine College President
Dr. Julius S. Scott announced
Sunday. More than 150
applicants were screened for
the position. Dr. Robinson was
runner-up to Dr. Scott in the
selection of a president to
succeed the late Dr. Lucius H.
Pitts.
Dial-A-Story
Through the courtesy of the
Telephone Pioneers of Augusta
and the Public Library,
children may dial 724-8080 at
any hour of the day or night
and hear a story or poem told
by a member of the Children’s
Department Staff.
concern is for the whole of Africa and its unification, he told
reporters traveling with Kissinger.
The next and most important stop for Kissinger was Dares
Salaam where he met with President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania.
Kissinger considers him the key to Southern African problems.
Nyerere has the unique distinction of being the one leader who
holds the confidence of all the other heads of state.
With uncharacteristic humility, the chief architect of U.S.
foreign policy said he wanted to listen to and learn the views of
President Nyerere. The two met for nearly three hours on
“substantive” talks about the deteriorating situation in Southern
Africa. Afterwards, Kissinger said that he found great respect for
his opinions and that they would be keeping in close touch with
one another.
How much real substance came out of the Dar meeting remains
to be seen. Nyerere held a news conference with U.S. reporters
and said categorically that war has begun in Rhodesia and the
only way to end it is by majority rule.. “Anyone talking about
achieving majority rule by peaceful means is talking about
something that is not there,” he said.
On the topic of Cuban intervention in Angola, and the
continued presence of Cuban troops, President Nyerere said, “We
female since I was seven or
eight years old. That’s when I
preferred dolls to trains.”
At age 14 or 15, Ms. Knight
decided that someday she
would like to become a “total
female”, but due to her
financial and social condition
(age and one of three children),
she knew it must wait.
Recently though, the
39-year-old woman who’ll be
40 in June came up with the
57,000-odd dollars to have the
operation performed in a clinic
Dr. Bobby Kay Anderson Dies
Dr. Robert K. (Bobby Kay)
Anderson, 41, died Tuesday,
May 18 at University Hospital.
Bom in Atlanta Feb. 9,
1935, Dr. Anderson was reared
in Augusta. He attended Haines
Institute and graduated from
Morehouse College and
received his M.D. degree from
Meharry Medical College.
Employed at the
Veterans j Administration
Hospital, he was the first and
only Black psychiatrist in
Augusta. He formerly practiced
in Waynesboro, Ga.
He was an active member of
the following organizations:
Morehouse Alumni Club,
Alpha Chi Lambda Chapter of
the Alpha Phi Alpha
Fraternity, Inc., Stoney
Medical, Dental, and
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in San Francisco.
The four-part operation
started in December and will
be complete within the next
month when her breasts will be
enlarged. She came out of the
operation so well that, she
says, if her parents were living
today, “My mother couldn’t
even te11... and that goes for
doctors too.”
Ms. Knight unabashedly
offered that her body “is real
and usable. The only thing I
can’t do is have a baby, but
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Pharmacenticai Society, the
National Medical Association,
the Georgia Medical
would like the United States to be big enough to realize we are
not fighting for the Cubans or the Russians, but we are fighting
for Africa.” Cuba did not come into the picture, he said, until
South Africa intervened.
Will Cuba intervene in Rhodesia on the side of the guerilla
fighters and eventually in South Africa? Nyerere did not rule out
that possibility, but said he hoped that would not happen. But
the continuing presence of Cuban soldiers, some say as many as
15,000, could be enough of a threat to force the Smith
government to start negotiations in earnest for a fixed time on
granting majority rule.
On this journey to win friends and influence people, Dr.
Kissinger has miles to go before he can sleep peacefully knowing
that his mission has paid off. Was this trip necessary? Yes. Will it
be productive? A cautious maybe. Attitudes will have to change
in Congress, the White House and the general public. Some things
are certain.
Africa, the sleeping giant has awakened. Africa is changing
rapidly, its leaders and people becoming more sophisticated in
demanding control of the enormorous wealth that lies under the
earth. Kissinger has a finger in the dike, but time may be running
out to hold back the tide.
anything that any other
woman can do, I can do too.
I’ve never been as at ease in my
life as 1 am now, and
everything is beautiful.” And
she doesn’t give two cents
about what other persons think
about her “rebirth”.
“This is something that
people are going to have deal
with,” she exclaimed. “I’ve
dealt with it all my life. If a
person can’t deal with it, then
to hell with them.”
Association, and the Veterans
of Foreign Wars. He was also a
member of the Tabernacle
Baptist Church.
Dr. Anderson was reared by
his devoted foster parents, Mrs.
Lillie Kay Buckner and the late
Charlie Buckner. Other
survivors include his widow,
Mrs. Tanya Bryant Anderson;
his son, Geoffrey Todd
Anderson; mother, Mrs.
Mildred Lovelist; father-in-law,
Howard Norfleet; five
brothers-in-law; one
sister-in-law; and two aunts.
The funeral will be held
Friday, May 21, 4 p.m. at the
Tabernacle Baptist Church.
Rev. C.S. Hamilton, officiating.
Burial will be in Cedar Grove
Cemetery.
Friends are asked to call at
Mays Mortuary.
MARGARET WALKER
'The Crisis Os
Leadership Is
Yours To
Resolve’
Author Margaret Walker
Alexander challenges the
Paine College Class of ’76
during her Commence
ment address Sunday.
Photos by Mike Canr
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