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Vol. 7, No. 30
Frank Sinatra pays
Louis ’ hospital bills
Three weeks ago when
former heavyweight champion
Joe Louis suffered a heart
attack in Las Vega, his lifelong
friend, Frank Sinatra was there
to assist. And assist he did.
Louis was initially taken to
the Sunrise Medical Center in
Vegas, hut because he needed
an immediate operation Sinatra
suggested that Louis be flown
to Methodist Hospital in
Houston so he could be under
the care of the famed Heart
Can Ethopia turn
tide in Ogaden War?
By Roger Mann
Pacific News Service
Editor’s Note: Roger Mann,
who reports from East Africa
for PNS and the Washington
Post, is one of the few
Correspondents to have
reported the Ogaden war from
both the Ethiopian and Somali
sides.
Modadishu, Somalia - The
battle that could prove decisive
in the Ogaden war between
Somalia and Ethiopia-the
biggest war in the world
today-is now raging on the
mountain slopes surrounding
the ancient walled Ethiopian
city of Harar.
According to diplomats here
who have access to satellite or
aerial photograph reports of
the fighting, the biggest battle
yet of the three-month war is
now being fought
intermittently with jet fighters,
heavy artillery and anti-aircraft
and machine guns, while tanks
protect rear-guard defenses.
The Western Somalia
Liberation Front, aided by
regular Somali soldiers, is
attempting to capture the
Mclntyre gets NACO
steering committee post
WASHINGTON, DC., - Ed
Mclntyre, vice chairman of the
Board of Commissioners of
Richmond County, has been
named chairman for
Management Assistance of the
National Association of
County officials (NACO) Home
Rule and Regional Affairs
Steering Committee. The
announcement was made by
NACO) President William
GIVING ANDY A PUSH-Recently Gov. Meldrin Thomson Jr. (R-N.H.) launched
a campaign to secure 200,000 signatures to oust U.S. Ambassador Andrew J. Young
from the U.N. To counter this move, Operation PUSH launched a petition drive in
support of Ambassador Young. At a recent PUSH meeting Ambassador Young
spoke, and prior to his address the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, national president of
PUSH, presented him with over 2000,000 signed petitions in his belhalf.
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Surgeon, Dr. Micahel Deßakey.
And that’s not all -- Sinatra
insisted on picked up the entire
tab.
Martha, Joe’s wife said that
not only has Sinatra paid all of
the hospital expenses, but that
when she arrived in Houston to
check in at the Holiday Inn
there; Sinatra would not have
it.
“No way,” she said he said.
“You’ll stay in my private suite
Ogaden-Ethiopia’s semi-arid
eastern region inhabited
primarily by Somalis-with the
aim of making it part of a
“greater Somalia.”
Informed sources here say
the Somalis have only a limited
number of weeks left to
achieve a military victory
because the
Ethiopians-bolstered by
sophisticated Soviet
weaponry--are gaining strength
daily.
“Provided Mengistu's
government doesn’t collapse."
said one informed diplomat,
“time is on the Ethiopian
side.” Lt. Col Mengistu Haile
Mariam is the strongman of
Ethiopia's revolutionary regime
called the Dergue, which is
pressed both in the Ogaden and
by liberation groups in Erithrea
province to the north.
Following the fall of the city
of Jijiga to the Somalis at the
end of August, the Soviets
reportedly made a decision to
give Ethiopia their all-out
assistance-as they did for the
MPLA in Angola two years ago
when FLNA and UNITA forces
were converging on Luanda.
Beach.
The Home Rule and
Regional Affairs Steering
Committee reviews all matters
relating to home rule and
regionalism, including issues
dealing with structural,
procedural and managerial
county matters. In addition,
the committee has an oversight
responsibility to ensure that
actions taken by other steering
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at the Warwick Hotel.”
From the time Joe got sick,
she said Sinatra told her,
“Anything you need I’ll take
care of it.”
Sinatra calls every day,” she
said, “not some secretary. He
calls himself. He’s a dynamite
person.”
The latest hospital report on
Louis was that he was resting
well and recuperating, after
undergoing an operation.
the Angolan capital.
The Somali advance, which
two months ago was a
relentless surge across the
barren desert facing only
pockets of resistance, has now
slowed to a snail’s pace in the
jagged mountains, and there
are some reports of Somali
setbacks.
The Somalis realize the next
few weeks may offer their final
chance to complete the Ogaden
sweep by seizing Harar and also
Dire Dawa-Ethiopia’s strategic
third largest city, which is a
manufacturing, railroad and
fuel storage center. If they
capture Dire Dawa-the main
link on Ethiopia's only rail line
to the sea - the Somalis will
control the Ogaden.
Somali President Siad Barre
is now' regrouping his forces
from throughout the Ogaden
for a massive all-out bloody
assault on Harar, which would
open the way for an assault on
Dire Dawa.
If the Somalis fail to take
Harar soon, there is a strong
consensus here that the
Ethiopians will be able to start
pushing them back.
committees are consistent.
This year, the committee
will focus on proposed general
management amendments to
the Intergovernmental
Personnel Act (IPA) and
intergovernmen tai
coordination legislation.
NACO is the national
spokesman for county
government in the United
States.
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MISS PAINE Angela McWhorter gets kiss from
Paine College President Dr. Julius S. Scott Jr. The
22-) ear-old senior was crowned in ceremonies at
the college Friday night.
She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Urias
McWhorter of \tlanta.
C. Delores Tucker,
Charles V. Hamilton
headline GABEO meet
The Georgia Association of
Black Elected Officials
(GABEO) has scheduled it’s
fall conference for next week
in Americus.
The conference will be an
organizational effort by Black
officials, from throughout the
state, to exainine and evaluate
the social and political realities
of their roles during this
current period and for the
future.
The GABEO conference,
under the theme of “Black
Politics in Georgia: New
Mich. State pres,
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Dr. Clifton Wharton
ROCHESTER, N.Y.
Clifton R. Wharton Jr.,
president of Michigan State
University and chancellor
-designate of the State
University of New York, has
been named the 1977 recipient
of the Joseph C. Wilson Award
for achievement and promise in
international affairs.
Dr. Wharton is being
recognized for his service in
Southeast Asia, where he
brought economic analysis to
bear on regional problems and
developed local cadres of
practical economists and
agricultural specialists.
The award, which carries a
SIO,OOO honorarium, will be
presented Friday, December 16
at a public luncheon in the
Americana Hotel here.
It is offered as a memorial to
Joseph C. Wilson, late
chairman of Xerox
Corporation, and a leading
figure in humanitarian, civic
and educational affairs. The
Responsibilities and New
Challenges”, will be held
Thursday through Saturday,
November 17-19 on the
campus of Georgia
Southwestern College. The
gathering is expected to attract
some 300 Black elected and
appointed officials, community
activists and scholars from
throughout the state and
nation.
The meeting will give Black
See “GABEO”
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award is administered by the
Rochester (N.Y.) Association
for the United Nations, a
United Nations Association/-
USA affiliate, in association
with the University of
Rochester. The SIO,OOO
honorarium is funded by
Xerox Corporation!;
The award is given to
anAmerican citizen in
mid-career whose sustained
contribution to the quality of
life and to international
understanding includes recent
achievement of unusual and
lasting significance.
The son of the nation’s first
Black career ambassador and
foreign service officer, Dr.
Wharton was bom in Boston in
1926. While an undergraduate
at Harvard College, where he
earned a BA in history, he
became a founder and national
secretary of the US. National
Student Association. He
received his MA in
international studies at Johns
Hopkins University and, at the
University of Chicago, another
MA and his PhD, both in
economics.
Currently he is chairman of
the U.S. State Department’s
Board for International Food
and Agricultural Development,
AID.
Dr. Wharton will assume his
new position as chancellor of
the 345,000-student State
University of New York early
in 1978. The largest university
in the country, SUNY operates
64 campuses throughout New
York State.
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Judge asked to hold
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contempt of court
Atty. John H. Ruffin filed a
motion Monday asking Federal
Judge Anthony Alaimo to find
the Augusta Police Department
and the responsible city
officials in contempt of court
and that the police department
be placed in receivership.
Ruffin argued that
receivership is necessary to
insure compliance with the
court’s order which required
the Augusta Police Department
to be at least 40 per cent Black
by September 22.
As of Oct. 24, the police
department was 36 per cent
Black.
Ruffin said further that the
police department continues to
practice racial discrimination in
its promotions and
advancement.
During 1976-77, 14 whites
were promoted to positions
ranging from sergeant to acting
chief of police. During that
period only two Blacks were
promoted, one to the rank of
corporal, the other to sergeant.
The affirmative action
officer’s report of Oct. 24 givfes
the following racial breakdown
of the Augusta Police
Department: Chief of police.
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MUHAMMAD ALI AND ALICE TRAVIS enjoy a private conversation during a
break in the shooting of the syndicated TV show “For You... Black Woman.’ Ali sat
for two half-hour shows with Alice, covering his marital and financial problems as
well as his thoughts on politics and separatism. The show will be televised early next
year.
Blacks, Jews split by Bakke
declare unity on shared goals
Seventy-nine national civil
rights organizations, including
leading Black and Jewish
groups, have released a joint
statement declaring that
although differences have
arisen among them in the
Bakke case, “we shall work
together in the future, as in the
past, to secure full civil rights
for all our citizens.”
Signers of the statement
include the NAACP, A. Philip
Randolph Institute, National
Council of Negro Women,
American Jewish Congress,
American Jewish Committee
and Anti-Defamation League.
The text of the statement is
as follows:
“No case in recent years has
aroused so much attention,
interest and emotion as the
case of the Regents of the
University of California vs
Allan Bakke, now before the
Supreme Court. Oiganizations
that have long been allied in
white male; captain of police,
white male; two captains,
white males; nine lieutenants,
seven white and two Black
males; six detective sergeants,
white males; 16 detective
sergeants, 11 white, one
oriental, four Blacks, including
one Black female; thirteen
sergeants, 11 whites and two
Black males; seven corporals,
six white and one Black
(males); 105 privates, 51 white,
44 Black and three
Spanish-named males; three
white and four Black females.
Citing further the
“contemptible” behavior of
the defendants, Ruffin said
Sgt. David Jones Was promoted
only after a motion was filed
with the court, (Jones had
previously passed the sergeant’s
examination, but he was not
promoted.) Ruffin said the
defendants sought to make “a
mockery” of Jones’ promotion
by giving him a special
sergeant’s badge with
“Affirmative Action Sergeant”
on it. Jones was not given back
pay for the period when the
department failed to promote
him, Ruffin said.
Ruffin said that the
the fight for civil rights,
including the undersigned, find
themselves on opposite sides of
the case. It has been suggested
in many quarters that die
differences among us are
evidence of an irreversable rift
that foreshadows die end of
the coalition that helped bring
about the civil rights laws and
advances of the past two
decades. We reject all such
predictions.
“Our differences on the
merits as well as on the
ultimate impact of the Bakke
case are deep and not to be
minimized. But neither should
they be permitted to obscure
the shared goals that still unite
and bind us together.
“Whatever the decision in
the Bakke case, we shall work
together in the future, as we
have in the past, to secure full
civil rights for all of our
citizens and to help realize
those social and economic
defendants don’t intend to
comply with the court order.
“By their callous disregard for
the orders of this court over a
period of almost five years, the
defendants have drown, and
are showing, that they have no
intention of complying with
the court’s orders," he said.
City Atty. Samuel 0.
McGuire Jr. admitted that the
goal had not been reached.
He filed a brief stating that
the City of Augusta had
“achieved substantial
compliance with the 40 per
cent goal set by the court.”
He said the most recent
reports of the affirmative
action officer show that the
officials “are fully cooperating
with the court and the
plaintiffs in the endeavor to
reach the minority
employment goal to which all
are committed.”
McGuire said that failure to
meet the deadline does not
“indicate recalcitrance of their
contempt for the order of the
court.” He said the court order
is working but it will take
longer than anticipated time to
reach the quota set.
conditions in which alone the
fulfillment of those rights is
possible. We are determined to
press for government policies
and programs that will
establish as a matter of right
(1) a job at a living wage for
everyone willing and able to
work or who can be qualified
for work by training; (2) a
guaranteed income, sufficient
for living in dignity, for all
those unable to work; (3) a
decent home in a decent
environment for all; (4)
education to die limit of each
person’s ability, and (5)
medical care for all in sickness
and in health.
“These goals cannot be
achieved by any one group,
acting alone or for itself alone.
They require a concerted,
coordinated effort by all who
believe in human dignity and
equality. We pledge our utmost
energies and resources toward
such an effort.”
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