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SWEPT OFF HER FEET - Model Sterling St. Jacques was so overcome by Patti
Laßelle’s performance that he enthusiastically swept her off her feet following her
debut solo appearance at Avery Fisher Hall. Patti did indeed arrive. She had her
adoring audience applauding even before she’d uttered a single note. The show,
crazily enough, fell on Halloween and most of her fans, including Sterling St
Jacques, were decked out in their Halloween finery. Patti is enjoying the success of
her solo album “Patti Labelle” and performing across the country.
Kenya’s fear of
Somali attack
By Roger Mann
Pacific News Service
NAIROBI - Brandishing
bows and arrows and spears
and shields, thousands of
colorfully dressed Kenyans of
the nomadic camel-herding
Somali tribe have held loyalty
rallies this month in six dusty
backwater outposts in the
remotest outreaches of
Northern Kenya.
There is widespread fear
here that Somalia - now
battling Ethiopia for control of
Ethiopia’s eastern Ogaden
region - will next turn its guns
on Kenya, w'hose vast
northeastern desert region is
inhabited primarily by ethnic
Somali nomads.
Kenya -a key American ally
in Black Africa - has
reportedly played a crucial role
in dissuading the U.S. from
providing weapons to aid
Somalia in its war with
Soviet-backed Ethiopia, which
has set the Hom of Africa
aflame. Somalia, until recently
the Soviet Union’s strongest
ally in Africa, has just
cancelled its friendship treaty
with the Soviets and closed
down Soviet ports and bases
there.
Somalia’s ability to launch
an attack on Kenya may
depend largely on its success
against Ethiopia in the Ogaden.
And it may not want to risk
Western intervention on the
side of Kenya, especially since
it is now seeking Western arms
after breaking with the Soviets.
But Somalia has not given
up its dream of a “Greater
Somalia” that would
encompass all of the estimated
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four million Somali-speaking
people, now separated by
colonial-designated boundaries
in Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya
and the new tiny port Republic
of Djibouti.
Praising the Kenyan
government and lashing out at
the expansionist dreams of
Somali President Siad Barre's
regime, the Somali
demonstrators tried to
convince their fellow
countryment that if Somalia
should attack Kenya, they
would not be a fifth column -
but instead would eagerly shed
blood to help defend Kenya’s
territorial integrity.
‘‘We’re holding these
demonstrations because we
don’t want an Ogaden here in
Kenya/’ said Mohammed
Osman Said, a Somali member
of the Kenyan Parliament from
Moyale, an isolated outpost on
the Ethiopian border. In July,
just across the frontier from
Moyale, Mogadishu-backed
Somali insurgents began
occupying much of Ethiopia's
Sidamo Province, touching off
the Ogaden War.
QUESTION
OF LOYALTY
From Independence Day in
1963 until 1967, Somalia,
which shares a 400-mile border
with Kenya, armed and abetted
secessionist Kenyan Somali
guerrillas in an ill-fated struggle
called the Shifta War.
Buth though their political
leaders and economic elites
have since rejected the concept
of a “Greater Somalia,”
Kenya’s 400,000 Somalis -
who make up just three per
cent of the country’s
population - are nonetheless
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hard-pressed to prove they are
loyal Kenyan citizens.
Because the outbreak of the
Shifta War coincided with
Kenyan independence, Kenyan
Somalis have never been secure
or fully accepted by many of
their countrymen.
Police harassment of
Somalis, long commonplace in
Kenya, has increased markedly
since the Ogaden War broke
out. In Eastleigh, Nairobi’s
working-class Somali ghetto,
club-swinging police have been
combing the area almost
weekly, detaining up to 100
people at a time in what they
describe as ‘‘normal
house-to-house swoops.”
Those who can produce
Kenyan identity cards or alien
registration certificates are
usually released, but anyone
without documents suspected
of being from Somalia is jailed
or fined and then deported. In
tolerant Kenya there are
thousands of refugees from the
Soviet KGB-influenced days of
Siad Barre’s police state.
Last month Kenya’s vice
president, Daniel arap Moi,
lashed out at Kenyan Somalis,
saying that those found to have
sympathies with Mogadishu
would be expelled. The vice
president added that “The
government had found it
necessary to register Kenyans
of the Somali ethnic group to
make them easily identifiabk
by our security force.”
On several occasions other
high-ranking Kenyans have
charged that Somalia is
recruiting Kenyan Somalis for
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CSRA Business League
is number 1 in the nation
The CSRA Business League
was praised Friday night as the
top Business League chapter in
the nation.
The local chapter exceeded
“each of the 175 chapters
across the nation in every
category,” according to
Franklin O’Neal, vice chairman
of the Board of Directors of
the National Business League.
In 1977 the CSRA chapter
assisted 214 clients, approved
Wife shoots
husband, 88
An 88-year-old man suffered
a gunshot wound last week
following an arguement with
his wife.
Miller Golphin, 1324 10th
St., told investigating officers
he and his wife, Mrs. Marie
Smith, had argued earlier. Mrs.
Smith later shot him once in
Girl, 16, tried
to murder two
A 16-y ear-old girl was
arrested and charged with two
counts of aggra*Med assault
with intent to murder last
week.
Garfield Lewis, 1539 Tin
Cup Lane, received two cuts,
one severing a head artery and
one to the left wrist,
authorities said.
Lewis told police he had left
Ms. Naomi Barnes, the girl’s
mother, at a club on
Milledgeville Road, saying he
was going home.
Lewis said he was
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ALEX HALEY returned last week to Annapolis,
where one of his forefathers was sold as a slave. The
Pulitzer Prize winning author of “Roots” told
midshipment at the U.S. Naval Academy about the
years of research that went into the book and of his
plans for a new one.
HAPPY
THANKSGIVING
November 1977
51.6 million in loans and
5704,000 in procurements.
During the awards
ceremonies, Williams Funeral
Home took the coveted Small
Business of the Year Award.
Other awards went to Mrs.
Leora Turner, Turner’s Wig
Palace, Small Businesswoman
of the Year; Wayne Howard,
Supreme Fashions, Small
Businessman of the Year; and
Nelson Ancrum, Contractor of
the Year.
the head with a .22 caliber
pistol.
Golphin was treated at
University Hospital, authorities
said.
Mrs. Smith was arrested and
charged with aggravated assault
with the intent to murder.
approached by the girl at the
comer of Milledgeville Road
and Piquets Avenue. She asked
him why had he hit her mother
earlier, broke a beer bottle and
stabbed him twice, police said.
Tyrone Parks, 1438 Twiggs
St., told investigators he was
inside the club when he heard
about the disturbance.
Once outside. Parks said the
girl stabbed him in the right
ear, then turned and chased her
mother with the bottle.
Both men were treated and
released at University Hospital.
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Aide says
Carter won’t accept
high unemployment
Martha “Bunny” Mitchell,
special assistant to President
Carter, said in Augusta Friday
night that the President plans
to put $1.6 billion into youth
job programs to create more
jobs than before the great
depression.
She said the President finds
the high rate of unemployment
among minority groups
“staggering and unacceptable.”
Pointing out that President
Carter has endorsed a modified
version of the Humphrey-Haw
kins Full-employment Bill, Ms.
Mitchell said that prime
emphasis will be placed on
expanding job opportunity in
the private sector. ‘Thriving
minority enterprises will
provide jobs for minority
employes, she said, adding that
the President’s goal is to
double loan procurement for
minority business enterprises.
Ms. Mitchell said that
President Carter gave hope to
millions of Black people with
his support of welfare reform,
jobs, economic stimulation,
food projection and
international peace and
prosperity.
U.S. Unemployment may
be far worse than stated
By Paul Rosenstiei
Pacific News Service
Paul Rosenstiei is a specialist
on urban unemployment for
the Ford Foundation-funded
Third Century America
project.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
President Carter’s recently
announced aim of reducing
unemployment to four per
cent by 1983 may prove
embarrassingly timid.
Before that date, the
government may adopt a new
way to measure unemployment
that reflects a growing criticism
by economists: that the
current unemployment index
drastically under-reports the
true number of the jobless.
President Carter has
appointed Sar A. Levitan, a
leading critic of the index, as
head of the new National
Commission on Employment
and Unemployment Statistics.
The commission was Created
by Congress last year, in
response to grqwing criticism
from economists, to
recommend changes in the way
First Black U.S. treasurer is
a UNCF woman graduate
The first Black person
appointed treasurer of the
United States in this nation’s
history is a UNCF college
graduate.
She is Mrs. Azie Taylor
Morton, a 1956 graduate of
Houston - Tillotson College in
Austin, Texas. Mrs. Morton
worked as a school teacher
after college, then returned to
Houston-Tillotson to serve as
Assistant to the President.
Besides holding the office of
Treasurer, Mrs. Morton will
also be Director of the Bureau
of the Mint and National
Director of the UjS. Savings
Bond campaign. She is the first
Treasurer to hold all three
positions at once.
A native of Dale, Texas. Mrs.
Morton is married to James H.
Morton and is the mother of
two daughters. She has one
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Schoolboard member Dr. Justine Washington (1)
congratulates Ms. Mitchell after speech.
“America stands on the side
of justice on world issues,” she
said, adding that LLN.
Ambassador Andrew Young
the government measures and
reports employment and
unemployment.
If Levitan’s thinking
becomes the basis for a new
official unemployment index,
that new measure will show
that unemployment and the
hardship it creates is much
more severe than the current
index reflects - especially in
inner cities and rural poverty
areas.
The result could be massive
redistribution to those areas
and away from suburbs of the
annual Sl6 billion in federal
subsidies for community
development, job creation, job
training, revenue sharing and
other programs. The money is
currently distributed on the
basis of formulas that include
the unemployment rate.
Levitan, director of the
Center for Social Policy
Studies at George Washington
University, is a close associate
of Labor Secretary Ray
Marshall, who must advise
Congress on whether to
implement what the
commission recommends. The
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granddaughter. Mrs. Morton is
a member of Alpha Kappa
Alpha Sorority.
From 1971-76, Mrs. Morton
was Special Assistant to the
Chairman of the Democratic
and President Carter deserve
much credit for bringing about
change and creating a new
image in the family of nations.
recommendations are expected
by early 1979.
According to Levitan, our
manner of measuring
unemployment is obsolete.
When it was developed in tire
late 19305, he says, it was
accurate to equte joblessness
with hardship. But today,
unemployment insurance and
other public subsidies soften
the hardship for some of the
unemployed and, according to
some economists, defer job
hunting. Meanwhile, many
people are forced to take jobs
that still leave them below the
poverty level.
“What we need is an index
that will more realistically
reflect today's needs in today’s
economy,” Levitan says.
Levitan and economist
Robert Taggart, a Labor
Department official, believe
they have developed one. Their
Employment and Earnings
Inadequacy (EEI) index
measures the inability of
people “to attain an adequate
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Azie Taylor Morton
National Committee. Prior to
that, she served various
governmental agencies.
As treasurer, her signature
will appear on all currency
used in the United States.
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