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The Aug\|j^ews- Review - January 5, 1978 -
NNPA to present award
to Humphrey in Miami
WASHINGTON (NNPA) -
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey,
forma - Vice President of the
United States, will receive thy
Distinguished Humanitarian
Award of the National
Newspaper Publishers
Association (NNPA) during its
Mid-Winter Workshop. Dr.
Carlton B. Goodlett, president
of the NNPA, made that
announcement.
Additionally, Dr. Goodlett
said NNPA will present
“Affirmative Action
Advertising Awards” to seven
major advertisers. These are:
American Airlines, Chrysler
Corporation, Eastern Airlines,
Gulf Oil Corporation, Kraft,
Inc., Sears, Roebuck and
Company, and United Airlines.
They will receive plaques
during the “Recognition
Dinner for Advertisers” on
Thursday evening, January 12,
at Omni International Hotel in
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Sen. Humphrey (R) with Garth Reeves, former
president of National Newspaper Publishers Association,
at 1971 NNPA Convention.
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Miami, where the Workshop is
being held.
Presentation of the
Distinguished Humanitarian
Award will be made to Senator
Humphrey, “the Happy
Warrier,” as the climax of the
Workshop. Vice President
Walter F. Mondale has been
invited to receive the plaque
for the ailing Senator if he is
unable to be present.
Humphrey, who began his
political career as mayor of
Minneapolis at the age of 34,
first appeared on the national
scene three years later as a
delegate to the 1948
Democratic National
Convention where his fight for
a strong civil rights plank led to
the formation of a break-away,
racist State’s Right Party.
Throughout more than 20
years in the Senate, and four as
Vice President, Humphrey has
fought vigorously for civil
rights legislation. He is now
co-sponsor of the
Humphrey-Hawkins
Full-Employment and
Balanced Growth Bill to help
assure jobs for every American.
Congressman Hawkins, who
will address the Workshop
during the opening luncheon,
will also be honored. The
Californian was first elected to
Congress in 1962.
The “Affirmative Action
Advertising Awards”
established this year, have
become a feature of the annual
Workshop. Those being
honored are spending
SIOO,OOO or more promoting
their products and services
through the Black Press.
The 1977 Workshop
advertising honorees were:
American Tobacco Company,
Ford Motor Company, General
Foods, General Motors, and
Philip Morris.
Red Cross
to offer a
swim class
A course in Intermediate
Swimming will be offered by
the Augusta Red Cross January
9-20, from 7 to 9 each evening.
To be eligible for the course,
students must have successfully
completed the skills in the
Advanced Beginnner course.
For further information and
registration, call the Red Cross
at 722-1821.
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White editor banned 5 yrs.;
was friend of Steven Biko
By Lucy Shepherd
Pacific News Service
EAST LONDON, South
Africa - “They could ban me
in five minutes, but they prefer
to get me on a legal
technicality,” said Donald
Woods in an interview early
last summer. “Maybe because
I’m so well known here and
overseas.”
But Woods, for 12 years the
outspoken editor of the East
London Daily Dispatch, under
estimated the South African
government.
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“THE SWORD HAS NOW DROPPED”
This exclusive South African political cartoon - which appeared in the East
London Daily Dispatch last March - is reprinted with the special permission of the
artist, Donald Kenyon. On the left -- scissors in hand - is Connie Mulder, South
Africa’s Minister of Information and Interior. Seated at the typewriter is Dispatch
editor Donald Woods several months before he was officially banned. The cartoon
ran at the same time some government members were try ing to push through a bill
heavily censoring the press -a bill aimed particularly at Donald Woods.
Man escaped South African arrest;
fights against apartheid from U.S.
By Reginald Major
Pacific News Service
SAN FRANCISCO - Dranke
Koka escaped the dragnet.
Unlike hundreds of other
budding leaders of the Black
liberation movement in South
Africa, Koka moved fast when
the order came down banning
him from all public assembly
and the media.
When the police arrived in
the Black township of Soweto
two days after the ban to make
the nearly inevitable arrest,
Koka was already
underground, acquiring the
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Though he won his latest
legal battle, an appeal of a six
month jail sentence for refusing
to name a source, Woods was
banned in October for five
years by the South African
government. The banning order
- the first issued against a
white journalist here in several
years - followed Woods’
editorial campaign for an
investigation into the jailhouse
death of his friend, Black
consciousness leader Steve
Biko.
The ban means that Woods
cannot publish (or even enter
false papers that would get him
out of the country.
Today, one year after his
escape, Drake Koka is proving
himself to be just the kind of
man the white South African
regime has the most reason to
suppress. A small, dark
schoolmaster with a
middle-aged spread, a respected
family man and devout
Catholic, Koka is also an
articulate and militiant
firebrand determined to make
the voice of South African
Black nationalism heard
throughout the world.
his newspaper office), leave his
home town, go out at night, or
talk to more than one visitor at
a time. And he must report to
the police once a week.
Woods had been
editorializing for years against
the Nationalist government’s
racial apartheid policy,
ceaselessly walking a tightrope
between plain speaking and
law-breaking. After the death
of Biko - whom Woods
regarded as a “remarkable
man,” even a possible prime
minister some day - Woods
devoted an entire issue of his
Koka visited this city
recently to address a group of
influential businessmen on a
subject that has now become
his full-time cause: the passage
of UN economic sanctions
against the white government
of South Africa. He casually
dismissed the frequent white
argument that such sanctions
would hurt Blacks more than
whites as “laughable”.
“Economic sanctions,”
Koka explained in an
interview, “have the effect of
forcing businessmen to increase
efficiency in the face of losses.
paper in tribute,
quoted as saying “This is the
big one - the one they can’t
get away with.”
Biko had privately told
Woods that should he ever die
in jail, it would be murder -
and Woods had promised Biko
to make this public.
Woods, 43, is a father of
three, who speaks in calm,
measured tones. He himself is
quick to point out that he is a
political moderate who seems
“radical” only in the context
of his country’s political
climate.
Woods grew up among
Blacks in the Transkei, where
his father ran a trading store,
and he learned to speak fluent
Xhosa, the local native
language. His family
background was conservative,
however, and it was not until
he went to law school that he
began to question his country’s
racial policies.
Later he entered journalism,
joining the East London
Dispatch, he said, because he
“liked it gutsiness.’ he rose
from rookie reporter to
become, at age 31, the
youngest editor in South
Africa.
Though small, the Dispatch
under Woods became the most
outspoken newspaper in the
country. It was the first white
paper to publish a
native-language supplement for
the many Blacks in the area.
His staff is half Black and half
white, with an equal pay scale
for all - usually found only in
foreign-owned companies here.
He employs Black women
reporters because “I want to
try to break down a lot of
prejudice along the color and
sex lines.”
EOA Board
to meet Jan. 9
The CSRA Economic
Opportunity Authority, Inc.’s
first Board of Directors
meeting for 1978 will be held
at the Mid-South Building, 360
Bay St., Jan. .9. The meeting
will start promptly at 7:30 p.m.
The public is invited to
attend.
Who do you think the white
employer is going to fire when
times get hard? You can bet
that it will not be the Black
worker who makes only 534 a
month in favor of the white
who gets S4OO for the same
work.
Koka claims that white
South African unemployment
is on the rise precisely because
white businessmen have looked
at the cost effectiveness of the
apartheid economy in recession
and have concluded that the
best way to cut losses is to cut
all but essential white staff.
Last year, he said, at the
urging of the Black
consciousness movement
founded by the martyred Steve
Biko, Blacks imposed then
own economic sanctions by
refusing to buy Christmas
cards, dolls, toys and any
Christmas consumer goods.
“This enabled us, a poor
people, to withhold from the
South African economy 65
million rand (roughly
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