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The Augusta News-Review - Dec. 29, 1980 -:
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Christmas celebrates
nothing less than the gift
of life and the birth of
fresh hope. That’s why it
touches a universal
chord, why all of us look
forward to the Christmas
season with anticipation
and joy.
For many, Christmas
means a renewal of basic
values and of the
necessary commitments
those values imply. Chief
among them is com
passion and help for those
less fortunate
It is more important
than ever before to affirm
those values and those
traditional Christmas
seasonal reminders of
man’s brotherhood and
the goodwill we should
hold for all.
Just a quick look
around us shows the need
for a rebirth of com
passion and caring
generosity.
Millions of people are
starving in the famine
areas of Africa. Millions
here at home are jobless
this Christmas. Millions
of families will celebrate
the traditional Christmas
dinner with the only meat
they’ll eat this month.
And many of those
meager Christmad
dinners are possible only
because of food stamps or
welfare payments or
other means society
provides to supply the
barest minimum
necessary for sheer
survival, and little else.
We should think of
those people - people in
trouble, people who are
homeless, people who are
hungry -- while we
celebrate our own good
fortune. That’s what this
season means - to
transcend our own
concerns and embrace
others in the full spirit of
humanity and sharing
love of one’s neighbor.
But unfortunately
there’s another spirit
abroad in the land in this
Christmas season, a
spirit of selfish hard
heartedness, a spirit of
indifference to those who
are poor or who are
black, a spirit of
meanness.
Just a quick look
around us shows the need
for a rebirth of com
passion and caring
generosity.
Millions of people are
starving in the famine
areas of Africa. Millions
here at home are jobless
this Christmas. Millions
of families will celebrate
the traditional Christmas
dinner with the only meat
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The Gift of
Christmas
By Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.
they’ll eat this month.
And many of those
meager Christmad
dinners are possible only
because of food stamps or
welfare payments or
other means society
provides to supply the
barest minimum
necessary for sheer
survival, and little else.
We should think of
those people -- pebple in
trouble, people who are
homeless, people who are
hungry - while we
celebrate our own good
fortune. That’s what this
season means -- to
transcend our own
concerns and embrace
others in the full spirit of
humanity and sharing
love of one’s neighbor.
But unfortunately
there’s another spirit
abroad in the land in this
Christmas season, a
spirit of selfish hard
heartedness, a spirit of
indifference to those who
are poor or who are
black, a spirit of
meanness.
I suppose we can call
that the spirit of anti-
Christmas, and it is
strong, very strong. It is
strong enough to
masquarade as part of
the season’s good cheer
and hearty fun.
Just consider one
particularly ugly
example of the spirit of
anti-Christmas. There’s a
nasty board game
making fun of poor people
and welfare recipients
that will probably wind
up under some Christmas
trees - the fewer the
better, as far as I’m
concerned.
Players draw cards
that read: “Your son is
beat up by an ethnic gang
while being bused across
town to shool; pay
hospital $200.” Another is
“pitch pennies all day.”
Loser draw cards like:
“working person’s
DHR Study Links Health, Habits
According to a study
released by the Georgia
Department of Human
Resources, about one
million Americans die
each year because of
destructive life styles
inadequate diet, lack of
exercise and excessive
stress.
The study,
“Passages: Predictable
Mortality Through The
Life Stages” is based on
research conducted in
Georgia from 1975-1978.
“This report shows
that life style disease
burden.” Land on a box
marked “illegitimate
child” and you get play
money welfare grants.
It is disgusting that
the sufferings of the poor
are so callously treated
by people making fund of
their miseries for profit.
The very idea of well-off
people playing a game
that reinforces racial
stereotypes and derides
the poorest of lhe poor is
obscene, espggially in
this Christmas season.
And how Tronic to
give such a poisonous
game as a gift to im
pressionable children,
helping them to learn
racism and contempt for
those less well-off than
their own families, many
of whom once were dirt
poor themselves less than
a generation or two ago.
One stupid board
game wouldn’t bother
me; what gets me is the
mentality behind it, a
mentality of me-first,
damn-the-poor, hate
those who are different or
poorer.
Poverty isn’t a game
for those who are poor. It
is in the humblest homes
that the true spirit of
Christmas will reign this
year, where people will
share the little they have
and take solace in the
love and warmth of their
families and friends.
This Christmas let us
all strive to rise above the
petty race and class
hatreds so prevalent in
our society; let us
dedicate ourselves to the
lasting values of the
Christmas tradition.
In this season of
rebirth and fresh hopes,
many we reolve to give
fresh meaning to the
spirit of brotherly love
and joy to all mankind. In
that spirit, may I wish
you and your loved ones a
happy and joyous
holiday.
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stroke and cirrhosis of
the liver persist, not
because we can’t prevent
them but simply because
we haven’t” said Dr.
James Alley, director of
DHR’s Division of
Physical Health.
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to the individual and the
health habits we develop
in early life are going to
affect our health as we
get older.”
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human life span into nine
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Concept of South Africa
One of the dreams of
South Africa’s ruling
National Party is being
laid to rest, unfulfilled.
Prime Minister Pieter W.
Botha has finally con
ceded what a number of
studies already had made
obvious, that the dream
of turning his country’s
black tribal areas into
economically viable
mini-states is simply
unattainable.
Economically Unfeasible
....Nevertheless, boss
Botha still is clinging to
the view that the tribal
reserves euphemistically
referred to as “black
homelands’’ or “nation
states” can be politically
separate from white
South Africa. The
abandonment of the goal
of* economic partition
between whites and
blacks does not mean the
ruling National Party has
abandoned its goal of
apartheid.
Instead, it has simply
stripped away one of the
original economic
justificiations for the
brutal policy. Mr. Botha’s
admission that the tribal
reserves cannot be made
economically viable
came at a congress of the
ruling National Party in
the populous Transvaal
Province. It marks a
departure from the
original goals of apar
theid envisioned by the
policy’s architect, former
Prim Minister Hendrik
Verwoerd.
The Homelands Concept
Presents Two Nations,
One Black and One White
....Indeed, some
analysts say the
homelands now are ex
posed for what they have
been all along: reservoirs
of cheap labor for South
Africa, and convenient
dumping grounds for
those considered surplus
in the Country’s
economic needs. Prime
Minister Botha, of
course, puts a different
face on the development.
He says that the stage is
set for “promoting the
development of a master
constellation of states,
each deciding: its own
political future as ruler in
its own house.”
physical, psychological
and social factos which
contribute or detract to
health during that par
ticular time period. It
offers health goals and
the kinds of health check
ups needed during each
stage of life. The study
also shows the leading
causes of death by race,
sex and age.
Among the findings
for Georgia were:
Pneumonia is the
leading cause of death in
Black male infants.
From ages U - IS, the
Implicit in that
statement, however, is
the traditional nationalist
view that black and white
South Africans are not
partof the same state.
Echoing that theme, Mr.
Botha told the party
congress that “not one
single black man in this
country” is not “linked”
to one of the homelands.
That is a reaffirmation of
the nationalist precept
that each black person in
South Africa, is by reason
of his ethnic lineage
actually part of a
separate nation-a view
roundly rejected by black
activisits. Mr. Botha
promised the creation of
new industrial growth
points that will “tran
scend the boundaries of
the traditional areas in
South Africa.” ’ His
critics fear that means
that economic
development in the rural
homelands will stagnate,
aggravating the extreme
poverty and deprivation
that already exist in
many of these areas.
Conditions Beget
Guerrilla Action
... .But many of the more
radical Black activisits
welcome the develop
ment, taking the view
that grinding rural
poverty will inevitably
foster the creation of an
embittered rural
populace which will
support guerrilla war
fare. The abandonment of
the goal of economically
viable homelands, they
argue, strips more of the
brutal veneer from
apartheid and exposes it
as a system aimed at
ensuring white privilege.
But Mr. Botha says, “We
cannot give away the
whole of South Africa
merely to create
economically viable
black states.” Some
critics charge that leaves
disjointed fragments land
spread in patchwork
fashion over the country
with little justification for
existing, other than as
artificial political units
designed to keep black
hands off the levers of
political powers in South
Africa.
four major causes of
death for Black and white
males and white females
are motor vehicle ac
cidents, all other ac
cidents, suicide and
homicide. For Black
females, pneumonia
replaces suicide.
From ages 30-44,
heart attack is the
leading cause of death in
white males, suicide is
the leading cause of death
in white females and
homicide is the leading
cause of death in Black
mates and females.
Nevertheless, Mr. Botha
and his henchmen
doggedly insist that
blacks and whites in
South Africa can share
the same economic in
stiutions, but not the
same political in
stitutions.
Economic VS Politics
....That makes little
sense to black activists,
nortoithe ruling National
Party’s own right wing.
Conservative whites
argue that a shared
economy inevitably will
lead to demands for
political power-sharing,
and ultimately to mixed
neighborhoods and even
mixed marriages
developments they view
with unconcealed horror.
Mr. Botha assures
doubters ta thht 'his
government "can control
the rate and direction of
change. Nevertheless,
hard-liners continue to
rally behind arch
conservatives in the
National Party such as
Dr. Andries Treurnicht.
The black ihomelands are
exposed for what they
have been all along;
reserviors of cheap
labor for white South
Africa, and convenient
dumping grounds for
those considered surplus
to the country’s economic
needs.
Astronaut Tells His Story
On this edition of
TONY BROWN’S
JOURNAL, “Another
Kind of Spaceman,” hist
and executive producer
Tony Brown talks space
with Col. Frederick
Gregory, NASA’s first
Black pilot-astronaut,
who will soon take the
helm of the newly
developed space shuttle
and pilot the 94’ton or
biter into space.
Col. Gregory is a
graduate of the Air Force
Academy and George
Washington University
where he received a
master’s degree in in
formation systems. He
was a rescue crew
commander in Vietnam
and has received the Air
Force Distinguished
Flying Cross, the
Meritorious Service
Medal, the Uir Medal
with 15 Oak Leaf Clusters
and the Air Force
Commendation Medal.
According to
Gregory, space has
always been a part of
him: “As a kid, I was
looking back at many of
the records that I had
kept in my life, and
always on the bottom line
of everything I always
said, was, I’d like to do
this and this, and this was
to be in space.
South Africa Expands Power
According to British
television broadcast on
Granada’s World in
Action, South Africa
exploded a nuclear
device on September 22,
1979. The explosion took
place at a height of 26,000
feet above the sea, over
the South Atlantic. The
device was probably fired
from a howitzer gun on a
warship. The nuclear
technology was probably
obtained with the help of
West Germany and
Israel. The 155 mm long
range shell is thought to
have come from a United
States arms manufac
turer, experienced in
providing shells for
nuclear weapons.
Purpose of
developing weapons was
to ensure South African
superiority in the 1975
war with Angola, but
more importantly to
provide South Africa
with military superiority
over all of her newly
independent neighbors.
With this superiority
established South Africa,
with secret en
couragement from
Britain and the U.S.
would begin a long term
campaign to destablize
the governments of in
dependent Africa and to
make Namibia’s fight for
freedom extraordinarily
difficult.
The recent failure of
the United Nations-South
African talks regarding
independence for
Namibia illustrates
position of strength at
titude of the apartheid
regime of South Africa.
But here South Africa
may be checked by the
imposition of sanctions
against her thanks to
Nigerian "demands'that
the West act ’agdfnst
>South Africa or face the
possiblity of losing vitally
needed Nigerian oil, now
doubly precious because
of the war in the Persian
Gulf region.
But in all truth and
candor it must be ad
mitted that sanctions are
of certain value as long as
powerful and secret
friends are permitted to
violate them at will. This
is amply born out in the
case of Zimbabwe where
sanctions against the lan
Smith regime were
routinely flouted by the
They hadn’t chosen
astronauts since 1967,1
believe, and -of course -
as the years marched on,
I felt that perhaps I might
be getting too old for this
program, and so I was
really excited in 1977
when NASA announced
that they were going to
choose astronauts for the
program.”
TONY BROWN’S
JOURNAL returns to
commercial television for
a third exciting year
sponsored by Pepsi-Cola
Company. Produced by
Tony Brown Productions,
Inc., the series is
distributed by Show Biz,
Inc. of Nashville, Ten
nessee. (Important:
Please check local
television listings for
correct area broadcast
time.)
The. shuttle is
recognized and supported
by the highest levels, the
Secretary of Defense and
the President. It was
described as critical to
United States defense
planning because of its
ability -via satellite - to
retrieve information.
This capability would
give the United States its
best space-gathered
intelligence information
yet.
Tony Brown
By Laura Parks
very powers who imposed*
them in the first place.
Zimbabwe won its
freedom almost entirely
due to the efforts of her
guerrilla armies.
In recent months
South Africa has in
tensified its interference
in Mozambique. The
military Revolutionary
Tribunal of Mozambique
sentenced three men to
death for syping from a
base in South Africa and
for supporting the so
called Mozambican
National Resistance, a
South African Financed
group.
Now Zambia has
imposed a dawn to dusk
curfew in her major
towns as the army in
tensifies its search for an
armed gang trying to
overthrow President
Kaunda. President
Kaunda is reported to
have told diplomats in
Lusaka that the gang was
formed by South Africa.
Zambians have lived in
constant fear since 1965
when former Rhodesian
Prime Minister lan
Smith, helped by his
South African friends,
took the first fatal steps
to war against the sup
porters of Nkomo and
Mugabe. Since that time
a state of emergency has
always existed in
Zambia. The state of
emergency has never
been lifted.
Recently in
dependent Zimbabwe has
imposed curbs on certain
foreign journalists for
reporting only the bad
without balancing it with
reports about the good.
Chief culprints of this
practice, according to
Information Minister Dr.
Nathan Shamuyarira,
were the South African
press and some
American journalists.
The spreading South
African power base
consists of growing
military power, economic
based on gold and
diamond exports, which
fuels the nation’s
military-industrial
complex, and the belief
and understanding that
nations like the United
States, Britain and West
Germany do not wish to
curb South Africa’s police
role on the continent.
highlights the discussion
with a careful
examination of the
shuttle craft and exciting
film footage of Col.
Gregory’s meticulous
training procedures.
Among them are water
survival training where
the astronaut is trained to
sustain above-water
capability in the event of
emergency and zero-G
familiarization, a
procedure that allows the
crew to become ac
customed to the sense of
weightlessness in space.
The pride witnessed
in Gregory is a pride that
not only comes from his
achievements but one
that runs in his blood. Dr.
Charles Drew, the noted
physician who discovered
ways to preserve blood
plasma and founded the
first blood bank, was
Gregory’s uncle.
In conclusion, Tony
Brown contends that
“Col. Gregory represents
a significant
achievement in space
exploration.” Until now,
none of the manned space
flights-have incorporated
Black astronauts. His
knowledge, his skills and
his drive for excellence
are not only triumphs
that will be printed in
history books but images
that will be implanted in