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Doug Williams
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Volume 13 Number 31
King fails in bid to become
Boston’s first Black mayor
BOSTON, Mass.—City Coun
cilor Raymond Flynn, pledging to
unite a city long split along racial
lines, swept into the mayor’s office
here Tuesday with an easy victory
over former state legislator Melvin
King.
King had hoped to become the
first Black mayor in Boston’s 353-
year history.
“We have united a city where
the voice of every neighborhood
has been heard,” Flynn told 2,000
Now it’s: Win, Jesse, win
The new slogan is “Win, Jesse,
win.” It replaces “Run, Jesse, run.”
It could change the course,
make-up and style of American
vote getting.
Jackson made it clear that his
brand of populism didn’t respect
the power of labor unions, cor
porations, or self-appointed
leaders of people.
“I offer myself and my service
as a vehicle to give a voice to the
voiceless, representation to the
unrepresented and hope to the
downtrodden,” promised the
PUSH national president now on
leave.
Constantly in his rousing
speech, he attacked the Reagan
administration for retreat in civil
rights and its failure to address
problems of unemployment,
deteriorating education and pitiful
Doug Williams sounds off
Never let it be said that Doug
Williams, former quarterback of
the Tampa Bay Buccaneers,
doesn’t speak his mind.
Williams, a two-time All-
America selection while at Gram
bling, stated that the attitude of
Tampa Bay officials had much to
do with his ultimate decision to
jump leagues.
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cheering supporters at Boston’s
Park Plaza Hotel late Tuesday.
King, in conceding, applauded
Flynn for “joining me in a very
decent hard-working campaign
that has brought honor to people
too long ignored.”
With 97 percent of the vote
counted, Flynn led King 66 percent
to 34 percent. Flynn got about 80
percent of the white vote in a city
with a 23 percent Black
population.
housing conditions.
“I seek the presidency to serve
the nation at a level where I can
help restore a moral tone, a
redemptive spirit and a sensitivity
to the poor and dispossessed of
this nation,” he charged amid ap
plause.
“I seek the presidency because I
want to affirm my belief that
leadership is colorless and gen
derless and that the sole hallmark
of a true leader is not the skin color
he or she received from God, but
the ability of the person to bring
competence, compassion and fair
ness to the sacred trust that the
people elect their officials to
discharge.”
Brandishing his entry as an in
spiration for countless others to
enter politics, Jackson said that he
hoped that a byproduct of his can-
like to about the Oklahoma
Outlaws,” said Williams, the only
Black quarterback in NFL annals •
drafted in the first round. “I like
the way they handled the
negotiations, and they made me
feel like I was wanted.
“After five hard years in Tam
pa, they didn’t really care if I
signed or not.
“The name of this professional
James Brown
calls paternity suit
a ripoff attempt
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His easy win surprised even the
pollsters, who had him leading by
16 percent going into election day.
Officials said the turnout may have
been as high as 68 percent —a re
cord.
Flynn, 44, succeeds 16-year
Mayor Kevin White. He described
White’s decision not to run again
as “the last hurrah” for machine
politics in Boston.
The race was relatively free of
racial overtones until Saturday,
didacy “would be to inspire 10,000
people to run for office at every
level.”
Not only did he anticipate in
creased voting registration of up
wards of two million, but he
promised “to have the longest and
widest coat tail of any candidate in
this race.”
He said, “We want to cross the
finish line first, but not with an
empty wagon. We want our
wagon to be full of other can
didates as well.”
His debut before the multitude
came amid a highly charged scene.
Minutes before, former U.S. Rep.
Shirley Chisholm, who first ran for
the presidential nomination
in 1972, said that she “planted the
seed but the soil was not ready.”
Introducing Jackson, she deman
ded that “We can no longer be
game is security. I think that’s
what every professional athlete is
looking for despite what they say
about they don’t play this game for
money. If they don’t play it for
money, they ought to go to the
neighborhood where they’re from
and play touch football.”
Williams, who guided the Buc
caneers to three playoff appearan
ces in five years, was among the
James Brown:
suit a ripoff
Soul singer James Brown, who
recently performed before nearly
80,000 fans at Miami’s outdoor
flea market and then flew to
Sacramento, Calif., to keep a
court date in a child support case,
was met with a crowd of en
thusiastic fans offering moral sup
port and seeking autographs.
Brown appeared in Sacramento
Superior Court with his attorney
Clarence Brown, no relation, to
face charges that he allegedly
failed to pay $29,500 in child sup
port payments to the one-time
head of his local fan dub. The
court hearing was postponed to
this week because Brown’s attor
ney was ill, according to a
Sacramento Superior Court clerk.
The case stems back to 1969,
when Mary Florence Brown, no
relation to Brown, then president
of his Sacramento fan club,
charged that he was father of her
10-month old boy, Michael Dion
Brown.
Brown told reporters in court,
“I’ve been fighting for the right
thing all my life. I took care of the
kid because I didn’t want any more
Black kids going without a father.
Now they want to bring it back up
and rip me of again.”
Kenny Bullock
is named
Player of the
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November 19,1983
when two white campaign workers
for King were attacked by whites in
a South Boston housing project.
Monday, a ball bearing was thrown
through a window of a King store
front office in Allston.
And Tuesday, a telephoned
bomb threat forced an hour-long
evacuation of King’s downtown
campaign headquarters. King was
escorted by two plainclothes
policemen at campaign stops
during the day.
passive and complacent. We’ve
reached a plateau, a turning point,
a crossroads.”
Then as the band played Happy
Days Are Here Again, smiling
Rev. Jesse Jackson appeared in the
wings “turning on” the huge
audience ranging from jumping
students to clapping church choir
'members. But even before this en
trance, some 14 representatives of
minority and women’s groups en
dorsed Jackson,
The rally was organized in five
days by supporters of D.C. Mayor
Marion Barry, who co-presided the
event along with Gary Mayor
Richard Hatcher. More than 200
representatives of Black, Hispanic,
and women’s organizations sat on
the three tier dais as a symbol of
endorsement of Jackson’s cam
paign.
lowest paid signal callers in the
game after signing a $50,000 con
tract that escalated to Slzu.uOO.
Despite the three-year, $875,000
pact that he was seeking, Williams
said he would have gladly accepted
$600,000. The Bucs drew the line
at $400,000. All of which led to
speculation and popular criticism
that his agent, Jimmy Walsh, had
“messed up” Williams’ career.
“Quite naturally that’s what
Tampa Bay would say because
they don’t have nothing else to
say,” Williams suggested.
“They’ve got to blame somebody
for being 0-9.
“But by the same token, Jim
Walsh only did what Doug
Williams told him to do. When
see Doug Williams, page 2
Black astronauts have ‘the right stuff’
Final part of series
One scientist, a geologist,
walked on the moon in 1972. His
name was Harrison H. Schmitt,
and he was later elected to the
U.S. Senate from New Mexico.
Nevertheless, “NASA was very
hard-nosed about getting the very
best,” a member of the space
agency’s headquarters staff
recalled recently.
“I guess we could have selected
Blacks as early as 1965,” he said,
“but we did not because we selec
ted the people at the top. To have
selected one (a Black), you would
have had to take a person lower
than some others.”
There was one Black man almost
certainly qualified for astronaut
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As we observe the 12th
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News-Review, we wish to
pay tribute to two of our
staff members who have
held us together through
the years—-Al Irby and J.
Philip Waring.
Al Irby
They joined our staff
shortly after the paper was
founded in 1971. Mr. Irby
took over as circulation
manager and began writing
his weekly column.
Although he is more than
70 years old, he has never
failed to make a deadline
nor showed up late to get
his newspapers, which he
still distributes, although
he gave up his major re
sponsibilities in circulation
years ago.
Although he is not a col
lege graduate, he attended
Paine College, City College
in New York, and regular
ly enrolls in Continuing
Education classes to feed
his insatiable desire to learn
more.
No one has a greater love
for Augusta or The News-
Review than Phil Waring.
When he was director of
the Urban League in Stan
ford, Connecticut and la
ter in St. Louis, he would
call the News-Review at
status in 1969. He was a member
of the Air Force MOL team, a
group of pilots chosen to fly the
military’s Manned Orbiting
Laboratory.
That project was canceled,
however, and some of the MOL
group signed up with NASA. The
Black MOL pilot, Robert H.
Lawrence, was killed in a fighter
plane accident before NASA had a
chance to select him.
Then, with the first lunar lan
ding in 1969, the need for new
astronauts quickly diminished.
NASA selected no more
astronauts for nine years—from
1969 to 1978.
Eventual congressional approval
of the space-shuttle program
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least once a week with an
idea for a special edition
or a contact from which
the paper could benefit.
His love for Augusta
and its history led him to
organize the Augusta Black
History Committee which
J. Philip Waring
is responsible for getting
numerous streets named
for Blacks as well as such
things as having Mrs. Lucy
C. Laney’s portrait hung
in the state Capitol and
producing our award-win
ning Blacks Who Helped
Build Augusta Series.
In recent months, his
health has sharply curtail
ed his activities, and he
is no longer able to drive
his automobile. But his
health has not yet man
aged to keep him away
from his typewriter. Neith
er does it keep him off the
telephone from which he
directs his various pro
jects.
We can never do justice
‘o these men for their con
tributions to the News-
Review and to the com
munity. But we can pause
for a moment and say
thanks to two men who
have kept their shoulders
to the wheel, and who will
forever be appreciated.
signaled the need for additional
flight crews.
NASA issued a call for can
didates in 1978, but Col. Bolden
did not apply.
“I chickened out,” he said.
Lt. Col. Guion S. Bluford Jr.
and Lt. Col. Frederick D.
Gregory, both Black Air Force of
ficers, did apply in 1978 and were
accepted.
Col. Bolden’s decision came not
out of fear, but because he did not
believe he had enough “stuff.”
“In my mind then, an astronaut
was a superman,” he recalled.
He was also not a test pilot at
that time, but he became one,
graduating from the U.S. Naval
see Right Stuff, page 7
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