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Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson
to donate share
to UNCF
LOS ANGELES Singer
Michael Jackson will donate his
share of proceeds from the current
Victory tour to the United Negro
College Fund and two charities
devoted to cancer research and
treatment, his manager has said.
Frank Dileo declined to specify
the amount Jackson would donate
and said, at the singer’s request,
the sum will never be revealed.
In July, at the beginning of
Jackson’s current tour with his
brothers, the singer promised to
donate his share of proceeds to
charity. Since then, he has been
criticized in the media for failing to
identify those charities.
Black African bishop
wins Nobel Peace Prize
Anglican Bishop Desmond
Tutu, Tuesday named the winner
of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, has
waged a tight rope battle against
apartheid in South Africa by
balancing a churchman’’: hatred
of violence with a politician’s
pragmatism.
Believing that international
pressure on South Africa is “the
only option left to Blacks,’’Tutu
has pushed foreign governments
and corporations to use their
economic influence to improve
conditions for South African
Blacks. And he has openly criti
cized President Reagan’s policy
of constructive engagement, which
advocated quiet, low pressure
diplomacy with the South African
government.
Throughout his six years as
secretary-general of the South
African Council of Churches,
Tutu has become his country’s
most daring and visible spokesman
against apartheid. He has raised
his voice against the government’s
forced removal of hundreds of
Blacks into resettlement areas and
has criticized a new South African
constitution as “an elaborate
hoax”.
In awarding the prize in Oslo,
the five-member Norweigian
Nobel Committee stressed the im
portance of Tutu’s role as a
unifying figure in the campaign to
overcome apartheid, as South
Africa’s legalized system of racial
segregation is called.
Tutu, 53, said in New York,
where he is a visiting professor at
the General Theological Seminary,
that he would accept the $190,000
award on behalf of “all those who
have been involved in the
liberation struggle, working for a
new society in South Africa.”
Tutu said Tuesday that the
award is a symbol of the ultimate
victory in his struggle against apar
theid. He said he would travel to
Johannesburg later Tuesday to
“go and celebrate with the people”
Stye Augusta •Neuis-llteuuui
James Brown
takes new bride
The ‘Godfather of Soul’, James
Brown, was “on the good foot”
when he walked out of the Aiken
County Probate Court recently
with his new bride, Adrianne
Modell Rodriguez.
Several of Brown’s relatives, in
cluding his mother and a cousin,
were on hand to witness Brown,
51, betrothed to Ms. Rodriguez,
34. She was lovely in a beige chif
fon dress with a hat to match.
Following the 10-minute
ceremony, an overjoyed Brown
paused to sign autographs for
fans. The newlyweds, who met
during a taping of Brown’s guest
Along with the United Negro
College Fund, the other
organizations that will benefit
from Jackson’s largesses are Camp
Good Times, a year-round camp
for terminally ill children, and the
T.J. Martell Foundation for
leukemia and cancer research at
Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York.
The heads of the three charities
attended a ne.ws conference at a
video recording sound stage in
of South Africa.
He also said he would travel
with his family to Oslo to accept
the prize.
The prize “is a kind of
sacrament, a wonderful symbol
that, despite all appearances to the
contrary, we will make it.” Tutu
said.
When he received word of the
prize from a Norweigian diplomat,
the tiny impish-looking prelate
said with a laugh, “My wife and I
were pinching each other” with
surprise.
“It is a tremendous political
statement that has been made,”
Tutu said, “that those who oppose
apartheid are in the same light as
Black mayors
to push five T’s
TUSKEGEE, Ala. - The Five
T’s, a concept developed through
the National Conference of Black
Mayors, became the focal point of
the first annual summit conference
of the World conference of
Mayors sponsored recently by
Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.
The Five T’s are trust, trade,
tourism, technology and twin
cities. They represent the five
common goals of some 200 mayors
from around the world who are
members of the organization. “It
is within these five areas we hope
to develop common strateges
around the world in the furtheran
ce of our international goals”, said
Tuskegee Mayor Johnny Ford,
who serves as president ot me
World Conference of Mayors.
Representing Anheuser-Busch
Companies at the conference was
Wayman F. Smith 111, vice
-Jit
Mr. & Mrs. James Brown
apearance on “Solid Gold”
where she worked in production,
were beaming as they made their
way from the court house.
(From Jet)
•Hollywood. Jackson was not
present.
Christopher Edly, president of
the United Negro College Fund
said, “Our hearts skipped a beat
when it was announced that
Michael would donate ihe
proceeds of his tour to charity.”
Edly noted that most of the
nation’s current civil rght leaders
are graduates of colleges supported
by the United Negro College Fund.
those who oppose communism.”
Other peace prize winners have in
cluded the Rev. Martin Luther
King in 1965, Soviet dissident An
drei Sakharov in 1975, the Lon
don-based human rights watchdog
organization Amnesty Inter
national in 1977, the Argentine
dissident Adelfo Perez Esquivel in
1980, and last year’s winner,
Polish labor leader Lech Walesa.
“It is an award that
acknowledges all those who have
been involved in the liberation
struggle, working for a new society
in South Africa, a caring, a com
passionate, a sharing society, a
society where human beings
created in the image of God,”
Tutu said Tuesday.
president of corporate affairs.
Smith commented, “As elected of
ficials and leaders, the members of
the World Conference of Mayors
have earned respect from the world
at large. And, in the communities
where they live, they have an op
portunity to use positive influence
on a wide range of matters by vir
tue of their positions.
Smith noted, “The
philosophy of Anheuser-Busch is
simple:we want to be responsible
and responsive corporation.”
More that 250 state, national
and international emissaries atten
ded the conference. They were met
with special greetings from a num
ber of Alabama and Tuskegee elec
ted officials and civic leaders in
cluding Governor George Wallace
and Dr. Benjamin Payton,
president of Tuskegee.
October 20,1984
Discrimination follows
Augustan to Africa
by Mallory K. Millender
Dr. Cynthia Butler Omololu has
gone a long way since she left
Agnes Street in Augusta, where she
is once again living with her
mother.
She married a Nigerian and went
home to live in mother Africa, but
she has found that she is severely
discriminated against there as a
woman, and sometimes is not free
in her own home.
“You’re not free in your own
kitchen because your mother-in
law or sister-in-law could come in
and bring their maid or use
my maid. You’re not in control.
You want to be able to dictate your
kitchen at least.”
“I am their wife. The mother
runs the son’s home. And you’ve
got to be mighty powerful to fight
your mother-in-law. And if you get
into it with her, you’re also in
Watch for sick Republican
The News-Review has
learned from a reliable
source that a Republican
candidate for the County
Commission, who is not
doing well in the polls,
plans to get sick or
whatever necessary to
withdraw from the race
just before the election.
The result would be a
postponement of the elec
tion.
To finish out the
scenario, a Republican
on the County Com
mission who is running
for the State House, if he
loses, will come back and
run for the vacant Coun
ty Commission seat
created by the “sick”
Republican.
Linda Beasley, head
of the Richmond County
Board of Elections, told
the News-Review that she
“got a drift” of the plot
two or three weeks ago,
and that it is within the
law.
She cited Election
Code 21-2-134 which
Recount leaves
mayor’s race unchanged
A recount Tuesday of the ballots
in the Oct. 10 mayor’s election in
creased Mayor-elect DeVaney’s
vote total by 4 and Second Ward
Councilman Wille H. Mays 111 by
seven.
Mays requested the recount after
missing a runoff with DeVaney by
156 votes. DeVaney had 50.7 per
cent of the votes to Mays’ 42.3
percent. City Council woman Inez
Wylds had 5.8 percent and realtor
J.W. Spence had 1 percent.
Mays expressed concern over the
fact that 229 ballots were in-
Less than 75 percent Advertising
A
Dr. Cynthia Butler Omololu
Editorial
states that “A vacancy
occurring in any party
nomination (filled by a
primary) for a public of
fice for which a candidate
must qualify with the
County Executive Com
mittee by reason of
death, disqualification or
withdrawal of any can
didate; therefore, oc
curing after the
nomination, shall be
filled by a substitute
nomination made by a
special primary to be held
not later than the 14th
day after the scheduled
date of election for which
the deceased or with
drawn individual was a
candidate.”'
So it is lawful to pull
such a stunt. But it is
also an abuse of the
public trust. Such can
didates demonstrate a
willingness to waste the
tax-payers money for
their own selfish ends,
and are unworthy to
hold public office.
validated in the lower four wards
where he took more than 72 per
cent of the votes cast.
In addition to filing for a
recount of the votes, Mays filed a
petition to contest the results.
DeVaney said after the recount
that things wen “much as I an
ticipated.”
Mays said that his request for a
recount did not suggest that there
was wrongdoing, but that he
“would have been derelict” not to
have asked for the recount.
trouble with the boy.”
A 1967 graduate of Paine
College. Dr Omolou earned a
masters and a Ph.D. in
psychology at the University of
Georgia. But she has learned that
achievement doesn’t always pay.
“I always had the perception that
the sky was the limit if you worked
hard, and the sky was not the limit
for a woman there.
“You’re not supposed to stand
out. If you do, you’re supposed to
be knocked down like a nail. And I
would say, ‘You’re not going to
knock me down with a hammar’
(while the blood oozed out of my
ears).”
The equivalent of an associate
professor in the Psychology
Department at the University of
Lagos, she says she has had to
work 10 times as hard as every one
else.
She received two promotions in
five years, but said her department
chairman “didn’t want to see a
woman rise that fast.”
The department chairmanship
rotated and she could have become
the head of the department. “He
was threatened and it was very im
portant for him to keep me down.
She was promoted by the
University of Lagos Senate which
overruled the department head.
Dr. Omololu says she has always
been achievement oriented. While
she was a student at Paine, she
majored in philosophy and religion
Ibecause everybody in the depart
ment had Ph. D’s and “I wanted
to be around people who had at
tained.” Her professors, Dr.
Cecelia Sheppard and Dr. Roy
Delamotte had Ph. D’s from Yale.
Dr. Marcus Gayton had his Ph.D.
from Emory.
After graduating from Paine,
she studied German at Haverford
College. Then she went to Pamona
in Clairmont California where
students had “maids, private baths
and very elegant food.”
After Pamona she went to
UCLA where she started meeting
lots of Africans. “There were
Africans at Paine, but they were
ugly, just inferior, and had a very
negative image. Now they are
coming over here and taking all the
girls back.”
She said the African students
were very political and she was
“very impressed” by their in
telligence. And she found them to
be very patriarchial.
“I believe that deep down, most
women want to be taken care of,
and African men certainly give you
that image.
“They are not threatened by your
success because, to them, you’re
nothing but a woman and never
will be. And a womman has status
anyway.”
“I went into Nigerian society as
a wife of the population. And their
view is, ‘You must not have
anything going for you or
you wouldn’t be here in the first
place.”
One of the things she is proudest
of is the program she started for
women in Nigeria. Now that the
program is successful, she said,
“the provost has appointed a man
to head it. Os course, I’m his
assistant.”
Dr. Omololu is the author of
one book, “Three Women in
Lagos”, and has another in
progress. She also is a member of
Who’s Who in Nigeria.
She will be in Augusta for a
year, lecturing and working in
private practice as a clinical
psychologist.
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