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FBI Still Prowls
NNPA
Convention
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African-Jewish Ties Urged,
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By OTTO McCLARRIN
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all
this
he continued.
live
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Israel
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newly
released
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of the Church of Scientology.
considering
charter to
intelligence
Effective
COINTELPRO
Bureau arq
&
illegal activities have not
confined to Black groups in
■ . Other documents
recently obtained by FREEDOM
show that the FBI was monitoring
the Congress of Racial Equality
(CORE), a New York based civil
rights organization.
FBI monitoring of this group
began as early as 1968, according
to the documents, and has con-
tinued until 1975, four years after
the I — —
COINTELPRO operations.
Revelations of FBI surveillance of
civil rights groups comes at a time
when several of these groups are
fraught with internal dissension.
CORE split into two battling fac-
tions in 1977, and most recently,
views were seen as significant
because most of Black Africa has
not yet reacted officially to the
peace" treaty, although many of
them praised the Camp David
accord at the last session of the
UN General Assembly. They are
expected to discuss the situation in
the Middle East at the upcoming
summits of the OAU in Liberia in
July and the Non-Aligned
Movement in Havana in September
in preparation for the UN General
Debate this coming fall.
Fisk to Conduct
Genealogy Seminar
Nashville, Tennessee, May 21,
1979 - The Fisk University Library
has been awarded a grant of
$39,998 from the U.S. Office of
Education to conduct an Institute
on Ethnic Genealogy for Librarians.
The formal program begins June 3
and ends June 22. 1979, and it will
include trips to Washington, D. C.,
Salt laike City and local field
experiences in genealogical search.
The institute
program
librarians
petencies
abortion is especially
in la tin America, the
East and Africa, where
laws are restrictive and
planning services are scarce,
cording to the analysis. More than
half of all pregnancies in Austria,
Italy, Japan, Portugal, the Soviet
Union and Uruguay, where the
most effective contraceptive
methods are generally unavailable,
are thought to end in abortion, the
private organization, reported that report said,
.v . _ . a »>»*•«< Inure rt/A rwti anruinr* I
the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference, has been beset with
similar problems. One SCLC leader
in North Carolina, Golden Frinks,
declared, “The problems within the
SCLC have been set up by the
FBI.”
The revelations of these illegal
FBI activities have come at a time
. when Congress is
such creating an FBI
surveillance,' establish
to the claims of FBI
—1 has conducted
COlNTELPRO-style
1975, ac-
obtained
in a
Congress
an I
i domestic
and activities guidelines.
The FBI has announced its op-
position to having a charter, and
Attorney General Griffen Bell has
supported the Bureau’s position
In a speech before the Con-
ference of all Special Agents In
Charge in Washington, D. C. on
April 4, Bell stated, "I am hot
keen on a charter for the FBI on
the domestic side or the in-
telligence side for different
CHICAGO - Ronald Reagan,
former governor of California, and
a leading Repbulican contender for
the Presidential nomination, will
address the 29th Annual Convention
of the National Newspaper
Publishers Association - the Black
Press of America.
Announcement of Reagan s sp< _*ch
was made here this week by John
H. Sengstacke, NNPA president and
editor-publisher of the Sengstacke
newspaper chain, including the
Chicago Daily Defender ■■■
Reagan's address will be
delivered Thursday evening, June
14, on the second day of the three-
day convention, the NNPA head
said. "We want to hear from all
the candidates, Republican and
Democrat alike," Sengstacke ex-
plained. “We don’t propose to be in
anybody’s pocket," he declared.
Other speakers at the convention •
will be Benjamin L. Hooks,
executive director of the NAACP;
Charles L. Brown, chairman of the
board of AT&T; W. Wilson Goode,
chairman of the Pennsylvania
Public Utility Commission; Robert
W. Morrow, vice president of ITT
(Company
chairman of the
Ms.
the
U.S.
An earlier memo from Hoover
d*ted April 21, 19 T, admonished all
FBI offices in the Held.
immediately,
operations by
discontinued."
The Nebraska
provides the first concrete evidence
r<- ’nti! rniwpri pnn artivities
These revelations are now
curing while Attorney General
Griffin Bell openly opposes the
proposed FBI Charter currently
being considered by Congress,
which would establish guidelines for
FBI domestic intelligence activities.
In an FBI memo dated Feb. 9,
1972, entitled "Counter Intelligence
Program. Racial Intelligence,’’
Special Agent in Charge, Omaha,
Nebraska asked permission of then
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to
“institute counter intelligence ac-
tivities” against a black civil rights
organizations in Iowa.
The memo further stated. “The
purpose of this counter intelligence
activity is to disrupt the activities
of the group.”
Reagan to Address
above all an African
he said, and African
would therefore show
ef-
observed that Libya's
into Uganda and Chad,
which he said had violated the
I territorial integrity,
would affect the views of many
African countries south of the
Sahara in relation to the Middle
East conflict.
The Ivory Coast Ambassador's
of ’FBI CO1NFELPRO activities
continuing after the FBI had an-
nounced an end to the program,
and despite continuing claims from
FBI spokesmen that such activities
have ceased.
FBI
been
Iowa, however.
Contrary
oficials, the FBI
illegal
operations
cording
documents
copyrighted story
newspaper, C..
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COINTELPRO, the FBI’s domestic
spying operation, included
illegal activities as
wiretapping, mail-opening,
breaking and entering,
revelations are
while Attorney
is an exemplary
designed to assist
in developing com-
in ethnic genealogical
search, emphasizing record iden-
See FISK
told the
My position is that I
would just as soon nut have it."
The FBI, too, is maintaining it
does not need Congressional
guidelines.
Continental Baking
Robert Sellers,
board of Cities Services;
Alexis Herman, director of
Womens Bureau of the
See REAGAN
Continued on Page 2
The Ivory Coast Ambassador to
the United Nations, Ambassador
Amoakon-Edjampan Thiemele,
voiced hope last week that the
Egyptian-lsralei peace treaty would
lead to full restoration of
diplomatic relations between Black
African countries and the Jewish
state.
“Even
relations,
good commercial
many i.-------- -
diplomatic
has maintained
relations with
——j African countries, including
the Ivory Coast," he said.
Addressing a meeting of the
World of Jewish Congress in New
York, A mb.'-sa dor Thiemele
doubted that the radical Arab
members of the Organization of
African Unity (OAU) - notably
Algeria and Libya - would succeed
in carrying out the Baghdad
resolution to expel Egypt from the
OAU.
Egypt was
country,
countries
solidarity with it in its peace
fort*. He
FBI announced the end of incursions
"principle of
However, an editorial on the FBI
Charter appearing in the Ixb
Angles Times noted: "... in draf-
ting a charter, Congress also must
not dismiss the' history of four
decades, this history argues the
need to bring the FBI under a
clear legislative mandate."
reasons
•At one time, I thought we
needed a charter, particularly a
domestic charter, and perhaps an
intelligence charter,
• But we have learned to
without it, and I’m afraid we’U
(FBI) be done in if we
careful ...”
In stating how he felt about any
new guidelines, . Bell
Conference, “I
An estimated 20 million illegal
abortions are performed in the
world each year and are a leading
cause of death among women of
child-bearing age, a recent study
revealed.
The t-r- .
Crisis Committee also said that
another 20 million abortions were
self-induced annually and that the
, number was growing.
The committee, which monitors
international population and family
planning programs, said that it was
impossible to estimate the number
of deaths from abortion, partly
because of poor mortality
registration procedures in many
developing countries.
The Center for Disease Control
Illegal Abortions Rises
I A
(CDC) in Atlanta has estimated
that for every 100,000 illegal
abortions performed annually in the
United States there are 50 to 150
deaths. The rate in developing
countries has been estimated to be
report by the Population 100 to 1,500 deaths in every 100.000
!J cases.
The population committee, a
the incidence of abortion was ex-
pected to rise as a result of wider
perference for t—11- ‘ .
lack of alternative family planning the 10 countries that prohibit
services and an increase in the abortion under any circumstance,
1 more than one
abortion for every five live births.
More than 60 countries, mainly
See ABORTION
Continued on Page 2
Restrictive laws do not appear to
_____ deter women from seeking abortion,
smaller families, the report continued, adding that, if
lack of alternative family planning the 10 countries that |
number of women of child-bearing seven’ recorded
age.
Illegal
common
Middle
seivices
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Holloway, ixmgston
was
a liooo
from
Sunday evening, May 27, at the
Civic Assembly, a i
followed the banquet at the Holiday
Inn.
Monday morning, May 28, was a
Memorial service l
Washington cemetery. At thia time
the alumni signed a scroll as a
Dr. Ernest
University,
received
university
alumni reunion
Training
Junes, ’59, associate professor of
Biology at the University of
Michigan, was in attendance and
was also guest speaker at the
Banquet programme.
The invocation at the Banquet
was given by Rev Ezra M.
Johnson. ‘34. Memphis, Tennessee
and master of ceremony was
Donald Simmons, 52, Muskogee
resident.
Tulsans will remember the late
Mr. Seymour Williams as the first
Athletic Coach at Manual football
and basketball teams. Mrs.
Pocahontas Greadington. Tulsan,
The alumni reunion of the
Manual Training High School.
Muskogee, Oklahoma started with
registration al the Martin Luther
Center, Thursday evening. May 24.
Graduates, former students and
faculty members participated in
four ( .
Friday, May 25, there was a tour
of the city at 1 p.m., com-
mencement exercises at Muskogee
High School at 7:30 p.m, followed
by a reception at Holiday Inn at 9
p.m. Saturday morning. May 26,
there was a picnic at Honor
Heights Park. TW Reunion Ball
received special recognition at the
Banquet along with l*on Harrison,
Ixic Angeles, Dr. Wilbur Thomas.
• Dakar, Senegal, West Africa, and
Fletcher Daniel. Kansas
Missouri. Mrs Bence
Jones. 1918, tanner music
was given a special L—-
writci
Mrs.
poem
Training Reunion. Inc on behalf of
all alumni.
Mrs. Jayne Douglas, 1923, said
"Through the years the local
graduates functioned as Manual’s
alumni. With the suggestion and
encouragement of L. R. Kirk-
patrick. Principal from 1948-1960.
the local alumni called in the
decades of 1934) through 1939. The
participation of the decades created
so much enhusiasm in the alumni
that when Manual closed her doors
in 1970. We were determined that
See MANUAL
Continued on Page 2
Muskogee High School
Alumni traveled from varied and
far-flung geographical points. A
at Booker T plane was chartered by a group of
(‘..lifornia alumni arriving the
morni'ig of May 24 Mr. George
1979 Edition of Manual Training Reunion Ends
held that evening at the Civic lasting record of those who had
Music was by attended Manual High School.
Oklahoma City Manual High graduated its first
graduating class in 1909. The school
had a 61 year history having
closed its doors in 1970
Two of the school’s principals
attended the reunion. They were
Mr. Harry Hodges and Mr. Charles
I XIE Angeles; Dr. Wilbur Thomas.
Ctty,
Weaver
—teacher
honor as the
of the Manual s school song.
Bonner wrote the school
She was a busmess ad-
ministration teacher at the •‘■’hool.
present and
check to the
the Manual
was
Assembly Center
Masterpieces, an
band
Sunday worship seivices were
held al First Baptist Church, Fifth
_ ______ and Denison. “A Night To
day schedule of activities Remember , Die banquet was hek>
reception Adams, the present principal of
DR.
GRE ETINGS,
AMANDA:
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Dr. James Christian
THAT I FELT SURELY THIS IS
THE TIME TO DO IT. I HOPE THAT
YOU WILL CONCUR). JAMES
CHRISTIAN IS THE NEWLY AP
POINTED DIRECTOR OF SE-
CONDARY EDUCATION IN MUSK-
OGEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
AMANDA
(TO OUR READERS THIS CON-
VERSATION WITH JAMES CHRIS -
TIAN WAS TAKEN VERBATIM
FROM THE TAPE RECORDER. I
HAVE LONG WISHED TO EMPLOY
THIS TECHNIQUE, AND IN THIS
CASE, I FOUND DR. CHRISTIAN
REMARKS SO REMARKABLE
with the questions I sent to you. I'd
like to share something I just read in
this month’s issue of Black Enterprise,
and get your reactions: This extremely
interesting article has to do with what
black public schools at the college and
university levels a.e doing toward
finding acceptable formulas to de-
segregate. Morgan and Texas Southern
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A Conversation with Dr. James Christian
•CHRISTIAN. AND WELCOME TO
YOUR NEW POSITION.
CHRISTIAN THANK YOU. I AM
REALLY EXCITED ABOUT IT
AMANDA OF COURSE, YOU ARE.
YOU ARE IN SUCH A PIVOTAL
POSITION - to make a real difference
in public school education, at least at
the local unit here. Before we begin
e Milke
Universities are taking the lead tn this.
Morgan's president has been quoted
as saying he hopes there will al- I
ways be some really good Black, pre- j
dominately Black, institutions of |
higher learning. He feels that these
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