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Jackson angers S. Africans by urging black power

CT’T TIKS: The Rev. Jesse Jackson, president of the national Organization of FI SH. with members of congregation >unc‘.a\ at Regina Mundi Cathedral In Soweto. Jackson saM that h? wantted close economic contact between the two countries, but the aparthied system prevented such lies. America should not jump in bed with someone who violates human rights” he told the congregation Ml people must be free.” Apartheid worse than Hitler, Jackson tells South Africans

HAMM WSKKALL. South Air ■ a. 'M\ eves fill with tears. n«>t hlo.hut m> se nses of diftnigv is out raged h> the system here. Rev Jesse Jackson of Chicago, di -eetor of People United to Save hu inanity tPl’-'H' told hundreds of listeners during his -ei-ent tnj' here. Speaking hei*>te ;he -.nith African Council <•* Churches which represents l;o churches with a memher'tip of If millnm. the dynatr :■ - . d r.ghts advorate called th* 'Vstein of apartheid worst than 11” er because it ,> accepted and is doomed because it 'I.did'm the way of economic gruvvth Drawing shouts of Jell it like it is brother, he ehal lenged the t hun'hnoT, to work for a nevs -social order based on moral foundations He admon ished them to adopt the mcth-. fo the late Rev 'l.-.- •. Luther King Ji

\partheid challenges Gods right to make a black person. 1'he church and other leaders must ^tand up We must have economic and political confront atmns. but not a bloody con front at ion between blacks and, white." Rev. Jackson declared. The biack leader stopped short of suggesting strikes ot other acts of civil disobedience to challenge apartheid, but he did recommend a national con vent ion at which rights for all 'south Atricans could discussed. He strongly asserted “Apar theld is systematic extermin at ion legal genocide. Re cause it is socially acceptable, it i- worse than Hitler. Rev. Jackson s appearence in thiv nation of 25 million, v^hieh upholds separation of races brought protests with a de mend by the right vving oppos it ton South African Party that the government immediately cam el his v isa.

SOWETO, South AfricaAmerican civil rights activist Jesse Jackson led thousands of cheering South Africans in black power chants Sunday and, told them he would urge President Carter to oppose U.S. investment in this white minority-dominated land. > A crowd of nearly 4,000 crowded into Regina Mundi Roman Catholic Church in Soweto, a huge black township outside Johannesburg, to hear the Rev. Jackson’s words of support for the black cause in South Africa. When Jackson took the stage, he again and again led the crowd in shouting blackpower slogans--”! Am Somebody!” and was mobbed by blacks who carried him from the church on their shoulders. Jackson, former adviser to the late Martin Luther King Jr., was on a 12-day tour of South Africa that has stirred hostility among many of the whites there. When he arrived there, he said that he would tour South Africa “with an open mind" and that he had not decided wheth er to oppose American invest ments in the country. Rut Sunday, after visiting areas throughout the country, he said. "We shall appeal to President Carter to...not allow the American government to engage in any relationship with this government on SASOL or any other project until there are human rights for our people." (SASOL refers to South Africa's snythetic fuel program under which a method was developed for producing petro leum from coal. The United Slates has expressed an inter est in buying that technology.) Jackson has drown criticism for his remarks that the South African government’s policy of racial separation known as apartheid was ‘ ungodly" and worse than Hitler. John Wiley, leader of the 11nv conservative South Afri can partv. demanded that the government immediately can cel Jackson’s visa. He said Jackson has a long record of association with communist and allied organizations in and out of tht U S." Foreign Minister Roelof Ro tha said that Jackson's state merit' are a result of his own “personal frustration at being unable to do anything positive about the high unemployment among black youths in Ameri ca.' A right wing group called “South Africa First" telegram ed its denunication of the “demaogue Jesse Johnson” to the South African broadcasting corporation and demanded the resignation of those who had allowed him. to air his odious TURN TO PAGE 1H

FBI tried to manipulate vote of NAACP, files indicate

CHICAGO Oopits of FR1 document' released Sunday indicate that the Chicago FRI office planned to manipulate a NAACP elei lion in Chicago in 1959 The documents, presented at a press conference at the Bismarck Hotel by Richard Gutman, a lawyer representing the Alliance to End Repres'ion in a suit against the Chicago Police Department, also indi cate that the Federal Bureau of Investigation office here sug gested methods for sabotaging a planned 1968 Martin Luther King Benjamin Spock cam paign for President Gutman obtained the doeu ments under the Freedom of Information Act. which gives the public access to previously secret government document'. The group has obtained previ ous FBI documents for u>e in the suit, which seeks to halt government spying on such groups. The documents describe how the Chicago FBI office, through an infiltrator, learned that the NAACP’s so-called ^-an. cus” planned to run a slate of candidates for delegates to the NAACP national convention. The FBI sent an anonymous letter and made an anonymous phone call to Theodore A. Jones, then president of the Chicago NAACP. telling him that "two Communists" were on the slate, according to the documents. The FBI here later reported to its Washington headquar ters: “The Chicago division feels it has through counterin telligence, marerially aided in the defeat of the left caucus.’ ’’ The FBI went on to report that Jones kept the location of

the delegate elections secret, and that Jones "packed the meeting with members of the 1 mted Steel Workers Union whom Jones had enfranchised tor the meeting." The FBI here concluded in its report that "Chicago feels it has played a definite part in the defeat of a ’left caucus,' an attempt by the UP !Communist Party to infilitrate a ‘riL't l e d’ organization." J. Fdgar Hoover, then the director of the FBI, later recommended a commendation for the agent who "suggested the anonymous letter,” accord ing to the documents. In 1967, according to the documents, the FBI here sug gested a campaign to sabotage the King Spock presidential campaign by recommending the name of a new spaper columnist to w rite an article attacking the campaign as "communist back ed." Spoke ran for President and King for Vice President on the ticket. The documents released Sun day also indicate that the FBI herd planned to “discredit Students for a Democratic Society <a radical group) in the eyes of the Negro community. And by appropriate sources organize an anti SDS demonstration oy a group of Negros accusing the SDS of being white oriented." Other documents indicate the FBI tried to remove Herbert Mohammad as a possible successor to his father as head of the Nation of Islam, by going through his tax returns for possible irregularities. Gutman charged that the files are "proof of the Chicago FBI’s massive organized campaign of disrupting the exercise

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Rep. Diggs is censured for financial misconduct

Mich. Demo intends to

seek re-election

Woman married Maple Heights-Devington Assn

seeks storm sewer petitions

only 2 months among victims Police homicide investigatofs have charged a total of seven persons in connection with the murders of 4 people in unrelated incidents. Included among the victims were a woman, alleged slain by her husband of two months, and a 27-year white man who was stabbed to death by two black youths because "honkies ain't got (sic) no business in our neighborhood.” Detectives identified the v ictims in the rash of homicides as Kathy Lee Jones, 22. who was found shot to death Tuesday night in her first-floor apartment in the 200 block of North Pennsylvania; two biO' thers. Steven Quick. 20. and Gregory Quick. 24. who both live in the 1900 block of Karhart. who ar.e charged in connection with the shooting death last Saturdav of James L. Pounds. 20. 2200 block of South Perkins, who was shot as he sat in a parked car outside the Barrington Lounge. 2400 block of Bethel: James R. Ellery. 45, who died last Thursday of stab wounds inflicted Julv 21 during an argument with his former girlfriend And Donald Hard, 27. who was stabbed by two half brothers, according to police simp’v because he was

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Mrs. Jones' nude body was alleged to have been discovered on the floor of her apartment hv TURN TO PAGE 1*

An eastside neighborhood Transportation), this week surgroup, with a chief complaint of veyed an area in the 52-5300 non adequate storm sewer line block of Culver Street. He was drainage to homes, will take its to have explained, the situation concern via a petition to City has not been neglected by Hall. sanitation department officialsThat was agreed last Satur they just weren’t aware of the

day during a meeting of the problem before.

Neighborhood^ Association * ^ The responsibility of city Trinity Lutheran Church. ’ governmental department to Organ,zat.on president Leo correct thts drainage prob ems Higgins and committe members apP ea c s unc eai ". ogge t e outlined specific means of re have been sa.d for years to age questing sufficient storm sewer P ro u blems and hazzards like drainage systems in the com waters in asemen s, munity. Acquiring signatures alon * Wlth debn fro ^ under ' from residents was agreed the ^ound which enters homes. be^t method. In this area, of which some 90 The rains lingered three days percent of the residents are at least, last week as did black, there are some housecomplaints from hundreds of holds which are equipped with eastside residents all city pumps, however, most have faultystormsewerdrainage.lt expressed the torrid rains of

has been responsible for at least 200 homes drenched in many cases, with more than foot level water, (particularly in basements and lower levels). The outcry of concern was voiced only two weeks ago. w hen resident s of East an West Flamingo Drive invited news representatives to tour their hemes after rains of up to 24 hours. Many homes were then found with water back up in basements as high as four

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Several residents in the commune of Maple Heights De vington share common know ledge that Department of Pub lie Works and sanitation divis ion officials have been told of the sewer clogging problems. However. James Saw vers, head of DOT (Department of

late have all but erased the

power of the pumps to suck the water back through the outside sewer lines. One family on Flamingo has endured about 10 floods through the past year, they explained. During a 48 hour period last week during the terrential rains which swept through Central Indiana on the tail of Hurricane Claudette 2feet of water layered the basement in their split level

home.

While the root of the problem seems to be faulty, clogged and useless sewer lines, sub con tractors involved in development of some 500 homes 40 5000 block east, between 42nd and 46th, have figured the hack up flood condition may be a result of poor erection of homes in comparison to street

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STORM WARNING: Maple Heights-Devington Neighborhood Association members meet to discuss unsanitary flood conditions plaguing their community. Shown [from left] are JoAnn Floyd. Mrs. Bettv Jo Cowherd. Reggie Jones and Leo Higgins, presiding. [Recorder photo by James Burres)

2 black astronauts, congressman to be honored at Omega conclave

ot h irst Amendment rights, of promoting enmity between groups, of disseminating dero gatory information and of mani pulating the mass media." The Alliance to End Repres sion and 32 other groups have presented the FBI files as evidence for a suit filed in November. 1974. which seeks a court declaration that the government spying he halted per manentlv. NTSB hearings on DC-10 mishap CHICAGO Under a cloud of reports that some DC 10s are having opera tional problems after returning to the skies, the National Transportation Safety Board began hearings July 30, to try and determine the cause of America’s worst air disaster. AH 138 U.S. registered DC 10s wer*' grounded after the crash of an American Airlines wide bodied jet May 25. which killed 273 passengers aboard shortly after takeoff from O’Hare International Airport. KKK demonstrate with weapons BIRMINGHAM A few of the 100 Ku Klux Klansmen (KKK) toted clubs and ax handles, and they were heckled by a crowd of blacks, but police managed to head off serious violence during a Birmingham demonstration. The only person reported injured during last weekend’s hourlong KKK march through town was a white college instructor.

DENVER. Colo. iNNDA) Two Black astronauts and the Congressman from the District of Columbia will be honored here during the 59th Grand Conclave of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. August 5 11, when more than 500 undergraduates and graduate chapter delegates w ill converge on the Denver ,Hilton in this mile high city. ,’L. The two astronauts, both Omegas, are Major Frederick Drew Gregory, a veteran Air Force pilot and nephew of Dr. Charles R. Drew, bloodbank founder; and Dr. Ronald Erwin McNair, a highly trained civilian physicist. In addition. Congressman Walter E. Fauntroy of the District of Columbia, who is

leading the fight for passage of the D.C. Voting Rights Amend ment. will receive "The Out standing Citizen of the Year Award." the Omegas' highest honor, at the Founders banquet bn August 10. The astronauts, two of three blacks chosen for the Space Shuttle Program, at Johnson Space Center in Houston, will be honored for excellence in the field of science and technology. They will receive their citations at the luncheon on August 8. The Grand Basileus. Dr. Edward J. Braynon, Jr., Miami, Fla., top officer of the 50,000 member fraternity, says the presentations will highlight the week’s convention. Other features, according to Dr. Braynon will be the presen

tation of plaques to the National Ome a Man of the Year and the National Scholar of the Year. Also a panel discussion on the Grand Con clave theme: "Omega Focuses on the Family: The Keystone of our Society.” Leader of the discussion will be Christopher Edley, execu tive director of the United College Fund and a member of the fraternity. He will talk on “Reinforcing the Support of the Fraternity Towards UNCF Schools. • The Omega Man of the Year is Dr. James A Priest, a Baltimore physician who was the family doctor and confidant of the last surviving founder, the late Bishop Edgar A. Love. He has distinguished himself by

his work with undergraduate members in Maryland. The National Scholar honor was won by Terry Watson, a Rust College graduate, where fraternity member Dr. William McMillan is president at Holly Springs, MS. school. He had a four year average of 3.97. The winners of the Out standing Citizen and Omega Man awards were announced by Achievement Week Chairman W’illiam Sutton. Ph. I)., who leaves Dillard University on August 1 to become vice president of Academic Affairs at Chicago State University on The National Scholar was chosen by the Scholarship Com mission headed by Dr. George Johnson, vice president of Jackson State University.

SCLC vows Birmingham boycott until cop fired

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Promising that “all hell wijl break loose” unless the city fires a white policeman who shot a black woman, more than 1,000 demonstrators staged the largest racial protest last week in Birmingham since the early 1960s. Black leaders in the Southern Christian Leadership Confer ence called for an economic boycott until the city fires Officer George Sands. The demonstrators marched

peacefully through the city’s business district chanting "Vann and Sands got to go." Mayor David Vann walked the last two blocks to City Hall with them. “There will be no cash registers ringing until the man who shot Bonita Carter is brought to justice," SCLC President Joseph Lowery of Atlanta told the crown at City Hall. “You are at the crossroads again. Birmingham. If you choose injustice, all hell will break loose. You can choose

Vann the Klan and Sands, but if vou do. you'll have hell on your hands." Lowery and other speakers, including Alabama SCLC president John Nettles of Anniston, called for blacks to boycott city stores and buy only necessities until Sands is fired. The marchers were protesting Vann’s earlier decision not to dismiss Sands, who fired the shots that killed Ms. Carter. 20 on June 22. Sands says he fired four shots at what he thought was a

armed gunman driving away from a convenience store. Vann moved Sands to a desk job, saying the shooting was within a department firearms policy.

Rep. Charles C. Diggs Jr. was censured by the House Tuesday for financial misconduct, the first congressman to be so chastised in 58 years. As his colleagues watched from their seats, the Michigan Democrat walked to the front of the House chamber where Speaker Thomas P. O’Neil pronounced the censure, diggs showed no emotion throughout the proceedings. O’Neil ordered Diggs to deliver immediately a promissory note of S40031.66 payable to the L'.S. Treasury. That is the amount Diggs agreed to repay for misusing his congressional payroll. The House speaker also ordered that all of Diggs' employees he required to declare to the House Ethnics Committee that their pay was earned in accordance with House rules. . , Then the speaker said, "the matter is closed,” and the House resumed normal busi ness. Although censure amounts to little more than a tonguelashing it is considered by the House to be the strongest punishment short of expulsion. Unlike the more common reprimand the weakest punishment administered by the House, censure requires the member to be present and to stand in front of the House while his actions are formally condemned. The House voted 414 to 0 to censure Diggs, with four mem bers voting present. Beside Diggs, those voting present were Reps. Robert Garcia, D N.Y.; Barren Mitchell, D Md and Augustis F. Hawkins, I) Calif. The censure was based on an admission by Diggs that he violated House rules by using his congressional payroll to help pay personal expenses. Earlier a federal court found the veteran congressman guilty on 29 counts of mail fraud and of making false statements in conncetion with his use of the congressional payroll. The House action will hve no effect on Diggs' federal con vicstion, which he is appealing. Diggs, a former chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus faces a three year prison sen tence should his federal court appeals be rejected. Asked whether he would resign, as one member sug gested, Diggs replied: “I'm still here and I expect to serve oul my term." Asked if he intend' to seek re election next year to a 13th term, he said "Oh. yes.' The censure will have no effect on Diggs’ right to vote or to serve in Congress. Diggs hold no position of power in the House, having resigned his chairmanship of the House District of Columbia Committee and the chairmanship of the International Affairs subcom mittee on Africa.

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Six blacks on Time list of ‘under 45’ outstanding leaders

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Citizens Speak Out!!!, Page 15.

Six blacks were among 50 Americans aged 45 and younger profiled in Time Magazine this week as outstanding leaders in the U.S. The six are: Marion S. Barry, Jr., 43, mayor of Washington, D.C.,' who according to Time, "holds the highest elected post attained by any of the black civil rights activists of the turbulent ‘60s. Son of a Mississippi sharecropper, Barry abandoned

work on a doctorate in chemistry at the University of Tennessee to join the civil rights movement." He was often jailed for taking part in protests. In Washington, he founded Pride, Inc., a jobtraining organization for young people, moved into politics, swept into the mayor’s office with support of the black and white middle class. Mary Fraces Berry. 41,

scholar, lawyer, author, assistant secretary of education, and “a fiery champion of educational opportunity for what she calls the ‘underserved’. Formerly a chancellor of the University of Colorado, the highest major university job ever held by a black woman. Berry is a candidate for a top job if Congress creates a Department of Education. TURN TO PAGE 18

Speak out on busing Readers, whether affected or not, are invited to express by letter their views on Federal Judge S. Hugh Dillin’s recent one-way busing decision, which will send 6,125 black Indianapolis pupils to Marion County suburban schools this fall. While all letters must be accompanied by the writer’s signature, names will be withheld upon request. Letters received will be printed in a future Indianapolis Recorder. Write to: Busing The Indianapolis Recorder 2901 North Tacoma Ave. Indianapolis, IN 46218 _