SUN. JUNE 17 ,8PM CIVIC AUDITORIUM FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: PORTLANDERS ORGANIZED FOR SOUTHERN AFRICAN FREEDOM. 230-9427 JOHNNY MATHIS BOYCOTT

It's not often that we are asked to Beycott the appearance of a popular performer. But when Johnny Mathis cemes to Pertland June 17, picketers demanding an end to apartheid in South Africa will da just that. South Africa ... Johnny Mathis -- what is the cannection? In 1968, the United Natisns began issuing regular appeals to countries and organizations to suspend all sporting and cultural ties with the a artheid government in South Africa. Their concern was that internally, South Africa+ rew comfort from the knowledge that the country wasn't isel ated from the sutside world. International 1y, sporting and cultural events were prspaganda worth their weight in gold. Attention to these events also detract from the brutally exploitative policies of a system which denies basic rights to 75% ef its people. The United Nations has dscumented that Johnny Mathis was one of a number of celebrities, including Frank Sinatra, Linda Ronstadt and Ray Charles, lured to that country by offers of astronomical fees. Portlanders Organized For Southern African Freedom contacted Mathis' agent, Skip Heinecke, in mid-May, 1984. Heinecke insisted that his client had not performed in South Africa since 1977. However, when pressed on whether Mathis appeared in 1982 at Sun City, a gambling resort in the South African "homeland" sf B~phuthatswana, Heinecke admitted that, "We1 1 , he played go1 f there. " And didn't he also perform there? Heineck pled ignorance, insisting that, in any event, Mathis didn't even recognize a United Nations boycott. But according to the U.N., Mathis did indeed perform in Sun City and as a result, POSAF is asking Portlanders to beycott his upcoming appearance at the Civic Auditorium. Roberta Flack, Diana Ross, The Comodores, Third World, Tony Bennett and Gladys Knight have a1 1 rejected 1ucrative offers. George Benson, Brook Benton and Stephanie Mills have officially agslggized for supporting South Africa. Let Jshnny Mathis do the same.

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