University of Mississippi eGrove Newspapers and Journals Citizens' Council Collection 4-1-1975 The itC izen, April 1975 Citizens' Councils of America Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/citizens_news Part of the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Citizens' Councils of America, "The itC izen, April 1975" (1975). Newspapers and Journals. 9. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/citizens_news/9 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Citizens' Council Collection at eGrove. It has been accepted for inclusion in Newspapers and Journals by an authorized administrator of eGrove. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Irene Corbal/y Kuhn CHANGING AFRICA--TIME BOMB? Irish and Italians BOSTON BRA VES FEDERAL WRATH Random Glances at News ALI, A BERNA THY,ARA8S,A TLANTA the CITIZEN APRIL 19711 110 CENTS EDITOR A L o p N o N VOL. 19 APRIL 1975 NO.7 Black CHANGING AFHICA-TIME BOMB FOR THE WEST? Crime Concealed Irene Corbally Kuhn 4 BOSTON BRAVES FEDERAL WRATH In New York, an 83-year-old man a conclusion is strengthened by the Fighting Irish plus Fine Italian Hand ..... 12 and his 78-year-old wife are bound, fact these news accounts usually STRICTLY PERSONAL terrorized by knives and fire, then contain detailed descriptions of the Roy V. Harris 15 robbed of their Social Security criminal's size, his clothing and his RANDOM GLANCES AT THE NEWS money-the only money they have mode of transportation. Readers VFW vs. Muhammad Ali in Louisiana . 18 to live on for the rest of the month. are told that a killer-rapist wore Ralph Abernathy Threatens Mississippi .... 19 The victims are white and their blue trousers, a red shirt, black U.S. Negro Mayors Court Oil-Rich Arabs . ... 24 assailants are black-but this in­ shoes and a tan hat with a green Blacks Jobless in Black Atlanta . 31 formation is not revealed in The band, and that he escaped in a \ '1HAT Is TIlE CITIZENS COUNCIL DOING? New York Times' account of the white-topped, maroon automobile North Carolina Businessman Takes His Stand . 26 crime. of 1963 vintage, but seldom are Arkansans for Presidential Primary .... ... 28 In Louisa, Va., a district court they informed whether the culprit Membership Drive in Missouri ........ 29 judge is slain and the county sheriff is white or black. is wounded by a gunman who in­ Photo Credits: Pages 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19, v.ades the county courtroom with Ask one of the fledgling re­ :20, 23, 2.5, Wide World. a sawed-off shotgun. Again, the porters who usually make up the staffs of the wire service bureaus Publisher .... W. J. Simmons victims are white and the gunman Editor why racial identities are not re­ George W. Shannon is black - but, again, the racial ~ranaging Editor Medford Evans identities are not revealed in an ported in such cases and he is apt to Associated Press news item about reply that it is "policy" not to in­ SUBSCRIPTION $4.00 PER YEAR the shooting. clude such information unless it Baek issues, as available .. 50¢ each In Raleigh, N. c., a man is jailed is "pertinent" to the news storv. Microfilm copies of current as well as hack issues of Ask him who decides the relevan~y THE CITIZEN may be purchased from University Mi­ as the alleged slayer of four crofilm, 300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106. women, three of them sisters. In or non-relevancy of racial identity in any given criminal case, and Puhlished monthly with a comhined July-August issue at Jackson, reporting the incident, United Mississippi, by The Citizens Council, Inc. Second-Class mail Press International does not reveal you've got him stumped. privile~es authorized at Jackson, Mississippi, The opinions expressed in signed articles appearing herein do that the accused man is black­ • not necessarily represent official views of The Citizens Conncils A major Southern newspaper, of America. Official policy statements are plainly designated. which he is. Nor does UPI report the Shreveport Journal, found in a TilE CITIZEN is not responsihle for unsolicited material suh­ mitted for possihle puhlication. All such material should be ac­ whether the women victims are all readership survey several years companied hy it self-addressed envelope if its return is desired. black or all white, or whether there ago that news of racial matters is one or more of each color. ranked among the top four specific In reading news accounts of items in which the public is most these and other crimes in which interested, the others being educa­ the c the racial identities of the princi­ tion and schools (in which race to­ pals are not disclosed, one can only day is a dominant factor), health OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE CITIZENS COUNCILS OF AMERICA conclude that the concealment of and medicine, and religion and 254 East Griffith Street • Jackson, Mississippi 39202 this information is deliberate. Such morals. 2 Entire Contents © 1975 tty The Citizens Council. Inc . All rights reserved. THE CITIZEN World Observer Inquires- Changing Africa- Time Bomb for West? By IRENE COR BALLY KUHN If Portugal's April 12th elections consign that key Mediterranean "All this has enabled them to push through visas for visiting country to the Communists, then take their fight to the streets. Two social-democratic unionists, who the Western world is in real weeks ago (Jan. 24), they broke are suspect because of their strong trouble. And it may well come to up a conservative conference in anti-Communist leanings. ~ pass. The February 7 monthly re­ Oporto. They have pushed through "Washington is virtually power­ port of the prestigious Research a law setting up a monolithic trade less to do anything to help. In Institute of America predicts that Union. other times, CIA would have been "Portugal is No. 1 on Kissinger's "Socialist For e i g n Minister in the thick of events there-but 'next-to-go-Communist' list. Wash­ Soares, the opposition's leader, has U.S. and Congressional opinion ington half expected the take-over been begging for u.s. help as well prevents any kind of action now. push to come off the last week as from European socialists. But "It's too soon to write off Por­ in January. It didn't, but the fear even he is threatened in his own tugal to the radicals just yet. Some is that momentum is just st.arting ministry; hasn't been able yet to of the non-Communist officers are Irene Kuhn to build up." The Portuguese Reds, driven to Irene Corbally Kuhn reported political frenzy by their Soviet in THE CITIZEN last June mentors in anticipation of victory, on the April 1974 military may not wait for the election. The coup in Portugal, and its im­ RIA says that "the main reason for pact on Southern Africa. Her concern hangs on the election set grave warning that Portugal for April. Washington is afraid might go Communist has that Communist officers may move been proven all too iust by before then. Some 40,000 weapons subsequent events. Here she have already dis.appeared from assesses the revolutionary many arsenals. And Communists situation in Africa, and in the have infiltrated communications Mediterranean Sea, which (and) government agencies. unites Africa with Europe and Asia. Support of Sooth "Portuguese Communists have Africa and Rhodesia nUlY two things going strong for them. well be the key to the survival They emerged from Salazar's dic­ of Western Europe and the tatorship a united and tough party, United States. have .about half the army officer I n Angola, strategic Portuguese colony on the Atlantic southwest of Zaire (former corps leaning toward their views. Belgian Congo), Communist-backed "National Liberation Forces" train for commando raids on whites. 4 THE CITIZEN APRIL 1975 5 men like dedicated anti-Commun­ news to come out at this time. And Crisis after crisis developed, not ist political genius Giulio Andreot­ since the request had been made the least of which was the coup ti, unable to take over the in an unofficial sounding-out, ra­ in Portugal which, in one year, h::ts government. And in Greece, pro­ ther than by official note, it was turned that tiny country upside Communist politicians are waiting in order for Portugal's Foreign down and led it to quit the bloody. impatiently for an opportunity to Ministry to issue a denial. But this expensive fight to preserve its 400- gain power. did not fool anybody. Nobody be­ year-old possessions in Africa-An­ lieves that if Soviet Russia wants gola on the west, Portuguese The Mediterranean could well a "fishing" base for her nuclear Guinea-Bissau, smallest of the col­ become a Soviet lake, with perhaps subs in the Atlantic, near the onies, and Mozambique, on the only Spain remaining as an un­ NATO N.aval Command, near the east coast. easy enclave between Portugal and U.S. base in the Portuguese Azores Italy. A look at the map can pro­ These provinces are not like the Islands, and conveniently located colonies acquired in Africa by duce nervous tremors. For between close to the Strait of Gibraltar, she Italy and Greece comes Commu­ Britain, France, Holland, Belgium, won't get it. Her great and good and surrendered over the years nist Yugoslavia with Albania on friends, the young Marxist army Greece's north; and then, eastward, since the end of World War II officers, and all the other Portu­ when they were given indepen­ there is Turkey, once a stalwart guese victims of subversion or po­ pro-Western country.