NATION AND WORLD
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'Rainbow coalition' seeks peace and justice
University Daily Kansan, November 4, 1983
Jesse Jackson makes candidacy official
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - Black civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, pledging to lead a "rainbow coalition" in "a quest for a just society and peaceful world," yesterday became the eighth candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Jackson, 42, said he was not running as a black candidate, but was forging a "rainbow coalition" of the rejected that would include whites, blacks. Hispanics, Indians, Asians, women, young people, poor people, old people, gay people, immigrant farmers, small businesspersons, peace activists and environmentalists.
Jackson announced his candidacy at a political rally and revival meeting that never lost the attention of the 2,500 supporters who used almost any excuse to interrupt the three and a half hour rally with chants of "Run, Jesse, run."
want to affirm my belief that leadership is colorless and genderless, and that the sole hallmark of a true leader is not the skin color of her or she received the ability of the person to bring compassion, compassion and fairness," he said.
the event, Jackson was introduced by former Rep. Shirley Chisholm, D-N.Y., the first black to seek a major party presidential nomination in 1972.
JACKSON MADE HIS announcement.
Jackson said, "No one is in doubt about what Mr. Reagan advocates; his rhetoric and his record are clear. He is pro-rich, pro-aristocratic, pro-
"I seek the presidency because I
flanked by 100 prominent supporters. Although about half were black, the group also included former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, Barry Commoner, the 1980 Citizens Party candidate for president, and leaders of Indian, student, Hispanic, peace, agricultural and environmental groups.
He is anti-black, anti-Hispanic, anti-civil rights, antihuman rights, anti-poor, anti-family farmer, anti-youth, anti-public education, anti-women, anti-worker and anti-environment.'
- Jesse Jackson
agribusiness, pro-military and pro-big business.
With six rows of television cameras and more than 300 reporters covering
"HE IS ANTI-BLACK, anti-Hispanic, anti-civil rights, anti-human rights, anti-poor, anti-family farmer, anti-youth, anti-public education, anti-women, anti-worker and ant-environment."
Saying he would withdraw American troops from Lebanon, Grenada and
Latin America, Jackson said, "My foreign policy proposals will seek to emphasize negotiations over contention, gunboat and big stick diplomacy, military adventurism and racial insensitivity."
Asked about a poll showing that he would lose his home state of Illinois in a contest with President Reagan, Jackson said "if it takes Ronald Reagan three years to get a three-to-one jump on me, he's running awful slow."
A NATIVE OF the civil rights movement, Jackson was a top deputy of Martin Luther King Jr. In 1971 he founded Operation PUSH, People United to Serve Humanity, an organization based in Chicago that encourages the young and the poor to advantage of education, government programs and other self-help programs.
In Atlanta, Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale said he did not expect to lose vital black support to Jackson.
Senate approves covert aid to Nicaraguan rebels
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Republican controlled Senate, clashing with the House, easily passed a bill yesterday allowing continued U.S. covert aid for rebels fighting the Marxist Nicaraguan government.
Approval of the 1984 intelligence authorization bill — a victory for President Reagan — came on a voice after less than an hour of low-key debate.
The Democratic-crated House voted 227-194 Oct. 20 to cut all funds for the program. That was the second House vote to halt the CIA aid.
The intelligence authorization bill now goes to a House-Senate conference committee, which will try to work out a compromise between the sharply differing bills passed by the two chambers.
SEN. DANIEL MOYNIHAN, D-N.Y.
vice-chairman of the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence, said the
panel and its House counterpart were
“closer in these matters than might be
supposed.”
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Moynihan said his committee had agreed to allow continued covert actions based on a new finding submitted by the administration outlining the goals and details of the program.
Earlier plans were too broad and too ambitious, he said, but the one outlined for the committee Sept. 20 by CIA Director William Casey and Secretary of State George Shultz had goals that were more precise and much more limited.
Moynhan noted assurances by administration officials that the program was not intended to overthrow Managua's Sandinista government.
Sen Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., spoke against the bill, however, saying, "The president's course of action is illegal." Leahy said Reagan was attempting to substitute covert and military programs for foreign aid.
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Moynihan said the intelligence committee's work on the bill was not aided by Reagan's comment at his Oct. 19 news conference defending the right to practice covert activity when it took such actions served its interests.
Details of the authorization bill are classified, but the Senate measure is believed to authorize the same funding last year, approximately $19 million.
U. S. pressure on the Nicaraguan government is only "strengthening the hands of Sandinista radicals to bring in Cuban and Soviet military assistance."1
But Moyinhan said Nicaragua had violated international law and "it follows that we have an obligation as well as rights to respond to these violations."
THE ADMINISTRATION HAS been supporting rebel groups opposed to the Sandinista government. In recent months the rebels have sharply increased their offensive, hitting eco-targets such as airports and oil depots.
Administration officials say support of the rebel groups is intended to pressure the Nicaraguan government to stop aiding leftist guerrillas operating in neighboring El Salvador and other Central American nations.
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The London Early Music Group
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3:30 p.m. Sunday, November 6, 1983 Crafton-Preyer Theatre/Murphy Hall
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V
S. African non-whites obtain limited power
By United Press International
PRETORIA, South Africa White voters approved by a 2- to-1 ratio a new constitution giving limited power to non-white but still denying political rights to South Africa blacks, results showed yesterday.
Prime Minister Pieter Boha, looking pleased after a divisive two-month campaign that focused on Pretoria's apartheid policy of racial discrimination, said the size of the protests exceeded my wildest expectations."
The results of Wednesday's referendum showed a 66 percent approval vote from a brisk turnout of 76 percent of the 2.7 million registrations. Final results were 1,369,223 in favour and the constitution with 697,477 against.
"It is an overwhelming result. The government feels strengthened to go forward with evolutionary reform," he said.
THE NEW CONSTITUTION, white giving the vote to the 2.5 million "colorado" — people of mixed race — and 850,000 Asians, would maintain the white hold on political power by maintaining a white-dominated president's council and a white executive president.
Supporters of Boha's moderate National Party said they were "thrilled" by the result. But right-and left-learning white and black leaders, who opposed the constitution throughout the campaign, reacted with disappointment and anger.
"The struggle to undo the new constitution begins today," said Dr.
Andries Treumann, leader of the right-wing Conservative Party, which opposes any form of racial integration.
Treu胤's northern Transvaal strengthhold around Pietersburg was the only one of the country's 15 cities to turn down the reform measures.
"Blacks will see them (coloreds and Indians) as part of the oppressive machinery." he said.
RADICAL BLACK LEADER Dr. Natholia Mota said the constitution would split South Africa's non-whites and warned blacks — 70 percent of the population — might violently against colorados and Indians.
The party had maintained the proposals strengthened racial discrimination and angered the black majority.
The new plan gives coloreds and Indians limited power-sharing with whites in a racially segregated, three-chambered parliament.
Dr. Frederick van Zyl Slabbert, leader of the liberal, anti-apartheid Progressive Federal Party, who had urged South Africans to reject the proposals, conceded many PPF members voted "yes" to what they saw as a "step in the right direction."
BUT IT UPHOLDS most of the existing apartheid machinery, leaving untouched a host of race laws including prohibitions against racial mixing in residential areas and interracial marriage.
Coloredes and Indians did not vote Wednesday but Botha said he would ask their leaders if they wanted their own referendums.
IF THE PARENTS DON'T DRINK, THE CHILDREN WON'T DRINK.
Sometimes, but the highest incidence of alcoholism occurs among offspring of parents who are either teetotalers, . or alcoholic. Perhaps the "eximism" of the parents' attitudes is an important factor.
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PRESENTS TODAY AND TOMORROW
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Directed by Walter Hill
Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy
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AGUIRRE: THE WRATH OF GOI
Starring Klaus Kinski. Director Werner Herzog's films depicts a party of Spanish conquistadors as they struggle against the jungle in search of El Dorado. With plenty of frightening imagery, this is an unforgettable film.
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No midnight show this weekend—
(November 4th & 5th)
All shows in Woodford Aud.