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Show The Paper That Dares To Take Federal Courts Expand Power at-lar- ge ge rd at-lar- ge REACHING DECISION Opponents of the court rulings in Mobile and charge that the Shreveport decisions, if upheld by the Supreme Court, dooms the city commission style of government "in hundreds and hundreds of cities throughout the country." The decisions mean that Federal Judges in effect now have the power to dictate the form of local government that individual communities will have even if a majority of voters choose a different system. As Mayor Lambert Mims of Mobile puts it: If Federal Judges can . do that, then they will eventually tell us what we can do in other fields. Backers of the court rulings claim that the decisions will give blacks the right of equal access to the political process. They stress that the political change will open up jobs in city governments for blacks and give them increased on all local representations and committees government panels. Congressional law experts are convinced the decisions will spark a new wave of opposition to federal courts. Some see a new coalition forming among the anti-busin- g, anti-abortio- n, pro-pray- er November'llj Continued from page 10 commission form of government and replace it with a major council form designed to give blacks more say in the government actions through representation in the Council. Judge Pittman ruled that Mobile's election of three was uncommissioners city constitutional and directed city officials there to form a government with a mayor and nine council members elected from singlemember districts. The Federal Court ruling in Mobile followed an earlier one this summer by a federal judge in Shreveport, La. City officials' in that southern state were ordered to come up with a new plan of government within one year that would end unconstitutional bias elecagainst blacks in its tion of commissioners. Both of these unprecedented court decisions are to be appealed to the Supreme Court because of the sweeping way in which they reverse and supercede the decisions of a majority of voters in these local communities. In the Mobile decision, for instance. Judge Pittman ordered formation of a committee to recommend a districting plan for the city and said he will make the final decision on its acceptability. The Judge ordered the new government to take effect with the city elections next August.' Blacks make up about one-thiof Mobiles population and Judge Pittman said the present election of commissioners gives blacks no "realistic chance of having a black elected". FAR Stand 1 976 KISSINGER & COMMUNISIM IN RHODESIA Continued from page 1 Most recent of these landmark decisions was handed down in Mobile, Ala., by U.S. District Court Judge Virgil Pittman. The Judge ordered Mobile, a coastal city of 200,000, to dismantle its city at-lar- A in government school, and pro-loc- al forces to work for constitutional and legislative limitations on the jurisdictions of the courts. The immed iate need for such a coalition was discussed by delegates attending the recent understands that Moscow does not recognize the economic block against Rhodesia, and therefore purchased Rhodesian chrome and resold it to companies in the United States at a much higher price than when they formerly purchased it directly. (The Byrd Amendment of 1971 permitted U.S. firms to import Rhodesian chrome but Kissinger has called for the repeal of that amendment.) But guerrilla war begins, and, according to Kissinger, will inexorably win. It is true that he has, according, to LeMonde, found an ingenius solution:' -- compensatory indemnities' will be granted to the European who would prefer to leave Rhodesia and leave their place to the Black majority,' he states. Informed sources throughout the Free World are shocked at the plan of the Administration to sacrifice all of Rhodesia which would be followed by the rest of South Africa, even though they have the knowledge that guerrilla movements, which would bring this about, are completely Communist equipped and controlled. Columnist Ray Saidel, Middle East correspondent for the Manchester Union Leader, has stated in a commentary that President Ford should fire Secretary Kissinger now and give support to our few remaining friends. In a front page editorial, entitled Kissinger: Envoy of Destruction and Defeat, he pointed out that Kissinger is making trouble for the Republic of South Africa. Inept meddling by our Secretary of State helped push Angola into the Soviet camp and undermine Rhodesia. Now he cant keep his slimy hands off Namibia and South Africa. Backed by columnists like Anthony Lewis and other with it' types, he sees us duty bound to secure a dominant position for Rhodesian and South African blacks even if it means a loss of these strategic countries to the West and the destruction of the whites who built them up and whose families were established there far longer than the average American family has lived in the United States. Sheila Waters, who lived and worked in Rhodesia and South Africa and speaks several African dialects, wrote a letter which appeared in the Baltimore (Maryland) News American on August 15, 1976, appealing for honest reporting about the Rhodesian situation. She said that daily examples of deliberate distortions and half truths are carried in the headlines of the world's newspapers and radio and television networks and that the initial feelings of unease which assailed the people of Rhodesia and their friends abroad have now turned to anger at the perpetrators of these attempts to undermine the morale of Rhodesia and its supporters. Miss Waters states: Scores of journalists from all over the world have descended upon Rhodesia. Kissinger-Ford-Rockefell- er national meeting of the Congress overturn Congress without even For Freedom in Little Rock, Ark. studying the intent of the law and n leaders before the President's signature is reported their groups were up in dry, then the time has come for arms over a federaljudges ruling in their jurisdiction to be drastically Brooklyn that medicaid patients curbed." Senators Harry F. Byrd, Jr., are entitled to abortions at public voted (Ind.-Va.- ), Senator Jesse Helms expense despite a recent ban .) and James B. Allen (D.- by Congress. The court ruling struck down Ala.) are now exploroing ways to One legislation voted less than three curb the federal courts. a of will be to limit federal weeks ago by majority proposal members of Congress which barred judges to specific terms rather than medicaid payments for abortions the life tenure they now have, By taking this action, the performed as a method of family social emotional for or or h ope to make the courts Senators planning Pro-Life As one convenience. more responsive to Congress and it: leader put the will of the' majority of the "If Federal Courts can American people. Anti-abortio- (R.-N.C- Without Or With Offense To Friends Or Foes We Sketch Your World Exactly As It Goes -- Byron t The Utah Indepfendehti Page 11 & SOUTH AFRICA .(and find) no massacres and bloodbaths, there are no massive terrorist force build-up- s, there is no panic or hysteria, and there are no queues of people leaving the country. . . .Journalists find themselves in a country where they can travel safely with no fears of bomb explosions. They can walk through the cities at night with no fear of being mugged. . .They find black and white Rhodesians mingling peacefully together and carrying on with their jobs as they have done for many years. . . Syndicated columnist and former White House aide Patrick J. Buchanan pointed out that our Secretary of State's credentials as a lecturer, on international morality are not exactly impressive. He said: Indeed, how does one berate' South African segreptionists after being photographed beaming happily in the presence of the late Mao one of the genuinely great mass murderers of this bloodiest of all centuries? What are the sins of Vorster to compare with those of the late Chou i, responsible for the deaths of millions of Chinese and thousands of Americans in Korea, who was accorded by Kissinger a deference that might have been justified perhaps for Mother Teresa of Calcutta? . . day-to-d- ay Tse-tun- g, En-la- Has anywhere heard Henry Kissinger, on the eve of a flight to Moscow for anyone negotiations, declare, The Soviet Union's internal structure is incompatable with any sense of human dignity? Kissinger's attempts to help destroy the economy of Rhodesia and his willingness to see Communist guerrillas slaughter innocent white and blacks should be repugnant to the entire Free World. 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