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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand October 13, 1977 The Utah Independent Page 5 NIGERIAS ROLE IN AFRICA Copyright Jo Hindman 1977 Continued from page 1 Nigerian troops, and will receive LEADERS BEREFT OF FOLLOWERS One thing stands out starkly: Confusion is widespread and Fear is imbedded. Reports from different parts of the nation reveal that brave individuals. identified by their lonely posts, do stand firm here and there. But each suffers his private heartache. Where, for instance, were the 40 or 50 neighbors who vowed that they would back up J.A. when, facing hostile city council, he pinned his charges of delinquency on a city manager? Deserted, he did it alone. What caused A. B.C.s anti-ta- x maze open letter to draw flak from a cynical bystander whose poison pen in effect taunted, Zip your lip. Nobodys listening. When will the highly paid transportation employee donate to patriotic resistance some of those silver dollars he has been buying up and hoarding? When the bottom drops out, he boasts, he will be rich. How many callers rang your telephone off its hook to complain privately about the scandal of the local federally assisted shelter for runaway teenagers? Instead of sending public protests to their congressmen who weigh such scale. protests on a And while all such aggregate bleating goes on. why do farmers without protest encumber their croplands with government liens in crass exchange for lowered taxes? They are all acting in fear, one As an act of way or another. survival. The farmer may know what is happening to him, but he also knows that he is going to do nothing about it. So no complaint. No action. And yet, although many hearts may be locked in silent misery by sometimes unresolvable conflicts, isolated victories do blaze on freedoms horizon at vote-to-cou- nt declared unconstitutional. In May 1977 the matter was reported as being before the United States Supreme Court for final adjudication. The W.W. Mims freedom of the press victory in May 1977 was another big one. After a half dozen years of litigation, a federal court and jury held that the boycott against a weekly newspaper in South Carolina was an anti-tru- st violation. The lawsuit over OSHA related to one of the metro nonlaws (administrative searches) which mark the takeover of American government by unconstitutional metro regional governance. The boycott to kill a free press developed because editor Mims printed in his newspaper his objections to a wasteful regional water system. The victories were won by anti-tru- st and constitutional challenges. OSHA violated the Fourth Amendment. The Mims newspaper victory should have touched off celebrations by newsmen all over the country. But the controlled sector of the mass media remained strangely silent about the victories. And had the lawsuits been won by the liberal opsocialistic position, the news would have made the front pages of the biggest newspapers in the nation and the excitement would still be echoing from editorial pages. Everybody likes to be on a winning side. news about the victories over the boycott and over OSHA would have helped to dispel fear and would have helped to inspire the to get in timid and the line behind deserving leaders elsewhere who need the backing. But that's not the way it is. so-call- ed Well-publiciz- ed do-nothin- gs (D-S.Da- k.) logistical support from the U.S. In a recent meeting with reporters covering the State Department. Richard M. Moose. J r.. an Assistant Secretary of State who deals with African problems, reported that the presence of increased numbers of Cuban troops in Angola no longer is a primary issue for the Carter administration. More important, he said, is finding a way to stop the continuing violence in Angola. In other words, it is now U.S. policy to allow Cuban troops to remain in southern Africa and to discourage any effort to oust the Marxist government in Angola. Movement toward lifting the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba was indicated this week by the arrival in Washington of Cubas Foreign Trade Minister, Marcelo Fernandez, and his Ricardo Cabrisas, to attend a Vice-Minist- private Soviet WASHINGTON, D.C. (Liberty Lobby News Service Four Russian labor union officials are in this country as quests of an organization which the late J. Edgar Hoover labeled as a communist front. Their visit is of grave concern to anticommunist labor leaders because Russian labor unions are known to be under the direction of the KGB, the Soviet secret police. Moreover, similar visits in Western Europe have been used to solidify the Kremlins control over leaders. The State Department granted them visas in a move that mystery-shroude- d rules all the previous upset in granting visas. The delegation of Russian labor union officials arrived in New York on September visit as 13 for a two-weguests of the Coordinating Committee For Trade Union Action and Democracy, a outfit which Chicago-base- d the late J. Edgar Hoover labeled a communist front in 1972. They will visit "dissident labor groups in Chicago, New York, Detroit and left-wi- er. Pittsburgh. The State Department kept the move under wraps until the news leaked out of Moscow three days before their departure for New York. This may mean that from now on the State Department will take a very independent stand as to whom it issues visas. Under the McCarran-Walte- r and communication equipment, if they are to be in top shape to play a major food, role in the coming military operations in South Africa. This is why the welcoming of the Cuban officials this week and the visit of the Nigerian military strongman next week are regarded here as major steps toward preparing for using their troops in a UN military force for southern Africa. nt ng ek conference. Their visit was approved and encouraged by the State Department as part of a campaign to build up pressure for the lifting of U.S. trade embargo against Cuba. Castro's forces, suffering more than 3.000 casualties in fighting in Angola, need U.S. medicine, Union By Robert M. Bartell trade East-We- st Immigration Act of 1952, the AFL-CI- O has the right to reject a visa applica is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible. -- George Washington times. The Bill Barlow victory in Idaho was one, where the premises inspections by the federal OcHealth Adcupational Safety note: THE UTAH INDEPENDENT published the news concerning victory over OSHA but didn't know about the ministration newspaper victory. (OSHA) were Editor's PROPERTY RIGHTS AND RIGHT TO WORK The basis of human rights is property rights and the right to work; fer where the people are denied their right to work they cannot be either free or independent. Limitless property taxes limit our right to own property and use it. Limitless income taxes on businesses and individuals denies us the rights to what weve earned. And inflation, which is a tax on our earnings and savings, and which taxes away the inflationary increases in the prices of property, all take from us property that is rightfully ours. Criminal activity not only rips off our property, but also us personally in the exercise of our human rights, endangering life, limb, and freedom of movement. Union monopolies and compulsory unionism, high and rising minimum wage rates and payroll taxes, and other federal interferences with hiring practices, all tend to deny us our right to work. We already know that where rights to work and property rights are denied, as in the Communist ruled captive nations, that life, liberty and the pursuits of happiness are denied the people. tion of any foreign labor official. Recently, however, the State Department backed legislation, sponsored by Sen. George McGovern which permits the Department also to consider the requests of other labor groups. An application made by these tour labor officials in August was rejected by the AFL-CIon the grounds that the Soviet unions are not free labor organizations but branches of the Russian government. In what amounted to a the slap at the AFL-CIState Department allowed the union officials to file a second visa application. This application was considered under the McGovern legislation and the Department honored the request Coordinof the For Committee Trade ating Union Action and Democracy. The Committee was founded in 1970 and its board includes leftist labor leaders disenchanted with George Meany. Prominent among its members is Angela Davis. Some of the Committees sister projects PROGRESS IN RHODESIA Continued from page 21 indispensable to their continuing progress. History, reason and conscience call loudly for the end of interference from without in Rhodesian affairs. If the U.S.. the U.N., the World Council of Churches, and all people and institutions outside of Rhodesia would withdraw from all interference with that country, the problem could be settled amicably, without bloodshed between the white and native black Rhodesians. Red-leani- ng are: Peace The Peoples Treaty The Suburban Conference Against War, Racism and Repression National Coordinating Committee on Chile. A number of conservative labor officials are concerned over what they believe indicates a desire in certain quarters in the State Department to welcome the labor growth of a this in country. organization Apparently they just found out about it, but that desire has been plaguing the U.S. for far too many years. pro-Sovi- et are welcome. Reader 'k comment Please pass along any point of view to 300 IndepenLiberty Lobby, Dept. dence Ave., S.E., Washington, D.C. 2003 That the woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not out of his feet to be trampled upon by him. but out of his side to he equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be loved. -- Matthew Henry WE BUY SJLVER COINS TOP MARKET PRICES A & A Trading 227 West 600 South Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 Phone ( 801 ) 531-6457 O ADVERTISING FOR SALQ NEW CHANNELS ANGLES, FLATS, and SQUARE TUBING PtPt and O, PROFITABLE NORTHWOOD INSTITUTE Economics Department AIm USED O PLATE is our business. 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