European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 21, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes june 19t7 army of the 70s wages War on Bias continued from Page t ing general in the we have a Black Secretary of the that Bowers who grew up in new York said i dont think the problems have we still have too but the army perceptions have a six foot paratrooper who joined the army As an enlisted Man 12 year i genuinely think its better in Many ways in the army for Black Man than we have rules and regu lations that we live there Are Ive had Ive had people Call me Nigger in and some other there Arent enough Blacks in the Hierarchy of but Progress is taking he i feel a we have a Black command but were moving several Black soldiers Here made it Clear that their experiences overseas in Thailand and Germany left them the soldiers recounted How they were insulted by German restaurateurs and had racial epithets hurled at them by thai children and were treated with disdain by vietnamese sol several Black officers said that social relationships with Whites often at the close of each work you can be the Best of buddies with someone during the but forget it when its night said one i be been to parties where a Guy Ive worked with has even refused to introduce me to his of the soldiers in the 82nd air borne 28 per cent of the enlisted men Are Black and 9 per cent of the officer in the army Only 6 per cent of the of flyers Are there have been no Mator racial Inci dents in recent years at fort a Mirror of the Overall decline of racial conflict in the army at Home and in for there were 59 serious incidents reported to the department of 3day Summit with Giscard brickbats Greet Brezhnev in Paris Paris up presidents Leonid Brezhnev of the soviet Union and Valery Giscard Destain opened three Days of talks monday while an unprecedented flurry of ant soviet threats and incidents crackled in the Giscard greeted Brezhnev on his arrival at midday at orly Airport and joined him at Rambouillet chateau in late afternoon for their first formal the talks were expected to focus on the overlapping issues of disarmament and nuclear but com Mercial relations also were expected to be discussed As Well As the growing French soviet rivalry in the two countries exchanged a five year total of billion Worth of goods during the first half of the 1970s and Hope to triple this during the second five years of the the peaceful setting of the talks contrasted with the threats and incidents that greeted joint Energy program one Anonymous Telephone Call said that orly Airport would be bombed when Brezhnev another said a sniper was tracking him with a Rifle and telescopic but no bomb was found and Brezhnev apparently making unscheduled detours for extra sped with out sniper fire to 45 Miles South of where most of the three Days of Brechno Giscard talks will be at orly where Brezhnev got a re carpet Welcome and a brass gis card noted that we Are meeting at a moment when the world is encountering grave problems the Pursuit of the danger of nuclear the accumulation of armaments and of Giscard each of our nations remains responsible for its own Security an apparent reference to Frances refusal to attend International 40ton Magnet delivered to Moscow Moscow Dpi an 40ton Magnet was delivered to the soviet Union monday aboard the worlds largest aircraft for use in a joint Energy program that May Lead to pollution free the Magnet was built by the Energy research and development administration under a research agreement reached in 1974 Between the two this has done a great Deal to Advance our relations Between the United states and the soviet said ambassador Malcolm to avoid any possible damage to the magnets delicate it was flown non Stop from Chicago aboard the giant c5a the air plane was refuelled twice in the air during the 12hour flight from Ohare Bob spokesman for the Energy said the joint Effort will save american researchers three he said both countries will Benefit from the program since the soviet Union does not have a Magnet that will compare to the device and the United states does not have a comparable Generator in which to test it will be installed in a Magnet Hydro dynamic Generator at the soviet Institute for High in a Mhd Genera which has no moving a Stream of Gas is forced through a magnetic that eliminates the use of the in a conventional must be rotated through the Field by steam William head of the said the Mhd generators could be As much As 60 per cent com pared to the 3540 per cent efficiencies of conventional Jackson said the increased efficiency will help keep Down and ultimately electric he said the first Mhd generators could go into commercial use As Early As disarmament looking tired and had dragged his feet through the arrival Cere he disarmament would be profitable for both the soviet and French in addition to telephoned there were open letters to Brezhnev from soviet dissidents in Paris urging the release of computer Engineer Anatol arrested in Moscow last March on a charge of French author Jeanpaul who declined the 1964 Nobel Litera Ture said he would Mark the Brezhnev visit by giving a party for soviet dissidents in Paris on the government television network can celeb a monday evening interview with other soviet the interviewer immediately sued for million for each Days delay in telecasting the last week a bomb destroyed the office of France user on saturday police Tea gassed 500 ant soviet demonstrators who were firebombing police vehicles on the one policeman was slightly Hurt in the Champ Elysee the Only injury re ported As of late monday in a welter of Inci dents that police sources said were unprecedented for a foreign Paris was decked out with both soviet flags and with posters urging get but the soviet Leader will not remain secluded at Rambouillet during his visit ending on tuesday he was to Lay a Wreath at the Arch of Triumph and to Call at the Paris City Brezhnev was to Dine at the Elysee presidential Palace on tuesday and give a reception at the present soviet embassy that Day and a luncheon at the new embassy building before he leaves wednesday of 200 attend As Ali marries Model under tight Security the last the number fell to we had a bad period in the and some of those things were certainly reflected in the said Roscoe Robinson commander of the division and one of the highest ranking Black officers in the we had to get Vietnam behind we had to get certain unhealthy attitudes behind he sitting in his office at the sprawling Post six Miles Northwest of the object is equal were striving for and because we have no racial incidents now we cant be lulled into a false sense of a West Point graduate and Vietnam were were watching All the Indi the of Post the housing discharge were trying to look for unhealthy trends to avoid a blow in dealing with the High percentage of Black servicemen which May run As High As 40 per cent in Rifle companies the army in recent launched elaborate race relations and equal Opportunity lectures and seminars Are offered twice a month to All troops by officers and enlisted mostly who have attended an eight week course at the defense race relations Institute at Patrick air Force base in this is Black history week which included a Celebration of Martin Luther Kings the Library has numerous copies of such books As and Eldridge cleavers soul on the pm is stocked with Ebony and other magazines with a Black As Well As tapes and records of Black promotion problems beyond the army has ordered that All promotion boards take into account Black soldiers May have suffered discrimination in Job assignments during the some Black officers and enlisted men Indi Cate that the policy clearly will have an Impact on the current crop of Black sol but that it is often too late to have an effect on the career of an officer or enlisted Man who has served in the army for a other enlisted men claim that at the lower where local boards Deal with promotions As opposed to department of the army Bias and old thwart Black the army can be a Beautiful but a lot of times it just Doest said Zaddie a 14year we just feel left promoted behind White Guys who came in after once you get Down to the battalion or company that where the problems temperatures Beverly a amid Security reminiscent of a presidential heavyweight boxing Champion Muhammad Ali wed Model Veronica Porche in a private civil ceremony with Superior court judge Billy Mills Ali in White tails married Porche in a Brief ceremony before some 200 friends and this is a very sacred moment for Ali told but he would not com ment otherwise about his a heavyweight Champ from another Joe was among the so were los Angeles mayor Tom actor Warren performer Dick and alls Cassius Clay and Odessa Clay in from Japan for the ceremony was martial arts expert Antonio who fought Ali in dozens of newsmen and a fans were turned away from the ballroom at the Bev Erly Wilshire where the wedding took Security was so tight that alls who Flewin from new York for the wed was among those turned away be cause his name accidentally was left off a police Security list of the marriage is the third for the heavy weight who was divorced from his two previous Ali has four children from his second while he and his new wife have a 6monthqld it was the first marriage for who wore a White gown with a flowing train a private reception followed the wed l h h i Albany 4t 95 Albuquerque 14 91 Amarillo 44 to Anchorage u is ashes Lam 44 90 Atlanta 47 15 Atlantic cily it n Austin to Baltimore so to Billings a 92 Birmingham 50 7t Bismarck u m Bolm s7 Boston Brownsville 4j 74 Buffalo 44 82 Burlington 45 n Casper 15 9e s 44 u 70 92 Charlotte 51 u Cheyenne u m Chicago a n Cincinnati u 10 Cleveland 49 95 at w Columbus 14 97 Dallas w n Dayton to Denver 59 19 Desmones 40 to Detroit 12 Duluth 45 1j4cipaso h m Fairbanks 50 70 Fargo 15 n flags Lall 47 u great Falls h Hartford 49 a Helena 7s 17 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