European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 21, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday july 21, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 5 candidates told not to ignore Black vote Houston not the president of the nation Al Urban league has warned i98s presidential Candi dates that they can t afford 10 neglect or ignore Black voters. In his keynote address sunday at the opening of the civil right organisation s 77lh annual convention John a Jacob said. The Black vote will hinge on whether the panics and the candidates Are convincing in their policies regarding racism equity in education and aggressive reforms that meet the health housing and survival needs of the poorest among  Jacob pledged to use the league s resources in National voter registration. For both parties the Road to he White House leads through Houston s third Ward through Watts through Harlem through Chicago s South Side he said referring to areas with Large Black populations. The major parties Are in peril if hey ignore that  although none of the presidential candidates were initially scheduled to appear some have reportedly indicated a desire to address the convention a sign of the political clout that the organization has gained in recent years. Jacob s comments were indicative of the More Active political role that the league formed to address the social and economic problems faced by Blacks has begun to play under his leadership. Jacob has been in the forefront of Public discussion about a shifting focus in the civil rights movement. At a news conference earlier sunday he said that because of reduced government spending on seme Aid pro Grams benefiting the league s constituents the organization had been forced to develop its own efforts aimed at improving Black students education offering Job training for welfare mothers and promoting male responsibility As a key to reversing the rising number of pregnancies among Black teen agers. Jacob was Blunt in assailing the Reagan administration on economic and social programs including civil rights. History will judge Ronald Reagan harshly As the Man who had he Power 10 reconcile the races bul who failed to even try Jacob said. He also said dial the nomination of Robert bark must be rejected by the Senate adding his voice to a growing chorus of civil rights leaders who oppose confirmation of the conservative Federal appeals court judge As an associate Justice of the supreme court. Jacob a 511-year-old native of Houston also recalled the cily of his youth As one scarred by poverty and racism As a segregated City that chained Blacks o the Back of the bus and whiles to a false sense of  the convention lasting four Days and drawing More than is,000 delegates and visitors is expected to Gen Erate some j8 million for he cily s Economy much of hat Loblack business Jacob said. Election of Reagan was sinful o Neill says memoirs a so reveal dislike of Frk paper reports Boston up retired House speaker Thomas p. Tip o Neill or. Says in his memoirs that in was sinful president Reagan was elected and he never really liked Robert f. Kennedy the Boston Herald reported. In Man of the House o Neill also reveals a tailed Fri attempt to trap him into accepting an a scam bribe and questions the Warren commission s conclusion that a single gunman killed John f. Kennedy the newspaper re ported sunday. O Neill s often Blunt recollection of 50 years in office blames the Reagan administration for engineering the Iran arms for hostages Swap in a desperate Effort 10 hold control of the Senate in the 1986 elections. O Neill retired last year after 34yeais in Congress. He is writing his memoirs to be published in september with the help of William Novak who also helped Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca write his Bat Selling autobiography. In was sinful that Ronald Reagan Ever became president the Massachusetts Democrat reportedly wrote. Most of the time he was an actor Reading his own lines who did t understand his own programs. He was t without leadership ability but he lacked most of the manage ment skills that a president needs o Neill said of fellow Irish american Reagan. But let it give him his due he would have made a hell of a King. I blame the president for allowing. Selfishness to became respectable wrote o Neill. He said he was con Vinced Reagan s while House staged the 1983 invasion of Grenada to offset Public dismay Over the terrorist attack that killed 241 . Marines in a Beirut Barracks. Of Robert f. Kennedy o Neill writes i never really liked  in 1986, o Neill endorsed he assassinated senator s son Joe Tor the House Seal he speaker vacated. To me he was a self important up Start and a know it All. To him 1 was simply a Street Corner pol o Neill wrote of Robert Kennedy. We weren t  Aboul John f. Kennedy whose Seal in Congress he won in 1952, o Neill said that for a Man who left a shining legacy As president i be never seen a congressman gel so much press while doing so Little  o Neill wrote that Kennedy aide Kenny o Donnell now dead old him five years later he had heard a second set of gunshots on nov. 22, 1963, in dal Las when the president was kilted but failed to Tell inc assassination investigators. I used to think thai the Only people who doubled the conclusions of he Warren commission were crackpots. Now however i m not so sure o Neill wrote. There will always be scepticism in my mind about the cause of Jack s death. O Neill wrote he was tipped off to and avoided a 1979 Fri Effort to rap him and sen. Edward m. Kennedy d-mass., into accepting bribes in the a scam Sling in which seven con Gressmen and one senator were snared. Tipo null " "1 find it difficult to believe that Wil Liam Webster the head of the Fri now Cia director had nothing belter to do than to arrange for he entrapment of members of Congress he wrote. Iron Contra panel members split on pardons Washington not a prominent Republican senator on inc Iran Contra committees says he would support a presidential Pardon for it. Col. Oliver l North and rear adm. John m. Poindexter before any possible criminal prosecution was announced. I would have no objections to the president pardoning them in Advance of an indictment or criminal conviction said sen Orrin g. Hatch of Utah in a sunday interview on the n by program meet the  opinion Over possible pardons was divided pretty much along party lines with democrats warning that such action would be politically damaging to a presi first Black woman wins miss Mississippi Crown Dent whose administration is already crippled by the Iran Contra affair. I think it s wrong for american politicians to at tempt to influence the judicial proceedings with re Spect to this or any other Case said sen. George j. Mitchell a Maine. I think the president would make a very serious mistake and i think it would be resented by the Ameri can Public rep. Louis Stokes a Ohio said on meet the  on the lbs news program face inc nation rep. Dick Cheney a Wyo said consideration of a Pardon at Sands of time this Point was premature but at some Point Reagan May have to consider a Pardon. Cheney was chief of Shaft at the White House when president Ford pardoned Richard Nixon in connection Wilh the watergate scandal a move Many political analysis said contributed to Ford s defeat by Jimmy Carter in 1976. The hearings which were to resume monday will probably end in Early August after hearing from wit Nesses including Secretary of stale George p. Shultz attorney general Edwin Meuse Iii defense Secretary Caspar w. Weinberger and former White House chief of staff Donald t. Regan. V1cksburc. Miss. Up Toni saw right was crowned miss Mississippi saturday night becoming the first Black to win he title. We made history but we re nol through making Hilory Seawright a native of Mots Point Aid after the pageant Black contestants from the South in the miss America pageant have been rare. The most recent we Lencola Sulli Van who won the miss Arkansas title in 1980 and was fourth runner up in the miss America contest. Tears streamed Down Seawright s face As she walked Down the ramp. The crowd of 1,366 at the Vicksburg municipal auditorium appeared to be stunned when scan right was announced As the Winner then stood and applauded her. She was the Only non while among the 10 finalists and had become a crowd favorite thursday night when she won the preliminary Allenl Competition singing a Bluesy version of i m going All the Way the miss Mississippi pageant is proud to have inc first Black miss missis Sippi Page can director Don Johnson said we have a super Talent and a super intellect. You can bet Well see her in the finals in Atlantic  of Seawright s chances in the miss America i Agenal former miss Mississippi Kathy chinning said she can do  saw right graduated from Mississippi College for women this Spring. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. July 21, 1947 three b-29s with special Bays to carry giant missiles arrived in Giebl stall Germany to begin less with 25,000-Pound deep Pence ration bombs on a former Bombproof submarine factory. 30 years ago foe a. July 21, i9s7 Florida convict Donald j. Wedler 23, Lold 50 crime experts and newsmen he was sure the Cleveland housewife he beat in i 54 was mrs. Marilyn Sheppard wife of or. Sam Sheppard. Meanwhile authorities set a Dale for a lie Detector test for Sheppard serving a life sentence for murder. 20 years ago today. July 21, 1967 spurred by rioting in new Jersey and elsewhere the House passed a Bill aimed at roving rioters. The Bill made it a in Cral crime 10 Cross a slate line to Start a Rio. 10 years ago today. July 21. 1977 Oil was moving again in the Alaska pipeline after the third shutdown in 16 Days. A Inick had rammed Mlo a Section of the 800-mile lint