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i TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1981
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Panthers’ dream
soured, leader says
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United Press International
DALLAS — Former black
nilitant Eldridge Cleaver has
palled Ronald Reagan the
father” of the radical group
pleaver helped found — the
Black Panthers — and said com-
Jnunism was a form of prison
government.
“We (black militants) used to
call Ronald Reagan the father of
the Black Panther Party, be
cause it came into being during
,his administration in Califor
nia,” he said during a speech at
Southern Methodist University
Monday.
; “California was at the center
pf a lot of black activism and that
was the time of Reagan’s rise. ”
\ Cleaver said his early years of
trime and punishment affected
his politics.
“I spent 12 and a half years in
the federal prison system and it
became my graduate school,”
said Cleaver, former Black
Panther minister.
“I learned about Marxism
and my mission became to find
people willing to take up arms
for the struggle — armed re
volution.”
But, he said, that dream went
sour in the bloody confronta
tions with police in the late
1960s.
Cleaver skipped the country
while awaiting trial on parole
violations and in his exile years
said he became disgusted with
communism in practice.
“All the communist countries
I visited had the same dynamics
I found in prison,” he said.
Cleaver urged American
blacks to elevate a new crop of
national leaders not blindly
wedded to the old ways of the
past.
He called the leadership of
such blacks as Jesse Jackson,
Ralph Abernathy and the “en
tire black (Congressional)
caucus” obsolete and said they
should be replaced.
Wadley
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bored and not being able to get
up.
The process for obtaining
platelets is essentially the same as
the process for collecting blood.
Platelets are the part of the blood
which allows it to clot. Some peo
ple, such as hemophiliacs, lack
them.
Wadley collects enough
platelets for one dose in one and a
half hours. Since donating
platelets takes less time than
donating lymphocytes, many of
the platelet donors are not family
members but are members of the
Infection Fighters Club, a group
Wadley has organized to honor its
volunteer donors.
Many Infection Fighters made
their first donation for a family
member but now donate whenev
er they are needed, Erlinda Zabal-
lero, assistant supervisor of the
leukopheresis lab, said. Some
donate platelets as often as 10
times per year.
Most donations of platelets and
lymphocytes are sent to hospitals
for individual patients. However,
hospitals are not the bank’s only
customers for blood components.
The institute is a major user of
its own blood, especially in its in
terferon research.
Interferon is a substance which
occurs naturally in the blood, but
in minute quantities. When it is
extracted from the blood and con
centrated, some scientists say in
terferon can help shrink tumors
and may ultimately prove to be a
cure for leukemia, hepatitis and
multiple sclerosis.
"Black’ woman finds
she’s actually white
United Press International
MILWAUKEE — Lynette
Klatt admits it will take some time
to get over the shock that she is
white instead of black.
She looks at her newly revised
driver’s license to be sure.
In a newspaper story, Klatt of
nearby Neenah said she grew up
the adopted child of the late Wil-
lian and Catherine Buck of Chica
go, thinking she was black.
The black couple had adopted
her in 1951, when she was 2 years
old, from an adoption agency in
the South.
Klatt said that because she had
mongolian spots — bruises similar
to birth marks — the adoption
agency felt her father had prob
ably been black.
“In Chicago, where I grew up, I
lived in a racially integrated
neighborhood,” she said. “My pa
rents were more white than black
in their mannerisms, the way they
acted.”
After her adoptive parents died,
the dark-haired Klatt, 32, tried to
find her real parents and learned
they were white.
Klatt said her real mother was
proud of the way she turned out.
Married to a white, Klatt ack
nowledges she is “still sometimes
mixed up about it.”
She said, “Sometimes I’m not
sure how I feel.”
Photo by John R. Jow
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Lab technician Leora Richardson applies
pressure to a blood bag in the Wadley
Fractionating Lab in Dallas. The pressure
separates the blood into its four ma
component parts, allowing them to be stored
in separate bags.
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DALLAS — Nine Texas banks
charter “branches,” which exist
only on paper, on the Caribbean
republic of Cayman Island to
avoid federal banking regulations
while offering customer privacy
and competitive interest rates.
Although the branches are leg
al, the Federal Reserve Board has
attempted to stop money from
flowing to the island branch opera
tions from more than 80 U.S.
banks, the Dallas Morning News
has reported.
Off-shore accounts allow banks
to do business with a minimum of
government interference.
“If I don't have to maintain re
serves on a deposit, then I can
afford to pay (depositors) a slightly
higher interest rates and have the
same effective cost to the bank,”
said President James B. Gardner,
Mercantile National Bank, Dallas.
“It’s simply a set of books main
tained outside the United States
that technically qualifies as a fore
ign branch, he said.
Establishing Cayman branches
also enables U.S. banks to com
pete in the “Eurodollar” market,
said John Durbin of Fort Worth’s
National Bank’s international divi
sion.
“Eurodollars” are
U.S. dollars
accumulated in Europe because
Americans imported more Euro
pean goods than they exported.
Loans can be made cheaper to
international corporate customers
since U.S. banking laws no longer
fully apply and European interest
rates are significantly lower than
the prime rate, bankers said.
Another advantage of Cayman
banking is that profits from a U.S.
corporation’s international opera
tions could be deposited in an is
land account at interest rates high
er than on the U.S. mainland.
Texas banks with Cayman ties
are American National, Mercan
tile National, Fort Worth Nation-
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Dallas, Continental Nationally
of Fort Worth, First Nations
Bank of Dallas, Texas Commern 'Tfc
Bank of Houston, Alamo Nation! v/
Bank, and First International
Bank of Houston, the newspape
reported.
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amended earlier this year to pro
vide a method to keep foreign anJ
domestic accounts separate in
shore branches.
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CHICAGO — A state educa
tion spokesman says physical edu
cation involves more than just
ouilding muscles, and in many
Illinois high schools it involves
playing cards, checkers and
Monopoly.
Students don’t bother to
change into gym clothes for the
games, which the state says are
perfectly acceptable.
“Today they’ve done away with
a lot of that strenuous activity,’
James Johnson, spokesman for (lie itgroi
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development (of) muscles. We
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