showed them round Trinity police station "There are no blacks in the cells' said Carmen Beckford, Communi Kentions Officer, ignoring the fact that prisoners may have been police stanons • ne -police succeeded in a publi relation: exercise "using th police harassment were unfounded The following Wednesday, at tne normally sleepy Community Relations Council meeting, Was passed calling lor •Ine dropping of all charges despite CRC solicitor David KOberis caiming taere was no general harassment of blacks, and that alllicoly impossible under English law.
Roberts was shouted down some vontas had come into the meeting after having beer racially abusco oy ponce in une surce outside.
The events at the CRC Hiccula show the division beer enerona Bristol between young blacks and older West Indians who NORTH Sea oil is paying off - for some. Last week Esso declared profits of £506.5m, a rise of a mere thousand per cent from £43.2m in 1978.
Dividends being paid to the US-parent cultUally. Exxon.
Sea has turned Esso into one of Exxon's 'brightest jewels North Sea now total f1,700m, so North Se running al su per cent on capital invested This record profit follows pressure by the oil companies to cajole British governments taxation levels 2 80 selling OTT licences bargain price companies have ettechvey been sea, the ten taste the basis supposed risk anc possible low margins of oil exploration there.
A DEMONSTRATION in support of Junior Archer and the Earlington Family, and against the racist, bully boy tactics employed by the Hornsey (North London) police was attended by about 60 anti-racists in North London A year ago this month, police invaded the Earlington's home, assaulted them verbally and physically and then arrested Junior Archer was also beaten up and arrested by Hornsey police and despite the fact that he is on very low pay has been denied legal aid to defend himself at the notorious Highbury Defence funds have been set up around the country to fight back against vicious attacks by the police and courts on black
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