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IC 0 0 0 f 8 2 0 6 - .. .. '. I I SITUATION INFORMATION REPORT 0 Can blac&Americans be mobilized into as powerful a pressure group for the'liberation'of Southern Africa as American Jews have been for Israel? 8 This is the dream, admittedly a long way off, of a growing number of black leaders who see the distiny of American blacks . linked with the continent from which their ancestors came. A s a result of this dream, the African Liberation Day Coordinating Committee was established in January of this year. The ALDCC, organized as ?",,ad hoc committee, has attracted the most broadly based political group of black leaders to. join together for any project in recent memory. Owusa Sadauki, president of Malcolm X Liberation.University in Greensboro, North Carolina, is the chairman of ALDCC and Cleveland Sellers, a former Student National Coordinating Committee organizer, is the field coordinator. Members of its steering committee run the gamqt from churchmen to Black Panthers and from Congressmen to avowed Communists. The list includes the Reu. Ralph Abernathy of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference: Angela Davis, an acknowledged Communist now on trial in California for conspiracy to murder and , kidnap; Representatives John Conyers, Jr. , (D-Michigan)and Charles C. Diggs (D-Michigan); the Rev. L. Maynard Catchings, communications .. executive of'the National Council of Churches; H. Rap Brown, now in a New York jail awaiting trial for robbery; the Rev. Dr. Charles Spivey of the World ,Council-of Churches: and Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton. . Thc ALDCC has been active since its formation. A conference on the theme, "The United States and South Africa, ALDCC was heldjn Washington, D.C. on 16 and 17 March. sponsorcd by The *LI 3 ... . ..J .. [ .*# ,y ,: ; b. I C'< I , /: 5. 2 f l!: ;1r . 7 2- . Pi'?+ e; c - . . ' . , .