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TALL GIRL SZES DIGGS Basket weave heel with crepe sole. Brown Beige. Nevy or Red sailcloth. IARD-TO-FIND heel I W' WW AAA4AA ASB ES-EtT rt0-t2 110-72 I 10-12 I 10-12 WW pro FNLA or UNITA." In late 1971, Diggs became the first American black to be appointed a full delegate to the General Assembly of the United Nations. But by the time the session was drawing to a close, he resigned to protest his frustration with American policy toward Africa.

Last August, Diggs and the Black Caucus submitted a list of 21 recommendations to Kissinger that they felt would strengthen U.S. African policy. The recommendations included terminating sales of military equipment to South Africa and discontinuing commercial or financial support to countries that advocate apartheid. They urged Kissinger to establish foreign assistance programs to the new governments of Guinea, Mozambique and Angola. Diggs is pessimistic that the recommendations will be followed.

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"I think we were justly criticized for our position in Angola," said Diggs, who was oppoosed to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's recommendation that the U.S. intervene in the Angolan war. "Most of the senior advisors on Africa and I were opposed to the covert way our country intervened," he said. "Kissinger claims he talked with 25 people on eight committees, but I don't know who they were. He certainly didn't talk with me.

"Most of the activities began in January (1975) when the U.S. gave Holden Roberto (FNLA leader) $300,000. That's what alerted the Russians that the U.S. was escalating. So they counter-escalated.

It was the U.S. that internationalized the event. I think if we had stayed out of it, the Russians would have kept their intervention on the level it had been on since the 60s." When the Organization of African Unity (OAU) met in January, 1976, in Ethiopia, Diggs attended the meeting and interpreted the decision by the African leaders not to intervene as a loss for the U.S. "The administration felt that since 22 countries voted against the (Soviet backed) MPLA that they were either for the FNLA or UNITA, (which the U.S. supported)," Diggs said, "but that was not true." "Many of the ones who didn't vote for MPLA were strategizing, hoping that, if they held out, that maybe the three groups would form a coalition government.

There were only a half-dozen countries that were CONTINUED adjacent to Diggs', a few of the then 13 members called for more zealous leadership. Diggs says he resigned to allow the chairmanship to rotate. Although Conyers and Diggs are publicly cordial, it is no secret in Washington that they often do not get along. One Diggs staff member attributes the strained relationship to a rivalry for whatever meager funds are available to financially depressed urban districts. Seated at a conference table in his second floor office in the Rayburn Building, Diggs is momentarily captivated by the postcard view from his window.

A beam of sunlight, softly diffused by a cluster of century old oak trees, bounces lightly from the sun-scorched dome of the nearby Capitol Building. It is a view so picturesque that it cannot be spoiled by the fading cherry blossoms that opened too early and were turned a lus-terless brownish-pink. In sharp contrast to the colonial setting outside is his office interior of African decor, where wooden hand-carved busts, figurines and statues line the book shelves. The walls are covered with pictures designed from lacquered wood chips, African scenes made from bird feathers, a leopard skin, and photographs of African leaders. As chairman of the subcommittee on International Resources, Food and Energy, Diggs' travels through Africa have been extensive.

He is considered by many of his colleagues to be the foremost advisor on African affairs in the Congress. Diggs' interest in Africa figures strongly in his activities. On this particular day, his schedule includes a meeting with Gibson Thula, a spokesman for Chief Buthelezi of Transvaal, South Africa. Thula diplomatically mentions his distress over the lack of U.S. policy toward South Africa, where racially prohibitive policies are still legal.

BqxdL. IPISKIEKt CALL When Diggs relaxes in Washington, sometimes it is at places like the posh Pisces Club, where the chic gather to rub elbows with legislators and diplomats, or the bar at Face's Lounge, where he talks casually with old acquaintances who are neither as coiffed nor as stylshly outfitted as his companions at the Pisces. At Face's he is warmly greeted by the owner, Adol-phus (Fa.ce) Wiggins, who sips splits of Piper's Heid-seick Champagne and reminisces about the old days when Charlie Diggs first came to Washington. Or he might drop by Simpson's Lounge, owned by the widow of a former close friend, a place that still serves carry-out chitterlings and cornbread. Diggs, 53, is married to his third wife, Janet, a career foreign service officer for the State Department.

He has five children by previous marriages. The two youngest children, a son, 12, and daughter, 8, both live with their mother, Anna Diggs, an assistant corporation counsel for the City of Detroit His oldest daughter, Denise, 26, is director of the Diggs Funeral Homes. Charles III, 27, lives in Los Schedule "NOW" for spring opening FREE WITH OPENING Free Chemicals Free Automatic Chemical Feeder and Installation Free Pool Cover Storage United time only oflerxplres Jim 3, 197 DAN J. WOOD Associates Inc. 5 30720 West 12 Mile Farmington Hills, Mich.

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