JUL. Y 26 - AUGUST 1, 1987 THE ICHIGA CITIZEN
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Jac son campaign
eeds $2 mil Ion
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Harri on joins' efto
o erec fence along
Po tiac rail rack
PONTIAC - State Rep.'
lie J. Harrison (D-Pon-
. c) taken up the cause of
Po iac resi Is con-
cerned 0 r th ty
railroad tr in the Walton
Par area of the city.
e stretch of tr ck lies be
tween residential area. and
county park, and the la of
dequate fencing temp neigh
borhood children to cross the
tra and play around the
freight cars," Rep. Harrison
·d
He will ioin residents in a
meeting with the Grand Trunk
estern Railroad and city offi
cials to WOT out a plan to in
stall protective fencing and
other safety measures.
ere have been at least
four instances of children
losing limbs through accidents
in the train yard and 0 the
tracks since 1980, • Harrison
said "But because 0 con
fusion about 0 is respon-
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o volunteered for the Corps
when he 18, fn1611ing
lifetime dream.
He was so much the perfect
Marine that he was posted to
the seauity guard at the u.s.
Embassy in osco, where he
stationed from August
1985 until August 1986· when
he was suddenly demoted and
returned to the United States
for failure to report a contact
ith a suspected Russian
agent
The facts, as sworn to by
Cpl. Bracy, were tha the
suspected agent, a woman,
had f Iy been employed
the emb as, cook.
Br cy e her in this
capacity and after she left er
embassy job, he chanced to
meet her in osco par
There, according to Bracy,
e told him she had some
friends in "Red Square" --
·ch Bracy too to mean the
GB; the Russian spy or
ganizatio - who wanted to
talk to him.
Bracy repo ted this to his su
perior officer, but no ction
taken d Bracy latu
the man ba at the e
sy, this time a mmt fo
American dipJo t
Alarmed back
. the embassy, that she
till entreating him to meet
her Russian friends, and .-
turbed tha DO • had
been taken her despite
. . Bracy t to
to··t she
It
ible for erecting and maintain
ing the fences, nothing has
been done. The peop of the
area turned to me for assis
tance and I am happy to
report that the process of
resolving th problem is finally
underway.·
Income do n
WASH GTO - The U.S.
Census Bureau recently
released a report showing that
after-tax income for the typ.
cal Black family continues to
lag significantly behind that of
whites.
According to the report in
the most recent year studied,
1985, white households had an
average after-tax income
$23,484. That compares to
only $15,790 for the typical
Black household Hispanics
also out-earned Blacks on the
average. The typical Hispanic
household had an after-tax in
come of $17,920.
ory of t
Cpl. Amo d Bracy
meeting, Yihich was reported
to Embassy officials, that trig
gered his recall to the States.
In April, 1987, the nation
was stunned by reports that a
DlaSSNe spy scandal had been
UDCOYered at the Moscow Em
bassy with Marine guards
pp. sex for secrets and
allowing Russian nationals
into the m secure areas of
the compound,
Cpl, Bracy and another
"'!IIi""· � guard, Sgt Clayton
Lo etree, were charged with
csp.onage and officials an
nounced that confessio had
been obtained from both men.
Bracy placed in solitary
confinemen at the Quantico
. e b and permitted to
see no one, not even his family.
On April 6, rebuffed in her
effans to see her son ad dis-
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nounced his candidacy for the
presidency, one affair with
2,000 persons raised $2 mi1-
lion.
Jackson said he is tired of
hearing th e canno win.
"We have the numbers to
win, but you can't join the
race without a vehicle and we
can't win without gas 0
wheels, " Jackson said
In 1984, Walter Mondate
won the Democratic nomina
tion by 6.7 percent of the vote.
Ten percent of the Blac vote,
Jackson said, went to ondale.
-vie could have on the
Democratic nomination by 4
million votes," J ac.kson said
We have 13 million
registered voters and 6 million
unregistered, Jackson said
He noted he could no make
a decision about the run for
the' presidency until things
change. He is willing to take
the heat, and jeopardize his
life, he said, bu he is not run
ning for Jesse, but the good of
the country. During the 1984
run, he received 314 death
threats and 14 people were ar
rested.
Jackson spo e of the
KinglJFK days and how the
character assasination of those
days and of reconstruction are
being revisited There is no ac
cident that every Black
e ected official in the country
is under attack, he said
On foreign economics, Jack
son said that we must not
blame the people of Taiwan
for taking our jobs. Blame the
corporations who are taking
the jobs, he said "If you work
for $2 a day, they will give
them Gobs) back to you. One
day they (third orld workers)
will strike, then they will be
called communists."
It is time for plantation ,
house and field slaves to come
together, he said
"'We must increase voter
registration, life willnot begin
and end for us in 1988 but in
1991 there will be reapportion
ment We may lose Congress
members."
"'We must not jus be against
apartheid, we must end it
Liberal is to get Mandella out
of jail Liberation is to get him
elected president of South
e_ clearing of Cpl. A
mayed that the media had vir
tually convicted him of spying
- without the formality of a trial,
Freida Bracy contacted the
NAACP with a p ea for help.
Her call was taken by Char
les E. Carter, NAACP as
sociate General Counsel, who
listened to Frieda Bracy and
her growing fear that her son
stood a good chance of being
railroaded
The charges he faced were
serious: conspiracy to commit
espionage, espionage, failure
to report contact with enemy
agents, and failure to report
contact of other marines with
enemy agents.
Carter, of course, had read
the news report of the case
and after listening to the
mother, he and Attorney
George Hairston of ew York
City, went to Quantico on
April 17 to interview Bracy.
Present was Bracy's military
counsel, Captain Brennan
Lynch. The interview lasted
for some three hours and
when it was over, both Carter
and Hairston agreed that they
were dealing with a young
man who had been unjustly ac
cused and was the victim of a
bungled investigation by the
aval Intelligence Service
(NIS).
As to the alledged confes
sion, Bracy said he had signed
it after hours of questioning
by NIS agents, riddled with un
subtle hints about wha would
hapen to him if he did not
cooperate. In essence, the con
fession was not worth th
paper it was written on.
There was no question of
the competency of Bracy's
military lawyers. Both Captain
Lynch and Lt. CoL
ML'powell, who joined the
case as lead military defense
counsel, are top ftight attor
neys, and further, they ere
also convinced Bracy had
been wrongfully charged and
eagerly welcomed the
presence of the NAACP attor
neys.
In early May, an "Article 32
Hearing" was con ened at
Quantico to determine if there
was enough evidence against
Bracy to recommend a court
martial Several sessions of
this hearing were held over
the next several weeks, with
only one being held in public
because of nati onal security
concerns.
The NAACP pushed for the
open hearing on the theory
that the media and the public
needed to see and hear Bracy
as he really is, and not
shackled in handcuffs and leg
irons as they had seen him
before.
Bracy was the only witness
at his hearing and in concise
tones, well sprinkled
"sirs", he told of . strict
upbringing, his background,
his life in the Marines, and his
own set of values. The bearing
then moved back behind
closed doors.
The weakness of the govern
menfs case apparent to
the NAACP ttorneys from
the outset
Br cy had no only dis
avo d the alleged confession
Africa.
Jackson is concerned to the
point of obsessi on almost with
the plight. of our children,
"Something is missing in them,
we must salvage our childre,
Drugs, crime and suicide are
taking over their lives. Lives
must be salvaged. They are
our future."
To date, Ja on has raised
$26O,<XXl for his presidential
bid. "If we raise $2 million by
Labor Day, the run makes
sense," he said
Jackson has only so much
time to qualify for matching
funds after he announces offi
cially for president Addition
ally he explained four install
ments of $250 each would net
an additional $1000 in match
ing funds. A straight $1,000
contribution would gie only an
additional $250 in matching
funds.
Churches, corporations can
no give. Individuals can give
$1,000.
o
Bacy
he had signed, but the several
witnesses whom the prosecu
tion had planned to use
against him had also retracted
their statements.
That left the prosecution
with the results of a polygraph
or lie detector test But here,
the NAACP brought in its
own polygraph expert who
reported that the tests and
their reported results were
faulty and could not be sub
stained In the meantime, the
government saw its case
against Sgt. Lonetree, and this
was supposed to be the
strongest of the two cas fall
apart and charges against him
were partially dropped
The two NAACP attorneys
cross examined extensively the
prosecution's witnesses and
the govenment's case grew
eaker and weaker.
Carter and Hairston were
scheduled to leave for Russia
on June 15, to intervie wit
nesses. Ho ver, on June 12,
the Marine Corps announced
that the government was drop
ping its charges.
Speaking for the NAACP,
Carter said, "The NAACP,
from the very beginning, never
for a moment believed any of
the charges placed against
Corporal Arnold Bracy. . .
Th media, caught up in the
hysteria of what they sa as a
juicy sex scandal, had in effect
already tried and convicted
this yo man.-
"For so 78 years, the
NAACP has been fighting for
justice for Bla people. That
is why entered this case.