JUL. Y 26 - AUGUST 1, 1987 THE ICHIGA CITIZEN 3 Jac son campaign eeds $2 mil Ion . 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- • el ide Continued from P 1 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- Continued from P 1 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,