Yahweh ben Yahweh embracing a legal advi er after h wa ac­ quitted of murder. Black . . supremacist and disciples , acquitted MIAMI, FL.-A Florida state jury has acquitted Black supremacist, Yahweh ben Yaweh, and three of his fol­ lowers on the murder of a man who allegedly challenged another follower. Apparently, the jury did not believe the prosecution's star witnes forcing prosecutors to drop remaining state murder char­ ges against the leader of the' religious group, the Nation of Yaweh. Yet Yaweh remains in Federal prison, serving a sen­ tence for a conspiracy convic­ tion for 14 murders, two attempted murders, and arson. Immediatel y after the Federal 'rial, the state filed charge against the defendants for the murder of Cecil Branch, a Miami man reportedly slain for retribution after Branch knocked down' a follower at­ tempting to bring her message to Branch's home. Yaweh, 57, has preached against drugs and offers a mes­ sage of Black power to urban poor. He also built an $8 mil­ lion empire of motels, warehouses and stores. Misconduct uncovered by prosecutor CHICAGO, ILL.-Accusa­ tions of a Federal prosecution . team include sex talk, smug­ gling and ecret drug tests. The United States Attonery's office is being accused of roo- cealing evidence in its prosecution of EI Rukns, an al­ leged street gang, according to n article in the New York Time. After boasting of the con­ viction of 53 EI Rukns, the conduct of the pro ecutors has led court hearing to rai e questions of whether prosecutors provided pecial favors to gang members who became Government wit­ ne es and te ted posl tive for drug use while in Federal cus­ tody. A prosecution-paralegal ad­ mitted to having exually ex­ plicit conversations with an imprisoned gang member and muggling drug to a Rukn while he was in prison. The conviction of the Rukns severely crippled the gang who nto drugs, property, busine sand politi . The uncovering of the alleg d candal could resultinwarran f r new trial or di mi al [indi tments. deatho fonner Duvaliero Lafon "The President and � Y of Haiti deny any involvement of b Presi­ dent or anyone in his government in t murder," Am: r Casimir declared in a letter published by Tbe W hington t on Saturday. "The President and the embassy deplore the of ummary eXCQltion in any form, for any purpose,' , he added. Cbarges that exiled PresidentArlstide "ordered the murder of a jailed political opponent on nl regime 1Dppled by I miU1Iry ooup" lie am- 1alned ina ClOlumn by Andeaooand Michael B tein wbich � In � on December 17. � IT STATES THAT an FBI polypph expert flew *> Port u-Prlnce on Sep mber 110 lnIervIew b fbimel' bead of Haid'a tiooal PenI , where lafOnllnl' eJeCUdon lOOt pia. Penitentiary chief Capt Slip Doura • 'passed a polypPil *>detcnJlD the veracity of ICCOUIlt ol1be mUider (mI) the information passed on 10 � State Department wm:re It Is d to remain highly class16ed." Foundation pledges $15 million to Black col/eges· DEl'ROrr (AP)-The Kresge Fowm­ tion has pledged $15 million, b largest grant it ever has made, to the ni1ed Negro College Fum for reoovation and. construction of buildings at 41 historical­ ly Black sebools. The foundation was created by Sebastian S. Kresge, woo started what now is Troy-based Kmart Corp., the nation's No. 2.retailer. Tbe foundation specializes in construction grants to . .. ns. o tunity to make an eoormous diffe rce in the lives of Black Americans," foun­ dation Chairman Alfred II. Taylor Jr. said M Qnday. - The Kresge grant was earmarked for a $l00-million construction and renova- tion program for b fund'. 41 ClOUeges. 1k Blac ClOllegc tum alJady bad raised $36 million, and 1be KJeage grant is ClOntfngent on it raising the remaining $49 million from other sources. ''THEMAGNITUDEANDooOOi­ tions of this grant will allow m not only to significantly strengthen tIae coneges but to' ue a challenge to aU Amcricam tojoin m in helping to educate minority citizens,' dfuOOP W' H. y -� 'Black ClOUe raise $250 million and say it has - received $153 million in pledges so far. A 50 million pledge from b Walter AruiCnberg FowxSation is contingent on the fuOO meetln_g its $250 million goal. Rev. Jesse Jackson released from hospital lack lawma er r comm ndAID WASHINGTON (AP)-. Doctors released civil rights leader Jesse Jackson from a Washington bospital with orders that he cut back on his busy Schedule. Jackson left Howard University H pita! on Thursday night and headed for Chicago, where he spent the boliday with relatives. He was admitted to Howard on Sun­ day wi� a fever and broochial eonges­ tion, the National Rainbow Coalition Inc, said. r BY GINA HOLLAND ASSOCIATED PRESS WRrrER JACKSON, MiB. (AP)-Black law­ makers unveiled a budget.Thcsday that would pump money into AIDS programs and ocial services without raising taxes. The plan, endorsed by eight Black legislators, includes $55 million more in state funding than the recomrrendatiors by tate budget writers and Gov. Kirk Fordice. Otief architect Rep. Ed Blackmon, D-Canton, said the group projected a 3.6 percent growth in revenue for fiscal year 1 4, which begins July 1. The Legislative Budget Committee and Fosdice had predicted only 26 per­ cent growth in tax collections aOO other revenue. " TO pat �mselves on the y 'I'm conservative;" Blackmon said of the projection. "This (3.6 percent) is a meat and pota projection. We didn't get wild and crazy and pull figures out of the air." The plan divid the Il:W money be­ tween the Department 0 Human Ser- During his five-day stay, doctors fouOO Jackson in "generally exeelle Ialth" after perfonning tests, said a written taterrent the group released Th ·umday. "The main problem seems to have been an exhamting schedule that bad gradually aOO temporarily broken down some of Mr. Jaclcson's resistancc,"the stat ement said. vices, the Board of Health, the Depart­ ment ot"'Mental Health, public scbools and colleges, aOO others. . The $10 million t aside-ln the plan for AIDS testing, courseling aOO the care of AIDS-infected ppiam would address the growing nwnber of AIDS cases in the tate, particularly in Black ClOmmWliti ,Blaclamn 'd. The plan also Ux:ludcs $2 million for education on xually trammitted dis­ eases and other disease prevention, $5 million for the State Hospital at Whitield, and $1.4 million for scOOols at Oakley and Columbia for troubled juvenil The state monies would attract an additional $43 million in federal fuIX1s through match programs, Blackmon said. . "I D N'T TIDNK the appropria­ tion chainnen are going to be nmning from . "Blaclanon d. "It mala:s a lot �f sense." The budget bill will filst go to the appropriations comminees in the Ho and the Sena . one of the Black lawmakers who have signed off on the plan 00 rve on those committees, but ��n George • • • • • • . . • • , ,. Lafontant, fonner of the once- while awaiting trial for attempting dreaded "Ton-ton Macoutes" (enfor- overthrown the Aristid government cers) of "lifetime" President Frarco Am dor Casimir in his Ie r "Papa Doc" Duvalierw � ona list . ti w in- 0 of most hated men in. the Canbbean volved, arguin that ident decrease country. He fled Haiti when dictator himself "incarcerated" at that tim . He Duvaller's son left offiee for exile in regards the Anderson-Birst in article Fnux:e,butre�afterAris 'de'sel� upportiveof' a continulngcampaignto tion victory and was jailed for leading a discredit Aristid and to pl ce him in a failed January 1991 coup agairst Presi- weakened position so t h w uld have dent Aristide. to accept 'a po li tical compromise'." Meanwhile, the' military which o�ted Aristide on Sept. 30, 1991 issued a for his arrest on November 6 on Ch3.rges connected with Lafontant's mwder. Theex-Duvalierofficial wasim­ prisoned in the National Penitentiary idze ult of the brutality 0 � . military junta. " H "Aristid h up rted and will con­ tinue to upportpolitical compromise but only within the fram ork of of the Haitian constitution," the am remarks in conel ion," h said. IF Lafontant' death should divert attention from "the 3 persons who ha been wnmarily ex- ecuted in Haiti or the ,nunittee recom­ mendations in p ing budge . The governor also ubmi a budget recom­ mendation. Blackmon said the budget w for­ mulated after m tate departments ubmitted critical reeds, It would in­ Mi . ippi' bud t for fiscal 1994 to $2.55 billion.