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Bail set in Chris Hani killing
JOHAN URG, SA - One of the three suspects accused of
murdering Black leader Chris Hani last April, Gaye Derby­
Le . ,was recently granted bail but ordered to surrender her
passport and remain under 24-hour police supervision.
Derby-Lewis and her husband, Clive, a right wing leader,
were arrested after Hani, an anti-apartheid leader, was hot
to death. A Polish immigrant, Janusz Wal arrested
with the murder eapon in his car. Prosecuto believe the
uspects killed Bani in order to incite a race ar and end plans
to quash apartheid.
Judge· 'No
racism in-
Carter j�cy
select '
continued from p ge 1
tiary hearin ion in May that she
was on the bottom rung at Michigan
Bell, a t tl ti al clerk easily re­
pi d. Furthermore, he aid sh
not only was excused from work to
come for jury duty, but actually
showed up at the courthouse only to
be turned away ..
Attorney Mafrice also provided
the c urt in May with an affadavit
from Harold Hewitt, who was the
regional manager at Michigan Bell.
Hewitt aid it w company pol­
i y to encourage employee to serve
jury duty and ny request t excuse
an rnployec would have to come for
hi appr val.
But Donald G. Quick, a retired
Mi higan Bell employee, told a dif­
ferent tory at Monday's hearing.
Quick. who testified on behalf of the
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prosecutor' office, aid he himself
a immediate upervisor of Cle­
menti n Brown had written out a
requ t to Judg White to excuse
Brown from jury duty.
Quick . d h.. uld not m
r whet r ve the e to
Brown hers If, or cnt it directly to
the jud e.
Quick aid according to his "rec­
ollection" Brown was irreplacable.
She could not be excused. He aid he
r alled taki ng her into a ide room
and telling her "Tina, we can't pare
you."
Quick al 0 aid he did not obtain
any authorization for hi action from
his b Hewlitt, because"I was the
bo .11
Quick al 0 testified that when­
Mafrice legal as istant called him
b k he told her "the guy is as guilty
as hell. It' omeone else trying to
get out of jail.. . H ' guilty because
the jury found him guilty."
'Quick dmitted that he had two
ons wh were police officers, one
for Benton Harb r and one in East
Lansing.
P N R examination by
Mafrice, Quick admitted that .in a
conversation he had with Mafrice's
legal i tant back in March, he had
WORLD BRIEFS
WASHINGTON
College aid program
lose millions to fraud
ASBINGTO ; DC - Allegations of the misuse of Pell
grants, government money for con ge education, have spurred
a grand jury to in igate at I three ozen orthodo
Je . h schools in the New York City.
Senator Sam Nunn, of Georgia, ys a subcommittee he
chairs has also uncovered evidence that some students in the
Pe1l grant program have been receiiibg kickbacks, whether to
attend a school or to have their nam used on the application.
Last year the government distributed 6.7 billion in Pell
grants to 1st 3.8 million of the countJy's neediest students.
A federal grandjury is hearing evidence on dozens of Jewish
schools.
Recently, The Hasidic school, now closed, received a total
of 2.7 million in Pell grants in 1991. The Education Depart-
ment . . ng fines of 475,000 from the school.
at first agreed with Hewlitt and
Brown's affadavits
Quick said that by the time of the
second phon call from Mafrice's
office he had "done a little checking"
to ver t wived
Blac man hooti a white officer.
Quick admitted under Mafrice's
questioning that he wanted to know
if Carter had a prior record before
he'd "play ball."
Mafrice also brought out under
cro examination that Quick had
discussed how unfair the case of Lt.
Fiedler, a white officer charged last
year for shooting to death an un­
armed Black man.
You felt Fiedler had been treated
unfairly, Mafrice asked Quick on the
stand.
Mafrice remi nded Quick that he
had agreed on the telephone that
Michigan Bell encouraged jury duty ------------------------------------1
for its employees.
Quick then admitted he knew
Judge Hammond from the Lions
Club; he knew several of the court
officers and that "I'm very preju­
diced against any criminal."
Then Mafrice asked Quick when
he had the sudden recollections of
pulling Clementin Brown into a
side room and discus ing the excuse
Africans
Continued from A-1
from jury duty.
"Last Friday, " Quick testified.
THEN, AS THE prosecutor took.
her edtbatbe
had ying he
had two fi ll)' t were
Black, a daughter-in-taw that was
Asian and a wife that was part In­
dian.
There was also testimony Mon­
day from court administrator Uoyd
. Both that he could not fi nd j ury ques­
tionnaires from 1976.
The prosecutor provided a form
howing Both had requested 1985,
1986 and 1987 jury questionaires be
des troyed in 1991. Both said he did
not know if any such form was used
for the 1976 records. He tified he
could not find the records or any
similar forms showing when or if the
, "Standard Com ny pays
former or e to' gn a docum nt
WASHINGTON
ACLU accepts gifts
from tobacco industry
WASHINGTO ,DC - The American Civil Liberti Union
. has accepted more than 500,000 from tobacco industries,
according to a recent New York Times article.
The information was unearthed by retired Washington Post
writer, Morton Mintz, who found that starting in 1987, the
ACLU has accepted large sums of money from th tobacco
industries.
Ralph Nader, Dr. Sidney Wolfe of the Public Citizen Health
Research Group and other consumer organizations are joining
together to implore the group to top aceepting the money from
what they call "drug companies".
A spokesman for the ACLU said it has never denied dona­
tions from the tobacco compani but it has never informed its
membership either.
records were destroyed.
In his closing arguments, Mafrice
told the court that Clementine
Brown had "no axe to grind," but that
Quick with his two sons who were
police officers did.
"There' no ay he (Quick)
eould live with himself if he came to
court to help a man he considers
guilty," Mafrice aid. "We all know
where he's coming from."
friend Don Quick over the testimony
of Clementine Brown or Harold
Hewlitt and ruled that there was a
requc t t exc e Brown nd the
court had no obligation to k� the
procedures of Michigan Bell.
"There' nothin 10 how he ..
ent home because h was Bla k, ,.
Hammond ruled.
Mafrice aid he will appeal th
ruling.
"It was no urpri e." aid Mafnce
outside th courtroom. "It w what
we expected."
He aid intention i proved by
action. "What other reason than race
could' there have been to exclude
her?" he aid.
The matter will now go to th
Appeal Court.
HE REMINDED The court that
there were only three Bl cks in the
jury pool for the Carter case, and all
three -100 percent - were ex­
cused.
. Judge Hammond, however, ruled
that there was no evidence that race
was factor it) turning Clementine
Brown away.
He further took the work of his
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TIlE L � hould
arrive at Howard University 0 to­
ber ,when Blakely said the uni­
versity planned a ceremony "with
Afri an flair" to honor th m.
The keleton have already
It w� MFAT' pproa h plus yielded incredible information
the Imp rtan e of tudying Afri- about the earlier live of Bla k:s in
can-American remains dating New York City. For e ample:
a k t 1712 for a weal th of infor- The number of skeletons of
mati n c neerning African- children indicates that half of the
Am n ans today that prompted Black population died at birth in
a ti n f Blakely and hi upport- the first years of life. .
c . Some peopl were buried
D .crnbcr 22nd marked tl-e with coins in the band or over
end f MFA T' role in the project tbeir eyes. One was buried with a
aft ran dvi ry council decided sh 11 next to th head apparently
the rcrnairu h uld to Howard . as part of ritual that link d life and .
ruv rsity. But it w n't i.ntil death t th ea
ugust 12, when G neral S rv- AI h logi ts have recov-
I e. Adrnlru: irati n nd Howard ered m re than 1.5 million ani­
Unive It actually i ned a con- facts, including pottery,
tra t, th t th ne became th gl ware, t I, childr n' toy
propert r H ward University. and remnan f f d.
R n e Mi i nc, a pok - Anot r k leton w found
w man f r G A, id the r mains in a Bri n h m nne offi er' uni-
wi II m ved to Howard Univ r- fonn.
It wrthin 45 d Y . Dr. Blakely plans a I -year
.ientists will f us on tudie pro] t 10 whi h dozens vf ien-
o d .m raphy, part rns of di - ti t and anthropologi would
'as ,work tre and nutrition. work on th remains.
"W exp tthatthcv tmajor- Th pr jeer will hav two
It' WIll fr m We t and Central goal: det rminin from which
III ." and p sib ly fr m Mada- countri tb Blacks w re taken
(T't .ar In the e' t.," Blak ly aid. and expl nn their lif tyle once
"But a minority of them might be th y arrived in ew York CIty.
European. And we are also going One goal already attained i
to expl re wh ther th y have any that African-American hi tory
auve American an try." will definitely go down in hi tory.
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