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affic ticket turns into sex rap
)ZEMAN, Mont. — Cody Johnston, 22, is suing the
ekly High Country Independent Press and the court
item for libel after a computer glitch transformed a
>ort of a traffic ticket into a conviction for deviate
cual conduct. "I’ve heard every sheep joke you can
agine," Johnston said. He said he learned of the
stake from his parents, and told them it wasn’t true,
t they, his wife and his sister concluded he was in
nial, and urged him to seek treatment. “It was bad,”
imston said. “You can imagine what was going
ough their minds, and of course, they didn’t believe
The weekly ran a prominent correction.
-year-old known as ‘Mr. Pimp 9 is sentenced
.IRFAX, Va. — A 13-year-old Virginia youth known
school as “Mr. Pimp” has received a short jail sentence
• trying to set up a sex ring. The junior high school
dent confessed to police that he had a list of 12 and
-year-old girls who paid to be part of a sex club,
xsecutors said the boy then approached other boys at
100I, offering to set up sexual encounters with the
Is. Authorities say they broke up the ring before any
:ounters were arranged. A juvenile court judge in
irfax has ordered the boy sent to juvenile detention
' up to 60 days and ordered him to receive counseling.
) charges in counseling shooting
:ESNO, Calif. — A woman who fired back at her
sband after he shot her during a marriage counseling
ision will not face criminal charges. Bonnie Martin
is seriously wounded in the shooting at St. James
iscopal Cathedral. “We believe that the appropriately
arged party was Mr. Martin,” District Attorney Ed
int said. Michael Martin had a gun in one hand and a
;r in the other when he shot his wife as she tried to
,1k out of their counseling session, said the counselor,
; Rev. Russel Willingham. Bonnie Martin then pulled
)istol from her purse and shot him. The gun battle
ntinued outside the church, where Bonnie Martin was
at again before she collapsed.
sherman without a bite...
’PLING, Ga.— Verdell James was ready for the big
hing tournament. But before the 70-year-old retiree
aid wet a line, he let loose with a powerful sneeze
i watched his $300 false teeth drop into Thurmond
ke. "I sneeze hard," James said. "I've probably got a
le allergy — not bad — but when I sneeze, I sneeze."
ter losing the teeth in 15 feet of murky water, James
i to wait for two days to get them back. Two off-duty
'lumbia County rescue divers needed only six minutes
find his choppers. "It took us longer to get the gear
than to find the teeth," diver Scott Sherman said.
Robber without a gun
DDESTO, Calif. — Steven Richard King was arrested
• trying to hold up a Bank of America branch without
weapon. King used a thumb and a finger to simulate a
n, but unfortunately he failed to keep his hand in his
cket.
Black GOPs Running for Office in Record Numbers
SPECIAL
Republican candidate for Georgia
Secretary of State, Goldie Taylor, is
flanked by Democrats Dr. Michael S.
Moody '84 (1) and Dr. Millard J. Collier
Jr. '79, both Morehouse College alums.
Moody is Taylor's co-campaign chair,
while Collier chairs her Finance
Committee.
By Mikhia Hawkins
Campus News Editor
Since the Civil Rights
Movement, the Democratic
Party has retained the support
of the majority of the African
American population. But
over the past few years, the
predominance of liberalism
amongst Blacks has been
countered by a steady increase
in the number of Black
Republicans.
This increase is probably
most evident in the state of
Georgia. According to experts,
Georgia will have the largest
number of African Americans
running for elective office in
1998.
Annette Davis and Sunny
Warren, both Black GOPs, will
be pitted against each other in
the Republican Primary for
Representative of Georgia's
4th Congressional District.
One of them could become the
first Black Republican woman
in Congress.
“Who would have
thought you would have two
black women running in the
Republican Primary against
each other in Georgia's 4th
Congressional District," says
Dr. Camilla Moore,
the Georgia
Republican Party's
second vice-
president. "We have
them running at all
levels — for
Congress, for the
state legislature,
and for local County
Commission seats."
In February,
Goldie Taylor,
another Black
Republican,
announced her
candidacy for
Secretary of State of
Georgia.
Taylor resigned
from her high
ranking job with
Guy Millner's
Senatorial
campaign in 1996,
when he initially
refused to demit his
membership to an
exclusive, all-white
country club. She
later returned to Millner's
campaign and played a key
role in helping him amass 16
percent of the Black vote — the
highest percentage ever
garnered in a Senatorial race
by a Georgia Republican.
Taylor, a self-described
"fiscal of economic moderate,"
emphasizes that she "has not
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Former Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver Dies
Cleaver' (1) and former
wife, Kathleen, during the
height of the Black Power
movement.
Eldridge Cleaver, the fiery
Black Panther information
minister who later denounced
his past stance, joined the
Republican Party and became
a born-again Christian, died
Friday at age 62.
His prison book, "Soul on
Ice," was a seminal work of
the Black Power movement.
Spokeswoman Leslie
Porras declined to provide the
cause of Cleaver's death or
details about his
hospitalization, citing the
family's request.
Cleaver was one of the
original Black Panthers,
formed in 1966 in Oakland by
Huey P. Newton and Bobby
Seale. In 1968, Cleaver was
involved in a violent shootout
with police, which killed
Panther treasurer Bobby
Hutton and wounded two
police officers.
He was arrested after the
shootout, but jumped bail and
fled to Algeria. He returned to
the U.S. in 1975, and after a
protracted legal battle,
attempted murder charges in
the shootout were dropped.
Cleaver ran for president
in 1968 on the Peace and
Freedom Party ticket. After his
exile, he became a born-again
Christian and a Republican.
He made a failed attempt
for the GOP nomination for
the U.S. Senate in California.
In an 1986 interview
with the Associated Press,
Cleaver explained his life
transformations.
"Everybody changes, not
just me," he said. "I was pulled
over in my car for a traffic
thing, and one of the officers
walked up to the car and saw
me sitting inside. He took off
his hat and said, 'Hey,
Eldridge, remember me?'"
"He used to be a Panther,"
Cleaver said. "It was hard to
believe."
At the time of his death,
Cleaver had been been
working as a diversity
consultant at the University of
La Verne.
— Staff Reports
