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Press Club bars Farrakhan;
cites ‘untrustworthy’ aides
by Joseph Polakoff
TSI's Washington correspondent
WASHINGTON — Nation of
Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and
his representatives have been in
formed in writing by the National
Press Club’s new president that
they are permanently barred from
renting the club’s facilities for
meetings or news conferences.
In her first official actions
following her inauguration, Mary
Kay Quinlan declared this pro
hibition in letters to Farrakhan at
his Chicago address and to Bob
Brown of the Pan-African Re
source Center in Washington the
day after Farrakhan spoke and
held a news conference on Feb. 5 in
the club’s ballroom which the
center had rented.
The ban followed complaints by
four women reporters that they
were body-searched by Farrak-
han’s women aides before they
were allowed to enter the ball
room. The prestigious club, which
has a world reputation as a forum
on national and global concerns,
leases facilities for private use.
Quinlan, a reporter for Gannett
News Service, wrote Farrakhan
that “neither you nor anyone
acting in your behalf will be
allowed to rent National Press Club
facilities again. Our experience in
working with your group this week
makes clear to us that your
representatives are completely
untrustworthy.” She wrote they
had broken “verbal agreements
made with the club manager.”
She sent a similar letter to
Brown at the center which had
rented the club’s ballroom three
weeks before the meeting date. Lee
Roderick, Washington Bureau
chief of the Scripps League
newspapers who is chairman of the
club’s board of governors, joined
her in the prohibition. A majority
Louis Farrakhan
of the board has approved the
action.
Immediately following Farra-
khan’s appearance, which did not
have a club sponsor, the club’s
general manager, Harry Bodaan,
said that he did not know until the
day before the gathering that
Farrakhan would speak. When the
center’s group demanded au
thority on security, Bodaan said he
refused such an arrangement and
threatened to cancel the event.
Bodaan resorted to four Wash
ington metropolitan police and the
press building’s security employees
to conduct protective measures.
Metal detectors were used on all
persons entering the ballroom. A
dozen women in white garments
and scores of men wearing bow-
ties,distinctive of Farrakhan’s
attire, were in the ballroom, in the
club’s corridors and on the floor
below the club.
Two women associated with the
event said that the Pan-African
Center was part of the All-African
People’s Revolutionary Party. The
women, who gave what they said
were African names, supplied a
leaflet which said the A-APRP is
“an integral part of the Pan-
African and world socialist
revolution” that “uncompromis
ingly and unceasingly fights for the
destruction of capitalism, im
perialism, settler colonialism, neo
colonialism, racism, Zionism and
apartheid.”
During his appearance that was
televised by NBC, ABC and
Metromedia, Farrakhan lauded
Libya, and its ruler Muammar
Qadaffi, assailed President
Reagan’s actions against Libya,
denounced Israel and Zionism
while praising the Palestine
Liberation Organization. He
acknowledged that Qadaffi lent
him five million dollars for his
movement and said he would go to
see Qadaffi in Libya despite the
presidential order forbidding
Americans to go there.
The club sponsored Farrakhan’s
first appearance in 1984. It had
invited him to be a luncheon guest
with the customary telecasting by
some 1,900 television systems and
broadcasting by more than 300
radio networks. That meeting was
denounced by author Theodore
White, formerly of Time mag
azine, who in protest returned to
the club the highest award it
bestows. Virtual command of
security by Farrakhan’s aides at
that time aroused indignation.
Quinlan’s letters came about the
time the British government
canceled Farrakhan’s appearance
in London Feb. 6 and before
Nigerian authorities forbade his
speeches in Lagos Feb. 9. British
immigration authorities detained
him for 1 I hours at Heathrow
Airport after the Home Office
barred his entry, saying it was a
threat to “the public good.”
Farrakhan’s anti-Semitism was
regarded as the basis for barring
him. He had been invited to speak
by a black community group in
London.
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