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B Timothy Kitts was shot to
death by a pal, but was it over a
damaged bike, as first reported,
or something greater?
By Timothy Cox :
AUGUSTA FOCUS Staff Writer
AUGUSTA
The reported bike-related killing of an Au
gusta teenager appears to have another twist.
According to an acquaintance of the victim
andthe alleged shooter, 21-year-old Eric Maurice
Taylor on many occasions “in the neighbor
hood,” the spat which eventually led to Mr.
Kitts’ death was more complex than a beef over
a broken bicycle.
“It appears to have involved some money,”
according to the unnamed source who lives near
the two men.
Anotherindividualin the neighborhood, James
}fightower, 25, also knew both men. And he’s
upset.
“I'm shocked and I'm hurt.”
Without saying directly that drugs were in
volved, he indicated that both individuals were
probably involved in “trying to get some fast
money.” :
“It'ssad. They werebest of buddies. They were
friends. Inseparable. 'm a little older, so, I used
to try to keep them straight,” Mr. Hightower
said. He is employed at the Augusta Boys Club
center — not far from where Mr. Kitts lost his
=Chief Deputy Ronnie Strength of the Rich
mond County Sheriff's Department, said inves
tigators are “running down leads” in order to
capture Mr. Taylor. Murder and aggravated
ggsault warrants have been issued for his ar
rést.
=MTr. Kitts was shot in the head about 10 a.m.
g'the corner of Broad and Metcalf streets and
died about four hourslater. Another man, David
Joseph Kimble, was also shot, according to re
gorts
=Chief Deputy Strength doubts that any illegal
drug activity was involved.
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C o CAINE
& THE CIA
Justice Dept. orders probe
By Thomas Farragher
Mercury News Washington' Bureau
WASHINGTON
Civil rights leader Joseph
Lowery on Monday called re
ports about a possible CIA link
tothe “crack” cocaine epidemic
of the 1980 s part of a “das
tardly” pattern of government
sanctioned abuse of African-
Americans.
“The African-American com
munity has always been the
most expendable community
in thiscountry,” Lowery, presi
dent of the Southern Chris
tian Leadership Conference,
told a news conference called
to spotlight a Mercury News’
three-part series, “Dark Alli
ance.”
Thenewspaper’sarticles de
tailed how a Bay Area drug
ring sold tons of cocaine to the
street gangs of South Central
Los Angeles and funneled mil
lionsindrug profits to the ClA
backed Contras, who were at
war with Nicaragua’s left-wing
Sandinista government.
Lowery used the articles to
draw parallelstoslavery, civil
rightsviolations and a govern
ment-sponsored health pro
gram from 1932 to 1972 in
which treatment was withheld
from 399 indigent black men
with syphilis to study the
course of the disease.
“Ifyou wanted toexperiment
on syphilis, you goto Tuskegee
and use African-Americans.
You want to justify slavery,
enslaving human beings, you
establish a premise that blacks
aren’t human — they’re sub
human -~ so slavery can be
justified,” Lowery said. “And
so this is just another form.
Why Tiger can’t play; whites
only courses still legal in U.S.
B While public courses
are not permitted to
discriminate on basis of
race, sex or religion,
private courses are not
affected by the law and
have the right to be
exclusive.
By Max Millard
The SUN REPORTER
Sunday, Aug. 25, was by any
measure one of the most revo
lutionary dates in the history of
golf. That day, in a thrilling,
come-from-behind victory, 20-
year-old Tiger Woods became
the first man ever to win three
straight U.S. amateur gold
championships.
Hailed as the hottest new tal
-ent in golf since Jack Nicklaus
35 years ago, and the greatest
¢ amateur since Bobby Jones in
the 19205, Woods announced
Aug. 28 that he had turned pro
fessional. Simultaneously,
Nike signed him to a five-year
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TURNING UP THE HEAT on the Central Intelligence
Agency are former DEA agent Celerino Castillo (C),
Dick Gregory (R), and Joe Madison.
This is a continuum of the
premise that blacks are not
human.”
Loweryandother political ac
tivists introduced a former
Drug Enforcement Administra
tion agent, whose experience,
they said, supports the ClA
cocaine connection.
“The evidence is there,” said
ex-DEA agent Celerino Castillo.
“I have case-filenumbers, times
and dates.” e
While assigned to El Salva
dorin 1985, Castillo began hear
ing reports that cocaine was
beingflown to the United States
out of hangars 4 and 5 at
Ilopango Air Base near El
Salvador’s capital as part of a
Contra-related covert opera
tion. Castillo said he soon con
firmed what his informants
were telling him.
The only response he got from
the DEA, Castillo wrote in his
1994 memoirs, was an internal
investigation ofhimself. He took
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contract for S4O million — un
precedented for a golfer — to
promote its golf shoes and cloth
ing.
Woods, who has an African-
American father and Thai
mother, let loose a final bomb
shell on Aug. 29, when theWall
Street Journal ran a three-page
ad titled “Hello World” that was
repeated on network television.
The ad said: “I shot in the 60s
when I was eight. I shot in the
70s when I was 12. I won the
U.S. Junior Amateur when 1
was 14 .... I played in the Mas-
The OUTRAGE!
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You won’t read
about the CIA
probe anywhere
else in Augusta.
See Page 9 for more
coverage.
a disability retirement from
the agency in 1991,
ADEA spokesman on Mon
day declined comment, say
ing it would be “inappropri
ate” because the matter is
under investigation.
Political activist Dick Gre
gory has begun a hunger
strike that he said won’t end
until the CIA is dismantled.
See CIA, page 9
TIGER WOODS: Amateur
golf’s most celebrated
player has received death
threats on the course
because of his color. The
Nike commercials, which
assert that there are still
courses in the U.S. where
blacks are not permitted
to play, prompts questions
about existence of racist
golf courses.
ters when I was 19..... There
are still golf courses in the
United States that I cannot
play because of the color of my
skin. I'm told I'm not ready for
you. Are you ready for me?”
Nike, the world’s leading
seller of athletic footwear,
clothing and accessories, was
soon flooded with calls from
the media, asking if the state
ment was true. Reports sur
faced that the Oregon-based
company had identified at least
23 private golf courses in the
country where African Ameri-
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M Police assure public that, “It’s safe
down there,” despite attack, robbery.
By Timothy Cox
AUGUSTA FOCUS Staff Writer
AUGUSTA
An Augusta woman told
local authorities she was
raped and robbed by two
men at the Riverwalk in
downtown Augusta early
Tuesday morning.
The 31-year-old woman,
described as disabled, told
police two men attacked her
while she was walking up
steps after leaving a park
areanear the popular walk
way along the Savannah
River. It was about 1:30
a.m., she said.
According to a police re
STAN WHITE MURDER UPDATE:
Man who fingered
attorney is arrested
The man who spoke of the
killing of an Augusta busi
nessman days before a
corpse ‘was found floating
in the Savannah River is
now behind bars.
While police deny that
Augustus “Gus” Williams is
a suspect in the murder, he
is being charged for conceal
ing a death. Mr. Williams
told police that he helped
Bill Lumpkin, a local attor
ney, remove Mr. White’s
body from Mr. Lumpkin’s
office. and subsequently
dump it in the river.
Mr. Lumpkin has been
charged with beating death
Mr. White to death on Sep
Despite Woods hype,
Nike has poor record
with black press
In 1990, Nike was the sub
ject of a boycott by Jesse
Jad;.:cris ngliom—f
failure to do business with.
spite reaping an estimated
30 percent of its profits from
e, o b
But Jim Small, Nike’s pub
“We felt then and we feel
now that this company gives
a great deal back to commu
nities. We donate millions of
dollars in our play
pany has grown, so tooithas
givenback.”. © iVe
According to, Michgel
House, president of New
cans could not play. The
U.S. has approximately
15,000 golf courses, of which
almost 5,000 are private.
In a telephone interview,
Donna Gibbs, Nike’s direc
tor of corporate communi
cations said, “We had an
independent research com
pany verify that informa
tion.” But, the ads were also
port, one of her attackers
first grabbed the woman’s
hair, pulling her down the
steps and threatened to kill
her. A second man then
grabbed the woman’s throat
and threw her on the
ground, the report revealed.
After her clothes were
forceably removed, the vic
tim told police she was sexu
ally assaulted and forced to
perform oral sex.
The woman, who gave
police a Walton Way Exten
sion address, said the sus
pects snatched her three
gold chains, diamond and
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Sept. 23 without incident at
his Hephzibah residence.
The charge is a misde
meanor.
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mfl“’h has done very
littlebusiness with the black
_ “We have called on Nike
forever, have been to the
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m howing them that Black
_consamers spend millions
~and they have not seen fit to
_dia, and black ‘newspapers
based on some of Woods’
own experiences. “He re
ceived death threats at the
Los Angeles Open in 1992,”
Gibbs said “and at the Byron
Nelson Classic in Irving,
Texas two years ago, two
women armed with pistols
were arrested at the course
.See WHITES-ONLY, page 2