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October 10, 1996 AUGUSTA FOCUS
World / National View
Man seen scuffling
with Tupac released
LOS ANGELES
A reputed gang member who
fought with Tupac Shakur
hours before the rapper’s death
was freed from jail after pros
ecutors declined to charge him
‘in another murder case, au
‘'thorities said.
= Orlando Anderson was re
“leased on Friday (Oct. 4) after
- prosecutors sent the case back
to Compton police for further
investigation, said police Capt.
Steven Roller.
- Police intend to resubmit the
“case for prosecution, he added.
* Anderson was among 23
‘people arrested during a
~'Wednesday (Oct. 2) gang sweep.
.He was taken into custody in
connection with an April mur
der in the Los Angeles suburb.
Authorities said Anderson
was seen scuffling with Shakur
as the rapper was leaving a
boxing match at the MGM
Grand Hotel in Las Vegas on
‘Sept. 7. A hotel security cam
‘era videotaped the scuffle.
Shakur was shot about two
~hours after the confrontation.
~He died a week later.
However, Las Vegas police
-said Thursday that Anderson
was not a suspect in Shakur’s
death.
. Anderson’s lawyer, Edi M.O.
From page one
percent were to female leaders.
The racial and ethnic break
down was better in articles ad
dressing business, religion, arts,
academia and the like. Twenty
percent of the leader references
were to people of color. Of the
political stories, however, only
13 percent of the leader refer
ences were to people of color (pri-
Faal, said his client was beaten
by Shakur but had nothing to
do with the rapper’s killing.
Anderson “was assaulted at
the MGM,” Faal said. “At the
time he was being attacked, he
did not know his attacker was
Mr. Shakur. ... He believes he
is a victim of Tupac.”
Last Wednesday’s raids on 37
homes in Compton and nearby
communities came after about
a dozen shootings that followed
the Shakur slaying.
Beheaded baby may be victim
of ritual slaying in Nigeria
LAGOS, Nigeria
(AP) A newborn baby found be
headed on the street may be an
other victim in a series of ritual
killings, a newspaper reported
Sunday.
A nurse found the baby girl,
umbilical cord still attached, in a
pool of blood Friday near the den
tal wing of the Ikeja Hospital in
suburban Lagos, the Sunday Con
cord reported.
Police arrested several staff
members at the central clinic and
marily African-American, Asian
and Asian-American.) Ir war/
mayhem stories, nine percent
were to people of color.
Most often, the term leaderwas
merely used as a passing refer
ence, usually indicating job posi
tion. When included, leadership
attributes most commonly as
cribed to the leaders were vision,
experience, education, accom
plishment, action, risk taking,
creativity, trusting/trustworthy,
intelligence, and popularity. Mi
norities who were described in
those terms were often not actu-
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EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIP: Walter Sisulu (L), former deputy
president of the African National Congress, accepts a $15,000
contribution from World Space, Inc. for the Walter Sisulu Bur
sary and Training Fund. The Fund expects to provide 35,000
scholarships in South Africa over the next five years. Present
ing the check is John McLaren, World Space Director of Corpo
rate Affairs. The money was presented at a recent breakfast
meeting in Washington, D.C.
are trying to find the mother, ac
cording to the newspaper.
Last month, two women were
found in the same suburb of Tkeja
with theireyes gouged and breasts
and foreheads cut open, appar
ently the victims of ritual killers,
police said.
The women werebelieved tohave
been returning from an all-night
prayer vigil when they were at
tackedby assailants with machetes.
Also last month, the govern
ment imposed a dusk-to-dawn
ally called leaders.
An example of the limited ap
plication of the terms leader and
leadershipisthe coverageof U.S.
Secretary of Commerce Ron
Brown’s death. Brown was de
scribed in numerous articles,
commentaries and editorials as
a man with strong skills and
wideranging influence. He was
lauded as a pioneer, arole model,
a mentor, a risk-taker, a doer —
yet seldom as a leader
“Reference toleaders and lead
ership is common in everyday
language, yet what is meant by
curfew in the southern city of
Owerri after a series of apparent
ritual killings led to riots.
Mobs attacked the church of an
allegedritualistickiller after body
parts and decapitated heads were
found there. They accused the
church’smainly wealthy members
of using the poor as sacrifices in
witcheraft.
A commission headed by a state
highcourtjudgeisinvestigatingthe
rioters’ allegations and is to deter
mine how to avoid future riots.
these terms is not clear,” says
Carnahan. “To limit leadership
to a particular level of employ
ment or to particularindividuals
by virtue of their race or gender
is to miss out on the contribu
tions of many.”
In making this report publicly
available, CSG hopes to stimu
late discussion about leadership.
Says Carnahan, “Knowing who
leads now and having a clearer
understanding of whatis needed
and wanted in leaders will help
us develop and select the leaders
of the future.”
Newspaper stands
by CIA-coke story
From page one
in the 1980 s at bargain base
ment prices.”
The Post challenged the
newspaper’s conclusion that the
crack cocaine scourge traces its
origins to crack dealer Ricky
Donnell Ross, through supply
provided by Blandon and
Meneses. It noted that Blandon
traded about five tons of cocaine
over a decade, as against a na
tionwide cocaine trade totaling
more than 250 tons a year.
The Post also reported that
Gary Webb, the reporter who
wrote the series, bolstered his
own thesis by telling Ross’ law
yer about the CIA connection to
the drug traffickers before Ross’
trial. Prosecutors complained
that the newspaper then relied
on information Ross’ lawyers
developed at trial as the basis
for the series.
Ceppos, the Mercury News ex
ecutive editor, said Webb ap
proached Ross’ lawyer, Alan
Fenster, after the trial started
with questions on issues that
remained unclear up to that
point.
Ceppos calls The Post’s five
ton figure “just plain false” and
notes that Ross “was the biggest
and most successful crack dealer
in South Central L.A.”
As investigations by the CIA,
Justice Department and Con
gress proceed, theMercury News
series has taken on a life of its
own, circulating on fax and copy
machines and on talk radio, par
ticularly inblack neighborhoods
beset by crack abuse. Black lead
ers have held protests and de
manded investigations.
“When you have a situation
where you have people who can
see the results of the drug right
in front of them every day, and
the people are generally distrust
ful of the government, when you
putthatin combination with this
article, you have a formula for a
tremendous amount of concern,”
said Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-
Md., ablack congressman whose
district includes poor minority
sections of Baltimore.
' Cummings said his office has
been receiving 400 to 500 re
quests a day for copies of the
Mercury News series.
One factor aggravating the an
geramongblacks, Cummingssaid,
is the federal sentencing guide
line that imposes a mandatory
sentence of five years in prison for
possession of five grams of crack
cocaine, whereas no such mini
mum exists for powdered cocaine,
a more expensive drug less likely
to be found in the ghetto.
Despite the uproar, ClA’s
Deutch vigorously defends the
agency’s right, and obligation, to
deal with shady figures to gain
intelligence.
“Weare going to have to ask our
case officers to be in some very
dangerous places with some very
unsavory characters,” Deutch re
cently told lawmakers. In the hy
pothetical case of a known terror
ist or narcotics trafficker willing
to provide sensitive intelligence,
Deutch said, “thereisnointent on
our part to constrain or stop or
slow recruiting of that asset.”
As Deutch has noted, a Decem
ber 1981 executive order requires
the CIA to report to the Justice
Department information regard
ing an actual or suspected viola
tion of federal, state or local laws.
Rep. Julian Dixon, D-Calif,, a
fellow member with Cummings of
the Congressional Black Caucus
and ofthe House Intelligence Com
mittee, said some in the black
community may be too quick to
believe and exaggerate allegations
raised inthe newspaper series. At
the same time, Dixon said, the
voluminous record of the Iran-
Contrascandal contains repeated
references to drugtrafficking con
nections among the CIA-backed
Contra forces in Nicaragua.
“It’s going to be very difficult to
prove that the CIA was directly
involved or aided and abetted”
crack cocaine trafficking, Dixon
said. “But just as serious isifthey
knew andignoredit, orjust turned
their head and said, ‘Just don’t
tell me about it.”