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PERHAPS the saddest part of the Tawana Brawley sideshow in New York is that the people who will lose the most are innocent. If the case proceeds as it has to date, future Black victims will not be able to seek justice in racial crimes...
...self-proclaimed `spokesmen' for the Black community--Rev. Al Sharpton. C. Vernon Mason and Alton Maddox--have been giving advice to Ms. Brawley, the teenage girl who alleges that she was kidnapped, raped and abused for four days by a group of whites in upstate New York...
Unfortunately, little useful information has been added to the story that Tawana Brawley told last November about being abducted on a dark road and held in the woods for four days by a gang of white men. Journalists subsequently < turned up discrepancies in the Brawley family's sketchy accounts of Tawana's absence. Witnesses reported seeing her at parties in a nearby town. Neighbors told of Tawana's prior disappearances and of violent conflicts between mother and daughter. Mason, Maddox and Sharpton subsequently tossed out casual accusations that Tawana's rapists included a Dutchess County assistant district attorney, a state...
...while the Brawley cause has prospered, the Brawley case has got nowhere. Attorney General Abrams declared at week's end that unless the Brawleys turn about and tell what they know, the "investigation is not going to succeed." Given the prospect of thwarted justice, it was hard to argue with the view expressed by Manhattan Borough President David Dinkins, who also is black, about Glenda Brawley's new status as a fugitive. "I don't think any purpose would be served by locking up the mother," he said. "The rule of law is important, but this is a unique...
...mysterious midnight meeting leaves the Democratic rivals publicly at odds as Jackson demands a vice- presidential offer. -- A look at the privileged childhoods of Michael Dukakis and George Bush. -- New York' s racially charged Brawley affair is more a political movement than a criminal case. -- Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci is doing the toughest job in Washington -- and well...