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...campaign money from oil and gas companies, mining and logging interests, developers and growers. A proposed Senate version of the Endangered Species Act, sponsored by Slade Gorton of Washington, was written with the help of timber lobbyists. According to the Western States Center, a campaign-finance research enterprise, Senator Conrad Burns of Montana got more than a fourth of his campaign funding last year from such sources, an unusually high percentage. The League of Conservation voters gave him a score of zero for his votes in the last Congress...
Preceding West's speech were the cautionary words of the Nation of Islam's New York Minister, Conrad Muhammed. Speaking to cheers from a crowd of 350, over 65 percent of whom were Black, he said. "You don't have to worry America, because if Louis Farrakhan can call one million black men to D.C., he has already gained notoriety in America...
...charge of the African-American agenda, there will be no more King-like integration efforts, no more mushy sentiments like Black and White kids holding hands. Farrakhan & Co, are separatist radicals who believe that there is no justice in America, except for that disbursed by O.J.'s acquittal. Conrad Muhammed declared to the Los Angeles Times, referring to the infamous verdict, "It's a justice system that for a change has worked. The jury believed that that racist character (Fuhrman) laid that evidence." Yet after boxer Mike Tyson was convicted of rape some years ago, Muhammed told The Bergen Record...
Louis Farrakhan, Minister of the Nation of Islam and a prolific peddler of anti-semitic, chauvinistic and black supremacist doctrine, is the driving force behind this demonstration. The ostensible purpose of his "Million Man March" is to reaffirm the spirit of black manhood. Conrad Muhammed, a representative of Farrakhan, amplified this idea in a recent speech at the ARCO Forum. According to Muhammed, "If the black man continues to be the Achilles heal of America, then the future of America does not hold well." The black man is indeed becoming more and more disenfranchised and alienated throughout this country...
Professor Cornel West '74 and Minister Conrad Muhammed said the upcoming Million Man March on Washington, D.C. will be the largest demonstration in the history of the U.S., speaking to more than 350 people in a packed Arco Forum at the Institute of Politics last night...