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That hardly silenced advocates of intervention. Representative Walter Fauntroy, a District of Columbia Democrat, called for an international peace- keeping force to protect Haitian voters. He was joined by Sylvio Claude, a Haitian presidential candidate who was one of the front runners. Dante Fascell of Florida, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said the U.S. should provide military support as a last resort if Namphy's foes request...
...loans. The funds were supposedly backed by government securities that E.S.M. promised to put up as collateral. When it turned out last week that many of the government certificates could not be found, the Securities and Exchange Commission sued E.S.M. for fraud. In Congress, District of Columbia Democrat Walter Fauntroy called for industry guidelines that would encourage unregulated dealers to beef up their capital as a hedge against losses...
Three Black leaders--Rep Walter E. Fauntroy (D-D.C.). Civil Rights Commission member Mary Ann Berry, and Transamerica Executive Director Randall Robinson--launched a sit in at the South African embassy in Washington to call for the release of two recently tailed Black South African labor-leaders. The three were arrested on charges of illegal entry and spent the night in D.C. jails before their release on Friday...
...Managua, Jackson finally sensed the dangers. He telephoned Washington, D.C., Congressional Delegate Walter Fauntroy and the two crafted his anti-Farrakhan statement. Said Jackson to reporters: "Farrakhan has not campaigned on my behalf in more than four months. We agreed to that. His statements are independent of me." In a statement, Jackson promised, "I will not permit Minister Farrakhan's words, wittingly or unwittingly, to divide the Democratic Party." He called Farrakhan's comments "reprehensible and morally indefensible...
...contrasts between the two demonstrations were more striking than the different political and racial landscape of their setting. In 1963, Washington had no elected city government. The coordinator for the 1983 march was the Rev. Walter Fauntroy, who was once one of King's closest aides and now represents the city in Congress. The official welcome was delivered by Mayor Marion Barry, and march security was directed by Police Chief Maurice Turner, both blacks. Says Turner, who in 1963 worked a twelve-hour shift on the Mall as an ordinary patrolman: "When people get teed off, they want...