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...will not get offstage. Minister Louis Farrakhan, the black-separatist leader of the Nation of Islam movement and a supporter of Jesse Jackson, has threatened a black newspaper reporter with death and called Hitler a "great man," albeit a "wicked" one. His latest provocation is to embrace Muammar Gaddafi. After returning from a visit with the Libyan dictator this month, Farrakhan reportedly told a congregation in Boston, "America, you should be ashamed of yourself. . . It is you who are the outlaw. How can a leader of a little country like Libya terrorize the world?" He told the Boston Herald, "Since...
...struggle for control of the way-over-budget ($58 million in all, some say) Harlem jazz-era epic with Richard Gere, Diane Lane and Gregory Nines. Says Evans of Coppola, in one reported sample of the prevailing civility: "He has as much respect for money as I do for Gaddafi." Waving aside intimations of drug abuse and gangland connections, Judge Hill left Evans in charge but gave final authority over post-production decisions to Associate Producer Barrle Osborne, who is backed by Coppola and the Doumanis. Meanwhile, one Hollywood agent is said to have found the off-camera yarn...
...Mexico border, where, he says, he will lead demonstrators to protest the Reagan Administration's policy on Central America and demand that the Western Hemisphere become a "war-free zone." Meanwhile, Jackson's political associate, Louis Farrakhan, leader of the black Nation of Islam organization, visited Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli. The trip reinforced the impression among American Jews, who are some of Mondale's keenest supporters and most generous contributors, that Jackson is radically pro-Arab. As a result, Mondale cannot be seen to be conceding too much to Jackson for fear of a backlash that could drive...
Jesse Jackson is an inspiration to black people. Unfortunately, many blacks are oblivious to Jackson's naive view of Muammar Gaddafi, Fidel Castro, Nicaragua's Sandinistas and the Soviets. I am black, but I would not give Jackson my vote, knowing his vision of our national security is imprudent...
...London, responsibility for last week's assault was claimed by the National Front for the Salvation of Libya, the organization that staged the anti-Gaddafi demonstration that led to the shooting of the British policewoman. The group is known to have links to the Muslim Brotherhood. One source in Beirut described the affair as a coup that went wrong when some of the plotters were arrested and a planned army uprising failed to materialize...