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...drama that had long been fraught with danger -- and even the possibility of disaster. For more than a year the mostly black middle-class neighborhood residents had been pressing the city to act against Move. Founded in 1972 by a former handyman who changed his name from Vincent Leaphart to John Africa and gave his surname to all his followers, Move professes to be a back-to-nature movement but has always struck outsiders as an exotic cult enamored of rancid, anarchic practices. Membership has probably never exceeded 100. Move has pretended to reject modern technology, but has embraced...
MOVE can be traced back to 1971, when Vincent Leaphart, a black handyman, took the name of John Africa and established the Movement Toward a More Christian Life, an antitechnology group, which is dedicated to giving America back to the Indians and abolishing all governments "from here to Moscow and Peking." His followers, most of them black, all adopted the surname Africa, bought the house for $4,800 and moved in with their children and dogs...
...JERRY LEAPHART Detroit...
...Friedberg (B), S. J. Beck (C), C. R. Chandler and T. D. Bool (D), A. Trista (E). Section 3; R. A. Cutting (A), I. Bernstein and W. Faulkner (B), J. V. Fuller (C), W. T. H. Horst and M. Leavitt (D), J. Lorenz (E). Section 4; C. W. Leaphart (A), H. Levine and R. J. White (B), C. Von Tobel (C), E. Maiden and G. H. Sullivan (D), S. D. Smoley (E). Section 5; P. J. Waldstein (A), R. V. Cleary and G. P. Pennoyer (B), F. Johnson (C), D. White and R. G. Donahue (D), A. A. Stambaugh...
...Friedberg (B), S. J. Beck (C), C. R. Chandler and T. D. Bool (D), A. Trista (E). Section 3: R. A. Cutting (A), I. Bernstein and W. Faulkner (B), J. V. Fuller (C), W. T. H. Horst and M. Leavitt (D), J. Lorenz (E). Section 4: C. W. Leaphart (A), H. Levine and R. J. White (B), C. Von Tobel (C), E. Maiden and G. H. Sullivan (D), S. D. Smolev (E). Section 5: P. J. Waldstein (A), R. V. Cleary and G. P. Pennoyer (B), F. Johnson (C), D. White and R. G. Donahue (D), A. A. Stambaugh...