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...thought was faithfully repeated by Chief Delegate Chiao when he paid his first official call on Indonesia's Adam Malik, President of the General Assembly. Chiao said that his relatively small mission, unfamiliar with the world organization, might at first be less active than many members of the U.N. expected. Nonetheless, the Chinese will receive considerable press exposure this week-when Chiao becomes the first diplomat to visit ailing Secretary-General U Thant, who is hospitalized with an ulcer, then when he delivers his first speech in the General Assembly...
...plainclothesmen drew their guns. It is not clear whether or not they also identified themselves at this point. In any event. Hakim fled from their guns, and the receptionist raced into the room where the meeting was going on. She screamed. "There's some white men trying to shoot Malik." By this time, the people in the room had caught up with the chase. Hakim was lying injured outside under the eyes of a dozen policemen. He had been placed under arrest on two charges--violation of parole and the rape of a white woman...
Then again, it isn't every black man in prison who has had the same experience Malik Hakim had when he received a visit from Malcolm X in 1957. "To meet Malcolm for the first time in the life of a black man, to have been deaf, dumb and blind, is like walking into a totally pitch black room and someone turns on a million-watt light bulb. It was probably the most beautiful, the most painful experience I've ever had. Look at it like this. Christians pray to Jesus and if Jesus walked into their rooms they would...
...Malik Hakim was arrested by the FBI on a federal parole violation warrant. Hakim had recently applied for a passport so that he could travel to Europe to study the Montessori system of education. Hakim had not been overly-enthusiastic about leaving Boston and the Foundation, but felt that the trip might produce some valuable knowledge...
...interview, Malik Hakim leaned back against the piled pillows on his bed in the jail ward. "You know the first thing I thought when I landed in here was that I had failed. You know, that I hadn't done half the things I had wanted to do, and that there wasn't going to be no second chance. Sometimes I think that was what must have been going through Malcolm's mind after they shot him. Then that little girl, you know, the one who was in here before you. She's just 16, man, but I watch...