Word: melvins
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Following the grand jury's decision, federal prosecutors said they will look into possibly bringing charges against Banuelos for civil rights violations. Still, the incident has left raw feelings in the community. "These people had no right to be here," says Melvin La Follette, a retired Episcopal priest and head of a Redford citizens group opposing the military's presence. "We were going blithely about our business, not knowing that Congress had handed away the civil rights of the people on the border." Former Marine Corporal Mark Otto, 27, who has served in surveillance missions in the border areas near...
...annual convention in Pittsburgh this week. N.A.A.C.P. elders prefer to see the airing of these ideas as a therapeutic exercise. "What we're trying to do is give these people respect, let them voice out their frustration, and then we state our position and move on," says Melvin ("Skip") Alston, president of the N.A.A.C.P.'s North Carolina state conference...
DIED. HAROLD MELVIN, 57, leader of the Blue Notes, the gospel-tinted rhythm-and-blues ensemble best known for its onetime lead singer Teddy Pendergrass and its achingly mournful 1972 hit If You Don't Know Me by Now; probably of a stroke; in Philadelphia...
...second race against Melvin Watt, Martino still advocates returning control to "citizens, local government and North Carolina--in that order." He opposes abortion, but believes that the government shouldn't legislate morality. A kidney doctor who rose from poor immigrant roots, Martino would rather focus on education, and says improving schools would solve a host of other ills...
...MELVIN WATT (D) District...