Word: noi
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...index. Schweitzer made two copies of the original tape. He wound one into a tight spool the size of a coin and inserted it into a slit cut into his sneakers; he transferred the other onto an audio cassette and slipped it into his Walkman. Inspectors at Hanoi's Noi Bai Airport did not discover either tape before Schweitzer boarded a flight to Bangkok. The operation, code named ``Swamp Ranger,'' was a success...
...prosecution's case, should it ever reach trial, will inevitably conjure up the carnage that took place at New York City's Audubon Ballroom 30 years ago next month, as Malcolm X, former con man and thief who had joined the Nation of Islam (NOI) while in prison and become the foremost spokesman of its fiercely proud and racist party line, played out his final political incarnation. After revealing that his mentor, Elijah Muhammad, had fathered several illegitimate children, Malcolm had split with the Nation. He had founded a splinter group, traveled to Mecca, adopted a more tolerant political philosophy...
...Farrakhan? Two months before Malcolm's assassination, Farrakhan, now NOI's head and the most influential extremist voice in black politics, wrote in the Nation's newspaper that "the die is set and Malcolm shall not escape. Such a man is worthy of death." (Three men were jailed after the murder, but no coherent explanation of their culpability ever emerged, and most scholars now think two of them were innocent.) Farrakhan has always maintained his + innocence of the deed and in fact has been apologetic for creating what he calls an atmosphere of hatred. Still, he has been recorded condoning...