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DIED. BETTY SHABAZZ, 61, Malcolm X's steadfast widow; of third-degree burns suffered in a fire allegedly set by her grandson; in New York City. In 1965, as her husband was shot repeatedly, Shabazz, pregnant with twins, flung herself over her daughters. Her first impulse, to protect the children, never wavered. A devout Muslim, she earned a doctorate in education administration, and embodied her husband's message of dignity for African Americans...
...YORK CITY: Betty Shabazz, the widow of Malcom X, died Monday at age 61 in a New York hospital of burns suffered in a June 1 fire in her apartment. Shabazz got that name when her husband made a pilgrimage to Mecca and returned El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. She kept it after his assassination on Feb. 21, 1965 even though it was three men connected to the Nation of Islam that were convicted of the killing. Mrs. Shabazz went on to become a university administrator and spokeswoman for civil rights, and raised the couple's six daughters...
...Shabazz children--just before his death, Malcolm X took the name Malik El-Shabazz--it was Qubilah who was marked most deeply by the traumas of her early life. When her father was shot, the four-year-old girl was close by with her three sisters and pregnant mother. A week earlier the family's home in Queens, N.Y., had been fire-bombed. Later Qubilah would say she wished her father had worked in a grocery store. "I was always angry he left me behind," she said. "If he were a simple store clerk, he would still be here...
...outgrowth of the case was a rapprochement, at least in public, between Betty Shabazz and Farrakhan, who helped raise funds for the family's legal expenses. An arrangement with prosecutors allowed Qubilah to avoid trial but also required her to undergo psychiatric, drug and alcohol treatment. She moved to San Antonio and began working at a radio station partly owned by former Manhattan borough president Percy Sutton, a family friend who was once her father's lawyer...
Mother and son were both in family court last week, where Qubilah often reached over to wipe away Malcolm's tears. Prosecutors say they will press charges "to the fullest." Meanwhile, Betty Shabazz rests precariously in the hospital, where she underwent three painful operations last week to replace her burned flesh with temporary grafts of artificial skin. For much of her life, one of her personal mottoes has been "Find the good and then celebrate it." This time, the good may be too hard to find...