The Continuing Crisis
THE C O N T I N U I N G CRISIS _9 From February 13 to March 18, little that could be described as unusual occurred in the world. Washington was terrorized by a band of youthful idealists under...
...Background information on Dr...
...Charles A. Venner, IV's recent drug conviction...
...a brave gesture that, and a sign of Mr...
...Notin that Emanuel was in the last stages of a medic: sex change, Judge Galda decided that he coul not in conscience send the convicted burglar I either a men's or a women's prison, so he ga~ Emanuel a 90-day suspended sentence...
...Venner is the ill-starred young man whose scheme to smuggle hashish into Maryland through balloons ingested in Morocco ended catastrophically when the hashish leaked into his stomach, causing him to become episodically lethargic, euphoric, drowsy, and hospitalized...
...Not only that, but such a vast population shift would certainly imperil the solvency of the social security program...
...Gald also asked sheriff's officers to carry Emanuel' suitcase...
...Khaalis seemed shaken and skittish, and support for him rallied even among the Polizei...
...As Mr...
...And Mr...
...So eloquent was he on the question of law and order that police gathered from all over Washington...
...James Baker of Ridgeland, South Carolina had proved fatal for the caller...
...Miss Breath is modern American colossus...
...Venner's abnormal stools revealed 21 balloons full of the corpus delicti...
...and there continued that symphony of jeremiads against science, technology, and our insane economic system, ~a system that is causing unparalleled travail for the sorely .pressed citizenry...
...Hamaas Abdul Khaalis, showed a clear desire to work within the system--perhaps even to improve it--while an Ohio activist bearing the simple Christian name of Cory C. Moore has apparently given up on the system altogether...
...Kareem Abdul-Jabbar...
...And th renowned Northwest Bait and Ecology Farm of Twin Falls Idaho--ever eager to improv, the nation's diet--has announced a worn recipe contest...
...This conversation went more smoothly, but before the President could carry Mr...
...Internationally there was terrorism, political repression, and renewed debate over the health of Field Marshal Idi Amin Dada...
...Washington was terrorized by a band of youthful idealists under th~ leadership of a spiritual rigorist, there were more instances of mass murder and political kidnapping...
...Moore's proposal multiplied with no feasible solution presenting itself...
...Keit Baynes, the likeable albeit harebrained Ne, Yorker who attempted to rob the Europear American Bank languishes in jail all because c his slovenly penmanship, his cooperativ nature, and the treachery of bank teller Mis Kitty Madden, who coolly returned MI Baynes' robbery note protesting that she foun it illegible...
...9 Reports continue to circulate regarding th* cruel treatment of rats by the Food and Druf Administration...
...An ensuing lecture on the indignities white America has laid upon the memory of Adolf Hitler and the reputation of Field Marshal Idi Amin Dada left him exhausted and close to tears...
...Supreme Court of Mr...
...Khaalis was about to release his hostages a Washington talk show hostess telephoned him and barraged him with the kind of "tough" questions for which that medium has grown famous...
...Moderates, under Dr...
...Moore, a 25-year-old ex-Marine described by relatives as "not violent, but frustrated," took two hostages at gunpoint and demanded that President Carter apologize for importunities America has been making upon blacks dating all the way back to 1619...
...Finally the innovative young activist took matters in his own hands and surrendered under the stipulation that he be allowed a telephone chat with Mr...
...Bill Walton, th health-food adept, returned to the Nationa Basketball Association lineup after spendinl another month on the injured list...
...Taking one thing with another it was pretty much politics as usual...
...Venner's claim that he had been subjected to illegal search and seizure was given the old heave-ho by Maryland's Court of Special Appeals, which held that the balloons were not subject to Constitutional protections because they were legally considered "abandoned property...
...9 In legal news there still is no word on the possible appeal to the U.S...
...Born to parent., who were themselves on assistance, she live~, with seven children and three grandchildren-(continued on page 39) 2 The Alternative: An American Spectator April 197...
...For 39 hours government officials negotiated...
...A Washington, D.C...
...Rayfield Hoffmaf the narcoleptic, who on Christmas night in 197 fell asleep while raping a New Orleans womat _9 Two men dressed as women robbed a Bato Rouge bank and made good their escape aftc distributing women's liberationist literatur~ possibly to remind bank guards of the potential for violence...
...9 A disagreement over tactics for the second generation of the civil rights movement manifested itself in early March...
...FBI and State Department terrorist experts were called in as were psychiatrists, a Koran scholar, and three ambassadors from Moslem nations, but no one could figure what to do about the lone crossbow...
...Venner had made no effort "to protest the removal of his excreta," nor could he have expected that his waste would be protected by the Constitution "for the simple reason that human experience is to abandon it immediately...
...Washington officials rejoiced at the happy ending and the press marveled at the complexity and obvious frustration of this singular visionary...
...Khaalis' wives and drowned his infant children in a sink, were brought to him for Koranic justice...
...Khaalis showed his determination to make the legal system work when he and eleven apostles armed with guns, machetes, and a single but powerful crossbow captured 134 hostages in three different Washington buildings and threatened to commence the most extensive privately held beheading ever undertaken in the United States and its territories...
...After the experience poor Dr...
...In the more enlightened state of New J e r s e y , 42-year-old J a c i n t o Arnold Emanuel escaped a jail term when appearing before Superior Court Judge Fred C.Galda, the famed progressive and humanitarian...
...Khaalis, who surrendered on that day, leaving only one Howard University student dead and nineteen hostages shot, stabbed, or beaten...
...On February 22 Mr...
...And in Oklahom~ City Miss Elsie Breath observed her 40th birth day and 40th year on welfare...
...Moore's plan to the Cabinet Mr...
...Subsequently, Judge Marvin H. Smith of the Maryland Court of Appeals pointed out that Mr...
...Khaalis was exiguous, police intelligence agencies having long ago destroyed such information to avoid lawsuits from civil liberties organizations...
...As anxious hour piled upon anxious hour the complexities of Mr...
...But when negotiators mentioned that he might be freed on his own recognizance and that the Lakers were playing the Washington Bullets on March 11, a new spirit of cooperation filled Dr...
...In fact he is advocating a venturesome departure in race relations not only in America but also throughout the world...
...On March 7 Mr...
...Khaalis, a 56-year-old Hanafi Muslim and devoted basketball fan, whose devotion to the sport had earlier won him a handsome Washington mansion from Los Angeles Lakers artiste Mr...
...ma failed in his attempt to rob the National Perm~ nent Federal Savings & Loan Association with banana wrapped in black tape...
...The Senate Nutrition Com mittee heard chilling testimony that "six time, as many women of lower social class are obest as those of upper social class...
...It wa, devastating news for committee chairmar Senator George McGovern, a man who ha, devoted his life to securing the poor from jus~ such horrible exploitations...
...Baynes dutifully labore over his second draft, she tripped the sile~ alarm and Mr...
...Baynes was set upon even as h carved out "This is a . . . " _9 The Argentine government is taking posi tive action against subversion in that country In February it banned all who wear beards fror traveling abroad or even owning driver' licenses...
...NASA spacecraft have never met consumerist safety standards and this puts Mr...
...According to latest reports tha ban on saccharin only went into effect afte ghoulish researchers had walloped their rat, with what would for humans amount to a dail) dose of eight hundred bottles of diet soft drinl for seventy years...
...Investigations into Mr...
...More controversial and difficult was his attendant demand that all whites--including Miss Lillian--evacuate the planet by March 14...
...Noting that the protein-packe, and plentiful little creatures have neve gained wide acceptance in the American diet though Robin Redbreasts thrive on them, the Northwest Bait and Ecology Farms plans tc award prizes for the most luscious recipes and will eventually publish a worm cookbook...
...Moore's plan on a collision course with Ralph Nader...
...9 On March 9, during a week in which the Lakers were idle, Dr...
...Yet, thus far, antivivisec tionists are mum...
...Then just as it seemed that Dr...
...Carter...
...Moore was upstaged by Dr...
...Given the cutback in our space program it is far from certain that the federal government possesses a sufficient number of vehicles for such an exodus, and even if it does there remain thorny policy questions...
...The thing would get under way just after lunch unless he was compensated for a $750 court fine imposed on him in 1973 and unless seven Black Muslims, who for the greater glory of Allah had butchered Dr...
...Moore's devotion to his people, for an earlier telephone conversation with President Carter by the Rev...
...Finally the Louisiana Supreme Cou: has upheld conviction of Mr...
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