European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 27, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse New Une of work Clay ipe Aki to students at cd state in los Angeles. Stripes i s Lei Trail up by will Grimsley a staff writer not just a Boxer. I stand with senators and ministers and College users Muhammad Ali said draw himself proudly to his full 8-foot-3lit and expanding his 44%-Inch Chest. Each at colleges. I was at Prince Rutgers and Lona. I la be teaching Arvard. I la be teaching at Yale. Id the same platform As men who to be president High class Louisville lip is on the Loose not spouting bombastic predict and in scalable poetry from Middle of a ring but speaking out negroes. Got so Many engagements i can Tup with them Ali added. I speak or four times a week. I got 36es on the waiting Spius Marcellus Clay undefeated heavyweight Champion convicted fit dodging and As Muhammad Ali Ster of the Black Muslim Faith de is to identify himself As a negro or. Am a preacher and a teacher Hei. We Are All working for the same but we got different s like War. One Man fights from air. One fights on the ground. Noemi the water. Another is a spy or ret agent. The Black Man in Americast War too fighting for Justice. One Man believes in integrating . He wants a race of High Low people. Another wants a negro can be president. He s Laming. Others believe that burning Ling and looting will solve the prob am a Follower of Elijah Muhammad Der of the Black muslims in Amer. I believe he has the answer. Titties from he 25-year-old former Champion be of his expanding civil rights role he relaxed on a Satin sofa in the in naively decorated living room of his est Home on the South Side of Scago. It s in a Middle class neighbourhood Chin recent years has become pre inanely negro. The House is an in posing one Story Brick Bungalow on a All Corner lot. But once the heavy of ant door i s opened there is a sparkle Marble mirrors and other luxuries. I spent $67,000 redecorating Thijse " Ali said. It has built in air wait zoning a speaker system in Ever pm a finished in one Side of the big screen color a vision set was a Large Glass Case i Tammy a trophy and the Gold Cham Enship Belt which Cassius never lost but which has been taken away fro him because of his refusal to enter the armed the room at a table speaking Only when spoken to sat Cassius teen age pregnant wife his second. Al though the room was quite warm she wore a Long sleeved Brown Wool dress that dropped to the tops of her Gold slippers. Belinda x. Boyd was just 17 when shews married to a last August in a Muslim ceremony. Clay previously had been married to Sonja Roi a Beautiful Model. He divorced her he said because she refused to Wear dresses Down to her Ankles and become a convert to the Muslim Faith. Belinda x is a practising Cassius talked a couple of figures Muslim associates or bodyguards moved around in the background. Ill was reminded that his Circum stances did t look much like those Ofa Man financially distressed As has been s True i m broke really broke he insisted. A judge Down in Miami says i got to give my sex wife a $50,000 Bond and $1,250 a month. One of my lawyers is suing me for $209,000. I made $2 million in the ring an the government took All but 10 per cent of it. That Louisville group that sponsored me made a Deal with Washington to pay 90 per cent of what i made be fore i Ever saw anything. They Call it the Joe Louis Washington has Cut me off from fighting or from leaving the i have no Way to make any after winning an olympic Gold medal and turning pro Clay put his fortunes into the hands of a Syndicate of prominent Louisville business men. The arrangement worked satisfactorily until last april when Muhammad con tending he was a Muslim minister re fused at Houston to take the step for Ward after being drafted into the Federal court found him guilty of draft evasion and sentenced him to five years in jail and a $10,000 Fine. He was stripped of his heavyweight title and re fused the Chance to fight or travel abroad while his Appeal was being heard in the higher courts. Recently the next to last Appeal was rejected by the fifth . Court of appeals in new Orleans leaving the final judgment in the hands of the supreme court if the justices will hear Clay Appeal. Meanwhile Muhammad s connection with the Louisville group has been Sev ered. He is now personally managed by Herbert Muhammad son of Elijah Muhammad. Tier Man believes in Inteirat. and e Grants a. Race
