European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2b the stars and stripes wednesday. Apr 6.1988o rally praises King at site of his death Memphis. Tenn. Api followers of Martin Luther King or. Marched monday to the Motel where he was Avau Nalcy 20 years ago and promised 10 veep fighting in reach his pro mind land by Catling alien lion Lothe plight of the poor. Until we wipe out poverty Jet the pm Ciao nowhere can be Safe. Nowhere can be Mccutc Tor one hungry person Speaks in misery to everybody said Joseph lower 1, president of Trie Southern Iris Liln leadership conference a civil rights organization founded by King. There Ain t going to be no peace in the suburbs until there is Justin in the ghetto Lowry told about 3,000 people who marched 1 / Miles through Down town Memphis to the Lorraine Motel. King was assassinated on april 4, 1968, while in Memphis to support a strike by City sanitation work ers. He also was conducting a nationwide Campaign to draw attention to poverty. The Day before he was Shol King delivered his last Public address saying i be been to the Mountain of. And i be seen the promised land. 1 May not get there with you. But i want you to know tonight that we As a people will gel to the promised fifty members of Lowry s organization were scheduled to leave from the Motel monday on a combing Tion March and motorcade through Mississippi Ala Bama and Georgia but the poor people s pilgrimage was delayed a Day because two mules did not arrive on Lime. The Mulei Ore a Symbol of poverty Lowery said and a Wagon they were to pull is similar to one used for King s funeral in Atlanta. The Lorraine itself has become something of a sym Bol of poverty. At one Lime the Motel had about 60 rooms but the decaying two Story building had Only 12 rooms in use when the state dosed it in january to make Way for a museum. Opponent of the museum project say the Money should be spent turning the Lorraine into housing for the homeless. D army Bailey a Memphis lawyer who spearheaded a push to get si.8 million from the state and local government for the museum said the project will be a filling tribute to King. See the Yean of neglect thai have gone on at this holy site Bailey said. What kind of tribute. Has thai signalled. About inc struggle for which thai great Man gave his life prior to the March id the Lorraine the City held a memorial service in King s Honor at the or Phoeurn theater a downtown landmark. The service included gospel singing songs by a group of grammar school children and a dance titled love Hai no it was the first City sponsored memorial to the slain Nobel peace Prue Winner. Mayor Richard Hackett who appointed the com Mission thai organized Memphis first memorial for the Sinjin civil rights Leader said it is time for the City Whei King died to better organize its efforts to help the poor. Twenty years ago or. King spoke of a dram. Today this City recon lies the necessity for that dream to become a reality Hackell said. It is right. It n just and it is in the Best interest of us the sanitation workers protest that Drew King to Memphis to to a tense and Nune Lirneo violent confrontation Between strikers and City police. Gerald Mcentee International president of the american federation of slate county and municipal employed said the Sulc March on the 20th anniversary of King s death showed that those conflicts have lessened greatly. This time the mayor of Memphis and the Mem Bers of local i7jj will be walking Arm end srm. We Are together. He said. There could be no More fitting memorial to the Man we re Here to Honor and for the dream he died Mecham from Page t crafts voted Sci four republicans voted no. On whether to bar Mecham from future office nine republicans and eight demo crts voted for delusion 10 re publicans and three democrats voted against. The citizens of this stale will not Tol Erate this evil said demo cratic son. Jesus Chuy Higuera in Vot ing to convict. Republican sen. Jan Brewer said she Felt Mcham made a serious but she added i do not think it is sufficient news briefs to remove him from the vote is 21 yes nine nos. Evan Mecham is convicted of High crimes misdemeanours and malfeasance in of fice said the trial s presiding officer Arizona chief Justice Frank x. Gordon jr., after the Vole on the list count. There s no Joy in anyone s hearts today said assistant minority Leader Lela Alston a Democrat who voted to convict on both counts. I m the combative Mecham Drew fire for rescinding a Martin Luther King or. Holi Day a Inoc that prompted of Boycott of Arizona by organizations looking to Huld conventions in Arizona and defending the use of the word pick Ninny for Black children. He also came under at tack for appointments deemed unqualified including a tax official who did t file his hues. The House voted 46-14 to impeach Mecham feb. 5 on the two counts on which he was convicted and a charge of concealing a $350.000 Campaign loan. The Senate dismissed the third charge during the six week trial. Mecham also faced a recall election May 17 and is scheduled for trial in court april 21 on felony charges of concealing the $350,000 loan. The question of whether he May run in inc recall elec Tion is Likely to be decided in court said attorney general Bob Corbin. Corbin said earlier that the recall elec Tion would be held As scheduled whether Mecham was in office or not and that the governor in office at the Lime mofford would have to run in the election to remain in office. Because the Senate did t bar Mecham from holding office in the future sup porters held Oil Hope for a Victory in the recall election. Its not Over it s Only beginning. We re not going to quit now said Virginia Archer of Phoenix. The Senate after voting adjourned for the Day and said it would reconvene wednesday to hear any motions from attorneys. In Atlanta news of Mecham s removal brought cheers from hundreds at a ban Quet held in memory of King by the Southern Christian leadership Confer ence. Mecham s removal came exactly 20 Yean after the civil rights Leader s Atsas sin Alion. Jackson says his letter urged Noriega to resign Washngton up Dern Dan dial candidate Jesse Jackson that he would not mediate in the apis in Panama and his Lete r to panamanian military Leader Manuel Amonn Noriega was rarely an Appeal to end the suffer tag in that Emry. In Milwaukee a fire a Day before Wisconsin s Kirk in tuesday the civil rights Leader played in fihe effects of his letter to Noriega deliver Eune Leader last week by a Jackson Campaign of Mcgarv Jackson said Muday Thrif tier he sent Noriega was a req Esmat he Leav we Sim Phileve made a very Strong Public and moral Jucal to Noriega flu Cave in order thai inc spuering of the people night be re Lic cd a
