European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 6, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday january 6, 1992 the stars and stripes b Page 7inmate links guard to Barry Liaison insider s role in sexual encounter probed paper says Petersburg a. Up a fellow inmate who claimed a woman performed Oral sex on former Washington d.c., mayor Marion Barry in a prison visiting room alleges a guard arranged the sexual Liaison a published report said sunday. Longtime friends said they done to believe the latest allegations against Barry but political activists said the claims renew questions about his character. Barry 55, is due to be released from prison in april and has hinted he May run again for the City Council. The Washington times newspaper reported that a Federal official confirmed investigators were looking into a guards involvement in the dec. 29 incident alleged by Floyd a a arts Robertson Iii at the Federal prison near Petersburg. Robertson said the woman performed sex on the three term mayor of the nations capital in front of at least six other inmates and their families in the prisons visiting room. A you miss it a said Robertson sitting nearby with his wife and their children. A it was blatant a in front of prison spokesman Eugene Ray said sex in the room violates prison rules. Under Virginia Law Oral sex is classified As sodomy and is a crime. The . Justice departments Bureau of prisons is investigating the allegations. Barry is serving six months in prison for a cocaine Possession conviction that stemmed from his january 1990 arrest in a sting at a downtown Washington hotel. He was lured to the hotel by an sex Girlfriend and was videotaped smoking crack cocaine. Robertson said that when he complained about barrys alleged conduct in the Virginia prison the former mayor threatened him. He said Barry told him a you know if the Warden gets a report there will be officials transferred Robertson to a North Carolina facility for his own safety. He is serving time for illegally Selling pharmaceutical drugs. Robertson said Barry walked into the visiting room where 30 to 50 other people were gathered dec. 29 and greeted a Young woman in a miniskirt. They sat together and fondled each other for several minutes and she Bent Over and performed Oral sex Robertson told the times. The identity of the woman was unclear. Robertson told the times that Barry apparently had never met her before and that it was a quite implied it was a Barry associates expressed doubt about the claims. A that possibly have happened. The visiting area is a wide open room with a guard. Something is wrong with this Story a Bob Bethea who visited the former mayor last month told the Washington Post newspaper. A this looks like another Snow Job a said civic activist Robert Cyl Dell referring to pro Barry claims that the 1990 scandal which eventually led to the cd mayors incarceration was a set up designed to drive him from office. The latest scenario involving Barry has tightened racial tension in the prison near Petersburg said Robertson who is White. A i could see the tensions heightening before i was shipped out a Robertson told the times. Another inmate who called himself a Friend of Robertson a wrote a letter obtained by the newspaper. It said a the tension around Here is pretty thick. But everyone a fed up with Barry Bein Given preferential treatment. A not Only is he getting Semi conjugal visits in the room but anytime someone wants to visit him he manages to get their name on his list in a matter of a Day or two. He also gets on the to a phone and Calls in to radio stations and talk Call in shows using prison phones. A in effect he a conducting business politicking on the phone which is against the rules a the letter said. Barry a who is separated from his wife and has a son a has received treatment for alcohol and drug addiction and said he suffered from an addiction to sex but insists he is mending his bid to patrol . Project criticized los Angeles a a bid by Louis Farrakhan a nation of islam to patrol the crime Ridden hallways of a Federal housing project has been criticized by jewish groups who say the Muslim organization is anti semitic. But some tenants of the Holiday Ven ice apartments a fed up with drug dealers who brazenly do business in their buildings hallways and addicts who openly Trade Money and sexual favors for dope a Welcome a private Security Force. A we want the nation a said 38-year-old Regina Hyman a Mother of three Regina Hyman head of a tenants group approves of the Black Muslim patrol. And president of the tenants action committee at the Complex which is under the authority of the . Department of housing and Urban development. A we want reality. We want it done a Hyman said. A there Are certain people who done to get respect Here. The police certainly done to get it. They get shot Farrakhan a . Security Agency inc. Is one of four companies bidding to patrol the 246 apartments said David Itkin vice president of Alliance housing management inc., which manages the project. The area a Seaside Community 15 Miles West of downtown is noted for its racially integrated population that ranges from wealthy to poor. Farrakhan a fundamentalist Muslim organization which encourages Black economic self sufficiency said it already patrols 1,200 Hud units in Washington. But its bid in los Angeles has aroused controversy because of remarks Farrakhan has made Over the years that Are considered offensive to jews and other ethnic groups. David a. Chr or regional director of the by Nai brith anti defamation league wrote a protest letter to Hud. In a recent interview he called Farrakhan a an avowed racist anti semite and Irv Rubin National chairman of the jewish defense league called the nation of islam a racist anti american and a that my tax dollars Are going to fund Farrakhan a so called Security apparatus is revolting to my gut a he said. Calls made to the Chicago Headquarters of the nation of islam were not immediately returned. A receptionist said fit vials were unavailable because of the re cent death of Wali Muhammad editor of the organizations newspaper. Tenants Leader Hyman criticized the jewish groups for interfering in what she described As a neighbourhood matter. Quot they done to live Down Here. They done to have any idea what a going on a she said. About 60 percent of the projects More than 200 tenants Are Black and 40 percent Are hispanic project manager Itkin said. Rubin said a synagogue is located near the Complex and he feared that the Muslim patrols would discriminate against jews and hispanics. A if i were a latino person i would not feel comfortable. As a jewish person i feel sheer terror a Rubin said. A i done to understand How the Federal government would contract with an organization that is perceived As racially prejudiced a said Phil Raider of Oakwood beautification committee a local neighbourhood group. Bill Christiansen an official in huds los Angeles office said the government has started its review of the four bids but that he did no to know when the contract would be awarded. He declined to say How much Money is involved but Itkin said the contract is thought to be Worth several Hundred thousand dollars. Christiansen said problems at the Complex warranted action and noted that Hud Secretary Jack Kemp has encouraged residents to get involved in their neighbourhoods. In the past Hyman said she and other residents had to patrol their apartment building themselves to keep drug dealers out. A we stopped them those nights a she said a but we done to want to be to depict Wallace As corrupt Womanizer Montgomery Ala. A a Book in Progress by one of George Wallace a closest operatives in the 1960s depicts the former governor and presidential candidate As a Womanizer whose powerful political machine was corrupt. The Montgomery advertiser quoted writer Seymore Trammell As saying Wallace engaged in a a lot of cheap sex with women All Over the Wallace a son state treasurer George Wallace jr., said the account is full of lies. Wallace who is 72 and needs a wheelchair since an assassination attempt during the 1972 presidential Campaign had no comment. But his spokesman Elvin Stanton said Friday the four term governors authorized biography will set the record straight. Trammell was state finance director and Campaign chief for Wallace in the 1960s before the two parted company. In the Early 1970s, Trammell served 14 months in Federal prison for tax evasion. Trammell elaborate on the Book when contacted Friday by the associated press but he said newspaper reports that depicts Wallace As a Womanizer were accurate. He said the Book madness in the Magnolia will be published by summer but he would t identify the publisher. Or. Robert j. Norrell director of the University of Alabama Scenter for Southern history and culture said he read a draft of the Book More than a year ago and it contained a a lot of information from Trammells viewpoint on the use of the state Treasury to Reward friends of the Wallace a in my opinion that was the most significant revelation. The Way it details the graft and corruption a Norrell said. A i sincerely Hope its Wallace a son said the Book was a a desperate and pitiful attempt on the part of Trammell to make some Money. A Trammell a disbarred lawyer said his motive was
