European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 31, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse R sunday january 31, 1993 . The stars and stripes Page 5four interviews with Marshall released King Johnson covered in tapes new York apr Thurgood Marshall called Robert Kennedy Quot a cold calculating character 1 and said the Rev. Martin Luther King or. Quot was t Worth diddly squat As an organizer according to taped interviews. A the interviews released after Marshall a death last week Are filled with anecdotes including encounters with Gen. Douglas Macarthur and Malcolm x. Marshall the first Black supreme court Justice also recalls melancholy Telephone conversations with Lyndon b. Johnson after Johnson left the White Quot transcripts of the four tapes recorded in 1977 by Columbia University a Oral history project were released monday the Day after the former supreme court Justice died at age 84. While he Speaks fondly of King Marshall says King had Good land bad Points. A i thought he was great As a Leader a Marshall said. A was an organizer he Wasny to Worth diddly squat. But very few leaders Marshall displayed bitterness at Kings apparent willingness to Delegate his Legal Battles to the National association for the advancement of coloured people. Marshall served for More than 20 years As director counsel of the a act Legal defense and educational fund. A with Martin Luther Kings group All he did was to dump All his Legal work on us including the Bills a Marshall said a and that was All right with him. So Long As he did no to have to pay the bills.�?�. It is unclear what Marshall thought of Malcolm x and the Black muslims. While calling muslims a the nicest sweetest most decent people you will Ever run across a he later says a i agree with anything a Muslim Ever said any time he also spoke about his conversations with Malcolm x a in the end he kept wanting to talk to me and i kept telling him to go to Marshall called the late president Kennedy a a very Sweet Man a but said of Robert f. Kennedy a Bobby was like his father. He was a cold calculating character. What a in it for me?11 mean not like his brother the president. He had no warm feelings. None at Marshall said Robert Kennedy once offered him Only a District court Job when Marshall wanted to be on the . Court of appeals. A i told Bobby Kennedy that i was not District judge material because my fuse was too Short. I lose my temper. And that Wasny to a a a you done to seem to understand its this or nothing a a Marshall says Kennedy told him. Quot i said Well i do understand. The trouble is that you Are different from me. You done to know what it Means but All 1�?Tvc had in my life is nothing. Its not new to me so goodbye. A Marshall got a scat on the 2nd . Circuit court of appeals in new York. Marshall praises former president Johnson who once told him Quot i am going to make Abraham Lincoln look like a a. A a / i think if head been re elected head have been still alive today a Marshall said four years after Johnson a death. A the died of a broken heart. What a Lovely when Johnson was depressed after leaving the presidency in 1969, he sometimes would Call Marshall. A the would Call me for the express purpose of getting out of it. He would say no moaning at the bar or something like that. And then head say of now go have a id say providing you a one of his angriest encounters was with Macarthur in 1950 in Korea where Marshall was representing some Black soldiers who had been arrested. A i questioned him about the continuation of segregation in the army and he said he was working on it. And i asked him How Many years head been working on it. And he said he did no to really remember How Many. A the said that he did no to find the negroes qualified and when he found them qualified they would be integrated. Well we did no to part that absent from the transcripts Are Marshall a thoughts about the supreme court where he served from 1967 to his retirement in 1991. But near the end of the fourth tape he said decisions in voting rights cases will be extremely important for Blacks in America. A i think that a the Only wave of the future. I talk too much about it because we have Many cases on in the stars and stripes 10 year Sago Jan. 31,1983 a shells and rockets hit residential neighbourhoods in East Beirut Lebanon As Christian and druse militiamen dulled for several hours before Dawn. 20 year Sago Jan. 31,1973 the . Dollar fell sharply in a absolutely hectic Quot trading in european foreign exchanges including an All time Low against the Swiss franc 3.605, before recovering to 3.6175. 30 year Sago Jan. 31,1963 the United states warned that the rejection of Britain s bid to enter the european common Market can Only delay the movement toward a Strong and United Europe working in partnership with the United states. 40 year Sago _ Jan. 31,1953 a american Sabre jets shot Down the first communist bomber caught Over Korea in the past 14 months destroyed one Mig Jet fighter and damaged another. World War ii i 50 years ago today Jan. 31 1 a 9 a 4 �3 Hitler promotes general Paulus to Field marshal trying to ensure that Germany s 6th army fights to the death at Stalingrad but 1 is enraged when Paulus surrenders himself and one of the two Small pockets of German troops. In the Pacific . Forces fail again to fight across the Donegi River and still do not realize the japanese Are Rushing to abandon the Island. Skufca 2194 Days of War w h. Smith publishers inc. World almanac Book of world War ii Bison books corp. 1981 a to deliver Miami up an american delegation led by renowned paediatrician and author or. Benjamin Spock arrived Friday in Cuba with More than $75,000 Worth of medical supplies for children. The Mission organized by the Miami based . _ Cuba. Medical pro Spock Jet took on political tones when Spock spoke out against . Policy. To Aid to children a i urge citizens to use their political Power to persuade the incoming Congress and president to end our illegal embargo on medical supplies and food for Cuba a Spock said. A it hurts children More than other age groups a he said. A it seems shameful to me that our government the government of the most powerful nation in the world is trying to cans the overthrow of the government of one of the smallest nations by denying health facilities and food to the delegation was met in Havana by officials from the cuban red Cross which will distribute the Medicine and supplies. Luis Zuniga a Unicof official said the . Embargo was taking a toll on children. Quot we arc now seeing the first results a. Lower birth rates a Scarcity of Iron nutritional Levels at risk a Zuniga said. A i am talking on behalf of the children. Because nobody in this world has the right to put cuban children at risk a project spokeswoman Linda Gross said More relict missions were planned and the . Treasury department had licensed the first Mission. Spock wrote baby amp child care which has sold More than 40 million copies in 39 languages. He also wrote 10 other books on child related Medicine. Lottery Winner has a lot to cry about Hartford Conn apr a Man who put off claiming $100,000 in lottery prize Money to avoid higher taxes wont have to worry about the irs. He missed the deadline to claim the Money by two Days. To make matters worse Frederick r. Digioia remembered he had the winning tickets on april 26,1992 a the last Day to claim the prize before a one year limit expired a it was an out of sight out of mind kind of thing a Digioia said. But april 26 was a sunday and the liquor store where he had bought the four winning play 4ticketswaselosed. A lottery official told Digioia on monday that his tickets might still be valid and he should turn them in immediately. But the tickets were in a Safe Deposit Box and by the time Digioia reached his wife Angela who alone had Access to the Box the Bank was closed so the tickets weren to turned Over to the state lottery until tuesday april 28 a two Days past the deadline. The state gaming policy Board in a unanimous vote wednesday denied Digioia a request for a waiver of the one year limit Digioia a attorney Francis j. Collins argued that his client made a Good Faith Effort to claim his winnings. A he said he would Likely sue. Robert w. Werner executive director of the division of special Revenue said there arc circumstances under which waivers arc appropriate. But he said Digioia who put off claiming his prize until after january 1992 for tax reasons had no excuse. A if he bought the ticket then got hit by a car went into a coma and woke up the Day after the deadline then i think the Board would have looked at this very differently a he said. School police chiefs husband cleared in 3 rapes Bloomsburg a. A genetic tests have cleared the husband of Bloomsburg University a police chief in All but one of a series of rapes that terrorized the Campus. A it s no Surprise to me. I knew it All along a Margaret Boykin said thursday. Slate police said Dan tests had eliminated her 41-year-old husband Michael As a suspect in a string of three rapes since halloween. But the tests showed that one Man was involved in All three. There was insufficient evidence to test from a fourth rape on dec 15, 1991. Police said Boykin was not a suspect in it. He still is charged in connection with a fifth rape and remains in prison in lieu of $75,000 bail. He was suspended from his Job in december. Margaret Boykin predicted her husband also will be cleared of that charge. Margaret Boykin charged that her husband was accused because Many people were upset at her appointment As the University police chief. The Boykins Are Black and Columbia county is predominantly White. The Kun flux klan sent a note to a University professor shortly after Margaret Boykins hiring and a Cross was burned on the Steps of the schools administration building last Spring less than a month after her appointment was announced. In the Only Case pending against Boykin a co worker in the maintenance department said Boykin raped her in a University truck after an unauthorized Christmas party that included alcohol and pornographic videotapes. The University has about 7,000 students about 200 of whom Are Black
