Malcolm X slaying site to be razed
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ALBANY. N Y (AP) — The Man
hattan theater where blai k activist
Malcolm X was assassinated will
1m- torn down after the state s high
est court Thursday refused to hear
an appeal bv those trying to save it
'This is our last possible appeal, said Matthew
Chat here, lawyer for a group trying to preserve the Au
dubon Theater and Ballroom
New York Citv. the state and Columbia University
plan to build a $34 million hiotei hnology research i en
ter. the city's first, on the site in the Harlem section
where the civil rights at livist was killed in 19fi.r>
Although the plans include preserving a portion of
the building as a Malcolm X memorial, neighborhood
groups rallied against the projot t They consider the
city-owned theater a historic site and were opposed to
building a biotech research tenter in such a densely
populated area. Chat here said
If a plan i a mo along to piwarva a small portion of
Ford's Theater when* Lincoln was assassinated and
build a factory. 1 think a lot of people would < onsider it
an outrage." (dim here said
The projet t has lleen stnlleti h\ a 111 sear legal Kittle
waged hv civil rights at tivists. preservationists and
neighborhood groups like the Save the Audubon Ctstli
lion In |une, a lower c ourt re|et ted the (audition's t on
(tuition that the proposed St iem.e center will he a
health threat to its neighbors
l’he (ourt of Appeals, without comment. refused
Thursday to hear an appeal
Demolition of the 80*ve«r-old building could K'gin
soon, said ( title Marshall, spokeswoman lor the i it\ s
Kcotiomic Development Corp She said i onstrue.tion of
the biotech c enter was ex jet led to start this spring
Dog impression leads to suspects capture
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP)
Police in the movies need the latest
in high-tm h equipment and lots of
firepower, but in the real world .1
little bark can work
Six hours after a carjai king. Offi
i er Greg Jackson spotted a man
matching tin1 gunman’s description
walking along a road
Tin' man saw |m kson. too. and
ran
The lt> year police veteran fig
ured the man was too fast tor him.
so he pulled a fast one
''Officer Jackson used Ins patrol
mm——mm—mm—mm |
i .ir sjieakwr ami saici. Slop, or I'll
send the do#. " at.lording to polite
spokesman S^t Kon Starrs
"Then he went. wool. woof,
woof.’"
The runner stopped and surren
dered
Administrators say
work done in school
should repay loans
WASHINGTON (AP) President-elet l Clinton
should allow students to repay college loans
through community service work dona while in
school, a gn>up of college administrators said
Thursday.
In addition. some said. (Hinton's National Ser
vice trust program should be structured so that
poor, minority Students aren't discouraged from
applying tor such loans t.oyv income workers
should not U> displaced hy people yvorking their
way through college hy doing community- service
work. either, the administrators said.
Clinton has proposed allowing any student to
borrow money lor a college etiolation and to re
pay it either through tax time payments or publit
servile one year of service for two years of
loans, two years of servo e for four years of loans
The National Service Trust would replace the
federally guaranteed student loan program, under
which ( H million students received $i:t billion
ill 1991 That program has come under fire for its
rising default rate The government paid off S2.7
billion in bad loans in 1991, and eat h year about
17 port ent of those with t olloge loans default
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