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MLK’s Widow Reflects on His Ideals
Laments that
King’s moral voice
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(AP) — Sitting in the same spot where
her husband preached equality more than
four decades ago, Coretta Scott King said
Saturday that Martin Luther King Jr.'s
message is as relevant today as it was in
the 1960s.
“It’s as if he were writing for this pe­
riod," King said in a rare public appear­
ance on what would have been her
husband’s 76th birthday. “Nonviolence
would work today, it would work 2,000
years from now, it would work 5,000 years
from now.
“If Martin's philosophy had been lived
out in Iraq, we wouldn’t have bin Laden,"
she said.
King reminisced about her life with -
and without - the slain civil rights leader in
an appearance at Ebenezer Baptist Church.
Hundreds of people filled the pews and
stood in the aisles to hear her speak in the
same church where Martin Luther King Jr.
was preacher from 1960 until his death in
1968 at age 39.
Tavis Smiley,
host o f The
Tavis Smiley
Show, talks with
Coretta Scott
King, widow o f
Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr.,
atEbenezer
Baptist Church
in Atlanta on the
birthday o f the
civil rights icon.
(AP photo)
If Martin’s philosophy had been lived out in
Iraq, we wouldn’t have bin Laden.
- Coretta Scott King, widow of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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“I have many, many memories of being
in this sanctuary,” King said in a presen­
tation in the form of an interview with PBS
talk show host Tavis Smiley.
Dressed in a red suit and wearing her
signature coif. King said her husband’s
“moral voice” is missing from American
society but she is committed to spreading
his teachings - a task she said she em­
braced during her marriage.
“As we were thrust into the cause, it
was my cause, too,” she said. “I married
the man and the cause. I realized I, too,
could be killed.”
King said she helped her husband
through times of disappointment when he
grew weary of his fight for equality, add­
ing that he was frequently depressed when
people would riot.
“I would tell him, ‘You’re the only one
who’s making any sense right now,” ’ she
said. “I tried to think of positive, uplifting
and true things to say.”
After King’s death, the King Center, a
memorial and resource center honoring
him, became Coretta Scott King’s legacy
and vision, along with raising her children.
“When he died, I knew I didn’t have his
abilities and skills, but I have my own,” she
said.
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a Nazi sw astika arm band at
News coverage o f Prince Harry.
a costum e party has dam ­
apparently sold to The Sun news­
aged the monarchy.
Harry’s detractors say the 20- paper.
year-old prince needs to be better
H arry, w ho is third in line for
attuned to the power of images. the British throne, apologized,
The picture was snapped by a saying it was a “poor choice o f
guest at the costume party and c o stu m e .”
Bloody
insurgency
targets Jan. 30
elections
(AP) — Gunmen in Iraq shot
and killed three candidates run­
ning in the country’s Jan. 30elec-
tions, officials said Tuesday, as a
suicide bombing killed two people
outside the offices of a leading
Shiite political party.
With insurgents trying to ruin
the election, officials announced
that Iraq will seal its borders, ex­
tend a curfew and restrict move­
ment to protect voters during the
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SALUTES AND CELEBRATES BLACK H lS IORY M O N TH
date, Shaker Jabbar Sahla, a Shiite
Muslim who was running in the
National Assembly election for the
Constitutional Monarchy Move­
ment. The party is headed by Sharif
Ali bin Hussein, a cousin of Iraq’s
last king.
Tuesday’s suicide car bombing
in Baghdad gouged a crater in the
pavement, left several vehicles in
flames and spread shredded debris
on the street outside the offices of
the Supreme Council for the Islamic
Revolution in Iraq, a main contender
in the election.
Also Tuesday, a video sur­
faced showing eight Chinese con­
struction workers held hostage
U.S. Army soldiers temporarily detain Iraqi men in a trucking yard by gunmen claim ing the men are
after shots were fired at the Army patrol in Mosul, Iraq, Tuesday. employed by a company working
(AP photo)
with U.S. troops, in the latest
abduction of foreigners in Iraq.
tee in Basra.
balloting.
Elsewhere, a 'th ird American
Riad Radi, who was running in
Alaa Hamid, who was running
for the 275-member National As­ the lo c a l ra c e fo r B a s r a ’s died in fighting in Iraq’s troubled
sembly, was shot dead Monday provincialcouncil, was killed Sun­ A n b a r p ro v in c e , w e st o f
in the southern port city o f Basra day when masked gunmen fired Baghdad, the m ilitary said Tues­
in front of his family, the official on his car as he was driving with day. Two others assigned to the
1st Marine Expeditionary Force
said on condition of anonymity. his family, the official said.
In Baghdad on Monday, masked also were killed in action there
Hamid was also the deputy chair­
man of the Iraqi Olympic Commit- gunmen shot dead another candi­ M onday.
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(A P)— Army Spc. Charles Graner
J r , the reputed ringleader of a band of
rogue guards at the Abu Ghraib prison,
was convicted Friday of abusing Iraqi
detainees in a case that sparked inter­
national outrage when photographs
were released that showed reservists
gleefully abusing prisoners.
Graner, the first soldier to be tried
on charges arising from the scandal,
was convicted of all five charges and
was sentenced Saturday to 10 years
behind bars.
Prosecutors depicted Graner as a
sadistic soldier who took great plea-
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Charles Graner Jr.
sure in seeing detainees suffer. He
was accused of stacking naked pris­
oners in a human pyramid and later
ordering them to masturbate while
other soldiers took photographs. He
also allegedly punched one man in
the head hard enough to knock him
out, and struck an injured prisoner
with a collapsible metal stick.
Graner’s attorney, Guy Womack,
contended that his client and other
Abu Ghraib guards were under ex­
treme pressure from intelligence
agents to use physical violence to
prepare detainees for questioning.
(AP) — Deep divisions over biggest election-to-election in­
the w ar in Iraq and intense voter crease since 1952. That year,
registration drives pushed the voter turnout rose 10.1 percent­
2004 presidential election turn­ age points over 1948, the non­
out to 60.7 percent, the highest partisan group said.
Overall, 122.3 million voted in
level since 1968, the Center for
the Study o f the American Elec­ the Nov. 3 elections, according
to CSAE.
torate said Friday.
Bush rec e iv e d 6 2 ,0 2 8 ,7 1 9
In 1968, when Republican Ri­
c h a rd N ixon b eat D em o crat votes, or 50.8 percent. Demo­
Hubert Humphrey, 61.9 percent c ra t Jo h n K erry re c e iv e d
o f those eligible cast ballots. 59,028,550 votes, or 48.3 per­
Turnout stayed below 60 per­ cent.
Even so, 78 million eligible
cent during the eight presidential
citizens did not vote - consider­
elections in between.
Turnout last year rose by 6.4 ably more than the number of
percentage points over 2000, the votes won by either candidate.
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