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[ HEY MACK, 3 WE'RE FREE 1 Y£*H... Lfri, 0R4B A netrK. ecember?,! mil /er it takes ballot or bj to be oneo; lackoffc r ig African-A; •en an intere 'ecause ofi! he tion among honal and r. Albert Bii professor ol icks are lool to come solution to cent poverty community c, and they! 1 said tudents/P;: "XMeW -THERE UF& •tUERE/ ^REEK-MIPS--- 60fc.VLU\ jarvsanbha Sa^«- WAtTB SHUTTLE '605 4lPllKrt$ THE SEMESTER-. LCOLM olm Little ini as raised ini! in at the age Malcolm besfFu' burglar. He id sentencefar' uring his pi the Nation ters an of Islam i n >2. He from whites. t of the sev ame second am. created byE Muhammad and divine g. , God incar? lammad sail ankind. i was o a sciei the "df devil-ui aslaveii aelievd mage to bout his relij m learned h er then any biography,' 11 races, coil ling togethei ower of the t Page 3 The Battalion Wednesday, December 9,1992 (the story so far...) by thomas deeny By Clay Welch -TRAFRC EOES... AtTp. • ■ JEWELL; WHATEVER 1 MISTER "K" IS. MISTER "K"... AM l (EOtMa to MIS'S Hina? .. - WHAT am l iHlMKlNkS?? Agency expands General Motors study THE ASSOCIATED PRESS side tank bega: ie. there WASHINGTON - The govem- ment expanded its investigation esday into charges that millions f Genera] Motors pickup trucks e more susceptible to fires in crashes because of their fuel location. The agency has been involved a complicated review of a great al of information on this issue luring the past four months, and is no question further inves tigation is needed to determine whether these trucks contain a safety-related defect," said Marion Blakey, head of the National High way Traffic Safety Administration. Blakey emphasized that the ac tion doesn't mean the agency has concluded that a safety-related de fect exists.A recall could cost Gen eral Motors Corp. about $1 billion. The probe began Aug. 14 with a petition by the Center for Auto Safety and Public Citizen, two consumer groups, asking the gov ernment to recall the vehicles. In question are about 4.7 mil lion 1973-87 Chevrolet and CMC CK series full-size pickup trucks on the road now. The trucks were made with "sidesaddle" tanks mounted out side the frame rails. The consumer groups claim that position makes the vehicles more vulnerable to fires and explosions in side-im pact crashes. CM since has begun installing the tanks inside the frame rails. Students Continued from Page 2 These were problems during Malcolm's life, but not nearly of the same magnitude as today, he said.Broussard said Malcolm is a positive example for many peo ple. "He came from a dysfunction al family, a broken home, he led a life of crime and was incarcer ated for six years," Broussard said. "He had the capacity to pull himself out from that situation and try to understand not only his own individual plight, but the plight, at that time, of 22 mil lion blacks in this country." The idea that African-Ameri cans could take their fate into their own hands was new in the 1960s, Broussard said. "This was derived from Mal colm's association with the Na tion of Islam for 12 years," Broussard said. "The self-help component, the fact that black people had the capacity to im prove themselves by going to school, by getting trained, by taking pride in their community, and by embracing their culture." W.D. Mohammed said it was his father, Elijah Muhammad, that encouraged his children and constituency to learn more about Islam although the Nation of Is lam. "On one hand, he was ad vancing an idea of Islam that was completely incorrect and on the other hand he was also encour aging us to learn more about real Islam," W.D. Mohammed said. "He said learn Arabic so you will be able to read the Koran in Ara bic. He provided the teachers himself." Malcolm loved to read and was a great educator, Broussard said. He loved to talk to young African-Americans. "He was the kind of person if students stopped him or if he was on a college campus he would spend hours on end talk ing to students about anything," Broussard said. "I think he would have continued to be a great educator in a way that I think even Martin Luther King, Jr. did not have a capacity to be or Jesse Jackson certainly has not shown the capacity to be." On the other hand, Denby said he is afraid that many young African-Americans will take Malcolm's message and be pro-black at the expense of white society. "You can be pro-black with out being anti-white," Denby said. "Malcolm left a legacy to which all Americans can look for. When he died he could say he left this world, this country, this place, this America, this black America a better place." r-blindness nage infill® 1 Friend mg. He ca® ? to break® Continued from Page 2 ilcolm coukl beliefs w ssinated. Malcolm X was a man with a brilliant mind, W.D. VIohammed said. "He was a person with an independent mind, a person who was trying to get somewhere," W.D. Mo- iammed said. "My husband did what he had to do. He paid a debt to our ancestors and their efforts. He was a ommitted man," said Shabazz. Malcolm X's deeply religious beliefs caused him :o break away from the Nation of Islam in 1964. "Malcolm was a man going through changes," rV.D. Mohammed said. "He changed from the old dea of the Nation of Islam to the universal under- tanding of real Islam." He said Malcolm even changed his name to Ma lik Shabazz. "He changed his name before he broke away from he Nation of Islam," W.D. Mohammed said. \?es into r 9, 1992: Malcolm changed his surname from Little to X in 1952 as form of protest. "I'll continue to use Malcolm X as long as the situ ation that produced it exists ... as long as there is a need to protest and struggle and fight against the in justices that our people are involved in this country," Malcolm said in a 1964 speech. Malcolm changing his name was one example of the changing views of Malcolm, W.D. Mohammed said. Malcolm's views about Islam began changing before he went on a pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Ara bia. "He saw moral contradictions in the man that fas cinated him, that captured his mind and had also earned his respect, the honorable Elijah W.D. Mo hammed," W.D. Mohammed said. W.D. Mohammed's father had relationships with two of his secretaries which resulted in both bearing children. W.D. Mohammed said that his father se cretly accepted them as his wives. Malcolm had high moral standards and felt he had to leave the Nation of Islam, W.D. Mohammed said. "Malcolm couldn't stop with the Nation of Islam, and he couldn't stop with my father." si£l« iiiieinr AT O. ROLLIE WHITE A&M vs SO. ALABAMA Thursday Dec. 10 - 7:00 p.m. SPONSORED BY THE CLASS OF ‘94 Come join the class of '94 and your classmates for Texas A&M Basketball and take a break from the books. 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