Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 May 1987 — Page 2
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FORT SMITH, Ark.-(AP)-A Michigan man, said to be the No. 2 man in the Aryan Nations, a white supremacist group, has been released on $50,000bond.
Robert Edward Miles, 62, of Cohoctah, Mich., was one of 10 people accused of sedition in an indictment handed up by a federal grand jury in Fort Smith last month. U.S. District Judge Morris S. "Buzz” Arnold of Fort Smith set Miles’ bond in a one-page order last Wednesday and Miles was released from the Sebastian County Jail later in the day. Miles’ attorney, N.C. Deday LaRene of Detroit, filed a motion last Tuesday asking Arnold to set bond for his client.
The indictment alleges that Miles and others conspired to commit robberies, engage in counterfeiting, assassinate federal officials and ethnic groups, commit bombings, destroy utilities, pollute municipal water supplies, establish guerrilla warfare training camps and procure false identifications.
Miles is a former grand dragon of the Michigan Realm of the United Klans of America. He had been held without bond since his arrest April 24at Cohoctah. Arnold said in his order that the “record is insufficient to establish a serious risk of flight exists, or that dear and convincing evidence exists that defendant, if released on bail, would pose a danger to the safety of any person or the community. ’ ’
A federal magistrate at Detroit had set Miles’ bail at $30,000, but the government appealed the decision to a district court judge, who ordered Miles held without bail. Miles appeared last Monday at Fort Smith with his attorney and asked U.S. Magistrate Ned Stewart to rule on the bail question. Stewart said he couldn’t. Miles’ attorney said he would then ask Arnold. Arnold further stated in his order that Miles would report daily to the probation office or pretrial service agency and restrict his travel to within Michigan except for required court appearances in the Western District of Arkansas. Miles and the other defendants are scheduled for trial July 5 at Fort Smith. If convicted, Miles could receive a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a $20,000 fine.
Black man found dead with ‘KKK’ scratched on abdomen
CHICAGO— Police say they’re not yet sure whether the death of a black man whose body was inscribed with the letters “KKK” was the result of a racial attack.
The man, whose identity was unknown as of Tuesday night, was found on Chicago’s South Side on Monday with the letters scratched on his abdomen, police said. Asked if police were investigating the death as a racial attack. Detective Walter Zamolewicz said, “No, not yet.” KKK is an acronym often used by theKu Klux Klan.
But Zamolewicz said it was possible the letters on the man’s body stood for something else.
Police said they did not know the cause of death and the investigation was on hold until autopsy results were available, Zamolewicz said. The victim appeared to be between 30 and 40 years old, and had broken ribs on both sides of his chest when he was found, said Sgt. George Owen. The broken bones could have resulted when the body
was discarded, or from a beating before death, Owen said. Conrail police found the man in an alley which is often used as a trash dump, Owen said. The man had been dead about two days and the body was covered with debris, he said. The three K’s, each about 6 inches high, were “right across the abdomen” and appeared to be scratched into the body before the man died because there were bruise marks around them, Owen said. Fingerprints were taken from the victim in an effort to determine his identity, Owen said, and the body was taken to the Cook County Morgue. It was not certain if the man was from Chicago or where he died, police said.
equipment and remnants from the War of 1812, and the SpanishAmerican War. Swastika banners, helmets and uniforms taken from the minions of Hitler’s monstrous regime are set safely encased in glass. Women—white women—serving in the armed forces have their own special exhibit. Sharp AW As and WACs are commemorated. One poster in the display proudly proclaims: “Women in the War: We Can’t Win Without Them.’’ But if there is anything in the memorial honoring black veterans—a plaque, a poster, a single black face among all the white faces in the regiments portraits hanging in the halls—it escapes immediate detection. The Soldiers and Sailors Monument on the Circle, constructed to celebrate the end of the Civil War, features black statues of slaves free at last. It makes brief mention of the “colored” soldiers killed during the Spanish-American War. But if an archaeologist in som<? distant future uncovering the ruins of Indianapolis were to judge by Hoosier landmarks, he might well conclude that the blood of black soldiers was never shed on foreign soil. That conclusion no doubt would arrive as a great surprise, and a greater insult, to Charles L. Royster. Royster, a veteran of the Vietnam War, thinks blacks have not been rendered their just due for service to their country. “I don’t think they’ve been recognized,” he said. “Black men and women are the forgotten victims of Vietnam.” Pressure from outside groups finally has forced the War Memorial Commission to plan an exhibit honoring black veterans. The belated display is tentatively scheduled to open sometime next year. Commission Director William
A. Scott Mid. For that Royster to glad. “Oh, yeah,” he exclaimed. “That’ll be something permanently in place, for my children, and my children’s children, togo see.” But for the decades of neglect, of being ignored, many black veterans harbor' “negative attitudes,” Royster added. He charged that black veterans receive unsympathetic treatment from government physicians. Many of the vets, he said, are reluctant to attend veteran centers because the doctors there consistently misdiagnose symptoms of war trauma as severe personality disorders, such as schizophrenia. Symptoms of that trauma include “flashbacks,” alienation from family members, guilt and depression, Royster said. By characterizing such trauma as personality disorders, the government avoids compensation to the men and their families, he explained. Those problems, experienced also by many white vets, are aggravated in blacks by such chronic ghetto concerns as unemployment and the struggle to address basic needs, Royster said. Still, Royster freely uses sucli words as “patriotism,” and terms the initial U.S. purpose to contain communism in Vietnam as “a noble gesture.” But when ask to share his most vivid memory of the war, he falls silent a moment; when he answers his voice is strained. “1 guess the death and dying would be the most overwhelming thing,” he said. “I’d seen death before, but not on such a wide scale.” Such suffering through the years has been borne silently, without acknowledgement from countrymen. It is an oversight Hoosiers only now are seeking, in a tiny measure, to rectify.
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“Until we can find out what caused his death and who he is, mostly we’re following up tips and clues,” Owen said.
The man was clothed in graygreen work pants, a black T-shirt and white, high-top athletic shoes, Owen said. The shirt was pulled up, revealing the three K’s, he said.
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After the mother-daughter relationship continued to erode, “I came to the conclusion this was a no-win situation. She was going to do what she wanted.”
Sosin said both parents have numerous remedies to reverse the court’s decision, if they chose. For now, Sosin said his teenage client has promised that she will return to high school this fall after the birth ofher baby.
“If she doesn’t, then I think the court should take a long look in determining whether the child is emancipated.”
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The Department of RarksetMttd Recreation announces all outdoor swimming pools will open for the summer May 30. DPR operates outdoor swimming pools in 13 locations throughout the city. Pools will be open weekdays 1 to 5 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday hours are 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. Children 12 and younger are admitted at 30 cents, youth age 13-17 and senior adults 35 and older pay $1, and the adult rate is $1.30. All persons are admitted at half price during evening hours. A free swim program is offered at Martin Luther King, Bethel and Douglass pools. Youth 17 and younger are admitted at no charge from 3 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Admission at all other times is charged at regular rates. Learn to Swim programs are offered at all DPR swimming pools. Registration will be accepted noon to 6 p.m. through May 29 at all pools. Beginning May 30, registration will be taken during public swimming hours. Four two-week sessions will be offered beginning June 8. Class fee is $8 per participant. Additionally, special Learn to Swim programs will be offered for senior adults and persons with disabilities. Marion County residents age 17 and older who hold a current American Red Cross Advanced Lifesaving certificate may still apply for lifeguard positions. Apply at City County Building, 13th floor, Monday through Thursday, 8:30 a.m.to3p.m. For more information on any DPR aquatics programs, call ’631-6317.
Mailbox improvement The U.S. Postal Service has designated this week as “Mailbox Improvement Week.” Each year a week in May is set aside to remind customers on rural, city motorized and contract delivery routes to examine and improve, where necessary, the appearance of their mailboxes, Indianapolis General Manager/Postmaster Schiavone said.
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students surely pose a fair share of discipline problems in IPS and township schools. Black students, they say, are cited for “everything,” including fighting, stealing and insubordination. But they add that the actual number of legitimate discipline complaints against black children does not approach the number of suspensions and expulsions meted out by thp schools. In other words, black students sometimes are suspended or expelled for infractions by which white youngsters would only receive a reprimand. Terry said one girl in one of the township schools, an honor roll student and member of the school band who previously had never been in any sort of trouble, was caught shoplifting during an out-of-state trip with the band. The girl, a freshman, was promptly expelled from school, and lost all her school credits. “It was the only thing on her record,” she said. Johnson called the action “a stiff penalty” on a young girl who had made a mistake. Johnson said one young man in IPS, consigned to special education class, was later found to be gifted; -in a 'hi9 file' «ne 'Of" the -guidance !«Ottnselors wrote that the child “stinks.” Neither woman says, however, that overt racism is rampant in public and township schools; when asked, Johnson’s response is a flat “No.” Instead, she says, many of the racial problems in the school system is the result of cultural misunderstanding. “What I’ve seen is black and white, two different cultures,” she said. “The school system doesn’t know how to adapt to black cultural needs.”
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