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...self-proclaimed `spokesmen' for the Black community--Rev. Al Sharpton. C. Vernon Mason and Alton Maddox--have been giving advice to Ms. Brawley, the teenage girl who alleges that she was kidnapped, raped and abused for four days by a group of whites in upstate New York...
Governor Cuomo has again appointed a special prosecutor to handle the case, this time State Attorney General Robert Abrams. But Sharpton, Mason and Maddox are not satisfied with Abrams; they refuse to cooperate with authorities until another prosecutor is appointed...
Blacks are not unanimously grateful for the attention. Along with whites, they remember that Mason unsuccessfully challenged Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau at the polls three years ago, and some suspect that the lawyers are not above advancing their personal ambitions. Moderates of all races have winced at reports that Mason and Maddox have established ties with the fiery black Muslim Louis Farrakhan...
...four days by a gang of white men. Journalists subsequently < turned up discrepancies in the Brawley family's sketchy accounts of Tawana's absence. Witnesses reported seeing her at parties in a nearby town. Neighbors told of Tawana's prior disappearances and of violent conflicts between mother and daughter. Mason, Maddox and Sharpton subsequently tossed out casual accusations that Tawana's rapists included a Dutchess County assistant district attorney, a state trooper and a part-time policeman who shot himself to death days after the alleged gang rape. Local, state and federal investigators have found no evidence for their charges...
...launched what at first appeared to be a successful offensive into northern Iraq. The push was stopped by a counterattack in which the Iraqis, according to the Iranians, used poison gas; hundreds of Iraq's own civilians perished in the city of Halabja. Iran Expert Shaul Bakhash of George Mason University says the combination of Iraqi missile and chemical attacks disheartened the Iranians. "It brought home to them for the first time that they were exposed and alone...