Tuesday, Ma, 2.1999
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Charges settled against Malcolm X's daughter
The Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS — Prosecutors agreed yesterday to drop murder-for-hire charges against a daughter of Malcolm X in a deal that requires her to abandon her allegations of an FBI frame-up and seek drug and psychiatric treatment.
The settlement was presented yesterday morning at Qubilah Shabazz's scheduled appearance for a trial on charges of plotting to kill Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. U.S. District Judge James Rosenbaum approved the agreement without comment in a hearing that lasted only minutes.
U. S. Attorney David Lillehaug said the charges arose "out of an extraordinary set of historical and personal events which appeared to have triggered Shabazz's actions."
Shabazz, who saw her father gunned down 30 years ago, was accused of trying to have Farrakhan killed because she believed the fiery minister had a hand in her father's assassination and was a threat to her mother.
Defense attorney Percy Sutton said Shabazz's lawyers decided they could not risk the chance she might be convicted. She faced up to 90 years in prison and a $2.25 million fine.
Outside the courtroom, Shabazz said she was relieved that it's over and that she's glad it's behind her.
Lillehaug said he thought that an initial attempt at treatment rather than prison was a more just approach.
chiiatric and chemical dependency program, gets a job or attends school and remains law-abiding. Shabazz would spend the first three months in a residential treatment program in Texas. If Shabazz meets those conditions, the indictment would be dismissed.
The settlement includes an affidavit in which Shabazz accepts responsibility for participating in the plot but maintains her innocent plea.
In the affidavit, Shabazz said a statement she gave to FBI agents — described by prosecutors as a confession — was not coerced and acknowledged that the government acted in good faith in prosecuting the case.
Critics of the government's decision to indict Shabazz had suggested it was done to divide Black Americans.
The judge asked Shabazz if she understood that signing the agreement, known as a pretrial diversion, meant she gave up her right to a speedy trial.
"Yes, I understand that," Shabazz answered.
Qubilah Shabazz was 4 when she and her three sisters accompanied their pregnant mother Feb. 21, 1965, to the Audubon Ballroom in New York City, where Malcolm X was shot and killed.
Three members of the Nation of Islam were convicted in the assassination.
Malcolm X's widow, Betty Shabazz, agreed last week to end three degrees of animosity and appear with Farrakhan on Saturday at New York's Apollo Theater to raise money for her daughter's defense.
Fate of building is uncertain
The Associated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY — Should it be refurbished where it stands? Razed and rebuilt at the same site? Demolished and replaced with a monument?
The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, gouged by a truck bomb, faces an uncertain future as recovery workers poke the ruins for the missing.
Once the rescue effort is complete, probably within days, structural engineers will get their first thorough check of the girders and beams to see how badly the building's skeleton was weakened. A complete analysis and cost estimate of rebuilding could take six months.
"Emotions should have a chance to cool," said Ron Loftis, a designer who worked on the nine-story, 380,000-square-foot building. "Some people believe this is a building that killed. Some people think this building saved lives. Some people think it symbolizes some nasty thing, and they never want to think about it again. I can understand every viewpoint."
Made of reinforced concrete with a glass facade, the building named for a former federal judge was built in 1977 for $44.5 million — a fraction of the likely cost of repair.
President Clinton already has committed whatever money is needed to replace the work spaces
or the federal agencies that were in the building. But federal officials also pledge to be sensitive to local feelings as they do so.
"All levels of government as well as the people of Oklahoma will be involved in the final decision," said Marcella Banks, a representative for the General Services Administration, the federal agency in charge of buildings.
Gov. Frank Keating is among those who would like to see the site turned into a memorial park with a bronze statue of a firefighter cradling a baby. That image of the disaster, captured moments after the blast in a photograph distributed by The Associated Press, was published on front pages worldwide and came to symbolize the tragedy.
Sentiment for razing the site and putting up a memorial materialized almost immediately after the extent of the death and destruction became apparent.
Despite the gaping hole in the building, Loftis said significant portions remained intact, including the elevators and stairwalls on both sides. Loftis said there didn't appear to be any technical obstacles to rebuilding the structure.
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