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Herman investigation THE ASSOCIATED HtESS WASHINGTON - A lawyer from Maine will investigate allega tions that Labor Secretary Alexis Herman engaged in influence-ped dling and solicitation of $250,000 in illegal campaign contributions, a federal appeals court announced today. Ralph 1. Lancaster Jr., a private attorney practicing in Maine and Massachusetts, was appointed by the court to probe accusations that Herman as a White House aide had a deal to receive a 10 percent kickback for aiding clients of a firm co-owned by a dose friend. After announcing the appoint ment of Lancaster, the court dis closed that Herman went to court May 18 seeking to avoid a criminal investigation of the allegations by an independent counsel. The court denied Herman's motion for an order declining appointment of a prosecutor in the case. The labor secretary argued that a preliminary investigation by Attorney General Janet Reno failed to support a determination that there were reasonable grounds to proceed. The court found that Reno's application is "Not facially defi cient, and her determination is not reviewable ... Consequently, we are bound by" the provisions of feder al law on the appointment of inde pendent counsels such as Lancaster. Lancaster is a partner in the Portland, Maine, firm of Pierce Atwood, practicing in both civil and criminal areas of the law. Lancaster, a graduate of Har vard Law School, was appointed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1987-1988 as a special master to handle a civil case involving the states of New Jersey and Nevada. Reno asked the special panel of three appeals court judges on May 11 to appoint an independent counsel to investigate Herman. Winston-Salem Native plants feet firmly into Texas soil LaTasha Wilson, the daughter of Lafayette A and Delories H. Wilson, has been an active volun teer since her undergraduate years at the University of North Caroli na Greensboro and Appalachian State University. Her earliest expe rience was with Walk America. She is the campus activities advisor for the National Pan-Hellenic Council and the Metropolitan Vol unteer Program at the University of Houston. "It doesn't matter how, busy she is, LaTasha will always stop what she's doing to make time for you and to make you feel like you are important," said Lisa Nicholson (9SBFA), campus activities advisor who works with Wilson. "And she always has a smile on her face." Outside of the office, she chairs the Houston Graduate Chapter of , Zeta Phi Beta's National Service Project. The National Service Pro ject is Stork's Nest, which is an educational and redistribution ser vice center which helps women with prenatal and postnatal coun seling. Wilson feels a special affin ty with this program since it was started in the same year she was born ? 1972. The program helps * low-income women usually referred by the government agen cies. The Lambda Zeta Chapter currently hosts three nests: two in Houston and one in Anahuac. Wilson volunteers "to give back to the community and to try to educate myself about the commu nity issues that involve certain peo ple who have a different perspective from mine." Wilton Brother of King assassin says funeral will be Held today TT^E ASSOCIATED PRESS ] NASHVILLE, Tennessee - A funeral for James Earl Ray, the confessed assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., will be held this morn ing, his brother said. Jerry Ray said Monday the funeral will be at the Metropoli tan i Interdenominational Church in Nashville. James Earl Ray, 70, died April 23 of liver failure caused by chronic hepatitis. He was serving a 99-year sentence for killing King in Memphis in 1968. Though he pleaded guilty to killing King and avoided the death penalty, Ray almost immediately recanted and spent nearly three decades trying to gain a trial. Jerry Ray said his brother's ashes will be at the funeral. They will eventually be flown to Ireland, where his ancestors were from. Ray has said he hopes King's relatives, who supported James Earl Ray's efforts for a trial, will attend the funeral. I Woman plans walk to Africa! THE ASSOC IATED PRESS AMHERST, Mass - For Ingrid Askew, it will take one year and thousands of miles to walk through some of history's darkest moments. Askew is part of a group that plans to set out Saturday to walk to Africa in an effort to retrace the trans-Atlantic slave trade that furnished America and Europe with slaves for 360 years. The 100 participants in the Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage will cover 7,000 miles - but, according to Askew, the trek will be grueling because of the sights she'll see, not the distance she'll walk. "We're going to be going to slave auction blocks, sites of lynchings and slave-ship ports," Askew said from her home in Amherst. "Prayer has to be brought in because of the egre gious history we're going to be looking at." The group will walk IS miles a day and sail across the Atlantic to dramatize one of the most painful episodes of the world's past, said Askew, a stage director and black activist. "It was never written in our history books in school how people were forced into horren dous slave ships, how people were forced away from their families and often died in the ships' holds," she said. "It's such an evil and ugly thing." "We were just taught that slaves were brought from Africa, they picked sugar cane and cot ton and helped build the coun try," Askew said. "And they were happy and sang songs." The trip is scheduled to begin Saturday in Leverett and then wind down the East Coast, through cities such as Boston, Washington, Charlotte and New Orleans. During the group's stop in Boston June 7 to 9, their planned visits include Columbus Park in the North End, where slaves were sold into bondage, and Copp's Hill burial ground, where many free blacks were laid to rest. The group will then sail to the Caribbean Islands, Brazil, and finally Senegal. Once in Africa, the pilgrims will walk down the west coast, where the slave trade prospered, to Ango la. They plan to be transported to their last stop, Cape Town, either by bus or boat, in May 1999, Askew said. Not all will walk the entire trip; some will join pvleave along the way. Askew said participants will rely on the kindness of strangers and plan to sleep in such placet as the homes of locals or or gymnasium floors. The tripV advisers include Harvard profes sor and author Cornel West anc U.S. Rep. John Conyers, O-f Michigan. The walk was largely orga nized by Sister Clare Carter, 47 a white Buddhist nun who live* in Leverett and hatched the plar for the trip while on a similai walk in 1993 in Sri Lanka. "I felt there has to be a way we can express our real heart and humanity, to change, atone and to heal," Carter said. The Middle Passage was part of the triangular slave route or which Europeans transported millions of Africans to the Americas for sale. Most were delivered to the Caribbean anc Brazil, but America received about 6 percent of the slaves Frank Montero, racial pioneer, dies at 89 j THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK Frank C. Montero, a former associate exec utive director of the National Urban League, has died. He was 89 and died on May 8 at an Oberlin, Ohio, nursing home. Puring his tenure with the league, Montero directed a foun dation that brought African stu dents to the United States and ran a program for the United States Mission to the United Nations to acclimate Africans and other third-world delegates to American society. He also served as vice president of a company that promoted inte grated real-estate developments and went on to become vice presi dent of the Tishman real estate company. As a student at Howard Uni versity he majored in economics and studied under Ralph Bunche. A long-time resident of the Riverdale section of the Bronx, Montero in 1960 became a foot ? jl ? note to John F. Kennedy's presi dential victory. The State Depart ment had turned down a request from a foundation headed by Montero for a $100,000 grant to bring poor African students to the United States, and a Kennedy family foundation instead provid ed the money. As campaign coordinator for Mayor Robert Wagner's 1961 re election run, Montero won an appointment to the city's human rights commission and a job as special assistant to Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, the American delegate to the United Nations. Mutual Credit Union Where Your Dollars Make More Cents "Your Community Credit Union" ? Savings Accounts ? Direct Deposit ? Christmas Club ? Personal Loans ? New and Used Cars ? Mortgage Loans ? CD's Stop by or call TODAY! 1225 E. 5th Street fV 724-9081 ii It's okay to I consider color... liiiiiWi jgfcTMgMi ...as long as it's green. 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