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7A NEWS / The Charlotte Post Thursday, November 20,1997 Brawley lawsuit is underway Continued from page 1A peace,” and carrying placards such as “Tawana told the truth” and “Pagones is a rapist.” “Every African American within an airplane ride should be here,” said Don Hill, of Paterson, N.J. Once inside, one of Maddox’s first actions was to ask state Supreme Court Justice S. Barrett Hickman to allow more evidence, a motion Hickman quickly cut short. Last month, Hickman turned down a similar request, barring the former Brawley advisers from calling witnesses they claimed could prove allegations against Pagones. Hickman ruled the three lost the right to question grand jury findings after refusing to cooperate in the investigation. Maddox said Hickman’s rulings amounted to a gag order. “1 think (Maddox) is desperate,” Pagones said. Pagones found himself at the center of the Brawley case soon after the 15-year-old girl was found near her Dutchess County home on Nov. 28, 1987, following a four-day disappearance. The. girl’s body was smeared with feces, and racial epithets were written on her torso with char coal. She said she was abducted and raped. Brawlers advisers accused Pagones, then an assistant dis trict attorney, of being one of the girl’s white attackers. The charge came as the alleged abduction grabbed national headlines after protests claiming racial injustice and the involvement of celebrities like Bill Cosby and Mike Tyson. Pagones was exonerated in 1988 by the same grand jury that concluded the Brawley case was a hoax. He sued Brawley and her advis ers later that same year, claiming the unproven allegations gave him insomnia, stomach ailments and anxiety attacks. Now 36 and an assistant state attorney gener al, Pagones has said he wants to clear his name, said his attorney William Stanton. Brawley lost her case in 1991. Her refusal to answer repeated subpoenas led to a default judg ment for Pagones. For Sharpton, the case high lights his public transformation from the flamboyant minister who compared New York's attor ney general to Adolf Hitler to today’s more mainstream Democratic politician. Time has been less kind to Mason, who was disbarred in 1995 for price gouging, theft and abandoning chents. Maddox was suspended from practicing law after refusing to cooperate with an ethics panel probing his con duct in the Brawley case. Brawley, who is now 25 and has been silent about the incident for a decade, is not expected to testify during the trial. She reportedly lives in Washington, D.C., attend ed Howard University and is now known by the Mushm name Maryam Muhammad. “.VKW LOOKS'^ Haiiior Khop Mon.-Fri. 8am-6pm Sat. 7:30am-6pm Appt. 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Details in Religion, page lOA. Lybrand found “certain exces sive and unreasonable expendi tures” by top officials including $112,000 in questionable spending by Gibson. Problems surfaced again recently when Dukes, a nation al board member from New York and close aide to Evers- Williams, pleaded guilty to attempted grand larceny last month. Dukes, 65, former president of New York City’s Off-Track Betting Corp., admitted in court that she took more than $13,000 from a leukemia- stricken 0TB employee who had trusted her to cash her paychecks and help pay her bills. Last year. Ghee of Virginia, another Evers-Williams sup porter on the board, was sen- Europe focus of Gabon summit By Paul Ejime PAN-AFRICAN NEWS AGENCY LIBREVILLE, Gabon - Leaders of 71 African, Caribbean and Pacific nations began a crucial summit earlier this month in the Gabonese capital, Libreville, to revamp the group's traditional trade and aid dominated relationship with the 15-nation European Union. An umbrella agreement jknown as the Lome Convention ■dias bound together these two groups of developing and industrialised nations. However the treaty, which went into effect in 1975, has come under intense pressure for a radical overhaul in view of intervening global economic forces. It is due to terminate in the year 2000. “The question is no longer whether there will be a new ACP-EU agreement but what shape or form this will take,” a delegate said. The leaders are to consider policy documents to this effect prepared by the group’s 66th session of the Council of Ministers, which met in the Gabonese capital ahead of the two-day summit. 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