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October 16, 1986
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Butch Lewis
NEW YORK - There are currently
three heavyweight champions
of the world: Trevor Berbick
of the World Boxing Council,
Tim Wither spoon of the
World Boxing Association, and
Michael Spinks of the International
Boxing Federation.
Spinks is the most popular of
the three because of a pair of
wins over Larry Holmes.
Soon there is to be one. Berbick
will fiffht MiWe Tv?nn r\n
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Nov. 22, then that winner will
fight the winner of the
Witherspoon-Tony Tubbs match.
Finally, that WBC-WBA champion
will fight IBF champion
Michael Spinks for all of the
championship marbles.
However, Butch Lewis,
Michael Spinks' manager and the
key to the fight-offs, is not content
to just take his millions and
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the drink house after Wilson had
left earlier that night.
"I heard Sammy ask (Wilson)
to buy him and Darryl a drink
Bason said. "The man (Wilson)
said no because he had already
bought drinks for the house.''
Ms. Williams said that Mitchell
was upset because Wilson refused
to buy drinks for him and Hunt.
" 'That is all right. We will fix
you,' " she quoted Mitchell as
saying to Wilson.
Ms. Bason said she saw Mitchell
with an ax handle and Hunt
with a knife while they were in
the drink house. The ax handle is
believed by the prosecution to be
the murder weapon.
However, Ms. Williams said
that she did not see Mitchell with
the ax handle. Both women said
they had been drinking that
night.
Under cross-examination by
defense attorney Laurel O.
Boyles, Ms. Bason said she first
talked to police about Wilson's
murder in October 1983.
Ms. Bason said she did not tell
police about Mitchell's involvement
with Wilson's murder in
1983 because she was scared and
nervous.
"I have had some run-ins with
Mr. Mitchell before, and I was
scared," she said. Mitchell later
threatened Ms. Bason at her
home about two months after
Wilson was killed, she said.
Ms. Williams, who did not talk
to police three years ago, said
Mitchell threatened her when he
returned to the drink house after
Wilson was killed.
"He said if I said anything he
" would cut my damn throat," Ms.
Williams said. "I was scared."
Under cross-examination, Ms.
Bason said she first told police
about Mitchell's involvement in
Wilson's murder when officers
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TONY BROWN
Syndicated Columnist
run. He has some old-fashioned
notions about right and wrong --
and, in this instance, freedom
and apartheid.
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Africa carries out a policy that
mimics the signs along its many
beaches: 'No trash, no dogs, no
blacks.' In effect, the most
elemental human rights are
denied to the majority of South
Africans," Lewis says.
He has announced that he will
not continue as co-promoter with
Don King of any bout sanctioned
by the WBA in the heavyweight
unification series.
Lewis has tried since 1982 to
change the WBA's relationship to
South Africa, which Lewis says
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The relationship is also incestuous:
Some partners of the
South Africa regime are also
WBA kingpins. South Africa
Supreme Court Judge H.W.O.
Klopper has been a mainstay on
the WBA Committee.
Unlike the 1BF and the WBC,
which steadfastly refuse any
recognition of South Africa, the
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vyd/\ presides at ngnts tnere and
unashamedly sanctions those
matches.
"Over the years, the WBA has
misled me. As recently as June of
this year, James J. Binns, the
WBA^s legal counsel and chairman
of the Pennsylvania State
Athletic Commission, and WBA
President Gilberto Mendoza
guaranteed me that the WBA
would sever all ties with South
Movement I
The writer is the executive
editor of the Chronicle.
Special To The Chronicle
CHAPEL HILL - The University
of North Carolina's board of
trustees met today to discuss
renaming the 23,000-seat Dean E.
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The meeting was called after a
group of alumni and former
coaches circulated a petition call- *
ing the structure's current name
"a lamentable and historical
blunder."
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columns akd features.
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Africa," Lewis told a cynical
white press corps in New York.
Instead of the evils of apartheid
and boxing's role in
perpetuating this human misery,
Lewis' integrity became the issue.
The Ring magazine reporter
even suggested that Lewis was a
hypocrite because "discrimination
does not exist in the South
^African boxing world."
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unaauniea, Lewis (while Congress
was giving President
Reagan a moral and diplomatic
wake-up call by overriding his
veto fcn--ifs sanctions of South
Africa) outlined his role in the
fight to pressure the racist whiteminority
government into giving
basic human rights to the black
majority.
* 'Specifically, I will neither
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no matter how many games he
has won," the petition says. "It
should honor -all basketball
coaches, and we are determined
to correct this grievous error.
* "All coaches have made
sacrifices," the petition reads.
"All coaches have to deal with
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