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J. Somfiipsesii: DNA evidence called incriminating Afi i r. Mostly sunny Today's hloh I "or Tonight's low, 68 Weather 1 2 I 4 News index, A2 Tuesday, August 23, 1994 50 CENTS: I A THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION i rn 'V BALTIMORE SUN Short tut a "town meeting" at Dunbar High School in East Baltimore, Chavis called his firing a "cruel-fixion." The NAACP board fired Cha- vis after he agreed to pay a for- V' mer employee up to $332,400 without informing the board or -the NAACP general counsel to head off a threatened lawsuit, Mary Stansel, the fired employ- ee, has accused him of job dis- crimination and sexual ha-' rassment Successors claim Chavis lied about accomplishments A6 NAACP lawyers about 6:40 p.m. to say that lawyers for Chavis were in his chambers seeking a temporary restraining order. Moore declined to issue the order on the spot, but scheduled a hearing for this morning, Abrams said.

In the complaint filed with Moore, Chavis' lawyers contend that the NAACP board "wrongfully and unlawfully" fired Chavis, because he was given neither adequate notice nor a formal hearing, as stipulated by the NAACP constitution and parliamentary procedure. The court national reputation." They also say the 46-year-old civil rights activist would be "un- i employable in his area of exper-, Use" and be put in the "untenable position of not being able to support his family." Chavis' lawyers asked the judge to block the NAACP from firing Chavis, preventing him from running the NAACP, disparaging his reputation, conducting a hearing to dismiss him, or naming an interim or permanent replacement as executive director. Meanwhile Monday night, at to beauty 'An increasing number of black v. y-J women are defining beauty on Ikes Washington In a surprise move, lawyers tor oustear NAACP Executive Director Ben jamin Chavis asked a Washing ton judge Monday night to block the civil rights group from firing him and naming an interim replacement The group's board officially fired Chavis on Saturday and ap pointed an interim successor. Willie Abrams, an NAACP as sistant general counsel, said Judge Luke Moore of District of Columbia Superior Court cauea 4 r- coimte I MR Sj- 1 1 I "a til, row.

By Douglas A. Blackmon STAFF WRITER tlanta's airport scandal A A claimed another casualty Mm Monday, with the federal court conviction of former Atlanta City Councilman D.L. "Buddy" Fowlkes on one charge of accepting a bribe from airport concessions owner Harold Echols and three counts of income tax fraud. The conviction of Fowlkes, 66, a city official for 32 years until his removal from office last year, brings to five the number of people either convicted or who have pleaded guilty in the airport scandal so far. Fowlkes was acquitted on an additional 48 counts of bribery and three counts of tax fraud.

"I accept the verdict," Fowlkes said in a statement, "although I'm not pleased with it. I have never sold my vote and plan to appeal the verdict." The conviction, built around Echols' allegations that he paid off six City Council members, cast a pall over City Hall, rekindling speculation over whether prosecutors will try to indict Council President Marvin S. Arlington, whom Echols also has Seniors would say tag about Arrington, but reaf- flrmprf that thpii" invpsHonrinn continues. But they were clearly relieved that the jury was willing-' II 4 4 I I "1 i i jl jr I Freshly arrived Cuban refugees, surrounded by clothes, the U.S. military, await processing Monday at Guantanamo Benjamin Chavis was 'wrongfully and unlawfully removed, his complaint says.

papers were made available by NAACP lawyers. Unless the firing is immediately reversed, the lawyers argue, Chavis will "suffer irreparable injury to his good name and I 4 1 V. Associated Prwsa sheets and towels issued by Bay Naval Station, Cuba. SCOTT WISEMAN Palm Beach Port up camp Monday for Cuban U.S. Marines catch the eye of ades of U.S.

policy and re-route them to Guantanamo. "Our future is not sure," said Jose Israel Sanchez Ortega, who fled from Havana and spent five days at sea before being picked up. He was afraid of being sent back to Cuba, where he said he could face charges of illegal abandonment and enemy propaganda. "You can't imagine what' they would do to us if we ent back," Montano said. "You live in a free country, and your imagination just can't conceive of what they would do, but we know." "The U.S.

policy is wrong," he complained bitterly. "This is not another Mariel. Just look around. These are decent people. They just want to go to the U.S.

and work Flood of refugees is growing A8 i- Free from Castro, but trapped own terms, claiming the natural close-cropped look as one distinctly their own. LIVING, I Strilce brings Nixon homa Ex-Brave Otis Nixon is in during the baseball strike to check on his ailing dad and to prepare to open a second electronics store. f- SPORTS, CI Chronic illness It's not in your head: But that's -'what doctors once told those 'suffering from chronic fatigue and aches. Now fibromyalgia is considered one of the most of all arthritis-related illnesses. LIVING, B6 I mi i VOL 127, NO.

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"But we don't know where that point is yet'J Having sought freedom, the Cubans have at least found safety but: also heat, boredom, disappointment and uncertainty. More' than 1,000 arrived Monday, brought in by U.S. Coast Guard cutters that pulled them from green waters, and at least, another 1,000 reportedly were en route. Camp Buckeley, the first settlement for the Cuban newcomers, is surrounded by concertina wire. There is a breathtaking view of the Water and cliffs, but the sun is brutal.

A woman shows a stranger heat rash on her naked baby. When the refugees left their homeland, they recall, they had no idea that President Clinton late last week would reverse dec- wi'Viv v. yf (if 4 v. i i In i I I Russia will pay victims of Communist regime SMITH Staff Ex-City Councilman D.L "Buddy" Fowlkes and his -wife, Vicki, leave court Monday after his1 conviction. to behevecJteytestmiony-by i Echols, who admitted on "the stand that he had previously lied.

"A jury, if given independent corroboration, will convict on the basis of Harold Echols' testimo- Tf8'. 1 Proecutors narrowly miss-hung iurY in cqse Fl to seek compensation. "I don't want to deal with it. I don't want to start proving things and collecting, all those documents," said Anna Zykova, 62, whose grandfather and father lost all they had in Communist purges. The order, which took effect upon its official publication Mon- a day, says millions of former Sovi ets, foreigners and their children whose property was seized with- the borders of present-day Russia are eligible for compensation.

Tens of millions of Russians were executed, starved to death during forced agricultural re forms or imprisoned, sent to Si- No exit Strain already is showing among Cuban refugees stuck on the island they tried (escape from. By Bob Dart WASHINGTON BUREAU Guantanamo Bay Naval Station, Cuba Sharing the scant shade of a tin-roofed shed, the old men played, dominoes without passion while their sons cursed the cruel irony that land- ed their voyages to freedom on this craggy corner of the island they had fled. "You've got to be a little crazy to do what we did, but not crazy enough to go out on the high -sea knowing we would come here," said Louis Montano, 26, a hotel waiter from Havana. "We trust a few people in your government, but we are used to betrayal, so we are scared." "It is better to die at the bottom of the sea than to die over there in Cuba," said Guillermo Chea, who had joined with nine friends to buy a 17-foot boat for $3,000 in U.S. currency.

"I understand the U.S. government policy. They don't want another Mariel. I trust the U.S.A. They will not leave me here." Wearing new identification bracelets, the Cubans under the shed had passed through the computerized processing that American soldiers have devel-: oped in assigning 14,616 Hai-r tian refugees to camps on the sprawling, 45-square-mile U.S.

Navy base on the Caribbean. -Now similar camps are being established for as many as 10,000 Cubans. "At some point, water and 4 ASSOCIATED PRESS Moscow The Russian gov- ernment says it will pay compen-' sation for property seized or lost in political repressions since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, possibly opening a Pandora's box of financial claims. The step could help purge Russia of its legacy of Communist terror. But it also could be a financial and legal nightmare for cash-strapped authorities in a country where virtually every 1 family has been touched by repression.

In addition, the maximum payment about 2 million ru bles, or less than $1,000 is so low and the procedure to get it is berian camps, robbed of their so complex that some victims im- possessions or otherwise re-mediately ruled out any attempt pressed under Soviet rule. I'iyj I.