San Antonio Register (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 19, 1998 Page: 1 of 12
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University of Texas at San Antonio
; A 6900 N Loop 1604 West
San Antonio TX 78249
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Standing for Right, Justice and Equality Since 1931
March 19,1998 Vol. 66/39
Publisher’s La Masion kicks Black youths off property
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■K Mk 4 Kids could not see Michael
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Good character has a
place in your fatitre
Any. General Dan Morales talks with Red McCombs at the unveiling of a new billboard on E. Commerce near Rio
Grande. The BUI board gives a positive message to inner city kids.
Two black children, the only ones
waiting to catch aglimpse and maybe
an autograph of superstar Michael
Jordan, at the LaMasionHotel where
the Chicago Bulls were staying, were
ordered off the property. Security
for the Bulls told the youths that the
manager did not want them on the
property and told them to stand across
the street in the rain. Itrain mostly all
day Saturday and thechiklren braved
the weather to see Jordan, but there
effort went in vain.
There were no one else around, but
hotel employees, the father of the
children said. "We did not interfere
with their normal flow of business,
accept to get an autograph and pic-
ture of some of the players when
they walked outside. The security
person was very cordial and did not
mind thechiklren waiting to see the
greatest basketball player in the NBA,
but their hopes were denied when
the manager of La Masion did not
want the Black youths around.
"We could understand if there were
a crowd of people, but we were the
only people there. I>a Masion appar-
ently do not want African Ameri-
cans at their hotels when they treat
small children in such a manna.
Maybe African Americans should
not stay at there hotels if we cant be
treated any better than that.,” the
father added.
WUlie Mitchell, chairman of San Antonio Fighting Back, hugs Lauren and Evan Glosson at the press conference of
new biU board.
The Texas Publishers Association held its 12th annual convention in San Antonio this past weekend at the Gunter
Hold. Pictured above are Edwin Glosson, publisher of the San Antonio Register, Jo Robinson, San Antonio
Convention ft Visitors Bureau; Zarinah Shakir, Texas Publishers Association convention chairwoman and publisher
of the San Antonio Observer, Greg Moore, co publisher of the San Antonio Informer, Daphne Shepard, San Antonio
Convention ft Visitors Bureau and Thurman Jones, TPA President and publisher of the Minority Opportunity News
of Dallas. Photo by Dave
Sgt Maj. Gene McKinney
acquitted of 18 charges
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Will not get kicked out of Army
Dedicated To The Calling Of God’s
Command By The Power Of Service
Mount Zion First Baptist Church is in preparation for the
Anniversary Celebration of 49 years of dedicated ministry serv ice and
leadership to the Church and city Also, for their pastor.. Rev Claude W
Black. Jr., and his wife. Mrs- ZerNona Black, after which, this very
deserving couple will be retired.
Wc invite the public to conic and join us in the great celebration
Your presence on this occasion will be appreciated, honoring our pastor
and wife. Give them their flowers while they can enjoy them, speak kind
words while they can hear them.
Special tribute from the clergy, our guest speaker for the 4 ()0 P M
serv ice will be Rev Robert Miller, his choir, ushers, and congregation of
Calvary Baptist Church, of the city
FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Former Sgt.
Maj. of the Army Gene McKinney, a
Mack soldier who made Army history be-
fore sexual misconduct alk*aU°ns made
him of symbol of race andgender ten
along in Uie military, was cleared of all
but one of 1» charges last night in a dra-
matic end to his court-martial trial.
McKinney. 47, the first black soldier to
is sergeant major of the Army,
ivicted by an eight-member mili-
tary jury of obstruction of jt
The charge involved a pi
serve as
was corn
justice.
phone call that
McKinney Inade to one of his accusers, a
conversation Army investigators secret-
ly taped.
As his wife, Wilhcmina, sobbed silent-
ly, McKinney stood square-shouldered
and stone-faced in uniform as the jury
foreman, in a rapid cadence, pronounced
him not guilty 15 consecutive limes be-
fore he announced the lone guilty finding
and the additional not-guilty verdicts.
The conviction carries a maximum
penalty of five years in prison and a dis
honorable discharge, although the jury of
four high-ranking officers and four ser-
geants major was expected to render a
far more lenient punishment after the
court-martial s sentencing phase, which
will begin Monday
“He is extremely pleased,” Mc-
Kinney’s lawyer, Charles Gittins,
said after the verdict.
He said McKinney was “disap-
pointed by the one guilty finding,”
which Gittins characterized as “a
victimless crime” generated by “a
successful effort by the govern-
ment to trap him.”
Gittins said McKinney would
consider appealing the conviction,
but no decision has been made
The jury, apparently deciding
during more than 20 hours of delib-
erations that McKinney’s accusers
did not provide credible testimo-
ny, cleared him of four counts of
indecent assault, two counts of as-
sault and battery, two counts of
criminal threatening, and a single
charge of adultery, among other al-
legations.
If lie had been convicted on all
counts, McKinney would have fac-
ed a maximum prison term of
55‘/i years.
The outcome was a stunning set-
back for McKinney’s six accusers,
five of whom sat in the tightly
guarded court ram ‘he Amy
post outside Waricngli n
While most of the women
showed no emotion as the verdicts
were announced, retired Staff Sgt
Brenda Hoster. whose public accu-
sations against McKinney prompt-
ed the other women to come for-
ward, shook her head.
The verdicts posed public-rela-
tions problems for some Pentagon
officials, who portrayed the Mc-
Kinney prosecution as evidence of
the Defense Department's “zero
tolerance” policy of sexual abuse
after damaging scandals last year
at Army bases in Maryland and
Missouri.
Hoster’s attorney, Susan Barnes,
ia>d she was not surprised.
“These cases are hard to prove
i a military culture where women
are still treated as second-class
Citizens," she said. “They don’t
have as much credibility as men."
The verdicts disappointed some
women's rights advocates
“Certainly, I am surprised when
you have six women coming forth
with allegations of sexual miscon-
duct and none were believed," said
Karen Johnson, a vice president of
the National Organization for
Women.
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