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1 4A DETROIT FREE PRESS; WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1 987 Couple held in KAL jet crash; man kills self CRASH, from Page 1A Thai officials doubted there were any survivors. THE FLIGHT originated in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, and stopped briefly in Abu Dhabi to take on 1 1 passengers and drop off the two people caught Tuesday trying to leave Bahrain. The two were identified in passports as Shinichi Hachiya, 60, and Mayumi Hachiya, 28, but the passports were believed to be forged. The two were believed to be Japanese or Korean and apparently were traveling as father and daughter. They were stopped at the immigration counter while trying to board a flight for Rome, Japanese Embassy Charge D'Affaires Takao Natsume said.

Seated on the edge of a low table within sight of the immigration officials and two Japanese Embassy officers who had been following them, they produced two cigarets and chewed the filters, each loaded with a poison capsule, Natsume said. Within seconds, they slumped to the floor, stiffened and became unconscious, he said. The two were taken to the Bahraini Defense Forces hospital in Manama. The man died a few hours later. The woman remained unconscious, but doctors said she was expected to survive, Natsume said.

SOUTH KOREAN Assistant Foreign Minister Park Soo Gil said in Seoul authorities were investigating the incident "very carefully." "I strongly suspect they are the criminals who could have planted a bomb in the plane," Park said. South Korea's government broadcasting service said investigators were checking possible links between the woman and Chosen Soren, an organization of Koreans living in Japan that supports North Korea. Security officials in Bahrain said investigators also were checking on possible ties between the couple and the Japanese Red Army terrorist group, but Natsume said he had no evidence of such a connection. The Japanese Red Army has had links to various Middle East terrorist groups and to North Korea. Some of its members sought refuge in North Korea several years ago.

The capture of the couple came a day after KAL President Cho Choong Kun told South Korean television he suspected the crash was the work of terrorists bent on disrupting the 1988 Summer Olympic Games that North Korea has threatened to boycott. Wayne County cutbacks could hamper crack war I I- w2 dBmr. that we would give him in terms of being sentenced to the prisons. There is room as of this moment. And the sheriff was there, too to take prisoners who are arrested and who deserve to be detained in the county jail." "We intend to arrest them and take them off the street," he said.

"If somebody else puts them on the street, it won't be because we haven't done our part." CHIEF RECORDER'S Court Judge Dalton Roberson said the crackdown will be effective only if it handled systematically. "We are trying to devise a system to track the cases as they move through the courts and just don't get lost" among all the other cases, Roberson said. Roberson, too, said closing part of the county jail compounds the problem. "Without that jail, a place to put these people, it's going to be rough," he Author James Baldwin, center, poses with Judge Damon Keith of the 6th and Mayor Young during a reception at the Manoogian Mansion where Baldwin died Monday night in France at age 63. Author James Bald "We compared that with prior Tuesdays in the past four months, and that's about a doubling on the average of what we've been experiencing on a typical Tuesday," Ward said.

"We like to see aggressive police action, and it looks like we're beginning to see it," Ward said. In 36th District Court Tuesday, 21 people were arraigned on various drug charges before Magistrate C. Lorene Royster. "Frankly I'm glad to see the push on drugs," Royster said. "I think drugs and guns are a major source of upwards of 70 percent of the crime." Police Chief William Hart and other police officials will meet daily to refine the system.

Hart said they will make the results of their raids public weekly. Young said Tuesday that he had not seen the police report on Monday's drug raids, but said, "In general, they said it went well." YOUNG ALSO called for more action against crack trafficking at the federal level. "We have yet to sit down with the federal authorities. Something will have to be done to stop crack at its source and I don't see enough being done by the federal government. "I think we ought to take some of the forces that we have over there on the Persian Gulf and take some of the valiant troops that invaded Grenada and put them on some of the sources of crack." Asked whether there is adequate jail and prison space to handle the expected increase in crack cases and convicts, Young said: "All I can tell you is last week in my office Bob Brown, who is Director of Corrections, said that he would take all CRACK, from Page 1A 1,000 spaces or more," he said.

The problem of jail space could be a major stumbling block, criminal justice officials agreed Tuesday. Fifteen alleged crack dealers and customers were charged Tuesday in 36th District Court. All were arrested In raids conducted Monday and early Tuesday. Sheriff Robert Ficano said McNa-mara's plan to eliminate jail beds did not send the crackdown "down the drain, (but) obviously, it has a serious Impact on it. It would certainly put a crimp in it.

It certainly sends out the wrong message." Ficano said the reduction of 128 jail beds would make it more difficult to keep suspected drug dealers off the streets while they await trial. Approval by the County Board of Commissioners is not required. Prosecutor John O'Hair said his office currently is understaffed, and that the layoffs will worsen the situation. He said a state grant would allow him to keep two prosecutors dedicated entirely to drug cases. But O'Hair said he may have to fight the cutbacks in court if the Legislature does not pass an emergency aid package.

McNamara also announced a $1.3 million cutback in the Juvenile Court budget. Chief Probate Judge Joseph J. Per-nick said the cutback, effective Tuesday, will make it tougher to provide speedy court proceedings against juvenile offenders. GEORGE WARD, chief assistant Wayne County Prosecutor, said of the 15 crack warrants issued Tuesday: momentum If there's nowhere we can send these people." O'Hair said, "We can't afford to get tired. We have reason to be optimistic and hopeful that we will stop the narcotics problem.

It's important to keep in mind that the lack of jail space Is not going to prevent us from experiencing a successful result." "Most dope dealers will make bond," he said. "We want to make sure that no matter what, their cases go through the system and they get sentenced to prison." Free Press Staff Writers Shirley Carswell, Jim Finicelstein, Jack Kres-nak, Sandy McClure and Joe Swick-ard contributed to this report. It was written by Staff Writer Jane ahiii. II. vtimi' i.i iif.

iimiii ill Krru Liir BALDWIN, from Page 1A about the life and death of America here." Few authors expressed the plight of blacks as well as the fiery Baldwin, who once said: "My birthright was that I was born a man, to live and to die. My inheritance was that I was born a n- to be despised." Few critics quarreled with his intensity or his ability to cross the color line in his writing. "No other Negro writer is as successful as Mr. Baldwin in telling society just what it feels like to be a Negro in the United States," said reviewer Geoffrey Godsell in 1963. Baldwin died in France, where he had lived much of the time since leaving the United States in 1949 to escape segregation.

(Although he called France "a refuge far from the American madness," he preferred to call himself "a commuter" instead of an expatriate.) It was while living in France in 1953 that he published his best-known work, the passionate novel "Go Tell It on the Mountain," based on his experiences as a teenage storefront preacher in Harlem. Baldwin died in the French Riviera village of St. PauI-de-Vence near Nice. He had suffered from cancer and underwent an operation for removal of half his stomach last spring. A friend said the funeral would be Friday in New York.

BALDWIN'S FAME came mostly from his novels. But many felt his literary reputation rested on his essays, notably "Notes of a Native Son," "Nobody Knows My Name" and "The Fire Next Time." "Baldwin was a superlative polemicist as well as a first-rate writer of fiction and drama," said Alvin Aubert, The Piaget Dancer Watch. Brilliantly choreographed by the master artisans of Piaget. jf 2fcsrr-m it' Hie pholoDetroil l-ree Press U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, left, he was the guest of honor in 1980.

dies at 63 Baldwin's Works "Go Tell It on the Mountain," novel, 1953 "Notes of a Native Son," essays, 1955 "The Amen Corner," play, 1955 and 1964 "Giovanni's Room," novel, 1958 "Nobody Knows My Name," essays, 1960 "Another Country," novel, 1962 "The Fire Next Time," essays, 1963 "Blues for Mr. Charlie," play, 1964 "Nothing Personal," with Richard Avedon, 1964 "Going to Meet the Man," 1966 "Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone," novel, 1968 "A Rap on Race," with Margaret Mead, 1971 "The Woman at the Well," play, 1972 "No Name in the Street," 1972 "One Day When I Was Lost," play, 1973 "If Beale Street Could Talk," novel, 1974 "Little Man, Little Man," 1975 "The Devil Finds Work," essays, 1976 "Just Above My Head," novel, 1979 "Selected Poems: Jimmy's Blues," 1983 "The Price of the Ticket: Collected Non-Fiction, 1948-1985," 1985 "Evidence of Things Not Seen," 1986 like a slum, if you come from New York; but it does if you drive from Beverly Hills, I have said that it is a very long drive, long and increasingly ugly; then one is in the long, flat streets of Watts, low, flat houses on either side. For a New Yorker, where the filth is piled so high that the light can never break through, Watts looks, at first, like a fine place to raise a child. There are little patches of yard, which can be enclosed by a fence, and a tree to which one can attach a swing, and space for a barbecue pit. But then, one looks again, and sees how spare, shabby and dark the houses are.

One sees that garbage collection is scarcely more -efficient here than it is in Harlem. One walks the long street and sees all that one sees in the East: the shabby pool halls, the shabby bars, the boarded-up doors and windows, the plethora of churches and lodges and liquor stores, the shining automobiles, the wine bottles in the gutter, the garbage-strewn alleys, and the young people, boys and girls, in the street. Over it all hangs a miasma of fury and frustration, a perceptible darkening, as of storm clouds, of rage and despair, and the girls move with a ruthless, defiant dignity, and the boys move against the traffic as though they are moving against the enemy. The enemy is not here, of course, but his soldiers are, in patrol cars, armed." a Wayne State professor who teaches English and Afro-American literature and creative writing. "From the 1950s onward, he stood head and shoulders with the Afro-American novelist Ralph Ellison in realizing the uses to which the essential Afro-American experience could be put in literature.

"Like Ellison, Baldwin draws upon the Afro-American folk art forms blues, jazz, spirituals, folk tales, etc. to infuse his writings with a sense of life as it has been lived by black Americans." Baldwin was born in Harlem, the son of a pastor and his wife. His inflammatory writing style sprang from what one observer called his "three hysteria-tinged years" as a youthful preacher there. He decided in high school to be a writer, although his writing career didn't flower until he moved to France. Many of his early works were praised as sensitive, poetic, brutal and realistic.

But some critics detected an unevenness in his writing. His 1968 novel, "Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone," was panned frequently. In the 1970s, Baldwin expressed a more militant attitude toward racism, scorning integration as a failure and advocating that blacks seize power from whites. "Black people don't believe anything white people say anymore," he said in 1983. To the end, he refused to compromise his views.

"I was a maverick," he told an interviewer, "in the sense that I depended on neither the white world nor the black world. That was the only way I could have played it. I had to say: 'A curse on both your The New York Times and Reuters contributed to this report. then the air of sea and the impulse to dancing would sometimes have transformed our dreadful rooms. Our lives might have been very different.

But no, he brought with him from Barbados only black rum and a blacker pride, and magic incantations which neither healed nor saved. He did not understand the people among whom he found himself, for him they had no coherence, no stature and no pride. He came from a race which had been flourishing at the very dawn of the world a race greater and nobler than Rome or Judea, mightier than Egypt he came from a race of kings, kings who had never been taken in battle, kings who had never been slaves. He spoke to us of tribes and empires, battles, victories and monarchs of whom we had never heard they were not mentioned in our school books and invested us with glories in which we felt more awkward than the secondhand shoes we wore. In the stifling room of his pretensions and expectations, we stumbled wretchedly about, stubbing our toes, as it were, on rubies, scraping our shins on golden caskets, bringing down, with a childish cry, the splendid purple tapestry on which, in pounding gold and scarlet, our destinies and inheritance were figured." From "Mo Name in the Street," 1972 "Watts doesn't immediately look Excerpts From Baldwin's Writings From the novel "Go Tell it on the Mountain," 1953 "This was indeed, she realized as he dropped his eyes, the bitter, troubling point.

He could not endure the thought of being left alone with his mother, with nothing whatever to put between himself and his guilty love. With Florence gone, time would have swallowed up all his mother's children, except himself; and he, then, must make amends for all the pain that she had borne, and sweeten her last moments with all the proofs of love. And his mother required of him one proof only, that he tarry no longer in sin. With Florence gone, his stammering time, his playing time, contracted with a bound to the sparest interrogative second, when he must stiffen himself, and answer to his mother, and all the host of Heaven, yes or no." From the novel "Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Cone," 1968 "Our father how shall I describe our father? was a ruined Barbados peasant, exiled in a Harlem which he loathed, where he never saw the sun or the sky he remembered, where life took place neither indoors nor without, and where there was no joy. By which I mean, no joy that he remembered.

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