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OCR Page 1 of 6F:\Cable\Data_Source\Cables\CD034\Nov98\M3578623.html
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PREC: ROUTINE
CLASS: UNCLASSIFIED
LINE1: RAAUZYUW RUESCNA4003 3311550-UUUU--RHEHAAX.
LINE2: ZNR UUUUU ZZH
LINE3: R 271550Z NOV 98
LINE4: FM AMEMBASSY CONAKRY
OSRI: RUESCN
DTG: 271550Z NOV 98
ORIG: AMEMBASSY CONAKRY
TO: RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 0007
INFO: RUEHZO/OAU COLLECTIVE 0003
RUEHDK/USDAO DAKAR SG
RUEHIA/USIA WASHDC 1002
RUEHBS/USEU BRUSSELS
SUBJ: DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCH-ACTIVIST: STOKELY
CARMICHAEL/KWAME TURE EULOGIZED AND LAID TO REST IN
GUINEA
SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED - PROTECT ACCORDINGLY.
TEXT:
UNCLAS CONAKRY 04003
0000
SENSITIVE NOFORN
DEPT FOR AF, AF/W, AND AF/RA
DEPT PLEASE PASS PC FOR AFRICA REGION - CARROLL
PARIS FOR WILLIAMS
LONDON FOR PFLAUMER
USAID FOR AFR/WA - DICKSON-HORTON
USIA FOR AF - CORCORAN, WEINHOLD, MUDD-KRIJGELMANS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV, PHUM, PINR, PREL, GV
SUBJECT: DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCH-ACTIVIST: STOKELY
CARMICHAEL/KWAME TURE EULOGIZED AND LAID TO REST IN
GUINEA
SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED - PROTECT ACCORDINGLY.
1. SUMMARY: NOTED AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST STOKELY
CARMICHAEL, WHO HAD CHANGED HIS NAME TO KWAME TURE, DIED OF
PROTSTATE CANCER IN CONAKRY ON 15 NOVEMBER. ACTIVE IN THE
U.S. IN THE 1960S, FIRST WITH THE STUDENT NONVIOLENT
COORDINATING COMMITTEE AND LATER AS A LEADING MEMBER OF THE
MILITANT BLACK PANTHER PARTY, CARMICHAEL/TURE MOVED TO GUINEA
IN 1969. ON 22 NOVEMBER, A SYMPOSIUM IN HIS HONOR WAS HELD AT
THE UNIVERSITY OF CONAKRY BY HIS "BIOLOGICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL
FAMILIES" BEFORE HIS BURIAL THAT AFTERNOON. AMBASSADOR AND
MRS. NAGY ACCOMPANIED THE FINAL CORTEGE TO THE CEMETARY FOR
THE GRAVESIDE SERVICE, AND EMBASSY OFFICERS ATTENDED PARTS OF THE
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