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Show E ___ — A4 MalcolmXonNew Postage Stamp ___TheSaltLakeTribune NATION/WORLD Sunday, December 27 11908 One of most controversial black leaders of 1960sto LOS ANGELES TIMES WASHINGTON — The image of Malcolm X, one of the most controversial black leaderso f the 1960s, will join the official ranks of American a by way of a U.S. postal stamp early next year. He becomesthe 22nd person honored in the postal service's Black Heritage Series, A widely used Associated Press photograph of Malcolm X answering a question at a 1964 news conference in New York will be featured on the 33-cent ‘amp. It also contains the namehe used at the end of his life, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, Among those praising the issuance was Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif.“Fstamp’s ar toooften, society loes not recognize leaders who may have \roversial, that are important Specifica been conlly to black \mericans,” she said in a recent intervie w. “‘Honor‘ng Malcolm X breaksthat kind of thinkin; Russell Adams, chairman of Afro-Ame rican Stud‘es at Howard University in Washingt on, added, The approval ofthis stamprepr an improve. ‘nent in America’s perspective ofesents s signifiance and positive impact on the Malcolm’ American scene, not only within the black community but the entire community.” Born Malcolm Little in 1925, Malcolm X changed his name after embracing the Nation of Islam while serving a prison term. Upon his release, he emerged Youngest Octuplet Undergoes Abdominal Surgery THE ASSOCIATEDPRESS be seen on 33-centerin 1999 HOUSTON — The youngest of in the early 1960s as the leading spokesma n for the religion’s doctrine of racial separation, putting him at odds with the mainstream civil rights movement. Eventually, Malcolm X broke with the Nation of Islam and, especially after a pilgrimag e to Mecca, emphasized an ethic of racial inclusion and toler- ance. He wasshot to death while delivering a speech in Harlem on Feb. 21, 1965. Three members of the Nation of Islam were convicted of the shooting. A Postal Service statement, announcin g the stamp's issuance, described his philosoph y at the time of his death as a “more integrationist solution to racial problems.” “It definitely makes our family feel good,” Hyasah the world’s only octuplets underwent abdominal surgery Saturday, hoursafter one of her brothers experienced breathing problems. All six girls and two boys remained in critical condition at Texas Children’s Hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit. All weighed less than 2 pounds at birth and are expected to remain in the hospital through February. Four of the week-old babies werebreathing on their own Sat- urday. The other four required ventilators. on her low birth weight, some o, Gorom, a girl, had surgery to repair an intestinal perforation. She wasthe last of seven babies delivered to Nkem Chukwu on Dec, 20. Ebuka, a girl, was born Dec. 8. : Ikem, the first boy born, experi- enced what pediatrician Savrick called a ‘‘serious respiratory setback” and wasput back on a ventilator. Ebuka also returned to a ventilator, though doctors did notexplain why. Odera, a girl who was the smallest at birth weighing 10.3 ounces, LONDON — Green and slip- pery, bitter on the tongue and Warmin the throat, absinthe is the ‘iqueur of inspiration — and may- be insanity, too. The artist Vin- cent Van Gogh allegedly cutoff lis ear under its influence, and playwright Oscar Wilde rhapso- dized that if you drink enoughof it, “you see things that you want to see, wonderful curious things.” French insane asylums in the early 1900s were crowded with absinthe addicts, who succumbed cither to its 70 percent alcohol content or the alleged hallucino- genic qualities ofits unique ingredient, oil of wormwood. France and most other Western countries, including the United States, banned absinthe before World War I, and few since then havegiven it too much thought Until this month, that is, when absinthe suddenly wentonsaleat inany of London’stop bars The liqueur’s controversial re- ‘ppearance, which has sentanillicit sort of thrill through the ups- cale British drinking public, is due to the ingenuity offour young centfor her siblings. Odera also was on medicatir to fight infection and to contr, blood pressure. Savrick earliy. had described doctors as “guar,) edly optimistic” about her. The other octuplets — giy) Chidi, Echerem and Chima 4, boy Jioke — were breathing ; their own Saturdaynightandh; suffered no complications so f.: Their mother, Nkem Chukw remained on a ventilator and re- 27, is expectedto leave St. Luke . quired 100 percent oxygen. Based Episcopal Hospital next week. Shabazz, one of Malcolm X's six daughters , said of the new stamp. Noting that man: eople viewed Malcolm X as‘too angry,” shesaid, “The reality is that he wasfighting for humanity,” She added: “I'm very happy, very pleased, and I know my mother would be, too.” MalcolmX's widow, Betty Shabazz, died of burns suffered in a fire set by her grandson in 1997. The 20-year-old Black Heritage stamp series comwith past honorees ranging from inventors to musi_ memoratesthe individual achievements of blacks, cians Banned Drink of Romantic Past Reborn in Britain KNIGHT-RIDDER NEWS SERVICE Patti perts have estimated her chan of survivalat as low as 20 per¢ compared to more than 80 rock ‘n’ roll entrepreneurs who discovered that Britain had somehow never gotten around to ban- ningabsinthe. They looked up one of the world’s oldest continuous absinthe makers, a Czech firm head1-year-old producer Radoand on Dec. 9 began selling Hill's Absinth in Britain. At about $7.25 a shot, or $68 a bottle when ordered over the Internet (in Britain only, and it's not yet for sale in liquor stores), absinthe is not for the faint-hearted or thin-walleted. Butit shows everyindication of being a hugehit here. 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