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RBPORfS OF Here is Cassius Clay in Denton, Texas, to address students at a Black Arts Festival at

North Texas State University. The heavyweight champion, free on appeal, is reportedly a
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Black Muslim in disgrace, by edict of Elijah Muhammad.
F a sudden Cassius Clay has come charging out of nowhere into the heavyweight
spotlight.
BINC Sflll beneficiary of a Supreme Court decision which sent his case back to the lower Federal
0 First the heavyweight champion of the world-and he still is that-was the
Court in Houston for elimination of any evidence which the Justice Department may
BBCOCNIZBS have got against Cassius through clandestine methods by the FBI.
Then came a break between Clay and the Black Muslims. Elijah Muhammad, chief
of the Islamic Negro sect, with headquarters in Chicago, announced in his private
weekly that all was off between the fighter and the Muslims.
DIMAS the name Muhammad Ali, and taken off the list of itinerant preachers.
Black Muslim mumbo jumbo -had Clay suspended for a year, barred from using
Elijah, who accepted Clay as a fighter before Cassius got into trouble for refusing
CHAMPION .. to honor a draft into the army, announced that he did not like Cassius' statement that
he was ready to resume fistic operations if the courts were to quash his felony charge.
Elijah said he was outraged by Clay's tying in with white promoters again-or at
least hoping to become active with them again. Black Muslim sources denied that the
sect had been taking most of Muhammad Ali's ring earnings.
There is a strong belief in higher fistic circles that despite Clay's statement in Atlanta,
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