Clay Not To Leave U.S.
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) HOUSTON (Texas), August 3.
Cassius Clay was refused permission by a judge yesterday to leave the country while awaiting the outconie of his appeal against a conviction for refusing a military call-up. Clay, who was sentenced on June 20 to five years’ gaol and fined $lO,OOO was also ordered to surrender his passport The boxer, who is on bail of $5OOO was appearing at a resumed hearing of his request for permission to travel to Tokyo for a bout there. After the court beard tapes of a speech he made at a Los Angeles peace rally on June 23, Clay said: “I have never advocated that youths reject the draft” Clay heard himself on the tape saying: “Anything for peace, or to stop killing, I am 100 per cent for. But I do not encourage anybody to do what I did.”
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31439, 4 August 1967, Page 11
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