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MUHAMMAD ALI | 1942-2016 Police, Protesters the GREATEST Readyfor Convention GHEALTH HLIVE LIFE LOVE HLIVE LIFE LOVE Southwark Graphic Medicine Secrets, COUPONS Professionals, caregivers, and patients Still Fine H13. INSIDE WORTH turning to comics to tell stories. G1. Lies, And UP TO More EBUSINESS Thespy drama “The $2,326 Defending The Americans” and the TV parody “UnReal” Kingdom E1. shareanapproach. H2. $80,434 OVER THE LAST YEAR SUNDAY JUNE 5, 2016 | ESTABLISHED IN 1829 | :"PHILLYINQUIRER | C | $2 NEWS AROUND THE CLOCK MUHAMMAD ALI | 1942-2016 Police, protesters THE GREATEST readyfor convention Thecityaims to avoid the jailings of 2000’sGOP event. Misting tentsand fines, not arrests,are set. By Julia Terruso and Claudia Vargas STAFF WRITERS The last time amajor party’s presidentialnominating conven- tion came to town, riot-equipped Philadelphia policepatrolled the streets, jailing hundreds of protest- ers ahead of time on chargescourts later tossed out. This time, too, tens of thousands of protesters are ex- pected as the Demo- cratsmeet here July 25-28. But authori- tiesplan to greet themnot withround- ups and riotgear INSIDE but by handing out yEvenif $100 fines —ifnec- Clintonloses essary —and water California, bottles.Instead of she’slikely batons,protesters to clinch the can look forward to nomination. cooling down in But it would “mistingtents.” still hurt. A3. That is, if every- Muhammad Ali stands over SonnyListon after beating Listonfor the second time,inMay 1965, to remain heavyweightchamp.Hewas thing goes accord- Currents stripped of his title in 1967for refusing induction into the Army, but he returned to the ring in 1970 and wonthe title twice more. AP ing to plan in a yTrump’s presidential year foreign- whenlittle has policyideas The brashboxing champion transcended thering gone that way.Phil- dangerous adelphia—like forU.S. and Cleveland, where world. Trudy to become acultural forcelikenoother. 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GHealth time world heavyweight champion box- “Ain’tnever been nothing like me,” he yThe Monday 85 | 67 HLive Life Love er died this evening,” family spokes- boasted, and he was right. champion set himself apart, in the ring Tuesday 83 | 62 JReal Estate man Bob Gunnell told NBC News. He had the handspeedofalight- and out. Bob Ford,D1. Wednesday 73 | 56 NTravel Mr.Ali’sParkinson’ssyndrome was weight, the footworkofadancer,aheavy- Thursday 74 | 58 Lotteries, B2 diagnosed in 1981, not long after his weight punch, agranite chin, aradar yDuring atime of cultural upheavalin Friday 77 | 60 Jobs, C6-8 retirement at age 39. The condition, be- defense, unbridled confidence, and the the ’60s and ’70s, Ali found himself at To advertisewith us, call 1-800-341-3413. lieved related to the physical punish- See ALI on A18 the center of it all. D6. ForalistofAdvertising Department numbers,see “ContactUs” on Page A4. BATTLING CHILD SEX ABUSE RESISTAND PERSIST | MY BATTLE WITH ALZHEIMER’S Justiceorfinancial ruin? Fighting athief Twoviews on aPa. bill mostcruel Thelegislation would he was sexually abused by a chaplain at St. Edmund’sAcade- First in aseries. sat there, frozen, and Iremem- ease time limits on my in Wilmington. Conaty’sson ber thinking what acrummy suits.Bothsidespoint stayed mum about it for years. By Bill Lyon job this poor guy’sgot. But the boy had grit, his father FOR THE INQUIRER to Delaware’s example. said, later earning two degrees, In the winter of 2013,with the Introductions getting married, having two kids. February cold bone deep,Isat Icall him Al, for short. By Maria Panaritis In 2002, he toldhis parents in one of thosecramped and We’ve been joined to each oth- STAFF WRITER about the abuse. And whatwas sterile little examining cubicles er for goingonthreeyears What happened to his son re- initiallydespair gaveway to a in the Penn Memory Center and now.We’re apopular couple — mains so seared in his memory bedrockdeterminationto listened to the man in the white more of us elders join the that when he talks about it, change the law for child sex- lab coatask if Iknew what ranks every year,Alzheimer’s Thomas Conaty speaks as abuse victims. Alzheimer’swas. being the name that we used though he is stillthe youngfa- With TomConaty, alongtime Death by inches, Isaid. to use to describe “natural ther of agrade-school boy. lobbyist, leading the way,father And you have it, he said. causes.” Or,asmygrandmoth- “Let me tell you briefly about and son helped lead an effort to I’m pretty surethe world er usedtosay: “Partsjust Matty,”said Conaty,a74-year- let victims sue as adults.Their Bill Lyon, aformer Inquirer sports stopped at that moment, and wearout.”(Maude Murphy’s old dentist. “Matty is the guy advocacy led Delaware to lift its columnist, will keep writing in the then there was aroaring parts lasted95years, and I that made things happen here.” civil statuteoflimitations in face of adisease he calls “death by sound, like afreight train bar- hopefervently thatshe has Matthias Conaty was 9when See SEX ABUSE on A16 inches.” CLEM MURRAY /Staff Photographer reling through my brain pan. I See ALZHEIMER'S on A4 PHILADELPHIA MEDIA NETWORK ©2016 Philadelphia Media Network |Home Delivery: 215-665-1234 or 1-800-222-2765 |187th Year, No. 5|$2.25 in some locations A18 |THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER | SUNDAY, JUNE 5, 2016 C|PHILLY.COM MUHAMMAD ALI | 1942-2016 Aboxer,and muchmore ALI from A1 caginess to outwit stronger oppo- nents. “Ali was an absolute genius in the ring,” said Jim Jacobs, the late boxing historian. “The fast- est fighter I’ve ever seen, live or on film.” Mr.Ali won the heavyweight title three times, defended it 19 times, and closed his 21-year ca- reer with a56-5 record. Sports Illustrated and USA Today were among those to name him the top athlete of the 20th century. Next to the Rev.Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mr.Ali was per- haps the most influential African American of his time. After he joined the Nation of Islam in 1964 and rejected his “slave name” Cassius Clay,Mr. Ali re- fused to join the Army. “Why should they ask me to put on auniform and go 10,000 milesfrom home and drop bombs and bullets on brown peo- ple in Vietnam whileso-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs?” he later told Sports Illustrated. He also, for atime, advocated black separatism and called Christianity the white man’sreli- gion. For avoiding the draft, Mr.Ali was stripped of his title and his license to box, from spring 1967 to fall 1970. He was put under FBI surveillance. “The man used his athletic abil- ity as aplatform …taking chanc- es that no one else took,” said Jim Brown, the greatNFL run- ning back and activist, in Tho- mas Hauser’sbook, Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times. “Ali was involved in the Vietnam War… in the struggle for racial equali- ty.The Montreal Canadiens, the Green Bay Packers,the New York Yankees, they weren’tin- volved in that. Ali was the most important figure in sports histo- ry.” Mr.Ali had audiences with headsofstate. He delivered ser- mons and aHarvard commence- ment address. He negotiated the release of American hostages in Iraq and hand-delivered medical supplies to orphanages in Africa and Asia. Atop-40 pop song Muhammad Ali, then known as Cassius Clay, is lifted by ahandler after winning the heavyweighttitle from SonnyListonin1964. Associated Press about Mr.Ali in 1975 was called “Black Superman.” whuppin’. But anything Isay,I’m desire for attention. like abee,” was authored by down efforts by his managers to “Do you have any idea what willing to back up.” “Ali never messed with drugs, Brown, astreethustler fromHar- get him easy militaryduty,enter- Ali meant to black people?” base- Cosell gave his own Ali eulogy but he was ajunkie for fame,” lem who became Mr.Ali’strain- taining troops.
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