The Nation : MOVE Radical to Be Tried
Ramona Johnson Africa, the only adult member of a radical cult who survived a fiery battle with Philadelphia police May 13, shouted: “Long live MOVE!” after she was ordered held for trial on a variety of charges at the close of a two-day preliminary hearing. The huge fire, which destroyed 53 houses and damaged eight others, erupted after police dropped a bomb from a helicopter onto the roof of the heavily fortified MOVE house, the scene of a fierce gun battle earlier in the day. Eleven MOVE members, four of them children, were killed. Only Ramona Africa, 30, and Birdie Africa, a 13-year-old boy, escaped the burning house.
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