Roanoke Times
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DATE: MONDAY, March 21, 1994                   TAG: 9403210084
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: associated press
DATELINE: FRESNO, CALIF.                                LENGTH: Short

FARRAKHAN SAYS HIS MURDER IS BEING PLOTTED

"They've already determined that I must die," Farrakhan said in Farrakhan a speech Saturday night.

Opponents he never named are setting him up "for trial and false imprisonment and setting me up for murder," he said.

Farrakhan denied that he was involved in the 1965 slaying of Malcolm X.

Betty Shabazz, the widow of Malcolm X, said recently she believes Farrakhan was involved in her husband's death, which came after Malcolm X's split with the Nation of Islam.

Farrakhan said attempts to link him to the slaying of Malcolm X are part of a continual conspiracy to discredit black leaders. - Associated Press