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EDITORIAL EDITORIAL.
Benton Hubo City
Commissioners are in the
proee of creating a n
'-Strip."
The "Strip" is Terri­
torial Ro d currently, but
its De rinl appears to be
in the maiWl2
The notab thing
is the
too
P td
e Funeral Home. Though
technically a private club,
mo of Benton Harbor feels
like a member and' treated
accordingly, Go one more
block do n Fair and you
come to the spot here
businessm is proposing
- to put disco, Tra ling
on you have beer and wine
Dodge City and carry-out, th Elks club and
going to clean, the lode .
it up by cl' do the
e ablishment up and do n
th treet.
It' intere ting then
that noone on th
a hill on Territorial over­
looking the "Strip" cited
the number of t vern
patrons p by the
001 OIl their ay do n
hill one of the re
for the high crime in the
em; jog
to tb e t
for other
em. TIl t' three spots,
all long e bli ed, ithin
t 0 block. Com b to
Fair and you will find the
helor 14 club located in
former Robbins Broth-
In effect, you h :ve no
continuou trip that will
be cro ded ith
e in no w ry
stand again the city
'on, e ju feel an obliga­
tion to point out th po '­
ble effect of recent city
commisaon tion. Home,
in that neighbo­
hood ouId be m e are
of po ibilities,
What ' mo n ded
, an overall plan for the
city and any decision m e
by th city ould fII be
analyzed by a orking,
o legd b planning
'on.
& Q80 8LAo< RESoURCES I C
LY I?
September 20, 1980
Editor:
I auld e to m e
fe commen concerning
th article entitled "BH
School Board Se t Still
Vacant" that appeared in
th Friday, September 19th
, e of the Herald P
dium.
Iud to think that the
only good in to
occured e ell ond y
at City Hall. Ho -
ever this 0 is no
faci tiff competition
from another source, I am
referring specifically to the
monthly and not to b
ignored cial meetin of
the qualities ne for
a hit o. All the elemen
are there. e ha drama,
comedy, spe , p tho
intrique and anythin el
you could po ly de' .
The immed 0 te internation­
al concern bout female cir­
cu been raised
principally in t 0 quarters.
At the requ of Sudan, in
February 1979 the World
Health Orpnization (WHO)
held h t as caIJed a land­
mar seminar at Khartoum
on the subject "Traditional
Practices Affectin the
Health of Women and Chil­
dren." The seminar had no
definitive data reprdinl fe­
male circumcision. hich I
no enerally practiced in
Western orld medicine.
Still the seminar mad
three stro recommenda­
tions reprdina � cir­
cumcision which h ve served
to undercut lonptandinl Af­
rican tribal practices. These
included (I) the adoption of
clear n . naI pol" . .
to the abolition of female cir­
cumcision; (2) the establi -
ment of n ional commis­
..... __ ..... IIIIIiIiI __ .-i __ -- .... - .... - .... -----.......... ion to coordinate tho en-
deavor; and (3) an edu tion­
aI effort to acquaint the len­
era) public 'th the supposed
d ers of female circumci-
EDITOR
TenyK
o 0
, foreign to the hite Euro­
pean d Am 'can min t.
o
The late Jomo Keny ta, in
much quoted from
Facing MI, Kenya ted con­
cernin youn men and om­
en of his tribe where femal
circumci 'on i a fundamen­
tal cu tom: " 0 proper
Kikuyu ould dream of mar­
ryina a gir! ho b not been
circumcised, "
Iy half a century 0,
the Briti h government
sou ht to limit the practice of
female circumcision in eny
but Jomo enyatta rallied
upport fo hi in·del:acleDce
mo ement 0 er the i ue.
The British lovemment
forced to retreat from its
and and Jomo Ken ta,
this' ue of the preser-
vation of a tn cu OlD,
toto beco Kenya's
independence I and ter
i head of lovernment. The
om Catho °c Church
er opposed fem cir-
cumcision and efforts at its
reduction in areas of Africa
influenced by Analican and
Pro estant teach in have
had little effect. -
ean hile in the United
States, Patt Derion h
served as President Carter'
Secretary for H '&hts
recently ted in a eddy cir-
culated interview t female
pi' iced by
jor hu­
man riahts ab i
only Iy beina recopized,
Further, Senator D niel
ye (D-Ha aii), 'r-
e re
didn't re °
to n permanently,
still a bo d member b -
e still property
could
not be cont ted th n
e h d been. Finally
did resign but then
m tin h to
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