. to a tting that
tranquil.
The party came here to
do two things:
officers ratify a er
-._ .. _., had come from the
�'s foundins conference
ber in Philadel-
It
ion for
IP. One that
and forth, .
out of turbulence d then
or op at
eiYil Yo
, 0
AACP for
21 years, entered the center
Augu 19 for a coronary
e condition.
Re�der: ho pita I
coverage depressing
been readin your
. e in The Citizen and
I mu dmit they have
been mo t dep . g to
Recently the censua
t ercy Hosptial
the lowe I r seen
. ce my employment
here "tered
for the p
I feel
turned
you are
The party abo elected . r· priority.
Kikora ROI T b . u of t to
Detroit the p ..
officer for the atio
Party Co .. Thad
�_ ... ,.._. of ew York City
elected the P'reIII· una
officer for the party's Ce
tral Committee. The co­
chair posts ent to Ron
Dame of Y
Ohio; and E
Richmond, Vir.
Some 8,000 peno
ttended the Gary pUleDI�
9 ye o. But it
n that too
. dominated by' "mainstream that
B Demo- p t socio«onomic
- system in US. Iy
d ad r Iy affects the
of B peop. The
disproportio te un-
equal distribution of eal
d income in this IOdety
Democra ere puts unre nable
not in the best aunt of in the
bands of an elite � r A familiar t
� platform not .
eed unity· the
community ,'I'
USIIlesl of , "with. unity our
public difficult be mad
"That . r,"
opp�
yC .
It pears Benton Harbor
will continue to "C e
on Co en d ite the re­
cent announcement by Rev.
Jesse J n, pre . ent 0
Operation PUSH, of a $34
million national Jettlement
the Coca-Co Com­
pany.
Under the terms of tha
lettlement, Coke
to In e specific
in ad rtising and employ-
nt birln to better re­
p nt s' e of the
Co e mar et .. PUSH' vic­
tory follo d a nati
boycott fo coke ·th th
boycott theme, "Don't
Inns
otice of
Cb eonC e.'"
ccording to Rev.
Bennet Smith of Operation
PUSH, bore out
that Blacb capital con-
sumed three times mo e
white.
480 miD.io
annually on C e. But
the "company had not
provided eco . recipro­
city to the B com­
munity:' Smith .
bmitted to the State
ealth Department, indi­
cates the cost of ICan­
ner will be approximately
$943JXXl.
ccordiD&to
of In t, the .. Iller
be located
rialH
million in addit·
ad-�h"."111!1
Although m 1
been reached on a
na . nal level, locally the
story to be quite
different.
tent" to purchase a ho
body scanner, the South­
ichipn Health
15
/
dent
According to Carlton not part of e
Curtis of th . nal Coca- A1th
Co office in Atlanta,
local Coca-Co Company
located in St. Jo
a bottling company
indepen t busi ,
therefore it is not part of
the n tio Coca-Co be
Company and not fled pe n
part of tile ttlemen
job."
reasons
otice
for
the scanner.
Re n number 12
"The p ce of a cr
Scanner in - pro-
this .eMce to
population of
Ci . area,