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the building at 13745-53
Woodward which houses
their buiness. •
Councilmen Comer Heath,
III, and Frank Ross, Sr.,
disagreed with Scott that
their positions were based
on sex.
The city recommended
that the owner of Dicksons
Grand Bible & Bookstore,
13743 Wood ard, be allow­
ed to pay 50 percent ( 7,500)
of the building's demolition
cost, and later invest
22,500 to pave and fence in
the property for automobile
parking, according to coun­
cil rcords.
The matter as effectivel
tabled since the council vote
as short of a majority. The
vote was:
-Councilman Dwight
Downes, yes.
- Lindsey Porter and
Scott, no.
- Ross, abstain.
- Heath, not voting.
"The question of sexism is
ridiculous," Heath said.
"It's about business."
Ross said, "That's absur­
dity." The councilman said
he ants to kno whether it
is cost effective for the
bulding to be renovated and
what is the impact on park­
ing in the area should the
building be demolished.
Hamlin said they are be­
ing denied because of an
underlining mixture of sex­
ism and red-lining, an effort
to keep certain group from
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Bala B pti te
HIGHL D PARK
- Highland Par's female
Council President branded
fello councilmen as being
. t, April 20, because
they refused a mother-and­
daughter team's efforts to
expand their busines .
'I'm tired of our Black
brother not giving Black
ister a chance," Council
Pre ident artha Scott told
T- hirt Palace 0 ner
Dorothy Hamlin.
Before I ving th council
chamber after a regular
night-time hearing and after
calming down, Scott told
Hamlin that with prayer,
the business omen ill
overcome their failure to get
council approval to purcha
APRIL 26 - MAY 2, 1987
NEWS BRIEFS
COCAINE ALLEGATIONS
Atlanta, Ga. - In an apparent fit of anger 1a t month the
estranged wife of Black political figure Julian Bond alked
into a police station and told authoritie that nd and
several prominent Atlanta Blacks were regular c caine user .
Alice Bond has since retraced the allegations but furor ha
been created in the city. At one point, Blac Atlanta mayor
Andrew Young apparently got into the controversy by urging
Mrs. Bond not to allow a marital dispute to deteri r te into
false charges. The Bond w h d been married for 26 year
separated about six m nths B nd charged that the
allegations were le ed t the pre by white police officers
who where 'hostine to the 81 er stru ture." However
despite denials by B nd d nt tion by his wife, the
charges may not go y. . ttorney for Atlanta -
Robert Barr - i a con rv tiv Re an appointee ho says
he may see a grand jury indi tment even though rs, Bond
retracted the allegation. Bond currently head the tlanta
AACP.
MORE HARSH RULES .
Johannesbur So th frica - 'Draconian" 'horrific'
and evil ere e of the dje tive used la t wee to
describe new repre ive me re introduced recently by South
Africa's white minority vernment. In a bid to rush Bla k
unrest authoritie h ve rr ted n e timated 20000 protest­
ers in recent monht , in luding a many a 300 children as·
young as 9 and 10. nti- partheid tivits re ponded with
free the children ampaign posters and prayers. 0
the government of P. . B tha ha declared virtually and sho
of upport for the detained Blac s illegal. The regulations
make it a crime to even pray publicly for their relea . Viola­
tors face up to 10 year in jail. Bishop Desmond Tutu last
eek told a religious service called to prote t the ne re-
strictions that no Christian obey the evil laws. '
"ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM"
ew York .Y. - The United Church of Christ la t week
accused the federal governmmt of locating too many of it
toxic waste dump sites near areas with large concentrati n
of Blacks and ther minoritie. The charges result fr m an
I8-month study by the church's Comrni sion for Ra ial
Jus ice. According to the commi sion, minoritie m e up
more than one-third of the population in area with the high­
e t concentration of toxic waste landfills and in inerator .
Commission head Rev. Benjamin Chavi charged the EP
with 'environmental racism." Environmental Protection
Agency head J. inston Porter deni d that race was involved
in site selection for hazardous wastes.
JACKSON MEETS WITH JEWS
Washington, D - In recent wee p tential presidential
candidate J es Jackson has been meeting ith Jewish group
in a bid to combat allegations of anti-Semitism. Speaking
before the Religious ction Center in Washin ton, J ac on
urged the Je s pre nt to 'focus our sights not on tho i ues
where we may differ but on issue on which we a ree.
Various Jewish groups have charged that there ha been a ri
in anti-J ewish feeling amon U.S. Bla s in recent years.
WHITE SUPEMACISTS CONVICTED
Elizabeth City .C. - Two former member of the anti-
Black hite Patriot Party ere convicted last ee of c n­
spiring to buy stolen military weapons. The two were report­
edly planning to use the weap ns to stage robberies and
assassinate civil rights leaders.