JULY 12-18,1987 THE ICHIGAN CITIZEN
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tANS G - A letter writing
campaign in SUPPOTt of divest­
ment from South Africa .
being urged by Brett J.
cRae, aide to Rep. Perry
Bullard, and supported by the
NAACP.
The � tment bills passed
the House, 92-8 and 94-7, and
no go to the Senate Judiciary
Committee for hearings in the
fall, cR e reported in
memo to the fA,ACP.
A· list of targeted Sen tors
Ie er ca
ho need to hear from the
public urging their te for dis­
v tment include:
• Arth tz, 33Td
District, 124A Capitol
Bldg., Lansing 48909
(Whitehall).
.J 34th
Dist., 420 Farnum Bldg,
Lansing 48909 (Bay
City).
• D , 28th
Dist., 330 Ca . 01 BI�
Lansing 48909 (Port
Bill see s release of jailed
children! odern Holocaus I
Continued from P.
sand pe pIe h ve been detained
since the tate of emergency
beg n more than year o.
The c rnmlttee e timate th t
forty percent of the det inees
re children including me
under the e of 10, and that
thousand of children are till
in detenti n.
"We have evidence and testi­
mony of h uth frican
police have used vari u forms
of phy 'cal and psychol i al
torture again t the children. .
'Thi i modern-day holo-
cut and a crime again t
humanity. How anyone can
remain silent, I'll never no "
Gr y id.
The Gr y re lution intro­
duced in the Hou call for the
immediate relea of all children
detained under the ate of
emergency regulation in uth
frica.
It tate that pending the
rele of the children, th
uth Afrie n government
should permit parents acce to
their detained children' m e
publi and name and location
of all detained children; pro­
vid detained child ren with
dequate food, clothing, and
pr tection: and permit an in­
ternational organiz tion to
verify th t the measures are
being carried out and that the
detained child ren are not being
abu d, tortured, put in li­
tary confmement and are not
being held in detenti n with
dult .
urvey questions:
paign
o
enate for divestment
Huron).
• Fre ri Dilli ,
30th Dist., 805 Farnum
Bldg., Lansing 48909
(Fo rvil1e).
• . Di , 7th D' 1.,
10th f1 Farnum bld&
T ansing 48909 (Tren­
ton).
• 0 , 32nd
Dist., 806 Farnum Bldg.,
Lansing 48909 (Grand
Rapids).
• d ,17th
Dist., 130 Capitol Bldg,
Lansing 48909 (West
Bloomfi Id).
• H 10th O' ,
440 Farnum Bldg., Lans-
ing 48909 (Dearborn).
• J r e Hart, 14th Dist
28 Capi 01 Bldg. Lans­
ing 48909 (Saginaw).
• Jo y, 1st Dist,
G30 Capitol Bldg. Lans­
ing 48909 (Detroit).
• J p
Dis., 21
_-CP Sa e co
ence to
JACKSO - The bi-monthly
meeting of the Michigan State
Conference of AACP
branches will meet Saturday,
August 8 from 1-3:45 p.m. a
the Inn on Jackson Square.
Jackson.
According to State Con­
ference President Carl Br d­
ing, the nominating committ
will be elected
State committees will m
at 11 a.m., prior to the t-
ing, Breeding announced.
The State Convention Ad­
vance Resolutions Committee
willmeet in the Cen ur Apart­
ments Clubhouse, 1500 W.
orth Street, J ckson on
August 1 and again on August
12.
The 1987 Con ntion will
convene Friday, September 11
and adjourn on Sunday, Sep-
Are you
atisfied
h ppine but it m e it a
great deal more po ible t
find it."
Survey officials n ted that
32 p rcent of the Blac c m­
munity are among tho ex­
pressing di tisf ction, while
the figure amon Hispanics
come t percent.
While all the families- sur­
veyed are concerned ith im­
proving the quality of life for
their children, BI c and Hi
panic families are especially
fearful of their children indulg­
ing in alcoholic bevera e and
the wron ind of
ere al extremely
orried bout their children
using illicit drug .
BI c s . !&Ie w men raising
children and families earning
le than 15,000 ye do not
nt their children t have the'
e lifestyle that they now
experience.
h rvey al found veral
are 'in which b th the Ameri­
can rnai ority and the criti al
minority gree. All familie
ant their children to find
h ppy normal life and to think
for them lve.
ighty-si percent re con­
fident their children ill go to
coIl ge and percent mt
them to value n nmaterial thing
tember 13, Breeding said
Delegat to e Convention
will be el ed t a regular
meetin f the branches.
Con ntion chairper on is
Addi Couch cKoy of
Gran R pids; Co-ordinators
Ani a Ashford, Port
uro d Bettye Thomas
�.A.;)U.J' I¥.. Elizabeth Knauer .
f cilitator.
80 assa
entenced
Banqui, Central African
Republic The former
emperor of the small, im­
poverished Central African
Republic has been sentenced
to die for the murders of at
least 20 people during his 14-
year "reign of terror". J can­
Bedel Bo was acquitted
of cannibalism charges
48909 (Iron-
• u i 01, 8th Dist
1Z7A Capitol Bldg.,
Lansing 48909 (Water­
ford).
• illi Sederb
24th Dist., 120 Capitol
Bldg, Lansing 48909
(East Lansing).
Senator ichols is chair of
the Judiciary Committee.
ith your family life?
... poor minorities are "living on the
edge" and tin real despair" as they
attempt to cope with problems
concerning their inability to pay for
essentials, improve their incomes and
housing conditions and develop
lifestyles they ant.
-Survey findings by Louis Harris
over material things.
Eighty- ven percent want
their children to wor to end
r clal di rimination and dis­
crimination ain t women.
Commenting on the re rch
project, Harri id: Going
into the Philip orri Family
urvey, popul r opinion warned
u not to expect any good news
about the American family.
On the contrary, the over­
whelmin m gority of respon-
dents ere relieved and ev n
gr teful e ing que t-
ion. The pe pl are tired
of hearin and re ding all th
native news bout the family
and ant a chan e to tell it like
it really i . '
One of the m st p pular
claim the Family urvey chal­
lenge i that nearly one ut
of every two marcia es ill
end in divorce.
at this survey sh s and
hat the U.S. Cen us confirm
is that the number of divorced
couples is no m re than 1.7
percent of all married famili
and that only ne out of every
eight marri end in
divorce 'H rri
The urv y di 0 er that
a large rna' rity f all mili
ae highly ti 1 d ith their
family relationship 94 per ent:
the way family member up-
th r
in a nsis,
the am unt