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....... and the Constitu io
an interview wi h
Justice Dennis Arc
Ro a Par s of
Baseball -
Curt Flood
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Serving the SlI*'s African American Community
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est folio ing De roit Council no vo e
Deve 0 er
on Atlantic City, ew Jersey,
have portrayed the opposite.
A Bill oyer's special aired
last year revealed higher
property values due to land­
grabbing by speculators have
left more blight and job flight
African American residents of
that East Coast (.;�ty told of
harder times following
development of casino gam­
bling in their toWIL
Benton Harbor which like
DETROIT - Detroi City Detroi Mayor Coleman
Council's vote Wedn day, Young will be forced to take a
July 22, to ban ino gam- public position within two
bling from e city may ha weeks wh n faced with signing
an impact on Benton Harbor or vetoing the Council ban.
on the other . de of the state. 0 Benton Harbor city offi-
Propo en and ould-be cia! could be reached for com-
casino dC'Je per Patri ment prior to press time.
eehan told CBS Channel Casino gambling has been
Two reporters following the touted by its Detroit sup­
council vo e that he was 00 - poorters as a source of jobs"
ing at Benton Harbor as site Television documentaries on
to develop casino gambling. the impact of casino gambling
eehan said that the Lake ..... ...
. chigan town - Michigan's
poor by Department of
Commerce reckoning - has
high unemployment rate and
that the Benton Harbo -city
dministration 100 fa orab-
11' on the idea.
The Detroi Council vote
was 4-2. and too p ce
folllowing public hearings.
The question of casino gam­
bliug h been a political issue
in this town for the past six­
years, with a number of politi­
cally powerful pastors lined up
against the question.
Detroit, has a predominantl
African American population
is only 90 land miles, and 60
nautical miles from hicago
developer eehan pointed
out in his television intervie .
He also noted that Benton
Harb r ad been d veloped
originally as a tourist center.
D dupe 10 e t fol-
Io . in Dcti c .• CG' neil n vote
Jack on
need 2
million by
abor Day
Rev. Jesse Jaclcson must
raise $2 million by Labor Day
for his presidential bid to
e sense."
In comme before a group
o Californian supporters,
Jackson said that when a
Gree from chusetts an-
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ever again?
Highland Park community
groups are coming together in
an effort to save the city's
Camp Rankin located on Lake
Huron. They want to guaran­
tee that scenes such as this
taken in 1967 at the camp con­
tinue for the city's youth. Story
by Earl Wheeler on Page 6.
rican merica
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c earing of Cpl. Bracy
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cipal of community elemen­
tary schools in the Bronx and
coordiantor of social studies
in the city school system.
Also, she served 'as Direc­
tor of title ill programs for
the Bronx. In her new posi­
tion, Dorsett will provid
direction, coordination and
leadership for four major
d partment programs: Com­
pensatory Educa . on, Migrant
Education, State and Local
Education and Indian Educa­
tion --- programs that total
more than $5.4 billion in the
1987 budget
WASHINGTON (NNPA) -
LeGree S. Daniels, former
Pe��� deputy
secretary of state, and Beryl
Dorsett, former elementary
school principal and veteran
educator in ew York City,
'WeI'e m in last eek as as­
si tant secretaries of educa­
tion, no making a to al of
three African Am riean
holding sub-cabinet
rn�)DS in the Department of
Educatio
Dr. Bo . Guiton of Oak­
land, California, was sworn in
month new assistant
secretary for vocational and
dolt education following ehr
appointment by Secretary of
Education William. H. Ben­
nett, who also named Daniels
and Do several months
o I th unp eoedented ap­
pointments.
The last two private
ceremo . es ere held while
Bennett was in Europe on offi­
cial busin meaning the
public swearing-in cerem nies
will be later.
Daniels, her new positio is
the principal advisor to Ben­
nett on civil rights matters.
Daniels is secretary of the
Republican Committee of
Pennsylvania and a member of
the State Advisory Board of
the U.S. Commission on Civil
Rights and the AACP. She
is former chair of the ational
Bla Republican Council and
past delegate to the White
House Conference on aging.
Before joining the Depart­
men of Education, Dorsett
was assistant and actin prin-
A young Bla arine cor-
poral . th a spotless service
record that earned him a
Coveted ignmen to the
lite arine Security Guard,
had the do of forever
being branded a traitor to his
country, a dishonorab e dis­
e from the Corps, and
ayors organize
Blae
Blac Mayors along the 1-75 corridor have organized
The 1-75 Caucus.The Caucus wants Gov. James
Blanchard to develop an urban policy and begin a plan
for directing funds to the state's cities now reeling from
auto industry cutbacks. Their target is the $170 million
"windfall" the state will receive from changes in federal
tax laws. Involved are Coleman Young, Detroit Walter
oore, Pontiac, James Sharp , Flint, and Larry raw­
ford, aginaw.
long term removed
from oYer . head
Caught up in a oonfusing
Iter of events that
resembled a story
Cpl Amo d Br cy, 22-year-
old recruiting-pes er type
. e from Ouee NY,
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