17 on Highland
Park primary
ballo
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Muskegon
College
lose
Dr. Rucks
The drive for
Black ealth­
why do things
fall apart? Turn to
to P 1
Serving tJu SU*'s African Ameriam Community
rab, Afr can Americans
b I rael pledge
hara men
, D. C. -
r b-Americans h ve gre ted
ith epticism I el' an­
nounced plan to top the alleged
hara sment of African and Arab­
Americans e in entry into the
country at it Tel Aviv irport.
In respon to an of ICW
complaint by the U.S. Depart­
ment of St te, the Israeli
Foreign in' ry id the govern­
ment ouId post a nior
official to monitor the handling
of visitor at the Ben Gurion
Intern tional Airport. Other
proposed change to make it
e . r for the tourist ouId
include improvin aiting room
condition, allowing delayed
travelers to m e telephone call
and maintaining close contact
with U.S. Embassy official .
e are ple d that the
State Department i fmally
putting pr ssure on I51' el to
re lve long-standing problem
of discrimination against African
and r b Americans," a spo es­
man for the ational A cia­
tion of Arab Americans said
with regard to the I aeli re-
" But if recent hi ory
i any indication, then thing
ill t Y th same, and the
I lis ill continu this un­
warrented discrimination, and
the State Department will b
tr on it thre t."
I eli airport official have
on more than t 0 dozen
occ sions confiscated the Ameri­
can passports of Black and
Pale inian visitors to guarantee
that they do not stay too long.
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z
011 off ill ov
mayor in primary upset
BENTO HARBOR - city
er made it loud and clear
in Tuesday's primary election
t . time for change in
south tern Michigan
. city f cing fmancial collapse.
Incumbent Mayor Wilee
Coo came in distant third
behind top vote getters Wil­
liam olf and James
F.A.Throer. Wolf had 766
o es, Turner 72, and Coo e,
283.
A fourth candidate, come­
dian Jimmy Ruff, who said he
not a serious candidate,
had 13 otes.
Vo ers also turned down,
479-469, for the second time
in many months, a request
for 1.75 mills to fund loan
re yments to the State Emer­
gency Loan Board. The city
$2.4 million in emergen­
cy loans borrowed since 1980
from the s teo
A proposal to levy 1.25 mills
for Dial-A-Ride did pass with
a 670-392 vo e count,
Wolf, who campaigned on is­
sues of fiscal responsibility
and the end to rubber stamp
commiMion doing whatever
staff wanted, often clashed
with Coo e at commission
meetings over Coo e's travel
expenses when the city was
broke.
Turner promised in his cam­
paign to increase citizen invol­
vement in government
In the commission races,
Wolfs . tes also
fared well Running with Wolf
ere the two top vote getter
Fred Sims with 697, and Kerry
Shannon, 615.
Other COD1.DUSS1on can-
didates that will be on the
ovember ballot and their
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Skeletons
of
PhiladelPhia's!: .Even .
"free" . Blae s children
stressed
By Henry Duvall
Howard University Feature
Service
city that can boast of
being the birthplace of the
nation's Con titution Philadel­
phia has al 0 been touted a a
haven for freedom during the
era of slavery.
But ju t ho d d free Blacks
fare in the City of Brotherly
Love?
If their elton are any
indic tion their lives didn't
escape the harsh realities faced
by those who were under the
yoke of bondage.
recent rchaeological tudy
reveal that the quality of
life and health status of free
Blac Philadelphians in the early
19th century and various slave
population were similar.
These un illed free B1ac ,
ho were among the nation's
earliest Bla urban wage earn­
ers, suffered a high incidence
of disea ciated with
poverty with tuberculosi being
the most prevalent.
But urpri d
me of the re ar her a
that Philadelphia B1 hildren,
mo t of hom er b rn free,
appeared to have been high!
tre d pointing to ndition
imilar to tho ffered b
slave children.
he h alth pr blem ten­
ded to begin during fetal de­
velopment, hich is linked to
m temal health and consider­
able evidence of malnutrition
was found says Dr. ich 1
L. Bl ey of Ho ard
sity s department of iol
and anthropolo , c -coordina­
tor of the eletal proje t.
The recent di overies gi -
ing clue to the life of free
Blac s come a a result f a
tudy of eleton unearthed
from a Philadelphi ernetery
that as burial ground f r
free B1 c bet een 1 .. 3 and
I 43. 0 tudie of Bla
cemeteries have largely been
confined to the outh.
Th more than 140 dult
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