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DETROIT - As the city girds
for an all 00' assault on drug
dealers, the efforts may be
doomed before they start.
yor Coleman A. Young
h nnounced plans to use
funds eized from drug dealers
under t e forfeiture laws to
strengthen the city's police
powers with upgraded lab tech­
nology, heavy assault vehicles
and the addition of an elite law
enforcement team.
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DETROIT - A pi et line
organized by the staff of
, ew Detroit' at 1 50'
television station on onday,
ovember 16, to prot the
airing of the controversial 10
hour mini-series, Shaka
Zulu", a South African Broad­
casting Production.
On one . de of the coin, a
member of the Zulu Tribe and
Baptist Minister, Reverend
Manged yathi says, "The
hole movie, up to the fourth
episode is a distortion of Zulu
history. The creators of the
filmS' fantasies have gone
wild.·
Nyathi continued, Shaka
ZUlu was one of the most intel­
ligent men in South Africa,
and here he is depicted in a
derogatory manner by showing
him as an ignorant savage. I
feel that Channel 50 is endor -
ing apartheid by airing this
film, as, the monies from its
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Funds could be better spent
if the report released last month
by Jacqueline Morrison, MPH,
a Public Health Consultant with
the Wayne State University
Department of Community
Medicine, is to be belie ed.
Detroit's drug crisis is per­
vasive and out of control, the
report finds.
Entitled The Lost War on
Drugs, .. the Community Preven­
tion Consultant has compiled
empirical data on drug usage
and consequences, which she
contends may lead to legaliza­
tion of controlled substances
the next reasonable option in
dealing with the drug epidemic.
"The la enforcement ap­
proach has failed," Morrison
said in an interview. "Increasing
the police to monitor the drug
supply doesn't address the mag­
nitude of the problem. Even I
didn't recognize how serious the
problem was until I looked at the,
facts."
ACCORDI G TO
MORRISO 'S REPORT, 247
persons will die as a direct result
of drug usage in 1987, an in-
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T. I. Oaionicles
UNITED NATIONS, NY-­
The Congressional Black
Caucus and the Rev. Jesse J cle-
D joined for last k to
urge the United Nations to
dopt mandatory and com­
prehensive nctions against
South Africa because of its
racist system of parthied.
In separate cmen Wed-
ne day, J ckson and Con­
gressman George W. Crockett,
Jr., (D- I), ho erved
spo for the Caucus, told
snca·al U . political commit­
tee that the United States Con­
gre s considering stiffer
penalti against South Africa
d called on the U . General
A embly to bring pressure
once gain on the Security
Council to call for strong inter­
national sanction gainst the
Pretoria regime.
Both men also criticized the
Reagan Administration for fail­
ing to carry out all the provisions
of the Anti-Apartheid Act of
1986. At the same time, they as-
erted that a Coordi ed inter­
national effort aimed t produc­
ing external economic pressure
could make a difference in
South Africa.
CYB DSPOTS
"Our nation has chosen its
. ds and foes not on the issue
of human relations but by their
proximity to the Soviet Union,"
Jackson declared. "Our nation
a convenient blind spot in a
orld that calls for 20-20 vision.
Congressman Crockett, who
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is the ranking member of the
House Subcommittee on Africa,
emphasized that he was speak­
ing on behalf of the Caucus and
TransAfrica, the BLack
American lobby for Africa and
the Caribbean.
He said it had become ob­
vious to both groups that U.S.
sanctions against South Africa
needed to be strengthened to
close off "opportunities for ad­
justment and development of
evasive strategies.·
C OCKE'IT 0
VERSIO
Crockett indicated that the
House panel favored a renewal
of the sweeping anti-aparthied
measure originally adopted by
the House last year.
The proposed legis1ation, re-
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a
introduced by Congressman
Ronald Dellums, (D-CA), was
abandoned by the House last
year in favor of a milder version
passed by the Senate. It ould
prohibit investments, imports
and exports, landing rights, bank
accounts, and military coopera­
tion . th South Africa, and
ould limit the imports to this
country from nations ttempting
to take commercial advantage of
the u.s. sanctions.
Jackson also urged the U .
panel to recommend ction
gains "South Africa's military
aggression in Namibia and An­
gola" and to provide assistance
and support to the frontline
tates bordering South Africa.
"The struggle against racisim
has drawn the attention of the
world," J ckson said. e can-
not permit four million
Afrikaners to viol te the human
rights and control the destiny of
25 million Blacks.
Last month, President
Reagan issued report saying
that a year of economic sanc­
tions imposed by the Congress
agains the Pretoria regime had
not helped to end aparthied.
The president, ho long has op­
posed sanctions, called instead
for a renewed "period of active
and creative diplomacy.·
SAY GAN
HALF- TED
Many members of Congress,
including Croc ett, have dis­
agreed with the Reagan
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