By Alii J
DETROIT - Jesse Jackson
brought his campaign for the
nat ion's h· ghest office to
Michigan where he found pack­
ed halls, spirited followers and a
cadre of dedicated volunteers
determined to make history.
Driving home his message of
reinvestment in America, stop
the dope the borders, job ;
peace and economic justice,
Jackson offe ed his listeners in
Detroit, Thu sday, a sharp con­
trast to the r alities of the day's
headlines.
- Jack on criticized the
Re an adm nistration for or-
AID
bills spark civil ri
By J mie .�o
Capital New Service
LA I NG - Two repre-
sentatives, one a Republican
and the other a Democrat, are
working together on the two
AIDS bills most disputed by
state civil-rights organizations.
Of the 22 bills under con­
sideration, these two bills offer
ways to report AIDS carriers
and punish those who endanger
o hers.
While Rep. Tom Power's
measure would create a report­
ing and contact-notification sys­
tem, Rep. Mich el Bennane, D­
Detroit, pon ors a measure that
would allow health officials to
take to court any carriers who
willfully expose others to the
AIDS virus.
Power, R- Traverse City,
sponsors Bill 4103, which has
been amended twice. If passed
into law, the measure would re­
quire d ctors and clinicians to
report people found to the
AIDS-virus carriers to local
Department of Public Health of-
fici�. I
It also would require health
-officials to offer help in notifying
SOCIAL SERVICE GRA IT
A WRC phamphl !
cit Gov rnor
Blanchard'. month�y
I Income a 0 r
$8,000 for him
and hi f mlly of
thr
those who came in contact,
through sexual relations or
needle-sharing, with positive
te ters of their possible ex- .
posure to the virus.
Under Power's measure,
health-care providers testing
people for the AIDS virus would
have to inform patients that I al
Public Health officials would be
told withio seven days of un-
By Ron Sel I
DETROIT- The Wayne
County Welfare Reform Coali­
tion (WRC), and State
Representative Joseph Young
Jr., are protesting a plan al­
legedly approved by Michigan
Governor James Blanchard and
conservative Republican legis­
lators to cut social service
grants.
Under the plan, those on
General Assistance (GA.) and
Aid to Dependent Children
(AD C) ould have their grants
cut by $1 per month.
WRC and Young am the
cuts would. cause hardship to
named indivi uals testing posi­
tive for th . u .
Positive te ters would be as­
igned numbe s known by them
and the health-care providers
performing the te ts.
They would then be asked to
make an appointment ithin
seven days to ee health officials
for counseling and help in
aking contact notifications.
poor individuals and families.
Rep. Young stated tha� the
Black Caucus "felt let down" by
the governor's action at a . e
when the caucus w fighting for
necessary "minimal increase ."
Young tated he expected
help from legislator � blocking
d ring 3,200 troops in Hon­
duras. He called the move an ef';
fort to divert attention from the
indictments handed down Tues­
day in the Iran-Contra candal.
C tinued 0 P 10
The positive tes r would be
identified by number unless they
failed to make the appointments
or how up, at which lim their
names and ddre would be
rclca ed.
Official then would contact
unwilling inteview participants
to try to et up couns ling se -
siODS.
Conlin don 1
CUT I
the cuts.
Discus ing his disappoint­
ment with the governor's posi­
tion, Young tared, "I would
have thought he'd be more
responsive to the needs of tho e
on welfare, who can't help them­
selves," but added, " 0 we
we have a battle on our
hands."
" ometim s it s better to
wake up the troops than have .
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