1
ashington Informer '
'ne p per publisher and
WYCB-AM radio commen­
tator, J ac on patiently ex­
p .' that he is moving his
home to D.C. and the National
Rainbo Co lition head­
quarters "back to W asbingtOD"
because the Capital i the cen­
ter of ctivity in the nation and
the orld. It is an effective
location for me to operate in
and meet people" he added.
The decision on whether he
should run for mayor i prema­
ture and ho is going to be
mayor is not the issue no the
Democratic party's major vote
getter said in indicating he .
keeping his options open. "We
still have the baseball season
this year, the tional Football
League playoffs (this winter)
and the National B etball As,.
_ ; tion season next year,. th
potential candidate quipped at
one point i referring to the
1990 mayoral campaign begin­
ning in bo t 13 months.
However, Jack on em­
phasized that ,·D.C. is under
Congressional occupation. We
need to free the city from the
_plight of being occupied by offi­
cials who are not ccountab e to
the people. This is the only Cap­
tal among democr . in the
orld its citizens do DOt ve
the right of self determinatin.·
Noting that Mayor Barry
originally elected on a "Free
D.C." campaign, Jackson said
he will aid the city' home rule
drive to get more elected repre­
sentatives nd senators in the
United States Congress. Rep.
W Iter E. Fauntroy (D.C.
Delegate), the city's only mem­
ber of Congress without a fuD
vote, ccompanied J ckson to
the medi se sion, but the
mayor was not present.
Barry and J ckson reported­
ly met later after the District
Columbi oity cou ci1 p ed
legislation viewed ,restricting
the new re ident' ability to
rai campaign funds by limit­
ing the amount of peaker's fees
for public offici I . When
barred reporters per . ted in
aski c n abo t .. cam-
paign plans after the meeting,
he replied th t t eir questions
were "irrelevant."
Tumor
- hr nklng
drug to aid
Black omen
Orlando, FL (July 19, 1989)
-- Ne investigatienal drug
therapy is showing promising
result in treating uterine
fibroid tumors, a condition
Anti-drug m rch
C 1
thing to waste, but when some­
thing comes out of their lives I'm
really happy."
Also in the business of saving
lives are Tom and Curt Faunce,
from Frontline Outreach lo­
cated in Taylor. Their outreach
missio provided the food and
the clothes for the anti-drug
raDy. � ..
As prison and street 1DJIll-
sters the Faunce are in the
proce of getting a elter to
housed people and are current­
ly taking people into their
residences.
Although serious ris are
taken whenever they take a
homeless person in their home
they continue to do it.
"The best thing i when som
life changes and that makes it
worth it," Faunce said, adding
that they do what they do be- .
cause, "We're Christians."
Sat.
7:30 a.m.
,
which strikes AfriCan American
women three to nine times more
than women of other r ces.
Fibroid tumors are the lead­
ing cause of abdominal
hysterectomies in the United
States. Speaking before
physicians t the Nation I
Medical Associatio in Orlan­
do today, reproductive en­
docrinologist' Elwyn Grimes,
MD, clinical professor at the
Uni�rsity 'of Missouri Kansas
City School of Medicine, dis­
cussed his research with
leupeolide cerate, a synthetic
OAU
Coatinu fro 7
Egypt's present leader, in his
opening address in Addis
Abab at the conference on July -
24, outlined his objectives as
chairman for the coming year.
He declared that he would
wor toward greater inter­
African cooperation, a reduc­
tion in the deb burden, greater
cooperation between Africans .
and Arabs and the elimination
of racism on the continent.
According to Cameroun
Pan-Africanist Elenga
M'Buyinga of the Union des
Populations du Cameroun, (a
revolutionary anti nco-colonial
organization oppossed to the
present pro-western regime of
Paul Biya) the OAU is bankrupt
beyond revival. .
"This is the centr reason
hy workers, poor peas nts,
present-day r dical petty bour­
geoisie and all true A riean
patriots and revolutio ries
should not waste their time
'reviving' the OAU,· ays
M'Buyinga.
He concludes that "on the
contrary, it i time to prepare
the worker and young people
for the struggle to' establish a
Revolutionary Pan-African Or­
ganization' and a Union of
African � Republics.·
DID YOU 0 ... that
each year in America 700,000
public school stud nts drop out.
The tes with the worse drop­
out rates are Florida, Louisiana.
Michl an, Geor . a '
version of the body's own
gonadotropin-releasing hor­
mone (GnRH.) Based on
published research as weD his
own findings, Dr. Grimes said
fibroid tumor tre ted with
leuprolide acetate, a once-a­
month injection given by the
physician, can brink tumor SO
to 60 percent.
Dr. Grimes, 46, is 1968
graduate of Meharry Medical
College, Nashville. Dr. Grimes
served his internship at George
w. Hubbard Hospital at
Meharry Medical College.
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