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CgpiIIIl Nnn Svvice
By D rrick . Le
Correspondent
A gun hot in dead-end
lIey on M morial Day
weekend, end d the life of
eventeen y ar-old Regin Id
Elli .
Th su . P ct. John M.
46, a white m n from SI. Clair
Shore, i till at-large Iter a
w rrant a i ued for his ar-
LANSING - With the ever­
gro iDg Dumber of school
finance propo aI, ome of
. cbigan' s BI It leg' I are
f vorin proposed constitu-
. tiona! amendment t ouId
provide equal opportunity for
edUab' OIl - t I in fun' .
re t Tuesday, May 29.
Police released n Ea t
Detroit. and a SI. Clair Shore
man on Sunday, May 27, who
were allegedly with Albert
during the shooting. Both
m n re white.
mother, was upset at the
release of the two men. She
ay the police c lied h rand
" OST 0 ALL, we pro­
vide a plan by which we have
dditional doll for educatio
without tax increase."
But Rep. Ted Wallace, D- .
Detroit, aid it would be a mis­
take for the state to dedicate a
large portion of the budget to
education when there are oth r
programs th need funding.
The problem with that
(Profit-Young measure) is we
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said they were relea ed be­
cau they were not the gun­
men.
She thinks there i a double
tandard o( justice for Black
in the city. She cited the rna -
acre on St. Aubi treet e r-
'J' r, t dri r
of the get-away vehicle -an
African American Youth- i
still in jail, even though he did
not do the actual shooting.
"There are a set of rules for
Blacks and a set of rules for
whites. Rules arc for
everyone to Iollow," she said.
There has not been a major
uproar from th BI ck com­
munity, nor rn jor Black or­
ganization in reg rd to the
shooting, and the alleged
double standard.
She said the only one
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By
lUi
WASHI GTO , D.C .
. The United Nation Human
Rights Centre in Genev wit­
zerland, received a petitio to
have a UN represenrative ob-
erve the scheduled trial of Dis­
trict of Colwnbi yor Marion
S.Barr .... tomonito thejudicial
proceedings to help remedy the
situation." .
Citing evidence of bar s­
m and violatio of th rights
of elected Blac officials
natio . de for over the t 25
years, representatives 0 a new
"Coalition of Human Rights Ac­
tivi ts" supported th UD�
dented international petition
filed by D.C. and Virginia Atty.
Mary E. Co "
M'Y r and the
District ... "
nseteam, w
spokesper­
community
sh out­
in a crowded
the Nation-
ia coverage
s corps con­
pecula­
b ed upon
" of undocu­
" information