tice," Mrs. Cox declared. The Continued fro P 1
petition charged that • since
1984, the U.s. Govenunent, in
collusioo with the WasbiDgtoo
I Po t (ne spaper) and other
media, has ontinually
slandered, brutalized and ter­
rorized the Mayor aad his fami­
Iy, well the citizens ... "
Mrs. Cox, who is also
columnist for the Capital Spot-
light new , points out
I the federal government' efforts
cause sen harm to Barry's
political future and at the same
time interfere with the electoral
'proces in the District. "The d .
petition cites specific violations . Fun I n 9
of the mayor's hwnan rights, in-
cluding, most importantly, the
right to be presumed innoced
until proven guilty," sh stated. ,
Joining Cox in support of the
petition was George Pope, ex­
ecutive director, Afric n­
American Legal Defense-PAC;
Rev. Robert Hamilton, Chair,
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Solidarity Committee; Rev;
Jam Bevel, preside arion­
al Committee Against Religious
. Bigotry nd Racism; Joyce
Scott, D.C. Community ctivist,
d W. Bufiell Brooks, an inde­
pendent candidate for D:C.
yore Former Maryland State
Sen. Clarence Mitchell II,
recently released from prison on
ppeal of his convictin on fraud
charges, rushed from Baltimore
to W hington to join the sup­
port committee ,beca�se
"anyone who doe n t realize
what is h' ppening to Black
elected officials is either
dumbfounded or too dumb", he
said
Mitchell announced that the
ational Council of Churches
passed a resolution urging a
coogressi� investigation into
the Justice Department treat­
men of Bla officials.
"We file this p tition to the
Seactary- ral of the United
Nations for the human rights
violations, destruction, and
mear campaigns on individuals
and org nizations such a
Mayor ... Barry, Richard
cher, Adam Clayton Powell,
Judge Alcee Hasting , Con­
gressman William Gray, Carl
St es Charles Diggs, Shirley
Cb�l, Coleman Young, Eddie
Carthan, Faye Williams, Mar­
cus Garvey� (The) Blac Pan­
thers Party, (Dr) Martin Luther
King Jr., M colm � P�e!
Ell berg, (The) MissIssIPPI
Freedom Democra ic Party,
(The) Stude t on-Violent
Coordinating Committee
S CC), and many others ... "
. d Pope's emcnt.
The Cox petition to
e the UN Commis ioon on
Human Right decide on
tbourough dy of th (Barry)
itultioo..by ad-hoc CO�lD1t-
tee or an pointed S pedal
&voy to the tJnitedStates. The
• DC for filing all petitions
before the body this year
M y 31 t and he h S !lot
received notification Co d.
Barry ·
co tl .eeI frO pale 1
Ellis
trying to help her was Michael
Wahl, who is the Program
Director at the Learning Op­
portunity Center at Wayne
County Community College
East Campus.
Wahl wants to start a com­
mi nee to offer a reward for
information leading to
Albert's arrest. He aid he
wants the same kind of effort
by the police to find Ellis'
killer, as the effort put forth to
Co tinued rrom g 1
might not have the funds to dedi­
cate 50 percent of the budget to
education," Wallace said. WI
would have no objection to
dedicating the additional sour­
ces of revenue to education,
however, I ouId not be in favOr
of dedicating a portion of ens -
ing revenues or any larger share
to education that we now dedi-
care."
Wallace aid he is not
downplaying the importance of
education, b programs such
health care and social services
are also in need of funding.
w'I1lere are a number of im­
portaDt areas of the budget and I
don't think we should tie our
hands and say that e're going
to dedicate 50 percent of the
budget to education, " Wallace
said.
Dougla Drake, the
governor's cting director for
education budgeting, has said
that devoting the s e's limited
resources to improving the
quality of educatioo is a better
long-term solution to the
problems of poverty than pour­
ing money into social-service
programs.
- "You've got to make some
tough choices when you have a
limited resource base," Drake
said in an April interview.
"You've got to make choices
that 100 like they're going to
give you the best chance. to get
out of thi long term."
Sen. Vugil Smith, D-Detroit
and a upporter of the Profit­
Young proposal, said most of
the existing proposals for school
finance are grandiose and pr0-
vide no <firection after reduc­
tions in the tate budget under
the current system of school
finance.
o E WAY TO help
schools, Smith aid, is to in­
crease taxes for people with
higher incom .
"I would like to ee a
graduated income tax in the
st e of Michigan and I d
like to ee K-12 educ ion
financed from . draduated in­
come tax: Smith . d. I
Seven school finance
p-oposa1s are being -COIWdeted
for legis • 00 or ballot �
ti
find the killer of Marie Kado,
a white surbanile whose kill­
ing remain front page news
almost three months after her
death.
Elli wa attending WC3 in
order to get a GED, after he
stopped attending Osborn
High School last year, be­
cause of the violent outbreaks
at the school, according to his
mother.
Ellis wa shot while trying
to get the licen e plate num­
ber, according to his friend
Darren Burgess, 17, after the
car in which they were riding
was hit by a pick-up truck,
which went through a
stoplight on Gratiot and
Seven Mile.
Ellis, Burges, and .ElIi
cousin, Eddie Dix, follo ed
the truck on foot into an alley,
where the truck r n into
bric wall.
A man jumped out of the
true , yelled "back off." and
fire a hot that hit Elli in the
side, according to poli e.
After the shooting. Albert 1-
legedly ran to a nearby b r,
and a police came into the
bar to jnve tigate, a di tur­
bance en ued. Police say 1-
bert left during the
disturbance. Th other t 0
men were arrested at the scene
of the hooting, according to
police.
PAGE THIRTEEN
Ellis was one of five people
killed by gunshot during the
Memorial Day weekend in
Detroit. Mayor Coleman
Young de cribed the weekend
a one of the be t ever for the
city.
"I ju t want some justice.
It wa ju t en ele fora m n­
to gun down my on in the
treet, tt said Mrs. Ell i .
wme your
opinions:
As a gr duatc of a Bla 'k publi . college ()U
kl) the va ue of your cdu 'at" m. Right no
then.' an' too many kids ho may I '�'er he able
to af ord thi; opportunity. Right no you tan
do som -thing about it. Th . Thurgood a�ll' II
Black EdllGtt i< n fund provid .�. -holarships to
kids ho C( Iidn't other 'i, . afford to go to a
uta 'k puhli 'l'()lIq�t:-. 'hoob hich do not
g ·t th . �ame corporat . support that som .
private '()Ik�'� d ), Ju,t 0,_ • dollar rom
each of you puts a id ° " rep do, ·r to a
college l-UU 'at' n.
h 'n'� th . last tin . your dollar �
orth :0 much? .
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