NAACP, Tran Africa, ANC all rip U.S. action
premature for two 0:
"The violence (in the townshi )
h resulted in ituation here
there is no climate for free political
activity. Furthermore large numbers
of persons, defined as political
pri oners in term of greement
reached between the ANC and the
South African overnment, remain
in jail," the ANC said.
The South African Human Rights
Commission said in a s tement it
was convinced there are more than
800 political prisoners still in South
African j 11 . Only 60 political
prisoners have been released since
June 3, the group aid.
Release of politic:al prisoners w
one of five conditions mandated by
Congre to be met before nctions
were to be lifted.
IN JOHANNESBURG
Thursd y, the Mafeking Anti.
ANC110 ,P 11
C�lII
JESS
JACKSON,
ddres ing the
annual
NAACP con
in
RaDdall RoblD OD
earliest chance
he had to
remove the
nctions" and
called the
presldent's action, "callous" and
"race-conscious manipulauve be
havior.".
Officials hould depend on
repo from the African Nad 1
"The premature lifting of sane
do II indicative of sbort- ightcd
Dell on the part of the president and
hi. administration," read the
Detroit contracts with
firm tied to South Africa
b1 DERRICK C. LEWIS .
slltrw,.""
A Detroit deputy chief of police faces di clplinary action for allow
ina Oracle Corporation to perform $150,000 worth of computer work
for the police department without council approval.
AI Filhman, a civilian deputy chief, who h�ds the Information
S)'Item& Department, gave the gO-ahead for a $300,000 contract with
Oracle to provide programming and software to update the police
cSepartment' system for tracking forfeited property. . .
'The company bad already finished half of the work before council
dilc:overed the discrepancy.
Deputy Police Chief Revel Brawner told the council during last
Tuesday's discussion, that Fishman had acted on his own, and that he
bid admitted such. .
ORACLE, WmCH has connections with South Africa, had ub
mUted a petition for exemption from the city's South AfriC:8n Or
diDaDce, which prohibits the city from contracting with companies
which do business with the country.
FIshman bad chosen Oracle to perform the work, because of past
See CONTRACTS, P.13
By DANNY R. COOKS
Corresponde'"
� ---- Independence
Day came bit early in Kalamazoo
for a group of northside residents as
they discovered the power ·of
petitioning their government in order
to make a difference in their power
less lives.
The July 1st City Commission
faced the p ionate but frustrated
concern of northside mothers and
others fed up with the lack of action
by City Inspectors, Health Depart
ment officials, and Public Safety of
ficers.
Gwen Burton told the Commis
sion she was "tired of fighting a
losing battle trying to stop the
hookers and drug activity in my
neighborhood, cause we can't do it
without help." Burton said neigh
borhood children notice as pros
titutes "flag down cars: it's a 24n
kind of thing. l\venty-four hours a
day, seven days per week."
"There are three condemned
houses iri a row right there cross the
street from us," Burton said, nothing
that they were used by "hookers and
drug users and drug dealers to take
care of their business."
or
o -D gruntled
of B com-
munity, nary over M gon
County Prosecutor Tony
Ta ue's handUn of the
homicide of Loui Franchot
Green, have filed a recall peti
tion gai t Tague lth the
county clerk' office. Green
w tbe 20-ye r old Blac
youth fatally shot to death by a
white restaurant patron I t
month.
Early July 3, 1991, T: gue
announced that he would
prosecute Robert Wayne Col
lins Sr., the white man who
shot Loul Green to death,
with a felony weapo viola
tion charge only. AI charged
Collin' so Robert Col
li Jr., who left the want
at his fatber' orders and
returned with a .357 Magnum,
which the elder Colli kined
S •• TARGET, Page 15
OUT ELECTRICITY or
water and unfit for human habjtation,
the illicit activity in th buiJding
raised health concerns in the mind of
Burton and otbers, he aid. Burton
told the Commi ion that for at least
ten months neigbborh� residents
tired to en.li$t the belp of the Health
Department, City Inspector, and
Public Safety Department wi thout
uccess,
Burton sugge ted that the Com
mi ion get erious about doing
something wi th condemned proper-
ties, "even if it' notllin, more dum
boarding them up,. she '<I, DO
t children are constantly discover
ing G-strings, used condoms, tam
pons, and other uch things.
Armed wi th a peti tion carrying 52
S. DRUGS, Page 3
n len old to back
off Michigan Pri on
By DANNY R. COOKS
Correspondent
KALAMAZOO -Desp�te his "Guardian of the
Flame of Freedom" label, U.S. District Judge Richard
A Enslen's "patron of the underdog" brand of justice
was' rebuked by a higher court recently. The Si th
Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Enslen abused his
discretion by "permitting the court to become inex
tricably entangled in details of prison administration
best left to the judgement of the sovereign State of
Michigan."
The Court's July 2, decision remanded and
reversed five eparate orders handed down by Enslen
in the case where the United States filed a complaint
against Michigan in which it alleged that Michigan
violated the eighth and fourteenth amendments to the
U.S. Constitution by perpetuating conditions and
practices which corsnnned cruel �d lUlUSuaJ punish
ment at the State Prison of Southern Michigan (in
cluding the Reception. and Guidance Center), the
Michigan Reformatory, and the Marquette Brand
Prison.
The result of the U.S. complaint w a July 16,
1984 �t Decree ddressing Enslen' concerns
that Mic.bigan prisons resulted in "\Dlquestioned and
serious deprivation of basic human needs ... depriving
pri oners of the minimal civilized measure of life's
necessities." .
AJthou� the consent decree dealt with five physi
cal conditions of imprisonment (medical and mental
health care; fire afety anitation, and bygiene:
crowding and protection form harm; and cce to the
courts and legal mall) the District Court's emphasi
bas been overaowding and Mental Health H pital.
PRISOHS,P 11
Anybody that can mate society
better. If he can do that I oukl
definitely want him on there.
LORI BUNTER, Detroit, MI.
I don't think so due to his lac of
mvolvemcDt' ud cxpcriCDC:C
civil righ i ucs. EDWARD
MIILER, JR., Detroit, �.
I never beard of him before -
DOtbiDtl.at aU. I 't' y an-
thing for or aiost. WILLA
OWN, Ben10n Harbor, MI.
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