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 '