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p n of the national touring company
of "MDlIJ/l Don't", a g pel m ic
theatrical production that cored
high mar with urban audienc
aero the country. The expo ure h
helped to prime Allen for th relea
of th album which he y features
ome gre t music. "There' ome
laid-down, foot- tompin m ic on
there. Then there' ome ballads that
would make that Chri tian husband
hug his Christian wife."
There' no slowing down for
Shirky Caesar, who will t m with
Milton Brunson nd hi Thompson
Community Choir for her next
album.
The album i being recorded in
Chicago later this month for a poten­
tial late September early October
release. This upcoming week in
Raleigh, Cae ar celebrates the 19th
year of her annual crusade, with
proceeds going to benefit the Shirley
Caesar Outreach Ministry, which
provides aid to people in emergency
situations.
The convention which commen­
ces July 21 through 27, at the Mis­
sion Valley Inn Conference and
Expo Center in Raleig " North
Carolina, features workshop , mid-
Marvin and Vicki Winans
Shirley C r
night musicals, and celebrity show­
cases. The week-long festivities are
I expected to draw 8,000.
However not just music, but the
ministry part will be a key part of the
attraction. Gue t pastors include
Marvin Winans and a special ap­
pearance by Rev. Je e Jackson, The
crusade will conclude with the 22nd
anniversary concert of the Caesar
Singers with guest performances by
Tramaine Hawkins and Rev. James
Moore, who will also erv dlrec-
tor 0 the convention choir.
Just Briefly: Jimmy Swaggart
says God who told him not to
respond to the recent new broadcast
showing photo (taken in 1987) of
the evangelist and a prostitute out­
side a motel room. The shots were
taken shortly before Swaggart's pul­
put confession of adultery. Evan­
gelist Marvin Gorman has tried
unsuccessfully to have the pictures
admitted as evidence in his $90 mil­
lion defamation suit against Swag­
gart,
This week� scripture: "No one
hils seen God at any time.l/we love
one an , God abides in us, and
his love has been perfected in
us",-1 John 4:12.
Motivational Seminar set
West Side Unity Church presents
Naomi Sims, New York fashion
model and successful Black business
entrepreneur who will conduct a
dynamic, exciting motivational
seminar entitled, ''You Can Be All
You Want To Be". . .
This energizing seminar will take
place at 1:00 p.m., Sunday, July 21st
at West Side Unity Church, 4727 Joy
Road in Detroit.
Come and hear Naomi share with
you her "Tools Of Success" and how
to master your goals for a mere
$12.00 love offering. Ca11895-1520
to make your reservation.
Split up was a mistake
relationship with 27 year-old Vicki Long, who now
claims to be Mariono's wife. t
Word had it that the Pilgrim Jubilees had split up,
and that there were two groups going by that name, First women to hold position
but Malaco record executives insist the group is Rev. Joan Brown Campbell recently became the
together and that it is instead the Gospel Keynotes new general secretary of the National Council of
who have undergone personnel �hanges. In lieu' of . Churches, the nation' largest ecumenical organiza­
tho e changes, the group now goes by the name of tion. Campbell, 59, is the first woman to hold the
Willie Neal Johnson & the New Go pel Keynotes. position.
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Facelift for Notre Dame Cathedral What A Victory
It took 200 years to construct the Notre Dame Christians Celebrated victoriously at word of the
Cathedral and now experts say it will take ten years Supreme Courts ban of prohibiting federally funded
to administer an ambitious $19 million facelift that is family planning clinics from advising abortion as a
just about to get underway. It seems pollution, the medical option.
elements and just plain old aQC' have caught up with
the gothic cathedral, that i Ct dered to be a master­
piece of French Art.
Oh, to be a boy scoutl
Eight-year old Mark Welsh is still awaiting to see
whether 0 not he will be a Cub Scout. Mark's father,
Elliot filed uit gainst the Boy Scouts of America
when they refused to let him join, because his father
wouldn't sign a tatement of reference for God. At
present, Mar and his father Elliot, are locked in a
court battle.
Catholic Church Names Succesor
52-year old James Lyke became the new Roman
tholic archbi hop of Atlanta. The appointment
make Lyke the highest-ranking Black catholic in the
USA: Lyke replaces fo mer archbishop Eugene
Marin _ , wbo left amidst the candal of a two year-long
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HEALTH
o in ityofth
Sack to the future:
When ketchup was a vegetable?
(Part I)
Let's Talk about why health care,
particularly for African Americans,
seems to be failing.
But first I want to travel back in
time, Back To The Future: . If you
will, setting our .. DeLorean time
machine to January 1, 1983, The
Year When Ketchup Was A
Vegetable! !?
Why January 1, 1 837 On this
day Anthony Robbins, MD, a lonely
staff member on the Committee of
Energy and Commerce, the Congres­
sional Committee responsible for
much of this nations public health
policy and funding, ponders over the
future of our nation's health care
delivery system from his just
released article in the American
Journal of Public Heal th, called "Can
Reagan Be Indicted for Betraying
Public Health?" -
Dr. Robbins has outlined
Reagan's on-slaught against the
public health protections and
preventive health services, estab­
lished by nearly e�ery president
since Abraham Lincoln.
MORE IMPORTANTLY Dr.
Robbins reported then that Ronald
Reagan decimated health care
programs established by previous
conservative Repu_blican d­
ministrations such as President Ford,
and Nixon, which enjoyed broad .
base support among Democrats and
Republican.
The examples he cited: WIC
(Women, Infant and Children),
school lunches and many other child
nutrition efforts in 1983 which
Ronald Reagan cut by one third, and
if Congress had followed the Reagan
Administrations plan these programs
would have been down another third
with school children eating ketchup
and relish as "Vegetables."
High blood pressure control, once
a national public health program
with remarkable achievements and
which significantly improved the
overall health status of many African
Americans, was reduced to a declin­
ing et-aside" by Reagan's policy
makers."
Fluoridation and dental health, a
small program, but one that carried
. it very high benefit-t co t ratio,
was ended i 1982 and Reagan
proposed leaving only technical sup­
port, and total elimination in 1983.
Dr. Robbins further outlined in
pregnancy and infant care, "long the
mainstay of public health, with
strong professional leadership,
maternaland child health programs
have been relegated to a block gran!_.
with funding down over 25 percent.
MEDICAID �LIGIBIUTY, an
adjunct, has been trimmed."
In family planning, Dr. Robbins
wrote, "President Reagan tried to ,
repeal Title X of the Public Health
Service Act and, when this failed, he
tried to cut its funding by almost 50
percent .. When Congress prevented
the repeal and some of the cuts, the
Reagan Administration resorted to
parental notification rules to di -
courage use of family planning ser­
vices by teenagers.
Even more alarming was that in
immunizations Reagan was so intent
on budget cutting. that the first im­
munization proposal from his Office
YOU'RE
WITHIN
THE­
NORMS
of Management and Budget (OMB)
meant: a smaller and mailer frac­
tion of American children would be
Immunized, .
However only through Congres­
sional persistence, and erie from the
public health community, forced his
Health and Human Services
Secretary to retreat from this posi­
tion.
Neverthele 5, Reagan' policy
makers r-ejected pleas for sup­
plemental appropriation for continu­
ing immunization of young children
in America.
AND, AS IF to rub salt in the
wound, the Reagan Administration
tried vigorou Iy to repeal the
programs for Battered Women, Bat­
tered Children, and Rape Victims,
and vigorously opposed Gun Control
Legislation. (To be continued, next
week)
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RELIGION
DEAR DIALOGUE: What is
cross training, and is it lor
everybody? T.E., J kson, M .
DEAR T.�.: It's not for
everybody. Although great athletes
histoncally have participated in a
variety of kill sports, popular atten­
tion came to cro training about 15
years ago when triathlete began
competing in a race combining run­
ning, bicycling nd wimming. A
cross-training fitD program might
have you doing water exercise ,jog­
gling and stationary cycling.
One advantage-avoided i the
boredom of doing the same et of
exerei every day.
Medical Arts
. Pharmacy
DAVID N.
ZIMMERMAN
PO, FACA.
Pre.ldent
Higb Blood Pressure and OTC Medicin
I
According to a recent report, 6()CI, of the medicines Ammcans have at
-home are of the oveNbe-counter (OTC) v 'ely. Anyone wbo abo �
JnSCripbon medicines should be w.-e that some OTCs can affect 0Ihez
medicines and ocher health problems. In a recent issue of Post,radllQlt
MtdiciM, Dr. John Bradley reviews the effect of four OTC ingredients OIl
high blood pressure control: .
Aclr rak A e as: Adrenalin-like ingredients h as PMllyl­
proptJltOltlWliM, tplwdriM,.nd PMllyl� can iocteue blood pres­
sure. Of these three, pMllylproptJltOlIuniM is the IJK)It commooly UICCl in
arc products. Sinale, immedia&e-re doIea of phenylpropMolamine
should be DO pealer than 37 m ; -releue DO peal« dwl7S m .
prof; : In <me study, daily doles of thin 1,200 mg of the pain re-
liever ibuprO/tll did not inaase the blood eX pMienu who were
taking_ prescripcioo blood pas'" medicine. Higher doses for mtwe &ban
_ few day may elevate blood pressure.
.uecJ� oee in y OTC liquids ., diaolve med-
icines. Doses providin the equivalent of more than two drinks a day are
believed to . blood pressure and sbould be avoided.
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