..
'. (I .1(11 �JO 3tl AUGUST 11 i : 1"'11
whi pollee force, Rev. J e J c on joined I com­
munity unity march organized here A t 7 behind
, ing rae I te io surrounding the Jeffrey Dahmer
Earlier the same day, the Mil lukee Pollee
sociation voted overwhelmingly to for the 0 ter
of Chief Philip Arreol for s pending three patrol­
men who � tioned but did not arrest Dahmer.
• DAHMER on P ge
AUICBB -The unveilln of pollee iOOif-
• ference and neglect 0 the BI community y ta e
• the spotlight � uc of grel t impact in the
of the deranaed rial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.
0110 I community crt ttl Dahm could
only do what be did behind the racilm of a tile
roup,
all mal
ingl mom
chool
o
to girls, not to block th m from
opening Aug. 27.
He'd the uit w the grou '
Mbl*,.
The American Civil Liberti
Union and tbe NldoDal lion
for WOlDen Le al De(! e and
Ed n Fund rued auit In federal
� Monday on behalf of Garrett
• ...s anotber oman bo i hes to
i.emain anonymou • The other
woman his three daughters, ages S,
anclll.
, Howard Simon, executive direc:
.. of the Michigan ACLU, said the '
�t w filed to open the academie
final ltemative after ix months of
talks with the Detroit Board of
Education brought no change.
"We would have preferred that
the Detroit Board of Education
heeded the warning signs ... that set-
c
c:
,
parate
. B1 LARRY A. STILL
SHe.' to Micltl,tI" Citiz."
•• WASHINGTON, DC -As Congress
ICheduIec1 IOCODlider an amend­
ment to provide for I return to dual
goals for minority and women­
owned business participation in the
multi-billion, dollar Surface
Transportation Act, the Congres­
sional Black Caucus focuseddirecUy
on a growing "conflict" between
'Black-owned enterprise and busi-
, owned by white women.
.:. The issue highlighted wben
• Edolphus Towns (D-NY), CBC
chairman wrote over 400 colleagues
'in the House of Representatives just
before the August recess to "express
our stron t support for the decou­
pling of for minority business
enterprise (MBEs) and women
I business' enterprises (WBEs goals
within the Disadvantaged Business
Enterprise o(DBE) program ... We
believe this action is imperative and
urge you to carefully consider i
merits .....
Writing on behalf of the 27-mem­
ber CBC, tbwns called for" upport
of the dual goal amendment of a min-
ue
,.
ting up sex- gre ted schools w a
violation of constitutional and
statutory priDCipl ." Simon aid.
But Frank Hayden, chool
board vice p ident, said the board
had been willi to wort with tbe
ACLU and NOW to set up a girls­
only school, and id no airls had
applied to the boys-only schools.
"If e ould have continued
alo1l& with the di logue, we could
IM\\rcQJ 0 ACLU
t wltI�iie1'"
population, we were wllUn to
sure the same thin for the female
population," he said.
But he said the earliest an all-girIJ
school would open would be a year
from DOW.
Hayden said if a girl had applied
for one of the 562 openings at the
schools, "that could have been an
'i ue we could have had further
dialogue about."
S MALE ACADEMY P 8 SIGNOFCHANGE-Membe oftbeMlcblaanCbapterofACORNaredltl8ncll1Da
••• • sa and tbe absence of ro dy lndlvldua wbo h women and cblldren. S
e
a
ide
for Black
wom
n'
•
imum ten percent MBE and five per­
cent WBE (goals in procurement
contracts) and ask that you vote in
support of thi measure when the
five-year authorization of the Act
comes to the floor," possibly when
Congress retums in September.
Towns took the bold action cill ..
ing for complete bouse vote after the
"dual goal amenclment" was rejected
in a subcommiuee despite the efforts
of Democratic CBC members
Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC), John
Lewis (GA) and Gus Savage
(Chicago), all members of the Public
Wor and Transportation subcom­
mittee which originated the goals
with � prodding of outspoken Con­
gress man Savage.
House Committee on Public Works
reauthorization (for funds) bill w
amended on the House Floor by Rep.
John Hammerschmidt (R-AR) to
combine them into one program.
The Change in the original amend-
, ment, which could "set-aside" up to
'$30 billion in potential contract
funds for minority firms, bas never
been the subject of committee bear­
ings, Congressman Towns said.
The originaJ 3.2 percent women­
o ess (WBE) goal which
was also "established admini tra­
tively for white female owned bus i-
nesses" by then Secretary of Labor
Elizabeth DoJe w "collapsed" into
the 1� legislatively mandated goal
for all minority-owned b'USllasea
(includin minority omen), ac­
cordill to the CBC chairman.
"An lIDinteDded coDaequcnce
been to r competition and con­
flict between two disadvantaged
groups hich the DBE programs
were desiined to benefit," Towns
wro1e his colleagues. The resulting
impact bas been a sblIp drop in the
EPERATE. P
I
CONGRESS RSCESSED
without voting on the reauthoriza­
tion because of disputes over other
aspects of the legislation, including
a proposed five percent gasoline tax
increase to help fund the measure.
The Department of transporta­
tion administered two eparate
procurement programs' for MBE
and WBEs until 1987 when the