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altercation, hich
thi reporter' me bein en
(which he retrieved 't ut force) i
t t three ACOR membe : Emily
cDonald, 68, F Gi nola,
61, nd F 46, filed -
ult and b ttery compl in I t
the person they identified Kenneth
Almas.
ACORN' "11 fired up." They
y "Al 'trend eems to be that
once ho . no longer makin
him money, he fail to fix it up and It
become one of the (city' )
dangero v cant ho "
Moreover, ACORN dded, "He
(Kenneth Alm of Almas Realty)
How it (the property) to be (tax)
deliquent for three years, t whic
point the city e it over and the tax
paye are forced to carry the burden
of demolition cost."
In the Free P 'May 31 rnele,
two residen of Lane Street, Alice
Lennis and Marsh Soblec id they
"watcbed" Almas Realty collect rent
. on 8100 Lane Street "until it w no
longer feasible. "
ACORN has vowed to pursue the
matter and MacDonald . d, "We
will no longer put up wi th businesses
uch Aim Realty that bleed tbe
community, not only of money, but
dignity."
Lorenzo Williams, a Southfield
resident who w vi iting in the area
of the altercation said that be per ..
onally feel that a person should be
able to pursue his entrepreneurship
but, "If he i in violation (with the
city of Detroit) he hould be held
&CCO\tIllllble. "
Tutu' on
sentenced
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
(� Trevor Tutu, son of
Anglican Archbishop Desmond
Tutu, was sentenced Thursday
to 3 1/2 years in prison jor
threatening to explode a bomb
aboard an airplane.
Tutu, 34, who has been in­
volved in several confrontations
with authorities in recent years,
remains free on bail of $1,700
pending appeal.
He was convicted Wednes­
day on three counts of violating
the Civil Aviation Act and one
of criminal injury.
According -to court tes­
timony, Tutu asked to get off a
South African Airways plane
during a stopover in the southern
city of East London on Oct. 8,
1989.
When he was refused, he
pushed crew members out of his
path and went into the terminal
building. When attempting to
re-board the plane, he refused to
pass through a metal detector
and threatened to "activate a
device" in his luggage on the
aircraft, according to testimony.
The flight was delaye� for four
hours while airport personnel
searched the, plane, but found
nothing.
In August 1989, Tutu was ar­
rested at the Johannesburg air­
port for allegedly making a
bomb threat. He called a news
conference afterward and told
reporters he deliberately courted
an-est as part of a publicity stunt
for his adverti ing agency. Tutu
was convicted, but the case was
overturned on appeal.
Tutu's father, winner of the
1984 Nobel peace Prize and
leader of the Anglican church in
southern Africa, is one of the
country's most prominent anti­
apartheid activists. He has not
commented on his, son's legal
troubles.
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the redi tricting proc by knowing
ho i involved in it, writing th m or
particip ting in hearin .
He d that individual citizens
nd community can m e up their
o n redi trieting pi ns, ing a tract,
map, and getting population figure
of the 1990 Ce
Th mo t immediate redistricting
p is on the county level. Ed
C rey, Secretary of the Wayne
County Apportionment Commi -
ion, id the eommi ion deadline i
Thursd y September 26.
The next meeting of th commi -
ion will be held 10:30 .m. Monday
September 16 at Room '1iJ7 of the
City County Building, Woodward at
Jefferson, aero the treet from the
Detroit River.
Th e who wish to write their
view hould send letters to Ed
Carey, Secretary, Wayne County
Apportionment Commission, Room
DETROIT
207 City County Building, troit,
Michi n 226.
mmi ion
who will be m ing th ultim
deci ion are County Cler J m R.
Kileen, Ch ir 0 th Commi ion;
County Tre u r Raymond Woj­
towicz, County Pro cutor John D.
0' ir, one repre n tive from th
Democratic Party, Juliette Okotie­
Ebo ,and on from th Republican
P rty, Wendy Lamb. Since Kilen
w unable to com pe onally, be
nt the Deputy Cler , Maria V.
Sieminski, and hi duties chair arc
handled by 0 otie-Ebow.
Local Redi tricting Empower­
ment Project PI n, working with th
County Local Task Force, repre-
enting different minority group:
Bl ck, Hispanic, and Arab. The plan
Cockrell aid pre erved six minority
di tricts:
- District 3, repre enting part of
Highland Park, Hamtramck and the
adjacent area of Detroit. '
- Di trict 2, repre enting east
Detroit.
- Di trier 4, in downtown
Detroit including Belle Isle.
- District 6, Detroit around Mc­
Nichol (Six Mile) and Livernois
going west.
- District 7, D troit between 7
and 8 Mile Road, Wyoming and
Lyndon.
- District 8, Detroit, between
Livernois and Greenfield, Tireman
and Evergreen.
P.T. Rhod
o ro
tion."
The "Minority Infl uence di tric
the plan tried to pre erved are:
- Di trict 1, including 11 th
Gro Pointe cili nd portio of
Northwe t Detroit.
- Df trice 9, including Redford
and portions of Northw t Detroit.
- Di trict 5, including Beo ,
River Rouge, nd p rt of Southw t
Detroit.
Cockrell noted t t there re other
plan before the Apportionment
Commi ion: - A collaborated one
formulated by the Democratic and
Republican appointee to the Appor­
tionment C(l"1mission, one sub­
mi tted by Bryan Amann of the
Wayne County ryoard of Commi -
ioners, on by the Wayn County
Concerne. ":itizen Group nd
another by the Hispanic Coalition.
Cockrell declined to express hi
opinion about the other plans.
However, he suggested that if
others wi hed to draft their own
plans for county di tricts, they could
get a copy of Census population
. tatistics in the County Clerk's Of­
fice for a "nominal co t."
with the Morris Brown College
choir."
In 1951, she won the Ted Mack
Amateur Hour. "Ted Mack was a live
show. You had to win three weeks,
but that three weeks could take eight
weeks. You'd go in and do a show
for a week and then they'd count up
the b llots and then you'd come back
and do another how ... After that
you'd go to Madi on Square Garden
for the finals. I did that and people
wrote in, and they liked me, so I Won.
"If it hadn't been for my mom, I
probably WOUldn't have been a
singer," says Gladys. "Because at
that ag I had no idea that I had a
talent. All I wanted to do was go
outside and play. But my mom and
my dad and other family members
recognized some kind of talent - I
could feel it from them.
, "My mom believed in keeping
children busy. She did the same
thing with my children. It wasn't
about putting us in show business. It
was about keeping us busy, giving us
dance, giving us piano, giving us the
arts, giving us sports ...
"My family was very close knit
and spiritual, but not fanatical about
it. Didn't party, didn't drink, didn't
smoke. But they were aware. My
mom and dad were with the Wings
Over Jordan Choir for a minute, and
they did a little inging in c' U'Ch.
But they weren't in the bus: "s."
GLADYS BECAME .. founding
member of the Pips in 1952, after she
came off the road from the Ted Mack
show. "We sang at a birthday party,
just for fun. We did a little talent
show at the end of the party. We were
all in the choir at church so we had a
sense for each other. We sang
'Canadian Sunset,' or something likC?
that. After everybody had gone
home, our parents said, 'You
sounded pretty good tonight. You
should fonfl a little group.' So we
did."
In 1961, Gladys Knight and the
Pips recorded their first hit record,
"With Every Beat of My Heart." The
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The original group consisted of
Gladys, her brother Bubba, sister
Brenda, and cousins William and
Eleanor Guest. They were named for
their manager, cousin James "Pip"
Woods. Brenda and Eleanor were
replaced by cousins Edward Patten
and Langston George in 1959.
Langston left the group in 1962.
The "little group" lasted for 39
years, SUi iving countless musical
fads, perfc .• ning around the world
and making some of the most
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contlnu d from B·1
e aped Gladys:"li tened to it in the
run and I didn't really get into it. But
Louil was tenacious and kept calling.
The next time I listened to it, I was
itting down at myoid trusty, faithful
kitchen table, \Yith time to get Into it.
It became one of my favorite ongs
on the album. Everything came
together-the melody, the lyric, and
tbe person I was working with." 1Mt
wa ,producer Michael Powell,
whose credits include Anita Baker.
I wanted to cover many aspects of
life on this album," says Gladys. "It's
about loving oneself and loving each
other and toving your man and him
loving you. It's about-love in all dif­
ferent forms."
When MCA executives heard
Glady sing "Superwoman' by
Babyface in her solo show, they
asked her (0 include the song on the
album. Gladys was at first reluctant
. to record the song, which was a
recent hit for Karyn White, but was
convinced when Patti LaBelle and
Dionne Warwick agreed to join her
in the studio. "Patti, Dionne and I are
going to tour with 'Sisters in the
Name of LoW!,' adapted from our
television special, and this was a
chance to record some material
together. It came out great.
"I also did a duet with David
Peaston that Ijust love. David is one
of my babies. We toured together
about a year and a half ago - he
opened for me - and we just gelled.
David is also a wonderful spirit. I
heard the song, called 'Give Me a
Chance, 'and it was the right ong for
us."
GlADYS KNIG HT was born in
Atlanta, GA. "I've been singing
since I was 4," she recalls. "Back
then I would do three or four recitals
a year, traveling around to neighbor­
ing states like Alabama or further
down in Georgia, presented by the
church and as a special guest soloist
GLADYS KNIGHT and the
Pip had hits on four different record
label, hits in four different decades.
And what hits: "Every Bea: of My
Heart," "Letter Full of' Tears," "I
Heard It Through the Grapevine,"
"The End of Our Road," "The Nitty ,
Gritty," "Friendship Train," "You
Need Love Like I Do (Don't You),"
"If I Were Your Woman," "I Don't
Want to Do Wrong," "Neither One 01
Us," "Midnight Train to Georgia,"
"I've Got To Use My Imagination, " .
"The Best Thing That Ever Hap­
pened To Me," "On QIId On," "The
Way We Were/Try To Remember,"
"Landlord," "Save the Overtime
(For Me)," "Love Overboard" and
more.
"I'm a lyric person," ays Gladys.
"I look at a lyric before I look at a
melody. I live songs." She lives
songs so intensely that ometime
she has to change them, as happened
when someone brought her a ong
called "Midnight Plane to Houston. "
"I wasn't a great lover of flying
and I'm from All nta. I su:m�ted
changipg it to 'MUbaight Trabl to
Georgia.' The train a mode
transportation that I love, and I'd be
going omewhere familiar. So I
would have memories of bome
bring to the spirit of the SOD • Jim
Weatherly, the writer of the IOD
liked the idea."
Does Gladys have any unfulml�
ambitions? "I want to be a �
ctres . I want to touch people'.
emotions in that way, too, I've taken
bit parts over the years but I baven't
had as much time as I'd like to. One
day I hope to be great in j t one IO�
I mean great and really noteworthy:
Gladys Knight bas appeared in
the films Pipe Dreams aodAli Enemy
Among Us, television sbo TMJt:/.
fersons and Benson and with Flip
Wilson in Clurlk &: Co. Site also
produced tIIId starred in 1M HBO
speciDl, Sisters in the Name 0/ Love.
with Dionne Warwic and Patti La.
Belle.' .
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