VOL XIV NO. 12 FEOHUAH',' i .: . 18 I Sl92
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Education, Abstinence,
or ... Condoms?
By DAVID HO HART
abitiDCDCe, peciaUy in the younaer
, .. Tl'\IICOtt d.
- Heavy campa!
coDtrlb to HoUle Speaker
Lewis N. Dodak are blocking
apement on oxp dng parts of
Michigan'l o-fau1t Insurance
law, cilia an Bnalor admtniltra
don polkellDlll.
BnJler press aecrotary John
Truscott kt the n Trai\
Lawyera Association hu been
controllin Dodak throuJhout the
legi I d debate.
"The Michigan Trial Lawyers
Aalociatio� baa been paying
Dodak 10 mucb money tbat he
must feel be can't ipore their in
terests," Truscott said. "By con
trolUn Lew Dodak, they control
tbe House and the genda."
"The Trial La yc
have him in their pocket. TbJa
PAC and special-interest monoy at
its worst."
IF PUBLIC ACI' 10 il al
lowed to expire on Mardl 31, In
urance ra tel will chanle
drutically in dlOit areas of the
eRE OR .A-10
Stabenow, a member of tbo
Senate Education Committee, thinks
so.
"I thinks numbera arc very
scary," be said. .
An AIDS epfdemiolo II at the
Mlcbigan Department of Public
health said it is tlmated that be
tween 10,000 and 15,000 people are
infected with the HIV virus ICrou
the state.
u
,
ba$sa4or Andrew Young. Meetings
with ad.
ministration
officials
revealed that
the potlcy
tow Zaire
bien for
mulated the
"highe t
level," said
MI. Young,
�catiDg that
administration
officiala ha
privately
tated that
they will not call for Mobuto to Iq)
down.
Young said SA WG pledges to
educate and mobilize their con
stiNen and general public opinion
aroUDd what they call the contradic-
t! in U.S. polley toward Zaire.
JIM KENT said that a rough es
timate would sua t between 500
and 750 of those infected with tbe
HIV virus arc between the ages of 15
and 19.
This estimate i d On the
2,619 documented AIDS et in
Michigan. Kent aaid it is beUeved
that about 5 percent of those people
contracted the d when they
were 15 to 19 years old. Pro ed
that ratio atill holds true, then there
are probably SOO to 750 hiah scbool
human rights and antiapartheid Of-
NNI'A "... .... ganizationa.
"When it
Vi ASHJNGlUK-If the age of clie- comes to
tators i over a the BUlh Ad- . Africa the
mbdI�on proclaims, hy is the U .S. r�fuses
brutal and coaupt rejp of·Mobutu ,to recognize
Scko of ZaiIe wed to con- -the aelf-de1er-
timJe with a tldt .of oonQdeJ)cc mination of
fiom President biJ top ad- tbe people .
1 and to act in
"It' the �I � in U.S. support of:
foreign policy, maintains ADdrea their i hea.
.Yo\lD& policy advocate with the It's simply
United Clurdl of Christ and con- not a
veDer of the Southern Afdca Work- p rio r i t "I , ..
'ing Group (SAWG), a Capitol commented
Hill-baled CO'alition of religiOUS, Young, dlugbter of folDler U.S. Am ..
IT IS AN impovcmhed ccnmtry
of 38 million people, bordering An
gola to the IOUth aod Uganda to the
t. Zaire have been \lied by
the admini tration for training and
lOgistical upport to UNIT A rebels
mAngoI
Mobutu', personal friendship
DESPOT, A-10
s •• AID. 8-10
GOING HOME
oryt II r
r urn for
in pir tlon
OTT
HIGHLANO PA K-Pn
February 22, Alma Greer will
leave Detroit enroute to the
African Continent.
Aim. 0 ... .,
Over the COWIe of ten daya
sbe will vilit tile Ivory Coat,
Bentn, To 0 • d Ghana to
familiarize If Ith the
countri •
Greer II a co ultant with
Detroit Unity Temple and abc
will be llinin information,
and knowied to better JVe
thole bo will be Ina on the
temple' t 9-23 "CroII
Cultural Bxperle ce: An
Educational Dialop- tour.
Greer said been to
Africa five timet, and ODCC
celebrated Christm .. and New
Year's on the continent.
ONIt 0 THE highllJhIl
of the tour will be a trip to
ETURN, ·10