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