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not pay for adult day care, he ked
if tlie proposed plan covered it.
"We've got to cover much
we can," responded Conyers. "Adult
day care is a very important part of
medical delivery. I'd like to examine
various ways that assistance and sup­
port can be made and the ways that
. they are being made in other tate
and determine whether (adult day
care) should be included in my bill
or not."
Next month, Cony rs will intro­
duce a bill to the U.S. House calling
for a national, subsidized health care
system.
Betty Brown, director of Howard
Wills Adult Day Care Center, asked
about health maintenance for the
elderl y and those patients who do not
require 24-hour care. Indicating that
Michigan is the only tate that does
� Congressman John Conyers (0-
� 1.t District) last week called a town
: meeting to discus his new plan for a
. national health care sy tem.
: Conyers' plan is to "make having
� been born the only prerequisite for
: full coverage" of illness, accident or
other health care need, he said.
MARY AlLEN too an incen­
tive retirement after 35 years at
Michigan Bell.
ttl have health insurance that they
say will last as long as I do not ex­
ceed haifa million dollars in medica­
tions and care," he said. "But one
AACP:. ·Subtle racism pervades movies
Siegel, dismissed the criticism as
"prepcstero ."
Coffee aid.
Jack Valenti, president of the
Motion
Picture
Association
of America,
wasn't
immediately
available for
comment.
But one
person involved with tbe film
"Bugsy," about gangster Bugsy
·8yJEFFW ON
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
I.OS ANGElES (AP) - The local
NAACP said recently its analysis
of 20 movies - including
Academy Award nominees "The
Silence of the Lambs" and
"Bugsy" - turned up evidence of
what it called subliminal racism.
The 19-page report" Academy
Award and Otber Movie
Reviews" Indicates ' , , many rums
use subliminal ymbolism that is
derogatory and racist," said Serita
Coffee, a Los Angele NAACP
official and
the report's
author.
"BUGSY" filmmakers used
. the ethnic color code yellow, red
and black as Objects such as taxi
cabs, automobiles and trains to
induce terror and images of death,
the report aid.
"With all due respect' to the
NAACP, I find thi premise utterly
Fr
"Film
m a k e r
used racist
techniques
and
ymbolism
that are damaging our p ycbe and
erve to perpetuat raci m," Ms.
Q.
Will
ca ino
gambling
help our
city?
Y FLOD N . RIGG
DBTROIT - School empowerm nt
m y not ffect many chool, but it
many dollars.
After pproving half a million
dollar contract with consultants I t
month for drawing up d cription
of empowerm nt, th Bo rd at its
reh 31 meeting ed re olu-
tion authorizing Superintend nt
Deborah McGriff to negotiate con­
tract for up to S6 million to carry the
empowerment proce one tep fur­
ther.
• Board member Gloria Cobbin ob­
jected to the wording of the resolu­
tion, aying she believed former
board pre ident Lawrence P trick
Jr's resolution had a hidden genda.
Hi resolution lumped three busi­
nes ,IBM and Arthur Anderson
Co ulting and Larry Wilke on and
oci tes into one deal, mM to
fumi h hardware and th two con-
major illn can cost that."
Allen was al 0 concerned about
extending family coverage to her 28-
year-old on. "Since many of our
young people are late bloomers, we
should look at a plan that doe not cut
them off at 18 or 21. We should look
at a program that covers them in the
interim, from 18 to 35 yea of age."
Conyers reemphasized that his
proposed program would include all
Americans, regardles of age or oc­
cupation.
"This bill js not going to com­
promise anyone," he aid. "The e -
sential concept is that health care is
a matter of right for every American
without regard to your age, whether
you are retired, unemployed, in tran­
sition or nything. That i the key
element."
S e CONYERS, A10
ultin comp ni to provide "exter­
nal chool m nagement upport."
"I ee thi a getting round
revealing' th amoun 0 th con­
trac (to e ch busin )," Cobbin
aid. "I'm very much gainst th t. I
ee thi an u mpt to avoid public­
ly di cl ing th mount of th con-
tracts. "
Cobbin offered n ddition to
Patrick' re olution which he
ref d to ccept, lthough approved
by the full board.
, POWER, P g A-10
P r nt
prote t
ACLU, OW
in chool
By FLODEAN • RIGGS
into t
- cl room 0
whether female en arc
afforded the me educational
opportunities as the male.
However, Kwame Kenyat­
ta, candidate for a chool
board at-large e t, said mem­
be of NOW and ACLU are
in en itive to the chool
children, the very thing they
charged chool off'[cia! of
being when the all-Male
academi first open.
When the Detroit Public
Schools proposed the All­
Male Academies both or­
ganizations filed lawsuit
against the district ying that
ex- egregated cademie
were discriminatory. The di -
trict ettled with the organiza­
tions agreeing to re rve at
least 137 p es for girl in the
male academies and also per­
mitted the ac demie to be
monitored.
UT, DU NG the arne
week of tudent te ting both
NOW and ACLU cho e to do
evaluation howing their in-
nsitivity and lack of concern
for th mental tability of our
children, Keny tta aid in a
written pro I circulated at
March 31 pecial board
S PROTEST, A10
TEVEKIRBY: " o. Gam­
bling ill attract violent cro <is."'
tARO LUC : "Ye . If
the money is eel the right way. "
XAZI UITO:" o.
The gambling here is bad
enough,. 0 need to dd the
violence."
