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to follow the law , according to
NAAAB President Virgil Cobb .
"Dozier and Thoma re re-
earching and exploring what
venues are open to us, including an
injunction to top everything,"
Cobb said.
The National As ociation of
Minority Contrac­
rmii.tmm'i&re1�g;rt tors in Washington,
�_l��-» D.C. are lending
support to the effort
,Cobb said.
Bateson/Dailey
the prime contrac­
tor on the hospi tal
construction, is out
of compliance with
federal law, said
Charles Beckham,
UACC president.
The Detroit
groups picketed the
construction site last eek and feel
the action got some resul .
By L rlna Alaton
o
groups, told reporters Tuesday they
want to meet with City Attorney
James Hahn and District Attorney
Ira Reiner to discuss their concerns. •
The group aid they were up et
with the pro ec,utors' insi tence on
Spo 0 n for both Reiner
and Hahn defended tbeiroffice han­
dling of the riot
The District Attorney's Office
said the maximum entence VI
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under Engler
arr
IIlch n Citizen
DETROIT-An injunction to stop
construction on the new, $229 mil­
lion Veterans Administration 01 A)
Ho pital are among the option
being researched by at­
torney hired by a coali­
tion of Black contrac­
tors and busine es.
Four group - the
National Association of
African American
Busin es (NAAAB),
the A sociation of
Black General Contrac­
tors, the Urban As­
sociation of
Contractors and Con­
sultants (UACC) and
the VA Hospital
Minority Contracting Executive
'-'U.LUIlll· ttee- pooled their money to
� law firm of Dozier and
Turner tofiDd •. yto� �A
eige
tions.
Weiner said that after General as­
sistance was' abolished, the Engler
Administration increased re tric­
tions on the Emergency Needs pro-
See SEIGE, A 10
warranted becauseoftbe eriousn
of the crim .
placed on the criminal jus tice y tem
by the large number of arreste does
not explain or excus th h rsh treat­
ment of the suspec .
S QUESTION P 9 A·10
YOU G, WHO E organiza­
tion represents 900 African
American 1 wyers id the strain
LOS ANGFl.F.S-Authorities are
being inflexible in pro ecuting
peo Je � �
rio, d an pparently higher per­
cen e of mil' IOIitiel
on minor curfew coo during
chaos, local Bleck lawye ' groups
say.
Rachel Young. president of the
Langston Bar Association, and other
leaders ofAfrican American lawyer
By RON SEIGEL
CtaItpondmt
• DBTROIT - Richard Trice, Assis­
tant Director of Operation Get
Down, warned that shelters for the
homeless may be forced to do e be­
ca of the sta ' refusal to provide
aid.
Church organizations and dvo­
ca for the poor charge that the
governor's elimination of the
General Assistance program, eight
months ago has vastly increased the
level of homelessness.
David Weiner, Aide to
Democratic State Repre entative
David Hollister, aid the problem
Ilea with the ref\8al of the Engler
Administration to spend money allo-:
cated for emergency needs. Holister
chairs the state House of Subcom­
mittee on social service appropria-
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP -A
federal appeals court judge t d' w
tudents S turday that feden."':'lnlll!U
der Pre' san
orne "a b don of white
America ... a ymbol of whi
power."
Stephen Reinhardt, appointed to
the 9th U.S. Circui t Court of Appeals
by President Jimmy' Carter in 1980,
. also linked the riots in 1..0 Angeles
to racism in the legal sy tern and to
rulings by the conservative U.S.
Supreme Court.
"What the African-American
community perceived from the
Supreme Court's deci ions was that
ou
r i- YJ:I1 bol
the federal [udiciary is no longer in­
ted in protecting the righ of
minori ties, that federal judges are far
more concerned with protecting the
interests of white males," Reinhardt
told graduating law students at Gold­
en Gate University.
. He cited rulings narrowing civil
rights and voting rights law , dis­
missing a uit by a Blackman injured
by a Los Angeles police choke hold,
and rejecting evidence of racial dis­
parity in death entence.
Reinhardt also as ailed the racial
makeup of Reagan' and Bush' .
Se COURTS, Pag A·10
la
hip cuts
en
, By LEILA MCDOWELL
WASHINGTON, D.c.-Anne i
the single mother of three small
children. Last year she and her'
family were living on the streets of
San Francisco. Getting enough
food to eat was her major task,
finding temporary shelter for the
night her daily challenge.
This year Anne, who e name
has been changed to protect her
identity, is in college. She has a
small apartment with her three
children and she is working part­
time.
The dramatic change in her cir-
cumstances came as a result of San
Franci co State Advisor/Transi­
tion program speciali t Samuel
Jones who had to first move Anne
into a garage to qualify her for
financial aid. The financial aid al­
low Anne to go to college, even-
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