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Daniels bypasses
Democrats
Ron Daniel , former deputy
campaign manager for Je e
Jackson bring the Peoples
Progre sive Convention to
Michigan Friday, Augu t 21
through.Sund�y, Augmt 23 on the
Campus of Eastern Michigan
I
of a People' Progre ive Con­
vention, with an understanding
that the convention will not en­
dorse Daniel' or others' can­
didacie. A broad range of
organizations, third party forma­
tions and progressive leaders
have embraced the People'
Progressive Convention.
The purpose of the convention
i to bring activists from cro
the country together to di cus the
formation of an independent
vehicle to demonstrate our inten­
tion to come together and build a
movement capable of uniting
around a collective program and
taking ction to bring about real
change for the average household
and working American.
The convention August 21-23
is timed to take place after the two
established parties have had their .
conventions. The PPC will be an
opportunity for all people who are
tired of wasting their votes in the
current political ystem to show
their intention of walking away
from the 0 called "two-party"
system creating a real peoples al­
ternative.
DANELS,A10
By BERNICE ROWN"
TERRY KELLY
BBNTON HARBoR---Q)nfusion.
That i the only certainty in the
Wants
lave trader
to pay
By KENNETH B. NOBLE
Reprint from the New York Tim ••
LAGos-Chief Moshood
Kashimawo Abiola has a single
consuming passion: He wants white
people in Europe, America and the
Middle East to pay the African
continent for the damage done
during the slave trade.
The issue of reparations is hardly
new, in Africa or elsewhere, but
Chief Abiola has given it sudden
urgency by almost single-handedly
putting it near the top of the agenda
at Ule annual meeting of the
Organization of African Unity in
June. Prodded by his sustained
efforts, leaders of the organization
vowed to pursue the matter at the
Uni ted Nations and other forums.
Chief Abiola gives the issue
impetus because he is no mere
gadfly: He is the head of a
conglomerate that includes one of
See TRADERS, A10
e�nts SUJTOunding the inv ligation
of the drowning death of Eric
McGinnil.
McGinnis, 16 years-Old at the
time of hi death, w pulled from
the I St. Joseph River on May 22,
1991- five days after his father
dropped him off on a Friday night at
a feel)' dance club in racailly hostile
dow)1tOwn St Joseph.
1'0 this day, no one is certain how
tbet African American teen ended up
in river.
;Thc autopsy report says the cause
of death w drowning.
�t. Joseph police reports of the
irlfestigation are filled with contra­
dictions, unresolved questionS and
What appear on the urface to be
many implausible stories.
Acoording to the reports, at least
five white teen males were with
McGinnis at the entrance to the
dance club. There, they allege,
McGinnis flailed "a large sum of
money", and bragged about being in
a gang and selling dope. All of this
happened about 9:10, the youth told
police.
This report appears to contradict
the police fiooing that McGinnis had
$49 when pulled from the river. The
sum of money on McGinni i sig­
nificant for police purpose .
The police use the presence of the
$49 to link McGinnis with the theft
of $42 or $44 (reports vary) from an
unlocked car in a parking lot behind
the YWCA.
The theft occured about 9:30 that
Am rlcans In th t .outhwe ern I chi
th drOwning of Eric McGlnnl •• Story I
night and reaulted in McGinnis being
cbaled from the area by the automo­
bUe's owner, never to be seen again.
The police say McGinni ' father
gave him $5 to get into the dance
club. That sum added to the $42 or
$44 m iog from a car owned by
Ted Warmbein, link McGinnis to the
theft, aca>rding to police reasoning.
WHEN QUESTIONED about
the oontradiction of McGinnis hav­
ing the money before the discovery
of a Black male at the Warmbein car,
Detective Lt. Jim Reeves of the St.
Joseph police, repeated a version of
events described last yearby Berrien
CoWlty Prosecutor Dennis Wiley in
a meeting with the NAACP. The ver-
ion is not found in the written re­
ports.
"My recollection," Reeves said in
an interview, is that McGinnis, after
showing the money to 'the youths,
took them back to the car to show
them how he got into the car. At this
point, Warmbein, the car owner
came up, Reeves said.
While Wiley provided the same
explanation last year to the NAACP,
although now here in the reports does
it state that McGinnis took the kids
to show them the car he allegedly
burglarized. .
In fact, the police file is filled with
varying reports from five youths
who almost uniformly agree that
they, with McGinnis, left the club
am went over the block or so to the
bluff overlooking Lake Michigan to
Eric McGinnis
fire off "rockets."
The group then went dO(l.r n the
alley past the YWCA. One youth
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To I
pendent Presidenti 1 candidacy
of Ron Dainels during this elec­
tion season bas come the concept
Q.
Is the
Black
Church
doing it
job?
ANZLEY MORRELL: "Yes.
We are a lot better tbanwe were. We
have had good success in ustaining
our youth with a serse of respon­
sibility."
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