Marian Wright Edelman i
president of the Children's Defense
Fund, a national voice for children.
GU
continued from A2
Many upper and middle-class
Somali have fled the country and
their white-washed villas, replaced
by urging numbers of desperate
poor who have moved to the city and
erected crude shelters' in every
available pa .
The treets are controlled largely
by wa ng clansmen and bandits,
many of them teenagers shouldering
automatic rifle and joy-riding in
vehicles mounted with machine
guns.
.. Give d 12-year-old a gun and all
oth r forms of authority cease," said
Jim ewton of World Vision, the
U.S.-based charity that was trying to
move the food out of the port.
H wasn't the first delay. The
French ship that finally unloaded the
food Thursday had been anchored
for days outside the port, the captain
wary of attack if he docked.
RIVAL WARLORDS, Ali
Mahdi Mohamed and Oen.
Mohamed Farrah Aidid, occupy the
north and south sides of a capital that
stretches along the Indian Ocean
coast But neither can control their
own maurading bands, let alone
stamp their authority on the city.
Most of the countryside is
controlled by still other clans, as
Somalia fractures and retreats to an
age-old system of clan rule, leaving
it unrecognizable as a modern
nation.
Supporters of Ali Mahdi have
been waging vicious treet battles
among themselves all week in
. northern Mogadishu over an issue
unclear to outsiders, or perhaps even
to themselves.
On the outh side of the •• green
line," a city- pli tting border with a
name borrowed from the Beirut
conflict, some of the heaviest
fighting in months erupted this week
in the Medina di trict,
It started Monday, apparently
with a robbery and a car theft, and
spread into an orgy of revenge and
counter-revenge by the families and
sub-clans involved.
After months of negotiations with
the United Nations, Ali Mahdi and
Aidid have agreed to allow 500
armed U.N. soldiers to come to
Somalia to protect food distribution.
But they will be confined to
Mogadishu and their role will be
limited to guarding the food
shipments, not re olving the political
conflict that is the main cause of
famine in this nation of 6 million
people.
VETERANS
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veterans who suffered nerve disea e
as a result of exposure to Agent
Orange, widely used in Vietnam
during the war. However, a
connection between lung cancer and
the herbicide was rejected by the
government.
Some cases of parasi tic infections
have been reported by returning Gulf
veterans. Some veterans al 0 have
complained of fatigue and headaches
after inhaling oil fire moke.
··We are telling our people (the
veterans) could have problems that
could be caused by smoke,
contaminated food or drink, burning
oil wells, all sorts of environmental
conditions that the troops ran into,"
aid D vinski,
He said he is asking Gulf War
contlnu d from A9
HAD TH DE ROI Center,
which was de ignated to serve the
Ypsilanti area, not b en closed for
racially motivated reasons, the ex
pertise acquired in serving dislo
cated workers, after even years of
operations, could have been used to
meet their immediate needs as was
done when other plants closed. How
ever, because the Detroit Center was
closed, delays in delivering services
to those affected could have resulted
in only aggravating the ills caused by
the announced closing of the Yp
silanti plant. Perhap the delays in
responding to worker issues, un
neces arily have caused the prema
ture death of VA W members.
Finally after peaking candidly
with numerous Blacks within the
UAW about Mr. Yokich, who has
the potential for becoming the next
UA W president, all have stated that
he was not nor has he ever been a
friend of Blacks within or outside the
UAW.
Not one Black present or former
official or leader will state categori
cally that Stephen P. Yokich is doing
anything to cultivate Black leader
ship within the UA W General
Motors Department, UA Wand espe
cially the YAW-OM Human
Resource Center Headquarters.
In a letter (of which a copy is
available upon request) from Mr.
Yokich, he attempted to illustrate his
support for Blacks in leadership
positions within the UAW. Mr.
Yokich claims that when he ap
pointed Perry Johnson as the first.
Black Assistant Director of Region
1, he personally intervened in order
for him not to have opposition for
election as Regional Director in
1980.
Before the UA W accuses others
of racial bias, it should get its house
in order.
AND IT CAN begin by forcing
Stephen P. Yokich, Vice President
and Director (who is no friend of
Black UAW members and officials)
to cease his racist policies and prac
-tices, promote more Blacks to
leadership positions, and treat
OPEIU members fairly.
SUMMER
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THE ANNUAL PARADE had
significantly fewer units than in pre
vious years. Conflicting sch dules
with other events accounted for many
of the no-shows. It didn't seem to
matter to the viewers who lined the
streets along the route.
Some of the stand-outs were the
Drum and Bugle Corps from the
Oman Temple of Flint, Michigan, the
prize winning Girl Scout float from
the recent Blue Water Festival Inter
national Day Parade, and the Falcon,
Jr. Drum and Bugle Corps from
Detroit under the direction of Mrs.
Betty Faulkner.
It was an honor to have Commis
sioner Audrey Pack of the St Clair"
County. Board and Bryant Lemon of
Lansing from the Secretary of State
office lend their gracious presence.
No gliding along in a decorated carter
tho e two ... they elected to walk. At
the end of the parade, the Falcon, Jrs.
presented a lively and Impromptu
concert
The Field Day Committee was
compo ed of Karon Thomas, Gayle
Mc Quiller, Wanda Walton, and Kris
ta Young. Sharon Bender and 'yours
truly' were the Commemorative
Booklet committee. Marcia A.
Hogan is the Branch president.
Liv m i
IN ADDmON TO � unsanitary
conditions, past-dated and illegal meats
being sold inside the stores, outside tbe
weeds, trash - am filth almost hide
some of these markets.
Ai Hefner, a food technolo . t for
the Michigan Department of Agricul
ture said his d partment was respon
ible for over eeing that these
merchants keep the outside of their
busin in a sanitary condition.
"We don't have enough manpower
to as ure compliance,"Hefner said.
"Merchants complain that as soon as
they clear trash and other debris from
their markets the returning cu turners
start the cycle all over again," Hefner
aid. And as for the vacant lots in back
of some of these businesses the
merchant's don't feel that it is their job
to clean up someone else's property."
Person interested in cleaning up
neighborhood can start by contacting
the; Department of Agriculture at (313)
356-3943, elsewhere in Michigan call
(511) 373-1060; or the local NAACP
chapter and inquire about the Secret
Shopper Program at (313) 871-2fJff7.
Neighborhood group who 00 their
own inspections can arrange for a
Michigan Citizen reporter to accom
pany them by calling (313) 869-0033.
ANSWERS TO BLACK
HISTORY QUESTIONS
Two nights a week, for these .four weeks, there will be
a U 0 ralg In e IY game.
August 31- September 5
. September 7 -12
September 14 -19
September 21- 26
A dollar raight bet will pay 60 instead of $500.
. A 50 cent straight bet will pay 00 instead of $250.
3-way straight/boxed will pay $383 instead of $333.
6-way straight/bOxed will pay $341 instead of $291.
. Augu t 30th - In 1873. Whip
per, Elliott and Allen, probably in
SC.
31 t - Leonard Bate . NYU
won without him with former
port ca ter Paul Christman,
throwing pa se ,33-0_
eptember 1 t - Precise
figure unknown. Large numbers of
slaves were brought from Cuba,
Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Barbados and
elsewhere in the Caribbean.
2nd. - About 1932, with
Thomas A. Dorsey's, "If You See
My Saviour, Tell Him You Saw
me."
3rd - "Dr. Watts Long Meter"
hymns. A call-arid-response type
singing with a leader lining out each
verse. Possibly due to the fact that
early Black freedmen were often
iliterate. In orne Black churches,
the practice is now traditional.
4th - Johnson Products (unre
lated to the Johnsons ofpubli hing).
5th - The late Daniel "Chap
pie" James, who became a four- tar
general in 1973 and was one hellfire
and daring pilot.
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