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Highland Park Councilwoman:
t'
who voted for the Chrysler gree­
ment in 1987, said he upported it
because he thought the company w
building a tate of the art complex to
compete with other industries, but
would keep its world headquarters in
Highland Park.
"We were operating under the as-
umption that we had solid under­
standing that Chry ler would stay in
the city," Ross said. "Never in my
mind was it that Chry ler would
leave."
Mayor Porter,
who wa on the
council at the time,
said he voted
again t it, along
with then Council
Pre ident Martha
G. Scott. Porter
aid he wanted a
pecial agreement
with Quysler that
the city would
receive )Un
notice before the
HIGHLAND PAR - Council­
Noman Chri tine Franklin charged
that in making deci ion to move to
Auburn Hill , Chrysler w violating
the agreement in 1987 allowing it to
benefit from Auburn Hill tax brea .
State law require the city being
vacated to approve a corporate move
in order for the corporation to receive
tax breaks at its
new location.
In the
amended nd res­
tated contract ap­
proved by
Chry ler Cor­
poration and the
city are the words,
" •.. Chrysler ha
expre cd i in­
tention to retain
ita World Head­
quarter in the
City (High and
Park) and to
",*�!1
Mayor11naey otter d that he
ould cbee th 1 wyers to ICC if
thi could be in rpretcd Iy
binding, but he added be felt per­
sonally that it probably. could not be
used to prevent the rporation from
leaving.
. COUN.CILMAN Frank Ro S,
liIiI,_ ....... lItorllll iii __
He noted he glad that Quys-
ler did give the city three years notice
anyway.
STEVE HARRIS, Public Rela­
tions Representative of Chrysler told
The Michigan Citizen that in 1987,
Se PACT, A10
WANDA F. AOOUEMOAElMlohlgan CItizen
WATCHING THE PARADE GO BY-Young eastside Detroit youth sored by the group Mack Alive, which consist of 14 churches along
njoy the recent parade along Mack Avenue. The parade was spon- Mack Avenue between St. Jean and East Grand Blvd.
II ADDED THAT Lederer
did not meet with the people.
"He' never there," he aid.
"We're beginning to call him the
See ACORN, A 10
ACO
P OTE T :KILLING
Detroiters call for justice
'City lets vacant houses rot'
By RON SEIGEL
aYJIMIRWIN
AHooIttwl P,... Wr#fw
DETROIT-The billboard a few
blocks down Van Dyke Avenue
read, "Hip Hop with a Red Pop."
But nobody at Aby's Self Serve
gas station and party store was
buying Sam Shuayto's strawberry
soda last Thursday night.
Outside the store, about 50
protesters marched and chanted to
protest the fatal shooting of 22-
year-old Raffael Dent by an Arab­
American store employee, and to
urge a boycott of Shuayto's busi­
ness.
Inside were a couple of rela­
tive ofShuayto, who wasn't there.
In between were three Detroit
police officers, a television news
crew and, over one 45-rninute
period, not a single customer.
The 0 protesters -all of them
issupp ed to determin wheth r the
house can be repaired in 20 day .
She said there is a po ibility for
people to get loans from the Com­
munity and Economic Developm nt
Department.
She charged that the city took o­
long to re pond that many house are
tripped, burned or used by drug
dealers.
She aid implementing the law
would provid housing for I w in­
come familie and al 0 alleviate the
danger of abandoned hou es, build­
ing up Detroit neighborhoods.
KATHL N ANDECKI,
leader of the ACORN affiliated or­
ganization Neighbor for Neighbor
(NFN) aid the sit-in w waged out
of frustration, bccau e of the failure
of Detroit Building and Safety En­
gineering Director Craighton
Lederer to meet with re idents about
complaint that he failed to imple­
ment city law on vacant buildings.
Sandecki charged the Depart­
ment of BUilding and Safety En­
gineers with failing to implement the
Nuisance Abatement Ordinance,
which allow citizens to buy up and
repair abandoned houses in the city.
The ordinance, he aid, is not work­
ing because of failure of the depart­
ment to follow its 120 day time line
for re ponding to applicants.
When a citizen makes an applica­
tion for uch a house, the d partment
DETROIT - Five demonstrators
from the ACORN Community Or­
ganization were arrested in a sit-in of
the Building and Safety Engineering
Department last week, but had their
charges thrown out Tue day, Sep-
o tember 8.
According to Amy Schurr, head
organizer at ACORN, the 30th dis­
trict court ordered the charge of
tre pas ing dropped, stating that the
demon trator were in a public
building,
However, they aid the city could
have ticketed them for failing to
obey the order of a police officer
telling them to leave, Schurr aid.
ACO RN paid a 50 bond for each
demons trator at the time of the arre t,
but the money wa returned when th
charges were dropped, Schurr added,
African American, most of them
young and. including several of
Dent's relatives --chanted" What
do we do? Shut 'em down!" and
waved at passing cars and trucks
that blared their horns in support.
"We've been coming out
around the clock." said Ro ie
Chatman. "We want to hut them
down. We want to bring them to
justice."
Dent was hot about 3 a.m.
Monday after an argument that ap-
See PROTEST, A10
Q.
What
would you
do to end
the Detro·
teacher
strike?
ETTI ROBINSON: "1
would tart negotiating in the
pring. And if an agreement
w n' t reached, I would fine the
Board and the Dfl'.';
DER 0 :
"1 would give th teachers a raj e.
They are underpaid for the job
they do."