co
1
p rently nne
bre r tried to uy cig ret rom
the. employee. S m Shu yto nd
Dent' relative e differin
coun of incident.
On ay, t W yn County
P Office decided not to
bring char ai t the unnamed
32-year-Old employ . Inve tigato
found in ufficient evidence of
criminal in nt, istant Prosecutor
Robert O'Hara ·d.
The pro re taking their toll.
Ed Shuayto, t store owner's
brother, id b in w low. He
wouldn't el borate, except to y the
family of Leb nese immigrant
feared the boycott would put them
out ofbusi
The hooting recalJed old
animosities between Blacks, who
compri e 70 percent of Detroit'
population, and the metropolitan
area' large Arab-American com­
munity.
Tensions peaked in the early
1980s, hen police, business and
community leaders formed a coali­
tion meant to head off disputes be­
tween .Blacks and Arab-American
mercha"ts aid to ave owned 90
percent of Detroit's more than 1,100
party 5 to res .
Uttle was heard of the coalition
afterward� And to Dent's cousin,
Melzitta Mcaure, ttie tension never
has gone away. Blacks remain angry
about high prices, unsanitary condi­
tio and h tile treatment in Arab­
tun stores.
• 'It's not quiet. Arabs in Detroit
� always trying to show their power
over Blacks," aid McClure, 22,
whose hand-lettered sign read,
., Arab have license to kill u.'
'ACO
continued from Page 1
phantom director."
. She said the department itself said
that it could not follow ime table
set by the law, because there was too
little personnel.
ACORN, she added, said that the
department shouid hire more person­
nel, because of the effect this would
have on the community and the .
development of the city.
However, she added that some
community organiza lion leaders
believe that the administration ac­
tually wants redevelopment of the
neighborhoods to fail, so that it can
bring in people who are well off from
other areas in a "gentrification"
scheme, at the expense qf poor
people living there.
African Americans have charged
for a long time that such gentrifica­
tion .scheme have been part of a .
general process across the nation to
remove Black people and take their
land away, although they add that
low income white people suffer too.
Lederer could not be reached for
comment at the time of the deadline
for t.his article.
PACT
continued from Page 1
the company felt it could maintain
the company in Highland Park, but
because of the economy downtown,
it was forced to reduce its work
force, including white collar and
management staff.
He said it was not "time efficient"
for workers to go from one place to
another or for the management ex­
ecutives to "be in two places at the
same time."
One person noted, however, "If
the Highland Park Ci ty Council had
not agreed to let them take
employees out of the city into
Auburn Hills, they wouldn't have
another place to go to."
An investment of millions of
Auburn Hill , Oakland County and
State of Michigan tax dollars made
the Chrysler move feasible.: once
.Hic�' ,1 Perk gave i ble ing .
. i
-
counte p.
"The employee began to beat
R I' hand with the butt 0 the
gun. Raff I pulled the pe er out
of t e terior wall and threw it at
the wi OOOW of th rvi tation.
"Alv ri e turned to depart and
called out to Raff el to leave. He
heard a hotgun bl t and turned
around to wit Raf! 1, tumble
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